The chips went flying on a flop of with John Kabbaj ending up all in after a raising war with table neighbor Vasili Firsau. Kabbaj had a stack of 50,400 and held for a pair of aces and the nut flush draw. Firsau had flopped the straight with , but failed to hold up on turn and river.
Miltiadis Kyriakides got involved in many hands, previously pushing out an opponent from a big pot and then reraising the pot to 9,500 preflop. Vasili Firsau called and then fired the flop for 14,000. Kyriakides folded and was shown for a gutshot and flush draw.
"Even if this was a money game or I had 100k, I would put the chips in there," Jani Vilmunen said after all was said and done. What had happened? The Finn moved all in for 39,300 chips after a flop of and John Kabbaj looked him up with the for a wrap.
Vilmunen has not ahead by much, holding the . Both the on the turn and the on the river brought no change and Vilmunen doubled up.
On their previous table, Florian Langmann had clashed with Lukas Nemec and the latter won a big pot. Now Nemec defended his big blind to the raise of Langmann and faced a bet worth 7,000 on the turn . The table talk was significantly less as of lately and Nemec checked, Langmann bet 7,000 and stared over at his opponent.
Nemec ultimately mucked to allow the German reclaiming some of the previously lost chips.
With less than 15 minutes on the clock for Day 1, Pavel Binar decided to buy into the tournament again for his second barrel and took the only empty seat over on table 105 next to Jesper Hougaard.
On the four-way flop of , Thomas Bichon and Lukas Nemec checked in the blinds. Florian Langmann bet 9,000 and Jan-Peter Jachtmann called on the button before Bichon squeezed to 31,000. All the opponents behind him folded and the Frenchman raked in the pot.
Florian Langmann may very well have a go at the chip lead in the last 10 minutes of play after eliminating Benedikgt Feige. The latter had gotten his stack in preflop with and found a pair of jacks and a gutshot on an ace-high flop. Langmann was still ahead with his and both the turn and river blanked out.
On the river of a board, Jan-Peter Jachtmann bet 11,000 against Florian Langmann and the latter ended up calling to get shown for a five-high straight. Langmann mucked and Jachtmann gained back some chips after previously having lost a couple smaller pots.