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WPT Prague – Day 2 Report
Posted by: Randy Williams - Tue, 2011-12-06 12:34
The second day of the WPT’s Prague Main Event saw 124 players return from the original, record-setting starting field of 571. Prior to this event, the largest ever WPT event had been the WPT Vienna from season nine.v
Casey Kastle was the one who began the day with the largest stack of chips. 62 players remained when the waves subsided, and Martins Adeniya held the lead with a stack of 849k chips.
Adeniya rolled out of the gates firing on all cylinders. He scored an important elimination during the early going, getting rid of Michael Tureniec during the second level of the day. After some vicious preflop give and take, Tureniec shoved all-in with K,Qo and Adeniya made the call with pocket rockets. Nothing fell on the board to bail Tureniec out, and he was eliminated. The pot picked up in this hand provided quite a nice momentum for Adeniya, who continued to add to his stack through the day.
With the money bubble set for 63rd place, the goal for the day was an obvious one for everyone: to make the money. As soon as push came to shove, the casualties, notable and otherwise, began to mount. Tureniec was joined on the rail by Martin Staszko, James Akenhead, Eoghan O’Dea, Toby Lewis and Bryn Kenney.
Steve O’Dwyer got his chips into the middle as well, on A,K no less and he got a caller in Mike Watson, who had pocket Ks. The board ran out a bunch of blanks, and a K fell on the river to add insult to injury for O’Dwyer. The pot gave Watson the provisional chip lead.
The official bubble boy of the event was Yury Gulyy, who got the last of his chips into the middle on A,Ko against Thomas Fradsen’s A,6o. A 6 fell on the flop and then another one on the river highlighting the capricious nature of the game of
Holdem and sealing the deal.
