I just put the chips in, and the chips came back to me with interest. But then, it lasted forty hands until the end, and I ran 'pure'. 'For the first fifty hands, maybe, nobody busted. It was from this point that he started running 'super super good,' eliminating two players and securing a big double-up with kings against Butuc's queens when three players remained. 'However, Day 2 was so-so because I was pretty much card dead.' The evolution of his stack can attest to that, as he started Day 2 with 826,000 chips and ended it with 1,045,000, not much more.Ī card-dead player who still managed to reach Day 3 and the final table. 'I had a good end to Day 1c,' he explained. And what a start it was, as he finished Day 1 as the overall chip leader.
However, it turned out he was a bit more talkative when he recalled the start of his tournament. 'I'm tired, but I'm glad,' Ionut Voinea briefly said when PokerNews asked him about his first reaction after he won.
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