Josep Maria Galindo Lopez lost half of his stack but rivered a straight with to double back to 300,000. Joachim Lob will have to do so also, as he is down to around 130,000 and seemingly unhappy with how things went thus far.
Another Swiss however is thriving, and that's Francois Evard next to Lob. He defended the big blind against Sergi Monferrer and check-called a bet of 14,000 on the flop. On the turn, Evard check-shoved into a bet worth 40,000 and Monferrer called for 109,500 with the . Evard had and completed a full house on the river to double up.
Guillem Cusco Bach was not able to spin up his short stack and busted at the end of the previous level. There are now 123 players remaining, which means 20 hopefuls already busted in the first level.
[Removed:204] finished third in the �100+10 The Breeze which went through an extra day at noon, and then saw his hopes of a deep run in the Opening Event destroyed by the run good of Oriol Balaguer Roman.
Facundo Santasusana got it in with against the of Balaguer Roman and the board came . Soon after, Kleber da Silva also sent his stack over to Balaguer Roman, who moved up to massive 600,000 in chips.
The eliminations keep on coming and almost 20 players were eliminated. Among them was also Juha Salminen, who got it in with against the of Felipe Campins Gomez. The board came and that was it for the Finn. He had 2,000 left after the hand and busted straight after.
Aleksei Istomin doubled early with ace-six before losing a small all in. Then, Sandro Hauser doubled with against the of Francisco Blazquez Gallego on a board of before sending his very opponent to the rail soon after.
This time, it was Blazquez Gallego all in and at risk with ace-king, and Hauser had him dominated with . The board came and the Spaniard was gone.
Last but not least, Jordi Marcos Fernandez held up with against the of Alexander Beresnev on table 15 as well to send the Russian to the rail.
Ruben Tack raised from under the gun and Jose Ivan Frias Marrero defended his big blind before check-raising the flop. Tack shoved with ace-jack and found himself up against . The turn and river failed to improve the Belgian and he was eliminated.
A total of 720 entries created a prize pool of �138,240 and the top 81 spots will receive a share of it with the minimum cash being worth �400, while the winner can look forward to a payday of �25,000 and the 888Live Festival winner's trophy.
In one of the first hands of the day, a raising war broke out between Gerard Lleixa Aledo in the small blind Tuomas Ranta in the big blind. The latter ended up all in with the versus on the flop and saw the board complete with the turn and river to become one of the first casualties.