Coolbet Open 2023 Day 2

The heads-up was an interesting match to watch, it was either going to be Finland or Egypt who would take home the trophy and the first prize of € 60.000! It was eventually Finland who took the title!

Aziz lost half of his stack during the heads-up, and went eventually all-in for 3,100,000 with Ace-Four against the Tens of Hakala. The board finished eventually with [Qx][Tx][8x][9x][7x]. And hereby it all came to an end here at the Coolbet Open 2023!

Tomorrow we will recap not only the final day, but the whole week as well! A lot of interesting things have happened here throughout the week, which we are going to share with you all!

	Ville Tapani Hakala		1st – € 60.000
	Maged Aziz		2nd – € 38.690

VILLE TAPANI HAKALA		12,990,000
Maged Aziz		5,465,000

Ylva Thorsrud run in the Main Event came to an end on 3rd place for € 25.190. She pushed her last chips into the middle with K 4 , and ended up being against the 10 10 of Aziz. with a Queen-high board, and no fours either, she ended her good run in this Main Event.

Ylva Thorsrud

3rd – € 25.190

Yehuda Yosef from Israel, mostly had been chip leader this tournament. But at the final table he saw himself in a difficult spot suddenly and had his tournament life at risk.

Yosef: A K

Hakala: 5 5

It would turn out to be a very sick board with J 2 5 , and the turn Q . The river would give a flush to Yosef, but it was Hakala who made the best hand as he got four-of-a-kind 5 .

We had to say goodbye to the last player from Israel. The nationality with the most unique players in this tournament, a stunning 120!

Yehuda Yosef

4th – € 18.440

After doubling up his stack, Rafael Ben decided it was time to attack the dominating Chip Leader. He opened the action himself, and Hakala put Rafael Ben at risk when he put him all-in. Rafael Ben instantly called, which was quite opportunistic when looking on his cards. He needed help:

Rafael Ben: A 4

Hakala: A K

The flop gave plenty of choppertunities 8 10 10 , but with the A on the turn, it became extremely difficult. When the 8 landed on the river, it was the end of the story for the passionate player from Israel.

Rafael Ben

5th – € 13.940

We are down to five players as one of the Fins in the game in the likes of Hokkanen, walked towards the pay out desk. It was waiting for the bust outs for a long time, but it seems the players have found the right gear for now!

Hakala opened the action as chip leader, and fellow Fin Hokkannen went all-in, which got called by Hakala.

Hokkanen needed to hold with 8’s, but Hakala made a street on the turn with Ace-Jack. End of story for one of the Fins.

JAAKKO MIKAEL HOKKANEN

6th – € 10.340

Florian Fuchs, one of the players who took care of quite some action here at Day 3, unfortunately went out in 7th place. Against the chip leader Hakala it came down to coinflip another coinflip for Fuchs, as he lost a super important flip not too long ago against Rafael Ben with Tens against Ace-Queen.

Hakala had opened up the action, and Fuchs put it in for 20 big blinds. Hakala thought for a bit and made the call.

Fuchs: A K

Hakala: 8 8

The board ran out: 2 9 7 J 3

Unfortunate for the player Fuchs, which finally rings a bell where I know him from. I spoke to him swiftly, and he mentioned he was part of The Grindhouse #1.

Florian Fuchs

7th – € 7.260

Level 29: 60,000/120,000/120,000

Average: 2,657,143

Players: 7/620

	VILLE TAPANI HAKALA	5,860,000
	FLORIAN FUCHS	3,515,000
	JAAKKO MIKAEL HOKKANEN	1,090,000
	YLVA KIM THORSRUD	1,515,000
	RAFAEL RAFI BEN	1,515,000
	YEHUDA YOSEF	3.620.000
	MAGED AZIZ	1,340,000

It is break time here in the Main Event, with 7 players left in the contest. During the break, we talked to Ylva Thorsrud and she stated that not much happened yet at all. Florian Fuchs, one of the leaders of the pack, then mentioned he was fairly tired after a long week of poker. 3 days in a row, 10 to 12 hours of poker, is taking its toll for some it seems. Let’s pray and see if the fireworks will go up in the air after the break.

Jasmine Schuster, from Vienna in Austria, put her last 680,000 chips into the middle, and got called by Yosef. We were up to the races with a 1,9M pot:

Schuster: A 6

Yosef: J J

Board: 8 3 A 2 2

Schuster nicely doubled up here, but shortly after, she still was going to be sent to the rail.

Yosef opened up the action, and got a 3-bet from Hakanan. Schuster however woke up with a great hand and decided to go for it with 1,6M in chips. Yosef laid it down, but Hakala called the all-in with Aces. Schuster needed help with her Ace-King, but wasn’t lucky enough to break the aces. Hakala chips up to 4,5M chips, and Schuster is the first one to leave the official final table in 8th place.

Jasmine Schuster

8th – € 5.090

As the average is still like 30 big blinds deep, the players are carefully looking for the right spots. Everyone wants to win of course, but the aggressive play factor isn’t that big just yet. Let’s hope the pots will be a bit more juicy soon enough!

