2023 EAPT Bucharest

�560 Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info

2023 EAPT Bucharest

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
ak
Prize
€36,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€560
Prize Pool
€223,560
Entries
486
Level Info
Level
29
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
160,000
Players Info - Day 1b
Entries
97
Players Left
15

Alexandru Mitracu Bags the Day 1b Chip Lead

Level 14 : Blinds 3,000/5,000, 5,000 ante
Alexandru Mitracu
Alexandru Mitracu

Fifteen players qualified for Day 2 out of a total field of 97 entrants on Day 1a of the 2023 �560 Eurasian Poker Tour Main Event at 888poker Room in Bucharest. This last sentence could be copied and pasted for Day 1b, because once again, 15 players made it through to Day 2 out of 97 entrants.

On this very quick second flight of the tournament (two levels fewer than on Day 1a), Alexandru Mitracu ended up as the chip leader with 455,000 chips. But it was a close call because Ran Shahar, in the lead the whole day, bagged 440,000, so he's only trailing by three big blinds.

The difference was made after the last break, after which Shahar lost a few pots while Mitracu won a big one. "I had pocket treys in the under-the-gun position on a deuce-deuce-trey-ten-jack board against the cutoff and the big blind," he explained at the end of the day. "Everybody checked the flop; then I bet 16,000 on the turn. The cutoff raised to 43,000, and I called. On the river, he bet, I raised all in, and he went into the tank for five minutes. He called with king-ten".

End of Day 1b Chip Counts

RankPlayerCountryChip CountBig Blinds
1Alexandru MitracuRomania455,00091
2Ran ShaharIsrael440,00088
3Stefan NecsanuRomania374,00075
4John FourBulgaria355,00071
5Milovan DinovicSerbia349,00070
6Cristian SanduRomania280,00056
7Andrei CiucaRomania279,00056
8Stefan GheorgheRomania266,00053
9Alain El-HajjLebanon253,00051
10Alexandru MateiRomania194,00039

Stefan Necsanu bagged in third place with 374,000, closely followed by Serbia's Milovan Dinovic (349,000). Andrei Ciuca (279,000), Alain El-Hajj (253,000) and Alexandru Matei (194,000) ended the day with smaller stacks, but still big enough to be close to the average.

Nobody had very short stacks anyway, as the shortest ones �� Gheorghe Velcea (117,000) and Dmitri Dudakov (124,000) �� still have more than 20 blinds.

Alain El-Hajj
Alain El-Hajj

Tomorrow, Friday, November 10, the first part of the �560 EAPT Main Event will come to an end with the last two flights. Day 1c will begin at 2 p.m. local time and play 40-minute levels down to the final 15 percent of the field. Then, Day 1d will begin at 8 p.m., with 25-minute levels.

Stay tuned as PokerNews follows all the action until a champion is crowned.

Tags: Alain El-HajjAlexandru MateiAlexandru MitracuAndrei CiucaCristian SanduDmitri DudakovGheorghe StefanGheorghe VelceaJohn FourMilovan DinovicRan ShaharStefan Necsanu