With 950,000 already in the middle and the flop showing , Stipo Vladic bet 425,000 on the button after two players had checked to him. A player in late position then moved all in and Mathias Wessel in the hijack reraised all in. Vladic asked for a count on both all ins, which were for 540,000 and 1.735 million (Wessel) respectively, and sent his cards into the muck. While the stacks were counted, the player in late position already grabbed his jacket and was ready to leave.
Once the showdown took place, Wessel's had locked up the pot, as the opponent only had . Both the turn and river didn't matter and the German boosted his stack significantly.
With 325,000 in the middle and the flop showing , the stacks of Federico Petruzzelli and Alexandre Viard went into the middle of the table and both players turned over a flopped flush.
Federico Petruzzelli:
Alexandre Viard:
Viard was not drawing dead to win the pot as he had two outs for the straight flush, but the turn and river were both blanks. The stacks were counted and Petruzzelli had 1.775 million, Viard had 25,000 more and busted soon after.
The field for Day 1d has been boosted to 410 entries in total and 264 players remain. Level nine is the last level to register and take advantage of the single re-entry option in order to have a chance at the juicy prize pool.
On the flop, Andrej Bogdanov checked out of the big blind and called a bet of 80,000 by Hossein Ensan on the button. Both players ended up checking through the turn and river, and Bogdanov's for two pair scooped the pot.
Rehman Kassam has been able to boost his stack despite losing a portion of it when betting the turn for 255,000 and picking up a call by his table neighbor. Both players checked the river and Kassam mucked when being shown .
Chi Zhang took on Rifat Gegic and check-raised a flop of from 120,000 to 350,000 in a battle hijack versus cutoff. Gegic called and then faced the shove of Zhang on the turn. That was enough to force a fold from Gegic, who slipped to around 22 big blinds.
There was some confusion at the table of Chi Zhang and Markus Durnegger and the floor was called over, while a short stack had been all in for 565,000. The €50,000 Super High Roller winner Chi Zhang had called and was about to go into showdown, but the cards of the opponent were nowhere to be found.
This would automatically result in the elimination of the short stack, but Zhang allowed for the cards to be retrieved from the muck and it was a flip with against the of the opponent. The board came and Zhang forfeited around one fifth of the stack.
On the three-way flop of , Steve O'Dwyer bet 135,000 in early position and faced a raise to 325,000 by partypoker sponsored pro Johnny Lodden from one seat over. The big blind reluctantly folded and O'Dwyer moved all in, Lodden called it off for 1.055 million and was the player at risk.
Johnny Lodden:
Steve O'Dwyer:
The on the turn immediately locked up the double for the partypoker sponsored pro, making the river a formality.
Thanks to a total of 404 entries in the final flight the total gross guarantee of €5,000,000 has been reached and the clock was stopped for just one minute as the president of partypoker LIVE, John Duthie, took to the microphone to share the news with all players in the poker arena. The registration remains open until the end of the next level and following break.
On the river of a completed board of , Matous Skorepa bet 325,000 and Fredrik Bergmann reluctantly called from one seat over. Skorepa turned over the for trips eights and that was enough to rake in the pot. Skorepa has bumped up his stack slightly while Bergmann, who busted on Day 1c, dropped to just under the starting stack.