Level: 12
Blinds: 1,600/3,200
Ante: 400
Level: 12
Blinds: 1,600/3,200
Ante: 400
Mariano Recuenco Martin just had two opponents at risk and came out as the winner in the showdown with versus and . The flop of was almost as good as it could get for the Spaniard, and he sealed it with the turn to leave both opponents drawing dead.
Stephan van den Wyngaert had been eliminated on the same table previously and Nicola Grieco also knocked out an opponent. David Flores Rita shoved for his last 11,400 with the and Grieco called out of the big blind with . On a board of , Grieco got there on the river and Flores Rita grabbed his belongings.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Nicola Grieco |
145,000
15,000
|
15,000 |
Mariano Recuenco Martin
|
135,000
70,000
|
70,000 |
Stephan van den Wyngaert
|
Busted | |
David Flores Rita
|
Busted |
After the series of beats to his stack, Joan Fabregas Capellas then three-bet shoved his last 21,000 into the raise of table big stack Philippe Noble and the Frenchman called to put Fabregas Capellas at risk.
Joan Fabregas Capellas:
Philippe Noble:
In a battle of first chip leader versus second chip leader on table 10, the board ran out and Noble paired his jack on the turn to eliminate Fabregas Capellas.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Philippe Noble |
305,000
35,000
|
35,000 |
Joan Fabregas Capellas | Busted |
Joan Fabregas Capellas raised to 5,000 and Susana Bonastre Rodriguez three-bet all in for 29,200 from the hijack. The cutoff went over the top and Fabregas Capellas folded face up.
Bonastre Rodriguez had and the cutoff the dominated . The board ran out and Bonastre Rodriguez doubled, while Fabregas Capellas made the right fold with an unlucky outcome. The very next hand, the Spaniard had two short stacks at risk with versus and , and the board came to cut down the stack of Fabregas Capellas further.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Susana Bonastre Rodriguez |
66,000
66,000
|
66,000 |
Joan Fabregas Capellas |
26,000
-64,000
|
-64,000 |
Josep Maria Galindo Lopez and Alejandro Espinosa Gutierrez were sat next to each other at their first table today and are now back together over on table one. The same table also features Laura Gallardo Ribot, Sally Stephens and Douglas Wheatland, and the latter just won a limped pot to boost his short stack slightly.
Wheatland limped from early position and the small blind filled up, Espinosa Gutierrez checked in the big blind. The flop of was checked to Wheatland, and his bet of 6,500 forced two folds.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Alejandro Espinosa Gutierrez |
120,000
48,000
|
48,000 |
Sally Stephens |
88,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
Laura Gallardo Ribot |
60,000
18,000
|
18,000 |
Douglas Wheatland
|
33,000
6,000
|
6,000 |
Josep Maria Galindo Lopez |
29,000
-54,000
|
-54,000 |
Level: 11
Blinds: 1,200/2,400
Ante: 300
One last hand was still going and there were some 28,000 in the middle with the flop showing . Ramy Hadid checked in the big blind and Nicola Grieco moved all in for massive 99,600. Hadid had almost as much behind and started some table chat.
"I think you have something like ace queen suited." After several minutes in the think tank, Hadid folded his with the words "Okay I fold, and you show." Grieco offered to flip over one of his two cards, but then changed his mind and smashed both right onto the table, it was a stone cold bluff with .
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Nicola Grieco |
130,000
60,000
|
60,000 |
Ramy Hadid
|
90,000
90,000
|
90,000 |
The players have been sent into a 15-minute break and one level remains to enter or re-enter in the second of four starting days.
While the €220 Opening Event Day 1b nears the end of level 10, there are less than 100 players remaining. The current chip leader appears to be Philippe Noble followed by Jhen Siang Jian over on table four, and both are well on track to advance to Day 2 with above-average stacks.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Philippe Noble |
270,000
150,000
|
150,000 |
Jhen Siang Jian
|
195,000
195,000
|
195,000 |
While the action at the tables has increased significantly, it was barely noticed that the total number of entries had grown as well. As it stands, there are 197 entries of which 120 remain, and that means the attendance of yesterday's first flight is already eclipsed with close to 400 entries in total already.