Updated Chip Leaderboard at Break

Level 34: 125,000/250,000 (250,000) Entries: 23/5,799 Position Name Chips Big Blinds 1 Ivaylo Eftimov 24,025,000 96 2 Alexandru Farcasanu 15,720,000 63 3 Pasquale Gregorio 12,500,000 50 4 Vasileios Zisis 11,900,000 48 5 Davide Iannaco 11,025,000 44 6 Maruen Zormati 11,025,000 44 7 Hendrik Blokdijk 10,100,000 40 8 Cosme Gomez Martinez 9,700,000 39 9 Miguel Branco…

Brief Glance Elsewhere in the Room

While our main focus today is the Main Event, there’s also a bunch of sides going on. Here’;s a quick look at the state of play in each. Luxon Pay Super High Roller Level 3: 100/200 (200) Entries: 42/43 Quigioco High Roller Level 28 :25,000/50,000 (50,000) Entries: 21/540 IPC 10K GTD Level 8: 400/800 (800)…

Last Three Tables in Main Event

After a lengthy spell with no bust-outs, but many double ups, another player has finally been sent to the rail. That reduced the field to 24 players left and a re-draw is took place.  We will update chip counts at the next break, which is coming shortly, but this is the new seating plan. Table/Seat…

Candoni Runs Into Arcodia’s Rockets

Level 33: 100,000/200,000 (200,000) Entries: 24/5,799 Marco Arcodia min-raised from middle position before Niccolo’ Candoni three-bet jammed for more than 10 big blinds from the hijack. Arcodia snap-called and Candoni was in for a world of hurt. Niccolo’ Candoni: Marco Arcodia: Aces were good on the runout for Candoni to exit in 25th place. The…

Gregorio Gets Some Luck Against Kerrien

Level 33: 100,000/200,000 (200,000) Entries: 25/5,799 Clement Kerrien opened for 550,000 from the small blind. Pasquale Gregorio went into the tank before he three-bet shoved for 5.55 million. Kerrien then tanked, asked for a count, and then called off more than most of his stack. Pasquale Gregorio: Clement Kerrien: Gregorio got there on the turn…

Quads for Mendoza

Level 33: 100,000/200,000 (200,000) Entries: 25/5,799 Daniel Mendoza opened for 400,000 from middle position before Miguel Branco jammed for around 15 million from the blinds. Mendoza called off his stack of 5.2 million and was flipping for his tournament life. Daniel Mendoza: Miguel Branco: It was over before it began with the flop improving Mendoza…