Due to the turbo format, Day 1d only lasts four hours in total in terms of the 12 levels of 20 minutes being played. One break is scheduled in between and that one just kicked off to give the players 20 minutes away from the table.
Once the cards get back in the air, the registration will be closed. The T-25 chips are also raced off during the break, as they are no longer needed.
The board was already complete, showing , and the player in the small blind bet 12,000. Albert Sapiano moved all in and his opponent immediately sighed, leaned back and groaned. Ultimately, he could not find a fold and called all in for 27,000.
Sapiano turned over for trips and his opponent mucked the .
On the flop, Jean Paul Zaffran got his last 12,000 in with the and Keisuke Hikosaka looked him up with . The turn and river failed to improve the Frenchman and Zaffran was eliminated.
The tournament screens show 166 entries, of which 130 remain, but the final number for the turbo flight are yet to be officially confirmed. Either way, nobody can get into the tournament anymore and the total number is sure to smash any attendance record of the Hippodrome Casino and the former UKIPT.
The seat that formerly belonged to Sebastien Buonomo is now occupied by another player and the Frenchman has been eliminated. Another one is thriving though and that is Kalidou Sow.
Sow faced an opponent's shove for 20,300 on the river and eventually called. The player at risk shook his head and turned over , Sow had that beat with .
The action continues to rise and Javier Zarco was among those to fall. He lost a flip for the starting stack with against the of Fabio Miranda, as the Portuguese spiked a king on the board . Zarco was left with around 7,000 and those vanished soon after.
Raz Alon avoided a big setback when his cracked , the board came .
Rodrigo Strong is nowhere to be found either, he has been replaced by the always smiling Scotsman Fraser MacIntyre.