Ole Schemion and Nikolaos Iliakis just clashed in a small pot that could have gotten far bigger. In the cutoff, Schemion made it 1,700 to go and Iliakis three-bet to 4,200 on the button, Schemion called. On the flop, Schemion check-called a bet worth 4,700 before the duo ended up checking the turn and river.
Schemion flipped over his and Iliakos had for the slightly better pair. Both looked at each other, started laughing and shook hands. Iliakis has more than two times the average, whereas Schemion dropped back down to just the average in the penultimate level of the day.
After a raise by Steven Thompson Vila in middle position, David Sierra Merino three-bet to 4,500 from one seat over in the hijack. The action folded back to the Costa Rican, who called and checked the flop of . Merino continued for 4,300 and received the call.
Both players eventually slowed down on the turn and river, checking both streets. Thompson Vila turned over the for a pair of aces and his opponent mucked. Merino remains among the biggest stacks late on Day 1a though, while Thompson Vila is well above average.
A short-stacked Isaac Haxton defended his big blind against a 1,400-raise by EPT10 Vienna champion Oleksii Khoroshenin and check-raised all in for his last 3,000 on the flop. Khoroshenin quickly called with and Haxton showed .
The American was drawing dead on the turn, making the river meaningless. Haxton grabbed his belongings and will most likely be back in action tomorrow for the €25,500 Single-Day High Roller.
Romain Lewis was steadily increasing his stack throughout the day, however, after folding a huge pot he is down below the 30,000 stack players began the day with.
Lewis led out for a bet of 17,500 with about 45,000 in the pot on a board leaving him 23,000 behind. His opponent tanked before dropping a few chips in the pot while declaring himself all in. Lewis snap-folded his hand, while the dealer sent a big pot over to his opponent.
After opening the pot to 1,500 in middle position, Sergio Aido got three-bet to 5,100 by a player on the button following one call. Aido came back with a four-bet to 12,600 and his deep-stacked opponent, David Sierra Merino, moved all in. Aido snap-called.
Aido:
Merino:
Aido had the edge with kings and he turned it into a flush to boot on the board.
Mario Adinolfi is no longer the biggest stack, and has dropped to just around 105,000 while Roman Pavliuk on his table has more than that. In one of the latest hands, Adinolfi picked up three callers after raising to 1,500 from under the gun including Miltiadis Kyriakides and Pavliuk.
The continuation bet of Adinolfi on a flop of went through and Kyriakides joked "I think this time you had a really strong hand, flush draw."
Blinds just increased to 400/800 and an ante of 75. Players not eliminated in today's field will bag and tag in a little more than an hour as this is the last level of play.