In an interesting twist, the two big stacks of the Main Event have been placed right next to each other. Ameed Khalil and Gytis Lazauninkas have 5 Million chips combined – the Italian holds 2.8m and the Lithauanian 2.2m. Meanwhile, Lazauninkas is multitabling – at least sort of. While playing the Main Event he’s also…
Level 20: 6,000/12,000 (12,000) Entries: 88/1,992 Tomasz Kokoszka just eliminated Shmuel Hadad by hitting a two-outer on the river. The two players were all-in before the flop and Hadad had Kokoszka crushed with Kings against Kings. The dealer fanned a low board but dealt a queen on the river, sending this 500k Kokoszka’s way, and…
Level 20: 6,000/12,000 (12,000) Entries: 95/1,992 Itay Cahana was among the recent players to hit the rail. He got it in good but sometimes this doesn’t matter, especially in this case when his opponent Victor Fryda had tons of equity. Cahana checked the flop before Fryda fired out for 45,000 into a pot of a…
Level 19: 6,000/12,000 (12,000) Entries: 96/1,992 In an Italian battle at Table 15, WSOP Bracelet winner Dario Minieri prevailed victorious against his countryman Sebastiano Caruso. Minieri opened from middle position to 24k. In the blinds, Caruso called. Flop: – both players checked. Turn: – Caruso checked, Minieri bet 18k and Caruso called. River: – Caruso…
After the first four levels of the day, we lost a whopping 200 players. 99 remain and all of them are guaranteed €1,550 already. Here are all the cashes so far: 100 Carsten Mawick €1,550 101 Christos Paparistodemou €1,550 102 Mariano Bucca €1,550 103 Giuseppe Dedoni €1,550 104 Phedonas Phinicarides €1,550 105 Alessio Mastrosimone €1,550…
While the players were on the second break of the day, we eyeballed the biggest stacks in the room. So far it looks like, Matteo La Fata is way ahead of the competition as only player with more than 2m chips. Name Chips Big Blinds Ameed Khalil 2,450,000 204 Antoine Talvard 1,800,000 150 Gytis Lazauninkas…
Players are on their second break of Day 2. We will update the chip counts of the big stacks at the break. Blinds will increase to 6,000/12,000 with a 12,000 big blind ante when the action resumes in 20 minutes.
Level 19: 5,000/10,000 (10,000) Entries: 101/1,992 After losing the huge hand against Erez Hen, Giuseppe Dedoni was down to only a few big blinds. He just lost those in a preflop all-in against Shaun Decesare. After a raise and reraise both were all-in and Dedoni was – once more – behind in the match-up. Giuseppe…
Level 19: 5,000/10,000 (10,000) Entries: 107/1,992 Some hands are easily described: Player A has aces, and player B has kings. Both are aggressive. One raises, the other re-raises, and – lo and behold – both are all-in. This just happened at table 10 with Erez Hen having the aces and Giuseppe Dedoni having the kings.…
Level 19: 5,000/10,000 (10,000) Entries: 115/1,992 We learned that Khalil Ameed doubled up with a straight to soar past 2 million in chips. Shortly after, he gave a few back. Samuel Marseiler got his last 120,000 into the pot and was up against Ameed. Samuel Marseiler: Khalil Ameed: Marseiller improved to two pair on the…