Less than two minutes in and we had an all-in and a call. It was Kfir Yamin’s 
versus Jacoues Torbey’s 
. It all went in pre-flop and the board ran out 
, giving Yamin a vital double up. He was one of the shortest stacks and he jumped up in delight when the hit the flop.
Photo courtesy of the WPT
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
190,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
|
131,000
90,500
|
90,500 |
Level: 16
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 500
After yesterday's frenetic five levels where we lost 72 out of 103 remaining players, we are now down to the final 31 remaining. However, only 27 will be getting paid and only one person will be leaving here with the $250,000 first place prize money which includes a seat at the WPT Championships next year.
Alexey Rybin is the chip leader with 858,000 while former WPTR Paris champion Natalya Nikitina is in third place with 468,000 after she won two huge pots near the close of play last night. Others still involved include Partypoker qualifier and all around chatty guy Maximilian Droege as well as seasoned German pro Manig Loeser.
At the moment, we are unsure how many players we will be playing down to but we suspect that it will be something in the region of 12 or 18. On Tuesday, we will definitely be playing to the final six so it remains at the tournament director's discretion has to how he wants to balance those two days.
| Table 1 | Name |
|---|---|
| Seat 1 | Rainer Kempe |
| Seat 2 | Vyacheslav Goryachev |
| Seat 3 | Alexandr Lakhov |
| Seat 4 | Bernard Samaha |
| Seat 5 | Maximilian Droege |
| Seat 6 | Azad Jabrayilov |
| Seat 7 | Kfir Yamin |
| Seat 8 | Jacoues Torbey |
| Table 2 | Name |
|---|---|
| Seat 1 | Christoffer Stahle |
| Seat 2 | Artem Vezhnekov |
| Seat 3 | Jerfi Firatli |
| Seat 4 | Manig Loeser |
| Seat 5 | Andrey Kazankov |
| Seat 6 | Sergey Rybachenko |
| Seat 7 | Asaf Avci |
| Seat 8 | Albert Daher |
| Table 3 | Name |
|---|---|
| Seat 1 | Andrei Nikonov |
| Seat 2 | Mikhail Shevchuk |
| Seat 3 | Giacomo Fundaro |
| Seat 4 | Baris Topkaya |
| Seat 5 | Alexander Sidorin |
| Seat 6 | Erwan Pecheux |
| Seat 7 | Alexey Rybin |
| Seat 8 | Tobias Peters |
| Table 4 | Name |
|---|---|
| Seat 1 | Rami Shouman |
| Seat 2 | Sari Haddad |
| Seat 3 | Oleg Suntsov |
| Seat 4 | Kayhan Tugrul |
| Seat 5 | Natalya Nikitina |
| Seat 6 | Boris Yanpolskiy |
| Seat 7 | Pierre Sayegh |
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