Jesse "AAGenius88" Mercado raised the cutoff, then called when James "ruminramen" Collopy reraised the button to 1.08M. The rest of it went in on the flop when Mercado check-called the shove.
Jesse "AAGenius88" Mercado:
James "ruminramen" Collopy:
Board:
It was a cooler flop with Mercado hitting trips for the win. Earlier, "SugarCrisp" also busted and they are now down to 31 left.
After limps before the flop, it all went in on the flop when Maksim "KaTya_I8" Shuts bet after three checks, and got reraised by Jesse "AAGenius88" Mercado. Shuts shoved and Mercado called with more.
Maksim "KaTya_I8" Shuts:
Jesse "AAGenius88" Mercado:
Board:
Mercado flopped a set of nines to go ahead of the queens for Shuts. Breno "Avel" Avelino, "Mufasa_", and Matthew "BTC2zERO" Stone also busted earlier bringing it down to 24 left at the break.
They limped blind on blind, and both checked the flop. Jesse "AAGenius88" Mercado bet 480K on the turn, and Cosmin-Ionut "cosmiNik89" Nica called to the river. Mercado check-called a bet of 1.76M.
"KING MC" raised the cutoff to 1,034,999 and Chris Moorman called the big blind. They both checked the flop and turn, and "KING MC" called a bet of 2,294,998 on the river.
"KING MC":
Chris Moorman:
Board:
Moorman flopped a set of queens, and got river value for them.
Day 3 action is now set after "tavihakesef" got their short stack in with , but ran into the of Murilo "Fruble" Milhomem. "tavihakesef" flopped best on the flop, but running sixes gave Milhomem sixes full of kings and the final table was set.
They played just over 7 hours on Day 2 of WSOPC #10: $400 CHRISTMAS PLOSSUS, $1.225M Gtd. to whittle the field down from 446 players returning at the start of the day to the final nine. Leading the way into Day 3 is Cosmin-Ionut "cosmiNik89" Nica from Austria with almost twice as many chips as the next biggest stack.
Joining Nica on the final day of play is two-time bracelet winner Anson "Tara@0z" Tsang, Tomas Ribeiro from Portugal, and Chris Moorman from the United Kingdom. Moorman nursed a short stack for much of the Day 2 end-game, laddering over several other people during three-table and two-table play to survive through to the final table.
The Final Table of WSOPC Event #10 $400 Christmas PLOSSUS
Position
Player
Country
Chip Count
Big Blinds
1
Cosmin-Ionut "cosmiNik89" Nica
Romania
39,867,386
100
2
Murilo "Fruble" Milhomem
Brazil
21,262,547
53
3
KING MC
San Marino
21,135,604
53
4
SHOOT_YOURFACE
Canada
19,400,604
53
5
Anson "Tara@0z" Tsang
Hong Kong
14,645,804
37
6
Kristof "ultrafish" Segers
Belgium
10,447,481
26
7
Chris Moorman
United Kingdom
8,902,777
22
8
Tomas Ribeiro
Portugal
5,905,218
15
9
v_Nistelrooy
Russia
3,349,784
8
*Big Blinds are based on level 22, which might rollback for the final table
Day 2 Action
Day 2 got underway today at 1:30 p.m. eastern time with 446 players who managed to bag a Day 1 stack. Only 400 of them were going home with money, and they got there before the end of Level 2.
It didn't slow down any as the numbers dropped very quickly through the first few hours of play. Before the third hour was up, there were under 100 players remaining, and an hour later, they were down to about 50. Among those to fall in the top 100 was start of day leader Niki "everyhand" Nurmisto, who bagged just over $2K for 98th place.
As they approached the final table, Idris Ambraisse looked to be making a run at Day 3, playing the biggest stack during four-table play. Ultimately, he would fall on the soft bubble for the day, but pocketed $7,969 for 11th place. It was Israeli player "tavihakesef" who bubbled the final table in 10th for $9,103.
The final nine players are all guaranteed at least $17,892, and action resumes on January 2nd, 2021 at 1:30 p.m. eastern time. PokerNews will be there to find out who takes the PLOSSUS ring home.