Last Break for Day 1a
The players have been sent on their final break and it gives them 15 minutes time to have a smoke, get some drinks or discuss good and bad beat stories.
The players have been sent on their final break and it gives them 15 minutes time to have a smoke, get some drinks or discuss good and bad beat stories.
Level: 9
Blinds: 800/1,600
Ante: 200
It was no huge pot anymore, but Steffen Kylevik still must have left the table before the break with a sour taste on the lips. He three-bet shoved for the remainder of his stack with pocket tens and initial raiser Michal Kanarkiewicz called with . "It was a bad beat, I hit the flush on river" the player from Poland said.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Michal Kanarkiewicz
|
120,000
40,000
|
40,000 |
According to the chip counts on the screens, Clement Tripodi must have lost quite some chips while Peter Harkes, Matyas Csiszar and Julien Sitbon gained a considerable amount.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Peter Harkes |
160,000
26,000
|
26,000 |
Julien Sitbon |
145,000
41,000
|
41,000 |
|
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Quentin Lecomte |
145,000
-5,000
|
-5,000 |
Matyas Csiszar |
140,000
21,000
|
21,000 |
Joachim Kleiven |
125,000
14,000
|
14,000 |
Mateusz Moolhuizen |
91,000
21,000
|
21,000 |
Clement Tripodi |
68,000
-57,000
|
-57,000 |
In Markus Heikkils, yet another big stack from earlier has been listed in the bustouts and a certain pattern for Day 1a cannot be denied. It may not be good thing to stack up early, as the majority of the leaders of the first few levels have all been sent to the rail.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Markus Heikkils
|
Busted |
Franck Boyer three-bet an open from Patrick van Wolferen to check the flop. On the turn, the Dutchman bet 11,100 once it was checked to him and Boyer made the call to also check-call off the remaining 13,500 on the river. Van Wolferen turned over his for a missed double draw while Boyer's was just ace-high but good enough to take it down.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Franck Boyer
|
90,000
27,000
|
27,000 |
Patrick van Wolferen
|
Busted |
Yet another player fell to the hot run of Matyas Golczyk and it was Lukasz Golczyk. The latter had about 20 big blinds remaining and got them in preflop with the . Csiszar flipped with and the board ran out ten-high.
The Hungarian then carefully stacked his chips in towers of 20s and gave us the chance to count, it amounts to more than 10 times the starting stack!
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Matyas Csiszar |
310,000
170,000
|
170,000 |
Lukasz Golczyk | Busted |
The last few minutes were somewhat chaotic for the tournament staff, as they had to collect several media ID's of busted players to remove them from the system and also close a table and move participants. When the dust had settled, the screens showed just 70 players left.
Among those recent bustouts were for example Olivier Faure, Clement Tripodi, Yannick Azzopardi as well as Marc "the king" Chahmirian.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Olivier Faure
|
Busted | |
Clement Tripodi | Busted | |
Yannick Azzopardi
|
Busted | |
Marc Chahmirian
|
Busted |
The live stream has now caught up with the elimination of Markus Heikkils as there is a delay of 30 minutes. Heikkils got it in with the and Razvan Dumea had him at risk with . The board ran out and that suddenly made Dumea the chip leader at the table.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Razvan Dumea | 110,400 |
The cards were already rushed away and we could just see the of Pierre Antona still. In a battle of the blinds, Rodolphe Rey had open-shoved for 21 big blinds with and Antona made the call. His opponent caught a ten on the turn but the on the river came to the rescue of the better hand preflop.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Pierre Antona |
110,000
24,400
|
24,400 |
Rodolphe Rey | Busted |