After almost seven hours of play on Day 1a, Italian poker pro Cristiano Blanco has been eliminated. On a board showing , Blanco went all in with , but was called by Mats Iremark’s , giving him an open-ended straight draw. The pot was 16,000, the river was the and Iremark made his straight.
“I was kind of lucky to hit it, but I had pot odds for the call,” said Iremark, who is now up to 37,000.