Sarah Link at Top of Chain of Command after Day 2 of King’s Million

The penultimate day of Event #2: €350 No-Limit Hold’em King’s Million at the 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Europe has wrapped up. Just 16 players remain in contention for the €113,350 top prize and the coveted WSOP bracelet inside the King’s Resort, Rozvadov.

After another full day of poker, Sarah Link of Germany ended on top of the counts, bagging 7,540,000. Link surged up the leaderboard late in the day when she found herself on the right side of a cooler to bust Daniel Skipper. In the final level, she spiked an ace to eliminate Miroslav Salaj and secure her place in pole position heading into the final day.

End of Day 2 Top Ten Chip Counts

Rank	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	Sarah Link	Germany	7,540,000	63
2	Vagke Sagkinian	Greece	7,235,000	60
3	Michal Szczeblewski	Poland	6,950,000	58
4	Bogdan Roman	Romania	5,950,000	50
5	Sascha Hausner	Germany	4,670,000	39
6	Stepan Budac	Moldova	4,555,000	38
7	Robert Dascalescu	Romania	3,900,000	33
8	Jan Kohl	Germany	3,720,000	31
9	Javier Francort	Netherlands	3,700,000	31
10	Heger Sare	Turkey	3,670,000	31

Greece’s Vagke Sagkinian takes the second spot on the leaderboard with 7,235,000 and is the only other player to have crossed the seven million mark. Michal Szczeblewski (6,950,000) sits in third place, boosted by winning a massive flip with ace-king against the pocket queens of Viorel Gavrila during the final level of the night.

The day began with 295 players returning from 3,229 total entries, all of whom had locked up at least a min-cash of €710 for reaching Day 2. Eliminations came quickly once the cards were in the air, and by the time the dinner break arrived after just four hours of play, three-quarters of the field had already been sent to the rail.

Among those who fell short of reaching tomorrow’s final two tables were bracelet winners Tobias Peters, Alexandros Kolonias, Rifat Palevic, Axel Bayout, Martin Kabrhel, Przemyslaw Szymanski, and Darius Neagoe, who lost the majority of his chips in a race before exiting a few hands later with an unimproved king-queen.

Other notables hitting the rail today included Andrei Spataru, Asish Ghosh, and Jan Bendik, who was chasing his second final table of the series after finishing as runner-up in Event #1 €1,200 NLH Bounty Hunter Opener just a few days ago.

Still in contention for the title and set to return tomorrow is Sascha Hausner (4,670,000), whose pocket aces delivered a double knockout late in the day. Stepan Budac (4,555,000), Javier Francort (3,700,000), Tudor Zapsa (3,480,000), and Cheng Zhao (2,170,000) also advanced, while Amiel Gamliel (825,000) comes back as the shortest stack with just seven big blinds to work with.

The final day of this three-day affair kicks off at 1 p.m. local time on Monday, September 22. Players will return with 17 minutes and 31 seconds left of Level 31, with blinds at 60,000/120,000 and a big blind ante of 120,000. Each of the remaining contenders has locked up at least €4,600 for their efforts, however, all eyes are on the €113,350 top prize and the coveted gold bracelet that awaits the winner.