Category Day 1A

Level 11: 3,000/5,000 (5,000)
Entries: 34/177

There are several women remaining in the Day 1a field but none that has a better stack than Indre Stanaityte with 548,000. While we got to meet Stanaityte a couple of nights ago for the first time, we appreciate her fun sense of humor.

Stanaityte didn’t immediately share how she got her stack up but one of her table mates piped up and shared she won a big pot with ace-queen against ace-eight.

Meanwhile, Baris Topuz also has a big stack at the same table with near 400,000 in chips. Topuz recently ousted a short-stacked Torsten Riedl after his A♠A♥ more than held against Riedl’s K♠Q♠

Level 12: 3,000/6,000 (6,000)
Entries: 37/177

The action is just 10 players away from ending the day after Kevin Quinlan eliminated Colin Cooper as follows.

Cooper opened for 15,000 from early position before Quinlan jacked it up to 54,000 from the big blind. Cooper four-bet shoved for a little bit more and Quinlan snap-called.

Colin Cooper: A♠K♠
Kevin Quinlan: J♣J♦

Quinlan won the flip after his opponent bricked the 8♣7♠9♦7♣4♥ run while Cooper hit the rail after a deep run on Day 1a.

Kevin Quinlan – 240,000
Colin Cooper – 0

Level 11: 3,000/5,000 (5,000)
Entries: 41/177

Paul Carr was among the players to enter during the dinner break. He may not have won a car, but instead won a big flip. Carr committed his 16 big blind stack from early position against Anthony Bone from the big blind.

Paul Carr: A♣Q♥
Anthony Bone: J♦J♥

Carr connected with his queen on the 4♠K♥Q♠6♣4♥ runout to stay alive and double his stack.

Paul Carr – 170,000
Anthony Bone – 80,000

Level 10: 2,000/4,000 (4,000)
Entries: 49/174

Level 11: 3,000/5,000 (5,000)
Entries: 49/177

Dara O’Kearney entered at the last moment for his second bullet of Day 1a but unfortunately, this didn’t go to plan for the poker author and The Chip Race cohost.

Remko Meijer jammed for 15 big blinds from late position before O’Kearney called off his starting stack from the big blind.

Dara O’Kearney: A♣10♦
Remko Meijer: A♦K♣

Ace-ten didn’t get there on the K♦6♦7♥Q♣5♣ runout and O’Kearney will have to try again during one of the other five opening flights for a chance to advance to Day 2 and beyond.

Remko Meijer – 135,000
Dara O’Kearney – 0

Level 11: 3,000/5,000 (5,000)
Entries: 53/177

A handful of new players hopped into the field before the action resumed from the dinner break. The field grew to 177 entries with 53 players remaining.

The Day 1a action will conclude when 27 players are remaining, each of which will be in the money. This could turn out to be less if multiple players hit the rail during the final hand of the day.

Best of luck to all of the players in their hunt for a bag on Day 1a.

Player	Chips	Big Blinds
Baris Topuz	436,000	87
Johannes Grootelaar	369,000	74
Hendrik Remmerde	365,000	73
Liutauras Armanavicius	363,000	73
Michele Adamo	350,000	70
Daniel Sahlin	340,000	68
Adam Milewski	299,000	60
Elvijs Kuceruks	297,000	59
Ian Gascoigne	294,000	59
Fabian Biel	287,000	57
James Ablott	268,000	54
Tanguy Pellerin	265,000	53
Alessandro D’Amore	261,000	52
David Pitule	230,000	46
Danas Dambrauskas	210,000	42
Indre Stanaityte	207,000	41
Bartilomiej Grabowski	206,000	41
Boban Stevanovic	198,000	40
Janet Kosloff	196,000	39
Martyn Frey	192,000	38
Oliver Said	186,000	37
Laila Hawaszadeh	169,000	34
Kevin Quinlan	155,000	31
Anca Eggenberger	147,000	29
James Clarke	144,000	29
Daniel Henriques	144,000	29
Anthony Steven Bone	140,000	28
Jan Scheldorf	131,000	26
Ronald Gijtenbeek	120,000	24
Sebastian Mortensen	120,000	24
Billy Silvertsson	120,000	24
Moritz Nedden	118,000	24
Colin Cooper	105,000	21
Daniel Kalinowski	104,000	21
Ian Tabone	104,000	21
Daniel Maunders	100,000	20
Mark Cornwell	93,000	19
Stefan Eggenberger	91,000	18
Rimko Meijer	90,000	18
Nial Mullally	86,000	17
Danny Smith	85,000	17
Marcus Larsson	84,000	17
Marcos Perez Padron	77,000	15
Samuel Goodman	76,000	15
Andrzej Marczykowski	76,000	15
Torsten Riedl	72,000	14
Paul Fisher	57,000	11
Raymond Muster	37,000	7
Matthew Gray	36,000	7
Lennart Bernett	1,000	0

Players are about to go on a one-hour dinner break in a few minutes. Late registration will close after the break at which point in time we will know how many players Day 1a will play down to.

We will also update the full chip counts from the field just before the action resumes.

The final event of the day in the €70 satellite to the €550 Grand Event just kicked off with already 75 entries in the field. This will grow with 10 levels of late registration.

Meanwhile, the €230 HORSE hosted by Jeanne David has reached 27 entries and counting. Melissa Moore, Anne-Marie Yuen, Martin “Franke” von Zweigbergk, David Lappin, and Antoine Degiorgio are among the players to recently join the action.

Level 10: 2,000/4,000 (4,000)
Entries: 58/174

Daan Hoeben four-bet shoved his stack of 93,000 and was up against Baris Topuz.

Daan Hoeben: A♣K♦
Baris Topuz: A♥A♠

The 7♠10♥J♠3♣8♦ board didn’t push big slick past pocket rockets for Topuz to stake claim to Hoeben’s stack.

Baris Topuz – 260,000
Daan Hoeben – 0