Aziz opened up the action to 120,000 and Thorsrud made the call with A Q . Rafael Ben also decided to call from the big blind with 10 8 .

Flop: 8 3 Q

Ylva Thorsrud made a continuation bet, and Ben decided to hang in and called. Turn K made both people check. And the A on the river gave Thorsrud another bet, on which Ben found the fold.

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Hakala, the big stack at the final table, just lost an all-in with pocket 4’s against the Ace-Ten from Aziz. A nice Ten on the flop took care of it all, and Aziz is completely back in the game.

At 18:00 CET it is time for yet another satellite tournament to The Festival Series here at the Coolbet Open. Martin ‘Franke’ von Zweigbergk is also here splashing every single pot you can image. He actually had made it to the second day of the Main Event, as the shortest stack of all with 19,000 chips. Within 5 minutes it was Game-Over.

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Level 27: 40,000/80,000/80,000

Average: 2,325,000

Players: 8/620

	1	YEHUDA YOSEF	3.810.000
	2	VILLE TAPANI HAKALA	3.540.000
	3	FLORIAN FUCHS	2.970.000
	4	JAAKKO MIKAEL HOKKANEN	2.555.000
	5	YLVA KIM THORSRUD	2.305.000
	6	RAFAEL RAFI BEN	1.505.000
	7	JASMINE SCHUSTER	1.000.000
	8	MAGED AZIZ	770.000

Schuster finally found a spot to put her chips into the middle with [Qx][Jx], Yosef checked his cards from the big blind and decided to make the call with [Ax][Qx]. Hereby, one of the two remaining females in the tournament, was at risk. With a [Jx] on the flop, she managed to take the lead, and good for her, she kept that lead until after the river. Sweet double up!

Fuchs put himself at risk when he called for his tournament life on the turn on a board [5x][Kx][Qx][Ax]. He was quite behind with [Ax][Jx] against the [Kx][Qx] of Rafael. When the river landed Fuchs improved his hand to a higher two-pair [5x], and managed to sit down a little bit more comfortable.

During the break prior to the Final Table, Fuchs did some small meditation session outside the casino. It seems that it worked out well in regard to help from above. With over $400,000 in live career earnings, he is looking to top it up even more here at the Coolbet Open. Florian came in the picture late on Day 2, when he absolutely crushed his opponents by very dominating plays. Here on Day 3, the final day, he continued to boost up his stack. It took a little hit on the final table, but he is in the top of the ranks again after the hand mentioned above. Let’s see what he can bring more.

YEHUDA YOSEF		4.695.000
VILLE TAPANI HAKALA		3,385,000
KIM THORSRUD		2,455,000
JAAKKO MIKAEL HOKKANEN		2,335,000
RAFAEL RAFI BEN		2,300,000
FLORIAN FUCHS		1,565,000
MAGED AZIZ		1,040,000
JASMINE SCHUSTER		605,000

#1-€ 60.000

#2-€ 38.690

#3-€ 25.190

#4-€ 18.440

#5-€ 13.940

#6-€ 10.340

#7-€ 7.260

#8-€ 5.090

#9-€ 4.195

What a cooler to start the final table with! Ville Hakala with the Aces, against Oystein Stay with Kings! No king on the board and a massive pot goes to Finland and Hakala goes straight towards the lead.

Ville Hakala		4,500,000
Oystein Stai		800,000

By following a tournament from the very first minute until the very end, you are picking up quite some information about the players. Especially towards the final table, the actions are more frequent and we have a closer look on it.

• Yehuda Yosef: busted out on day 1a, in the last level of the day. And re-entered the tournament on day 1c. He had build up himself again a decent stack, and with his full table being bigger stacks as well, it would be likely to have the overall chip leader eventually from that table. That happened and Yosef became the overall chip leader with 860,000. On day 2, he never had been in any trouble and easily kept his stack safe through the entire day. On day 3, at first he stayed under the radar, but once being at the feature table he knew it was time to shine. You can see that he is not afraid that easily, showing the Ace-Jack call against the Fin Oskari. From there onwards, he took down pot after pot and is again the chip leader of the tournament. Most definately he will make sure there will be fireworks at the last table of this Main Event.

To reach the final nine players, we had to get rid of one more player. Eventually it would be Daniel Shaker, who would not make it from the three Austrians left in the game.

Yosef opens up the action with Ace-King, and gets a three-bet from the active player Florian Fuchs with Eight-Nine. Shaker then decides to give it a go, with Yosef of course making the call.

Yosef: [Ax][Kx]

Shaker: [Ax][Jx]

The board ran out Q 2 7 10 4 , and we lose Shaker in 10th place.

