Dzmitry Urbanovich dominated the last few levels of the night after eliminating Georgios Karakousis with A
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, and he bagged up 374,800. JC Alvarado is not too far behind with 356,300, followed by Johannes Becker (309,700) and start-of-the-day chip leader Niall Farrell (300,900). It was also Urbanovich who doubled up 2015 WSOP POY contender Brian Hastings just before the end of the day and let him bag up 62,600 chips. A min-cash would give Hastings the lead in the POY race in case Mike Gorodinsky, Shaun Deeb and Ismael Bojang don't cash in the High Roller Event.
Gorodinsky fell in an early three-way pot where he was all in preflop with A 9 and got called by Liv Boeree and Enver Abduraimov. The latter isolated on the T 6 6 flop with A Q and Gorodinsky failed to improve. Bojang was sent to the rail soon after as well when running into the pocket aces of Charles Coultas. Many other notables didn't make it through either: Barry Shulman and Allyn Jaffrey Shulman, David "ODB" Baker, Gaelle Baumann, Jonathan Duhamel, Justin Bonomo, Sylvain Loosli, 2014 WSOP-APAC Main Event champion Scott Davies, November Niner Zvi Stern, Sergio Aido and Sean Winter all joined the rail before the dinner break.
Artur Koren, Brian Rast, Jean Montury, Benny Spindler and Keven Stammen followed after and Alvarado then jumped into the lead by eliminating Yingui Li with pocket kings versus pocket jacks. In the last two orbits of the night though, Benjamin Pollak doubled up through him. Farrell flopped trips sixes with 6 9 to bust John Juanda, whose A-J made worthless runner runner two pair to put his stack at risk after the river. The last hand of the day was very painful for Kevin MacPhee, who lost one third of his stack with A Q and the flopped nut flush against Elliot Smith's 7 9 on a board of 8 6 5 Q K.
Notables that will be returning tomorrow for Day 3 include Adrien Allain (297,000), Ola Amundsgard (284,900), Maurice Hawkins (261,200), Erik Seidel (238,600), Ardit Kurshumi (225,000), Salman Behbehani (184,000), Konstantin Puchkov (182,100), Dominik Nitsche (166,100), Davidi Kitai (165,700), Andrew Lichtenberger (165,500), Jeff Rossiter (147,700), Benjamin Pollak (143,800), Turbo Event #8 runner-up Paul-Francois Tedeschi (141,900), Jason Mercier (140,900), Nikolaus Teichert (128,300), Jeff Gross (101,100), Shannon Shorr (97,600), Will Failla (93,800), Liv Boeree (67,000) and Fedor Holz (38,400).
They will all be back at noon for a maximum of six further levels and the action recommences with blinds of 1,200/2,400 with a running ante of 400. The first day of the €25,600 High Roller Event then gets underway as of 4 p.m. local time and many big names of the international circuit as well as the 2015 WSOP POY contenders Deeb, Bojang and Gorodinsky are expected at the tables.
Dzmitry Urbanovich
Event #9: WSOP Europe Main Event – No-Limit Hold’em (TOP10 after day 2)
BUY-IN: €10.450
ENTRIES: 313
REMAINING: 65
PRIZE-POOL: €3,067,400
WINNER: €883.000
ITM: 32
MINCASH: €20.000
