On the four-way flop of the player on the button made it 80,000 to go and Stephen Ayres called in the small blind, while two opponents including Niall Farrell in the cutoff folded. The turn was checked through and Ayres bet the river for 135,000 to force a fold.
Ayres remains below the starting stack after a skyrocketing start, and next to Farrell in the seven seat is Matous Skorepa, who won a bracelet on home soil at the 2017 WSOPE here at the King's Casino in Rozvadov.
Mustapha Kanit was among those to re-enter within the first six levels.
"This is an old school hand, it was five-bet preflop," Ismael Bojang mentioned while a massive pot of 900,000 had emerged between Tomas Jozonis in the cutoff and Albert Daher in early position. The duo checked the flop and Daher moved all in after the turn, Jozonis called instantly.
Tomas Jozonis:
Albert Daher:
The on the river was a blank and Daher sighed. "Nice life," he said and paid off the 803,000 that Jozonis had left over.
The field size of Day 1d has grown to 359 entries with 317 players remaining and the re-entries keep on pouring in. Jason Wheeler, Dzmitry Urbanovich and Joni Jouhkimainen are all back in after busting in either Day 1c or 1d and Gerald Karlic will likely do so shortly after having run out of chips just now.
Lukasz Wasek raised to 42,000 first to act and was called by Petr Segl and Georgios Vrakas in the big blind. On the flop of the action checked to Segl and he bet 76,000. Only Vrakas called and the turn and river was checked through. Vrakas showed the and Segl chopped it up with the .
One hand later Wasek was taking another shot at scooping a pot on a flop of and bet 75,000 out of the big blind. Segl called, as did Borge Sandsgaard. The turn brought no action, while Segl's bet on the river for 234,000 to win the pot uncontested.
On the three-way flop of , Hamza Miri checked out of the small blind and the big blind did so as well. Robert Zipf in the cutoff bet 100,000 and Miri was the only caller. The on the turn brought a check by Miri and a subsequent check-raise from 100,000 to 230,000, which Zipf called.
Miri then instantly moved all in after the river for his last 275,000 and that forced a fold from Zipf.
A Czech player that goes by the nickname raketak, which translates to "the man with the ace", just scored a big triple up. Alireza Ebtehaj raised to 50,000 and Tomas Hasil called before raketak three-bet to 185,000. Ebtehaj called before Hasil as table chip leader moved all in. raketak snap-called and so did Ebtehaj to create a big three-way showdown.
raketak:
Alreza Ebtehaj:
Tomas Hasil:
The board ran out and raketak tripled up for 1.155 million, while Ebtehaj doubled through Hasil for his additional 251,000.
The first six levels are done and dusted, and the screens show 387 entries with 317 players remaining. They have been sent into the second 15-minute break of the final starting day and just another 20 entries remain to reach the guarantee of €5,000,000.