€1,100 Main Event Day 1bc | 2019 Unibet Open Sinaia

€1,100 Main Event

Day 1bc Completed

02-15-2019 01:45 UTC+2

Tataru Takes the Overall Lead in Sinaia; 199 Advance to Day 2

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 8 : 400/800, 800 ante

The three starting days of the 2019 Unibet Open Sinaia €1,100 Main Event have all wrapped up and a total field of 366 has emerged, of which 199 players bagged up chips for Day 2. Day 1b had the strongest turnout with a total of 176 entries and 90 players advanced, while the turbo heat 1c with levels of 20 minutes attracted a very respectable 70 participants that took another shot at glory in the popular mid-stakes circuit.

A new overall chip leader has been crowned, as Iulian Tataru dominated the second half of Day 1b on the way to bag up 177,800, nearly 178 big blinds for the start of level nine. The only one that came close to Tartaru was fellow countryman Pavel Alexandru with 160,000, while a big gap follows to third-placed Corentin Ropert, who bagged up 116,400.

Other big stacks and notables that made it through Day 1b include Aku Joentausta (97,000), Carmen Zainescu (91,800), Evangelos Bechrakis (80,900), Andrei Boghean (77,000), Luciana Manolea (69,000), Andrei Alecu (64,700) and Stefan Fabian (62,800).

A late double knockout with ace-queen versus ace-nine and pocket tens propelled Andrey “reynad” Yanyuk to the top of the counts for the Unibet representatives, the American made it through to Day 2 with 99,500. Joining esports streamer Yanyuk for Day 2 through the second starting day were also the Unibet Poker ambassadors Espen Uhlen Jorstad (71,800), Davia Byrne (61,200), Dara O'Kearney (21,500) and Alexandre Reard (18,900). Fellow esports streamers Alan "Hotted89" Widmann (76,400), Kevin "Rotterdam" van der Kooi (58,000) and John Pyle (39,800) also remain in contention. Pyle won the Tag Team Championship with Reard and finished runner-up to van der Kooi in the esports Battle Royale XII.

The Unibet Poker ambassadors Ian Simpson (86,400) and Monica Vaka (30,400) were ousted on Day 1b before re-entering the turbo heat and bagging up chips. Same applied for Quentin Lecomte (54,500) and David Lappin (36,000), who made up for a frustrating Day 1a experience.

2019 Unibet Open Sinana Main Event Schedule

Day	Date	Time	Entries	Survivors	Further Information
Day 1a	February 13th, 2019	15:00	120	56	Play eight levels of 60 minutes, late reg six levels, 60-min dinner break after level four
Day 1b	February 14th, 2019	15:00	176	90	Play eight levels of 60 minutes, late reg six levels, 60-min dinner break after level four
Day 1c	February 14th, 2019	22:00	70	53	Play eight levels of 20 minutes, late reg six levels, re-entry for bustouts of 1a/1b
Day 2	February 15th, 2019	15:00	366	199	Play eight levels of 60 minutes each, money bubble will burst
Day 3	February 16th, 2019	15:00	tba	tba	Play down to a final table
Final Day	February 17th, 2019	tba	tba	tba	Level duration 45 minutes with six remaining, 30 minutes long when three remain

Day 1b started with a bang as the first player busted just nine minutes into the day. Rory De Vos flopped bottom set with deuces and held up against top two pair, however, the Dutchman wouldn't make it through the end of level eight either. Andreas Leledakis saw his stack reduced to crumbs after he ran with queens into aces on a five-high turn in the second level and he bowed out after the first break.

The feature tables switched and Unibet Poker ambassador Ian Simpson took over the spotlight only to bust in a spectacular hand. Simpson three-bet queens and Dumitru Pora turned a flush with eight-seven suited. Pora check-shoved the river when Simpson improved to the nut straight and Irishman couldn't find a fold. His second attempt was crowned by success, as Simpson only trailed Finland's Antti Tiainen (94,900) in the Day 1c counts.

