Welcome back to the Poker Arena inside King's Casino for Day 2 of Event #4: €1,650 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed. The action is set to resume at 2:00 P.M. local time with 70 players returning after a busy Day 1 that saw a total of 237 entries.
Ryan Leng from the United States will come into the day with the current chip lead after finishing Day 1 with 239,500 chips. He will be followed by Dmitrii Deviatov (232,700) and Vincent Moscati (214,900). There will be many familiar faces to keep an eye on throughout the day including Phil Hellmuth, Kristen Bicknell, Kenny Hallaert, Chris Ferguson, Ryan Hughes, and Sergio Fernandez who has already made back-to-back final tables in the first two events.
Late registration will remain open until the beginning of Day 2, at which point the prizepool and payout information will be calculated. After Day 1 was cut short, Day 2 will begin at level 13 with the first two levels being 40-minutes in length. Starting at level 15, the blind levels will increase to 60-minutes and the goal will be to reach the final table by the end of the day. There will be a 15-minute break after every two levels and a 60-minute dinner break after level 20.
Be sure to follow along with the PokerNews live reporting team for all of the live updates throughout the day.
Walter Treccarichi started the day as one of the big stacks but that all came to a crushing end towards the end of level 13. According to Luis Dono, he opened the button to 5,500 and Krasimir Yankov three-bet from the small blind to 18,000. Treccarichi shoved for 30 big blinds out of the big blind and Dono reshoved with pocket kings to see Yankov call with pocket jacks and Treccarichi turn over the .
There was no upset as the kings held up, vaulting Dono into the top spot.
Sergio Fernandez has been unstoppable since the World Series of Poker Europe kicked off one week ago, making back-to-back final tables in the first two events. He also came into Day 2 with a healthy stack of over 150,000 and looked poised to make another deep run.
He raised to 6,500 from the hijack and was called by Ryan Hughes in the big blind. The flop came and Hughes check-called a bet of 12,000 from Fernandez. The landed on the turn and Hughes checked again. Fernandez pushed forward a stack of chips for a bet of 70,000 and Hughes instantly called with just 41,000 remaining.
Hughes turned over for two pair while Fernandez showed . The river landed the and Hughes earned a full double up. Fernandez suffered one of his first setbacks in the opening week here at WSOP Europe and will be interesting to see how he recovers.
Jerry Odeen turned his starting into five times of that after doubling through Muhamet Perati while Martin Kabrhel was left short and loudly complained to please move Viliyan Petleshkov to another table after the Bulgarian had apparently shoved with queen-three suited.
Right after at that very table, Aleksandar Tomovic raised to 7,300 and Theodore McQuilkin three-bet to 41,500 from the cutoff. Jan Šubík called all in from the button for 40,100 and everyone else including Tomovic got out of the way.
Sergio Fernandez raised to 6,500 from the hijack and Liran Twito three-bet to 17,000 in the cutoff. The action folded back to Fernandez who made the call and the flop came .
Both players checked to the on the turn and the on the river. Fernandez made a large bet of 27,000 on the river and Twito called. Fernandez turned over and Twito mucked his hand.
In the next hand, Twito got his remaining 81,000 in the middle holding but ran into the of chip leader, Luis Dono. The board ran out and just like that, Twito was eliminated before the money bubble.
Phil Hellmuth was dwindled down to just 10,000 to start the hand and the action was folded around to him in the small blind. He raised to 8,000 and Tony Lefort re-raised to put Hellmuth all-in. Hellmuth called and the hands were tabled.
Tony Lefort:
Phil Hellmuth:
The board ran out giving Lefort a straight and sending Hellmuth to the rail. Hellmuth didn't wander too far as he continued to pace back and forth on the tournament floor with his hands flailing while he talked to himself.
Viktor Katzenberger in the small blind and Andrej Desset in the big blind got all of the chips in the middle preflop. They waited patiently until all other action on the remaining tables was finished before turning their hands over.
Andrej Desset:
Viktor Katzenberger:
The board ran out and Katzenberger was left walking away without any money in his pocket. Katzenberger also bubbled Event #1: Monster Stack, however, he was able to split bubble money with two other players in that event.
Ryan Hughes pushed all-in for 92,500 on the button and was called by Aneris Adomkevicius in the small blind. Hughes showed but was dominated by Adomkevicius' .
The board ran out and Hughes was unable to come from behind. He picked up some Player of the Year points with his min-cash, but with Chris Ferguson still in the field, it appears the Ferguson will still hold the lead after this event.
Luis Dono defended his big blind against a raise by Thorsten Schuler and check-called a bet on the flop. Dono bet 54,000 on the turn and Schuler called before Dono shoved the river for 113,000.
Schuler asked for a count and eventually called to see Dono roll over for a bluff gone wrong. Schuler showed to win the pot and Dono said "nice hand" before heading to the payout desk.