Arvin Ravindran opened to 4,000 from under the gun and Jesper Hougaard just flat-called from two seats over to see a rainbow flop of . Ravindran continued for 10,000 and Hougaard shoved with the for bottom two pair. Ravindran had that dominated with and both the turn and river bricked.
After a raise to 4,000 and the call of Lukas Nemec on the button, Roman Cieslik got his last 12,000 chips in and the initial raiser called. Nemec then reraised the pot to isolate successfully and showed . Cieslik had the for aces as well, but the board delivered three diamonds to send Cieslik to the rail.
Nemec moved up to the chip leader position on the feature table after previously taking some chips off Jan-Peter Jachtmann as well.
Picking up the action on the three-way flop of in the last hand of the previous level, Vasili Firsau fired 6,100 from the small blind. Jesper Hougaard folded in the cutoff and Florian Langmann called from the button. Firsau also bet the turn for 12,200 and Langmann called before the fell on the river.
Firsau bet 33,300 and Langmann had just slightly less than that behind after previously tripling up his short stack. Langmann tanked for two minutes and then called, mucking his cards once he got shown the by Firsau.
Six World Series of Poker Circuit rings have already found a new owner at the King's Casino in Rozvadov and the poker outlet in the Czech Republic near the border to Germany is gearing up for the highlights of the festival in the upcoming days. But first, Day 2 of the €3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller will get underway in one hour from now at 16:00 local time.
The initial field of 32 entries has been cut down to 14 hopefuls within the first nine levels of play, all of them fighting for the guaranteed prize pool of €100,000. However, registration and reentry remain available until the first card is dealt so there may still be changes to the field size and prizes up for grabs.
Leading the field into Day 2 is 2012 WSOP PLO world champion Jan-Peter Jachtmann with 136,800 in chips, followed by 2009 WSOPE PLO braceler winner Jani Vilmunen (126,800) and Thomas Bichon (108,800). Other notables include Florian Langmann (86,700), Vasili Firsau (68,100), 2013 Eureka Prague champion Dimitri Holdeew (63,800), as well as the two two-time WSOP bracelet winners John Kabbaj (38,500) and Jesper Hougaard (25,500).
Play recommences in level 10 at blinds 600-1,200 and there will also be a live stream with commentary in German and English available as of 18:30. The action is on a security delay of 30 minutes, as the hole cards are shown. The PokerNews live reporting team will provide all key hands until the winner is crowned and also covers the Super High Roller and the €1,000,000 guaranteed Main Event until November 9th.