The €1,100 Main Event saw a total of 609 entries and the top 72 spots will get paid with the min cash being worth €2,100. The winner will take home €110,000 for his efforts, representing the lion's part of the €584,640 prize pool.
Alain Riss moved all-in for 48,400 over the top of a opening bet to 7,500 from Giovanni Di Ceglie. It looked a tough decision for Di Ceglie, and he cursed as he threw his cards away.
Riss smiled, and decided to relieve his opponent's stress-levels, by turning over his hand, just .
"Every time I've folded to you, it's been a good hand too," sighed Di Ceglie. "It's hard but at least I was right!"
William Kassouf has stayed roughly where he is in the chipcounts, but it's not down to lack of action.
In two hands, Kassouf made minimal profit but was all-in once and involved in big pots in both hands. First he had a set of deuces against a rivered flush to lose 80,000 chips. In the next hand, however, he 3-bet with and then called off the shove of his opponent, who held . The board of paid Kassouf and he doubled up the 100,000 stack he had.
Marginal profit over the two hands, but maximum action.
Jose Antonio Gascon Garcia raised from under the gun and Lucia Martinez called in the cutoff. Gregory Torrents shoved his short stack from the button and Kelly Kellner then reshoved from the big blind for more than the average. Gascon Garcia folded and Martinez quickly called, thinking Kellner had a far smaller stack.
Kelly Kellner:
Lucia Martinez:
Gregory Torrents:
The board ran out and Torrents was eliminated, while Kellner doubled for 129,500 through Martinez. The start-of-the-day chip leader has about as much left as she started with after running hot early on.
Cristian Ciuperca couldn't have been happier to snap call for his tournament life, getting it all-in pre-flop for 81,600 over the top of an open and a raise with . He was called by Simen Gulbrandsen with and the board ran out to leave Ciuperca on a stack of almost double the average and Gulbrandsen on fresh air.
"I gotta take a picture of this!" shouted an excited Ciuperca, and the table waited for him to capture his moment of glory, a chagrin Gulbrandsen politely congratulating his opponent on having won the hand.
Jens Hansen three-bet shoved out of the blinds with and picked up a call by an opponent with . The board ran out and the Dane doubled for 29,400.
Hand 2
Helder da Silva Rego shoved for his last 37,000 and Brigido Delfa Cucart reshoved from one seat over for 108,700. All other players folded and the cards were tabled.
Brigido Delfa Cucart:
Helder da Silva Rego:
The board ran out and da Silva Rego was elimimated.