Event #7: €10,450 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event Day 2 | 2012 World Series of Poker Europe

Event #7: €10,450 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event

Day 2 Completed

10-02-2012 01:13 UTC+3

Day 2 Comes to an End with Baranov Leading Final 77

Chad Holloway

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.

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10-02-2012 01:12 UTC+3

Official End-of-Day Chip Counts

donpeters

Player	Chips	Progress
Sergii Baranov	607,000	382,000

Axel Pergolizzi	419,400	375,625

Vladimir Troyanovskiy	375,100	157,100

Phil Hellmuth	364,900	248,750

Maxime Conte	342,300	281,825

Lifeng Chen	340,500	305,550

Kitty Kuo	339,950	250,475
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Max Silver	333,600	281,625

Joseph Cheong	328,400	276,525

Bertrand Grospellier	326,700	136,300
Ambassador
Curt Kohlberg	298,500	250,175

Daniel Negreanu	290,000	152,500
Ambassador
Dan Smith	274,300	204,300

Nicolas Cieutat	266,500	146,500

Toby Lewis	247,700	221,900

Christopher Brammer	246,300	11,300

Philipp Gruissem	235,000	100,000

Kristijonas Andrulis	221,200	179,075

Timothy Reilly	217,800	179,450

Timothy Adams	214,000	79,525

Jesse Sylvia	209,000	178,650

Vadzim Markushevski	207,300	173,850

JC Alvarado	206,700	58,700

Kyle Julius	205,300	178,300

David Benyamine	201,500	143,200

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10-02-2012 01:11 UTC+3

Bagging and Tagging

donpeters

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.

10-02-2012 00:56 UTC+3

End o' Night

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10-02-2012 00:56 UTC+3

Thomas Gets Aces Cracked; Eliminated a Few Hands Later

Josh_Cahlik

We caught up to find major commotion on the tournament floor with people yelling and going crazy.

The board read {7-Clubs} {K-Hearts} {q-Clubs} {9-Spades} and October Niner Russell Thomas moved Timothy Reilly all in. Reilly tanked for about two minutes before finally calling with {A-Spades} {K-Diamonds} . Thomas was ahead, however, as he held {A-Clubs} {A-Hearts} .

The dealer tapped the table and produced a miracle river for Reilly - the {K-Spades} .

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.

Player	Chips	Progress
Timothy Reilly	220,000	75,000

Russell Thomas	Busted

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10-02-2012 00:52 UTC+3

Three More Hands

Happy_Freaked

Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

The day is almost over, just three more hands.

10-02-2012 00:52 UTC+3

All Gone!

Happy_Freaked

Player	Chips	Progress
Thibaut Demoulin	Busted

Nicolas Staletti	Busted

Micah Smith	Busted

Thomas Miller	Busted

Said Sadallah	Busted

Ashton Griffin	Busted

Michel Pomaret	Busted

Antonin Teisseire	Busted

Eli Berg	Busted

Salvatore Bonavena	Busted

Philippe Boucher	Busted

Flavien Guenan	Busted

Konstantin Puchkov	Busted

Martial Blangenwitsch	Busted

Robert Finlay	Busted

Fowzi Baroukh	Busted

Sean Giesbrecht	Busted

10-02-2012 00:47 UTC+3

Hellmuth Eliminates Schiffbauer

donpeters

Robert Schiffbauer was all in preflop with the {10-Diamonds} {10-Hearts} . He was short stacked and up against the {7-Spades} {3-Spades} for Phil Hellmuth. On the flop, Hellmuth added two pair with the {9-Spades} {7-Hearts} {3-Hearts} falling. He stayed in front from there after the {5-Diamonds} turn and {4-Diamonds} river to bust Schiffbauer from the tournament.