A massive pot just went down at the feature table, here’s what happened…
Anton Wigg raised to 1,800 from under-the-gun, two seats along Matthieu Renoud flat called only for Alexander Lakhov to make it 6,000 total from the hijack. Tobias Wagner then cold four-bet to 13,600, the blinds folded and action was back on Wigg. The EPT6 Copenhagen champion then five-bet to 26,400, it folded back to Wagner the German moved all-in for 86,500 and Wigg reluctantly called.
Wigg:
Wagner:
It was a classic race for a 182,500 pot, the board sent the pot the way of the German and left Wigg with 8,800 chips and he was out shortly afterwards.
The start wasn't all too good for Jasper Wetemans as he lost a rather big pot early on.
It was folded to him in the small blind and he pushed for twenty big blinds effectively. Mateusz Moolhuizen was seated in the big blind and was the one with the decision. That decision turned out to be rather easy for the accomplished poker player from the Netherlands as he found jacks. Wetemans had just ace deuce and wouldn't hit.
Not much later Wetemans lost most of the rest of his chips after he ran ace queen into aces.
Aurelien Guiglini had called a raise in the small blind from Alessio Isaia and they saw a flop of . Guiglini bet 5,000 and Isaia called. They both checked the turn and river . Guiglini turned over and when he saw Isaia’s he indicated that he should have bet the river. Isaia wasn’t sure that he would have folded though, so maybe he saved himself a few chips.
Paul Berende started the day with 80,400 and grinded his way up to 90,000 before winning a huge hand.
The cutoff opened and the button made the call. With Berende squeezed from the small blind and the cutoff four bet and called the shove from Berende that followed with .
Berende, as he's used to, won the big flip and he's now one of the bigger stacks in the room.
There were only 19 WSOP Bracelet winners in the combined Day 1 field and two of them found themselves sat next to each other at the Start of Day 2. JP Kelly (27,000) and Dominik Nitsche (40,000) are sat side by side and looked on as two other players at their table played an all-in pot.
Daniel Lannermark opened to 1,800 from middle position with , Michael Gathy then moved all-in for 18,800 with and back on Lannermark he called. The board gave Lannermark the win.
There have been plenty of other exits so far today including: Mohammed Barkatul, Yuri Dzivielevski, Vincent Gabel, Paul Tedeschi, Paul Senter, Roland Van Den Ent, Konstantin Kazaev, Roland Rozel, Tom Cunningham, John O'Shea, Frei Dilling, Joseph Mezailles, Elvis Pectu, Oleg Prokhorov, [Removed:203], Charles Chattha, Manuel Bevand, Bertrand "Elky" Grospellier, Freerk Post, Stephane Benadiba, Leo Willefert, Alice Taglioni, Bodo Sbrzesny, Bastian Fischer, David Tavernier, James Metcalf, Michel Leibgorin and Anthony Picault.
Patrick Bruel opened for 1,800 and Daniel Ghionoiu sat to his left moved all in for his last 16,000. Back around to Bruel who shrugged and said he’s give him a spin with his . Ghionoiu had and was out of his chair putting his jacket on. The dealer dealt and Ghionoiu took his jacket off and sat down again to his newly doubled stack of chips.
On a flop of two players got all the chips in the middle. Maximilien Werth held against the of Carl Johanson. The turn and river and the set of Werth held to push him over the 100k mark and leave Johanson all but out but utterly expressionless.