Main Event Day 1b | 2016 Unibet Open Bucharest

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Day 1b Completed

12-03-2016 04:00 UTC+2

2016 Unibet Open Bucharest: Gabriel Gavrila Tops Day 1b; Joni Liimatta with Top 10 Stack

Christian Zetzsche

Level 11 : 1,200/2,400, 400 ante

2016 Copenhagen champion Joni Liimatta among the top 10

It was indeed a record-breaking day at the Unibet Open Bucharest festival at the JW Marriott Bucharest Grand Hotel, as once again the Grand Ballroom was bursting with all tables being used for Day 1b of the €1,100 Main Event as well as High Roller Satellite and a €220 Turbo Bounty Event.

After the registration had closed, a massive field of 367 entrants took part on Day 1b to boost the overall attendance to 603 participants, shattering the previous record of 460 entries to create a prize pool of €584,910. The payouts will be announced when the action resumes as of 12 p.m. local time for Day 2 and 156 hopefuls are still in contention.

After 63 players had bagged up on Day 1a, another 93 made it through today and local player Gabriel Gavrila amassed a monster stack of 432,000. He is followed by Alexandre de Zutter, who consistently built his stack over on table one and even cracked the aces of Mihai Manole with ace-king to bag up 382,000. Dan Ionut Hila follows in third place with 291,500 while other big stacks include Eugen Chiva (267,000), EPT12 Grand Final €25,750 High Roller champion Alexandru Papazian (232,500) and Jozsef Liszkovics (219,000).

Joni Liimatta also made it into the top 10 after the second starting day and the Finn is on track to possibly win back-to-back Unibet Open titles after already emerging victorious in Copenhagen just a few months ago. Liimatta was a big stack throughout the day and will return for Day 2 with very healthy 236,000. Other notables advancing from Day 1b were James Mitchell (174,000), Jeroen van Belzen (168,000), Martin Wendt (165,600), Jessy Marillaud (132,000), Nicolay Langfeldt (111,500), Dehlia de Jong (97,000) and Quentin Lecomte (69,500).

Plenty of other familiar faces of the international poker circuit took the felt as well but failed to bag up chips. Ian Simpson joined the rail in the first two levels already and two-time Unibet Open champion Mateusz Moolhuizen doubled two shorter stacks after coming back from dinner before getting the remaining five big blinds in with queen-four suited, Andrei One dealt the final blow with ace-king.

Gaelle Garcia Diaz had a kicker problem with ace-ten versus ace-king and Peter Harkes shoved with pocket aces into a straight to join the rail as well. Florin Ionut Ilies had a huge double early on with quads sevens, but ran out of chips on the same table as de Zutter. Daiva Barauskaite's ace-jack faced the isolation of Apostolos Bechrakis with jack-eight suited and the Greek made a runner runner flush over on the feature table, while popular Irishmen Gary Clarke, David Lappin and Dara "Doke" O'Kearney were all eliminated as well.

In the last few hands of the night, former big stack Yossef Shmuel Shmerling got it in with ace-queen against ace-jack on a jack-high flop and failed to improve. Andrei One joined the rail in spectacular fashion after bluffing off his chips with queen-four suited and a busted gutshot, Erno Suominen looked him up with ace-deuce suited for aces and sixes.

When all was said and done for the night, the 93 survivors bagged up and will be back for level 12 and blinds of 1,500-3,000 with a running ante of 500. Another eleven levels of 60 minutes each are scheduled for Day 2 to cut down the hopefuls considerably, about half of the remaining players are expected to cash in the Main Event. Saturday will also feature Day 1 of the single re-entry €2,200 High Roller as well and today's Satellite gave away six entries, the tournament kicks off at 4 p.m. local time.

Make sure to follow the PokerNews live updates to find out who makes history at the record-breaking inaugural Unibet Open this weekend in Bucharest!

Main Event Seat Draw Day 2

Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count
1	1	Asbjorn Elvevold	Norway	132,500
1	2	Stefan Razvan Magda	Romania	35,000
1	3	Nuno Miguel Carvalho	Portugal	135,000
1	4	Traian Bostan	Romania	157,000
1	5	Bogdan Diaconu	Romania	129,500
1	6	David Tobi	Israel	152,500
1	7	Georgios Angelos Tavoularis	Greece	215,000
1	8	Romain Grange	France	59,000
1	9	Florin Pandilica	Romania	40,000

