Jean Montury had been all the way down to 4,300 chips earlier on before grinding it back up to more than starting stack. The EPT Malta champion from earlier this year then three-bet shoved for around 30,000 into an open from Peter La Terra and the Swede snap-called him with the .
Montury held but failed to improve on a board of .
Also eliminated recently: Szymon Bujok and Mikkel Lorentzen.
Over on table two, almost secluded from the rest of the tournament next to the feature table, are two tables and one of them includes a lot of chips with plenty of big stacks. One of them was Ben Soussan, but the Frenchman has joined the rail very recently after being a big stack for most of the day.
It was a coin flip for Philip Fjaestad, but the circumstances of the double up for the Swede made it somewhat of a roller coaster. Fjaestad was all in for 53,200 with the and played against the ace-king of an opponent to fall behind on the flop.
The on the turn was the ultimate sweat and Fjaestad had reason to celebrate once the dealer had burned and turned the on the river.
Charlotte van Brabander lost the fight with her short stack over on the feature table after getting the rest of it in with the . Her opponent held and the board blanked out in .
Peter Gutker was among the most recent players to have joined the rail. The Dutchman had a kicker problem with against the of Jussi Heikkels on an ace-high flop. Tiago Santos is also out and the same applies for Eilert Eilertsen.
Krysztof Jacyk flopped top pair top kicker with in a three-bet and three-way pot only to see Julien Pecheur wake up with pocket queens and middle set on the flop to bust the player from Poland in a bigger pot.
Shortly after, Vasara Otso jammed the small blind with his short stack and , Grzegorz Kowalczyk looked him up with the from one seat over and made the nut flush.
Tournament director John Scanlon has announced the stop of the clock and four more hands will be played before the bagging and tagging. The race for the lead on Day 1b may be somewhat close for the remaining podium spots, but Michael Lancri seems to be the man to beat.
In the very last hand of the day, Christer Jansson and Mateusz Syc were at it with Jansson at risk. However, the Swede was in excellent shape holding the while Syc held . The board ran out and the seven high straight gave the pot to the Pole.
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but failed to improve on a board of 
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and played against the ace-king of an opponent to fall behind on the 
flop.
on the turn was the ultimate sweat and Fjaestad had reason to celebrate once the dealer had burned and turned the 
on the river.
and the board blanked out in 
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against the 
of Jussi Heikkels on an ace-high flop. Tiago Santos is also out and the same applies for Eilert Eilertsen.
in a three-bet and three-way pot only to see Julien Pecheur wake up with pocket queens and middle set on the flop to bust the player from Poland in a bigger pot.
, Grzegorz Kowalczyk looked him up with the 
from one seat over and made the nut flush.
