"Everything went wrong today, a pretty ugly day," Bert Geens said upon leaving the tournament area. He first lost a lot of chips with 
against pocket queens on an ace-high board with a queen on the turn. Then he couldn't win with tens versus queens and ultimately four-bet shoved less than 20 big blinds with 
and failed to improve.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted |
Whenever Matas Cimbolas, 2014 WPT Nottingham champion and finalist of the EPT Deauville, starts talking, he feels very comfortable at his table and has a workable stack. The 120,000 chips may not be huge yet, but it is just around average and the Lithuanian just joked to "be raising every hand now when you guys fold aces to me."
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
120,000
16,200
|
16,200 |
|
||
The field is shrinking further, already down to its last 108 contenders for the WPT National Brussels title. Among those to run out of chips were Dominique Terzian as well as Pascal Masset.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted | |
|
Busted |
Jeffrey Szanyinka and David Taborsky both ran out of chips on table four and one of the two fell to Michael Gathy for the last 20,000 chips with pocket tens. Gathy held the 
and got there on a board of 
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
144,000
80,500
|
80,500 |
|
Busted | |
|
Busted |
Within the first level of play, 30 of the 145 hopefuls ran out of chips and left the tournament area. If the current speed continues, a third day on Sunday won't be needed to crown a champion. However, it is far more likely that three tables will remain for the final day.
Alexandre Reard defended his big blind to see a four-way flop of 
and Yehoram Houri made a continuation bet of 6,500. One opponent called, Isabel Baltazar folded and Reard check-raised all in with 
for the flopped flush. Houri called with 
and completed a full house after 
turn and 
river had completed the board.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
190,000
75,000
|
75,000 |
|
Busted | |
|
||
Level: 14
Blinds: 1,200/2,400
Ante: 400
After the turn of a 
board, Paul Hofer was all in and at risk with only to see big stack Kyne Elmouloua look him up with the inferior 
. The river was a brick and Hofer was gone.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
340,000
80,000
|
80,000 |
|
Busted |
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
283,000
106,900
|
106,900 |
|
||
|
|
280,000
-31,100
|
-31,100 |
|
|
260,000
62,800
|
62,800 |
|
250,000
24,800
|
24,800 |
|
195,000
47,000
|
47,000 |
|
150,000
38,000
|
38,000 |
|
85,000
-85,000
|
-85,000 |
First Alexandre Reard doubled up with 
before losing some chips with 
versus . It was the 
versus that moved Reard up to three times the stack he started with.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
65,000
46,600
|
46,600 |
|
|
||
