With around 100,000 in the middle already, the flop fell and Sander van Wesemael led out for 60,000 from the big blind. Andreas Klatt raised the pot and van Wesemael called off his remaining stack for 120,000.
Andreas Klatt flopped the nut flush draw with against van Wesemael's . The turn was the and the river landed the . Klatt made his flush and van Wesemael hit the rail in tenth place.
The remaining nine players will do one last redraw for seating assignments at the unofficial final table.
Vasile Stancu announced pot from the button. Kristen Bicknell raised to pot from the small blind and Maciej Kondraszuk was all in from the big blind. Stancu called putting two players at risk.
Vasile Stancu:
Kristen Bicknell:
Maciej Kondraszuk:
"Tell me if I win," said Bicknell, turning away from the table as the board was dealt.
It came giving Stancu a flush and eliminating both Bicknell and Kondraszuk.
Fabrice Halleux raised to 33,000 in the cutoff. It folded to Nico Ehlers in the big blind who announced pot. Halleux re-potted and Ehlers announced pot again and Halleux was all in.
Nico Ehlers:
Fabrice Halleux:
The flop came with not much help to Ehlers' double-suited Kings. The turn was the giving him a flush draw and the river completed his flush and eliminated Halleux in 14th place.
Normally when tournaments resume, you keep an eye on the big stacks to see how big their stack will grow following the inevitable early bustouts of shortstacks. However, in a stunning turn of events Fahredin Mustafov has seen his Day 1a chip leader's stack of 490,000 reduced to zero following two big pots with Nico Ehlers.
Ehlers told us how the pair got it in on a flop with Ehlers holding pocket aces to double up the first time. Then on a turn with a flush possible, Mustafov apparently bluffed off the rest of his stack with the nut-flush blocker, only for Ehlers to call with the second-nut flush.
Mustafov takes home €1,341 for his 28th place finish.
Kristen Bicknell raised to 20,000 on the button and Georgios Zisimopoulos raised pot to 68,000 from the small blind. The big blind folded and Bicknell re-raised all in. Zisimopoulos called.
Kristen Bicknell:
Georgios Zisimopoulos:
The board ran out and Bicknell secured an early double through the Day 1B chip leader.
The action is set to resume at 1:00 P.M for Day 2 of Event #2: €550 Pot-Limit Omaha inside the Poker Arena at King's Casino in Rozvadov. There will be 31 players returning to the felt with Fahredin Mustafov leading them all, bringing 490,000 chips with him.
Mustafov bagged the lead at the end of Day 1A when he hit a gut-shot straight draw in the last hand of the night to win a monster pot. He will be closely followed by Georgios Zisimopoulos who finished atop on Day 1B with 347,000. Coming off a third-place finish in the first event of the series, Sergio Fernandez also has a healthy stack of 313,000 heading into the final day.
Some other familiar faces to keep an eye on include two-time bracelet winner, Kristen Bicknell who has already secured her first-ever cash in a PLO tournament. She will be entering the day with 143,000. Brandon Cantu, also a former bracelet winner, will be coming into the day as one of the short stacks after bagging 51,500. Daniele Primerano (200,000), James Akenhead (129,000), and Sander van Wesemael (68,000) will all be looking to capture their first bracelet.
Play will begin at level 19 with the blinds at 4,000/8,000 and the levels will increase to 40-minutes in length. There is a scheduled 15-minute break at the end of every three levels and a 60-minute dinner break at the end of the ninth level of the day. When the official final table of eight assembles, they will be moved to the feature table. The live stream with hole-cards will commence and it will be on a 30-minute delay.
The PokerNews live reporting team will be here to bring you all of the action until a winner is crowned.