Roman "RRomashka" Emelyanov raised to 1,200 from under the gun and Ottomar "Decent!" Ladva three-bet to 3,900 from the middle position. Ognyan "fizoka" Dimov four-bet to 9,434 from the button. The blinds and Emelyanov folded but Ladva five-bet shoved for 35,683 which Dimov called.
Ottomar "Decent!" Ladva: 
Ognyan "fizoka" Dimov: 
The board ran out 
for Dimov to hold with the tens to bust Ladva.
Simone "spera91" Speranza opened to 1,500 and Pascal Hartmann three-bet to 6,300 out of the small blind, which Speranza called.
Hartmann led the 
flop for 2,700 to pick up a call and check-called the 
turn for 6,042. Hartmann also checked the 
river and Speranza checked behind with 
to get shown the 
for quads by Hartmann.
Ramiro "OnTheFlow" Petrone shoved from the middle position for 5,583 and was called by Espen "COVFEFE-19" Jorstad in the cutoff. Anuj "ev0ke" Yadav three-bet to 17,048 from the button for the blinds to fold. Jorstad took some time to consider his options but decided to let the hand go.
Ramiro "OnTheFlow" Petrone:
Anuj "ev0ke" Yadav: 
The board ran out 
for Yadav to hold with the aces to eliminate Petrone.
Shahar "levinson95" Levi opened to 1,500 from an early position and was called only by Andrii "Brahman33" Novak out of the big blind. Novak ended up check-calling the 
flop for 2,688 and the turn for 7,052.
The 
on the river slowed down both players and they checked. Novak's 
was good, as Levi held 
for the inferior two pair.
Roman "RRomashka" Emelyanov raised to 1,200 from the early position and Julien Martini three-bet shoved from the middle position for 7,881. The action folded back to Emelyanov whpo made the call.
Julien Martini: 
Roman "RRomashka" Emelyanov: 
The board ran out 
for Emelyanov to flop the pair of treys to eliminate Martini.
Georgios Sotiropoulos made it 1,320 to go and "CowCow" three-bet to 3,660, which Paul "AsiaStylez" Esau and Sotiropoulos called. The 
flop was checked to "CowCow" and they continued for 3,901, only Esau came along.
The followed on the turn and "CowCow" bet-called the shove of Esau for 37,927 total.
"CowCow":
Paul "AsiaStylez" Esau:
No spade appeared and instead, the 
river filled up "CowCow" to a full house for the double.
Tobias "Sungycoore95" Hariefeld raised to 1,200 from the hijack and Zhiao "KingChips" He defended his big blind.
The flop came 
, He check-raised the 1,620 continuation-bet of Hariefeld to 3,759. Hariefeld opted to shove for 12,572 and was called by He with the bigger stack.
Tobias "Sungycoore95" Hariefeld:
Zhiao "KingChips" He:
The rest of the board was completed with the on the turn and the on the river for He to gold with the flopped two pair to bust Hariefeld.
The field has increased to 238 entries for Day 1a and 207 players remain in contention. Among the most recent casualties were Leandro Bianchini and Christian Rudolph.
Japan's Junichi "Jun@N" Nakanowatari had nursed a short stack for quite some time and eventually got those chips in preflop, picking up a call by Finland's "Jarttu84".
Junichi "Jun@N" Nakanowatari:
"Jarttu84": 
The pocket pair held up thanks to a board of 
, ending the run of Nakanowatari.
Uri "JimyT" Reichenstein raised to 1,440 from the middle position and Roman "RRomashka" Emelyanov three-bet to 5,880 from the small blind. The big blind folded and Reichenstein four-bet to 13,896. Emelyanov five-bet shoved with the bigger stack for Reichenstein to make the call for the 67,431 he still had behind.
Uri "JimyT" Reichenstein:
Roman "RRomashka" Emelyanov:
The board ran out for Reichenstein to hold with the rockets to double up.
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