Below are assorted chip counts with Oliver Heidel in trouble after losing the vast majority of his stack with pocket nines against the pocket aces of Ali Sameeian - preflop! Heidel was left with a mere 3,000 and busted soon after.
Michal Ozimek and Maxim Lykov were both in the field on Day 1A but were unable to find a bag at the conclusion of play. They are back today to try again at making a deep run in the Main Event.
Sander van Wesemael has also entered the field that has seen the number of entries grow to 263 thus far. Van Wesemael has over $500,000 in career earnings after breaking onto the live tournament scene at the end of 2015. He has numerous cashes in 2017 so far and is only looking to improve on those numbers.
Fabrice Halleux was seen standing up from his seat with all of his chips being pushed the way of Luigi Micu. Micu's cards were still face up in front of him and he flopped a set with .
Halleux still has plenty of time to re-enter with late registration remaining open for the entire day. Micu stacked up a healthy pile of chips to climb over 60,000 before the first break of the day.
Tomas Fara raised from under the gun and picked up a single caller in Sander van Wesemael in middle position. A continuation bet by Fara on the flop was called and Fara's second bet of 1,625 also saw van Wesemael call. The appeared on the river and Fara slowed down, checked. It didn't take long for van Wesemael to bet 4,300 and that was enough to avoid a showdown, as Fara folded.
Peter Siemund, Gerhard Brimmers and Ralf Ziermann all boosted their stacks and the latter has more than doubled up since the start.
With some 9,500 in the middle and the turn reading , Ziermann faced the shove of Rolf Commerscheidt for 25,700 and a third player in the hand folded. "Okay, I still have some outs," Ziermann said and called. Commerscheidt showed for a gutshot only and Ziermann was guaranteed the pot with , a blank river was a mere formality.
The cards were all but rushed away and Hael Al-Labani's for top pair and top kicker were scooped into the muck while Roman Cieslik was awarded the pot with . The flop came king-queen high and Cieslik scored the knockout with a set.
In the last hand of the level, Paul Michaelis checked a flop of and Aleksandar Tomovic bet 800, which Yehuda Cohen and Michaelis called. After the turn, Michaelis led for 2,650 and Tomovic folded, Cohen raised to 6,000 and the German called. The fell on the river and Michaelis quickly check-folded to a bet worth 9,000.
"I flopped the nuts," Cohen joked but didn't show his cards.
The late registration remains open all day long and new players are pouring in every minute. Among those to sign up recently were Philipp Zukernik, Tezer Cetindag and Vlad Darie.
The action folded to the cutoff who raised to 600 and Tudor Popa called from the big blind. The flop came and Popa checked to his opponent who continued for 1,200. Popa raised to 2,900 and his opponent moved all-in for around 11,000. Popa instantly called and showed his opponent the bad news.
Popa flopped a straight flush with and his opponent was drawing dead with . The and completed the board and Popa sent his opponent to the rail.
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flop was called and Fara's second bet of 1,625 also saw van Wesemael call. The 
appeared on the river and Fara slowed down, checked. It didn't take long for van Wesemael to bet 4,300 and that was enough to avoid a showdown, as Fara folded.
for a gutshot only and Ziermann was guaranteed the pot with 
, a blank 
. The flop came king-queen high and Cieslik scored the knockout with a set.
and Aleksandar Tomovic bet 800, which Yehuda Cohen and Michaelis called. After the 
turn, Michaelis led for 2,650 and Tomovic folded, Cohen raised to 6,000 and the German called. The 
fell on the river and Michaelis quickly check-folded to a bet worth 9,000.
and his opponent was drawing dead with 
completed the board and Popa sent his opponent to the rail.