Event #3: €1,350 Mini Main Event No-Limit Hold'em

The third gold bracelet event of the 2019 World Series of Poker Europe has finished all three days and a total field of 766 entries emerged in Event #3: €1,350 Mini Main Event No-Limit Hold'em to ensure that the guaranteed prize pool of €551,750 was easily surpassed. Thanks to 378 entries on Day 1c, a prize pool of €873,240 was created and 76 players remain in contention, to bring the total number of players coming back for Day 2 to 153 hopefuls.

Leading the survivors in the final flight is Germany's Ismail Kalkan with1,239,000 and whose best score in a WSOP event so far is sixth place last summer in the $500 WSOP.com ONLINE No-Limit Hold'em Turbo Deepstack. He is followed by Leonid Yanovski (1,121,000) and Pawel Zawadowicz who completes the podium (1,077,000).

The overall chipleader advancing to Day 2 remains Pulkit Goyal, representing India, with an impressive stack of 1,518,000 amassed on Day 1b, and Aleksandr Merzhvinskii in the second position with 1,255,000 in chips bagged on Day 1a.

Many bracelet winners used their final opportunity to book a seat for Day 2 and add more gold to their collection including Barak Wisbrod (905,00), Mykhailo Gutyi (844,000), Asi Moshe (772,000), six-time bracelet winner Jeff Lisandro (640,000), Ismael Bojang (511,000), Phillip Hui (505,000), Artur Rudziankov (438,000), David "ODB" Baker (240,000), Sebastian Langrock (215,000) and Erik Cajelais (159,000) who will try to quickly double his 15 big blinds tomorrow.

Many other notables who took a shot at this flight but were not fortunate enough to survive to the day include the recent winner of Event #2: €550 Pot-Limit Omaha Dash Dudley, four-time bracelet winner Eli Elezra, Sam Grafton, Benny Glaser, Ivo Donev and Christopher Back to name just a few.

After the final break of the night, the eliminations speed up and 15 players quickly headed to rail to reduce the field to just 76 that advanced. American player Lawrence Whyte was one of the last players to bust, being eliminated by Kalkan who found a set of sixes on the flop while Whyte held pocket fives. He was followed around 20 minutes later by Birger Ohl who felted in 77th place against Kristof Lenart, signifying the end of the day for the remaining players.

Day 2 will kick off on Saturday, October 19th, at 1 p.m. local time with 11 minutes and 16 seconds left in level 16 at blinds of 5,000/10,000 with a 5,000 big blind ante. The level duration increases to 40 minutes each and the event is scheduled to play down to the final table, whichever comes first.

Make sure to stay tuned on Pokernews.com to find out who remains in contention for the coveted third gold bracelet here in King's Resort.

Birger Ohl was all-in from the small blind and at risk as he was covered by Kristof Lenart on the button with the bigger stack.

Birger Ohl:   
Kristof Lenart:   

The board read       as Lenart has hit a straight to end Day 1c in Level 17 with 29 minutes and 45 seconds left.

Kristof Lenart	981,000	434,000
Birger Ohl	0	-375,000

With the elimination of Bleron Maliqi, one more player needs to bust before the remaining players can bag and tag their chips for Day 2.

Bleron Maliqi

0

-103,000

The board already read      with a big pot containing more than 260,000 when Tonny Krijn bet 110,000 in the small blind position. Navot Golan replied with an all-in raise, putting Krjin at risk for his tournament. The latter went deep into the tank and ended up folding.

With 78 players left, only two players need to bust before the tournament stop for today and the players bag their chips.

Quan Zhou	875,000	565,000
Navot Golan	860,000	728,000
Phillip Hui	285,000	-65,000
Antonius Krijn	278,000	278,000
Sebastian Langrock	217,000	47,000
Senol Karahasan	194,000	-136,000
Marcin Jaworski	150,000	150,000
Karl Metz	115,000	-1,000
Uri Reichenstein	0	-340,000
Michael Teplitski	0	-225,000

Ismail Kalkan raised to 22,000 from the hijack and Lawrence Whyte three-bet to 60,000 on the button. Action folded back to Kalkan who made the call.

The flop came    , Kalkan check-called the shove of Whyte with    as he had flopped a set. Whyte held   .

The rest of the board was completed with the   on the turn and the   on the river for Whyte to be sent away from the tournament area.

Bartel Kars	1,016,000	116,000
Ismail Kalkan	852,000	362,000
Antonio Smeraglia	555,000
Pawel Zawadowicz	380,000	307,000
Birger Ohl	375,000	269,000
Erik Cajelais	219,000	-11,000
Lawrence Whyte	0	-100,000
Mark Ioli	0	-245,000
Nikola Cokesa	0	-280,000

Darko Percic opened to 25,000 under the gun and Diana Volcovschi called in the big blind.

Both players checked throughout the board      and a  completed the board. This time, Volcovschi check-folded after Percic bet 25,000.

Darko Percic	375,000	275,000
Diana Volcovschi	200,000	-154,000

In raised pot with a flop showing    , both Bahadir Hatipoglu and Abelardo Hafauri checked.

The turn was the   and they checked as well to see a   on the river. Hatipoglu bet 15,000 and after a long tank, Hafauri called but mucked his cards when Hatipoglu tabled    for trips.

Bahadir Hatipoglu	1,080,000	40,000
Abelardo Hafauri	190,000	-230,000