Down to the last 38,000, Karim Ghozlani was at risk with the and Gennaro Proscia had him dominated holding the . Lady luck came to the rescue on the board for Ghozlani to double.
A total of 808 entries generated a prize pool of €1,189,780 and the top 87 spots will get paid at least €3,303 for their efforts. For the final 12 players, a ticket for the 2022 WSOP Europe €10,300 Main Event will be granted on top of the cash prize.
Only 168 players remain after the end of level 13 and they have been sent into a scheduled 15-minute break, during which the T-500 chips will be raced off.
David Kaesler was among those to enter on Day 2 and he has already successfully ran up a profit within the first four hours of play. The latest hand saw him call a bet of 30,000 by Volkan Alkan on the turn. Alkan then checked the river from under the gun and Kaesler overbet for 100,000.
That represented half of Alkan's stack and no call followed.
Jan Bronkhorst was among the bigger stacks for most of Day 1b but never got anything running on Day 2. He just flopped top pair with on a ten-high board but the of Gennaro Proscia prevailed to reduce the field further.
Down to the last few crumbs, Josef Snejberg was at risk with the out of the small blind. Carlo Savinelli looked him up with in the big blind and got there on the flop. Two blanks later, the Czech regular left the tournament area.
A short-stacked Angelo Bamberger and Yves Thalmann were at risk against Nasredine Talah in the big blind.
Angelo Bamberger:
Yves Thalmann:
Nasredine Talah:
The board ran out and the kings held to secure a double knockout. Moments later the same was announced from a different table nearby and among those to bow out was also Antoine Vranken.
Laviniu David raised to 9,000 and was called by Martin Paap and Luigi Shehadeh out of the big blind. Following the flop, Shehadeh bet 9,000 and that was all it took to win the pot right there. Shehadeh remains below the starting stack but has plenty of big blinds to work with on a stacked table.
Further assorted counts from the outer field can be found below.