A familiar name appeared on the bustout list: Amaury Grelot. The Team Online pro of Unibet usually plays speed SNG with 20 big blinds or less, thus tournaments are not really his daily dose of poker. The Frenchman four-bet jammed starting stack with 
and got called by an opponent in the big blind with pocket queens to miss the board completely.
Next to big stack Joachim Kleiven, one of the Unibet Poker qualifiers was all in and at risk for his last 7,900 chips on a five-way flop of 
. It was Dmitrii Prusov and his shove with 
got called by Robin Lacey. The Irishman said "nines again" and turned over his 
only to see the dealer burn and turn the 
and 
as final community cards.
As promised, our Dutch colleague has caught up with Peter Harkes and most of the chips were accumulated in smaller pots. The biggest hand came off a coin flip with against the pocket sevens of a short stack for 14,000 and a king appeared on the river to secure the knockout.
Without much notice, Peter Harkes has amassed a stack of 92,000 chips and is among the current leaders half an hour before the dinner break. Frank op the Woerd will be catching up with the fellow Dutchman in a bit to give us a rundown of what happened so far.
The very active Julien Sitbon has been moved tables as the field shrinks further and we just saw the Frenchman bet a 
flop for 2,100. Jopi Jantunen made the call from the bitton and then decided to fold the turn to a second barrel worth 4,300. The same table features Dian Wubkes and Marc Naalden as well.
The pictures are courtesy of the Unibet Open and Tambet Kask.
The late registration closed with the end of level four and we caught up with tournament director John Scanlon. Indeed there were 182 entries for this first starting day, which is a very promising number albeit being less than the 225 participants of Day 1a in 2014.
It was a raising war preflop and soon became evident why the chips went in between Robertas Nagrackas in the big blind and Mirco Maisano. The Unibet Poker qualifier from Lithuania held the 
and Maisano flipped over the 
. After the 
flop the Frenchman was free-rolling and sure enough the 
turn and river completed the board to send Nagrackas packing.
Level: 6
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 100
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