WSOPE: Ensan Chases 2nd Bracelet in €25,500 Platinum, Glaser Leads Mixed Game Championship

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Oct 22, 2019 6 min read

€25,500 Platinum High Roller: Burns Bags Chip Lead, Ensan in Second Place

With just over 26 minutes left in Level 24, Day 2 of Event #8: €25,500 Platinum High Roller No-Limit Hold’Em has bagged up with six players making it through to the final day. All six players are guaranteed at least €95,962 but they will all be focused on that first-place prize of €596,883 and the gold WSOP bracelet. With 67 big blinds, Kahle Burns is ahead of the pack as he bagged 33,650,000 in chips.

Burns has already collected two cashes here in Rozvadov, missing out on the final table twice. He finished in 12th place in the WSOP International Circuit Event for €12,250 and in 9th place in Event #5: €2,500 8-Game Mix. Right now, he’s already pocketed more than that combined, but a win here would take him close to $6.5 million in lifetime earnings. The most notable eliminations Burns can lay claim to are probably the ones of Phil Ivey and Tony G.

Burns is followed in the chip counts by the current WSOP Main Event Champion, Hossein Ensan. Ensan was short during the bubble, but after doubling up during it and then winning four successive all-ins versus Daniel Negreanu got him to the top of the chip counts. Ensan was also responsible for ending the day when he eliminated Anton Morgenstern, who held ace-six. Ensan was behind with ace-four, but the seven-seven-ten-seven-four board gave him a full house to jump ahead and go into the final with 22,000,000 in chips.

The remaining players on the final table are all very accomplished with loads of High Roller experience but Timothy Adams, Alex Foxen, Abdelhakim Zoufri, and Sam Trickett have all bagged fewer than 20 big blinds so have got some work ahead of them.

€25,500 Platinum High Roller Remaining Payouts

€25,500 Platinum High Roller Start of the Day

With 54 entries collected over the first day, the first two levels and the break that followed allowed for players to register late or reenter. And the fact that reentries were still possible didn’t fall on deaf ears. Instead, the eliminations and reentries were flying all over the place during the first eighty minutes of the day, bringing 29 extra entries to the total number of 83 to create a prize pool of €1971,250.

After the dust had settled down, the eliminations slowed down a little bit, but not much. After the final two table redraw, Adrian Mateos and Ivey fell to bring the field down to 14 and the bubble.

€25,500 Platinum High Roller: The Bubble

With fourteen players left, it was time for the bubble. First, Negreanu doubled through Laszlo Bujtas with pocket kings, then Ensan hit a ten on the turn with jack-ten, and Foxen’s pocket tens held against the king-seven of Zoufri. Ensan then doubled again though Burns this time with ace-eight. Burns’ ace-king couldn’t beat the turned pair of eights.

Burns also paid the double-up for Christopher Frank who held aces during the bubble. But Johannes Becker ended up becoming the bubble boy when he shoved his last six blinds in with ace-jack and was looked up by Zoufri who held ace-six. The six on the flop burst the bubble to guarantee the rest of the field at least €37,275.

€25,500 Platinum High Roller: After the Bubble

Cary Katz’s pocket fives couldn’t hold up against Foxen’s ace-eight, Frank busted with pocket nines while Burns held pocket sixes and flopped a set before turning a full house, and Robert Campbell hit a royal flush against Ensan to double up. Anthony Zinno’s rockets ran into the king-queen of Adams who had rivered two pair when all the chips went in.

As mentioned before, Negreanu lost his whole stack to Ensan in four hands, and he bubbled the final table. Bujtas left the field in ninth place and Campbell in eighth place. With this cash, Campbell is back in the lead in the WSOP Player of the Year race, followed by Shaun Deeb and Negreanu.

The six remaining players will return to the King’s Resort to resume play at 2 p.m. local time at Level 24, which features a small blind of 250,000, big blind of 500,000, and a big blind ante of 500,000. Play will continue until a winner has been crowned, and all the action can be followed right here as the PokerNews live reporting team will be bringing you all the updates on a delay to be in line with the PokerGO stream with hole cards.

€25,500 Platinum High Roller Final Day Seat Draw

€25,500 Mixed Games Championship: Glaser Tops Day 1

The first day of Event #10: €25,500 Mixed Games Championship kicked off with a delay of nearly two hours, but once the first table started, the players kept coming to join the action and some of the biggest names of the international poker circuit squared off at the tables. After all, there is a coveted gold bracelet at the 2019 World Series of Poker Europe at the King's Resort in Rozvadov up for grabs.

Due to the delay, Day 1 was shortened to eight levels of 60 minutes each, and as a result, the late registration will remain open for the first two hour-levels and following break on Day 2. All those that wish to take a shot at the guaranteed prize pool of €1,000,000 can do so as of 3 p.m. local time when the action resumes on Tuesday, October 22nd, 2019.

There are also vital points in the 2019 Player of the Year race up for grabs and Shaun Deeb, Daniel Negreanu and Robert Campbell added another cash to their tally today, however, the competition remains wide open and it was certainly no surprise to see 2019 $50,000 Poker Players Championship winner Phil Hui also enter the field.

At the end of the night, it was a close race between Benny Glaser (2,475,000) and Ivo Donev (2,422,000) for the top spot, while Anthony Zinno follows not far behind with 2,163,000 as the only other player with more than two times the starting stack with 21 players out of 26 entries remaining.

€25,500 Mixed Games Championship: POY Contenders Enter

Robert Campbell entered late after his deep run in Event #8: €25,500 Platinum High Roller No-Limit Hold'em and spun it up to 1,742,000, Daniel Negreanu made it through with 1,533,000 after scoring a late double up. Phil Hui claimed 1,281,000 to his name, and Shaun Deeb has some work ahead with just 211,000, but he can still re-enter in the first two levels of Day 2 if needed.

Campbell, Negreanu, and Deeb also shared the same table for a while before the growing field was re-balanced for the final two levels of the night.

€25,500 Mixed Games Championship: Ivey and Hellmuth Bust

Other notables through to Day 2 in a field filled with big names are Sam Higgs (1,606,000), Joao Vieira (1,565,000), Dzmitry Urbanovich (1,394,000), David "ODB" Baker (1,325,000), Jeff Lisandro (1,170,000), Dario Sammartino (1,001,000) and Viktor "Isildur1" Blom (881,000).

Among those to bust were Austria's Yusuf Kurt, Phil Hellmuth, Alex Livingston, and Phil Ivey.

Only Phil Ivey bought in for a second time so far and ran out of chips after clashing with Ivo Donev in a PLO hand in which he flopped top pair and a gutshot in three-way action that also included Shaun Deeb. Donev looked him up with top two pair and the same gutshot, and there was no help on turn and river.

For Phil Hellmuth, it was all over in the penultimate level of the night. Left short after being caught bluffing by Sam Higgs, he was all in preflop in an Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better hand, and his second nut low was not good enough against the nut low of Julien Martini and the top set of Roland Israelashvili.

The late registration for the event closes at the start of level 11, and the penultimate day recommences as of 3 p.m. local time. Keep your eyes locked on PokerNews to find out who masters the eight different poker variants best and become the latest WSOP bracelet winner.

€25,500 Mixed Games Championship Day 2 Seat Draw

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