2016 Unibet Open Bucharest champion Trainan Bostan also required a second bullet and will return for Day 2 with 57,500, plenty of big blinds to try and join the two-time champion's club. Mateusz Moolhuizen already has two Unibet Open titles to his name and his re-entry resulted in a stack of 54,000.

Former champions Marius Pertea and Gerret van Lancker were eliminated on Day 1b, the former fell victim to the hot run of Luciana Manolea. First Pertea jammed into Manolea when he turned two pair with ace-five suited, but ended up second-best to Manolea's ace-jack for top two pair. Pertea then ran a bluff with king-high on a four-card-flush board and Manolea finished the job with the queen-high flush before dispatching Andy Hills in a flip with ace-king versus nines shortly after.

Four of the eight esports streamers were also among the dozens of casualties of the day including Kevin "Papaplatte" Teller, Anssi "AndyPyro" Huovinen, Sven "Svennoss" Edelenbosch and Jacob "Jakenbake" Abramson. Svennoss was unfotunate enough to run with king-queen into pocket aces. Martin Wendt, Jeremy Saderne, Charlotte van Brabander, Georgios Tavoularis, Nandor Solyom, and Pavao Veza were just some of the notables that came and left without anything to show for.

The remaining 199 players out of 366 entries will return to the poker tables at the New Montana Hotel in Sinaia at 3 p.m. local time on Friday, February 15th, 2019. Day 2 will feature another eight levels of 60 minutes each and the money bubble is expected to burst in the second half of the day. The action resumes with blinds of 500/1,000 and a big blind ante of 1,000.

Tune back in then to find out who makes the cut and will fight another day on the way to crowning the next Unibet Open champion in the snowy mountains of Romania. The live stream action of the feature table will run on a security delay of 30 minutes on the Unibet Poker Twitch channel and the PokerNews live reporting team will be on the floor to provide all the action.

^{Photos courtesy of Tambet Kask and Elena Kask/Unibet}

Tags: Aku Joentausta Alexandre Reard Andreas Leledakis Andy Hills Antti Tiainen Carmen Zainescu Charlotte Van Brabander Corentin Ropert Dara O'Kearney David Lappin Dumitru Pora Espen Uhlen Jorstad Ian Simpson Iulian Tataru John Pyle Luciana Manolea Marius Pertea Martin Wendt Mateusz Moolhuizen Monica Vaka Nandor Solyom Quentin Lecomte Stefan Fabian

02-15-2019 01:40 UTC+2

Day 2 Seat Draw

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 8 : 400/800, 800 ante

Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	1	Marius Asanache	Romania	41,000	41
1	2	Tudor Bartha Lazar	Romania	76,600	77
1	3	Catalin Gheorghe	Romania	38,300	38
1	4	Daiva Byrne	Lithuania	61,200	61
1	5	Emil Brunnberg	Sweden	17,600	18
1	6	Claudiu Ianuszewicz	Romania	54,000	54
1	7	Mihai Niste	Romania	68,100	68
1	8	Florian Duta	Romania	19,700	20

2	1	Lennaert Joostens	Netherlands	64,700	65
2	2	Gilles Segers	Belgium	87,400	87
2	3	Ionut Decher	Romania	44,800	45
2	4	John Pyle	United States	39,800	40
2	5	Sandor Hadnagy	Hungary	71,300	71
2	6	Piotr Shautsou	Belarus	19,900	20
2	7	Maxime Canevet	France	36,800	37
2	8	Alexandru Papazian	Romania	34,000	34

3	1	Iulian Tataru	Romania	177,800	178
3	2	Armand Matti	Romania	37,700	38
3	3	James Noonan	Ireland	55,000	55
3	4	Daniel Dolcic	Croatia	77,500	78
3	5	Igor Hrekul	Ukraine	46,400	46
3	6	Dan Cristian	Romania	62,200	62
3	7	Mihaela Roman	Romania	57,900	58
3	8	Iulian Bleau	Romania	52,900	53

