Among the recent casualties was Unibet Open veteran Nicholas Storm. There are 92 players left out of the 238 that entered the field in Day 1a. We are about to head into our last blind level of the day with blinds set at 1,000/2,000 with an ante of 300. The average stack is about 38 big blinds or a bit over 75,000 chips. During the same time yesterday, the average stack was over 50 big blinds. Day 1a ended with 51 players out of the 186 surviving to play on Saturday.
John Kagame has definitely been one of the more entertaining players in Day 1b. During the last level of the night, it is expected to see many bluff. Kagame, however, is one never afraid to show it.
From under-the-gun, Kagame raised and everyone folded. He slammed down his cards and smiled when he showed his bluff with .
Ian Simpson seems to be always active whenever we pass his table. He told us his chip stack has been going up and down, and that he has been lately "bluffing all the time."
Bhavin Khatri has a nice stack, but it isn't as nice as it once was. Recently he had a big pot where he mucked his hand and shared with us that it was a "bluff gone wrong."
Liutauras Armanavicius and Kevin Allen were just involved in an interesting pot. Both players were all-in on the flop of . Allen, who had his opponent covered, turned over for both bottom pair and a flush draw while Armanavicius turned over for a higher flush draw.
The turn came the giving the Lithuanian a higher pair. The river helped neither player. Armanavicius doubled up to 80,000 while Allen was left with around 70,000.
Bhavin Khatri recently shared with us that his stack went down slightly after his bluff went wrong. However, it's hard for things to go wrong when you are back to getting cards again.
Khatri holding fired out a bet on a flop of which his opponent called. He fired again on the turn before overbetting all-in on the river. His opponent called all three times sending him to the rails, while Khatri got his stack back over 200,000 chips again.
The tournament director stopped the clock with 10 minutes to go on the day asking dealers to deal a few more hands. Currently there are 70 players left to go along with the 51 that survived yesterday's Day 1a.
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. Allen, who had his opponent covered, turned over 
for both bottom pair and a flush draw while Armanavicius turned over 
for a higher flush draw.
giving the Lithuanian a higher pair. The river helped neither player. Armanavicius doubled up to 80,000 while Allen was left with around 70,000.
fired out a bet on a flop of 
which his opponent called. He fired again on the turn before overbetting all-in on the river. His opponent called all three times sending him to the rails, while Khatri got his stack back over 200,000 chips again.
