Fabrice Soulier raised to 1,700 and Dmitry Yurasov three-bet to 5,200 from one seat over. Soulier shoved and Yurasov folded.
Then, Vlado Banicevic from Montenegro raised to 1,800 and Aleksandar Spadijer, also from Montenegro, called in the big blind. On the flop, the action went check, check. After the turn, Spadijer bet 1,600 and Banicevic folded.
Banicevic raised to 1,800 the next hand and claimed the blinds and antes. The table also features Connor Drinan, Alexandros Kolonias and Juha Helppi.
There was already 35,000 in the middle and the board ran out . Vladimir Troyanovskiy slid out a bet of 17,000, only leaving him with 18,000 behind.
Thomas Mjeldheim thought for a short moment, then made the call. Troyanoskiy mucked immediately. Mjeldheim wanted to take the pot without showing but Charlie Carrel convinced him to do so.
"Show the hero call", Carrel said. Mjeldheim tabled for just top pair.
Pasi Sormunen just enforced a fold from two opponents on the turn of a jack-high board and then raised to 1,800 from the hijack just one hand later. Frederik Jensen three-bet to 5,200 on the button and Sormunen called. On the flop of , Sormunen bet 10,000 and Jensen raised to 31,600, leaving just 100 behind. Sormunen pushed and Jensen called.
"Are you good?" Sormunen asked and tabled his . Jensen only had the , but the turn and river completed the board to give Jensen trips and the double.
Preflop, Martin Kozlov raised it up to 2,000. Karzan Hamarash was his only customer.
The flop came and Hamarash fired out a bet of 3,600. Kozlov shoved all in for 11,100 and Hamarash called.
Martin Kozlov:
Karzan Hamarash:
Kozlov was at risk but he was ahead with his aces. Hamarash had a lot of outs and hit one of them with the . The river was the and Kozlov left the tournament area.
The action was about to start on table 4 when Ben Heath discovered he was in the small blind instead of the big blind. He was under the gun the hand before but apparently the button moved two spots.
Heath told the dealer and Pratyush Buddiga, who was on the button now, confirmed the mistake.
It was ruled a misdeal and everybody gave their cards back to the dealer. Heath took a quick peek at his cards before handing them back and then opened pocket kings. So much for honesty, you could say.
The board was and [Removed:155] put out an 8,000-bet from the big blind. It was a big bet with 8,600 in the middle and Tibor Nagygyorgy was a non-believer.
He made the call but mucked in frustration when Brand tabled for a rivered two pair.
Ilkin Amirov stood up from his chair and the dealer announced a seat open, then the board came to light showing . Amirov had defended his big blind against the raise of Zorlucan Er and then shoved the turn with his only to see the bad news in the form of by Er.
After the hand was over, father Zorlu Er handed his son a Red Bull as extra motivation for the remainder of Day 1a.
Another massive pot emerged over on table two and there were around 35,000 or even more in the middle with the board reading . To cut the story short, Pasi Sormunen announced all in and Oleksii Khoroshenin from one seat over was struck. With plenty of chips behind, which looked like 65,000, Khoroshenin eventually gave in and folded.
Sormunen flashed the and Khoroshenin flipped over his to cause some gasps at the table.