In a limped pot, the flop fell and the action was checked to the hijack who made an overbet of 750. The small blind raised to 2,000 and Sander van Wesemael re-raised to 4,700 from the big blind. The hijack folded and the small blind made the call.
The landed on the turn and the small blind checked to van Wesemael who fired 3,300. His opponent called and the hit the river putting four diamonds on the board. Both players checked and the small blind turned over . Van Wesemael tabled , which missed the straight draw but nailed a flush on the river.
Thomas Lentrodt was all in for a mere 3,200 with the and his sole remaining opponent to the left called with . The board of brought no surprise and Lentrodt doubled. Below are further assorted counts from level four.
In a battle button versus small blind, a pot of 11,000 emerged until the river of a board . Antonio Merone in the small blind led for 6,500 and Stanislav Koleno on the button glanced over from behind the dealer on the other side of the table, then asked Merone how much he had behind.
Merone had another 5,000 in chips and Koleno took a minute before calling for half of his remaining stack. Merone showed for a pair of kings and that was good enough to rake in the pot.
Only eight players have been eliminated in the first three levels of the day thus far, of which three sent their entire stacks to Andrej Desset. A few familiar faces showed up right after the action recommenced and among those were Sander van Wesemael, Teunis Kooij, Kristen Bicknell, Viktor Kovachev and Pedro Oliveira.
According to the screens, there are 127 players out of a field of 135 entries remaining for Day 1b.
Claudio Coelho raised to 325 and Roland Israelashvili called. Andrej Desset squeezed to 1,800 on the button and Coelho folded, Israelashvili called. On the flop, Israelashvili checked and called a bet of 2,500 by Desset before the appeared on the turn.
Israelashvili checked again and this time folded to a second barrel by Desset, who walks over his table with a commanding lead.
While the Satellite for Day 1b is on the ticket bubble with Cheng-Wei Yin and Michael Magalashvili still in contention, some other notable faces joined for the second of three flights including Roberto Romanello, Aleksandar Tomovic, Claudio Coelho and Grzegorz Wyraz.
Andrej Desset raised to 500 from middle position and was called in three different spots. The flop came and Desset led out for 1,200. Georgios Koliofotis called from the button and they went heads-up to the on the turn.
Desset fired another bet of 4,200 and Koliofotis instantly made the call. The river double-paired the board with the and Desset reached back for a bet of 13,500. Koliofotis sat with a puzzled look on his face and then pushed all-in for around 17,000. Desset snap-called and rolled over . Koliofotis could only muster for two pair and just became another elimination at the hands of Desset.
Robert Auer lost half of his stack on the previous table when his bet of 7,500 on an ace-high river was just called by an opponent with pocket fours for a full house. Auer had aces and currently sits on around half the starting stack.
Darren Delahunty quickly went to work and built some profit before betting the turn for 2,900. Sergio Castelluccio shoved into the Brit and Delahunty folded.
and the action was checked to the hijack who made an overbet of 750. The small blind raised to 2,000 and Sander van Wesemael re-raised to 4,700 from the big blind. The hijack folded and the small blind made the call.
landed on the turn and the small blind checked to van Wesemael who fired 3,300. His opponent called and the 
hit the river putting four diamonds on the board. Both players checked and the small blind turned over 
. Van Wesemael tabled 
, which missed the straight draw but nailed a flush on the river.
and his sole remaining opponent to the left called with 
. Antonio Merone in the small blind led for 6,500 and Stanislav Koleno on the button glanced over from behind the dealer on the other side of the table, then asked Merone how much he had behind.
for a pair of kings and that was good enough to rake in the pot.
appeared on the turn.
and Desset led out for 1,200. Georgios Koliofotis called from the button and they went heads-up to the 
on the turn. 
and Desset reached back for a bet of 13,500. Koliofotis sat with a puzzled look on his face and then pushed all-in for around 17,000. Desset snap-called and rolled over 