Daniel Shaker

10th – € 3.590

	Country	Player Name	Chips	HendonMob
		Florian Fuchs	3.190.000	$400,587
		Jaakko Hokkanen	1.995.000	$12,600
		Oystein Stai	2.935.000	$122,197
		Yehuda Yosef	4.560.000	$8,697
		Maged Aziz	800,000	$243,226
		Rafael Rafi Ben	1.230.000	$9,147
		Ylva ‘Jevakim’ Thorsrud	815.000	$121,045
		Jasmine Schuster	740.000	$1,496
		Ville Tapani Hakala	2.190.000	$71,855

Young gun Jukka Oskari from Finland stands next to us in the rail. A couple minutes ago he busted out of the Coolbet Open Main Event in 11th place for € 3.590.

Oskari opens with K K to 100,000. Yosef finds A J in the big blind and raises it up to 350,000. Great news for Oskari and after some thinking he his remaining 1,400,000 all in the middle.

The board runs out 10 2 Q 9 A , and as unlucky as it gets, Oskari is out in 11th place.

Jukka Oskari

€ 3.590

FLORIAN FUCHS		3.560.000
JAAKKO MIKAEL HOKKANEN		2.820.000
OEYSTEIN STAI		2.485.000
YEHUDA YOSEF		1.770.000
MAGED AZIZ		1.540.000
OSKARI JUKKA TAPIO PIIRA		1.455.000
RAFAEL RAFI BEN		1.105.000
YLVA KIM THORSRUD		1.090.000
JASMINE SCHUSTER		995.000
DANIEL SHAKER		835.000
VILLE TAPANI HAKALA		800.000

Brandon Mifsud from Malta, with a great American accent, busts out in 12th place from the feature table. Again someone who had a very good second day at the Main Event, but bite the dust on the final day. He takes home € 3.590.

He defend with 7 6 his blind, against the open of Ylva Thorsrud with A A .

Flop : 8 J 3

It went all-in on the flop and Mifsud didn’t improve his hand to a flush and gave away a fair amount of his stack.

With his 8 remaining big blinds, he got it in right after with Deuces against the Ace-Nine of Aziz Maged.

Brandon Mifsud

12th – € 3.590

As the feature table is being streamed, we will focus mainly on the outer table. There is an interesting line-up with three Austrian friends all next to each other, Florian Fuchs, Daniel Shaker, and Jasmine Schuster. Alongside them we have Yehuda Yosef and Rafael Rafi Ben from Israel, and the young Jukka Oskari from Finland.

Florian Fuchs is applying continuous pressure on the table and finds himself involved in many pots so far. While another active player, Daniel Shaker, cannot find any spots to join in on the action today. Yesterday, however he was in the same situation as Fuchs.

Jukka Oskari keeps himself quite, based on the poker action. One all-in he won with 9’s against the Ace-Ten from Fuchs, and celebrated very passionately.

Rafael Rafi Ben is also reasonably active involved in pots with the current chip leader Florian Fuchs, and takes down some pots here and there. Yehuda Yosef on the hand, chip leader from Day 1, keeps himself under the radar so far.

It’s not always the case that the best hand wins in poker. Keito Kaljulaid, from Estonia, busted out in 13th place when his Aace-Queen couldn’t hold against the Ace-Jack of Ylva Thorsrud. Keito also mentioned that another player at the table had folded a Jack, which makes it even more unfortunate.

• On Friday, Keito jumped into the €165 Turbo and managed to win it all for €3,850.

Keito Kaljulaid

13th – € 3.050

Unfortunately for Peter, it wasn’t his day today. As ultimate short stack, he managed to become 14th for € 3.050. In the last hand his pocket 4’s couldn’t hold against the King-Jack of Maged Aziz. A king on the turn would seal the deal for Aziz to chip up, and for Peter to hit the showers.

Peter Jaroslav

14th – € 3.050

It’s not a good start for the Norwegian players left on Days 3. Roy Sorknes and Jonatan Wedde went out respectively in 15th and 16th place.

Sorknes had to find a miracle when he found himself al-in with [Ax][5x] versus the pocket sixes of Florian Fuchs. Sadly for him, no Ace appeared on the board and he busted out of Day 3 within 30 minutes.

Roy Sorknes		15th – € 3.050
Jonatan Wedde		16th – € 2.605

Place	Country	Player Name	Prize
1		JAAKKO MIKAEL HOKKANEN	2,760,000
2		FLORIAN FUCHS	2,350,000
3		BRANDON CHARLES MIFSUD	2,220,000
4		YEHUDA YOSEF	1,900,000
5		DANIEL SHAKER	1,720,000
6		JASMINE SCHUSTER	1,690,000
7		MAGED AZIZ	955,000
8		RAFAEL RAFI BEN	820,000
9		VILLE TAPANI HAKALA	675,000
10		OSKARI JUKKA TAPIO PIIRA	655,000
11		JONATAN KROGVIV WEDDE	615,000
12		YLVA KIM THORSRUD	605,000
13		KEITO KALJULAID	485,000
14		OEYSTEIN STAI	410,000
15		ROY THOMAS SORKNES	355,000
16		JAROSLAV PETER	260,000

We are live again from the Coolbet Open here at Bratislava. The last 16 players are all set to kick off and to try and reach the final table, where the big money is going to be shared. The top prize of 60,000 is in play, where many always have played for, to get finally this first prize and the trophy.

