Chris Hunichen opened the betting from first position and got called by Tomasz Kowalski. Tobias Ziegler from the small blind then made it 7,500.
Hunichen then opted to move all in and when Kowalski asked for a count he found it was 68,000. He took a few minutes to think about it, sat as he was in the middle of a shove and a three-bet, before he too moved all in. Ziegler was all in too and the cards were on their backs.
Hunichen:
Kowalski:
Ziegler:
“This would be a good time to flop and ace.” was Hunichen’s wry take on the situation.
The cards ran out . It didn’t come on the flop but Hunichen hit to get a big triple up, bust Ziegler and put the hurt on Kowalski.
“When I get called twice I’m hoping for those two hands. Give me an ace.” a happy Hunichen said, stacking his chips after apologising to the departing Ziegler.
One of the Czech bloggers came over and confirmed the bustout of Chris Moorman. The Brit had min-raised to 1,600 and then faced the three-bet of Sergii Baranov. Moorman moved all in for 15,500 with and Baranov looked him up with the inferior . On the flop, Baranov would take the lead and that didn't change anymore as turn and river sent the online wizard to the rail.
Apparently Massimo di Cicco must have written a wrong chip count on the bag, as the Italian didn't have more than 100,000 in chips. Jonathan Wong had raised with and called the three-bet by the Italian out of the big blind to see a flop of . Di Cicco bet 9,200 and Wong moved all in to steal the pot.
He was called by pocket kings and Di Cicco was at risk for his last 50,000, a on the turn instantly completed a straight for the Brit.
Alexander Roumeliotis opened the button and Jiri Vaclavek in the big blind shoved all in. Roumeliotis made the call instantly.
Roumeliotis:
Vaclavek:
The flop was as good as they could come for Roumeliotis, literally: . The on the turn and couldn't do anything for Vaclavek and Roumeliotis started stacking again.
The action started with Dylan Linde raising to 1,800 from the cut off. Jeff Madsen was on the button and moved all in for his last 8,600 in chips. Marcin Rafal Wojcik cold called from the small blind as the big blind got out of the way. With the decision back on Linde, he bumped it up once more to 18,000 which was called by Wojcik.
The flop came down and Wojcik checked. Linde then moved all in for approximately 45,000 which forced a fold from Wojcik, who open mucked his pocket tens.
Linde then tabled his and was way in front of Madsen’s . No help would come on the turn and river for Madsen as he made his way for the exit.
Dylan Hortin was the initial raiser from the cutoff and Andre Andrade had defended his big blind to overbet the flop for 10,000. Hortin called that and then called all in for 15,200 with on the turn. Andrade had pushed all in with only to see his better hand on the flop getting battered. The on the river was a blank and Hortin got an early double up.
Praz Bansi greeted Chris Moorman as play was a few hands in, commiserating with him over the hand late last night that saw his stack devastated when he ran kings into aces. Moorman was fairly phlegmatic about it though saying he was still in and still had a chance.
Moorman hasn’t put any extra chips in the pot yet, biding his time with his 20 big blind stack, folding to bets when he was in the blinds. Bansi asked him if he would be giving a copy of his new book to the player who busts him.
“Nah, too expensive. I bust too many tournaments” Moorman replied.
The clock displays 1,107 entries in the Main Event, 15 players more than after we added Day 1a and 1b entries together. So before play started, 15 players signed up. Those players started out with 30,000 in chips like everyone else, almost 38 big blinds.
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