If there's one thing we've learned this week at the PokerStars Festival Bucharest, it's that the Romanian's aren't here to mess around.
Based on what we've seen from the side-lines here, play has been fast, aggressive and a certainly a tad unpredictable. Today alone, we lost half the Main Event starting field just two 60-minute levels into play.
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Fahredin Mustafov moved all in from the small blind without any openers. Nandor Solyom called in the big blind and was allin.
Solyom:
Mustafov:
The board ran out giving Mustafov a pair and a flush draw. The turn was the , but the river was the giving Mustafov two pair and eliminating the overnight chipleader in 19th place.
It was all-in preflop between Johann Eclapier who held but was behind to Yaniv Peretz's
The flop came with no help to Eclapier. But Eclapier yet out an exclamation of joy at the on the turn and repeated the noise on the river as his opponent's elimination was secured.
On a flop, Iulian Iacob was all in holding against EPT Loutraki final tablist Ioannis Taramas who held .
The turn was the and the river the meaning Taramas's hand held up. However, for reasons known only to him, he started making frustrated hand gestures as if he had lost the hand.
It was only when Iacob got up from the table and the dealer announced 'Seat open,' that he double-checked the board and his opponent's cards and realised the pot was getting pushed to him.
The €2,200 High Roller, which started last night with 111 runners is now down to just 39. Only 15 of them will make the money though.
Two of the bigger names in the line-up - Team PokerStars Pro Chris Moneymaker and Romania's all-time money earner and only WSOP bracelet winner Alex Papazian - have both fallen by the wayside in this last level.