"I think I got the best draw," Paul Price said after getting his last 5,900 chips in out of the small blind after a flop of 
. "But you don't have the best hand yet," an opponent replied as he was looked up by another player with 
. While the 
turn was a blank, the 
river surely wasn't, giving Price the flush and double up.
He is at a table with Alexander Jager and almost even in chips with the German now.
Joining the action on the 
turn with three players in the pot, Tamer Kamel faced a bet of 6,200 into a pot of 15,000. The Brit folded but Daniel Sormainis called to see the 
on the river. Both remaining players checked and the opponent of Sormainis showed 
for third pair. Sormainis had that beat and the whole table sighed when he tabled the winning 
for an open ended straight and royal flush draw on the flop.
Level: 6
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 75
From what we have seen at the tables so far, Henrik Klinge Nielsen has been playing straight forward and avoided difficult spots. The most recent hand was no different when the Dane opened to 1,200 and received three callers. After a flop of 
, Nielsen folded to a 3,400-bet of the player in the cutoff and that was a good decision, as he would have made up his mind about a check-raise all in for 15,075 by another opponent.
The tournament staff has just verified that 193 players signed up for Day 1a, of which less then 150 currently remain. This level and another three are still scheduled before we know who is enjoying a decent start into this accumulator event.
Before the break, Tamer Kamel defended his big blind to see a flop of 
. Both him and the opponent checked and Kamel then bet the 
turn, which was called. The Brit fired 2,000 after a 
river and called the shove of 13,000 by the opponent with 
for a winning flush.
After the break, he just defended his big blind against a raise of Gabriel Tuna. Kamel then check-folded the 
flop and flashed his 
. The next hand he got involved in another pot and checked down the board of 
after preflop raise. His opponent was not willing to give any action and also mucked when Kamel showed the 
after the river.
The screens have been updated and revealed 150 players remaining. One of them with a bigger stack is Marc Jonathan Harrison, who called the four-bet shove of a short stack with . The opponent was at risk with and got some sweat after the 
turn with a flush draw. However, Harrison would score the knockout with the river as final community card.
Level: 5
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 75
More than 30 players have been eliminated within the first four 30-minute levels and the screens still show 192 entrants for the first flight. Out of those, we have caught some of the bigger stacks and notables below.
Once the current hand is finished, all players have been asked to leave the tournament area and head into a 23-minute break. Some of them take advantage of the table tennis plate in the partypoker lounge and battle it out away from the poker tables.
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