4	1	Markus Heikkila	Sweden	61,500	62
4	2	Timo Vogt	Austria	39,800	40
4	3	Tomasz Kozub	Poland	5,200	5
4	4	Adrian Marin	Romania	21,200	21
4	5	Dehlia de Jong	Netherlands	28,400	28
4	6	Amanda Sidark	Sweden	76,500	77
4	7	Pawel Andrearczyk	Poland	23,300	23
4	8	Lucian Bera	Romania	32,800	33

5	1	Dan Adrian Bogdan	Romania	21,800	22
5	2	Nicolae Suciu	Romania	102,900	103
5	3	Patrick Keller	Germany	28,900	29
5	4	Constantin Manole	Romania	21,800	22
5	5	Andrei Jambor	Romania	135,500	136
5	6	Alexandre Reard	France	18,900	19
5	7	Luciana Manolea	Romania	69,000	69
5	8	Ioan Taizs	Romania	76,600	77

6	1	Marius Gicovanu	Romania	57,100	57
6	2	Bogdan Bogorin	Romania	53,000	53
6	3	Cristian Visoiu	Romania	26,000	26
6	4	Gabriel Gavrila	Romania	39,300	39
6	5	Johannes Vaeisaenen	Finland	139,600	140
6	6	Jaakko Hokkanen	Finland	63,000	63
6	7	Mihai Ercuta	Romania	55,300	55
6	8	Mircea Flutur	Romania	21,700	22

7	1	Andrey Yanyuk	United States	99,500	100
7	2	Silviu Scobai	Romania	59,100	59
7	3	David Lappin	Ireland	36,000	36
7	4	Cosmin Cristescu	Romania	48,200	48
7	5	Martin Soukup	Czech Republic	62,400	62
7	6	Joery Van Limbergen	Belgium	72,800	73
7	7	Pekka Ikonen	Finland	26,400	26
7	8	Monica Vaka	Norway	30,400	30

8	1	Jenny Israel	France	45,100	45
8	2	Marian Firoiu	Romania	42,800	43
8	3	Vinzent Streit	Austria	34,700	35
8	4	Oerjahn Winther	Sweden	45,000	45
8	5	Nikolay Ponomarev	United Kingdom	141,200	141
8	6	Adrian Constantin	Romania	67,300	67
8	7	Antti Tiainen	Finland	94,900	95
8	8	Oleksandr Sharov	Ukraine	65,000	65

9	1	Antti Salmela	Finland	49,900	50
9	2	Vesa Kekalainen	Finland	67,000	67
9	3	Raoul Iancovici	Romania	32,000	32
9	4	Alexandru Strugut	Romania	42,600	43
9	5	Antoanell Judet	Romania	24,600	25
9	6	Ran Shahar	Israel	26,500	27
9	7	Jean-Serge Baril	Canada	61,000	61
9	8	Danut Chisu	Romania	25,800	26

10	1	Tomas Ksenevicius	Lithuania	68,300	68
10	2	Vally Bleanda	Romania	22,000	22
10	3	Alexandru Palievici	Romania	89,000	89
10	4	Mihai Banu	Romania	55,800	56
10	5	Ionut Voinea	Romania	78,300	78
10	6	Ferenc Pal	Romania	45,400	45
10	7	Per Helge Gassand	Norway	37,700	38
10	8	Ionel Tanase	Romania	24,400	24

11	1	Espen Uhlen Jorstad	Norway	71,800	72
11	2	Eirik Gravdal	Norway	25,700	26
11	3	Amitai Or	Israel	38,900	39
11	4	Steffen Clausen	Denmark	23,000	23
11	5	Tom Wiggers	Netherlands	61,100	61
11	6	Kyriakos Papadopoulos	Greece	67,000	67
11	7	Steven Vollers	Netherlands	69,600	70
11	8	Even Eidebakk	Norway	17,100	17

