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

02-15-2019 00:17 UTC+3

Firoiu Flops the Wheel

Christian Zetzsche

Level 7 : 300/600, 600 ante

Down to the last 7,400, Marian Firoiu moved all in and big stack Alexandru Palievici jammed out of the small blind into the big blind of Evangelos Bechrakis to isolate successfully.

Marian Firoiu:
Alexandru Palievici:

The flop gave Firoiu a wheel, and the turn and river locked up his double.

Player	Chips	Progress
Alexandru Palievici	80,000	37,000
Marian Firoiu	18,000	1,000

Tags: Alexandru Palievici Evangelos Bechrakis Marian Firoiu

02-15-2019 00:07 UTC+3

Player	Chips	Progress
Iulian Tataru	132,000	2,000
Pavel Alexandru	105,000	25,000
Stefan Fabian	99,000	-1,000
Marius Asanache	95,000	35,000
Daniel Effendy	92,000	31,000
Luciana Manolea	92,000	-8,000
Corentin Ropert	90,000	-15,000
Denis Simionel	85,000
Ciprian Voican	85,000	-35,000
Alan Widmann	83,000	-2,000
Amitai Or	70,000	44,000
Kevin van der Kooi	69,400	34,400
Andrei Boghean	63,000	-7,000
Mihail Rablou	60,000	16,000
Aku Joentausta	57,000	2,000
Ran Shahar	54,000	-31,000
Andrey Yanyuk	53,800
John Pyle	42,000	-6,000
Carmen Zainescu	41,300	-6,700
Stefanita Fechete	40,000	40,000
Mihai Ercuta	37,900	37,900
Dara O'Kearney	34,000	11,000
Martin Wendt	25,000	4,000
Daiva Byrne	21,000
Traian Bostan	Busted

A Quick Look at Day 1c

Christian Zetzsche

Level 7 : 300/600, 600 ante

Day 1c is up to 63 entries and Adrian Lazar was the first casualty of the day. He sent his stack over to Jozsef Sebestyen, who flopped trips kings and rivered a full house with to effectively double his stack. Mateusz Moolhuizen is also doing well early on, other notable stack sizes can be found below.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jozsef Sebestyen	60,000	60,000
Mateusz Moolhuizen	50,000	50,000
Mihaela Roman	37,000	37,000
Ian Simpson	34,000	34,000
Georgios Tavoularis	31,000	31,000
Katie Swift	28,000	28,000
Alexandru Papazian	27,000	27,000
Florian Duta	23,000	23,000
David Lappin	20,700	20,700
Monica Vaka	20,000	20,000
Adrian Lazar	Busted

Tags: Adrian Lazar Jozsef Sebestyen Mateusz Moolhuizen

02-14-2019 23:52 UTC+3

Registration for Day 1b Closed

Christian Zetzsche

Level 7 : 300/600, 600 ante

There were a total of 176 entries for Day 1b and the registration has closed with the start of level seven. Before the break over on the feature table, Alexandre Reard faced a four-bet to 8,700 by Gilles Segers with the and opted to jam for 26,800 with the on the button.

Segers gave it some serious consideration and folded.

Player	Chips	Progress
Gilles Segers	43,000	43,000
Alexandre Reard	36,700	-20,500

Tags: Alexandre Reard Gilles Segers

Level: 7

Blinds: 300/600

Ante: 600

02-14-2019 23:27 UTC+3

Final Break for Day 1b

Christian Zetzsche

Level 6 : 200/500, 500 ante

There are only 119 players out of 175 entries remaining and they have been sent into the final 20-minute break. As many minutes the levels of the ongoing turbo heat 1c last, and the registration for 1b closes when the cards are back in the air for level seven.

Player	Chips	Progress
Nikica Tomasic	Busted
Mihnea Potcoava	Busted
Michal Kulesza	Busted
Silviu Scobai	Busted
Florin Covrig	Busted
Ionel Tanase	Busted
Bente Vekseth	Busted

02-14-2019 23:24 UTC+3

Cimpeanu Doubles Through Kulesza; De Vos No More

Christian Zetzsche

Level 6 : 200/500, 500 ante

Iulian Tataru leads the field towards the end of level six while Cosmin Cimpeanu scored a vital double on his table. Cimpeanu check-shoved the heads-up flop of and was called by Michal Kulesza.

Cosmin Cimpeanu:
Michal Kulesza:

The turn was a blank, as was the river, and that left Kulesza with a mere 8,000.

No longer in contention for Day 1b is Rory De Vos. After nine minutes, he had scored the first elimination of the day but ended up running out of chips before the final break, sending his chips over to Aku Joentausta.

Player	Chips	Progress
Iulian Tataru	130,000	15,000
Aku Joentausta	55,000	32,000
Cosmin Cimpeanu	36,000	25,000
Michal Kulesza	8,000	-14,000
Rory De Vos	Busted

Tags: Aku Joentausta Cosmin Cimpeanu Michal Kulesza Rory de Vos Iulian Tataru

02-14-2019 23:16 UTC+3

Wilkens Doubles With Aces

Christian Zetzsche

Level 6 : 200/500, 500 ante

Marc Wilkens ended up all in and at risk for the last 18,800 with the and Marian Firoiu could all but laugh when he spotted the cards of the Dutchman, as he only held the . The board came and Wilkens had locked up the double on the turn already.

Player	Chips	Progress
Marc Wilkens	40,000	2,000
Marian Firoiu	17,000	17,000

Tags: Marc Wilkens Marian Firoiu

02-14-2019 23:06 UTC+3

Day 1c Underway

Christian Zetzsche

Level 6 : 200/500, 500 ante

The turbo heat 1c has kicked off almost on time and features some 40 players already in the first level. Among others, Tomasz Kozub, Andy Hills, Georgios Tavoularis, Katie Swift, Nandor Solyom, David Lappin, Monica Vaka, Mateusz Moolhuizen, Alexandru Papazian and Alexandru Farcasanu are in for a second shot.

They will soon be joined by Ian Simpson, as the Unibet Poker ambassador just won his seat via the satellite that burst the bubble moments ago.

Tags: Alexandru Farcasanu Alexandru Papazian Andy Hills David Lappin Georgios Tavoularis Ian Simpson Katie Swift Mateusz Moolhuizen Monica Vaka Nandor Solyom Tomasz Kozub

02-14-2019 22:57 UTC+3

Papazian No More

Christian Zetzsche

Level 6 : 200/500, 500 ante

Alexandru Papazian walked out of the tournament area while focusing on the online table on his phone and shrugged, then confirmed he had been eliminated. On his former table, Corentin Ropert has a far bigger stack and the Frenchman mentioned that he held up with kings against the ace-king of Papazian to claim the stack.

Player	Chips	Progress
Corentin Ropert	105,000	53,000
Alexandru Papazian	Busted

Tags: Alexandru Papazian Corentin Ropert