The Rebuy Satellite is gathering a big field and as soon as one of the Main Event tables break, it gets occupied soon after. Among those casualties that ran out of chips were Maarten Kerkhofs, Dany Parlafes, Torbjorn Skrunes, Saied Khalghamooz, Jens Hansen and Cathal Shine.
In the last level over on the feature table, Luciana Manolea raised to 2,300 from under the gun and Solomon Stan shoved for his last 11,000. Adrian-Sorel State reraised all in for 28,000 and Manolea quickly called when folded to her.
All players that had tickets but didn't show up for Day 1a have been taken off and suddenly the screens show 236 entries, of which 121 currently remain. Almost half the field on the first starting day has been eliminated and the average currently is 58,000, all players below have been eliminated.
On a heads-up flop of , the action escalated between Farook Ghafoor and Martin Soukup in a battle big blind versus button. Soukup was in prime position to double into a big stack with the and Ghafoor had for the worse two pair.
The turn and river were both blanks and Soukup suddenly became the biggest stack over on the feature table.
Silviu Baltantenu raised to 3,800 from the button and Silviu Dobre shoved for around 18,000 from the small blind. Andrei Boghean reshoved and Baltantenu folded, exposed his cards and they were later revealed to be .
Silviu Dobre:
Andrei Boghean:
The board came and Boghean claimed the pot with a set to boost his stack.
The rise of Ozgur Arda was temporarily halted, as the player from Turkey just saw the double up of Tomasz Kozub through him.
Arda raised from the hijack and then called the shove of Kozub for 14,500 on the button with . Kozub flipped for his tournament life with and got there on a board of to stay in.
The next big all in once again took place on the feature table. On the heads-up flop of , Farook Ghafoor bet 9,000 and Luciana Minolea moved all in for 38,000. Ghafoor eventually called with the for top pair and a flush draw, while Minolea had the flush already with .
It was all over after the turn and Minolea had the double locked up, making the river meaningless.
The stack of Razvan Bordei had stalled for quite some time and his new table provided one big stack with Gheorghe Caplescu. The latter raised from early position and Bordei three-bet to 11,000 in the big blind to pick up a call. On the flop, Bordei continued for 12,000 and that was enough to take down the pot uncontested.
Another player on the rise is Mark Rink. One of the few remaining Dutchman sits not far behind Caplescu in the counts. The biggest recent pot saw him eliminate an opponent with pocket nines versus , a pair on the flop and a second spade on the turn made things sweaty but the river bricked and Rink held up.
Mark Rink is no longer a big stack and he explained what had happened. According to Rink, he raised to 3,500 and Ovidiu Florin Ciuciuc called before Denis Ioan Poteras three-bet to 8,400 on the button. Rink reraised and then looked up Poteras for 64,000 in total with pocket jacks, his opponent had the .
The flop gave Poteras a straight and flush draw and a ten on the river completed the straight to put a huge dent into Rink's stack.
The players have been sent into yet another break and get to enjoy 15 minutes, might even sneak into the Welcome Drink party that kicks off at 10 p.m. as well.
to let Stan triple up with quads and eliminate State.
, the action escalated between Farook Ghafoor and Martin Soukup in a battle big blind versus button. Soukup was in prime position to double into a big stack with the 
and Ghafoor had 
for the worse two pair.
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turn and Minolea had the double locked up, making the 
