€5,300 High Roller
Day 2 Started
€5,300 High Roller
Day 2 Started
The 2017 World Series of Poker International Circuit at the King's Casino Rozvadov is in full swing with several WSOP Circuit rings already being awarded and the €5,300 High Roller has kicked off yesterday. A field of 31 entries including two re-entries emerged thus far after nine levels of 45 minutes each, and 22 hopefuls bagged up chips for Day 2.
Pavel Plesuv held onto the top spot with 166,700 despite a late surge by Ognjen Sekularac (162,100) while Dutchman Sander van Wesemael enters Day 2 with 133,100. Other notables in contention include Vadzim Lipauka (102,200), Felipe Ramos (101,300), Pierre Neuville (81,800), Czech high stakes specialist Pavel Binar (58,200), Viliyan Petleshkov (42,400), and Aleksandar Tomovic (38,400).
The late registration in Europe's biggest poker arena remains open for the first two levels of the day as of 4 p.m. local time and action recommences with level 10 and blinds of 600-1,200 with a running ante of 200. Furthermore, a single re-entry remains available for all players except Aviv Meiri and Fahredin Mustafov, and among those expected to likely join is also Phil Hellmuth. The 14-time WSOP bracelet winner finished 7th for €6,991 in yesterday's €2,200 Pot-Limit Omaha Event to add a Czech flag to his extraordinary poker resume.
Day 2 Seat Draw
Table | Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
3 | 1 | Pavel Binar | Czech Republic | 58,200 | 49 |
3 | 3 | Felipe Ramos | Brazil | 101,300 | 84 |
3 | 4 | Pavel Plesuv | Moldova | 166,700 | 139 |
3 | 5 | Gregor Greko | Germany | 13,200 | 11 |
3 | 7 | Tomasz Panek | Poland | 79,000 | 66 |
3 | 8 | Fahredin Mustafov | Bulgaria | 92,300 | 77 |
4 | 1 | Anatoliy Zyrin | Russian Federation | 57,500 | 48 |
4 | 2 | Ognjen Sekularac | Serbia | 162,100 | 135 |
4 | 3 | Aviv Meiri | Israel | 65,300 | 54 |
4 | 4 | Aleksandar Tomovic | Bulgaria | 38,400 | 32 |
4 | 5 | Markus Kuhnen | Germany | 80,000 | 67 |
4 | 7 | Robert Schulz | Germany | 76,700 | 64 |
5 | 1 | Michael Sklenicka | Czech Republic | 29,200 | 24 |
5 | 2 | Mike Brandau | Germany | 14,700 | 12 |
5 | 3 | Sander van Wesemael | Netherlands | 133,100 | 111 |
5 | 4 | Vadzim Lipauka | Belarus | 102,200 | 85 |
5 | 6 | Viliyan Petleshkov | Serbia | 35,300 | 29 |
6 | 2 | Michal Ozimek | Poland | 33,800 | 28 |
6 | 3 | Grzegorz Idziak | Poland | 55,200 | 46 |
6 | 5 | Fabrice Halleux | Belgium | 49,900 | 42 |
6 | 6 | Seyed Zadeh | Germany | 16,900 | 14 |
6 | 7 | Pierre Neuville | Belgium | 81,800 | 68 |
The tournament is scheduled to play down to a winner while Day 1a of the €1,650 Main Event is already underway. The PokerNews live reporting team will be there to cover all the action until a winner is crowned in both tournaments, so make sure to tune back in regularly.
So far there has only been one new entry before the start of Day 2 and that is Yair Bitoun, who has frequently participated in the cash game streams at the King's Casino. Cards will go in the air shortly as most players have already arrived.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Yair Bitoun
|
50,000 | 50,000 |
Level: 10
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 200
In a battle of the blinds, Michael Sklenicka shoved into short stack Mike Brandau and the latter called.
Mike Brandau:
Michael Sklenicka:
"Three and four," Sklenicka demanded to pick up outs for a straight. The board came and Sklenicka instead hit a deuce on the river to eliminate Brandau. The German grabbed into his pocket and counted the money for the re-entry, so it is save to assume that he will be back shortly.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Michael Sklenicka | 45,000 | 15,800 |
Mike Brandau | Busted |
Viliyan Petleshkov raised from early position and was called by Robert Schulz only. Both checked the flop before Petleshkov bet the turn for 3,200, Schulz called. The fell on the river and Petleshkov check-raised all in to see Schulz snap-call with for the nut flush.
Petleshkov only had for the second nuts and hit the worst card in the deck on the river to become the second casualty of Day 2.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Robert Schulz
|
120,000 | 43,300 |
Viliyan Petleshkov | Busted |
Gregor Greko lost his short stack against Pavel Binar while Bernd Gleissner, Vojtech Ruzicka and Mike Brandau re-entered. Martin Kabrhel entered for the first time and his chip-protecting hippo is on the usual spot.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Mike Brandau | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Bernd Gleissner
|
50,000 | 50,000 |
Martin Kabrhel
|
50,000 | 50,000 |
Vojtech Ruzicka | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Gregor Greko
|
Busted |
Ognjen Sekularac raised to 2,700 and picked up two callers in Robert Schulz and Anatoliy Zyrin in the out of the blinds. The flop of was checked to Sekularac, who bet 5,000, and just Schulz called. No betting action followed on the turn and river and Schulz won the pot with .
On the heads-up flop of , Grzegorz Idziak bet out of the big blind and called the all in of Seyed Zadeh for 11,400. Zadeh rolled over and Idziak only had . The board completed with the turn and river, locking up the double for Zadeh.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Robert Schulz
|
135,000 | 15,000 |
Grzegorz Idziak | 35,000 | -20,200 |
Seyed Zadeh
|
34,000 | 17,100 |
Felipe Ramos arrived some 10 minutes late for the restart and made an immediate impact after, while start-of-the-day chip leader Pavel Plesuv was spotted leaving the table with a grin on the face. According to Ramos, he won a bigger pot in a three-bet hand right after he sat down where he check-raised the turn and led big on the river to force a fold from Plesuv.
Soon after they got into a raising war again and Plesuv five-bet jammed into the of Ramos to hit the rail in the first level of Day 2.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Felipe Ramos | 250,000 | 148,700 |
Pavel Plesuv
|
Busted |
Pavel Plesuv has re-entered and got the same table, albeit a different seat, and now faces Fahredin Mustafov to his right.
Seyed Zadeh avoided the re-entry for now after spiking a double through Michal Ozimek. Zadah was all in and at risk with the and Ozimek looked him up with only to see the board run out .
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Fahredin Mustafov | 100,000 | 7,700 |
Seyed Zadeh
|
55,000 | 21,000 |
Pavel Plesuv
|
50,000 | 50,000 |
Michal Ozimek | 19,000 | -14,800 |