Although the structure and stacks were both deep, the first hour witnessed two quick eliminations. Stoyan Obreshkov was the first to go in ninth place for $42,711. He got short on chips when he called off with nine-six and didn t get there against ace-queen held by Yuri Dzivielevski.
Rainer Kempe went out shortly after in eighth place for $54,089 when his queens weren t good enough against Dvoress aces.
Henao was short on chips before bowing out in seventh place for $68,181 after his queen-jack didn t hold against the queen-three suited held by
Fabiano Kovalski.
A big hand took place shortly after which resulted in Dzivielevski hitting the rail in sixth place for $86,399. The pot was bloated by the river. Dzivielevski with big slick connected with his ace for two pair with the top kicker. However, Dvoress held jacks for a full house and jammed the river and Dzivielevski was out of chips after he called.
What a final table it is with big names everywhere including
Daniel Dvoress who will enter the action as the table captain with a commanding stack of 40,666,540 in chips when the action resumes on Wednesday, June 2 at 7:05 p.m. BST (2:05 p.m. EDT) with partypoker streaming the final table on a 30-minute delay on its partypokerTV Twitch channel.
Brazil s
Luciano Hollanda (33,832,245) was the only other player to bag more than 30 million in chips with
Marc Lange (28,821,658),
Sebastian Henao (26,005,586), and
Christian Rudolph (23,177,230) all heading into the final table with at least 20 million in chips.
Some of the biggest names at the final table hold the shortest stacks in play including