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On a board of 
Tobias Peters checked and, Athan Cukurova, the original under the gun raiser, bet 6,800. Peters raised him to 15,700. Cukurova studied his opponent. Peters lowered his chair a notch. Did that tell Cukurova something? He made the call and we saw a turn card of 
. Peters led out for 24,600. It would cost Cukurova his tournament life to call. He declined and Peters scooped the pot.
Jules Allam opened to 2,000 from early position before Ofer Stern made a small three-bet to 3,600 in late position. Ognjen Sekularac flat-called on the button and Allam also made the call.
The flop was
, Allam checked and Stern shipped in about 25,000 effective (both his opponents had a little less than this). Sekularac folded but Allam called off
Stern: 
Allam: 
The 
turn and 
river made no difference and Stern jumped up to 85,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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85,000 | |
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Busted |
We just witnessed another amazing hand for Max Droege, who has flown all the way from Canada just to play in this event.
Majid Noubarian opened for 2,200, Droege raised to 4,600 and Vladimir Volov called. Action was now on Ali Baskan who moved all in forcing Noubarian to fold. Droege however went all in too and was excitedly out of his seat. Baskan told him to sit down as the dealer checked the bets. Back to Volov, and what was his decision? All in, and we had a three way all in.
Baskan had 
, Droege tabled and finally Volov showed the 
.
“One time.” Said Droege, using his one time. “Give me a queen.”
The board ran out 
. Droege got his wish, busted two players and is now sitting on a stack of over 160,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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160,000 | 50,000 |
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Busted | |
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Busted |
A three-way all in saw Paul Tedeschi tumble out of the main event.
Tedeschi: 
Elia Hanna: 
Serhii Leonichev: 
The board came 
and Hanna doubled through Leonichev while also eliminating Tedeschi. Hanna moves back to his starting stack. Leonichev remains one of the biggest stacks left this evening.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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160,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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Busted |
Tangle with Avci at your peril it seems, but Majid Noubarian hasn’t survived this long without putting himself in some marginal spots. On a flop of 
Avci led for 2,200 and Noubarian called. The turn brought the 
. Avci led again for 1,700 and was prepared to call a raise from Noubarian to 3,500. They both checked the river 
. “Jack.” Said Avci and showed . Noubarian turned over and waited to see if Avci could beat that. He couldn’t, he showed .
Alexandr Lakhov has recovered from the earlier levels where he had to grind a short stack and pretend to be a ninja. He's now up to 57,000 after eliminating Sakis Nicolaou with against 
after the board ran out 
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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57,000 | 27,000 |
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Busted |
On the river of an 
board, Bernard Samaha had bet 5,000 only for Simeon Naydenov to move all in for 40,000. Samaha tanked for a few minutes before calling with and Naydenov's was no good. Samaha felt that because Naydenov had four-bet preflop that he feared his opponent had aces.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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160,000 | 88,000 |
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Busted |
Asaf Avci raised to 2,500 from the button and the two blinds called including Samir Maukawem in the big blind. The flop was . The small blind checked and Maukawem led for 3,500. Relentless, Avce raised to 7,000. The small blind folded and Maukawem asked, “How much? Seven thousand?.” He made the call and we saw a turn card of .
Before the dealer could take her hand off the card Maukawem slammed the rest of his chips down over the line. Just as quickly Avci called. Maukawem had 
but Avci held 
. The turn had given Maukawem top two, but Avci straight was the best hand. The river was the and Avci claimed another victim.
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Busted |
Albert Daher just picked up a nice pot.
There was a four-way pot on a 
flop and Vlacheslav Stoyanov led for 1,500, Ofer Stern raised to 5,000, Albert Daher called while the big blind folded. Stoyanov then also called before all three checked the 
turn. The river came along and Stoyanov checked again. Stern bet 10,000 and Daher snap-called while Stoyanov folded and muttered something in Russian to Andrey Shatilov, the only words we could make out were "monster draw".
Stern sighed and showed and Daher won with 
for two pair.
Day 1a saw 57 players survive to make Day 2.
There are now 68 left with 2 one hour levels to go. How many will make it to join them?
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