Jasmine Schuster, is one of the two female players who is in good shape at the final 16. With 1,690,000 in chips, she is currently in sixth place. Let’s get the cards in the air!

A little after, we will provide you the chip counts from the remaining players. Tomorrow at 12:00 CET, play will continue!

We have lost the last two players before the end was there for Day 2. Saevarsson could not win with his A 10 versus the Deuces from Oskari. Board ran out 4 8 J 7 8 .

Unfortunate for the last ‘Colo Colo’ football fan. As he, and many other Icelanders were dressed every day in a shirt of the popular football club from Chile.

17	KJARTAN SAEVARSSON		€ 2.605
18	CHRISTIAN SYKORA		€ 2.605

We are down to 18 players in a rapid way. There are officialy no more local players in the game. Two more people to bust and then we stop playing for today.

19	BARNABAS NAGY			€ 2.605
20	PER ERIK GJELTEN			€ 2.240
21	MARTIN ILAVSKY			€ 2.240

Level 22: 10,000/25,000/25,000

Average: 885,714

Players: 21/620

The player UTG made it 55,000 to go, where Shaker made the call from the button. The big blind however, moved all-in for 290,000. It got folded to Shaker, who then made the call.

Rafi ben Rafael: [Ax][Ax]

Daniel Shaker: [8x][8x].

No eight, nor an ace on the board, and Rafi made a victory dance.

Daniel Shaker	1,200,000
Rafi ben Rafael	700,000

Level 21: 10,000/20,000/20,000

Average: 808,696

Players: 23/620

The Norwegian Roy Sorknes found himself all-in and and risk against the Greek Pougaridis. He was miles ahead with Jacks against the Nines of the Greek. The board ran blank for both, and Sorknes coming close to an average stack

Roy Sorknes

750,000

Yesterday, during the last two opening flights of the Main Event, we had a surprise guest in the name of Martin Karbhel. The controversial Czech poker player came for the second event in a row here to Banco Casino to play the Main Event. A massive 196 entries were done on Day 1e, while Day 1f made it happen that the guarantee would be reached. We made a little recap about the whole day, including the seat draws and and chip counts for Day 2.

We have 24 players left, with some very interesting players still active with over averaged stacks. Ylva Thorsrud and Jasmine Schuster are keeping the female participation high here. And then Fuchs, Shaker, Jonatan Wedde, are being really focused to get a massive run here. Yehuda Yosef, chip leader after Day 1, still has a big amount of chips in front of him. While Andrej Desset and Martin Ilavsky need to keep the Slovakian pride on a high level.

24	ANDREJ DESSET		€ 1.940
25	JOEL CHRISTIAN SALMIRINNE		€ 1.940
26	BOGDANS PETRUKS		€ 1.940
27	FRODE HOEL		€ 1.940
28	OSAR ARON KROGVIK WEDDE		€ 1.940
29	ROTEM BAR NOY		€ 1.940
30	GILLES FELIX M MAGNY		€ 1.940
31	ERIK POLLUVEER		€ 1.705
32	MANUEL BLASCHKE		€ 1.705
33	HAGSTROM KIM JOHNNY MICHAEL		€ 1.705
34	ROSTYSLAV SABISHCHENKO		€ 1.705
35	STANISLAV KOLENO		€ 1.705

We are coming back from break:

Level 21: 10,000/20,000/20,000

Average: 688,889

Players: 27/620

MAGED AZIZ		325,000
YEHUDA YOSEF		1,800,000
RAFAEL RAFI BEN		650,000
YLVA KIM THORSRUD		850,000
GRIGORIOS POUGARIDIS		625,000
PER ERIK GJELTEN		250,000

FRODE HOEL		120,000
BOGDANS PETRUKS		150,000
FLORIAN FUCHS		1,350,000
DANIEL SHAKER		1,800,000
JONATAN KROGVIV WEDDE		500,000
JAROSLAV PETER		350,000

The Young Guns of Austria started to have a play in the ball park. Florian Fuchs opened up the action to 35,000. And Daniel Shaker 3-bet to 100,000. They both have a little more as the 1 million chip mark. Manuel Blaschke however, was not impressed at all, and moved all-in for approximately 400,000.

When Fuchs went out of the way, Shaker made the call and we would go to the races:

Shaker: A K

Blaschke: 4 4

The flop was good news for Blaschke, and bad at the same time with 10 10 Q . The turn was still safe with a 7 , but the river sealed the deal for Shaker with the K .

Daniel Shaker		1,600,000
Manuel Blaschke		Busted

Sabishchenko from Ukraine, was all-in and at risk with his 7s against the Aces of Saevarsson. An ace on the flop made it all history for the Ukrainian and left the poker room with €1,705 in cash.

