Smart Poker Tour #5 Day 1A (LIVE REPORT)

 

🌟 End of day 1A

Jan 26 – 22:30

Day 1A of the €250,000GTD Main Event is already in the books.

The tournament with a buy-in of €550 attracted a whopping 270 entries with 63 players moving forward to day 2.

Chip leader is Tiberiu Eduard from Romania with a stack of 337,000 chips.

Full chip count:

	Player	Country	Chips
1	Tiberiu Eduard	Romania	337000
2	Alexandru Ionita	Romania	320500
3	Andrei Alexandru	Romania	310000
4	Andrei Gabriel	Romania	296500
5	Silviu Baltateanu	Romania	296000
6	Narcis Nedelcu	Romania	285500
7	Daniel Tudorie	Romania	242500
8	Denis Marinov	Bulgaria	235000
9	Stefan Aurelian	Romania	232000
10	Miroslav Gochev	Romania	219000
11	Itay Itzhaky	Israel	218000
12	Tiberiu Onut	Romania	198500
13	Sorin Duta	Romania	197500
14	Valeri Savov	Bulgaria	192000
15	Vlad Diaconu	Romania	189000
16	Razvan Costinel	Romania	180000
17	Marian Cristian	Romania	171500
18	Eduard Paraschiv	Romania	170000
19	Pavel Ion Vescu	Romania	166500
20	Daniel Curea	Romania	155000
21	Alexis Tsaousidis	Greece	154500
22	Avraham Sisso	Israel	151000
23	Veselin Petrov	Bulgaria	150000
24	Ben Benyamin	Israel	147500
25	Radu Munteanu	Romania	133000
26	Viorel Curea	Romania	128500
27	Sorin Neagoe	Romania	123000
28	Alexandru Sautner	Romania	123000
29	Robert Mihai	Romania	118000
30	Dragos Piele	Romania	117000
31	Ivailo Evtimov	Bulgaria	115000
32	Kristiyan Kostov	Bulgaria	112500
33	Anatolii Halca	Romania	111500
34	Hojoon Choi	USA	103500
35	Simeon Ivanov	Bulgaria	102500
36	Dan Cristian	Romania	101000
37	Luigi Zurio	Italy	95000
38	Plamen Yordanov	Bulgaria	93500
39	Anonymous	Romania	92000
40	Constantin Visan	Romania	90500
41	Calin Stefan	Romania	76000
42	Stefan Hurjui	Romania	76000
43	Corneliu Catalin	Romania	76000
44	Ferdoussi Mohamed	Iran	74000
45	Ionut Flavius	Romania	70500
46	Veselin Pavlov	Bulgaria	70000
47	Roey Krofman	Israel	67000
48	Cosmin Constantin	Romania	67000
49	Dumitru Robert	Romania	65000
50	Alexandru Budai	Romania	63500
51	Andrei Stoenescu	Romania	59500
52	Bogdan Alexandru	Romania	56500
53	Danut Titu	Romania	55500
54	Ionut Alexandru	Romania	54500
55	Petru Moraru	Romania	51500
56	Aharon Arbeli	Romania	50500
57	Robert Catalin	Romania	50500
58	Shlomo Swissa	Israel	43500
59	Robert Andrei	Romania	40500
60	Stefan Claudiu	Romania	36500
61	Eduard Florin	Romania	34500
62	Fabian Hagen	Germany	34500
63	Petre Bogdan	Romania	8500

Average stack: 128,571 chips.

Day 1B starts tomorrow at 2:00PM and our live report will continue then!

Good luck on the tables!

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⏳ Last level of the day

Jan 26 – 22:00

We are now in the last level of day 1A. There are 78 players left out of 270 entries.

Top 10 in chips:

1. Andrei Alexandru – Romania – 270,000
2. Miroslav Gochev – Bulgaria – 185,000
3. Sorin Robert – Romania – 160,000
4. Alexandru Ionita – Romania – 150,000
5. Avraham Sisso – Israel – 150,000
6. Itay Itzhaky – Israel – 150,000
7. Alexandru Sautner – Romania – 145,000
8. Viorel Curea – Romania – 130,000
9. Kristian Kostov – Bulgaria – 130,000
10. Denis Marinov – Bulgaria – 125,000

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📸 Bulgarian group – photos

Jan 26 – 20:30

Sotir Gochev

Emil Trenkov

Plamen Yordanov

Viktor Filipov

Yassen Dichev

Denis Marinov

Viktor Poshtadzhiev

Danail Balkanski

Simeon Ivanov

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📸 Day 1A photos

Jan 26 – 20:20

 

Check out the Facebook page of Smart Poker Tour for more photos.

