After several double ups and eliminations, in the sixth round of hand-for-hand play there were six all-ins and calls. In that round 3 players were eliminated and one of them was Vlado Sevo. He had gone all with and was called by . The board ran out - no help for Sevo as he was eliminated.
Here's an overview of the other hands:
Hand #1:
Player 1:
Player 2:
Player 3:
The board ran out - The first player tripled up, the second player took the side pot and the third player lost a chunk of his stack.
Hand #2:
Button (at risk):
Small Blind:
The board ran out - it looked like the player in the small blind was going to eliminate the player on the button but the ace on the river gave her a set of aces and the double up.
Hand #3:
Button:
Small Blind (at risk):
The board ran out - no help for the small blind as she was eliminated.
Hand #4:
The flop read and two players were involved in the hand:
Player 1:
Player 2:
The turn brought them the and the river the - player 2 had hit a straight on the flop. Even though player 1 had hit an ace on the turn for a set of aces, the river didn't help him and he was eliminated.
Hand #5:
Small Blind:
Big Blind:
The board ran out - no danger for the first player but as their stacks were pretty even, they needed to be counted out exactly. In the end, the player in the small blind doubled up and the player in the big blind was left with less than 4,000.
The 3 eliminated players would share the prize money for 154th place
The bust-outs have been coming fast and furiously after the bubble burst. It seems things have calmed down now and there are some new people to get to know:
Mihai Hanu just won an all in with against on a board and he doubled up for the 90,500 he had in front of him.
In the last hand of the day, Bjorn Bouwmans eliminated another player for a pot which could possibly have shot him up in the chip counts, all the way to the top.
Bjorn Bouwmans was all in and called by his opponent.
Bjorn Bouwmans:
Opponent:
The board ran out - a set of queens for Bouwmans and he eliminated his opponent. He now has one of the bigger or maybe even the biggest stack of all the players aking it through to Day 2 via Day 1i.
The first of the last two flights of Event #5: THE COLOSSUS ended today with 70 players making it through to Day 2 tomorrow, Wednesday, November 1st. After more than 9 hours of play, Nebojsa Ankucic took the chip lead honor for Day 1i with 525,500 chips. This also means he has taken over the overall chip lead of all the players that have made it through to Day 2.
Day 1i had a total of 1,022 entries and 70 players made it through to Day 2. It was the second biggest flights of the series, only surpassed by Day 1j, which had 1,140 entries. Out of the 70 players today, second in the chip counts is Belgian Bjorn Bouwmans (420,500). The cash he will earn for this event will be his biggest ever and his second in his poker career. Thomas Hofmann is taking 407,000 chips with him, this is his first cash in Rozvadov so he will be looking forward to achieving some great results here.
Other notables making it through to Day 2 are two-time WSOP bracelet winner Kristen Bicknell (225,000), Master Classics of Poker winner Abdelhakim Zoufri (205,500) and Jaroslav Peter (143,500). Unfortunately, not everyone made it through today, players like Pedro Oliveira, Aneris Adomkevicius, Walter Treccarichi, Ivo Donev, Phil Hellmuth, William Kassouf, Manig Loeser and many others fell today.
Keep your eyes on PokerNews as the last flight ends today. Tomorrow all the action of Day 2 starts at 3 p.m. local time so make sure to come back to follow all the latest updates!