Isabelle Mercier was one of the players to not return from dinner break. She seemed disappointed that her second bullet was not successful after running it up to 100,000 before busting out of the tournament. Overall the TonyBet Ambassador appeared to have a good experience, winning her first ever OFC tournament in the Progressive Pineapple event on Sunday.
One player to wait until after dinner break to join is Italian poker pro Max Pescatori. Pescatori made a deep run in last night's OFC High Roller, taking fourth place for €37,000.
The Italian's luck wasn't so great today as he was in and out in one hand on the table of Singapore's Yuanxi Chen. With late registration now close, Pescatori has left the tournament arena.
In an interesting battle of the wits, last year's OFC World Championship High Roller Jennifer Shahade is battling last night's OFC World Championship High Roller heads-up. Shahade has Panyak on the ropes with almost a 10 to 1 chip advantage. With points now worth 1,500 chips a piece, things can be over quickly for Panyak. As we have seen in OFC before, things can also quickly turn around for Panyak if he goes on a hot-run soon.
No Czech players will make the money in the TonyBet OFC World Championship Main Event in Prague. Jan Stefak, who was the last representative of his country in the tournament, left the tournament the first hand after dinner break after being short-stacked.
Last nights High Roller champ Maxim Panyak is mounting a comeback and now has 150,000 in chips. His success is mostly at the expense of last year's High Roller champ Jennifer Shahade who is now down to 65,000 in chips.
Jennifer Shahade has just been eliminated from the tournament, however, not at the hands of Maxim Panyak whose stack also took a hit. Sergey Baranov recently was added to their table, and immediately went on a run at the expense of both players.
While we are awaiting for the final payouts to be posted, it has been shared with us that 15 players will be paid with first place receiving a cool €30,000.
Additionally, play will go down to 12 players today, with the remaining dozen coming back to battle it out for the top prize and the championship belt at 3:00 pm CET tomorrow.
Last year's Main Event champ won't get a chance at a repeat performance after exiting before the money. He was able to parlay his second bullet to 100,000 chips before going on a bad run right before the dinner break.
Sergey Rybachenko was just eliminated in 21st place, six spots away from the money. His girlfriend, Alexandra Usoltseva, appears to be in good shape to cash in today's tournament with a stack of 240,000 chips or enough for a 120 point swing until the level goes up.