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⏳ Level 11

Jan 26 – 20:10

We are currently at the start of level 11. Blinds: 700/1400/1400.

There are currently 118 players in day 1A, out of 264 entries.

Top 15 players:

1. Razvan Constantinescu – Romania – 127,500
2. Bogdan Mihail – Romania – 84,000
3. Alexandru Sautner – Romania – 81,000
4. Dragos Stefan – Romania – 80,200
5. Luigi Zurlo – Italy – 75,000
6. Avraham Sisso – Israel – 75,000
7. Stefan Aurelian – Romania – 73,300
8. Eduard Paraschiv – Romania – 68,00
9. Ben Benyamin – Israel – 68,000
10. Patrick Raymond – France – 67,500
11. Yassen Dichev – Bulgaria – 65,600
12. Ivailo Evtimov – Bulgaria – 64,000
13. Radu Munteanu – Romania – 63,200
14. Mert Tozlu – Turkey – 58,000
15. Stefan Hurjui – Romania – 57,100

Average stack: 67,373

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📸 PHOTOS

Jan 26 – 20:00

This is it! The moment you’ve all been waiting for!

Here are some of the official photos from today.

Roger Hairabedian

Carmen Zainescu

Dimitar Kostov

Check out the Facebook page of Smart Poker Tour for more photos.

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📢 Main Event Update

Jan 26 – 18:10

244 entries towards the end of level 7 – 173 in play!

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🌟 Side Event #2

Jan 26 – 18:00

Are you ready for Side Event #2? It starts in about 2 hours!

Pot Limit Omaha tournament:

• Buy-in: €250
• Starting stack: 10,000 chips
• Levels: 20 min

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🏆 And the winner of the Mystery Bounty is…

Jan 26 – 17:10

Dimitar Kostov!

The Bulgarian crushed the field of 131 entries to win the trophy!

Video (in Bulgarian)

There was a 3-way deal between him, Andrew Leathem, and Carmen Zainescu:

1. Dimitar Kostov – Bulgaria – €2,820 + €2,300 in bounties
2. Andrew Leathem – UK – €2,500 + bounties
3. Carmen Zainescu – Romania – €2,300 + bounties

Dimitar Kostov

Heads-up

Final hand

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🌟 The Bulgarian group

Jan 26 – 16:30

With 214 entries in the main event already, there is a massive group of poker players from Bulgaria:

• Yassen Dichev
• Danail Balkanski
• Sotir Gochev
• Miroslav Gochev
• Plamen Yordanov
• Rado L.
• Vladislav Todorov
• Denis Marinov
• Viktor Poshtadzhiev
• Veselin Petrov
• Milen Dimitrov
• Krassimir Borisov
• Dimitar Kukushkov
• Hristo Angelov
• Simeon Ivanov
• Vasil Veselinov
• Lyubomir Ganchev
• Ivailo Evtimov
• Mariyan Todorov
• Emil Trenkov
• Todor Balabanski
• Ivan Petrov
• Simeon Siderov
• Tsvetelin Stefanov
• Viktor Filipov
• Nikolay Stefanov

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😱 Check/raise bluff

Jan 26 – 16:05

We caught the action on the river:

Board: 3TQ3A

Everyone checks and Eduard Stefan from Romania bets 5,300 with 11,000 in the pot. Yassen Dichev from Bulgaria raises to 14,000. Eduard thought for a while and folded AT. Yassen Dichev showed him 97.

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💪 United Kingdom VS France VS Bulgaria VS Romania

Jan 26 – 16:00

Only 4 players left in the Mystery Bounty tournament.

Who will win?

1. Andrew Leathem – UK – 380,000
2. Roger Hairabedian – France – 380,000
3. Dimitar Kostov – Bulgaria – 214,000
4. Carmen Zainescu – Romania – 182,000

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📢 Main Event Update

Jan 26 – 15:40

It’s only level 3 and we already have a total of 187 entries in Day 1A of the €250,000GTD Smart Poker Tour Main Event!