Kjartan Saevarsson		550,000
Rostyslav Sabishchenko		Busted

36	PEKKA SAMULI IKONEN		€ 1.705
37	SHAHAR LEVINGER		€ 1.705
38	OHAD AHARON FREUND		€ 1.705
39	SAEVAR INGI SAEVARSSON		€ 1.705
40	YAIR KIMHI		€ 1.505
41	HALLDOR MAR SVERRISSON		€ 1.505
42	GUNTER JOSEF JAKWERTH		€ 1.505
43	DORON FERENBACH LAHAV		€ 1.505

One of the two ladies left in the tournament, Ylva Thorsrud from Norway, just doubled up to a very nice stack. Saevar Saevarsson tangled with her in an all-in situation pre-flop.

Thorsrud: K K

Saevarsson: A 10

The board ran out with 4 four diamonds, of which the last diamond was an Ace. For a little moment there was a some confusion, but indeed, the Ace was not good enough for Saevarsson as Thorsrud made a flush.

Little bit after, Saevarsson gave away his last chips and busted out.

Ylva ‘Jevakim’ Thorsrud		950,000
Saevar Saevarsson		Busted

Yair Kimhi just came off from the Feature Table, until he moved to table #22. The same players where he was with at the Feature Table joined him. Already three times he won an all-in situation today, and every time we heard him saying ”Guys, this is my tournament. It’s my day today”. The fourth all-in however…

The Poker Gods didn’t like the force, so decided it was time to bust out in 40st place. GG!

Tonight is the last Streamers Hyper Turbo at 21:00 CET, and this time its the turn of ‘Sycksbe‘, to have his name linked to the tournament. Since day 1, Christian Arstad is absolutely grinding the Coolbet Open from A to Z. Currently, he is playing the PLO Hi/Lo, but after he will compete in his own Hyper Turbo Tournament.

Level 19: 6,000/12,000/12,000

Average: 465,000

Players: 40/620

Maged Aziz was all-in for his tournament life with just 40 players remaining. He went all-in for 151,000 from early position and Juka Oskari made the call from middle position. When the rest went out of the way, we had a showdown.

Aziz: J Q

Oskari: A A

The board ran out Q 10 3 7 2 , and Aziz moved up in the ranks.

Maged Aziz

332,000

There are 42 players left in competition, and all of them have they eyes on the first prize of €60,000, and the most prestigious title of this Coolbet Open. We are playing down to 16 players today, or until the end of 10 levels of 60-minutes each.

Level 19: 6,000/12,000/12,000

Average: 442,857

Players: 42/620

We also have new players on the Feature Table with Brandon Mifsud and Oskar Wedde in the mix, which you can check down below:

Player Name	Country	Chips
STANISLAV KOLENO		150,000
MAGED AZIZ		500,000
JASMINE SCHUSTER		375,000
OSKARI JUKKA TAPIO PIIRA		520,000
ANDREJ DESSET		540,000
JOEL CHRISTIAN SALMIRINNE		250,000
CHRISTIAN SYKORA		425,000

Player Name	Country	Chips
KJARTAN SAEVARSSON		197,000
BOGDANS PETRUKS		250,000
ROY THOMAS SORKNES		440,000
ROTEM BAR NOY		510,000
GRIGORIOS POUGARIDIS		160,000
KEITO KALJULAID		300,000
ROSTYSLAV SABISHCHENKO		410,000

Player Name	Country	Chips
VILLE TAPANI HAKALA		320,000
JAAKKO MIKAEL HOKKANEN		1,075,000
JONATAN KROGVIV WEDDE		220,000
OEYSTEIN STAI		500,000
RAFAEL RAFI BEN		410,000
JACOB AMOS MELLOUL		440,000
FRODE HOEL		160,000

Player Name	Country	Chips
GUNTER JOSEF JAKWERTH		177,000
PER ERIK GJELTEN		382,000
SHAHAR LEVINGER		130,000
FLORIAN FUCHS		820,000
DANIEL SHAKER		1,150,000
MANUEL BLASCHKE		510,000
JAROSLAV PETER		300,000

Oskar Wedde, who sits at table #25, and just like his brother Jonathan still in the game in the Main Event, opened up the action to 25,000 from the Button. Martin Ilavsky from Slowakia called from the big blind.

Both saw a flop 3 9 4 . It was Ilavsky with the check/raise to 60,000, which got called by Wedde after some tanking. The turn gave flush possibilities with 10 , and this time it was Ilavksy who opened up the action with a bet of 85,000, which also got called by Wedde.

The river gave another ten with the 10 . Illavsky continued his raid and moved all-in on the river, which got insta-called by Wedde who showed Q 8 for a Flush. Ilavsky could only show J 9 and gave a massive part of his stack away.