12	1	Alan Widmann	Germany	76,400	76
12	2	Alexandru Cinca	Romania	32,800	33
12	3	Andrei Toma	Romania	89,400	89
12	4	Bogdan Sovaiala	Romania	104,800	105
12	5	Andrei Badulescu	Romania	25,900	26
12	6	Csaba Szerze	Hungary	46,700	47
12	7	Eugen Chiva	Romania	23,100	23
12	8	Andrei Alecu	Romania	64,700	65

13	1	Joni Salo	Finland	34,300	34
13	2	Andrei Dobrescu	Romania	29,500	30
13	3	Cristian Trif	Romania	30,000	30
13	4	Silviu Baltateanu	Romania	72,600	73
13	5	Mihai Tusnea	Romania	32,100	32
13	6	Anghel Valentin	Romania	19,200	19
13	7	Daniel Aberg	Sweden	82,600	83
13	8	Igor Pirnau	Romania	20,200	20

14	1	Gilles Huet	France	99,200	99
14	2	Apostol Beg	Romania	40,200	40
14	3	Jordi Corbun	Netherlands	77,800	78
14	4	Dmitrii Prusov	Russia	36,800	37
14	5	Jamie Tansley	United Kingdom	70,900	71
14	6	Dara O'Kearney	Ireland	21,500	22
14	7	Adrian Neculae	Romania	22,900	23
14	8	Constantin Calea	Romania	4,200	4

15	1	Carmen Zainescu	Romania	91,800	92
15	2	Dan Petrea	Romania	46,000	46
15	3	Nicklas Kley	Sweden	29,000	29
15	4	Hugues Mazerolle	France	105,200	105
15	5	Radu Lungu	Romania	59,300	59
15	6	Tiberiu Tirca	Romania	93,100	93
15	7	Denis Simionel	Moldova	22,900	23
15	8	Quentin Lecomte	France	54,500	55

16	1	Dan Murariu	Romania	77,700	78
16	2	Cristian Grecu	Romania	71,400	71
16	3	Julien Therond	France	20,000	20
16	4	Eddie Puia	Romania	60,700	61
16	5	Dwayne Sluis	Netherlands	71,200	71
16	6	George Tomescu	Romania	28,100	28
16	7	Anko Hoogendijk	Netherlands	96,700	97
16	8	Hallstein Boerve	Norway	66,700	67

17	1	Bogdan Nicolae	Romania	15,200	15
17	2	Andrei Boghean	Romania	77,000	77
17	3	Kenneth Kull	Finland	58,800	59
17	4	Iulian Blebea	Romania	52,500	53
17	5	Ronnie Espensen	Denmark	23,800	24
17	6	Jorma Vuoksenmaa	Finland	25,700	26
17	7	Pavel Alexandru	Romania	160,000	160
17	8	Daniel Effendy	Germany	92,000	92

18	1	Stefan Drusca	Romania	45,700	46
18	2	Tomasz Olejnik	Poland	111,400	111
18	3	Peter Kaae	Denmark	98,200	98
18	4	Cristian Dina	Romania	30,300	30
18	5	Valentin Dobrescu	Romania	37,800	38
18	6	Sorin Radulescu	Romania	24,100	24
18	7	Eduard Fechita	Romania	49,800	50
18	8	Kevin van Der Kooi	Netherlands	58,000	58

19	1	Mihai Manole	Romania	16,500	17
19	2	Padraig O'Neill	Ireland	110,100	110
19	3	Evangelos Bechrakis	Greece	80,900	81
19	4	Stefan Fabian	Romania	62,800	63
19	5	Ciprian Voican	Romania	66,800	67
19	6	George Damian	Romania	23,500	24
19	7	[Removed:402]	Lithuania	80,200	80
19	8	Marius Iftima	Romania	29,000	29

20	1	Codrut Uta	Romania	23,700	24
20	2	Marc Wilkens	Netherlands	46,100	46
20	3	Vasile Stancu	Romania	63,600	64
20	4	Bjorn Samuelsson	Sweden	11,300	11
20	5	Mihail Rablou	Romania	106,500	107
20	6	Dragos Boldoi	Romania	57,500	58
20	7	Attila Gombos	Romania	42,800	43
20	8	Ian Simpson	United Kingdom	86,400	86

