20 Remain as Hellmuth Chases Lucky Number 13
Welcome back for Day 2 of Event #4: €3,250 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout at the 2012 World Series of Poker Europe. Yesterday, 141 players came out to action with just 20 of them moving through to the second, and final, round.
Although most of the players ended with the same amount of chips, Phil Hellmuth's table had an extra player, which allowed him to finish on 71,775. That will give Hellmuth a jump start on the competition as he chases his 13th WSOP gold bracelet.
Some of the names that will be joining Hellmuth are Matt Stout, Chance Kornuth, Dan O'Brien, Daniel Negreanu, John Monnette, Faraz Jaka, Mohsin Charania, Oleksii Kovalchuk and Dominik Nitsche. That's quite an amazing field that's left, which should set things up for one outstanding final table.
Due to the small field size, the tournament officials opted to adjust the structure a bit for this event. Instead of being a three-day event, the event will end here today on Day 2. The final 20 players that all won their table on Day 1 to advance will be playing a regular, multi-table-style tournament until a champion is crowned.
Up top is not only the gold bracelet, but €107,614 in cold, hard cash. As it stands right now, all remaining players are in the money and guaranteed €5,428.
Play kicks off at 2:00 PM local time, so be sure to stick right here with PokerNews for the coverage of the event. We'll see you shortly!
flop.
land on the turn. After Charania checked, Ferrell bet 6,500. Kovalchuk folded, Jaka called, Messina folded, and Charania folded, which left heads-up action to the river.
completed the board and Ferrell paused before shoving all in for right around 15,000. Jaka snapped.
for the nut flush to beat Ferrell's 
and send him home in 19th place. Just two tables of nine remain now.
, and Romanovskyi checked to Hellmuth. Hellmuth check-raised to 7,700. "Call!" snapped Hellmuth as soon as Romanovskyi's bet crossed the line. The whole table burst out in laughter when this happened.
, and Romanovskyi took some time to think. He then fired 9,800, which prompted some more chatter from Hellmuth.
and Romanovskyi took his time before betting 16,800 with a tall stack of chips. Immediately, Hellmuth's glasses came off. "How much is it?" he asked. "He has five-six maybe? This is so sick."
for a rivered two pair and it was blastoff time as Hellmuth shot up from his chair like a rocket.
after flopping a flush with the 
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and river the 
for Paul Guichard. The board ran out 
, and Nitsche was eliminated.
. Monnette held the 
. With Kornuth drawing dead, the river completed the board with the 
and he was eliminated.
for Romanovskyi. The good thing was, his cards were plenty live.
completed the board on the river and officially sent Boucher out the door in 11th place.
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