Five tables in the main room and all tables of the Marquee room have been sent into a 75-dinner break, while the other tables in the main room continue with the next level and blinds of 20,000/40,000 and a running ante of 4,000. At the end of the level, the roles will be reversed with the remainder of the Day 2 field.
Will Kassouf Loses Pot Without Saying a Word
In a weird turn of events, Will Kassouf lost a pot without saying a single word. Kassouf minraised preflop and made the call after an opponent made it 210,000 to go. The flop was checked through before Kassouf check-folded to a bet of 300,000 on the turn.
Soderstrom Squanders Big Stack
Tomas Soderstrom had one of the biggest stacks when play started today, but the Swede busted in the previous level. Other casualties include Dominik Nitsche, Sam Grafton, Dominik Panka, Vojtech Ruzicka and Christopher Brammer.
Sam Trickett Moving his Shortstack
Sam Trickett has been hovering around a million for a while. A few minutes ago he got a shove in from the small blind over the top of a button raise from Per Christian Jeppsson, and that was enough to win the pot.
Christoph Vogelsang moved all in for his last 413,000 from middle position and the action folded to Marco Leonzio in the big blind. The Italian called and the cards were tabled.
Christoph Vogelsang:
Marco Leonzio:
The board came and the German doubled up his short stack.
All players that will bag up tonight and reach Day 3 are in the money, and this also includes the 35 players that already qualified through the live venue partners in Italy and Austria.
Jonas Lauck was among the chip leaders heading into Day 2, but has since dropped into the middle of the pack. He just got into a raising war with Ben Farrell in the hijack and three-bet to 275,000 in the cutoff. Farrell then made it 475,000 and Lauck shoved to pick up a call by Farrell.
Jonas Lauck:
Ben Farrell:
The board came and the pot was chopped. Below are some further chip counts from the main area.
With chip counts in the millions, stacks are generally voluminous in the tournament room of Dusk Till Dawn. Lucas Greenwood, however, can fit his stack into the palm of his hand, after he lost a couple of sizable ones just now.
First off he bet 115,000 into a pot of 280,000 on a flop. Will Kassouf made the call and November Niner was able to snatch the pot with a bet of 217,000 on the turn.
Two hands later Jonathan Spinks made it 90,000 to go from the hijack, Tamer Kamel called the next seat over, and Greenwood opted for a raise to 265,000 out of the small blind. Spinks called, but Kamel had other plans and moved all-in. Greenwood gave it a long think before his hand found the muck and Spinks also surrendered.
After paying his ante the next hand, Greenwood was left with exactly 17 chips - all of them blue and worth 100,000 each. Thus the Canadian is still faring well in this Millions Main Event.
A raising war ended up in the shove of Viliyan Petleshkov with his short stack from under the gun and Terry Schumacher called before then facing the shove of Jimmy Guerrero for 1,278,000 out of the small blind. Schumacher, who has had a pretty decent year 2017 thus far with a win at the Aussie Millions and a third place in the $ 10,000 No Limit Hold'em WPT Seminole Hard Rock Finale, eventually called to put two opponents at risk.
Viliyan Petleshkov:
Jimmy Guerrero:
Terry Schumacher:
The board ran out and the queen on the river improved Guerrero, who jumped above average as a result.
Max Silver is out after losing one of those coin flips that it takes to win tournaments. Silver got his last 800,000 into the middle with against the of Niall Keaveney, and the jacks were looking mighty fine after the flop. The brought a flush draw for Keaveney, and with the on the river, Silver was out.
A raising war resulted in the all in and call between Niall Keaveney and Khurram Javed, and the latter was the player at risk for around 1,500,000 with the . Keaveney only had ace-queen and the board came to let the kicker play.
Keaveney took another hit to the stack and lost almost half of it.