What promised to be a long, arduous road to crowning a champion of the €10,000 Diamond High Roller at the Grand Big Wrap festival certainly lived up to that billing as an extra day will be needed to award the title.
With the clock moving past 5 a.m. local time in Rozvadov and Day 2 already entering its 14th hour of play, players agreed to stop once action reached six-handed. Quan Zhou took care of that, busting Jan-Peter Jachtmann in seventh place to take the chip lead with 8,120,000.
Final Six Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quan Zhou | China | 8,120,000 | 102 |
| 2 | Alex Livingston | Canada | 6,065,000 | 76 |
| 3 | Eelis Parssinen | Finland | 3,365,000 | 42 |
| 4 | Vasil Medarov | Bulgaria | 2,290,000 | 29 |
| 5 | Anton Suarez | Sweden | 1,890,000 | 24 |
| 6 | Cailin Jin | Austria | 370,000 | 5 |
Alex Livingston is in second place with 6,065,000, followed by Finnish online legend Eelis Parssinen (3,365,000). Vasil Medarov (2,290,000) and Anton Suarez (1,890,000) are behind them, while Cailin Jin rode a short stack for most of the day but managed to survive with 370,000.
Day 2 began with 80 remaining players and, with late registration remaining open through the first three levels of the day, the field swelled to 221 by the time the registration period ended creating a prize pool of €2,036,515. Tony G, Theo Jorgensen, Joni Jouhkimainen, and Bertrand Grospellier were some of the names who fell short of the money.
John Dawoud was eliminated on the money bubble, bringing the remaining 23 players into the money. Hossein Ensan, the 2019 WSOP champion, was eliminated in 15th place when he flopped top two pair but ran into Jachtmann’s top set. Last year’s WSOP Europe champion Omar Eljach followed in 14th place, while start-of-day chip leader Viacheslav Osipov was eliminated in 12th.
The talkative and controversial Martin Kabrhel bowed out in 11th place to Livingston, who earlier won a massive pot with a set of kings off Jachtmann to take the chip lead. Livingston also busted Maximilian Klostermeier in 10th to set the nine-handed unofficial final table.
Parssinen doubled up early at the final table off Bernd Gleissner with a turned set of sevens. Gleissner then ran set-over-set into Jachtmann to bust in ninth place. Sebahattin Degermenci was then involved in a three-way all in that saw Jin triple up and Parssinen take the side pot to send Degermenci to the rail in seventh place.
Suarez turned a flush to crack Jachtmann’s set of aces and double up. Jachtmann then picked up aces again, this time against Zhou, and was a big favorite to double up heading to the river until Zhou hit a straight. Lucky rivers helped propel Zhou to the chip lead heading to the final table. Earlier on Day 2, Zhou was all in and down to his last card before hitting a set of kings on the river to nearly triple up.
Final Table payouts
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | €500,000 | ||
| 2 | €327,000 | ||
| 3 | €211,000 | ||
| 4 | €170,000 | ||
| 5 | €135,500 | ||
| 6 | €105,000 | ||
| 7 | Jan-Peter Jachtmann | Germany | €77,500 |
| 8 | Sebahattin Degermenci | Germany | €57,500 |
The remaining six players return tomorrow at 1:30 p.m. local time to play down to a winner. Action resumes on Level 23 with blinds of 40,000-80,000 and a 80,000 big blind ante.
It will take one day longer than planned, but a Diamond High Roller champion will be crowned here at King’s Resort and PokerNews will be back providing all the action.
