Level 25: 30,000/60,000 (60,000) Entries: 80/6,039 Prize pool: €2,728,970 Big-stacked Davis Modans fancied an open to 125,000 from the Hi-jack. Lee Mulligan decided to put in a 435,000 from the Big Blind. Modans inspected his opponent’s stack, and then decided to force Mulligan all in for an additional 1,300,000. Without any hesitation, Mulligan made the…
Level 25: 30,000/60,000 (60,000) Entries: 89/6,039 Prize Pool: €2,728,970 Seated UTG, Charalampos Siakaras opened to 130,000. Nico Diperna made it 405,000 from the Lo-jack, before Jakub Fiala moved all in for roughly 2,800,000 from the Hi-jack. Siakaras spent two minutes in the tank before mucking his hand, but Diperna made the call faster than the…
Posting this on behalf of Christoffer, who is having technology issues, as he now will explain: I arrived to the tournament venue at 16:00, eager to join my colleague Jonathan Raab for the Day 3 coverage. Much to my displeasure, my computer decided not to be very cooperative today. After roughly 45 minutes worth of…
Several events are now in play. Here’s a quick 360 on what’s happening right here, right now. Main Event Just under 100 players remain, with a few mins left of level 24 left on the clock. Ruggero Magri holds the chip lead and there is still one former champion left in the field, Gabriele Re.…
Level 24: 25,000/509,000 (50,000) Entries: 116/6,039 Ruggero Magri was the chip leader from the starting days, taking 1.52m into Day 2. By the close of play yesterday, he had bumped it up to 2.5m and was in 9th place of the 196 who returned today. At the first break in play, he had retaken the…
After almost two hours of play, over 50 players had lost their tournament lives and have now departed the battlefield of the tournament floor. Position Name Payout 140 Andrea Barreca € 3,650 141 Lars Lannetun € 3,650 142 Demetrius Campbell € 3,650 143 Seamus Doherty € 3,650 144 Cosimo De Gennaro € 3,300 145 Lydia…
Angelos Michael’s carefully constructed chapel of chips has tumbled! The Cypriot returned as the massive chip leader, with over 4.75m chips, but has found the rail even before the first break of the day. We didn’t see what happened, or who the new owners are of his once towering pile, but we may get some…
At the start of the Day, there were players from 29 different countries still in the Main Event. Rank Country Number of Players 1 Italy 54 2 Greece 20 3 Germany 13 4 Poland 11 5 Czech Republic 11 6 England 10 7 Portugal 9 8 Netherlands 9 9 Romania 9 10 Israel 8 11…
Today’s €1,100 High Roller has just resumed, with over 100 players buying in before the start of play, taking the total number of entries so far over 500. It’s sure to get much bigger, as there are 3 x 30-minute levels plus the first break for more players to join. Last year the high roller…
These unfortunates sadly didn’t make it into Day 3. Position Name Payout 197 Claudio Barone € 2,900 198 Artur Gjoka € 2,900 199 Dor Adda € 2,900 200 Franky Green € 2,900 201 Andrea Casula € 2,900 202 Hana Jo € 2,900 203 Giorgio Pasca € 2,900 204 Isais Sidirokastrittis € 2,900 205 Biagio Torrisi…