After an epic day of action features 12 levels and 186 exits (averaging 15 per level), Day 2 of the 2014 PokerStars King's Cup here in Rozvadov has finished. The pace was frenetic with such a lot of eliminations and it was capped off by an extra four, dropping the sector from 16 to 12, after the last six hands have been announced. Andreas Weiske, Theodoros Aidonopoulos, Steffen Endres and Dimitrios Ballas were all knocked out as proceedings came to a close.
Philipp Hartmann is the chip leader with 2,621,000. He busted Marek Bartoszewicz with A♠J♠ against 3♣3♦ for a 1 million chip pot and followed it up by knocking out Aidonopoulos with A♥A♦ against A♠2♠ right on the death for a 1.2 million chip pot. These two hands put him away from the remainder of the sector and over one million chips prior to Lena Riemenschneider who's second with 1,584,000.
Riemenschneider's story is especially fascinating, she came back because the second shortest stack after the dinner break when there have been just 68 players remaining. The German lady had just 31,000 with the blinds at 3,000/6,000 but she somehow managed to spin that up into over 1,000,000 in chips - totally on the feature table in full view of the King's Casino's live stream. Also through is Day 1c chip leader Petr Targa with 734,000 - the one probably the most three Day 1 chip leaders to make it. Finally, former EPT Prague runner-up Georgios Sotiropoulos has also got to the last day, the Greek player has 492,000.
Team PokerStars Pro Christophe De Meulder had started the day with a superbly reasonable stack of 65,800 however the Belgian pro couldn't be capable to get anything going, he eventually pushed with fours but was called by queens and couldn't improve.
The bubble was reached in level 16, bursting after only one all-in showdown. Igor Salomasov was the unfortunate player, he had pushed his last 12 bigblinds in with Q♣Q♠ and been called by Targa's J♣J♠. The Czech player managed to flop an entire house at the J♦8♣8♠ board and Salomasov couldn't discover a queen or running eights at the 8♦ turn and 9♦ river. This sent the rest 79 players into the money, guaranteeing all at least €1,000.
At this point Sotiropoulos took over the chip lead from Marc Siebroth, managing to double up with jacks against A♠4♠ after which eliminate him with A♦9♦ against A♣J♥ a couple of hands later. Sotiropoulos also knocked out the full chip leader firstly of the day, Roman Mikus. The Czech player was short and called all in with 7♠6♠ against Sotiropoulos' 7♣7♦ but couldn't hit enough of a J♠Q♣3♠6♦4♥ board. The exits continued to return after and it looked as if Sotiropoulos might finish the day on top, but a crazy couple of last levels changed everything to place Hartmann firmly in control.
Tomorrow, the tournament will restart at 2pm CET another time and play to a winner who'll take home €50,400 - over 100 times their initial buy-in. Who will or not it's? Check back in to the PokerStars Blog tomorrow as we reveal who's the winner of the 2014 PokerStars King's Cup Rozvadov!
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