Fahredin Mustafov Wins the €5,300 High Roller and WSOP Circuit Ring (€70,300)
The 2017 World Series of Poker International Circuit King's Casino Rozvadov has determined the next champion and winner of the elusive WSOP Circuit ring. Bulgaria's Fahredin Mustafov emerged victorious in the 40-entry strong €5,300 High Roller after 10 hours of play on Day 2 and claimed the lion's share of the €190,000 prize pool, taking home €70,300 for his efforts.
PokerStars Team Pro Felipe Ramos, who already finished second to Ben Bensimhon in the €550 Monster Stack for €43,636 at the start of the festival in Europe's biggest poker arena, had to settle for another runner-up finish once more. "It is all good, I will save my luck for the big ones" the Brazilian said with a smile on the face.
Final Result €5,300 High Roller
| Place | Winner | Country | Prize (EUR) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fahredin Mustafov | Bulgaria | 70,300 |
| 2 | Felipe Ramos | Brazil | 48,450 |
| 3 | Robert Schulz | Germany | 30,875 |
| 4 | Fabrice Halleux | Belgium | 22,325 |
| 5 | Pierre Neuville | Belgium | 18,050 |
Day 2 Action
Late registration remained open for the first two levels and following break, and until then the number of entries grew to 40 in total. Among those to enter the tournament for the first time were Martin Kabrhel, Asher Dahan, Yair Bitoun and, at the last minute, Felix Schulze.
In the first level of the day, Pavel Plesuv went from top spot to zero after losing two big pots against Robert Schulz. Plesuv bought back in, but would ultimately fail to reach the money. Others that bowed out early on and didn't buy back in were Viliyan Petleshkov, Gregor Greko and Michal Ozimek. Mike Brandau busted in the first hand of the day and his second attempt was not crowned by success either.
Martin Kabrhel fired twice and ran with deuces into the pocket nines of Pierre Neuville. By the turn of a jack-high board, Kabrhel could only chop to remain in contention and his set on the river was of no help as Neuville had already flopped the higher set. Bernd Gleissner and Vojtech Ruzicka both busted on Day 1 and tried their luck again today, but also failed to reach the money.
Well before the final table, Michael Sklenicka and Sander van Wesemael ran out of chips and Ognjen Sekularac went from big stack to the rail in one massive bluff attempt. Robert Schulz happily called his shove on the river of an ace-high board with a flopped set of sixes, while Sekularac only had queen-nine suited for a lot of hot air. The eliminations of Pavel Plesuv, Asher Dahan and Aleksandar Tomovic set up the last table and Schulz was dominating at the top of the counts.
Anatoliy Zyrin was short and doubled twice before losing a big flip to Felipe Ramos. The remaining few chips vanished soon after and Zyrin was gone in 9th place. He was joined by Czech high stakes pro Pavel Binar, who had his pocket jacks cracked by the ace-three of Fahredin Mustafov. One level later it was game over for Vadzim Lipauka, who jammed 16 big blinds with deuces into the kings of Mustafov in a battle of the blinds.
On the money bubble, both Felix Schulze and Pierre Neuville were on life support and it was the German who was forced to commit his last chips first. Schulze picked up non fewer than four callers and his pocket nines were no good against the pocket kings of Felipe Ramos. Neuville tripled up once before calling the shove of Ramos with jack-six suited. Ramos had three-deuce of the same suit and flopped a pair, then rivered a straight for good measure to eliminate Neuville in fifth place.
Fellow Belgian Fabrice Halleux was the next to fall. Down to fewer than one big blind, he called all in and saw Robert Schulz and Fahredin Mustafov check down all the way to the river when an ace hit. Schulz bet, Mustafov folded and the German, based in Vienna for more than two years already, turned over ace-seven for top pair. Halleux grinned, mucked pocket queens and took fourth place.
Down to the last three players, Fahredin Mustafov held more than half of the chips in play and he would boost his lead further after sending Robert Schulz to the rail. In a three-bet pot, Schulz check-called a bet by Mustafov on the flop and shoved the river after having missed his nutflushdraw with ace-queen suited. Mustafov snap-called with king-nine suited, of diamonds as well, for a flopped straight and second nutflushdraw and turned top pair.
Heads-up only lasted a few hands, and Fahredin Mustafov three-bet jammed with his commanding lead and ace-queen. Felipe Ramos called with ace-eight suited and failed to get there despite turning an open-ended straight draw.
This wraps up the updates from the WSOP Circuit High Roller, and the PokerNews live reporting team will be back in action tomorrow Saturday october 14th 2017 for the second and final starting day of the €1,650 WSOp Circuit Main Event.