Farid Jattin On Top of Event #4: €2,000 Pot-Limit Omaha For Second Straight Year
There was a sense of deja vu permeating around the room on Day 1 of Event #4: €2,000 Pot-Limit Omaha, a feeling that this same scenario had played out already.
One year ago, Farid Jattin finished the first day of this same event as the chip leader on his way to finishing in seventh place. Fast forward 12 months, and Jattin once again finds himself atop the leaderboard as 46 players out of a starting field of 206 survived to make it to Day 2.
Jattin busted Patrik Jaros in a three-way all in with top pair earlier in the day and finished with 734,000, more than 100,000 ahead of his closest challenger. That is Zhengfa Ye, who doubled up off Jan-Peter Jachtmann in arguably the biggest pot of the day when they both turned a straight, but Ye rivered the nut flush. Ye finished in second place with 617,000, while Salih Atac (571,000), Gab Yong Kim (560,000), and Pascal Foged (458,000) round out the top five.
Day 1 Top 10 Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Farid Jattin | Colombia | 734,000 | 147 |
| 2 | Zhengfa Ye | Austria | 617,000 | 123 |
| 3 | Salih Atac | Czech Republic | 571,000 | 114 |
| 4 | Gab Yong Kim | South Korea | 560,000 | 112 |
| 5 | Pascal Foged | Germany | 458,000 | 92 |
| 6 | Mats Nylander | Sweden | 392,000 | 78 |
| 7 | Namhyung Kim | South Korea | 356,000 | 71 |
| 8 | Dorel Eldabach | Israel | 352,000 | 70 |
| 9 | Pavel Izotov | Belarus | 324,000 | 65 |
| 10 | Hokyiu Lee | Hong Kong | 308,000 | 62 |
It took him five bullets, but Jaros eventually managed to survive with 201,000. Pavel Izotov, like Jattin a finalist from this event last year, emerged from a four-way all in with a rivered flush to scoop the pot and eliminate two players on his way to bagging up 324,000. Other players advancing to play tomorrow include Dorel Eldabach (352,000), Barny Boatman (157,000), Dario Alioto (145,000), whose lone WSOP bracelet came in the first WSOP Europe back in 2007, and 2022 WSOP Main Event finalist Aaron Duczak (96,000).
Defending champion Anson Tsang bagged up a short stack of 67,000, as did reigning WSOP Europe champion Omar Eljach, who registered this event straight off winning the €550 Pot-Limit Omaha event and finished with 64,000.
Notables who didn’t make it out of the day included Martin Kabrhel, Vivian Saliba, Roland Israelashvili, Max Pescatori, and Jachtmann. The 46 who did make it through will return to play tomorrow at 3 p.m. local time inside King’s Resort in Rozvadov.
The first order of business will be to make the money. Only the top 31 players will collect a payday, with the eventual champion earning €91,183 out of the €362,045 prize pool. The plan is to play down to a winner tomorrow, with a live stream beginning on a one-hour delay at 6:30 p.m.
PokerNews will follow all the action as the players are in for another late night tomorrow until a coveted gold bracelet is around someone’s wrist.