Joining the action on the turn, Enrico Campanile bet 12,000 out of the big blind. Sergiu Covrig let go from an early position while Matthias Wieser called in the cutoff. The followed on the river and Campanile pushed forward his stack of T-5,000 chips. Wieser called all-in for 48,000 and tabled for the nut straight, which beat Campanile's for turned two pair.
Viorel Gavrila defended his big blind against Abdelhakim Zoufri and check-called a bet worth 7,100 on the turn. He then checked the river and Zoufri carefully counted his stack before pushing for around 42,000. Gavrila snap-folded and the Dutchman collected the pot.
Carlo Wilhelm was all-in with and then faced the of Daridge Saidi as well as the of Pierre Trauer. On a board of , Saidi had the best of it with a set of treys and nearly tripled while Wilhelm hit the rail.
Yehuda Cohen ended up at risk for 50,300 in the cutoff on a flop of and faced the of Mario Colavita in the big blind. Cohen locked it up right away on the turn with quads and the river was no longer significant.
During the final hands of the night, Gianluca Cammarata looked up the shove by a shorter-stacked Samuel Tebege and was in need of an ace or plenty of broadway cards to deal the final blow.
Samuel Tebege:
Gianluca Cammarata:
The runout brought no upset as Tebege scored a late double.
Just under one third of the field has survived the nine levels on Day 1a and punched the ticket for Day 2 on Sunday, January 23. Assorted counts and a recap of today's action are to follow.