Bulychev Atop Final Table of WSOPE PLO Event
Just eight players survived at the end of Day 2 of Event #7: €2,200 Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed at the 2018 World Series of Poker Europe in King's Casino. Ilya Bulychev sits on top of the leaderboard with a stack of 1,513,000. He’s closely followed by Anson Tsang with 1,139,000 and Ludvig Sterner with 1,133,000. The three of them are the only players with more than 1 million in chips.
Hokyiu Lee (995,000), Jason Gray (827,000), Alexander Norden (747,000), Gisle Olsen (701,000) and Quan Zhou (420,000) make up the rest of the eight-handed final table. They’ll be battling it out on Wednesday at 3 p.m. local time to see who takes home the first-place prize of €91,730 and the WSOP gold bracelet.
Final table Seat Assignments
| Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gisle Olsen | Denmark | 701,000 | 29 |
| 2 | Ludvig Sterner | Sweden | 1,133,000 | 47 |
| 3 | Hokyiu Lee | Hong Kong | 995,000 | 41 |
| 4 | Alexander Norden | Sweden | 747,000 | 31 |
| 5 | Jason Gray | United Kingdom | 827,000 | 34 |
| 6 | Anson Tsang | Hong Kong | 1,139,000 | 47 |
| 7 | Ilya Bulychev | Russian Federation | 1,513,000 | 63 |
| 8 | Quan Zhou | China | 420,000 | 18 |
Day 2 action
A total of 35 players returned at the start of Day 2, but there were only 29 players lucky enough to end up with a piece of the prize pool. Among the eliminations at the start of Day 2 were Michal Mrakes, James Chen and Ronald Keijzer, who won a WSOP bracelet in six-max PLO this year in Las Vegas. Tomasz Gluszko ended up as the unfortunate bubble after he lost with aces against a rivered flush.
The remaining players were all guaranteed €3,147 and the eliminations started to come in at a fast pace. Chin Wei Lim and Anton Johansson were among the first eliminations and both got to collect €3,147.
Chris Ferguson was eliminated in 22nd place after he got it in with two pair and a gutshot straight draw against a better two pair and the same gutshot straight draw. The river was a blank and that meant that Ferguson got eliminated from the tournament banking €3,518.
Shaun Deeb had made the final table of Event #6: €1,650 Mixed Pot-Limit Omaha/No-Limit Hold’em, and he immediately he hopped in the Event #7 and reached Day 2. He was multi-tabling for quite a while before eventually being eliminated in 20th place. He got it in with an open-ended straight draw against the top two pair of Ludvig Sterner. Deeb wasn’t able to improve and settled into his final table, eventually locking in a runner-up finish.
Jan-Peter Jachtmann (19th - €3,518), Allen Kessler (16th - €4,034), Anthony Zinno (15th - €4,034), and Ryan Riess (14th - €4,742) all busted out before the final table was reached. Gergely Bartos ended up in 10th place, bubbling the unofficial final table after he got it in against the aces of Zhou. Bartos failed to catch up and banked €7,042 for his efforts.
The remaining nine players continued the battle on one table and Daniel Rezaei was the unfortunate final table bubble boy. He got his money in with top pair and a gutshot straight draw against the flopped nut straight of Gray. Rezaei couldn’t catch up and was eliminated as the final player before they started bagging and tagging. Rezaei took home €7,042.
The eight players that reached the final table will come back Wednesday to King's Casino to play down to a winner. They will have a few minutes remaining in Level 22 (12,000/24,000). The final day will be streamed on Twitch and PokerNews will be covering the event until a winner is crowned.
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Milko van Winden has been a part of the poker media corps since 2017. Starting out as [I]PokerNews[/I] contributor and live reporter, Milko is now the Digital Media Manager at [i]PokerNews[/i].
