Saturday, October 10, 2015 7:12 PM Local Time
The bubble has burst for Day 1C. Unfortunately, the name of the bubble boy will remain unknown, as two all-ins took place on two separate tables, all while hundreds of players were pouring into the room for Day 1D.
Jenas Tehrani is the one who does the knocking out, though, shrinking the field to 63 players. On the hand in question, Tehrani is involved in three-way action on the turn of a board. He bets 8,500 into a sidepot of about 9,000, coaxing one fold and leaving him heads up against the at-risk short stack.
Tehrani:
Opponent:
The all-in player is drawing slim, and an ace on the river isn't enough to get him over the hump. The short stack is eliminated, but there's still a hand in progress at another table.
Over there, Adrian Apmann is all-in for his last 27,000 with , and he's in bad shape against an opponent with . Apmann finds an on the river, though, doubling up with just minutes left in Day 1C.
Three more hands are dealt at each table, and the bags come out for the 54 survivors. Here are those who finished in the money, but did not survive the end-of-day rush:
55th: Thomas Marz (€885)
56th: Thomas Barbeler (€885)
57th: Marco Spano (€885)
58th: Pascal Pfeifer (€885)
59th: Viacheslav Igin (€885)
60th: Noah Bronstein (€885)
61st: Andre Ostrovski (€885)
62nd: Tony Ranis (€885)
63rd: Tomas Vogelr (€885)
The list of those who did bag up chips is available in the "Reports" tab.
The room is already being reset for the final flight, and Day 1D begins momentarily.
The Mystery Bubble Boy
Saturday, October 10, 2015 6:17 PM Local Time
More than 450 players have already registered for tonight's flight, and Day 1D will begin just a few minutes after Day 1C bags up for the evening.
Saturday, October 10, 2015 6:13 PM Local Time
Level: 15
Blinds: 1,200/2,400
Ante: 400
Saturday, October 10, 2015 6:10 PM Local Time
Level 15 is closing in. This will be the last level of Day 1C and the field is now two eliminations away from the money.
The average stack is now 42,461 and only two minutes are left before the last level of the day.
Don't fret though; there's plenty more poker to be played with the start of Day 1D less than an hour away.
Saturday, October 10, 2015 5:56 PM Local Time
The player under the gun opens to 4,500, and the hijack calls. From the cutoff, Nicolas Fraioli moves all-in for 14,700. The hijack calls, showing .
Fraioli tables , but the board comes to send Fraioli out just shy of the money bubble.
Nicolas Fraioli - Eliminated
Saturday, October 10, 2015 5:54 PM Local Time
If you are planing to play the last flight of the WSOPE Oktoberfest tonight, it is probably a good idea to arrive in advance and buy-in as soon as possible, as more than 400 entries have already been ticketed.
More than 600 players are expected, and queuing could be an issue at the start of play.
At the moment, there are 70 players left in Day 1C with 63 places paid.
Saturday, October 10, 2015 5:43 PM Local Time
Level: 14
Blinds: 1000/2000
Ante: 300
Saturday, October 10, 2015 5:39 PM Local Time
Just now, local hero and former chipleader, "Papino" raises to 6,800 from the small blind and gets three-bet all-in by the big blind for 16,900 chips in total. "Papino" makes the call and finds out he is dominated with his against the big blind's .
Both players pair the queen on the river, but the big blind's kicker plays, and "Papino" is now down to a still-comfortable stack of 72,000.
At the same table, Steve O'Dwyer has dropped to 19,000 and he lays in waiting for a good spot to move his 12 big blinds.
Saturday, October 10, 2015 5:38 PM Local Time
Adrian Apmann is sitting pretty with a stack of 60,000 chips, good for 60 big blinds at this level. The winner of a WSOP bracelet earlier this year, Apmann has not been encountering much resistance at his table, and he's now closing in on an in-the-money finish.
Saturday, October 10, 2015 5:18 PM Local Time
The first of the final three levels begins with 82 players remaining.
Saturday, October 10, 2015 5:13 PM Local Time
Level: 13
Blinds: 800/1600
Ante: 200
Saturday, October 10, 2015 4:51 PM Local Time
As the last hand of Level 12 is on its way, players are leaving the tournament area for one last 20-minute before play resumes to burst the bubble.
Saturday, October 10, 2015 4:48 PM Local Time
A player known as "Papino" is one of the many Berlin regulars that showed up today for this third flight of the WSOPE Oktoberfest. With 105,000 chips near the end of Level 12, he is leading the 84-man field with blinds soon going up to 800/1,600 featuring a running ante of 200.
The current average stack is 32,857.
Saturday, October 10, 2015 4:37 PM Local Time
We have dropped below the 100-player mark in the Day 1C field. Only 91 are left. The bubble is getting closer with 63 places paid this afternoon. The first cashes are worth € 885.
Saturday, October 10, 2015 4:24 PM Local Time
Manig Loeser is up to 70,000.
In a first leap, a player opens to 3,000 with pocket nines before Manig Loeser re-raises to 7,500 with two aces. The initial raiser shoves for more than 15,000, and Loeser calls and takes down the pot after a clean run-out.
A short while later, he increases his stack by 15,000 again by raising a player all-in with and gets paid off by his opponent's . Loeser's hand holds strong, giving him the final boost up to his current count of 70,000.
Saturday, October 10, 2015 4:23 PM Local Time
Level: 12
Blinds: 600/1200
Ante: 200
Saturday, October 10, 2015 4:11 PM Local Time
After a raise to 4,000, the Enghien-les-Bains WSOPE champion from Madrid decides to put his 5,600-chip stack to work on a three-bet shove with . His bet is called by the initial raiser, who has .
The flop comes , giving Mateos a big lead with the come-from-behind set of eights. The turn is the blank , but the river brings one of the two last outs in the deck that could bust Adrian Mateos, the . He is eliminated.
Adrian Mateos - Eliminated
Saturday, October 10, 2015 4:06 PM Local Time
With a little more than ten big blinds, Darko Stojanovic (pictured) has been eliminated from Day 1C.
A player opens to 2,500 in middle position, and Stojanovic calls on the button. Nicolas Guilloux shoves from the small blind, and the initial raiser folds. Stojanovic tank-calls after three minutes of deliberation.
Guilloux shows , and Stojanovic is flipping for his tournament life with . The board comes , and the former bracelet winner is eliminated.
Nicolas Guilloux - 58,000
Darko Stojanovic - Eliminated
Saturday, October 10, 2015 3:54 PM Local Time
Level: 11
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 100
Saturday, October 10, 2015 3:48 PM Local Time
Chips and cards keep flying at the Berlin Spielbank with only 144/552 players left near the end of Level 10. The final 63 will make the money this afternoon.
With the field shrinking quickly, chip counts are in the process of being updated as access to the tightly-packed tables improves.