Top Ten Counts at Main Event Day 1a Dinner Break

Main Event Day 1a Level 10: 500/1,000 (1,000) Entries: 98/208 Prize Pool: €700,000 GTD Sofiene Bezzah of Tunisia leads 98 players still seated shortly after dinner break, with late registration due to close shortly. Position Player Country Chips 1 Sofiene Bezzah Tunisia 380,000 2 Pinhas Belezada Israel 300,000 3 Alessandro Fasano Italy 185,000 4 Sebastian…

McKenzie Doubles Through Siena

Main Event Day 1a Level 10: 500/1,000 (1,000) Entries: 101/207 Prize Pool: €700,000 GTD Action folded to Alessandro Siena, who opened to 2,000 from the Hi-jack. Mark McKenzie then three-bet to 6,000 on the Button. Siena proceeded by forcing his opponent all in for 27,400. McKenzie decided to make the call. Alessandro Siena: Mark McKenzie:…

Day 1b in Full Swing

Main Event Day 1b Level 4: 100/300 (300) Entries: 37/42 Prize Pool: €700,000 GTD While the Day 1a players are just resuming play, Day 1b of the €600 Main Event is currently on Level 4. Like Jason Glatzer mentioned earlier, everything in the evening flights is halfed: “Starting stack is 20,000 instead of 40,000, blinds…

Day 1a Dinner Break

Main Event Day 1a Level 9: 500/1,000 (1,000) Entries: 97/202 Prize Pool: €700,000 GTD Day 1a players of the Main Event filed out of the arena to enjoy a 75-minute dinner break. The field in the full-priced €600 flight climbed to 202 entries with less than half of them at their seats with late registration…

The Plot Thickens

Main Event Day 1a Level 9: 500/1,000 (1,000) Entries: 95/199 Prize Pool: €700,000 GTD Action folded to Sebastian Mortensen, who opened to 2,500 from the Lo-jack. Seated right next to him, Gaspar Querillacq three-bet to 7,500 from the Hi-jack. Back to Mortensen, who four-bet to 16,500. “Not enough action,” the Poker Gods declared; Querillacq five-bet…

Vernet Flops the Goods

Main Event Day 1a Level 9: 500/1,000 (1,000) Entries: 99/198 Prize Pool: €700,000 GTD Mati Pirn opened to 2,000 from the Lo-jack, and was then faced with a 13,600 shove from Jean-Pascal Vernet on the Button. After receiving the county, Pirn made the call. Jean-Pascal Vernet: Mati Pirn: It’s an educated guess that Vernet was…

Two Pair No Good for Marongiu

Siege of Malta Mystery Bounty Day 1a Level 16: 3,000/6,000 (6,000) Entries: 45/265 Prize Pool: €100,000 Guaranteed Alessandro Marongiu was getting up out his chair looking forlorn, after he called off for his final 90,000 versus a jam on the river from Oriol Romero, the board reading . Marongiu had for two pair, but Romero…