A stampede left the Grand Ballroom of the JW Marriott Hotel and headed straight to the designated dinner buffet room, which means that level six has come to an end. In one hour from now at around 8 p.m. local time, the action will recommence and the registration will remain open until the cards are back in the air.
So far, one third of the field of Day 1b has been eliminated with 240 out of 367 entries remaining.
The cards are back in the air and level seven has commenced. Only 227 players remained and the screens show 367 entries. This number is not final yet though, as everything has to be double-checked in case of online qualifiers that didn't show up.
Several notables came back from dinner with short stacks while Michal Nahum on the table of Dara O'Kearney just scored a lucky double. Ionut Alexandru Decher had raised to 2,200 and Nahum shoved for 7,000 with the from the button. Decher called with and saw the board running out .
Once again Florin Minea has suffered another setback, as pretty much several times today already. This time around, he had Virgil Grecu at risk of elimination with versus for 18,000 only to see his opponent improve to two pair on a board of . Minea sighed and fell back to around 35,000, Grecu has just about as much.
On the flop, Iulian Georgian Ruxandescu checked and Jeroen van Belzen checked behind. The appeared on the turn, and Ruxandescu checked. Back on van Belzen, who bet 4,000 into a pot of 6,000. Ruxandescu then check-raised all in for 31,400 and that sent van Belzen into the think tank.
"If you have a set, why would you jam?" the Dutchman said, then eventually called one minute later.
Iulian Georgian Ruxandescu:
Jeroen van Belzen:
The on the river blanked and the Romanian was gone.
After starting the new level pretty horrid and losing two all ins against even shorter stacks, Mateusz Moolhuizen was eventually all in for just 5,400 from late position with the . Andrei One isolated with a shove from the small blind, holding ace-king, and the board provided no help for Moolhuizen.
Dan Murariu, who advanced from Day 1a yesterday, still has the chance to become the first three-time champion while Moolhuizen will have to wait until next year. As far as One is concerned, he took down another three-bet pot and cracked 100,000 in chips.