Oskar Wedde		750,000
Martin Ilavsky		250,000

44	EDEN SHAUL ELBAZ		€ 1.505
45	RUSLAN VOLKOV		€ 1.505
46	ANDRES ROBERT VILHJALMSSON		€ 1.505
47	ELOD ZSOMBOK		€ 1.505
48	ALBERT ZARHI		€ 1.340
49	SIGURDUR AKI SIGURDSSON		€ 1.340
50	DANIEL EIHAIANY		€ 1.340
51	VITALII SHCHERBA		€ 1.340
52	ADEM MARJANOVIC		€ 1.340
53	ANDREJ CINTULA		€ 1.340
54	ANDRAS MATRAI		€ 1.340
55	LUKASZ PAWEL FRACZEK		€ 1.340
56	MARCIN IGOR PUCZYLOWSKI		€ 1.215
57	ITZHAK DAGMI		€ 1.215
58	ERIK HAMRE		€ 1.215
59	DAVID ELKA		€ 1.215
60	GUDJON IVAR JONSSON		€ 1.215
61	JONA BIRGER BOMAN		€ 1.215
62	MIKLOS BANYASZ		€ 1.215
63	HEIMAR LILL		€ 1.215
64	RUSLAN SOLOMONOV		€ 1.110

We have the chip leader Yehuda Yosef, and Coolbet Twitch Streamer Ylva ‘Jevakim’ Thorsrud!

Level 17: 4000/8000/8000

Average: 290,625

Players: 64/620

As per usual, after the bubble burst, there are a lot of casualties: 

65	DARREN GERARD HIGGINS		€ 1.110
66	JOONA PYRY RAINAMAA		€ 1.110
67	MEIR SHIMON CHEN		€ 1.110
68	ALEXANDRU BUDAI		€ 1.110
69	JEROEN AARTS		€ 1.110
70	PETER BUMBA		€ 1.110
71	KARL PETER MIKAEL BRATT		€ 1.110
72	LARS HUSUM NILSEN		€ 1.005
73	PRIIT VANEM		€ 1.005
74	JOHAN BENGT AAKE EKDAHL		€ 1.005
75	TOMAS PATKA		€ 1.005
76	EDGARAS TRUSKAUSKAS		€ 1.005
77	PHILIPP SANDER		€ 1.005
78	SAMI MITWALI		€ 1.005

Level 16: 3000/6000/6000

Average: 238,462

Players: 78/620

After many double ups of the short stacks, we finally have reached the money. There were 3 all-in situations, so the chance was there we were going to get to the money.

• First all-in situation was at table #21, where the absolute short stack Yair Kimhi went all-in for 27,000. Two players decided to make the call, but the short stack had Kings and held up against the two. Triple up!
• At table #23 it was pocket Jacks at risk against King-Queen. On the turn it have King-Queen a straight draw, but with only two Jacks left in the deck, chances were slim. Double up for the Jacks.
• At table 62# we finally had the bubble burst when Aces were all-in versus Jacks. The board remained only low, and thus we had another victim, who would leave without any cash in this tournament.

Level 16: 3000/6000/6000

Average: 235,443

Players: 79/620

And we have a bust out at table #28. The short stack was at risk with his King-Queen, against Ace-Four. 

Board: [7x][4x][3x] [10x] [10x]

DIMITRIOS KATSIKAS

Level 16: 3000/6000/6000

Average: 232,500

Players: 80/620

Still hand-for-hand here and we will take a couple of interesting situations:

• Philip Sander from Germany opened up the action to 32,000, and was put all-in by Levinger who was sitting in the CU. With just 40,000 behind for Sander, it was a very odd move from the German, which tanked for 5 minutes before folding his hand.
• At another table we had an all-in situation with a player at risk with [Ax][Jx] against [Kx][7x]. The board ran out [Ax][Kx[7x]. The turn gave a blank, but the river was a [Jx] and so the short stack doubles up
• Edgaras fell to the last 19,000 and went all-in preflop with [Jx][5x] against an opponent’s [Ax][Kx]. With a board of [Kx] [Jx] [Tx] [7x] [5x], he secured a double up, and the hand-for-hand play continues.

Level 16: 3000/6000/6000

Average: 232,500

Players: 80/620

The hand-for-hand play is taking its time. Players are as per usual very patiently when they have to make a decision. We have had one all-in situation in the past five hands. Which we mentioned before in this blog.

Level 16: 3000/6000/6000

Average: 232,500

Players: 80/620

Saevarsson was all-in and a risk at the hand-for-hand play. When the cards opened he showed K K . His opponent had A 4 . Saevarsson was on the spot, on the flop. So it was an easy call for him to make here on the bubble.

Board K J 4

The turn and river gave a blank, which gave Saavarsson now 360,000 in chips to play with.

We are getting close to the money now, so it’s time the short stacks start to double up.

• Heimar Lill managed to double up his 36,000 stack with 10 Q , against A K . The board ran out Q-High and he could hope a bit more for a deep run today.
• Another Estonian, Erik Polluveer, threw in his last 50,000 with Ace-Nine, and got called by chip leader Yehuda Yosef with Ace-Jack. Fortunately for Estonia, the board would show two nines, and two kings.
• Sigurd Aki Sigurdsson went allin with King-Jack, and got called by Ace-King. A jack on the flop would be enough to double up, leaving his opponent crumbled.

Ilian Norhian from Israel just stood up from his table as he busted out the main event in 86th place. He went all-in for his remaining 40,000 chips from early position with A K . He got called by the big blind, who plays around 450,000 in chips, with J 6 .

When the dealer opened up the flop, it was end of story for Norhian, as the board showed 9 3 2 . Turn and river did not matter anymore. After regretfully wishing everyone good luck at the table, he left the room.

