On the second day of the Main Event the 218 remaining players of the 573 entries from the four start days joined forced in a single Day 2. The registration was still open until the end of the first two levels of the day and another 48 entries and re-entries were registered, resulting in a final field of 621 players. This means the Main Event was hitting the official €300,000 guarantee. From the 621 runners 71 places would be paid out, with a min-cash paying €1,000 and first place taking home €59,000.
The chip leader at the start of Day 2 was Pavol Melichar who amassed 223k chips on day 1A, and he used his massive stack well. He survived Day 2 and we’ll be seeing him in Day 3 as well.
The unfortunate last player to bust without receiving money was the German Markus Ganglbauer. He lost a coin flip race against Vladimir Bednar. Ganglbauer was all-in with A K against Bednar’s 10 10 before the flop. The board ran down Q 9 4 10 K , giving Bednar a set. Ganglbauer had to take is leave in spot #72 as all the other players were guaranteed at least a €1k cash.
One more Day or Two?
Incidentally, tomorrow may turn out to be the final day of this Main Event – with only 31 players remaining, the tournament director was debating earlier whether to play down to a winner tomorrow. Either way, the final table will be livestreamed direct from Banco Casino to your computer.
Those are the counts for the remaining players:
| Fotios Konstantinos | 1665k |
| Igor Panak | 1070k |
| Bernhard Haider | 790k |
| Erik Seffer | 785k |
| Peter Hanke | 685k |
| Filip Sramka | 680k |
| Martin Mauthner | 680k |
| Thomas De Rooij | 560k |
| Jozef Krajan | 560k |
| Marjan Mitrovski | 550k |
| Mihaly Jancso | 535k |
| Andras Matrai | 530k |
| Aare Haapsal | 485k |
| Tor Welo | 465k |
| Panagiotis Chantzaras | 460k |
| Miroslav Lelek | 455k |
| Viktor Eriksson | 385k |
| Frank Reichel | 380k |
| Aleksandar Tomovic | 365k |
| David Vedral | 330k |
| Mario Eder | 300k |
| Michal Janczarski | 150k |
| Tomche Spaseski | 145k |
Those are the payouts so far:
| 1 | €59,000 | |
| 2 | €43,000 | |
| 3 | €29,000 | |
| 4 | €20,500 | |
| 5 | €14,000 | |
| 6 | €10,000 | |
| 7 | €7,500 | |
| 8 | €5,975 | |
| 9 | €4,600 | |
| 10 | €4,600 | |
| 11 | €3,500 | |
| 12 | €3,500 | |
| 13 | €3,500 | |
| 14 | €2,700 | |
| 15 | €2,700 | |
| 16 | €2,700 | |
| 17 | €2,200 | |
| 18 | €2,200 | |
| 19 | €2,200 | |
| 20 | €2,200 | |
| 21 | €2,200 | |
| 22 | €2,200 | |
| 23 | €2,200 | |
| 24 | €2,200 | |
| 25 | €1,800 | |
| 26 | €1,800 | |
| 27 | €1,800 | |
| 28 | €1,800 | |
| 29 | €1,800 | |
| 30 | €1,800 | |
| 31 | €1,800 | |
| 32 | Andras Halasi | €1,800 |
| 33 | Juraj Valasky | €1,500 |
| 34 | Tomas Vojtek | €1,500 |
| 35 | Vladimir Bednar | €1,500 |
| 36 | Devid Berlin | €1,500 |
| 37 | Daniel Koloczar | €1,500 |
| 38 | Peter Bergman | €1,500 |
| 39 | Didier Pirard | €1,500 |
| 40 | Daniele Grassi | €1,500 |
| 41 | Pavel Chalupka | €1,200 |
| 42 | Patrik Ciklamini | €1,200 |
| 43 | Quoc Ly | €1,200 |
| 44 | Leo Worthington-Leese | €1,200 |
| 45 | Robert Sloboda | €1,200 |
| 46 | Martin Ilavsky | €1,200 |
| 47 | Peter Varga | €1,200 |
| 48 | Carina Wald | €1,200 |
| 49 | Robin Hegele | €1,200 |
| 50 | Kristoffer Winterstein | €1,200 |
| 51 | Alexandros Erotorritou | €1,200 |
| 52 | Marcin Stachyra | €1,200 |
| 53 | Lars Eklund | €1,200 |
| 54 | Ninni Malmi | €1,200 |
| 55 | Richard Vladar | €1,200 |
| 56 | Luka Bojovic | €1,200 |
| 57 | Sami Pullianen | €1,000 |
| 58 | Sandor Dudas | €1,000 |
| 59 | Stefan Reiser | €1,000 |
| 60 | Robert Manner | €1,000 |
| 61 | Kaider Viikman | €1,000 |
| 62 | Jonas Kovacs | €1,000 |
| 63 | Tiikka Tiensuu | €1,000 |
| 64 | Jiri Kocab | €1,000 |
| 65 | Ondrej Jakubcik | €1,000 |
| 66 | Peter Muhlbek | €1,000 |
| 67 | Davide Saitta | €1,000 |
| 68 | Peter Cekan | €1,000 |
| 69 | Daniel Holmedahl | €1,000 |
| 70 | Patrick Jowa | €1,000 |
| 71 | Fabian Gumz | €1,000 |
Some impressions from the tournament:
Coming up
Apart from day 3 of the Poker Main Event there will be more events on this Saturday. A second Open Face Chinese Tournament will commence alongside a heads up event and a late night PLO turbo.
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