Michel van Os is still in control at the feature table, as he just knocked out Alwin Plens. Plens was just moved to the featured table and on his very first hand he ended up all in before the flop.
Plens was all in for 22,000 chips and the showdown went as following.
Plens:
Van Os:
The board ran out and Plens hit the rail after Van Os hit a pair of jacks.
Marcel Luske was knocked out yesterday during the early goings, but today he's still going strong after just knocking a player out.
Lukse explained to us that the lady under the gun raised to 3,000 and 'The Flying Dutchman' announced that there was a problem when the action got to him.
"I said, 'There is a problem' because I had to call," Luske said with a smile as he had looked down on ace-queen.
The flop brought out with two diamonds and both players checked. The turn was an and Luske lead out for 6,000. On the river a popped up and Luske put his opponent all in for around 13,000 chips.
"After a long time she called with ace-jack," Luske said, as he felt the pain of his opponent for losing with such a strong hand.
In total 224 players signed up today and that brings the total for this event to 403 players. Right on, on Day 1b alone, there are 124 players remaining and that brings the current average to 53,226.
The payouts for this event will be published tomorrow morning.
Egi Adriaans just wondered into the media room and told us about his very unfortunate exit from this event.
"I had been knocked down to 4,000 and 5,000 and few times and right when I got back to 20,000 I lost with queens against jacks," Adriaans said, as his opponent had managed to spike a jack on the turn.
The €100 satellite for the High Roller drew a crowd of 72 total players and 29 are still remaining right now. A total of 10 players will win a ticket for tomorrow's High Roller tournament and including the satellite winners 68 players are already registered for that event.