Category Day 1E

Level 10: 1,000/2,000 (2,000)
Entries: 210/434

Angelo Mirabella min-raised from under the gun before Marvin Dubau three-bet to 9,000 from the button. Mirabella called and some action took place on the 2♦6♦3♥ flop.

Mirabella checked before Dubau bet 9,000. Mirabella raised to 20,000 before Dubau jammed for more than the 43,500 Dubai had in his stack. Mirabella snap-called but it took about 15 seconds for either player to show their cards.

“I need a five,” said Dubau as he was the first to show.

Angelo Mirabella: 9♥9♣
Marvin Dubau: K♠4♠

No love came for Dubau on either the A♠ turn or the 6♠ river and was short on chips after the hand.

Angelo Mirabella – 100,000
Marvin Dubau – 15,000

Player	Chips	Big Blinds
Richard Brichall	320,000	160
Patrick Schindler	310,000	155
Mike Lange	270,000	135
Nidal Dawoud	255,000	128
Leonardo Romeo	220,000	110
Per Hernstron	220,000	110
Oliver Said	200,000	100
Riccardo Sammut	195,000	98
Steven Smith	195,000	98
Steven Tool	195,000	98
Carmelo Polimeni	188,000	94
Konstantinos Kertikidis	185,000	93
Elton Malaj	185,000	93
Gianluca Pagliaro	185,000	93
Salvatore D’Alessandro	180,000	90
Lege Sayed	175,000	88
Junyu Liu	170,000	85
Salvatore Merendino	165,000	83
Anotny Wastaff	150,000	75
Eric Gorree	140,000	70
Palma Casas	135,000	68
Riccardo Corleone	120,000	60
Scott Wills	116,000	58

Level 10: 1,000/2,000 (2,000)
Entries: 235/434

Florian Ahlmer jammed for 53,000 into a pot of more than 70,000 with the 3♦J♦6♥7♥ on the board after the turn. Clint Jeffery went into the tank before he found a call.

Florian Ahlmer: 9♦8♦
Clint Jeffery: A♦J♥

Ahlmer had all the outs in the world with a flush draw and an open-ended straight draw. There is a saying that sometimes you have too many outs and that was the case for Ahlmer with the blank 3♥ completing the board for Jeffery to win the hand with top pair.

“Good game,” Ahlmer said to Jeffery.

“It’s tricky,” replied Jeffery. “I haven’t played against you yet.”

“Good game,” Ahlmer repeated showing good sportsmanship before leaving the tournament area.

Clint Jeffery – 260,000
Florian Ahlmer – 0

Players are on a 75-minute dinner break. We will update some of the bigger stacks from around the room during the break.

The blinds will increase to 1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 big blind ante. In the meantime, Day 1f will start during the dinner break.

Level 9: 1,000/1,500 (1,500)
Entries: 276/434

Marc Hooghwerff bet 22,000 into a pot of around 30,000 with the 9♥10♥2♠K♦7♠ on the board after the turn. Salvatrice D’Urso went into the tank for about a minute before she called.

Hooghwerff turned over the nuts with a straight with the Q♦J♥ and won the hand after D’Urso mucked her cards.

Salvatrice D’Urso – 90,000
Marc Hooghwerff – 75,000

Late registration is closed for Day 1e of the MPF Grand Event powered by UDSO with a banner field of 434 entries getting into the action to grow the field up to 1,234 entries.

Players that haven’t already found a bag don’t need to stress quite yet as tonight there will be a turbo Day 1f flight at 9 p.m. The last chance saloon is tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. for the turbo Day 1f with Day 2 set to kick off at 4 p.m. on Sunday as well.

Today’s Day 1e will conclude after 13 full blind levels of 40 minutes each. Tonight’s Day 1f and tomorrow’s Day 1g work a little differently as the tournament staff will calculate what percentage of the field advanced during each of the first few opening flights with the action concluding when the field is trimmed down to a similar percentage.

Best of luck to all Grand Event players in finding a bag.

Level 8: 600/1,200 (1,200)
Entries: 291/428

William Kassouf has been unusually quietly battling in the Grand Event. The grind part isn’t the unusual part, but the usual banter and “nine-high like a boss” and “coconuts” aren’t in the repertoire today.

Kassouf explained that may have enjoyed last night’s players’ party on Level 22 and shared he is “severely hungover.”

His stack is hungover too as it is down from the 50,000 starting stack to just 12,500.

“What will you do if you bust, will you get back in tonight?” Kassouf.

“I need to see how I feel,” Kassouf replied. “I am extremely hungover and will either hop back in today or tomorrow morning.”

A quiet hungover Kassouf leads to a hungover and small stack. Let’s see what tomorrow (or later today) might bring for Kassouf when he feels more himself.

Level 8: 600/1,200 (1,200)
Entries: 304/427

Giordano Contu opened from early position and was called by Giuseppe Gallo from one seat over before Pal Hatteberg three-bet shoved for a little more than 20,000. Contu came in over the top for a four-bet jam for 64,500 before Gallo went into the tank for a couple of minutes. Eventually, Gallo came along for the ride as well for a three-way showdown.

Pal Hatteberg: A♦Q♦
Giordano Contu: Q♣Q♠
Giuseppe Gallo: 10♥10♦

Contu got out of his seat before he celebrated with his queens running clean on the 4♥3♦6♥2♦9♣ board. Hatteberg was out of chips, while Gallo’s stack got much shorter.

Giordano Contu – 155,000
Giuseppe Gallo – 45,000
Pal Hatteberg – 0