Some good and some bad news for the Belgian poker fans. Gaelle Garcia Diaz has been eliminated. Down to just five big blinds she shoved with and failed to improve against the of an opponent on a jack-high board.
Kiarash Nabavieh on the other hand bumped up his stack to massive 150,000 after flopping an open-ender with nine-seven off suit. He got the on the river for the nut straight and his over-bet of 50,000 into a pot of 30,000 was snap-called by an opponent with just another 5,000 behind.
Soon after her fortunate double up, Michal Nahum was then sent to the rail and David Jing Zhon Hu followed former table neighbor Gaelle Garcia Diaz out of the rail as well. Further casualties include Razvan Dumea and former big stack Stefan Fabian. There are around 200 players remaining and this number will fall quickly over the course of the next hours.
The full action until the river is unclear, but the outcome saw Nissim Alfassi and Aleksandr Lebedev heading to the rail after Yossef Shmuel Shmerling showed for a full house. Alfassi had mucked his cards already and Lebedev held for tens and sixes.
Shmerling has just shy of 200,000 chips now and becomes a contender for the lead after Day 1b.
Constantin Daniel Georgescu had two opponents at risk of elimination. This included Dorin Agavriloae for a mere 5,000 as well as Robert Hansen for around 24,000. Georgescu showed and Agavriloae was at risk with , Hansen had the .
The board came and the eights held up for Agavriloae.
Andreas Hagen defended his big blind against the raise of Dragan Iulian Lucian in the cutoff and the latter then shoved the flop for around 16,000 with for the nut flush draw. Hagen was ahead with after having flopped middle pair, and the turn and river were both blanks.
There are just 10 French players remaining as Damien Menard has been eliminated and Kat Arnsby also ran out of chips. The two nations with the most participants in total took quite some losses as of lately also with many hopefuls from both Romania and Israel being sent to the rail.
While the Main Event is down to 182 players on Day 1b, two other Side Events are currently taking place. The Satellite to the High Roller is down to the last 14 players out of 47 entries and the top six will win a ticket to the €2,200 buy-in that kicks off tomorrow. Furthermore, a €220 Turbo Bounty Side kicked off with massive 164 entries and alternates are being called as soon as some tables become available.
The Grand Ballroom is bursting once again and the Unibet Open festival here in Bucharest a thorough success.
Bence Szaszko opened from the cutoff and then called the three-bet to 12,200 by Michal Kadziela in the blinds to see a flop of . Kadziela bet 11,200 and was called before the Pole then shoved the turn. Szaszko gave it some thought and folded to keep himself an average stack of around 60,000.
The mystery of Mihai Manole's exit after dinner appears to be solved, as Jessy Marillaud reported about a major suckout he delivered to an opponent on the other side of the table just after dinner. His opponent in the big blind four-bet shoved with pocket aces and de Zutter looked him up with ace-king to improve thanks to a king on the flop and a king on the river.
Jessy Marillaud has been able to build his stack nicely and Jean-Michel Ploch finally doubled after shoving at least five times previously. His four-bet shove for 30,000 was called by Jonatan Koko with pocket nines on the button. Ploch had jacks in the big blind and held up.
and failed to improve against the 
of an opponent on a jack-high board.
on the river for the nut straight and his over-bet of 50,000 into a pot of 30,000 was snap-called by an opponent with just another 5,000 behind.
river is unclear, but the outcome saw Nissim Alfassi and Aleksandr Lebedev heading to the rail after Yossef Shmuel Shmerling showed 
for a full house. Alfassi had mucked his cards already and Lebedev held 
for tens and sixes.
, Hansen had the 
.
and the eights held up for Agavriloae.
flop for around 16,000 with 
for the nut flush draw. Hagen was ahead with 
after having flopped middle pair, and the 
turn and 
river were both blanks.
. Kadziela bet 11,200 and was called before the Pole then shoved the 
