Unibet Open Bucharest: Gabriel Gavrila leads Biggest Ever Unibet Open

It was indeed a record-breaking day at the Unibet Open Bucharest festival inside the JW Marriott Bucharest Grand Hotel, as once again the Grand Ballroom was bursting with players.

All tables were used for Day 1b of the €1,100 Main Event and after registration had closed, a massive field of 367 entrants took part on Day 1b to boost the overall attendance to 603 participants, shattering the previous record of 460 entries. The 603 players created a prize pool of €584,910. The payouts will be announced when the action resumes as of 12 p.m. local time for Day 2 and 156 hopefuls are still in contention.

After 63 players had bagged up on Day 1a, another 93 made it through today and local player Gabriel Gavrila (lead photo) amassed a monster stack of 432,000. He’s followed by Alexandre de Zutter, who consistently built his stack over on table one and even cracked the aces of Mihai Manole with ace-king to bag up 382,000. Dan Ionut Hila follows in third place with 291,500 while other big stacks include Eugen Chiva (267,000), EPT12 Grand Final €25,750 High Roller champion Alexandru Papazian (232,500) and Jozsef Liszkovics (219,000).

Joni Liimatta also made it into the top 10 after the second starting day and the Finn is on track to possibly win back-to-back Unibet Open titles after already …

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