LUKASZ PAWEL FRACZEK		500,000
ILAN NORHIAN		Bust

Level 15: 2000/5000/5000

Average: 216,279

Players: 86/620

We have two female players left in the game. One of them, Ylva ‘Jevakim’ Thorsrud, was tangling with the overall chip leader back on Day 1b. Today she is on the same table again, and expect some fine class of action on table #22. Both women, are looking to reach far in the Main Event today.

Ylva Thorsrud		300,000
Jasmine Schuster		180,000

Throughout the week we met Icelander online qualifier Hjoertur Davidsson. Extremely friendly, and is having a blast here in Bratislava. He just told us that he was struggling today as he managed to make it quite late last night. Fortunately for him, he managed to already double up since he busted Oyststein Brenden with Aces.

Hjoertur Davidsson

125,000

Place	Player Name	Country
96	JAN ARTHUR SVENDSEN
97	NIKOLAOS ZACHARAKIS
98	KRZYSZTOF ZWIERZ
99	OLE JOHNNY FAGERSLETT KARLSEN
100	PETER ZOLNAI
101	DOMINIK OSTROWSKI
102	MARIUS MOREL
103	OEYSTEIN BRENDEN
104	CHRISTIAN ARSTAD
105	IGOR JANIS
106	OFER TADMOR
107	CEM MAURITZ ALTIKARDES
108	VEGARD MELGALVIS ANDREASSEN
109	JAN ERIK ROENNINGHAUG
110	MARTIN ‘FRANKE’ VON ZWEIGBERGK

Level 16: 2000/5000/5000

Average: 187,879

Players: 99/620

The first place is set on a very number of € 60.000, and a min cash is good for € 1,005. 78 Players will reach the money.

#1-€ 60.000

#2-€ 38.690

#3-€ 25.190

#4-€ 18.440

#5-€ 13.940

#6-€ 10.340

#7-€ 7.260

#8-€ 5.090

#9-€ 4.195

#10-€ 3.590

#11-€ 3.590

#12-€ 3.590

#13-€ 3.050

#14-€ 3.050

#15-€ 3.050

#16-€ 2.605

#17-€ 2.605

#18-€ 2.605

#19-€ 2.605

#20-€ 2.240

#21-€ 2.240

#22-€ 2.240

#23-€ 2.240

#24-€ 1.940

#25-€ 1.940

#26-€ 1.940

#27-€ 1.940

#28-€ 1.940

#29-€ 1.940

#30-€ 1.940

#31-€ 1.940

#32-€ 1.705

#33-€ 1.705

#34-€ 1.705

#35-€ 1.705

#36-€ 1.705

#37-€ 1.705

#38-€ 1.705

#39-€ 1.705

#40-€ 1.505

#41-€ 1.505

#42-€ 1.505

#43-€ 1.505

#44-€ 1.505

#45-€ 1.505

#46-€ 1.505

#47-€ 1.505

#48-€ 1.340

#49-€ 1.340

#50-€ 1.340

#51-€ 1.340

#52-€ 1.340

#53-€ 1.340

#54-€ 1.340

#55-€ 1.340

#56-€ 1.215

57-€ 1.215

#58-€ 1.215

#59-€ 1.215

#60-€ 1.215

#61-€ 1.215

#62-€ 1.215

#63-€ 1.215

#64-€ 1.110

#65-€ 1.110

#66-€ 1.110

#67-€ 1.110

#68-€ 1.110

#69-€ 1.110

#70-€ 1.110

#71-€ 1.110

#72-€ 1.005

#73-€ 1.005

#74-€ 1.005

#75-€ 1.005

#76-€ 1.005

#77-€ 1.005

#78-€ 1.005

Martin ‘Franke’ von Zweigbergk, founder of the The Festival Series, which is being organised later this year in Brastislava, was the absolute short stack at the beginning of Day 2 with 19,000 chips. It would eventually last two hands, when he got it in with [5x][6x], against [7x][7x]. Franke needed a lot of help and almost got there, but was dead on the turn. [9x][8x][Kx][8x]. The river did not matter anymore.

Martin ‘Franke’ Von Zweigbergk

Busted – 110th Place

Ladies and Gentleman,

Good morning, straight from Banco Casino in Bratislava at the Coolbet Open. Today we will continue with the Main Event and we will play until 16 players remain, or 10 levels. The levels have been increased from 45 minutes to 60 minutes. Seatdraw is visible in the liveblog as well as on the website of Coolbet.

There are a total 110 players left, and presumably 75 players will be in the money. This has to be confirmed still by the casino. Short stacks will be trying to double up in the first level, so that they can make it to the money. There is still some way to go, as 35 players need to bust before the money starts rolling.

Chip leader is Yehuda Yosef from Israel (861,000), and absolute short stack is Martin ‘Franke’ von Zweigbergk, founder of The Festival Series (19,000).

We will be trying to take note of as much action as possible today with PokerListings.

Good Luck to all the players!

