Day 2 of the PokerStars WCOOP-63-H: $2,100 NLHE [8-Max, Progressive KO, Freezeout, Thursday Thrill SE] restarts at 7:05 p.m. CEST with 62 players returning to battle it out for a bigger share of the $988,000 prize pool and more bounties. The tournament attracted 365 unique players on Day 1 who reentered 129 times to get to 494 entries in total.
"Jo589" from Germany is coming back today with the chip lead with 5,223,012. They are followed by Andras "probirs" Nemeth (4,133,171), Fabian "!$eveeeeeeen!" Gumz (3,996,380), "FouEnculePL" (3,904,634), and Pavel "MountainRo$e" Veksler (3,543,591) in the top five.
Other familiar names at the top of the leader board include players like Aleksejs "APonakov" Ponakovs (3,475,585), Kenny "SpaceyFCB" Hallaert (3,447,036), Christian "eisenhower1" Jeppsson (3,252,735), Jon "apestyles" Van Fleet (3,151,838), Roman "Radioromashka" Emelyanov (3,045,230), Michael "merla888" Gathy (2,472,365), Bert "girafganger7" Stevens (2,442,988), Jans "Graftekkel" Arends (2,341,166), and Bruno "great dant" Volkmann with 2,265,310.
When the players return, they will finish the last ten minutes of Level 19 which has a small blind of 17,500, a big blind of 35,000, and a running ante of 4,500. After this level, the blinds will go up to 20,000/40,000/5,000. All players have secured at least $2,200 but will all have their sights set on that first-place prize of $76,339 plus bounties.
The PokerStars Twitch Stream will be live from 7:30 p.m too with commentary by James Hartigan and joe Stapleton with cards-up coverage. And PokerNews will be right here to bring you all the updates on a similar delay until a new WCOOP champion has been found so make sure to keep following along.
for Camosci to flop two pair to bust Taylor as the first player of the day.
, it was checked to Van Fleet who continued with a bet of 200,000 which only Emelyanov called.
, Van Fleet barreled 400,000 into the pot and was called again.
and Van Fleet shoved for Emelyanov to call for the 1,100,687 he had behind with the 
for the nut-flush and the chip lead.
, Abreu check-called the 89,667 continuation-bet of Gathy.
for the pair of nines but Gathy held the 
for Kolaikov to hold with the tens to eliminate Sampaoli.
