On the flop, Iulian Georgian Ruxandescu checked and Jeroen van Belzen checked behind. The appeared on the turn, and Ruxandescu checked. Back on van Belzen, who bet 4,000 into a pot of 6,000. Ruxandescu then check-raised all in for 31,400 and that sent van Belzen into the think tank.
"If you have a set, why would you jam?" the Dutchman said, then eventually called one minute later.
Iulian Georgian Ruxandescu:
Jeroen van Belzen:
The on the river blanked and the Romanian was gone.
Once again Florin Minea has suffered another setback, as pretty much several times today already. This time around, he had Virgil Grecu at risk of elimination with versus for 18,000 only to see his opponent improve to two pair on a board of . Minea sighed and fell back to around 35,000, Grecu has just about as much.
Several notables came back from dinner with short stacks while Michal Nahum on the table of Dara O'Kearney just scored a lucky double. Ionut Alexandru Decher had raised to 2,200 and Nahum shoved for 7,000 with the from the button. Decher called with and saw the board running out .
The cards are back in the air and level seven has commenced. Only 227 players remained and the screens show 367 entries. This number is not final yet though, as everything has to be double-checked in case of online qualifiers that didn't show up.
A stampede left the Grand Ballroom of the JW Marriott Hotel and headed straight to the designated dinner buffet room, which means that level six has come to an end. In one hour from now at around 8 p.m. local time, the action will recommence and the registration will remain open until the cards are back in the air.
So far, one third of the field of Day 1b has been eliminated with 240 out of 367 entries remaining.
Radu Lungu opened from early position and then called the shove of Elena Grigorescu for 10,325.
Elena Grigorescu:
Radu Lungu:
Upon spotting the cards of her opponent, Grigorescu already grabbed her belongings and was on the way out, but the board came to provide the necessary help on the river. Lungu keeps a big stack, while Jakub Grolewski has even more than the Romanian.