Marcus Holstei, who had a decent start in the first two levels, is among the latest list of eliminated players as only 147 out of 182 remain. Some pre-registered players that didn't show up yet were removed and the same applied for the stacks of Michal Mrakes, Charles Bonnet and Zoltan Kapitany.
After the river of a board, Michal Kanarkiewicz bet 15,000 into a pot of only 10,000 and immediately faced the all in of Joachim Kleiven. The Norwegian had the far bigger stack and eventually enforced a fold to claim up 95,000 chips as his new stack.
Julien Sitbon continues to do well after a bet worth 11,000 on the river of a was called by Gregory Luttke. The latter mucked when he was shown the and Sitbon may soon crack six digits. Another Frenchman with decent stack is Clement Tripodi not far behind.
The day of Jonathan Rozema can only be described as roller coaster. Three times he went to a short stack, twice he was able to recover. The third attempt with 15 big blinds and pocket tens ended abruptly as Jan Czajkowski held pocket aces and the board ran out dry.
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.
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.
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.
board, Michal Kanarkiewicz bet 15,000 into a pot of only 10,000 and immediately faced the all in of Joachim Kleiven. The Norwegian had the far bigger stack and eventually enforced a fold to claim up 95,000 chips as his new stack.
was called by Gregory Luttke. The latter mucked when he was shown the 
and Sitbon may soon crack six digits. Another Frenchman with decent stack is Clement Tripodi not far behind.
and Maisano flipped over the 
. After the 
turn and 
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.