According to the screens, there are 157 hopefuls remaining out of the 208 players that fired a second bullet in the turbo heat. They are now all heading out of the tournament area, as the final 15-minute break kicked in. The T-25 chips will be raced off and two further levels remain when the cards get back in the air.
The seats of Mohammed El Mazouni and Thomas Lentrodt are empty and another player that had just been moved over to table 144 was eliminated by Vlado Banicevic. After starting rather frustrating and quickly losing half of the stack, Banicevic now has more than the average.
The opponent four-bet shoved with pocket tens and Banicevic quickly called in the small blind with the . The board ran out ace-high and neither player hit anything to see yet another player depart from the table.
Mohamed Mamouni lost a big flip with ace-king against the pocket queens of Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier and the Team PokerStars Pro jumped to around 50,000 as a result. Mamouni got the chips back soon after though by eliminating Udo Hemmert.
After a raise to 1,700, Mamouni three-bet to 5,500 and Hemmert moved all in for 20,625. The initial raiser folded and Mamouni asked for a count, then called with . Hemmert only had and the board came .
On a flop of , Tatiana Willemstein and Mark Voges clashed and it soon became obvious why both got their stacks in. Willemstein had the for bottom set an Voges for top two. Both the turn and river were blanks and Voges was left with very few chips, he bowed out one hand later with against the of Scott Hanna.
One table over, Stanislav Koleno check-called a bet of 5,500 on the flop and the turn went check, check. Koleno then shoved the for effectively 16,000, which is what his sole opponent Aviv Meiri had left. The player from Israel tanked for two minutes and eventually folded.
While that hand went on, Pierre Neuville left and the tournament area and was eliminated.
Anatolii Zyrin limped in from the small blind and Martin Kabrhel raised to 1,475 with the Russian coming along. On the flop, Zyrin check-min-raised from 1,475 to 2,950 and Kabrhel called before Zyrin then shoved the turn.
Brief table talk emerged and Kabrhel tried to guess the hand of Zyrin, then claimed he had king-seven. Ultimately, Kabrhel called the all in for 11,075 and tabled . Zyrin turned over his cards, it was the . "Oh, you have the king seven."
The river completed the board and Kabrhel added "You limp king seven? Nice hand." while paying off his opponent.
When PokerStars Team Online player Jaime Staples late registered into Day 1C of the main event, he pulled up a seat at one of the many tables here at the King's Casino. A normal seat among the field of 475 runners in Rozvadov.
As he sat and gave a cheerful hello to the table, he barely noticed the man directly to his left, who turned out to be none other than 2016 EPT Barcelona Main Event winner, Sebastian Malec.
. The board ran out ace-high and neither player hit anything to see yet another player depart from the table.
. Hemmert only had 
and the board came 
.
for bottom set an Voges 
for top two. Both the 
turn and 
river were blanks and Voges was left with very few chips, he bowed out one hand later with 
against the 
of Scott Hanna.
flop and the 
turn went check, check. Koleno then shoved the 
flop, Zyrin check-min-raised from 1,475 to 2,950 and Kabrhel called before Zyrin then shoved the 
turn.
river completed the board and Kabrhel added "You limp king seven? Nice hand." while paying off his opponent.
