Up To More Than 130 Entries

The field is slowly but surely growing and the screens show more than 130 entries. Among the latest well-known names to enter Day 1a were Vladimir Troyanovskiy, Antoine Saout and Steven Thompson. The latter finished 42nd in the PokerStars Championship Panama Main Event at the start of March and also reached two final tables in Side Events there as well.

Thompson sat down one table over from Timothy Adams and Ali Reza Fatehi and it was Fatehi who just claimed another pot without showdown. As in previous hands, the player from Iran bet through the board and the final bet was worth 4,350. There were just 3,300 in the middle, and the overbet did the trick to force a fold from his sole opponent Markus Bengtsson. Fatehi and Bengtsson both started well on around 45,000 thus far.