Markus Heikkila Leads After Day 1a at the Unibet Open Bucharest

The first of two starting days of the €1,100 Unibet Open Bucharest Main Event attracted a total field of 236 entries to put the tournament well on track to meet the guarantee of €500,000 and set a record for the tour.

So far, that stands at 460 entries back in Budapest 2010 when Anthon-Pieter Wink claimed the title and a payday of €172,500.

Registration closed at the start of level seven after the dinner break, and after 11 levels of 60 minutes each, only 63 hopefuls bagged up chips with Markus Heikkila in the lead with 322,000.

The Swede was among the biggest stacks for most of the last few levels and turned a full house in the last hands of the night with a pair of treys to get paid off by Vasile Paul Plastoi, who then himself doubled through Anton Haegglund and advanced with 190,000.

In second place after Day 1a is Heikkila’s countryman Jakob Linden (287,000), while William Hens (285,000), Eli Heath (250,000), Aldo Monteleone (232,500), Gheorghe Caplescu (202,000) and Tristan Guiodo (178,500) all claimed big stacks as well.

Hens was …

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