Mateusz Moolhuizen will remain at two Unibet Open titles for the time being. With a stack of 13,400, Moolhuizen opened to 2,000 with and got two callers.
The flop came down and one of Moolhuizen's opponents led out 4,000. The other player folded and Moolhuizen shoved all in After asking for a count, his opponent made the call for the extra 7,000.
Moolhuizen's opponent had pocket sixes and after blanks on the turn and river the Dutchman was eliminated.
Three players were involved on a flop with action on Silviu Nemes. The Romanian pro bet 3,000, Ghattas Kortas made it 7,800 on the button, an unknown player three-bet shoved around 40,000, Nemes folded and Kortas called 20,000 effectively all in.
Kortas held and had a ton of outs against his opponent's . The on the turn was one of them and the on the river kept him in front.
Scott McMillan raised from early position from a short stack. Action folded to Maurice Schinkel in the small blind, who moved all in with his last 17 big blinds. 2011 Unibet Open Riga champion Peter Harkes came over the top all-in from the big blind and McMillan called as well.
McMillan and Schinkel both held , while Harkes just needed to hit with to knock out both players. The board ran out and all players stayed in.
A couple of people registered for Day 1a but didn't show up, bringing the total number of players for the first starting day to 168. It's fifteen more than last year's total of 153. 112 of them are still in contention.
The Day 1a field currently has 177 entries, with 133 still in contention to make it to Day 2. Late registration will be open up until the end of the dinner break, which will be after this level.