You still have time to join the action and win a share of the massive prize pool!

Gentlemen’s Poker Room is bustling with players and exciting poker action with two ongoing tournaments and cash tables.

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👑 Mystery Bounty Final Table

Jan 26 – 15:10

The final table of the Mystery Bounty tournament is already set:

• Giani Ionut Ifrim – Romania
• Andrew Leathem – UK
• Roger Hairabedian – France
• Dimitar Kostov – Bulgaria
• Carmen Zainescu – Romania
• Lyubomir Ganchev – Bulgaria
• Itzhak Zenati – Israel
• Gal Zuger – Israel
• Hristo Angelov – Bulgaria

Mystery Bounty Finalists

 

Ranking so far:

10. Vladislav Bakalov – Bulgaria – €320

11. Veselin Petrov – Bulgaria – €280

12. Ion Talpan – Romania – €250

13. Miroslav Gochev – Bulgaria – €250

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🏆 118 players starting in Day 1A

Jan 26 – 2:35

Day 1A of the Smart Poker Tour Main event started with 118 participants in play!

We have players from Romania, Bulgaria, Israel, Italy, France, Turkey, Iran, Albania, the United States, Malta, Greece, and Germany.

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💸 And the largest bounty goes to…

Jan 26 – 2:30

The largest mystery bounty worth €3,000 goes to Lyubomir Ganchev from Bulgaria!

He busted Miroslav Gochev – also from Bulgaria – on 13th place (КK over KQ) and got lucky drawing his mystery prize.

Lyubomir Ganchev

 

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📢 Mystery Bounty Updates

Jan 26 – 2:00

While we are waiting for day 1A to start, let’s take a look at the final of Side Event #1: Mystery Bounty.

The tournament with a buy-in of €225 attracted a total of 131 entries, with 26 of them continuing for day 2.

Florian Stavar from Romania was the chip leader at the beginning of the day.

Distribution of the Mystery Bounty prize pool:

• 1 x €3,000
• 2 x €1,650
• 3 x €600
• 10 x €300
• 10 x €200

Official payout structure:

1. €3,570
2. €2,350
3. €1,700
4. €1,200
5. €837
6. €650
7. €500
8. €430
9. €370
10. €320
11. €280
12. €250
13. €250

Chip count at the start of day 2:

1. Florin Stavar – Romania – 500,000
2. Andrew Leathem – UK – 267,000
3. Giani Ionut Ifrim – Romania – 252,500
4. Roger Patrick Hairabedian – France – 249,000
5. Lyubomir Ganchev – Bulgaria – 202,000
6. Carmen Zainescu – Romania – 163,000
7. Howard Wayne – USA – 105,000
8. Veselin Petrov – Bulgaria – 103,500
9. Dimitar Kostov – Bulgaria – 103,500
10. Hristo Angelov – Bulgaria – 98,000
11. Ion Talpan – Romania – 95,000
12. Nikolay Stefanov – Bulgaria – 89,000
13. Vladislav Bakalov – Bulgaria – 87,500
14. Miroslav Gochev – Bulgaria – 76,500
15. Gurban Mamedov – Israel – 72,500
16. Alexandru Dorin – Romania – 70,500
17. Plamen Yordanov – Bulgaria – 68,000
18. Tiberiu Grigore – Romania – 63,500
19. Raul Ilyaev – Israel – 63,000
20. Itzhak Zenati – Israel – 61,000
21. Iulian Acsinte – Romania – 60,500
22. Shay Aldorf – Israel – 51,000
23. George Valentin – Romania – 47,000
24. Gal Zuger – Israel – 44,000
25. Sorin Pacala – Romania – 39,500
26. Paul Mark – Malta – 32,000

Currently we are IN THE MONEY, as there are 13 players left.

 

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🌟 Let’s go!

Jan 26 – 1:30

Hello and welcome to Day 1A of the Smart Poker Tour Main Event!

The 5th edition of the poker festival is held from Jan 25 to Jan 29 in the Romanian capital – Bucharest, hosted by Alex Cretu Events and Gentlemen’s Poker Club – Bucharest.

Day 1A of the €250,000 GTD Main Event is set to begin at 2:00 PM today. The tournament has a buy-in of €500 and a total of 3 starting days.

Players start with 30,000 chips and the levels change every 30 mins. Format: unlimited re-entry.

Full schedule of the festival:

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