Day 1d attracted 1,218 entries. A total of 179 players were scheduled to advance but instead, both Guiseppe Scarfo and Avy Rijnbergen busted on the final hand of the evening causing just 178 players to advance to tomorrow’s Day 2. A number of big stacks emerged from the Day 1d field with several players bagging…
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…
Level 14: 1,500/3,000 (3,000) Entries: 256/1,216 Sefano Casciello opened early to 6,000 and it folded around to Franca Luana Bonsignore on the cutoff. She asked for a count, then shoved a bigger stack. Casciello called quickly and it was a race between pocket nines for Bonsignore against for Casciello. The board of was clean for…
Level 14: 1,500/3,000 (3,000) Entries: 272/1,216 The flop was already dealt showing and Giuseppe Di Bella bet 10k after a couple of checks. Simone Salis called from the cutoff before Steve Conti shoved all in from the big blind. Everyone folded except for Salis, who called with a gutshot holding five-three. Conti’s hand was mucked…
We just confirmed with the tournament director that blinds will roll back to start tomorrow’s Day 2 to 2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 big blind ante. This is due to Day 1a ending on this blind level. Blinds also increase to one hour in length to provide an even deeper structure the rest of the way.
Giuseppe Domicoli Antoine Stackowiak Ovidiu Dorin Barna Rafael Wadl Ovidiu Dorin Barna Antoine Stackowiak Ovidiu Dorin Barna Rafael Wadl Rafael Wadl
Level 14: 1,500/3,000 (3,000) Entries: 294/1,216 Name Chips BB Toni Zengovski 335,000 112 Thomas Pearn 265,000 88 Alberto Cigliano 230,000 77 Marco Macis 225,000 75 Peter Brackley 215,000 72 Ludovich Geilich 215,000 72 Franca Bonsignore 200,000 67 Antoine Stackowiak 200,000 67 MIchael Altena 180,000 60 Roderick Macneil 165,000 55