Mike Watson opened from early position and called when Martin Stausholm shoved from the big blind.
Martin Stausholm:
Mike Watson:
Stausholm was flipping for his tournament life, but the flop gave Watson additional outs. The turn completed Watson's flush, and the river saw Stausholm hit the rail in 13th place.
On the final hand of the night, Bruno Volkmann opened to 25,000 from under the gun and action folded around to Juan Pardo who made the call in the big blind.
Pardo checked the flop, and called when Volkmann continued for 23,000. The action repeated on the turn, with Volkmann firing 57,000 and Pardo called.
The river produced another check from Pardo, who called once Volkmann moved all in.
Volkmann tabled for a bluff, while Pardo revealed for top pair. Volkmann wished everyone luck on his way out in 12th place.
Day 2 of the PokerStars European Poker Tour London £10,300 High Roller has closed after another ten levels of play, with 11 players returning to the fantastic Hilton Park Lane for the event’s final day.
Juan Pardo leads the pack of the survivors, after bagging and tagging a stack of 1,255,000. They were able to amass the sizeable the chip lead after stellar play throughout the day as well as bit of fortune.
Adam Miller and Alex Keating round out the top three stacks, and will return on Day 3 with 1,170,000 and 1,035,000 respectively. The star-studded line up returning also includes Davidi Kitai, Mike Watson, Marcello Marigliano and Renan Bruschi.
EPT London £10,300 High Roller Chip Counts
Place
Name
Country
Chips
Big Blinds
1
Juan Pardo
Spain
1,255,000
78
2
Adam Miller
United States
1,120,000
70
3
Alex Keating
United States
1,035,000
65
4
Daniel Aziz
Brazil
835,000
52
5
Santhosh Suvarna
India
795,000
50
6
Marcello Marigliano
Italy
790,000
49
7
Davidi Kitai
Belgium
575,000
36
8
Sita Divari
Thailand
410,000
26
9
Lars Kamphues
Germany
395,000
25
10
Mike Watson
Canada
285,000
18
11
Renan Bruschi
Brazil
270,000
17
Day 2 Recap
An extra 19 players opted to take advantage of the late registration period, which closed when Day 2 began.
Those players swelled the Day 2 field to 86 players, and they were all duking it out to get a slice of the £1,532,600 prize pool. After late registration was over, it was confirmed that the top 23 players would make the money, while the winner would walk away with the £358,550 first-place prize.
Notable names to fall in the early stages included Daniel Dvoress, Conor Beresford and Martin Jacobson. PokerStars ambassadors Alejandro Lococo, Parker Talbot and Sam Grafton were all in attendance for the event’s second day but neither came close to making the paid places. Grafton suffered a cruel beat at the hands of Marigliano. Both players had their stacks committed preflop with ace-king but the Italian would turn a flush to bust one of the games most charismatic stars.
Play began to slow as the bubble approached. It took 16 hands for the field to go from 25 to 24 and then a further six for the bubble to burst. Moonho Seo was the final player to leave empty-handed after his ace-jack could not jump ahead of Keating’s pocket three’s.
After the players were in the money, elimination came thick and fast with the likes of Pavel Plesuv, Danny Tang and Jonathan Proudfoot quickly following each other out of the door.
After Wayne Heung, Timo Kamphues, Leonard Maue and Philip Sternheimer departed, the tournament reached the final two tables.
Andras Nemeth, Martin Strausholm and Bruno Volkmann were the last eliminations of the day. Volkmann was ousted on the last hand of the day while the final 11 players confirmed their spot in the event’s final day, which plays out on Friday, October 28 at 12:30 p.m. BST.