Level 20: 6,000/12,000 (12,000) Entries: 173/3,432 Nico Frenn limped from the small blind, then called when Antonio Gregorio raised the big blind to 37,000. Frenn check-called for 22,000 on the flop of and they both checked the turn. The river double-paired the board, but that didn’t slow Frenn down as he fired 160,000. Gregorio shoved…
Level 19: 5,000/10,000 (10,000) Entries: 208/511 Alessandro De Iaco raised the middle then called off with more when Dan Sfarlea shoved from his left, getting the call. Sfarlea had solid holdings with pocket queens, but he ran into the rockets for De Iaco. The board missed both players so the aces held sending Sfarlea to…
Level 19: 5,000/10,000 (10,000) Entries: 220/3,432 Daniele Grasso shoved under the gun for about 60k and it folded around to Alfio Morello on the button. He called with the bigger stack, and they went heads up to the board with Grasso at risk. Grasso had 1ce-four against ace-ten and looked like he’d hit the cash…
Level 18: 4,000/8,000 (8,000) Entries: 226/3,432 Player Chips BB Alberta Cigliano 1,200,000 150 Mitchell Hynam 1,100,000 138 Luvca Piras 920,000 115 Ioannis Poullos 900,000 113 Floresnt Colin 900,000 113 Milos Vaskovic 870,000 109 Aleksi Naski 800,000 100 Marco Cipriani 790,000 99 Antonio Guerrero 700,000 88 Alex Iannello 620,000 78 Andrea Gagliolo 590,000 74
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All the Day 1 action is now complete, and Day 2 is set to run in just about 15 minutes. There were 511 qualifiers for Day 2 from the huge starting field of 3,432 and Tayfun Rodoplu is the big stack in the money, but it’s worth noting that among the top 15 players for…
Level 16: 2,500/5,000 (5,000) Entries: 179/1,216 Day 1d finished just before the end of Level 16 with no hand-for-hand play. The clock was stopped with just under 4 minutes to go in the level, and staff were waiting for the final hands to finish before going hand-for-hand when Giuseppe Scarfo busted on the bubble to…
Level 16: 2,500/5,000 (5,000) Entries: 183/1,216 Bjarne Schlueter raised early to 10k and Dimitrios Katsikas repopped the button to 30k. Schlueter shoved and Katsikas called off with more. It was a near classic race between ace-queen for Schlueter and jacks for Katsikas and the jacks held on a low board to give Katsikas more than…
Level 16: 2,500/5,000 (5,000) Entries: 191/1,216 All the action was done and dusted when I got to the board reading . Aladin Mrkaljevic was counting out a huge double for Nico Pohl when Pohl’s pocket deuces turned quads to crush the pocket queens for Mrkaljevic. It wasn’t quite death by quads as Mrkaljevic had a…
Level 15: 2,000/4,000 (4,000) Entries: 210/1,216 Stewart Kirby made it 8,000 to go from the cutoff, and it folded around to big blind Angelo Morrone, who shoved a smaller stack. Kirby snapped it off and was way ahead with ace-king against nine-four of hearts. The board of missed both players so the big slick held…