Despite starting with 300 big blinds, the stack of Carlos de la Vega Gracia has been reduced to zero in the first level and the blinds moved up while Kenneth Amell Boquera raked in the pot. It is still 300 big blinds now, for Amell Boquera that is, who doubled the stack early on.
Very similar to yesterday's first starting day, the field is growing rapidly and 14 tables are now in use. Now all of them are full ring just yet, but the tournament screens already jumped to three digits and currently display 104 entries for Day 1b.
Only few chips were in until the river when a raising war broke out between Jamali Razavi and Jose Valls Rebollar. The latter ended up all in for 18,100 and tabled for a straight. Razavi mucked her cards and had around 11,000 left, but those chips vanished soon after and were integrated into the stack of Marco Cerio to make Razavi the second casualty of the day.
Thomas Elder played in yesterday's Day 1a and was eliminated in the late stages, and the American is back now for more action at the Casino Barcelona. Laura Gallardo Ribot and Douglas Wheatland joined Sally Stephens over on table one while [Removed:400] and Marc Esteve Gutierrez are also in.
On the heads-up turn of with some 10,000 in the middle, Jordi Juan Faure bet 4,000 and Stephan van den Wyngaert moved all in. Faure quickly called and then burst out in a tirade of Spanish swear words when van den Wyngaert turned over his cards.
Stephan van den Wyngaert:
Jordin Juan Faure:
The on the river was a blank and the Dutchman doubled for 21,475, leaving his opponent short with some change.
Joining the action on the heads-up turn of with some 6,500 in the pot, Gerard Lleixa Aledo checked and Manoe Betrix bet 5,000. Lleixa Aledo called and the duo headed to the on the river. Again Lleixa Aledo checked and Betrix moved all in for his last 925. Lleixa Aledo had to look twice for the amount and then called to see Betrix roll over .
Lleixa Aledo had that beat with and claimed the pot with trips sixes.
Abel Durban Sala and Josito Bordas both played on Day 1a and failed to bag up chips. They are now back in action and the latter is over on table 15 that just opened. Also in is Adria Colomina Guitart over on table eight.
Jordi Juan Faure moved all in for his last 6,775 and Stephan van den Wyngaert called. Nikolay Kovaykin then moved all in for 16,525 and that for everyone else out of the way including van den Wyngaert.
Nikolay Kovaykin:
Jordi Juan Faure:
Despite picking up a flush draw, the board of came up blank to eliminate Faure. "If you don't shove, I would have called with nine four suited," Luka Cencelj said over in the nine seat.