Day 1d Video Recap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p_EwNazTak
30-Minute Break
Players are on a 30-minute break instead of the usual 20-minute break. This is due to the fact that there are so many players and a chip race for the 100-denominated chips will take place during the break. Blinds will increase to 1,500/3,000 with a 3,000 big blind ante when the action resumes.
Bozza Finds His Ten
Level 13: 1,000/2,000 (2,000) Entries: 324/1216 Luciano Chiavaro opened the betting to 4,000 from the hijack before Alessandro Spata shoved from the cutoff for 23,500. Francesco Bozza was in the small blind and asked for a count before flat-calling to leave about 10k behind. Chiavaro mucked his hand, and Spata looked good for the double…
Kanaker Squeezes With Fives
Level 13: 1,000/2,000 (2,000) Entries: 335/1,216 A player opened and two players called including Eftychois Georgiou from the cutoff. Martin Kanaker three-bet jammed from the button for 25,600. Two players folded before Georgiou found a call. Martin Kanaker: Eftychios Georgiou: Georgiou called for a jack to double pair the board after the flop. Not only…
Manca Flushes Garcia
Level 12: 1,000/1,500 (1,500) Entries: 381/1,216 Martin Garcia opened from the middle to 3,200 and he was called by Marco Manca in the cutoff and Gianluca Fighera in the big biind. It checked to Garcia on the flop and he bet 7,400. Manca shoved for 38,200 before Fighera got out of the way. Garcia made…
More Day 1d Photos
Samantha Algeri Federico Giordano Alessandro Cenciarini Stylianos Matsentidis Will Kassouf Sunglasses, Chips, Hands Aleksandar Parcetic Federico Giordano & Sebastiano Sinatra Carlo Antognetti Stefano Spadaccini Aleksandar Parcetic Will Kassouf Jeremy Bametz Will Kassouf Nuno Oliveiri Roman Gombosi Alessandro Cenciarini Luciano Chiavaro Salvatore Cannistraro Fernando Amorelli Theodoros Ampelikiotis Martino Cito Christian Schroder Battle of Malta Alessandro Cenciarini…
179 Players (Or Less) Advancing Through Day 1d
The numbers have been checked, double-checked, and triple-checked for the massive Day 1d field. A banner field of 1,216 entries came out in full force with just 179 of them scheduled to advance to tomorrow’s Day 2 already in the money. This figure might turn out to be less as if multiple players hit the…
Cenciarini Straightens Out Algeri
Level 11: 600/1,200 (1,200) Entries: 432/1,216 Alessandro Cenciarini and Samantha Algeri were on the turn with the board reading and Cenciarini bet 2,700 under the gun. Algeri snapped it off to see on the river, and Cenciarini fired 12,000 into the middle. Algeri tanked for a few seconds before tossing in the call, in the…
“Just When I Thought I Was Out, They Pull Me Back In”
Level 11: 600/1,200 (1,200) Entries: 454/1,216 There is a famous saying on the famous television show The Sopranos as follows: “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.” This saying also applies to poker sometimes as evidenced by Aleksandar Parcetic. Raoul van Wersch jammed for more than the 18,200 Parcetic had…
Jack is Good for Brackley
Level 11: 600/1,200 (1,200) Entries: 454/1,216 I picked up the action on the flop with the board reading and three players checked to the turn. After a check from small blind Torben Krogh, Dzintars Lacis fired 3,500 from the big blind. Peter Brackley made it 10k to go, Krogh out while Lacis called. Both remaining…