Pascal Masset quickly got up to more than 120,000 chips and then got involved into a raising war with Nicolas Nicolopoulos. The latter five-bet shoved with pocket aces and Masset called with pocket kings to fall down to around 13,000 in chips. The Belgian just now moved almost all in, leaving himself a T-100 chip behind to scoop the blinds and antes.
First Alexandre Reard doubled up with before losing some chips with versus . It was the versus that moved Reard up to three times the stack he started with.
After the turn of a board, Paul Hofer was all in and at risk with only to see big stack Kyne Elmouloua look him up with the inferior . The river was a brick and Hofer was gone.
Alexandre Reard defended his big blind to see a four-way flop of and Yehoram Houri made a continuation bet of 6,500. One opponent called, Isabel Baltazar folded and Reard check-raised all in with for the flopped flush. Houri called with and completed a full house after turn and river had completed the board.
Within the first level of play, 30 of the 145 hopefuls ran out of chips and left the tournament area. If the current speed continues, a third day on Sunday won't be needed to crown a champion. However, it is far more likely that three tables will remain for the final day.
Jeffrey Szanyinka and David Taborsky both ran out of chips on table four and one of the two fell to Michael Gathy for the last 20,000 chips with pocket tens. Gathy held the and got there on a board of .
The field is shrinking further, already down to its last 108 contenders for the WPT National Brussels title. Among those to run out of chips were Dominique Terzian as well as Pascal Masset.