LIVE FROM GOLDEN SANDS

With the last five hands done for the day, play is now over with around 65 players remaining. A quick look over the chip counts (which will come in full later tonight) has shown that Dane Peter Pedersen is the chip leader with 99,600. Trifon Kaburov is seemingly in second place with 81,000 and the players will rejoin those who survived Day 1A for the Day 2 start tomorrow at 2pm local time.

We’ll see you then!

Meanwhile, there is a full recap of the day here:

Before we get ready to bag, tag and count at the end of this level, one quick note on how a couple of players who’ve been requested for counts during the day are doing:
Ylva Thorsrud – 37,000
Tim van de Riet – 37,500
Axel Daeseleire – 24,000
Zeljka Pencinger – 36,800
Jerry Pussinen – 54,000

67 remain, but expect that number to drop before the end of play…

Toby Lewis, whose stack had grown to over 37k, just lost 7k of it with a rare mistimed big blind threebet.  Georgi Pleshkov had made it 2,500 to go in late position, and Lewis upped it to 7k, only to find Pleshkov’s card protector dropping on and his whole stack moving in (25k?).  Instamuck from the Brit, and play continues – for another quarter of an hour.

Luis Silva is the latest short stack to make the short walk from the tournament area across to the casino bar. He pushed with but got called by Michal Skalski’s . The flop of helped neither, but hope appeared briefly with a cheeky little trey on the turn, but the river was the and Skalski made a flush to bust the Portuguese player from the tournament.

Disaster for Pawel Chmiel who was lost his stack holding after running into the of Atila Abdula on a flop. The case came on the turn and the river was nothing more than academic and Chmiel was pole-axed.

Brit Toby Lewis is sparring a fair amount with Finn Jerry Pussinen. Lewis raised to 1,800 from a stack of around 19,000 and found Pussinen just peeling from the blinds.

The flop came and Pussinen checked, Lewis bet a paltry 1,300 and Pussinen raised to 3,700 but then Lewis quickly moved all-in and the Finn folded fairly sharply.

Soon after Lewis opened to 2,300 and Pussinen 3-bet to 6,000. It came back to Lewis and he moved all-in for about 24,000, Pussinen showed the and folded.

Lewis is up to almost 38,000.

Turn back time about half an hour, and Peter Dalhuijsen’s stack was much healthier.  A big old hand developed after Alain Pasqualini had raised under the gun, and Dan Murariu moved in over the top for 18k.  Over to Dalhuijsen, who thought for a moment before moving in over the top!  Too much now for Pasqualini, who folded Tens, and was glad he did – Dalhuijsen showed vs. Murariu’s .

But the flop changed it all – … and up went one and down went the other.

Portugal’s Pedro Guedes may be smiling in this pic, but he was anything but happy when he was eliminated just now.  The preflop raiser had called his threebet all in with a speculative , up against his .  When the raiser hit a pair, the proverbial hit the fan, with an explosive series of phrases which it was probably good I couldn’t understand, as he stood up, threw his headphones on the table and then picked them up and stormed out.

The rest of the table dissolved into bemused smiles – they’ve seen every kind of outdraw before, and this one, well, it’s a 6/10.

Alain Pasqualini finds his stack slashed and looking felt-wards after getting in a preflop raising confrontation with Trifon Kaburov.  This ended with them all in, and Kaburov’s leading Pasqualini’s pocket Jacks.  No help from the board and suddenly there’s a new stack among the leaders.

And it’s off to the nightclubs of Golden Sands for Sebastian Skuja, he had his cracked by on a board.

Meanwhile Stelian Georgiev looks very depressed after his was forced to chop with Ivaivo Yordanov’s on a board.