Sebastien Grax opened to 225,000 from middle position. Then Mikael Hen decided to go all in for 1,065,000 chips from the small blind. The big blind folded, and Grax immediately called.
Svajunas Seduikis moved all in from under the gun for approximately 1,300,000 and Alberto Cigliano moved all in with a covering stack from early position, folding out all other players to leave Seduikis at risk.
Svajunas Seduikis: A♠9♣
Alberto Cigliano: Q♠Q♣
The board ran out 3♦4♦6♦J♥9♥. Cigliano's pocket-queens remained the best hand throughout allowing him to take down a nice pot early on while Seduikis was sent to the rail.
Javier Francort raised to 200,000 from under the gun and Giuseppe Mazza-Boussemart called on the button. Siarhei Chudapal jammed for just shy of 20 blinds out of the small blind. Francort went all-in over the top and Mazza-Boussemart folded.
Siarhei Chudapal: J♦J♥
Javier Francort: A♥Q♠
The board ran out A♣8♣6♦8♥7♣ and Francort leaped out of his chair for some boxing celebration before sitting back down and stacking the newly acquired chips.
The action continues here at the 2023 World Series of Poker Europe at King's Resort in Rozvodov with Day 3 of Event #3: €1,350 Mini Main Event .
The event consisted of four starting flights which attracted a field of 1,729 total entrants, creating a prize pool of €2,000,000. A total of 461 players advanced from their starting flights to Day 2, where the field was reduced further to the final 58 players. Among those 58 players, Moldova's Artiom Poddubnii emerged as the Day 2 chip leader, finishing the night with 10,740,000 chips, worth 107 big blinds. Poddubnii is currently the only player in the field with more than 10,000,000 in chips.
Poddubnii has a career-best tournament score of $20,000 which he will surpass should he place 14th or better in today's event. Poddubnii is most closely followed by Romania's Marius Gicovanu (7,290,000) and Georgia's Lazare Kalebashvili (6,945,000).
Day 2 Top 10 Chip Counts
Place
Player
Country
Chip Count
Big Blinds
1
Artiom Poddubnii
Moldova
10,740,000
107
2
Marius Gicovanu
Romania
7,290,000
73
3
Lazare Kalebashvili
Georgia
6,945,000
69
4
Jamel Ghizaoui
France
6,900,000
69
5
Omar Eljach
Sweden
6,575,000
66
6
Matthew Davenport
United Kingdom
6,445,000
64
7
Levan Rcheulishvili
Georgia
6,020,000
60
8
Aleksej Grenz
Germany
5,805,000
58
9
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Mongolia
5,180,000
52
10
Elia Salerno
Italy
5,120,000
51
Another notable player to bag a top ten chip stack by the end of Day 2 is none other than the reigning World Series of Poker Europe main event champion Omar Eljach (6,575,000). Eljach has already gotten off to a hot start at this year's WSOPE by taking down Event #2: €550 Pot Limit Omaha 8-Max for €65,900 and his second WSOP gold bracelet.
Other notables to bag and tag for Day 3 include Day 1a chip leader Ihar Khursin (4,670,000) and bracelet winners Sebastian Langrock (1,600,000) and Fabio Peluso (1,480,000).
Event #3: €1,350 NLH Mini Main Event Remaining Payouts
Place
Prize
Place
Prize
1
€310,350*
10-11
€29,120*
2
€183,850*
12-13
€25,275*
3
€136,750*
14
€22,375*
4
€103,350*
15-17
€12,025
5
€79,650*
18-26
€9,800
6
€62,550*
27-35
€8,075
7
€50,050*
36-44
€6,750
8
€40,950*
45-53
€5,700
9
€34,150*
54-58
€4,890
*Payouts including €10,350 WSOPE Main Event Day 1a ticket
Day 3 is scheduled to begin on November 3 at 2 p.m. local time and play down until a final table is reached. Play will resume on level 26, which features 50,000/100,000 blinds with a 100,000 big blind ante.
As always, stay tuned to Pokernews as we bring you all the action for this event from the moment cards are in the air until a winner is crowned on tomorrow's Day 4.