How are the more well known names doing thus far less than half an hour before the end of Day 1a? Below are some up-to-date chip counts.
How are the more well known names doing thus far less than half an hour before the end of Day 1a? Below are some up-to-date chip counts.
Level: 8
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 100
There is now a short break to remove the green T-25 chips from play before the final level of the day. The tournament will recommence shortly and there is half an hour left on the clock before everyone gets to bag and tag.
Vasile Cosmin Stancu raised to 1,800 and faced the three-bet of Thanh Trung Hoang from one seat over to 4,700. The Romanian four-bet to 14,800 and then moved all in in the dark for what looked like 20,000 after Hoang had called. On the
flop, Hoang snap-called and tabled his
.
Stancu only held
and even had found top pair with his risky move. The
turn was even more crazy as Stancu had now made trips and doubled after the
river.
The cards of the short stack were already rushed away, but Gabriel Tuna scooped the pot with
on a board of
.
On a flop
, a short stack bet 6,000 and Deividas Peleckas moved all in for what appeared to be 38,000. His opponent called with
but already looked away from the table. Peleckas had the
and would make the higher straight thanks to the
on the turn. Only a six would have saved the short-stacked player, yet the
river gave the pot to Peleckas.
On a flop of
with four players in and roughly 9,000 chips in the middle, Alexander Jager check-raised all in for 18,050. Two opponents had committed 3,500 but weren't willing to call the shove of the German. The big stack on the table is online qualifier Martin Kollmann with almost six digits.
Level: 7
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 100
Arriving on a flop of
, Leon Campbell was at risk for his last 16,225 after a raising war from the button. His opponent was sitting in the cutoff and had Campbell covered, flipping over the
for a gutshot and flush draw. Campbell's
for top two pair held up with the
turn and
river.
Daniel Sormainis had only just found his seat on the new table and stacked more chips after knocking out a table neighbor. His opponent opened to 1,500 from under the gun and Sormainis three-bet to 4,500 from one seat over. The opponent jammed for 16,000 with pocket queens and raced against
to see Sormainis spike a king on the river.