Nine Romanians Remain in Opening Event
Level 8
: 400/800, 800 ante
The �230 Opening Event is down to the last nine hopefuls and all of them are from Romania.
Seat 1: Nicolae Popa
Seat 2: Ionut Decher
Seat 3: Viorel Gavrila
Seat 4: Igor Pirnau
Seat 5: Narcis Gabriel Nedelcu
Seat 6: Bogdan Sirbu
Seat 7: Florin Rotila
Seat 8: Marius Soare
Seat 9: Sorin Radulescu
Radulescu is still in the lead by some margin, while Manfred Sierke was the last non-Romanian to bust in 11th place. Sierke was all in for around 13 big blinds with 
versus 
and an ace-king high flop crushed the hopes of the Canadian.
The current average stack is at 20 big blinds and the lion's share of the �56,400 prize pool still up for grabs.