€1,100 Main Event
Day 2 Started
€1,100 Main Event
Day 2 Started
At 1 p.m. local time Day 2 of the €1,100 Main Event will start with 165 players out of 495 entries returning to the felt to battle it out to reach the final day here at the World Series of Poker International Circuit in Holland Casino Rotterdam. The €250,000 guaranteed prize pool has been surpassed and the exact prize pool details are to be announced soon after the start of the tournament.
Starting the day with the overall chip lead is Fadi Ghabour with 396,500 in chips. He is followed by Orhan Ates, Pim Gieles, Majid Bozakraft, and Day 1a chip leader, Renato Messina. Other players to keep an eye on include Gregory Luttke-Grech, Kevin Paqué, Ori Hasson, day 1c chip leader Andrea Ricci, Michal Mrakes, Andrei Berinov, Javier Zarco, and many more Dutch and international poker stars.
The seat draw has not been received from the organization yet but the PokerNews live reporting team will post it once it is on our hands. When the players return to the tables, Level 13 will be the first level of the day. It features a small blind of 1,000, big blind of 2,000, and a big blind ante of 2,000. Level duration will increase to 50 minutes throughout the event and a break has been scheduled after every two levels. A dinner break of 60 minutes is expected to take place after Level 21 and play should stop once the final table has been reached.
Keep reading the updates right here as the team will be bringing you all the action from the first card off the deck to the bubble until the final bag has been sealed for the final day!
Level: 13
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 2,000
The 165 players have been welcomed back to Holland Casino Rotterdam and the dealers have been instructed to shuffle up and deal.
Rens Feenstra shoved from the middle position for 35,000 and so did Jan Jansma for more in the hijack for the rest of the table to fold.
Rens Feenstra:
Jan Jansma:
The flop came to not help Feenstra.
The turn was the to keep Jansma ahead and Feenstra got up from his chair but the river completed the board with the for Feenstra to hit a set and stay alive.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Rens Feenstra |
75,000
39,000
|
39,000 |
Jan Jansma |
45,000
14,000
|
14,000 |
Mikos Kampen shoved from the early position for 24,500 and was called by Firat Baltaci on the button. The blinds folded so the cards could go on their backs.
Mikos Kampen:
Firat Baltaci:
The board ran out to not bring any help to Kampen as he was sent to the rail in the early stages of Day 2.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Firat Baltaci |
130,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Mikos Kampen
|
Busted |
Gunther Mpiana shoved from the middle position for 30,000 and was called by Firat Baltaci in the cutoff. The rest of the table folded for them to go heads-up.
Gunther Mpiana:
Firat Baltaci;
The board ran out for Baltaci to hold with the higher pocket pair to claim another victim.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Firat Baltaci | 165,000 | |
Gunther Mpiana
|
Busted |
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The prize pool details have been released and here they are:
There were 495 entries creating a total prize pool of €475,200. A min-cash will be worth €1,948 and 71 players will be in the money. The winner will walk away with €83,350, the WSOP Circuit Ring, and a ticket worth $10,000 for the Global Casino Championship.
This is what they are all playing for:
Place | Prize (EUR) | Prize (USD) | Place | Prize (EUR) | Prize (USD) | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | € 83,350 | $92,176 | 9-11 | € 7,888 | $8,723 | |
2 | € 55,551 | $61,433 | 12-15 | € 6,083 | $6,727 | |
3 | € 39,679 | $43,881 | 16-20 | € 4,704 | $5,202 | |
4 | € 30,508 | $33,738 | 21-27 | € 3,707 | $4,100 | |
5 | € 23,332 | $25,803 | 28-39 | € 2,946 | $3,258 | |
6 | € 17,772 | $19,654 | 40-53 | € 2,376 | $2,628 | |
7 | € 13,543 | $14,977 | 54-71 | € 1,948 | $2,154 | |
8 | € 10,312 | $11,404 |
Eric Mertens has chipped up nicely after having eliminated Jungha Jung with versus earlier today.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Eric Mertens |
140,000
24,000
|
24,000 |
Jungha Jung
|
Busted |