Level: 15
Blinds: 3,000/6,000
Ante: 1,000
2016 Unibet Open Bucharest
Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2016 Unibet Open Bucharest
Buy-in
€1,000
Prize Pool
€584,910
Entries
603
Level
32
Blinds
150,000 / 300,000
Ante
50,000
Lindberg Busts to van Belzen
Level 15
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
Short stack Tomas Lindberg shoved from the cutoff and Jeroen van Belzen, equally short in the small blind, also shoved.
Tomas Lindberg: 
Jeroen van Belzen: 
The board ran out 
and the better hand preflop held up after a roller coaster run out to eliminate Lindberg. The same table also features two-time champion Dan Murariu, who has been flying under the radar thus far and still has a decent stack above average.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
260,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
|
||
|
120,000
-48,000
|
-48,000 |
|
Busted | |
Three Further Casualties
Level 15
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
Romain Grange, Zhiping Zheng and Alexandros Papadopolos have all been eliminated.
The latter check-raised all in out of the small blind on a flop of 
with 
and Jerusalem called with the 
. The 
turn and 
river were both blanks and Papadopolos was eliminated.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
260,000
40,000
|
40,000 |
|
Busted | |
|
Busted | |
|
Busted |
Spicer and Cojocaru Double; Guiodo Busts
Level 15
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
In the first hand, Jonathan Spicer doubled for 46,000 with the 
against the 
of Denis Ioan Poteras on a board of 
.
The very next hand, Iustin Cojocaru doubled with as Tristan Guiodo only had 
and found no help on the 
board.
Cojocaru then busted Guiodo and shoved into Florin Carmil Rusu the hand after on a flop of 
. Rusu had invested 43,000 and folded to the shove of 131,500.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
240,000
-130,000
|
-130,000 |
|
|
220,000
107,000
|
107,000 |
|
100,000
35,000
|
35,000 |
|
90,000
-45,000
|
-45,000 |
|
|
Busted |
Down to 82 Players as Rusu Runs into Gavrila's Aces
Level 15
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
Anthony Mitchell Duane, Elena Grigorescu and Florin Carmil Rusu have been eliminated in quick succession.
The exit of Rusu was a big one, after he raised to 14,000 and then four-bet shoved for massive 250,000 into the three-bet of Gabriel Gavrila. The latter snap-called on the button and turned over aces.
Florin Carmil Rusu: 
Gabriel Gavrila:
The board came 
and that sent Rusu to the rail just shy of the money, while Gavrila may very well be the first player to get above one million.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
840,000
280,000
|
280,000 |
|
Busted | |
|
|
Busted | |
|
|
Busted |
Heikkila Bad Beats Uijtendaal
Level 15
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
Markus Heikkila raised to 14,000 from early position and Sebastiaan Uijtendaal shoved for 88,500 from the button. The action folded back to Heikkila and he called to put the Dutchman at risk.
Sebastiaan Uijtendaal:
Markus Heikkila:
The 
board provided the queen for Heikkila and Uijtendaal just missed out on the money.
One table over, Alexandre de Zutter raised to 14,000 and then folded to two shoves behind him. Luciana Manolea and Zoltan Boszormenyi were both all in and showed ace-king each, de Zutter would have gotten there on a board of 
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
340,000
120,000
|
120,000 |
|
|
Busted |
Hand-For-Hand on the Money Bubble
Level 15
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
With less than half an hour on the clock in the current level, the hand-for-hand mode has started to determine the bubble boy of the Main Event.
Ghafoor Doubles in Dramatic Fashion
Level 15
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
Erno Suominen raised to 14,000 from the cutoff and Vasile Paul Plastoi called in the small blind, Farook Ghafoor then three-bet to 38,000. Suominen folded, but Plastoi called and the flop came 
.
Plastoi checked, Ghafoor bet 85,000 and then called the shove of Plastoi to put himself at risk in a huge pot.
Farook Ghafoor:
Vasile Paul Plastoi: 
The on the turn gave Ghafoor some hope, and sure enough the on the river improved him to a full house and caused gasps all around. Ghafoor doubled for 357,500 and left Plastoi with a mere 20 big blinds.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
800,000
705,500
|
705,500 |
|
445,000
-5,000
|
-5,000 |
|
135,000
-465,000
|
-465,000 |
Govedic Wins Small Pot
Level 15
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
One table was still playing and the board showed 
. Bogdan Diaconu had checked in the big blind and Dejan Govedic bet 30,000 on the button. Diaconu eventually called, then mucked when the Slowene showed him 
for trips.
In between the duo sits another big stack in Traian Bostan, who has both covered.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
660,000
210,000
|
210,000 |
|
500,000
370,500
|
370,500 |
|
345,000
-105,000
|
-105,000 |
Break on the Bubble
Level 15
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
The last hands of the level provided no more fireworks and the players were sent into a 15-minute break, in which the color up of the T-500 chips will take place as well.