Oliver Heidel opened from under the gun, then saw Michele Guerrini three-bet all in for a bit more than 10,000. All the other players folded to Heidel, who called.
Michele Guerrini: K♥Q♦
Oliver Heidel: 3♥3♠
Heidel won the flip when his pair held on the 4♠J♦2♥2♦A♠ runout. Thanks to this pot, his big stack kept growing while Guerrini was eliminated.
Daniel Budin opened to 3,500 from early position and action folded to Julien Tollari, who shoved for his last 16,500 on the button. Takumi Odani called cold from the small blind and Budin got out of the way.
Julien Tollari: A♣A♠
Takumi Odani: A♦J♣
The 6♥J♦7♥ flop kept Odani drawing live to trips, but the 4♦ turn and Q♥ river bricked out and Tollari doubled up with his aces.
Felix Schneiders raised to 3,000 from a short stack in the hijack before Alejandro Vazquez put in a three-bet from the cutoff. The action then folded to Julien Groenendijk, who put in his stack of 14,000 chips for a jam.
Schneiders got out of the way before Vazquez put in the extra chips for a call.
Groenendijk won the flip when his tens held on the 8♦7♠K♥6♣J♠ runout, and he doubled up. Schneiders was left with around ten big blinds.
Meanwhile, fellow PokerStars Ambassador Benjamin Spragg was seen with a fresh ticket for Day 1b of the Eureka Main Event, meaning that his Day 1a had reached a premature conclusion.
Radek Jantos opened 3,000 in early position and both Daniel Koloszar from a couple of spots to his left, and Patrik Zidek in the big blind made the call.
All three players checked to the A♣10♥4♦6♦ turn. Zidek checked once more before Jantos pushed a bet of 6,000 across the line. Only Koloszar made the call.
When the K♦ hit the river, Jantos paused for almost a minute before dropping eight chips across the line for a bet of 8,000. Koloszar took a peak at his cards once again before pushing them toward the dealer to surrender the pot.
Roman Ulanov raised to 3,000 from early position, and he was only called by both players in the blinds.
The dealer fanned a flop of 10♠K♣2♦, and Ulanov continued with a bet of 3,500. Junichi Kato folded at this point form the small blind, but Tarik Ozdemir made the call in the big blind.
But after Ulanov fired a second barrel of 12,000 on the turn 3♦, Ozdemir went into the tank. He eventually check-folded, and let the pot go in Ulanov's direction.
Samy Dubonnet opened to 3,000 from middle position and found one caller in Daniel Budin in the big blind.
Budin check-called a 2,500 bet from Dubonnet on the 2♣K♠J♦ flop and an 11,500 bet from Dubonnet on the 8♣ turn.
The K♦ completed the board and Budin checked once more, prompting Dubonnet to fire a final barrel for 27,000 total. Budin went deep into the tank before eventually deciding to let his hand go and Dubonnet dragged the pot without showing.
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PokerStars Ambassador Parker "tonkaaap" Talbot joined Day 1a of the Eureka Main Event at the last possible moment and thus sat in the big blind with a fresh stack of 30,000 chips.
After Maksim Petrov raised from under the gun, Talbot pushed all in and received a call from the initial raiser.
Parker Talbot: 3♥3♦
Maksim Petrov: 8♠8♦
It was looking like Talbot's adventure would last only a few minutes when the board ran out K♦10♠2♣Q♦, but the miraculous 3♣ river saw him hit a set to win the pot and rake in a double-up.
