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Event #7: €10,450 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event
Day 2 Completed
2012 World Series of Poker Europe
Event #7: €10,450 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info
2012 World Series of Poker Europe
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
€10,450
Prize Pool
€4,032,000
Total Entries
420
Level
28
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000
Players Left 1 / 420
Filter
Level 12
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
The 2012 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event continued on Monday with Day 2 action from the Majestic Barrière in Cannes, France. The remaining 230 from a 420-player field returned for another six levels of play, and by the end of the night just 77 remained with Sergii Baranov and his stack of 607,000 leading the way.
Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi began the day as the chip leader (234,850), and held a significant lead over his next closest competitor, Day 1b chip leader Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier. Neither player was lacking in experience nor success, but their Day 2s couldn't have been more opposite.
While Grospellier played a patient game and slowly accumulated chips throughout the day, eventually bagging up 326,700, Mizrachi went the opposite direction. The Grinder played a loose-aggressive game and his chip stack reflected that as it went for a wild up-and-down ride as described by Daniel Negreanu on Twitter. It soon became apparent that Mizrachi was taking one step forward and two steps back, and eventually it caught up with him and he was eliminated in Level 11.
Others who joined Mizrachi on the rail throughout the day were Vanessa Rousso, Joe Hachem, Faraz Jaka, Harrison Gimbel, Steve O’Dwyer, Greg Merson, Mike “Tmex” McDonald, Tristan Wade, Phil Ivey, Scotty Nguyen, Roberto Romanello, Antonio Esfandiari and McLean Karr, just to name a few.
While there were scores of eliminations, a handful of notables managed to survive the day. Former November Niner Joseph Cheong; 2009 WSOP Europe runner-up Daniel Negreanu; 12-time bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth; October Nine chip leader Jesse Sylvia; recent WCOOP winner Jason Mercier; and the defending champ, Elio Fox, are just a few of the pros who’ll be returning to action on Day 3.
Here’s a look at the top ten End-of-Day-2 chip counts:
2012 WSOP Europe End-of-Day-2 Top Ten Counts
| Place | Player | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sergii Baranov | 607,000 |
| 2 | Axel Pergolizzi | 419,400 |
| 3 | Vladimir Troyanovskiy | 375,100 |
| 4 | Phil Hellmuth | 364,900 |
| 5 | Maxime Conte | 342,300 |
| 6 | Lifeng Chen | 340,500 |
| 7 | Huichen Kuo | 339,950 |
| 8 | Max Silver | 333,600 |
| 9 | Joseph Cheong | 328,400 |
| 10 | Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier | 326,700 |
Another six 90-minute levels are scheduled for Day 3 on Tuesday as the remaining 80 players look to make the money at the top 48. Play is scheduled to kick off at 12:00 PM local time, and of course PokerNews will be on hand to bring you all the action and eliminations from the 2012 WSOP Europe Main Event.
Level 12
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
All tables have finished up and the players are bagging up their chips. A day's recap will be posted shortly.
We caught up to find major commotion on the tournament floor with people yelling and going crazy.
The board read 
and October Niner Russell Thomas moved Timothy Reilly all in. Reilly tanked for about two minutes before finally calling with 
. Thomas was ahead, however, as he held 
.
The dealer tapped the table and produced a miracle river for Reilly - the 
.
Thomas slammed the table and stormed away as a vast majority of his stack was pushed across the table to Reilly. Thomas was eliminated a few hands later.
Level 12
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
The day is almost over, just three more hands.
Robert Schiffbauer was all in preflop with the 
. He was short stacked and up against the 
for Phil Hellmuth. On the flop, Hellmuth added two pair with the 
falling. He stayed in front from there after the 
turn and 
river to bust Schiffbauer from the tournament.
Level 12
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
From the cutoff seat, Jason Mercier raised to 4,000. Sam Cohen reraised to 11,700 from the small blind, and Mercier called.
The flop came down 
, and Cohen bet 12,700. Mercier folded, and Cohen picked up the pot.
