It has been a good run for Team OlyBet pros with three players in and none of them requiring a re-entry to make it to Day 2. However, there is one less pro in the field after Estonia's Carmen-Elina Vist just hit the rail.
She shared with that a player under the gun limped and two players called including Vist before a raise took place. The under the gun limper jammed with aces and Vist with 30,000 behind tanked for a few minutes before she called with king-jack.
The board was of no help to Vist and her Main Event came to an end. She also shared she misread what her opponent might have had when she made the call taking the initial limp for weakness.
The two other Team OlyBet pros Dmitrijs Meless and Raigo Aasmaa are both still alive, although Meless is in better shape chip wise with 123,000 at least count.
Teemu Aukusti Toikkanen, with about 42,000 in chips, opened up for 5,000 from under the gun. Janis Saulitis with about the same stack from one seat over called. The action folded to Joonas Eero Helin in the big blind who with about 30,000 in chips called.
It appeared the action was going to be tame after both Helin and Toikkanen check on the flop. Saulitis thought for a few moments before betting 9,000. Helin snap-announced himself to be all-in. Just as quickly, Toikkanen folded and Saulitis called.
Saulitis was in excellent shape with top pair and a flush draw holding , while Helin needed a world of help holding . The appeared on the turn followed by the on the river to send Helin to the rail. Meanwhile, Saulitis can no longer call himself a short-stack with close to the average with a stack of 79,000.
We also saw at the same table that the seat of Gatis Reigass was empty despite him making it to the break. We caught up with him in the hallway and said he was got low and got his chips in with ace-ten and was outmatched.
Risto Hentunen didn't do anything special but is now in the chip lead with 260,000 in chips after winning a few small pots. The last one he won he raised an under the gun limper to 8,500 from one seat over and got everyone to fold.
That particular hand, he shrugged his shoulder and showed the table that he held .
Three Finnish players and one Estonian player were above the 200,000 chip mark at the second break. Finland's Jussi Karpanen had the most chips with 240,000 followed by Estonia's Kelly Limonova (230,000), Finland's Risto Hentunen (230,000) and Day 1 chip leader Feras Abid.
Here is a look at updated chip counts of all the players with at least 100,000 in chips.
Players are now on their second break of the day. The blinds will go up to 1,000/2,000 with an ante of 300 when play resumes with the average stack hovering around 76,000.
Finnish poker superstar Patrik Antonius arrived just before the first break. While this was too late for him to late-register the Main Event, he does plan to play the €3,000 NLHE High Roller on Saturday and Sunday.
Antonius is fresh off a huge win in the partypoker MILLIONS Rozvadov €25,500 Super High Roller for €425,000. With the win, he now has $7.3 million in live tournament cashes. This surpasses fellow countryman Juha Helppi, who has $7.1 million in live tournament cashes, for the most career cashes by a Finnish player.
In addition to the big tournament win, Antonius has been busy playing high stakes. When asked what he planned to do later, he shared he was looking to play in a €100/€200 pot-limit Omaha game or something even bigger.
We will look to interview Antonius later in the festival.
Tero Kilkanen fied his second bullet before the start of Day 2 and was on a roll building his stack to 100,000. Fellow Finn Jussi Karpanen ended yesterday with a big stack and grew it to about 120,000 before what was likely the biggest pot of the day thus far took place.
A player opened in late position before Jussi Karpanen three-bet to 9,000. Tero Kilkanen to his left four-bet to 21,000 before Karpanen declared himself all-in. Kilkanen, who is known to be a tight player, shared after the hand that there were no four-bets on his table before and thought about what to do before he called.
Kilkanen turned over pocket kings and needed help to survive with Kilkanen holding pocket aces. The board ran out all blanks and Kilkanen hit the rail. Meanwhile, Karpanen's stack soared after he finished on top of the battle of the Finns.
Roope Onni Oliver Tarmi is one of the newest players to snag a big stack. With about 60,000 already in the pot, he went all-in with on a board and was called by Diego Zeiter with .
After nailing the flush, Tarmi's stack soared above 180,000 while Zeitler was left with just 3,400 in chips. However, Zeitler more than tripled up against Tarmi and Egon Kaljulaid.
There was no side pot in the hand as Tarmi and Kaljulaid checked down the board. Tarmi showed for top pair and Kaljulaid mucked his hand. However, Zeitler then showed he also had top pair but with a better kicker with and had a little bit of life left with about eight big blinds in his stack after the hand.
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