Partypoker Ambassador and WSOP gold bracelet winner Jan-Peter Jachtmann has just entered the Day 1 field after the €100/€100 pot-limit Omaha game broke up. Near the end of the game, the stakes went up to €200/€200.
Jachtmann entered the High Roller as already a big winner on the day. He banked a huge profit of over €67,000, the most of any player at the table.
The action folded around to the button who made it 3,700 to go. Borge Sandsgaard of Norway in the small blind made the call before Georgios Vrakas of Greece in the big blind squeezed it up to 17,000 total. Only the Norwegian made the call.
The saw Sandsgaard check-call 14,000, but he wasn't quite ready to commit his last 42,500 on the turn after Vrakas moved all in.
Sandsgaard revealed the and asked Vrakas to show a king. But the Greek player did not comply and instead quietly scooped the pot.
WSOP bracelet holder Paul Michaelis has turned up to join the High Roller crowd, and he just found a crucial double with the mother of all poker hands — pocket aces.
Michaelis got his last 20,000 in with on a board and was called by an opponent holding and drawing to a mere two outs. The river was the , and the German scored the double.
Natalia Breviglieri promised she would re-enter after she was eliminated. After the break was over, she got back into the mix with a fresh starting stack of 100,000.
Also on her table is Philipp Gruissem, who also has around a starting stack despite not re-entering.
The €550 King's Omaha Challenge began yesterday and is now in the money deep into Day 2 with six players left guaranteed at least a €1,995 payday.
Among the players left are Pavul Guris, Greko Gregor and Antonin Felfel. Other players on the table asked for nicknames to be used including "Gypsy King" and "El-Turco."
A winner will eventually be crowned today with the remaining players having their eyes on the €9,690 top prize.
Anestis Anagnostidis raised from first position, and Norbert Berent behind him made it 5,600 total. Fabian Gumz made the call on the button before Pasquale Braco raised to 13,500 out of the small blind. Anagnostidis wanted no part in it and folded, and with the action back on Berent he five-bet to 23,200. Only Braco came along for the flop, where the Italian check-called 12,000.
Braco checked again on the turn, and this time the bet was 30,000 from Berent. The Italian gave it quite a think before finally releasing his cards into the muck, and Berent added another small tower to his castle of chips.