After a preflop open, Dylan Linde three-bet to 2,200 on the cutoff. Vladimir Troyanovskiy four-bet out of the small blind making it 6,100 and Linde flatted. The flop came down and Troyanovskiy led with a bet of 5,000. Linde called.
The fell on the turn and Troyanovskiy checked. Linde moved all in for about 19,000 and after a couple timebank chips were needed, Troyanovskiy made the call.
Linde:
Troyanovskiy:
The completed the board and sent the pot towards the Russian and Linde towards the rail.
With around 3,000 in the pot and the flop reading , three players checked to the on the turn. Daniel Dvoress led out for 1,300 from the big blind and Vladimir Troyanovskiy raised to 3,800 in early position. Ben Heath called on the button and Dvoress came along as well.
The river double-paired the board with the and Dvoress checked. Troyanovskiy made a sizeable bet of 11,300 which Heath called. Dvoress thought for his entire 30 seconds before announcing a fold. Troyanovskiy turned over for quad deuces and Heath was forced to muck his cards.
The board read and it looked like there were 8,100 chips in the middle when we got to the table. Christopher Kruk checked from under the gun and Luc Greenwood bet 5,000 from the button, Kruk called and Greenwood tabled for a flopped set of jacks. Kruk mucked and Greenwood took the chips.
Ari Engel checked from the cutoff on a flop and Dimitar Danchev bet 2,000 from the button into a pot of approximately 6,100. Engel called.
The fell on the turn and Engel checked. Danchev bet again, 7,000 this time, and Engel check-raised to put Danchev to a decision for his stack. He instantly called.
Danchev:
Engel:
Danchev held Broadway and Engel needed the final card to be a club in order to win the pot. The on the river changed nothing, so Danchev took the chips for the double-up.
Isaac Haxton opened to 700 in the hijack and Jean-Noel Thorel three-bet to 1,800 in the cutoff. Steve O'Dwyer four-bet to 5,600 on the button and Steffen Sontheimer flat-called out of the small blind. Haxton folded and Thorel called to go three ways to the flop.
The dealer spread the flop of and the action checked to O'Dwyer who continued for 8,000. Sontheimer called while Thorel folded.
The turn was the and both players checked to the on the river. Sontheimer checked again and O'Dwyer pushed all in for 36,000. Sontheimer only had 31,500 remaining and quickly called off his stack. O'Dwyer smiled and turned over and Sontheimer showed to take down a big pot before the break.
With about 10,000 in the pot and a completed board reading , Lauren Monosson bet 1,000. Her heads-up opponent George Wolff raised it up to 4,700 and Monosson made the call.
Wolff tabled the for a straight and Monosson mucked.
The first two levels here on Day 1 are in the books and the players have been sent on a 20-minute break. The field has climbed to 61 total entries with 58 players remaining.