Since losing THAT pot to Martin Jacobson, Alexandre Reard has been nursing a short stack. Those chips now have doubled in amount thanks to a double up through, ironically, Jacobson.
Jacobson opened to 40,000 in early position and the players folded around to Reard in the small blind. Reard announced he was all-in for 245,000 in total and this folded out Timothy Reilly and Vojtech Ruzicka. Jacobson was next to act and he called.
Jacobson:
Reard:
A great time to find Big Slick as it had Jacobson's hand dominated. Neither player paired up on a board, but Reard's king-kicker came into play and was enough to double him up.
Alexandre Reard's comeback is complete after he got lucky to double up again.
The Frenchman opened to 40,000 from under the gun and the action folded all the way around to Steven Silverman in the big blind. He stared at Reard's stack and then raised enough to set set him in for his 448,000 stack. Reard mumbled something in French and called.
The PokerStars.fr High Roller event was originally scheduled to be a two-day event but after those two days and 21 levels of action it will roll over to a third day tomorrow.
A total of 51 players returned today and they were joined by two new entries meaning 53 players out of the 85 total were in attendance. By the end of the day Martin Jacobson finished top of the remaining six with 1,299,000 chips, and best in with a chance of claiming the €313,000 top prize.
All the remaining players will sleep well tonight as they know they are guaranteed a minimum €47,500. Here's the remaining six and how they stand coming back for day 3:
Seat
Player
Chips
1
Steven Silverman
353,000
2
Alexandre Reard
943,000
3
Timothy Reilly
823,000
4
Vojtech Ruzicka
1,051,000
5
Martin Jacobson
1,299,000
6
Bryn Kenney
472,000
One player who won't sleep well tonight was the unfortunate bubble boy. Tibor Nagygyorgy shoved his short stack in with ace-ten but ran into two players behind him pocket jacks and pocket aces. Adrian Mateos had the jacks and was also eliminated in the hand but min cashed by virtue of having the larger stack.
Play will resume at 1pm CET tomorrow where the latest High Roller champion of EPT Season 9 will be decided.
board, but Reard's king-kicker came into play and was enough to double him up.
to make Reard two pair.
