Players are now on a 15 minute break, their last of the evening. Dealers are asked to color up all the green chips - valued at a denomination of 25 - as the blinds will move up to 400/800 with a 100 ante when play resumes after the break.
The starting day of the WSOP Circuit Main Event allows players to take one reentry and Daniel Rose just walked past the media desk to do exactly that upon busting his previous entry. The screens show 422 entries for now, of which 249 remain.
Another exit on the feature table. The action started off fast and furious with Shakib Hamdam raising to 1,700 under the gun. Teresio Ciancanelli called from the hijack before Jan-Peter Jachtmann squeezed the action to 5,400 from the cutoff. Hamdam called and the action continued when Ciancanelli raised the action with a four-bet to 16,000. Without much delay, Jachtmann five-bet all in for 34,550. Hamdam got out of the way and Ciancanelli called.
Jachtmann:
Ciancanelli:
Ciancanelli was well ahead after the flop came with Jachtmann needing either and ace or runner-runner hearts. Jachtmann gained a few more outs when the hit the turn. Luck was on Jachtmann's side as the spiked the river, giving him the nut-flush and Ciancanelli hitting the showers.
Bartosz Szafraniec is among the bigger stacks late on Day 1b right now and seems to be in control of his table, consistently putting up pressure. He is still trailing two King's regulars with bigger stacks though, but the Pole is one of the contenders for the overall lead in the last three levels of tonight.
Darie Vlad opened to 1,800 from under the gun and Martin Kabrhel called before a player that had just registered then raised to 5,000. Vlad and Kabrhel called to see the flop and the action was checked to the third player, who bet 8,000. Vlad quickly folded but Kabrhel took much longer.
"Sorry guys," he said and engaged in some table chat. "Please write down, Mister Patrick here with pocket aces," before eventually folding. His opponent offered to pick one card and drew the ...
In a battle before the flop, Elliot Smith four-bet all-in for 24,375. Masset who seemed to be pot committed regardless of what he had, Hollywooded slightly before calling.
Smith:
Masset:
In the last hand before the break on the feature table, Masset's hand held and Smith was the latest player to leave the feature table in a very short period of time.
Hans Olymp wanted to gamble but ultimately folded to the shove of Dorde Jovanovic while Marius-Alexandru Gicovanu looked him up with the . Jovanovic only had the and the board ran out . Olymp said he had folded deuces in the hand.
Slawomir Weclewski moved all in for 9,300 from early position and the action folded to Sasa Lalos, who clicked to 18,000. The players behind him folded and Lalos turned over whereas the player at risk had [10,10d]. The board ran out and Lalos lost a portion of his stack.