[Removed:266] who was cruising early on in the day is the latest player to exit the tournament. With his remaining 35,000 chip he was all-in on a 
flop and called by two opponents. He was just about drawing dead when one of his opponents turned over 
for a nut-straight to Kleyman's 
for a lower straight.
Kleyman was all smiles on the way out, and plans to reenter sharing, "See you tomorrow."
Here are some chip counts with about an hour left to play during Day 1a.
Level: 11
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 100
Dan Hila is among the Day 1a chip leads, and this time takes down a pot without a showdown. The hand began with the player in the cut-off raising to 1,300, the player in the button calling, and Hila also calling from big blind.
On a 
flop, Hila checks, the player in the cut-off bets 3,600. The button folds and Hila calls. On the turn came a with the player in the cut-off checking against, and Hila this time firing out 6,500 which his opponent called.
A 
came on the river. Hila fired out a bet of 40,000 after his opponent checked to him, and scooped up a pot when he folded facing the large bet.
Kleyman recently ran his stack down from about 95,000 to 40,000 after what he calls a string of bad calls including 
against . More recently, however, Kleyman is on an upswing after doubling up his stack when his held against 
.
Level: 10
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 100
Players are now on their last break for the day and blinds will go up to 400/800 shortly with a 100 ante. Dealers have been instructed to run off the green 25-denomination chips.
Hila raises the action to 1,600, and almost the entire table comes along with six players calling to the flop.
Flop: 
The player in the big blind leads out on the flop for 5,000, which Hila raises to 12,000. The action folds back to the big blind who goes all-in for about 30,000 chips. Hila calls with 
and his hand holds against his opponent's when two blanks hit the turn and the river.
Steven Stephan keeps piling up the chips winning small pot after small pot. In a recent bigger hand, Stephan found himself in a three-way limped pot pre-flop from the big blind.
All three players checked a flop of . The action heated up on the turn when Stephan led out with a small bet and called a three bet of 6,000 chips from the player on the button. Another came on the river and Stephan three-bet his opponent for about 30,000. Players showed down, and Stephan scooped a pot of around 80,000 when he turned over for a full-house to beat the of his opponent.
We have now reached Level 9 with action concluding on the day at Level 12. We now have exceeded the 250 entrants the tournament director was predicting for the day with 251 players paying the €1,650 to get in on the action in hopes of claiming the at least €1 million prize pool.
Currently there are 175 players left according to the board, with some of those players already reentering.
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