Francois Billard, Ali Reza Fatehi and Patrick Mahoney have been eliminated, however the latter has opted to fire the second bullet and re-entered the competition. Fatehi may do so still until the start of Day 2 as a maximum of one re-entry is allowed. Below are some further updated counts.
With around 19,000 in the middle and four players still in, the board showed and Andrey Pateychuk checked in the big blind. Joao Vieira did so from middle position and the cutoff bet 8,500. Ilkin Amirov called and Pateychuk folded, Vieira called.
The river was checked to Amirov, who bet 16,000. Vieira moved all in and the cutoff folded. "He said all in?" Amirov asked after looking up from his massage and, once confirmed by the dealer, folded to let Vieira build his stack significantly without showdown.
Elie Saad raised the cutoff to 1,100 before Benny Spindler on the button three-bet to 3,200. Small blind Tamer Kamel flat called and Saad over called to make it three-handed.
All of them checked the -flop before the hit the turn. Kamel bet out 4,800 and Saad called, Spindler folded.
The fell on the river and Kamel bet 11,500. Saad tanked for some time before he called.
Kamel tabled and left the pot to Saad who showed .
After a raise to 800, Niklas Hambitzer three-bet to 2,300 on the button. Gerald Karlic four-bet all in for 11,225 and the initial raiser folded. "I guess I have to call," Hambitzer said and tossed in the extra chips.
Gerald Karlic:
Niklas Hambitzer:
The board ran out and Karlic doubled, but remains at less than half the starting stack. Some further players were less fortunate and busted already, while Jaroslaw Sikora and Stephen Chidwick also lost decent portion of their stack early on.
The number of entries has grown to 259 at the end of level four and almost all of them still have chips. The second break of the day just started and the participants have been sent out of the tournament room for 20 minutes.
Max Silver opened to 1,200 and Ari Engel called before Vojtech Ruzicka three-bet to 4,900 on the button. Only Silver called and check-called the flop for 4,000. On the turn, Silver check-called another barrel worth 8,050 and checked the third street in a row on the river.
Ruzicka shoved for 27,475 and Silver was sent into the think tank. He talked through possible hands, and eventually called. Ruzicka tapped the table in defeat and said "good call" before rolling over his for a bluff, Silver claimed the pot with for a full house.
On a board of we saw Manig Loeser bet out 7,000 from the small blind. Nicolas Chouty called from the hijack and Eugene Katchalov called from the cutoff.
The completed the board and Loeser checked. Chouity bet 19,000 and Katchalov moved in for 33,425. Loeser folded right away but Chouity needed some more time to make up his mind. He tanked for some minutes before he eventually let go of his hand, heavily sighing while doing so.
A reraise to 4,000 was in front of Daniel Dvoress in the hijack and his sole remaining opponent Albert Daher then made it 8,600 to go from middle position. Dvoress moved all in and Daher quickly called.
Albert Daher:
Daniel Dvoress:
The board ran out and Daher doubled for 32,175, almost much halving the stack of Dvoress in the process.