Four players are listed among the recent eliminations and that includes Paul-Francois Tedeschi. The Frenchman was close to 100,000 in chips, so something huge must have happened. Let's see if we can figure it out.
"You have to write this," said a player with very charming Russian accent on the table of Kiryl Radzivonau. What happened? The Belorussian was all in for his last 8,025 chips after a raise of Grigorii Rodin and the Russian called with . Radzivonau has not "won any point today" (or rather pot) but held up with the board running out .
Level nine has just started and this will be the last level for tonight. Before all players get to bag and tag their precious chips, the green T-25 chips will be raced off still though.
Atanas Kavrakov just called a min-raise to 1,200 before a short stack moved all in for 12,000 chips out of the big blind. What may have been a less crucial decision two hours ago now becomes vital, as the Bulgarian dropped to less than starting stack. Kavrakov mucked and could need a double up with 20 big blinds for the next level.
Ahmet Ucali, Roman Pavliuk and Heorhii Doroshev have been sent to the rail. Ucali was involved in a battle of the blinds with Sergey Minaev and had a flush draw with . Minaev's found a big blind special on the flop and neither the turn nor the river changed anything.
The third player who busted is unfortunately not known, but it is confirmed that Ognyan Dimob busted on his second bullet for Day 1a. Besides that, Nichan Khorchidian lost the remainder of his stack after being previously crippled by Manig Loeser.
The board was already complete reading and Ercan Olgun bet 6,250 into a pot of more than 10,000. Nikolay Tsanev raised to 17,300 on the button and the Turk tanked for well over a minute before asking the dealer again for the amount. Olgun made the call and then saw the bad news in the form of Tsanev's , a hand he could not beat.
After a flop of , Paul-Francois Tedeschi check-raised from 4,200 to 10,800 and his sole opponent called to see the appear as turn card. The Frenchman grabbed into his stack and then made it 11,200 to go. His opponent double checked the own stack and eventually let go.
. Radzivonau has not "won any point today" (or rather pot) but held up with the board running out 
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. Minaev's 
found a big blind special on the 
flop and neither the 
turn nor the 
river changed anything.
and Ercan Olgun bet 6,250 into a pot of more than 10,000. Nikolay Tsanev raised to 17,300 on the button and the Turk tanked for well over a minute before asking the dealer again for the amount. Olgun made the call and then saw the bad news in the form of Tsanev's 
, a hand he could not beat.
, Paul-Francois Tedeschi check-raised from 4,200 to 10,800 and his sole opponent called to see the