Danijel Jovanovic opened for 1,600 with just over 15,000 behind. It was folded to Torsten Pischl who has a lot of chips and seeing his opponents stack set Jovanovic all in. Jovanovic made the call to see he was up against the and ahead with his own . The cards ran out and Jovanovic was delighted with his late double up.
Michael Telker had just ordered three tequilas with the last of the money on him and was goading Dominik Nitsche to do a shot when they arrived. Nitsche was emphatic that he wasn’t doing one. Telker opened for 2,000 and it folded to Nitsche in the big blind. He would play a pot with him though and made the call.
The flop was . Nitsche checked and Telker made a bet of 2,050 which Nitsche raised to 5,700. Telker made the call and they saw a turn card . Both players checked and when the fell on the river Nitsche bet 8,000. Telker showed the and mucked his cards. Nitsche showed the and stacked the chips.
Bela Toth opened for 1,500 got one caller and then faced a raise from Team PokerStars Pro Marcel Luske to 6,800. Toth asked how much Luske had left which was slightly more than he had, about 23,000. Toth smiled in frustration made the fold to the squeeze and Luske picked up the pot without further fuss.
In front of German player Roland Maurus was 3,800 and two players had the all in triangle in front of them. Adrian Mateos Diaz from Spain had a little over 43,000 pushed to the middle, Michael Brady had slightly less than that and was allso all in.
Maurus was thinking about it really hard and kept shaking his head. Nobody called the clock but Maurus was thinking for four or so minutes before open folding his .
He continued to shake his head after both other players tabled their cards. Diaz had and Brady showed .
The board would run out in favor of Mateos Diaz: . Brady stood up from the table and said "I saved you" to Maurus. "Cheers guys"
Marc-Andre Ladouceur, a PokerStars Team Online Pro from Canada, opened UTG+1 for 1,200 and it folded round to the big blind Michael Piper from the UK who made it 4,100. Ladouceur thought about it and sized up Piper’s stack. He then made it 7,200 which prompted Piper, in the one seat, to lift the dealers elbow, take the all in triangle and put it on top of his stack. All of Piper’s chips were over the line and Ladouceur quickly called. Piper was at risk with but Ladouceur had .
The board ran out and Piper’s adventure at Vienna had come to an end.
We missed the action, but we do know that Max Silver got the last of his chips in on a flop holding the . His opponent, Lucas Reeves, was ahead with the , and it held as the blanked on the turn followed by the on the river.
Unfortunately for Silver, he won't be making the final table like he did in Prague.
The players are now playing the last few hands of the night before bagging and tagging. We're headed out to capture any last-minute action and compile some chip counts, so stay tuned for those as well as a full recap of the Day 1a action.