Madalin Cornel Petraru in the under-the-gun position raised to 2,700 even though on his left, Claudio Di Giacomo, was seated who had already announced that he would go all-in every hand of the last six hands that still needed to be played. And indeed, Di Giacomo shoved for the sixth time for 47,500 in total. Rifat Gegic, sitting on the button, also shoved for even more. Petraru tanked with a stack shorter than Gegic's. The clock was called on him and when the floor came over, he open-folded .
Claudio Di Giacomo:
Rifat Gegic:
The board ran out - Gegic flopped two pair on the flop and that was more than enough to eliminate Di Giacomo from the tournament in the last hand of the day.
Day 1a of the 2018 €1,650 WSOP International Circuit Main Event is in the books. In total there were 262 entries of which 94 players managed to bag and tag for Day 2 which will take place on Sunday, March 18. Chip Leader of the day is Alexander Romme with 310,500 in chips.
Second in the chip counts is Eyal Bensimhon with 250,500 who eliminated two other players in the last hand of the day. He already won a WSOP Circuit Ring earlier this week when he beat the rest in the Deep Stack Open for a payday of €16,580. Closing the podium for today is Ben Zech who grabbed a huge pot when he eliminated Ohana Shlomo with a flopped set of treys against the pair of kings on the turn.
Other notable chip counts are Thomas White (160,000), Timur Margolin (140,100), Jan Bednar (138,000), Robin Hegele (110,000), Makarios Avramidis (85,800), Paul Berende (62,200), and Jan Mach (45,900).
Unfortunately, not everyone was lucky enough to find a bag at the end of the day. Players including Fabian Gumz, Michal Mrakes, Rickie Silcock, Aleksandar Tomovic, Maksim Shulga, Stephen Ayres, Catalin Pop, Paul Lozano, Jakob Miegel, and Robert Auer for example. They will all have another shot at making Day 2 though as Day 1b is scheduled to start at 2 pm local time on Saturday, March 17.
PokerNews will be here from the start to provide you with all the updates to see who else will join the 94 remaining players of today on Day 2. So do come back!
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- Gegic flopped two pair on the flop and that was more than enough to eliminate Di Giacomo from the tournament in the last hand of the day.
