Paul Phua and Michael Soyza both entered before the start of Day 2 and they clashed with Phua ending up as the player at risk.
Paul Phua:
Michael Soyza:
The board came and Phua secured the double, leaving Soyza with just a few big blinds.
"It's okay, I can run it up again. I did the same yesterday and got back to 1.5 million," Soyza said in table chat. He moved all in the next hand and Paul Teoh isolated by moving all in from the button.
Michael Soyza:
Paul Teoh:
The board ran out to keep Soyza's hand second-best and he headed to the rail.
Timothy Adams was seen paying Claas Segebrecht a double-up. Adams' hole-cards were already mucked but Segebrecht had in front of him with the board showing for Segebrecht to have found a pair of kings on the river to stay alive.
Liv Boeree and Marius Gierse were among the shortest stacks coming into Day 2 and both were eliminated right away. James Romero doubled through Wai Leong Chan and the latter then ended up all in with Romero on the button and Steffen Sontheimer in the big blind playing for the bigger side pot. On the turn, Sontheimer check-folded to a bet of 325,000 and the cards were turned over.
Wai Leong Chan:
James Romero:
The river kept the hopes of Chan for a miracle alive.
Winning a WSOP gold bracelet is potentially the biggest accomplishment for a poker player, and winning two is a momentous occasion.
Since its introduction in 2007, several players have managed to obtain a WSOP gold bracelet outside of Las Vegas and much fewer have done the double having won a bracelet in both Vegas and at the WSOP Europe.
However, there is one more step for poker players to aim to achieve. That is to win a WSOP bracelet in Las Vegas and at the WSOP Europe in the same year. Here we take a look at the eight players to have achieved this feat to date.
2008
In 2008 Jesper Hougaard won his first WSOP gold bracelet in Event #36: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em[/URL] and followed that up two months later with a bracelet at the second-ever WSOP Europe held at the Empire Casino in Leicester Square, London.
Name
WSOP Event
Payout
WSOP Europe Event
Payout
Jesper Hougaard
$1,500 No Limit Hold'em
$610,304
£1,500 No Limit Hold'em
£144,218
2009
John-Paul Kelly
The very next year, J.P. Kelly joined Hougaard in winning bracelets in both Vegas and Europe in the same year. Kelly was the first player to win his two bracelets in different disciplines.
Since then Kelly has made several deep runs in the WSOP Main Event, finishing 26th for $302,005 in 2011.
Name
WSOP Event
Payout
WSOP Europe Event
Payout
J.P. Kelly
$1,500 Pot Limit Hold'em
$194,434
£1,000 No Limit Hold'em
£136,803
2012
Whether it is Phil Hellmuth's record of 15 WSOP bracelets or Antonio Esfandiari's record Big One for One Drop win, it seems like no list in poker is complete without the Poker Brat or the Magician.
Hellmuth's bracelet in the $2,500 Seven-Card Razz also happened to be his first in a non-hold'em event, and he also became the first player to win a bracelet in Vegas and also take down the WSOP Europe Main Event.
Name
WSOP Event
Payout
WSOP Europe Event
Payout
Antonio Esfandiari
$1,000,000 Big One for One Drop
$18,346,673
€1,100 No Limit Hold'em
€126,207
Phil Hellmuth
$2,500 Seven-Card Razz
$182,793
€10,450 No Limit Hold'em Main Event
€1,022,376
2015
Just like Hellmuth, Kevin MacPhee won his second bracelet of the year in the WSOP Europe Main Event at the Spielbank Casino in Berlin. And just like Esfandiari, Jonathan Duhamel won his first of the year in a One Drop High Roller, albeit in the slightly smaller one; just the $111,111 High Roller(!)
Name
WSOP Event
Payout
WSOP Europe Event
Payout
Kevin MacPhee
$5,000 Turbo No Limit Hold'em
$490,900
€10,450 No Limit Hold'em Main Event
€883,000
Jonathan Duhamel
$111,111 High Roller for One Drop
$3,989,985
€25,600 No Limit Hold'em High Roller
€554,395
2018
Hanh Tran
Of the eight players to have achieved this unique feat, Hanh Tran is one of only three to win their bracelets in different disciplines. The other two were J.P. Kelly and Phil Hellmuth.
Timur Margolin is the latest to "do the double" and win in Vegas and Europe in the same year. There are still events to come here at King's Casino in Rozvadov.
Name
WSOP Event
Payout
WSOP Europe Event
Payout
Hanh Tran
$1,500 Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw
$117,282
€550 Pot Limit Omaha 8-Max
€ 59,625
Timur Margolin
$2,500 No Limit Hold'em
$507,724
€1,100 No Limit Hold'em Monster Stack
€ 134,407
Near Misses
There have been a number of people who have come close to joining this select few group of players. Last year Chris Ferguson finished second in a WSOP bracelet event, before taking down the WSOPE €1,650 Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better for €39,289 and his sixth WSOP gold bracelet.
In 2013, Noah Schwartz also finished runner-up in the $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha bracelet event in Las Vegas, before winning Event #6: €3,250 Mixed-Max Pot-Limit Omaha for €104,580 at the Casino Barrière d'Enghien-les-Bains.
Wai Leong Chan opened to 125,000 from under the gun and was called by Ivan Leow on his left. James Romero was next to act and three-bet to 500,000. The action folded back to Chan who shoved all in for over 2,000,000 which got Leow to quickly fold. It was Romero's first hand of the day and his fresh stack of 1,000,000 chips went into the middle.
James Romero:
Wai Leong Chan:
The flop came 7c5c3s] and Chan was still out front with his pocket queens. The turn brought the and Romero spiked a king to take the lead. The on the river changed nothing and Romero received an early double up.
Benjamin Pollak had reentered just before the start of Day 2 and was sitting with a fresh stack of 1,000,000 which he decided to shove from the hijack. Ole Schemion also shoved but with the bigger stack of over 2 million from the small blind. Shan Huang asked for a count but while the dealer was counting, Huang already announced he was folding his pair of aces.
"Show it!' the table said and Huang showed .
Benjamin Pollak:
Ole Schemion:
Huang claimed to have folded ace-ten.
The board ran out for Huang to exclaim he would have won but instead it was Pollak who would double up through Schemion.
Sergio Aido made it 125,000 to go first to act and was called by Adrian Mateos in the cutoff and Michael Bleg in the big blind. On the flop, Bleg checked and Aido continued for 145,000, which only Mateos called. The two Spaniards checked the turn and Aido led the river for 450,000, Mateos folded.
On another table nearby, Tony Bike raised to 150,000 and Ryan Riess three-bet to 445,000 in order to force a fold.
The cards are now in the air and late registration is officially closed. There were 9 new entries today to bring the total to 133 with 58 players remaining. The prizepool and payouts will be posted shortly.
and Phua secured the double, leaving Soyza with just a few big blinds.
to keep Soyza's hand second-best and he headed to the rail.
in front of him with the board showing 
for Segebrecht to have found a pair of kings on the river to stay alive.
river kept the hopes of Chan for a miracle alive.
for Huang to exclaim he would have won but instead it was Pollak who would double up through Schemion.
river for 450,000, Mateos folded.