2	1	Anthony Mitchell Duane	USA	186,500
2	2	Farook Ghafoor	Sweden	94,500
2	3	Sorin Irinel Lica	Romania	167,500
2	4	Cezar Catalin Chivulescu	Romania	71,500
2	5	Eszter Fabian	Hungary	28,000
2	6	Alexandru Sautner	Romania	186,500
2	7	Gabor Bank	Hungary	75,000
2	8	Mark Rink	Netherlands	65,000
2	9	Vasile Claudiu Sabou	Romania	135,000

3	1	Moti Merdler	Israel	38,000
3	2	Constantin Daniel Georgescu	Romania	118,500
3	3	Roi Koko	Israel	122,500
3	4	Tillmann Meier	Germany	55,000
3	5	Avi Hamo	Israel	119,500
3	6	Mihai Sebastian Parnica	Romania	102,000
3	7	William Hens	Netherlands	285,000
3	8	Nicolay Langfeldt	Norway	111,500
3	9	Solomon Stan	Romania	34,000

4	1	Viliyan Petleshkov	Bulgaria	50,000
4	2	Martin Wendt	Denmark	165,500
4	3	Gur Sabag	Israel	44,500
4	4	Jonathan Spicer	United Kingdom	115,000
4	5	Alexandru Papazian	Romania	232,500
4	6	Virgil Grecu	Romania	42,500
4	7	Florin Carmil Rusu	Romania	213,000
4	8	Iustin Cojocaru	Romania	113,000
4	9	Gabriel Gavrila	Romania	432,000

5	1	Luciana Manolea	Romania	100,000
5	2	Quentin Lecomte	France	69,500
5	3	Constantin Cosmin	Romania	180,500
5	4	Roei Motola	Israel	186,500
5	5	Zoltan Boszormenyi	Hungary	93,500
5	6	Razvan Florian Stircu	Romania	58,000
5	7	Ozgur Arda	Turkey	110,000
5	8	Ilan Buskila	Israel	81,000
5	9	Aurellian Nicusor Chirieci	Romania	78,500

6	1	Marius Asanache	Romania	144,500
6	2	Ionut-Alin Tambura	Romania	191,000
6	3	Bogdan Petrascu	Romania	105,000
6	4	Alexandros Papadopolos	Greece	115,000
6	5	Jakob Linden	Sweden	287,000
6	6	Daniel Wittikko	Sweden	67,500
6	7	Dan Glimne	Sweden	59,000
6	8	Akseli Paalanen	Finland	35,000
6	9	Cristian Dan	Romania	77,500

7	1	George Damian	Romania	70,000
7	2	Gert Bransteert	Belgium	108,500
7	3	Jeroen van Belzen	Netherlands	168,000
7	4	Cristian Cirtog	Romania	134,000
7	5	Dan Murariu	Romania	160,000
7	6	Lucian Tofan	Romania	30,500
7	7	Radu Lungu	Romania	38,500
7	8	Cristian Mihai Taran	Romania	21,000
7	9	Mate Mecs	Hungary	84,500

8	1	Jussi Perlinen	Finland	136,500
8	2	Ronnie Espensen	Denmark	38,500
8	3	Lachezar Petkov	Bulgaria	33,000
8	4	Constantin Florin Bitan	Romania	155,000
8	5	Yosef Boker	Israel	79,500
8	6	Andrei Boghean	Romania	135,000
8	7	Ovidiu Florian Ciuciuc	Romania	119,000
8	8	Iulian Bogdan Nastase	Romania	97,500
8	9	Avi Osezikli	Israel	79,500

9	1	Ioana Silvana Apostol	Romania	47,000
9	2	Nasser Khelifi	France	64,000
9	3	Gusti Adrian Sas	Romania	44,500
9	4	Viorel Chelariu	Romania	65,500
9	5	Bart Francois	Netherlands	121,000
9	6	Cristian Tardea	Romania	56,000
9	7	Ovidiu Roman	Romania	42,500
9	8	Kobi Maymon	Israel	119,500
9	9	Eugen Chiva	Romania	267,000

10	1	Dejan Govedi	Slovenia	269,000
10	2	Vasile Paul Plastoi	Romania	190,000
10	3	Henri Vaisanen	Finland	284,000
10	4	Sebastiaan Uijtendaal	Netherlands	73,500
10	5	Anton Haeggblom	Finland	121,000
10	6	Jozsef Liszkovics	Hungary	219,000
10	7	Razvan Lucian Cetanas	Romania	69,500
10	8	Markus Heikkila	Sweden	322,000
10	9	Kiarash Nabavieh	Belgium	107,500

