Among the most recent casualties were Bogdan Berinde, Nasser Khelifi, Florin Pandilica and Simonas Eigminas. The latter sent over his stack to Jose Luis Capdevila and the player from Chile emerged as one of the big stacks. Capdevila is traveling the world with his girlfriend and was in Easter Europe just now when he noticed the upcoming event online. The quick stop here in Bucharest may prove very profitable indeed.
Lazar Tudor Bartha's raise triggered the all in of short stack Markus Heikkila for around 17,000 and the reshove of Daniel Chutrov and Bartha quickly called.
Markus Heikkila:
Daniel Chutrov:
Tudor Bartha Lazar:
The board came and Bartha held up to send two opponents including the 2015 Unibet Open Glasgow champion Chutrov to the rail.
Over on the live stream table, the hand-for-hand on the money bubble in the €2,200 High Roller just culminated in the three-bet shove of Dara O'Kearney for 83,000 out of the small blind. Jason Gray in the big blind reshoved for 166,000 and initial raiser Mateusz Moolhuizen on the button folded his .
Dara O'Kearney:
Jason Gray:
The board ran out and the Unibet Poker ambassador doubled on the money bubble. Action continues hand for hand at blinds of 3,000/6,000 with a running ante of 1,000.
The remaining 55 players have been sent into their final 15-minute break of the day and two levels of 60 minutes each remain before they get to bag and tag for Day 2.
Plamen Yakimov busted just before the end of the level while Zion Mashiah doubled his short stack through Alexandru Iliescu with versus , the board ran out .
Near the end of the level 15 with blinds of 3,000/6,000 and a running ante of 1,000, Eric Wasylenko three-bet all in out of the big blind and Olvedo Heinze snap-called for 178,000 on the money bubble of the €2,200 High Roller.
Olvedo Heinze:
Eric Wasylenko:
The board came and the Dutchman doubled, while Wasylenko remained average but dropped to around 280,000. Still 14 left, 13 get paid!
On the tail end of a hand between Catalin Diac and Lazar Tudor Bartha, the former called a bet of 14,000 by Bartha on the river of a board and mucked when he was shown by Bartha.
Right after, Martin von Zweigbergk arrived with his big stack and a fresh beer in the hand.
While Cristinel Dumitru and Sandro Spaccarotella were eliminated, a bigger pot played out between big stacks Martin von Zweigbergk and Tudor Bartha Lazar.
Lazar check-raised the turn out of the small blind from 14,000 to 45,000 and von Zweigbergk called. "This is a chip leader pot," the Finn said. The fell on the river and Lazar bet 51,000. It took some time but von Zweigbergk eventually folded. "I had ace high, is that good?" the Finn asked in table chat but got no answer.
While Tom Lerner was sent to the rail, Ionut Zota was more fortunate.
Down to his last 57,800 he got it in with and Marius-Serban Moldoveanu looked him up with the superior stack and the . Zota left his chair and was on the way out, but spiked an ace on the board of to double.
and Bartha held up to send two opponents including the 2015 Unibet Open Glasgow champion Chutrov to the rail.
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and the Unibet Poker ambassador doubled on the money bubble. Action continues hand for hand at blinds of 3,000/6,000 with a running ante of 1,000.
, the board ran out 
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and the Dutchman doubled, while Wasylenko remained average but dropped to around 280,000. Still 14 left, 13 get paid!
by Bartha.
. Zota left his chair and was on the way out, but spiked an ace on the board of 
to double.
