"He has been playing very aggressive the whole time, I can't get out there anymore," Nikolaus Teichert said on the rail while chatting with Artur Koren. They were both watching Ole Schemion and Teichert had in fact been the first casualty. He got it in with against the jacks of Samy Kamal and the board bricked.
Only moments later, Steven van Zadelhoff raised and Pieter de Korver three-bet to 1,000. Kamal called and van Zadelhoff then reraised to fold to a shove of de Korver. It must have been a lot of action, as de Korver lost a considerable amount of chips in a short time.
The stack of Jasper Wetemans has already been cut into half. The Dutchman fired three streets of a board with 2,200 on the river as final bet into a pot of around 7,000. Olvedo Heinze raised to 5,000 and Wetemans was stunned almost immediately, then gave up the pot.
Pieter de Korver won a middle-sized pot with two pair over two pair and the screens currently show a total of 115 entries for the second starting day. Latest additions to the field include Kees van Brugge as well as Ole Schemion. The German wonderkid cashed in the High Roller yesterday and won the very same tournament back in 2012 by defeating ... de Korver.
Tobias Peters, Floris van der Ven and Paul Newey are joined by Faraz Jaka and Fatima Moreira de Melo on one of the most interesting tables in the event thus far.
Farid Chati is back in today after busting on Day 1a and same applies for Hossein Ensan, who showed up a bit earlier as expected. The German shares a table with Paul Berende and Eugene Katchalov over on table 28.
Matas Cimbolas sits next to Anton Wigg and Michiel Brummelhuis stares at them from the opposite end of the table.
With Jasper Meijer van Putten, Matthias de Meulder, Steven van Zadelhoff and Pieter de Korver all sitting in a row, one would expect some action or table talk. That has been very limited so far, though, and the four of them are very much focused on their smart phones when not being involved in a hand.
On the heads-up flop of , Ari Engel bet 500 from the cutoff and his opponent from one seat over on the button called. The turn was checked by Engel and he then called a bet of 2,000 before check-folding the river for the very same amount. The player on the button proudly showed the .
According to the screens, there are 102 entries right now and many more are expected to join the field throughout the day. Among them will be Hossein Ensan, who busted yesterday and promised to enter in level two.
Jani Sointula bet the turn for what looked like 3,300 and his table neighbor in the small blind check-raised to 7,400 in order to scoop the pot. The Finn quickly got out of the way and appeared to have lost around 5,000 chips right off the start.
The other tables nearby include some interesting table constellations as well. Keith Hawkins sits with Vlado Banicevic, Jasper Wetemans and Makarios Avramidis. And Pieter de Korver plays against Olvedo Heinze, Nikolaus Teichert and Jasper Meijer van Putten.