The screens show 215 out of 216 players remaining and they have all been sent into their first 15-minute break. We will try to catch some counts of the notables, it is already confirmed that the table of Jorien van der Heijden will be moving to the feature for the next two levels.
Jean Loup Didier's raise was called by three opponents and the queen-high flop with two diamonds gave the initial raiser middle set. He fired 4,500 and Alexandre Hocquaux moved all in for his last 13,000 with ace-queen for top pair. The board gave running diamonds but Hocquaux had none of them and was sent to the rail as first player on Day 1b.
As usual the pictures are courtesy of Unibet Open and Tambet Kask.
Paul Valkenburg got involved in yet another pot with David Ozman and invested 1,500 chips on a flop of 
with two other players folding and one calling before surrendering the 
turn. The Dutchman showed the 
according to our Dutch colleagues and Ozman revealed his 
.
Jorien van der Heijden also lost about one third of her starting stack already with the most notable hand being 
on a board of 
. The Dutchwoman had found top pair on the flop but her opponent turned a straight with 
.
Along with the 182 entries of Day 1a and the current 215 players of Day 1b, the field size has grown to 397 players in total and the 400 are just the logical consequence. Whether or not it will be enough for a new record is yet to be seen and we will have the answer in about three hours from now.
"I should have come here two minutes later" joked Rasmus Agerskov after losing one third of the stack in the very first hand after having sat down. The full action until the 
Jh] river is unknown, but the Dane then bet 5,100 from late position. Julien Pecheur made the call from the button and the Dane flashed his 
, ready to claim the pot.
Only after the other players and the dealer pointed out the flush of Pecheur with 
, the Dane realized that he won't win the first hand.
Until the 
turn, a massive pot of 23,000 chips had emerged over on table 7 and Giuseppe Leone had thrown out a bet of 8,000 on the button. He didn't realize that Stephane Gard had not acted yet and the floor was called to give the latter the option to check or bet as he was the first to act.
Ultimately, Gard mucked 
and Leone claimed the pot, furthermore picking up a one round penalty for acting out of turn. Before standing up and leaving the table, Leone showed his 
for a turned set.
The floor had to be called several times today already and table 9 was no different, however the time had been called and no acting out of turn was responsible for the small uproar. Nicolay Langfeldt had check-raised the 
flop from 5,000 to 22,000 with very few chips behind.
Marc Isman gave it some thought and once the minute had almost ran down, the Frenchman mucked his cards to leave himself with around 20,000 in chips.
A few minutes into the second level, the screens turned to 204 players registered and a few notables are included below. In the case of Boutros Naim, he is part of the Lebanese group that frequents the EPT's and he also cashed in this very event two years ago, coming 13th.
Level: 2
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 25
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