Tonino Schmitz, who finished 8th in the World Series of Poker Circuit Main Event back in November here in Rozvadov for a career-high score of € 24,311, is on the rail talking with a friend. But there is no need to worry about the German, who boasts a big stack of more than 100,000 chips. Schmitz simply took a quick break to relax.
The former big stack of Tillmann Raschke is no more, as the German just headed out of the door at the start of the last level. His chips were sent over to table neighbor Gaspare Leggio and Vlad Darie has also been eliminated as well.
Ivan Luca opened to 2,400 and Steve Toisul then jammed from one seat over for 17,400. The player in the big blind called rather quickly while Luca folded. "How can you snap call there, I had almost 20 big blinds?"
Among those to have ran out of chips were Adam Jaguscik, Ingo Paulus and Marius Pospiech. The latter got his last 9,000 chips in preflop with but failed to hold up against the king-jack suited of an opponent.
Friedrich Raz opened to 3,000 from the button and Daniel Karacic called from one seat over to see a flop of with one spade. Karacic check-called a bet of 4,000 and did so again for 9,500 on the turn. The river didn't complete any flush draw and Karacic checked for a third time.
Raz took the only option left and pushed all in, however his bluff with was caught eventually as Karacic tank-called with the for two pair to jump into the lead.
Only one hour is left to be played for on Day 1a and almost half of the field has already been eliminated with 116 out of 219 participants remaining. All those that bust today still cannot enter again on Day 1b, however they are eligible to join the action on the final flight that is played in turbo format with blind levels of 20 minutes tomorrow evening.
Grzegorz Wyraz raised from early position and Antonio Martins Pedro defended his big blind. On the flop , the Portuguese check-called a bet of 2,400 and did so again on the turn for 5,000. The appeared on the river and the Portuguese checked for a third time while Wyraz made it 5,500 to go.
Martins now shoved for 28,300 and that proved to be too much for the Pole, he mucked to fall back to five digits.
The of the table neighbor were almost in the muck while the pot was shipped to Michael Eiler. The EPT7 Vienna champion had flopped top pair with and it was all over on a blank turn to see the German on the rise.
One table over, Harald "Harry" Casagrande shoved the river for 22,600 and Atik Miah from one seat over tanked for a bit. The Brit, now based in Germany, eventually called and then wanted to muck when Casagrande showed as winning hand. However, since it was an all in showdown, Miah had to reveal for top pair only and dropped almost half his stack.
Only two of the dozen seat open at the start of the new level were familiar names and included Stephan Niitzschle and Marek Bartoszewicz. With 130 players remaining according to the screens, one can expect around 100 at the end of level 10 when bagging and tagging takes place.
and Toisul doubled up.
but failed to hold up against the king-jack suited of an opponent.
with one spade. Karacic check-called a bet of 4,000 and did so again for 9,500 on the 
turn. The 
river didn't complete any flush draw and Karacic checked for a third time.
was caught eventually as Karacic tank-called with the 
, the Portuguese check-called a bet of 2,400 and did so again on the 
turn for 5,000. The 
and it was all over on a blank turn to see the German on the rise.
river for 22,600 and Atik Miah from one seat over tanked for a bit. The Brit, now based in Germany, eventually called and then wanted to muck when Casagrande showed 
as winning hand. However, since it was an all in showdown, Miah had to reveal 
for top pair only and dropped almost half his stack.
