Pierre Mothes had doubled up with aces against the kings of Michael Eiler and apparently had aces versus kings again according to table talk. Just now the German raised and was called by Giovanni Mazza, a late entrant before the start of Day 2. On the flop a raising war breaks out and Mothes put his opponent all in for 59,400.
Mazza called with the and Mothes only had the . The turn and river bricked and Mothes shipped over a portion of his profit.
The payouts of the tournament have been finalized with the 715 entrants generating a €1,021,911 prize pool. The winner of the WSOP Circuit King's Casino Main Event will go home with a coveted gold ring along with €206,927. 80 spots finish in the money for at least €2,545.
Horst Riedlingen was all in for his last 25 big blinds with the and Christian Stratmeyer had him just about covered and went into the showdown with the . The board ran out and the kings were cracked to leave the German short, he busted soon after.
Joining the action on the four-way flop of , Serok Kilic bet 24,000 from the button and Miltiadis Kyriakides called in the small blind, so did Giovanni Mazza from a few seats over. The fourth player in the hand folded and the remaining three all checked the on the turn.
Kyriakides jammed for what looked like 100,000 on the river and Mazza as well as Kilic folded.
Aleksei Ivanov raised from early position and Ruben Pleijster shoved for 45,000 with the . Tobias Kupke called all in for 25,000 with and Ivanov called with the . Both shorter stacks were drawing dead after the turn, making the river meaningless.
Another batch of bustouts just came in. Among the notable players to leave the tournament include Roger Hairabedian, Vlad Darie, Scott Hanna, and Sam Grafton.
Ronny Voth had his cracked by the of Andrew Leathem in a preflop all in situation. The board ran out and the chips went to the Scotsman. Only a mere minute later, Claus Carlsen stood up from one table over and the chips had stayed in Denmark, albeit moved one seat further to Johnny Hansen.
Eusebiu-Nicolae Jalba got the remainder of his stack in with the on a flop of and Thomas Urban looked him up with the for the nut flush draw. The on the turn immediately improved Urban and he locked up the win with the meaningless appearing on the river.
Urban is not the biggest stack on the table though, that honor belongs to Paul Michaelis