Niall Farrell raised to 1,500 from the hijack and Daan "DaanOss" Mulders three-bet to 5,100 from the button. The blinds folded and Farrell made the call.
The flop came , Farrell check-called the 5,820 bet of Mulders.
The turn was the , both players checked to the on the river. Farell took some time and bet 5,820. Mulders contemplated for a bit and raised to 17,644. Farrell tanked and then put Mulders all-in who called for the remaining 22,815 with the for two pair but Farrell held the for the turned straight and the claim to the bustout.
In the last hand prior to the scheduled break, Per "Nick_Carter" Karlsson made it 1,350 to go from under the gun and Davide Nutarelli three-bet to 3,963 in middle position. Sylvain Loosli then four-bet jammed for the last 25,164 on the button and Nutarelli beat him into the pot when it was his turn to act.
Sylvain Loosli:
Davide Nutarelli:
There was no help on a board of as Loosli became the next high-profile elimination on Day 1b.
Amir "8ty4calling8" Dvir raised to 1,200 from the cutoff and Kevin Martin three-bet to 3,680 from the button. The blinds folded and Dvir called.
Dvir checked on the flop but then raised the 2,070 bet of the Twitch streamer to 10,253 which was called by Martin after taking some time to consider his options.
The turn was the , Dvir contemplated for a bit and then bet 10,300 and was called again.
The river completed the board with the , Dvir shoved with the bigger stack. Martin opted to call for the 17,078 he had behind with the for the straight but Dvir held the fir the nut-straight to bust the Canadian.
Adrien Delmas raised to 1,000 from under the gun. Artem "Amsterq" Prostak called in the early position but Ali Reza Fatrehi four-bet to 3,380 from the late position. The action folded back to Prostak who made the call.
The flop came , Prostak check-raised to 13,080 when Fatehi continued with a bet of 6,540. Fatehi responded with a shove for 23,420 in total which Prostak called with the bigger stack.
Ali Reza Fatehi:
Artem "Amsterq" Prostak:
They had both flopped top pair but Fatehi was ahead with the higher kicker.
The rest of the board was completed with the on the turn for Fatehi to improve to two pair and secure the double-up while the river came with the .
Simon Lofberg opened to 750 and Bryan "Macallan18" Micon clicked it up to 1,200 from one seat over. "fatunov" then four-bet to 4,703 in the hijack and Lofberg used a portion of his time bank before five-betting to 12,106. Only "fatunov" called and they headed to the flop, on which Lofberg's continuation bet for 8,533 was called.
Loberg then check-shoved the turn for 33,080 and "fatunov" called.
Simon Lofberg:
"fatunov":
Lofberg had the double up secured already and that made the river a formality.
The action kicked off with a raise to 500 by Zhenyu "rainsong" Song and Jesse "AAGenius88" Mercado then made it 1,800 to go from one seat over in the hijack. Yaman "granjefe77" Nakdali then four-bet to 5,100 in the cutoff and Mercado was the only caller. On a flop of , Mercado opted to check-call a bet worth 8,250 and check-called all-in after the turn for 47,413 when Nakdali used the time bank and ripped it in.
The first of three flights in the GGPoker $10,000 World Series Of Poker Main Event attracted 246 hopefuls but only 62 of them made it through to Day 2 on Monday, December 7. Two more flights will take place this weekend for the players who haven't tried making it through to the next stage and it remains to be seen which of the two starting days players will choose to fire their single bullet in.
Day 1b starts at 6 p.m. GMT today in a tournament which is a special set up as it's an online/live poker hybrid that will ultimately come to a conclusion at the end of the year with the 2020 World Champion. Day 1b and 1c will take place online here at GGPoker and everyone who survives the first 16 levels on Day 1 will continue on to Day 2 for a combined field. Those players will all battle it out until a final table with 9 hopefuls left who will then have to travel to King’s Resort in Rozvadov, the Czech Republic to play down to one winner.
Getting to the final table means that they will grab a much bigger share of the prize pool. But that's not all, the champion will get a spot to participate in a winner-takes-all $1 million heads-up battle in the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino Las Vegas against the champion of the WSOP.com edition of this $10,000 tournament on December 30th. Whoever wins that one-on-one battle will be crowned the 2020 World Champion and take the $1 million prize on top.
Players like Julian "VWgunther" Menhardt, Preben Stokkan, Michal Lubas, Sosia Jiang, Laurynas Levinskas, Shahar Levi, Alexandros Theologis, and Brunno Botteon have already secured a spot for Day 2 while familiar names like Fedor Holz, Ami Barer, Rainer Kempe, Ognyan Dimov, David Yan, Ole Schemion, and Nobert Szecsi have fallen already and won't be back in the running this year.
Players will get 60,000 in chips in their starting stacks with a small blind of 100 and a big blind of 200 in the first level of the day. Late registration will be possible until midnight GMT. As this is a freezeout tournament, players can only enter once during the whole tournament so reentering is impossible if a player busts Day 1b. Level duration will remain at 30 minutes throughout the day and play will end for Day 2 when all 16 levels have been played.
The PokerNews live reporting team will be providing you with all the updates from the first beep until the final fold so make sure to keep following along with all the action right here.