11	1	Joni Liimatta	Finland	236,000
11	2	Aldo Monteleone	Italy	232,500
11	3	Sidi-Mohamed Nouar	France	227,000
11	4	Omer Azulay	Israel	38,500
11	5	Gheorghe Caplescu	Romania	202,000
11	6	Niculae Eremia	Romania	138,000
11	7	Doron Shako	USA	123,500
11	8	Erno Suominen	Finland	212,500
11	9	Cosmin Ionut Petcu	Romania	151,000

12	1	George Adrian Stanescu	Romania	99,000
12	2	Daniel Sochanek	Sweden	186,000
12	3	Laurentiu Florin Dumitru	Romania	85,000
12	4	Catalin Morariu	Romania	101,500
12	5	Martin Klejna	Czech Republic	107,000
12	6	Jessy Marillaud	France	132,000
12	7	Andreas Hagen	Norway	42,500
12	8	Cosmin Cimpeanu	Romania	102,000
12	9	Juho Launonen	Finland	62,500

13	1	Elvis Petcu	Romania	135,500
13	3	Leon Mihai Ani	Romania	83,000
13	4	Barnabas Nagy	Hungary	66,500
13	5	Denis Adamskii	Russia	23,500
13	6	Jakub Groblewski	Poland	43,000
13	7	Avi Zur	Israel	44,000
13	8	Slaven Popov	Bulgaria	75,500
13	9	Eero Lehtinen	Finland	50,500

14	1	Shilo Jerusalem	Israel	81,000
14	2	Adrian Stefan Calusaru	Romania	62,500
14	3	Asaf Goldfeld	Israel	48,000
14	4	Nikita Malinovski	Russia	104,500
14	5	Quentin Laurentjoye	France	150,500
14	7	Alexandre de Zutter	France	382,000
14	8	Danut Marius Dinca	Romania	143,000
14	9	Mariusz Niski	Poland	106,000

15	1	Gordon Plomp	Belgium	148,000
15	2	Dan Ionut Hila	Romania	291,500
15	3	Tristan Guiodo	France	178,500
15	5	Michal Sobanski	Poland	40,500
15	6	James Mitchell	United Kingdom	174,000
15	7	Denis Ioan Poteras	Romania	95,000
15	8	Apostolos Bechrakis	Greece	108,000
15	9	Krzysztof Idziak	Poland	166,000
16	1	Bo Joakim Hedelin	Sweden	42,000
16	2	Zhiping Zeng	China	169,000
16	3	Elena Grigorescu	Romania	54,000
16	4	Daniel Balaiasa	Romania	110,500
16	5	Jorma Vuoksenmaa	Finland	79,500
16	6	Martin Soukup	Czech Republic	107,000
16	7	Lee Egan	Ireland	125,000
16	9	Anti Reinthal	Estonia	58,000

17	1	Daniel Juul	Denmark	38,000
17	2	Plamen Todorov	Bulgaria	116,000
17	3	Melech Prozan	Israel	59,500
17	4	Eli Heath	United Kingdom	250,000
17	5	Yonatan Koko	Israel	85,000
17	6	Olof Haglund	Sweden	63,500
17	7	Tomas Lindberg	Sweden	171,000
17	9	Benny Kneepkens	Netherlands	36,000

18	1	Adrian Bizineche	Romania	158,000
18	2	Dan Alexandru Nistor	Romania	55,000
18	3	Dan Serban Borlan	Romania	21,500
18	5	Alexandru Neculae	Romania	28,500
18	6	Ville Malinen	Finland	105,000
18	7	Dehlia de Jong	Netherlands	97,000
18	8	Martin Tsankov	Bulgaria	103,500
18	9	Vinod Jadav	United Kingdom	41,000

Tags: Alexandre de Zutter Alexandros Papadopolos Alexandru Papazian Apostolos Bechrakis Daiva Barauskaite Dan Hila Dara O'Kearney Dehlia de Jong Erno Suominen Gaelle Garcia Diaz Gary Clarke Ian Simpson Jeroen van Belzen Jessy Marillaud Jozsef Liszkovics Mihai Manole Nicolay Langfeldt Peter Harkes Quentin Lecomte Yossef Shmuel Shmerling

12-03-2016 02:55 UTC+2

End-Of-Day Counts (full)

