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2016 Unibet Open Bucharest
Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info
2016 Unibet Open Bucharest
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
€1,000
Prize Pool
€584,910
Entries
603
Level
32
Blinds
150,000 / 300,000
Ante
50,000
Players Left 1 / 603
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Level: 4
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 50
Level 4
: 200/400, 50 ante
There are several players that already doubled their stacks with around one dozen participants on the rail, and one of them is Pavlos Xanthopoulos. He just faced a raise to 800 by Markus Heikkila and three-bet to 2,500 from two seats over. Heikkila called and the flop fell 
.
Heikkila checked, Xanthopoulos bet 2,100 and that was the end of the hand. That moved Xanthopoulos up to around 57,000, but the Greek is trailing the current leader Jorma Vuoksenmaa with more than three times the starting stack.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
80,000
80,000
|
80,000 |
|
||
|
57,000
57,000
|
57,000 |
|
||
|
28,000
28,000
|
28,000 |
Level 4
: 200/400, 50 ante
Alexandru Farcasanu won the 888Live Local Summerfest here in Bucharest back in June this year for his biggest score to date, a first-place payout of €17,694. Farcasanu is slightly above the starting stack while fellow Romanian Andrei Stoenescu one table over in the same seat is down to less than half of that.
On the three-way flop of 
, the trio checked. Stoenescu then bet the on the turn for 800 and just Tomer Zcharya called. The 
on the river went check, check, and Stoenescu mucked when he was shown 
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
35,000
35,000
|
35,000 |
|
12,000
12,000
|
12,000 |
Level 4
: 200/400, 50 ante
Maret Komarova has been through a roller coaster in the first few levels of Day 1a. After first building her stack, she was then seen with a mere 13,000 and that has since increased to 25,000 again. In the latest hand, Komarova checked the 
river and her sole opponent bet 1,900.
Komarova then check-raised all in for around 14,000 and her opponent quickly folded, then mentioned something along the lines of "ace queen" in Romanian, while another player at the table said "nice bluff" to Komarova.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
25,000
6,000
|
6,000 |
Level 4
: 200/400, 50 ante
Florin Andrei Pop raised to 1,100 and William Hens three-bet to 2,500 from one seat over. The players in the blinds folded and Pop called to see a flop of 
. Pop check-called a bet worth 3,500 and the 
appeared on the turn. Both players checked and the on the river completed the board.
Pop made it 12,000 to go and Hens eventually called before seeing the good news. Pop only had 
for a pair of tens while the Dutchman was good with his 
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
50,000 |
Level 4
: 200/400, 50 ante
Joining the action on the 
turn, Avi Cohen bet 3,750 and table neighbor Akseli Paalanen called to see the [10d appear on the river. Cohen checked and Paalen now bet 15,000 for almost the size of the pot, wich just 9,000 behind.
Cohen spent several minutes in the think tank before the clock was called on him. The one minute ran down without any move by Cohen, before he eventually folded the for two pair. "Good fold," Paalanen added and claimed the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
37,000 |
Level 4
: 200/400, 50 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
75,000
27,000
|
27,000 |
|
|
||
|
70,000
15,000
|
15,000 |
|
52,000
13,000
|
13,000 |
|
50,000 | |
|
46,000
4,000
|
4,000 |
|
42,000
12,000
|
12,000 |
|
|
34,000
6,000
|
6,000 |
|
28,000
7,000
|
7,000 |
|
26,000
6,000
|
6,000 |
|
24,000
6,000
|
6,000 |
|
19,000 | |
Level 4
: 200/400, 50 ante
A short-stacked Andrei Racolta moved all in for around 6,000 and Saied Khalghamooz, who had just sat down and not even filled out the player info sheet just yet, called in the cutoff. The rest of the table folded and the cards were turned over.
Andrei Racolta: 
Saied Khalghamooz: 
Racolta was in bad shape and joined the rail despite picking up a gutshot on the turn of a board 
. The kicker played in favor of Khalghamooz, who boosted his stack right away. Other recent casualties include Roy Even, Sorin Agapie, Adrian Nica and Cristian Vornicu.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
38,000 | |
|
|
Busted | |
|
Busted | |
|
|
Busted | |
|
Busted | |
|
Busted |
Level 4
: 200/400, 50 ante
Table six has lost two players and that included Daniel Chutrov and Mikkel Lorentzen. According to other players at the table including Luciana Manolea, Chutrov was involved in a three-bet pot with Farook Ghafoor and got his stack then in with 
on a flop of 
. Ghafoor had that beat with 
and turn and river both bricked.
Soon after, Lorentzen and Emanuel Flesner clashed. Both were very short and Flesner managed to double his stack of just 9,225 with versus thanks to a board of 
. Lorentzen had a chip and a chair left, then busted the very next hand.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
75,000
75,000
|
75,000 |
|
|
20,000
27,000
|
27,000 |
|
Busted | |
|
|
Busted |