21	1	Catalin Moraru	Romania	71,800	72
21	2	Florin Pandilica	Romania	38,200	38
21	3	Levente Pal	Romania	54,700	55
21	4	Traian Bostan	Romania	57,500	58
21	5	Sergiu Covrig	Romania	47,000	47
21	6	Cosmin Cimpeanu	Romania	52,500	53
21	7	Razvan Bizera	Romania	120,300	120
21	8	Eirik Lunde	Norway	58,200	58

22	1	Katie Swift	United Kingdom	29,300	29
22	2	Adrian Andronache	Romania	107,000	107
22	3	Mariusz Niski	Poland	29,400	29
22	4	Corrie Romate	Netherlands	58,900	59
22	5	Solomon Stan	Romania	39,000	39
22	6	Adrian Nica	Romania	58,000	58
22	7	Narcis Gabriel Nedelcu	Romania	38,000	38
22	8	Tymur Kasilov	Ukraine	80,000	80

23	1	Johan Creutz	Sweden	78,500	79
23	2	Cristian Tardea	Romania	68,500	69
23	3	Alexandru Farcasanu	Romania	27,500	28
23	4	Andy Hills	United Kingdom	13,800	14
23	5	Aku Joentausta	Finland	97,000	97
23	6	Adrian-Sorel State	Romania	60,000	60
23	7	Nils Jarefjall	Sweden	60,500	61
23	8	Dylan Herklots	Netherlands	48,600	49

24	1	Corentin Ropert	France	116,400	116
24	2	Tomas Montrimas	Lithuania	51,800	52
24	3	Alexandru Gavrilut	Romania	24,400	24
24	4	Andrei Tamaduianu	Romania	18,500	19
24	5	Petre Chiriac	Romania	20,700	21
24	6	Mateusz Moolhuizen	Netherlands	54,000	54
24	7	Mihnea Potcoava	Romania	36,800	37
24	8	Gedas Petrauskas	Lithuania	63,000	63

25	1	Andrei Nodea	Romania	22,100	22
25	2	Jani Tuomaala	Finland	62,000	62
25	3	Dumitru Pora	Romania	54,400	54
25	4	Samlane Phomveha	France	22,600	23
25	5	Razvan Sabau	Romania	92,500	93
25	6	Gheorghe Androne	Romania	81,000	81
25	7	Eduard Norel	Romania	74,600	75

02-15-2019 01:20 UTC+2

End-Of-Day 1c Chip Counts

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 8 : 400/800, 800 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Antti Tiainen	94,900 94,900	94,900

Ian Simpson	86,400 86,400	86,400
Johan Creutz	78,500 78,500	78,500
Ioan Taizs	76,600 76,600	76,600
Catalin Moraru	71,800 71,800	71,800
Dan Cristian	62,200 62,200	62,200
Radu Lungu	59,300 59,300	59,300
Silviu Scobai	59,100 59,100	59,100
Mihaela Roman	57,900 57,900	57,900
Traian Bostan	57,500 57,500	57,500
Marius Gicovanu	57,100 57,100	57,100
James Noonan	55,000 55,000	55,000
Levente Pal	54,700 54,700	54,700
Quentin Lecomte	54,500 54,500	54,500
Mateusz Moolhuizen	54,000 54,000	54,000
Iulian Bleau	52,900 52,900	52,900
Eduard Fechita	49,800 49,800	49,800
Ferenc Pal	45,400 45,400	45,400
Narcis Gabriel Nedelcu	38,000 38,000	38,000
Valentin Dobrescu	37,800 37,800	37,800
Armand Matti	37,700 37,700	37,700
Maxime Canevet	36,800 36,800	36,800
Mihnea Potcoava	36,800 36,800	36,800
David Lappin	36,000 36,000	36,000

Vinzent Streit	34,700 34,700	34,700

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02-15-2019 01:15 UTC+2

End-Of-Day 1b Chip Counts (full)