Christian Zetzsche

Level 11 : 1,200/2,400, 400 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Gabriel Gavrila	432,000
Alexandre de Zutter	382,000
Dan Ionut Hila	291,500
Henri Vaisanen	284,000
Dejan Govedic	269,000	269,000
Eugen Chiva	267,000	-500
Joni Liimatta	236,000
Alexandru Papazian	232,500
Mohamed Nouar	227,000	227,000
Jozsef Liszkovics	219,000
Georgios Angelos Tavoularis	215,000
Florin Carmil Rusu	213,000	213,000
Erno Suominen	212,500	22,500
Anthony Mitchell Duane	186,500	31,500
Roei Motola	186,500	-3,500
Daniel Sochanek	186,000	186,000
James Mitchell	174,000
Jeroen van Belzen	168,000	38,000
Sorin Irinel Lica	167,500	167,500
Krzysztof Idziak	166,000	-34,000
Martin Wendt	165,500	5,500
Adrian Bizineche	158,000	158,000
Traian Bostan	157,000	157,000
David Tobi	152,500	27,500
Quentin Laurentjoye	150,500	150,500

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12-03-2016 01:50 UTC+2

Assorted End-Of-Day Chip Counts

Christian Zetzsche

Level 11 : 1,200/2,400, 400 ante

The screens show 93 players and they have all bagged up by now once the chip race of the T-100 was done. Below are some assorted chip counts, the full list will be made available as soon as PokerNews receives them.

Player	Chips	Progress
Gabriel Gavrila	432,000	2,000
Alexandre de Zutter	382,000	42,000
Dan Ionut Hila	291,500	31,500
Henri Vaisanen	284,000	34,000
Eugen Chiva	267,500
Joni Liimatta	236,000	16,000
Alexandru Papazian	232,500	42,500
Georgios Angelos Tavoularis	215,000	35,000
James Mitchell	174,000	-26,000
Quentin Lecomte	69,500	-20,500

12-03-2016 01:40 UTC+2

Malinen Doubles Through Chiva

Christian Zetzsche

Level 11 : 1,200/2,400, 400 ante

Bogdan Petrascu raised and Eugen Chiva in the small blind as well as Ville Malinen in the big blind called. On the flop, action checked to Petrascu and he bet. Chiva called and Malinen then check-raised all in for 37,0000. While Petrascu folded, that wasn't the case for Chiva, who called with .

Malinen had for the straight draw, and got there on the turn and river to double up in the last few hands of the night.

A few further players weren't as fortunate: Ionut Alexandru Decher, Marian Ionut Farcas, Idan Shoham and Madalin Petraru all busted.

Player	Chips	Progress
Eugen Chiva	267,500	37,500
Ville Malinen	100,000	89,700
Ionut Alexandru Decher	Busted
Marian Ionut Farcas	Busted
Idan Shoham	Busted
Madalin Petraru	Busted

Tags: Bogdan Petrascu Ionut Alexandru Decher Madalin Petraru Ville Malinen

12-03-2016 01:34 UTC+2

Shmerling Busts to Liszkovics

Christian Zetzsche

Level 11 : 1,200/2,400, 400 ante

On the four-way flop of , the small and big blind both checked and Jozsef Liszkovics bet 11,200 in the hijack. Yossef Shmuel Shmerling moved all in for 50,900 from one seat over and that forced folds from the blinds. Liszkovics however called to put Shmerling at risk.

Yossef Shmuel Shmerling:
Jozsef Liszkovics:

The board completed with the turn and river and that sent Shmerling to the rail.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jozsef Liszkovics	219,000	84,000
Yossef Shmuel Shmerling	Busted

Tags: Jozsef Liszkovics Yossef Shmuel Shmerling

12-03-2016 01:26 UTC+2

One Busts Stack with a Bluff

Christian Zetzsche

Level 11 : 1,200/2,400, 400 ante

Andrei One raised the button and picked up a call by Erno Suominen in the small blind. Both checked the flop and Suominen bet the turn, One called. After the river, Suominen bet 16,000 into 30,000 and One shoved for more than 65,000.

After long consideration, Suominen called with the and One flashed for a bluff to exit at the end of the day.

Player	Chips	Progress
Erno Suominen	190,000
Andrei One	Busted

Tags: Andrei One Erno Suominen

12-03-2016 01:20 UTC+2

Pictures of the Last Few Levels

Christian Zetzsche

12-03-2016 01:20 UTC+2

The Last Five Hands Are Announced

Christian Zetzsche

Level 11 : 1,200/2,400, 400 ante

The clock has been stopped and five more hands will be played before bagging and tagging. Around 100 players remain as of now.

12-03-2016 01:10 UTC+2

Gavrila Takes some More

Christian Zetzsche

Level 11 : 1,200/2,400, 400 ante

Viliyan Petleshkov raised to 5,400 and Gabriel Gavrila three-bet to 14,300 on the button, which Elvis Petcu in the big blind and Petleshkov both called. On the flop, Gavrila continued for 18,000 once it was checked to him and just Petcu called before checking again the turn.