The official seat draw is in for the Coolbet Open Main Event Day 2:

Player Name		Chip Count	Seat/Table
Jeroen Aarts		78,000	28/8
Mauritz Altikardes		48,000	24/8
Vegard Andreassen		92,000	71/7
Christian Arstad		65,000	73/6
Maged Aziz		390,000	71/2
Miklos Banyasz		235,000	72/4
Rotem Noy Bar		187,000	82/8
Eric Beausoleil		41,000	82/1
Rafi Ben		180,000	62/7
Manuel Blaschke		245,000	21/7
Jona Boman		124,000	71/1
Karl Bratt		80,000	71/5
Oystein Brenden		96,000	22/6
Alexandru Budai		126,000	61/6
Peter Bumba		94,000	73/2
Andrej Cintula		140,000	72/2
Itzhak Dagmi		312,000	25/2
Hjoertur Davidsson		125,000	22/5
Andrej Desset		237,000	24/6
Daniel ELhaiany		75,000	63/2
Johan Ekdahl		184,000	63/6
Eden Elbaz		269,000	28/6
David Elka		115,000	73/1
Lahav Ferenbach		128,000	22/4
Lukasz Fraczek		225,000	23/5
Ohad Freund		254,000	64/1
Florian Fuchs		180,000	63/7
Per Erik Glelten		168,000	23/2
Ville Hakala		92,000	72/7
Erik Hamre		121,000	61/2
Darren Higgins		119,000	72/1
Frode Hoel		50,000	72/8
Jaakko Hokkanen		117,000	28/2
Meir Chen		122,000	24/7
Pekka Ikonen		184,000	62/1
Martin Ilavsky		510,000	25/4
Gunter Jakwerth		375,000	62/6
Igor Janis		66,000	82/3
Gudjon Jonssson		72,000	64/8
Keito Kaljulaid		150,000	63/5
Richard Kapun		127,000	82/6
Ole Karlsen		175,000	71/8
Dimitrios Katsikas		109,000	28/1
Julius Kettunen		83,000	28/5
Kim Johnny Michael Hagstrom		175,000	82/2
Kimhi Yair		52,000	25/8
Stanislav Koleno		239,000	64/6
Roland Kozmich		135,000	28/4
Shahar Levinger		100,000	23/3
Heimar Lill		82,000	23/8
Gilles Magny		286,000	72/6
Liran Manteka		97,000	72/3
Adem Marjanovic		101,000	71/3
Andras Matrai		138,000	25/5
Jacob Melloul		407,000	64/4
Brandon Mifsud		321,000	25/3
Sami Mitwali		144,000	73/8
Marius Morel		76,000	71/4
Barnabas Nagy		775,000	72/5
Dimitrios Nanos		111,000	24/4
Lars Nilsen		91,000	63/4
Ilan Norhian		49,000	23/7
Dominik Ostrowski		80,000	61/3
omas Patka		151,000	21/2
Jaroslav Peter		109,000	82/7
Bogdans Petruks		123,000	73/4
Juraj Picek		172,000	62/5
Piira Oskari Jukka Tapio		275,000	64/5
Erik Polluveer		60,000	64/2
Grigorios Pougaridis		481,000	61/1
Marcin Puczylowski		154,000	25/1
Joona Rainamaa		126,000	62/4
Jan Erik Roenninghaug		32,000	63/8
Rostyslav Sabishchenko		94,000	64/7
Kjartan Saevarsson		125,000	71/6
Saevar Saevarsson		236,000	22/1
Joel Salmirinne		108,000	63/1
Philipp Sander		54,000	23/1
Daniel Shaker		270,000	61/4
Nadav Shenhav		35,000	28/3
Vitalii Scherba		245,000	24/5
Jasmine Schuster		118,000	61/8
Hafthor Smari Sigmundsson		89,000	82/5
Sigurdur Aki Sigmundsson		84,000	21/6
Habor Skrinyar		82,000	21/8
Ruslan Solomonov		161,000	21/5
Roy Sorknes		489,000	21/3
Matteo Spozio		111,000	23/4
Oystein Stai		225,000	73/7
Jan Arthur Svendsen		78,000	22/8
Halldor Mar Sverrisson		252,000	73/3
Christian Sykora		225,000	82/4
Ofer Tadmor		66,000	61/5
Tarmo Tammel		66,000	22/2
Ylva Thorsrud		242,000	22/3
Edgaras Truskauskas		200,000	64/3
Nikolas Tsoukas		83,000	61/7
Priit Vanem		90,000	24/1
Andres Vilhjalmsson		190,000	24/2
Ruslan Volkov		217,000	25/6
Martin ‘Franke’ von Zweigbergk		19,000	25/7
Jonathan Wedde		61,000	21/1
Oskar Wedde		256,000	62/8
Yehuda Yosef		861,000	22/7
Emmanouil Zacharakis		275,000	73/5
Nikolaos Zacharakis		113,000	28/7
Albert Zarhi		143,000	24/3
Peter Zolnai		185,000	23/6
Elod Zsombok		84,000	21/4
Krzysztof Zwierz		137,000	62/2