Douglas Wheatland has been eliminated and walked over to fellow American Sally Stephens, who was one table over and had recently re-entered. Wheatland wished her good luck and then headed to the rail, while the screens show 233 entries. Only 170 remain and the Turbo Heat 1d is scheduled to kick off in a few minutes.
Younesse Oualgasi defended out of the blinds and check-shoved a flop of with the . Albert Gorman looked him up for 18,800 with and the turn and river were both blanks.
Soon after, Sandro Hauser got his stack in with and Telmo Dominquez Gonzalez snap-called with . The board came and the Swiss was sent to the rail.
Miguel Angel Rodriguez de la Rubia sits just under starting stack while Aleksandr Rodionov just shoved on a flop of . His sole opponent had bet 8,000 and the Russian was all in for little more, 17,000 in total, but that proved to be too much for the call.
Within two hands, the stack of Sandro Hauser has been reduced to zero. He first faced a raise to 2,500 by David Monino and called before Ross Mc Hugh shoved for 16,300. Monino reshoved for 19,500 and Hauser called after mentioning pot odds.
Ross Mc Hugh:
David Monino:
Sandro Hauser:
The board came and Mc Hugh left with some swear words in English. Only two minutes later, Hauser's remaining chips vanished also, and it was again Monino who claimed them after spiking top pair with .
Jamali Razavi and Jaako Wilska have been spotted in the turbo Heat 1d and are thus eliminated from 1c, while Robert Cazali was also on the way out. Juan Font Espina won a limped pot with versus after betting a queen-high flop for 2,000 and spiking a deuce on the turn, his opponent then checked a blank on the river.
While Font Espina's stack is impressive, Lauri Saaskilahti has him easily covered and appears to be the chip leader near the end of level eight.
Over on table 13, Stian Bruheim and Atanas Petkov found doubles. The former flopped top pair with and Juan Bastida Perez had pocket sevens on when the stacks got in. The turn and river changed nothing and Bruheim doubled.
And then, in the last hand of the level, Petkov doubled for 26,700 with against Javier Martinez Perez' thanks to a board of .
The players have been sent into a 15-minute break for Day 1c and Day 1d is currently underway with some 30 players. So far there was just one casualty according to the screens.
After the next four levels, a 40-minute dinner break will take place before the final two levels for the night are played.
There are currently 15 tables running and on top of that, 13 seat open to create a remaining field of 137 hopefuls out of a 237-entry strong field. The registration remains open until the end of level, though, and the Turbo Heat 1d is also running to boost the attendance further.