Three of the former bigger stacks have been included in the most recent eliminations in Razvan Bordei, Radu Dan and David Mandiel. Furthermore, Tomas Martinsson has also run out of chips and just 93 players remain in the penultimate level of Day 1a.
Within two hands the stack of Pavao Veza has melted to zero. The first one saw him in great shape to eliminate Zoltan Boszormenyi with only for the Hungarian to improve with on a board of .
That left Veza with around 10,000, just five big blinds, and he busted the next hand against Nuno Miguel Carvalho.
A juicy pot emerged between Farook Ghafoor and Solomon Stan with the former betting the turn for 18,000. Stan called and the on the river then went check, check. Ghafoor showed for nines and sevens, while Stan had that beat with for the slightly better pocket pair.
A preflop raising war saw Danut Marius Dinca squeeze to 18,100 before Gabor Bank then reraised all in for 41,500 from two seats over. Dinca called with the only to see Bank turn over the dominating .
The board came and Bank doubled, much to the delight of Hungarian friends on the rail.
Anti Reinthal raised to 6,100 and picked up three callers including Tristan Reinthal in the cutoff. On the flop of action checked to Dan Alexandru Nistor and he bet 5,100 on the button. Reinthal called, Jonathan Spencer folded and Guiodo then claimed the pot by check-raising to 35,000.
Reinthal shoved the next hand on a flop of to force a fold by an opponent with and showed , before Guiodo then lost a flip for almost one third of his stack.
Just over 80 players remain towards the end of level 10 and Catalin Kukuv has become the latest casualty. After a limp, Jakob Linden raised and Kukuv shoved out of the big blind for around 40,000. The limper folded and Linden called.
Catalin Kukuv:
Jakob Linden:
The flop and the turn changed nothing, but the on the river improved Linden to aces and treys to eliminate Kukuv. Also out: Tomasz Kozub, Teodor Cap Bun and Bogdan Spataru. Cap Bun had shoved three times in quick succession and got through twice before then joining the rail.
After a raise by Dan Murariu, Stephen Woodhead moved all in for less than 15 big blinds. Murariu eventually called with the and faced the of the Brit. Murariu flopped a queen and rivered another to best Woodhead. Gerret van Lancker was eliminated at the end of the previous level also and Christos Xanthopoulos followed to the rail right after Woodhead.