Gennady Menshikov was the player who had previously doubled up Jean-Philippe Piquette and just got the remainder of his 10,000 or-so stack in preflop with 
. Joey Weissmann looked him up out of the big blind with 
and the board ran out 
.
Michael Telker continued his very active playing style and won some chips before getting it in preflop with pocket queens against pocket kings. The river was a queen and the American only needs one more double up to get back above starting stack. Below that is now Seth Berger, who got moved to the same table.
Emil Mattsson won a €1,000 Speed Tournament at the Master Classics of Poker in Amsterdam last week for € 30,165 and just sat down in the Corinthia hotel for Day 1a of the WPT National Prague.
It took only 10 minutes for Chris Hunichen to become the chip leader on Day 1a after sitting down at the start of level three. It was a preflop raising war with fellow American Michael Telker that saw the latter getting into the showdown with pocket eights. Hunichen was all in and at risk for 33,550 with 
and doubled up with the board running out 
.
The details of the elimination escaped us, but Iori Yogo's seat is empty. The Japanese only started the third level with eight big blinds and couldn't spin it up anymore. He will be back tomorrow for Day 1b though and now has time to discover the city, as it is the first trip to Europe for Yogo.
Jonathan Little got moved away from his original table and now faces Chris Hunichen and Michael Telker. The latter bet 4,750 into Little on a flop of 
and was called before moving all in after the 
turn. Little would have had to invest half of his stack and instead mucked the cards.
It was a preflop all in between Alex Goulder and George Khoury with the Brit looking forward to reaching the starting stack once again. However, his 
got cracked by the 
of Khoury on a board of 
.
Joining the action on the 
turn, Joey Weissman bet 2,100 and Marvin Rettenmaier called before both players checked down the 
on the river. The German revealed and that was good enough to claim the pot.
Level: 3
Blinds: 75/150
Ante: 25
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