After a raise to 2,500 and a call, Anthony Rodrigues three-bet to 7,500 from the cutoff and Soner Guzel moved all in for 20,000 from one seat over. The initial raiser as well as the player who flat-called both mucked their cards and Rodrigues called with pocket queens. Guzel only had pocket tens and couldn't find any help within the community cards.
Jörg Peisert won with against and added many smaller pots to boost his stack. He was then involved in a hand with Karim Benamrouche, who had flatted his raise and saw a flop of . After the turn all chips went in and Peisert held the whereas Benamrouche had gotten a nice turn card for his .
The river ensured the split pot and Peisert said to his opponent "you are a lucky lucky guy," obviously referring to the second nine that had paired the board.
Tournament staff has confirmed that there were 144 entries for the first starting day. For tomorrow's day 1b, around 250 players are expected including some of those familiar faces than were eliminated today.
Martin Mulsow won his entry to the Main Event in yesterday's Satellite and was down all the way to 9,000 after slowly but surely climbing up again. The German beer passionate is now up to almost starting stack again and faces stiff competition from Erwann Pecheux one seat over.
Oussama Zouitene limped from the cutoff and Jonas Lauck called in the small blind, Bert Geens checked his option in the big blind. On a flop of , Lauck check-raised from 2,600 to 7,500 and called the shove of Zouitene with . His opponent held but was drawing dead after the turn already. A meaningless river completed the board and Zouitene wasn't too happy about the way the hand played out.
After a raise to 2,500, Patrick van den Dries shoved from the button for 21,100. Mohamed Mamouni decided to call from the small blind and the initial raiser folded. van den Dries won the flip with versus on a board of .
In a battle of the blinds, Brian Benhamou raised and was called by his opponent from one seat over. Benhamou made a continuation bet on a flop of and the remainder of his short stack went in after a turn. The Frenchman had for an open ended straight draw whereas his opponent's held up after a brick on the river.
After a raise to 1,800 preflop, three players called and Jörg Peisert checked out of the blinds to see a flop of . Mohamed Mamouni bet, Michel Leibgorin raised and Peisert reraised to 17,900. Maouni now moved all in and Leibgorin folded, claiming in chat he had a straight and flush draw. Peisert called with for bottom two pair and Maouni held the .
The turn changed nothing, but Mamouni let out a loud "YESSSS YESSSS YESSSS" when the fell on the river, giving him the nut flush.
A short stack doubled through Erwann Pecheux and former big stack Firat Baltaci has also taken a hit.
Bert Geens as well as Jozsef Szabo however are now on six digits and lead the field into level 10. The Belgian even late-registered according to his twitter feed:
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. After the 
turn all chips went in and Peisert held the 
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.
river ensured the split pot and Peisert said to his opponent "you are a lucky lucky guy," obviously referring to the second nine that had paired the board.
, Lauck check-raised from 2,600 to 7,500 and called the shove of Zouitene with 
. His opponent held 
but was drawing dead after the 
turn already. A meaningless 
river completed the board and Zouitene wasn't too happy about the way the hand played out.
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. Mohamed Mamouni bet, Michel Leibgorin raised and Peisert reraised to 17,900. Maouni now moved all in and Leibgorin folded, claiming in chat he had a straight and flush draw. Peisert called with 
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