Andrei Nodea Heads Field Entering Final Day of the Unibet Open Bucharest High Roller
After six levels of play, Romania's Andrei Nodea leads the way entering the second and final day of the 2018 Unibet Open Bucharest High Roller after bagging a huge stack of 95,200.
A total of 54 entrants ponied up the €2,200 buy-in to generate a €104,760 prize pool. That figure will grow with late-registration and unlimited reentries open until the end of Level 7 on Day 2.
Finishing the day just behind Nodea were Romania's Traian Bostan (second - 74,900), Bulgaria's Simeon Spasov (third - 69,200), Poland's Andrzej Skoczylas (fourth - 65,500), and United Kingdom's Jack Sinclair (fifth - 63,100).
Bostan got most of his chips early after he called a bluff with top pair against Chiriac Petre Laurentiu. Laurentiu still had a healthy stack after the hand but wasn't able to survive the day and at least thus far hasn't reentered.
Skoczylas also found early success like Bostan. He doubled up after nailing the nut-straight with queen-ten against last year's Unibet Open Main Event champion Marius Pertea, who held top set with pocket aces. Pertea was short on chips after the hand and eventually gave the rest away a few hands later. He then reentered the High Roller but didn't find much luck on his second bullet bagging 14,900 or less than half of the 30,000 starting stack.
Also getting in on the action were four Unibet Poker Ambassadors in Ian Simpson, Dara O'Kearney, Rauno "Estonian Jesus" Tahvonen, and Espen Uhlen Jorstad.
Simpson found success early on and double his stack before the first break. However, he cooled off and will enter tomorrow with a 16th place chip stack of 46,200.
The other three Unibet Poker ambassadors had less success but all bag chips with Tahvonen bringing forth 29,200 in chips, O'Kearney bagging 20,000 in chips, and Jorstad ending the day with 11,600 in chips.
Meanwhile, Esports sensation Nathan “NBK” Schmitt, who earlier in the day competed in the Unibet Poker Esports Battle Royale, managed a better day than all the ambassadors after bagging a seventh-place stack of 55,700 in chips.
The action will resume again tomorrow, Aug. 2 at 12 p.m. EEST with blinds at 500/1,000 with a big blind ante of 1,000. Stay tuned at PokerNews as we cover the remainder of the 2018 Unibet Open Bucharest High Roller.