The penultimate day of the PokerStars Dublin Poker Festival also happens to coincide with the penultimate day of 1 of essentially the most coveted tournaments at the EPT - the €10k High Roller Event. Winning this one really will provide you with street cred amongst the most efficient high stakes tournament grinders around.
Ten levels were played on Day 1 yesterday and another ten today. After three reentries and one new entry before play started, the general choice of entries came to 185. The 2 major stories that stood out today included the top of day chip leader (Sergey Lebedev on 1,522,000) and the bubble boy (Vladas Tamasauskas).
Lebedev leads after Day2
The chip lead changed repeatedly through the day but because the last level wound down, it became a two-way battle between Emil Patel and Lebedev. The latter had always been near the highest of the counts whereas Patel needed to take care of being a brief stack before a late surge. He doubled up within the last level after creating a flush to crack Christoph Vogelsangs kings. After all though, his 1,339,000 wasn't enough to overhaul the Russian who also won an important last-level pot, turning a suite of queens versus Samuel Panzica, who said he had aces. He'll enter Day 3 as favourite for the €397,500 first placed prize (full payout details).
Great end for Patel
Lithuanian Tamasauskas was a player that must've been extremely confident getting into today. Not just because he won his seat in a live satellite, but additionally on account of somewhat tournament he won earlier within the festival. The 21-year-old beat 1,001 players to become the UKIPT5 Dublin champion and picked up the €176,900 that came with it. He did not add any longer cash to that pile after calling all in at the river of a 5♣7♣J♥8♣2♠ board with A♥7♥. His opponent, Jerry Odeen, had pocket nines and that was that.
Tamasauskas seeking to determine if he should call at the river
Another player who's had a terrific Dublin experience is Dominik Nitsche. He took down the UKIPT High Roller event and came second within the single day €10k High Roller event for almost €300k. He came back because the chip leader today and cruised into the cash but a few coolers cost him.
Other notables who cashed but did not make the general day were: Jeff Gross (16th), Ben Heath (17th), Team PokerStars Pro Jason Mercier (18th) and Scott Margereson (24th) fresh from his 19th place finish within the EPT Main Event.
Another deep run for Mercier
Below is how the general 13 line up tomorrow, they'll resume play at 12:30pm. Join us all here then.
| Sergey Lebedev | Russia | 1,522,000 |
| Emil Patel | Finland | 1,339,000 |
| Ryan Riess | USA | 1,174,000 |
| Akin Tuna | Germany | 1,100,000 |
| Timothy Adams | Canada | 758,000 |
| Jerry Odeen | Sweden | 596,000 |
| Rocco Palumbo | Italy | 565,000 |
| Davidi Kitai | Belgium | 512,000 |
| Willliam Arruda | Brazil | 458,000 |
| Sam Chartier | Canada | 458,000 |
| Christoph Vogelsang | Germany | 310,000 |
| Samuel Panzica | USA | 276,000 |
| Diego Ventura | Peru | 157,000 |
Photos by Jules Pochy
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