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 8 : 400/800, 800 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Iulian Tataru	177,800 7,800	7,800

Pavel Alexandru	160,000 45,000	45,000
Corentin Ropert	116,400 6,400	6,400
Adrian Andronache	107,000 12,000	12,000
Mihail Rablou	106,500 21,500	21,500
Bogdan Sovaiala	104,800 104,800	104,800
Nicolae Suciu	102,900 12,900	12,900
Andrey Yanyuk	99,500 9,500	9,500

Aku Joentausta	97,000 7,000	7,000
Tiberiu Tirca	93,100 18,100	18,100
Razvan Sabau	92,500 92,500	92,500

Daniel Effendy	92,000 62,000	62,000
Carmen Zainescu	91,800 11,200	11,200
Andrei Toma	89,400 33,400	33,400
Alexandru Palievici	89,000 9,000	9,000
Gilles Segers	87,400 44,400	44,400
Evangelos Bechrakis	80,900 71,900	71,900
[Removed:402]	80,200 13,200	13,200
Jordi Corbun	77,800 200	200
Andrei Boghean	77,000 8,000	8,000
Tudor Bartha Lazar	76,600 19,600	19,600
Alan Widmann	76,400 600	600
Joery Van Limbergen	72,800 72,800	72,800
Silviu Baltateanu	72,600 22,600	22,600
Espen Uhlen Jorstad	71,800 34,800	34,800

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02-15-2019 00:55 UTC+2

Day 1b and 1c Are Finished

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 8 : 400/800, 800 ante

Almost at the same time, Day 1b and the turbo heat 1c have come to an end with 90 players out of 176 entries and 53 players out of 70 entries remaining. The respective chip counts will be published shortly, along with a recap of today's action and the Day 2 seat draw.

02-15-2019 00:47 UTC+2

Late Double for Corbun

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 8 : 400/800, 800 ante

Jordi Corbun doubled for 37,900 through Marius Asanache when his faced the of Asanache. The flop all but sealed his double and the turn made things official, the river was a formality.

Asanache was left with around 10,000 only, but spun those up again and even sent Martin Wendt to the rail during the final hands of the night. Also out: Benjamin Lebor, Denis Poteras and Silviu Nemes.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jordi Corbun	78,000 78,000	78,000
Marius Asanache	41,000 54,000	54,000
Razvan Bordei	Busted
Martin Wendt	Busted
Benjamin Lebor	Busted
Silviu Nemes	Busted
Frederik Foss	Busted
Denis Poteras	Busted

Tags: Benjamin Lebor Jordi Corbun Marius Asanache Martin Wendt

02-15-2019 00:42 UTC+2

Zainescu Bosses the Feature Table

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 8 : 400/800, 800 ante

Carmen Zainescu chipped up with top set and soon after got even more action on the feature table.

Silviu Baltateanu opened to 2,200 with the and Zainescu three-bet to 5,500 with the in the hijack. Cosmin Cristescu flat-called with in the big blind, Baltateanu let go. On the flop, C>ristescu checked and called a bet of 7,000 before check-folding the turn when facing a second barrel worth 12,000.

Zainescu showed her aces and dragged in another pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Carmen Zainescu	103,000 13,000	13,000
Cosmin Cristescu	62,000 17,000	17,000

Tags: Carmen Zainescu Cosmin Cristescu Silviu Baltateanu

02-15-2019 00:35 UTC+2

Six Hands for Day 1b

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 8 : 400/800, 800 ante

The clocks for Day 1b have been stopped and another six hands will be played for tonight. Fewer than 100 players remain and will bag and tag for the night shortly.

02-15-2019 00:31 UTC+2

Yanyuk Busts Two

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 8 : 400/800, 800 ante

Pasi Kakkonen got his last 10,000 or so in preflop and Stefanita Fechete jammed for more than two times of that. Andrey "reynad" Yanyuk joined the action with the biggest stack and created the following three-way showdown:

Pasi Kakkonen:
Stefanita Fechete:
Andrey Yanyuk: