As we get closer and closer to the bubble breaking, only one woman is remaining in the WSOP Circuit King's Casino Main Event - Italy's Lyudmila Rudova. Rudova may need a double up to make it past the bubble as she has a small stack of 45,000 chips, which represents under 8 big blinds.
Pierre Mothes, who finished third in the Super High Roller two days ago, more than doubled his stack without showdown as per quick conversation in the break. "I have a good image, nobody wants to play with me."
Hossein Ensan also walked by and reported about his new count as well, which can be found below.
Players are now on 15 minute break. The field is now 96 players with 80 making the money. Blinds will be at 3,000/6,000 when play resumes with a 1,000 ante.
Paul Michaelis lost a 360,000 pot with against the of Roman Bláha and the next big pot was about to emerge on table 3.
Aleksandr Nemcov flat-called a raise by Marko Ilicic and Goran Curic then moved all in. Ilicic isolated and moved all in himself with Nemcov calling all in for around 100,000.
Ilicic:
Curic:
Nemcov:
The board ran out to give Ilicic a straight and bust two opponents just prior to the end of the level.
Denmark's Mikkel Plum has been on a decent run in big tournaments lately. First in late September, he took second place in the WPT National Austria Main Event for €38,650. Less than a month later, Plum grabbed third place in the World Series of Poker Europe Event #3 - Pot Limit Omaha Eight-Handed Event for €55,755 . He won't be able to add a first place to his impressive streak - or even a cash - as he is one of the more recent players to exit the tournament.
The tournament is now 19 players away from the money with 99 entrants remaining and 80 players walking away with at least the posted minimum cash of €2,545.
Zeus-Jan Post three-bet from the small blind and initial raiser Filip Polásek called to see the flop of . Post checked and Polásek moved all in for 83,000 to receive a call from his opponent, flipping over for a flush draw.
Post was way ahead with the and the turn was a blank. The river though gave Polásek the better hand and he doubled.
At the same table is also Pavol Beca, who more than doubled up his stack from the start. Amir Mozaffarian is up even more and Sasa Lalos also well above average.
Aleksandr Nemcov has had an up and down day. He first propelled his opening day stack quickly to 300,000 chips before plummetting back down to 130,000. Most recently, Nemcov is on an uptick and now has 260,000 chips after he won a big pot when his pocket got paid on a board where he hit a set.
In a pot of what looked like 80,000 to the turn, Johnny Hansen moved all in for 104,500 and Martin Meciar gave it a lot of thought. Eventually he called and tabled the whereas Hansen turned over . The river gave Hansen a full house and he said to his opponent "you don't believe me."