Thai Minh Duc and Miquel Korte started Day 2 slightly above average, but have been eliminated early in the second level of the day. On the rail, they are joined by "The Talk" who also ran out of chips.
Thai Minh Duc and Miquel Korte started Day 2 slightly above average, but have been eliminated early in the second level of the day. On the rail, they are joined by "The Talk" who also ran out of chips.
According to the screens, there are just 189 players remaining and below you can find some of the updated counts. More to follow shortly.
A player in early position limped, as did Izzitreallyd on the button. Chicken then shoved for more than 80,000 and the initial limper folded. Izzitreallyd however called and the cards were tabled.
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and the kicker played a crucial role, eliminating Chicken.
Tomer Aminpour picked a bad timing to put his hopes on ![]()
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behind him. The stacks went in and Janiszewski was the player at risk for 106,000. The board ran out ![]()
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and the Pole doubled up.
After a raise to 12,000 by a player in early position, Richard Schaaser flat-called out of the small blind. Marek Blasko shoved out of the big blind for 73,500 and the initial raiser folded. Schaaser called and put the Slovakian at risk.
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and Blasko doubled up a set of threes.
Level: 16
Blinds: 3,000/6,000
Ante: 1,000
Lukáš Klíma exited in unfortunate fashion. First he lost a huge pot with pocket sevens against the ![]()
of Bo Nesgaard after the latter check-raised out of the blinds on a flop of ![]()
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. Both players checked the
turn and the stacks then went in after the
river.
Soon after, the remaining short stack of Klíma went in with ![]()
and Vitalii Polikarpov found the ![]()
out of the big blind. The board of ![]()
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brought no surprises and a deflated Klíma left the tournament area without a single word.
The next tables already broke and another 20 players have been eliminated. Included in that batch are also TonyBet qualifier Paulius Vaitiekünas (pictured), Vadzim Lipauka, Lukáš Klíma and Lars Andersson.
Kiwi Smith got his last 13 big blinds in before the flop and Vladimir Stejskal looked him up out of the small blind.
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, the pair of kings held up and that was it for Kiwi Smith.
Within 20 minutes of play on Day 2, the field has been reduced from 251 to 220 already. Among the recent casualties were HP, Olle Icke and Konstantin Kostyakov. Olle Icke had won the Ticket and & Ca$h Side Event and also cashed in another tournament last night. His plan was to double up early, but his media ticket was just handed over and the German is out.