Chris Ferguson survived the bubble in Event #6 €2,200 Pot-Limit Omaha and became the first casualty in the money to rack up points for the 2017 WSOP Player of the Year race. Ferguson then jumped into Day 1e and sits next to Ivan Freitez and Georgios Zisimopoulos, the same table also features big stack Shabtai Koren and Luis Dono.
Thomas Pettersson picked up back-to-back kings and won both of them, doubling his stack through Oliver Heidel.
Then, Cosmin Joldis raised to 700 and Teunis Kooij called from one seat over, as did Pettersson. "Three in a row?" Jeff Cormier asked to Pettersson and announced all in soon after. Joldis asked for a count and reshoved to the 10,800 jam of Cormier, which forced out Kooij and Pettersson.
"You can't have black kings because I have one of them," Cormier joked and turned over . Joldis rolled over and the flop fell . "I am dead," Cormier sighed and added "I am so dead" on the turn when Joldis improved to quads, the river was already a formality.
Soon after, Joldis got value from for top pair after his opponent in tzhe small blind check-called bets of 1,800 on the turn and 3,400 on the river.
A three-bet to 2,000 was in front of Fabian Gumz on the button and his sole remaining opponent in the hijack reraised to 4,700. Gumz gave it some consideration and called to see a flop of . The hijack only briefly hesitated before firing a continuation bet of 5,000 and Gumz folded.
Thomas Pettersson raised to 800 and was called by two opponents on the button and the big blind. The flop fell and the action checked to the Swede, who bet 1,250. Only the big blind called and checked again the on the turn. Pettersson bet 3,500 with 2,500 behind and that was enough to win the pot.
Before the break, Patrick Schuhl doubled with versus after check-shoving a flop of for his last 3,575 in a three-bet pot. The Frenchman got the turn and river run out and never looked back after to build his stack further.
With some 12,000 already in the middle and the board showing , Rex Clinkscales from under the gun and [Removed:423] from two seats over. Leonardo Romeo moved all in for 4,000 and Clinkscales called.
Mathow was in the think tank and Clinkscales asked "Do you have king ten or king queen? One of the two?" Mathow folded face up and Clinkscales showed for second pair and Romeo mucked for the busted open-ended straight draw.
On the four-way flop of , [Removed:423] bet 300 from early position and Oleksandr Karpachov raised to 900. One player as well as Rex Clinkscales in the big blind folded and Mathow called. The turn was checked and Mathow bet small for 300 on the river. "Easy call," he said to Karpachov, who indeed called and then mucked when Mathow showed .
The same table also features Anatoliy Zyrin, who has been cut down to around half the starting stack thus far.