WSOPE Event #3: €1,350 Mini Main Event

Xiaohua Yang raised his button to 1,500,000, after which Frederik Thiemer shoved all in for 12,100,000 from the small blind. Yang made a quick call and the cards hit their backs.

Frederik Thiemer:   
Xiaohua Yang:   

The     flop took away Thiemer's pair outs as Yang made a set, but the German could still hit a nine to make a straight.

However, neither the   turn or   river brought it on the board, resulting in Thiemer's departure in sixth.

Yang on the other hand, chipped up to a stack of 60 big blinds, solidifying a second place on the leaderboard.

Xiaohua Yang	36,000,000	13,000,000
Frederik Thiemer	0	-12,000,000

Christopher Campisano raised his button to 1,200,000 with   . Andreas Krause looked down at    in the big blind and opted to defend.

The     saw Krause make a pair, which he led out with for 1,200,000. Campisano let go of his overcards as Krause chipped back up.

Andreas Krause	15,000,000	1,000,000
Christopher Campisano	9,800,000	-2,800,000

Luigi Pignataro opened the action with a raise to 1,225,000 under the gun. Dimitrios Anastasakis then three-bet to 4,200,000 in the small blind, after which Pignataro shoved all in for 11,700,000.

Anastasakis snap called with the covering stack and the players showed down.

Luigi Pignataro:   
Dimitrios Anastasakis:   

Pignataro's pair of queens was dominated, and when the       flop did not bring a queen, Pignataro was forced to exit in seventh place. Anastasakis, meanwhile, took over the second place on the leaderboard.

Dimitrios Anastasakis	26,500,000	16,500,000
Luigi Pignataro	0	-12,000,000

Xiaohua Yang looked down at    in middle position and raised to 1,200,000. Frederic Marechal sat in the small blind, putting in a three-bet to 4,300,000 with   .

Yang weighed his options for a bit and then put in a call to go to the flop of    . Marechal started off with a check, after which Yang immediately shoved all in for 13,425,000.

Marechal made a quick fold and the pot was shipped to Yang.

Frederic Marechal	43,000,000	-5,000,000
Xiaohua Yang	23,000,000	5,275,000

Luigi Pignataro raised to 1,025,000 from the cutoff with    and Frederic Marechal made a three-bet to 2,700,000 holding    out of the big blind. Pignataro had around 15,000,000 chips behind and elected to make the call.

They saw a flop of     where Marechal continued with a sizing of 1,800,000, and Pignataro made a quick call.

When the   dropped on the turn, Marechal reached for chips and swiftly bet 3,500,000. Pignataro was pretty motionless with his head resting against his hand, then eventually folded.

Frederic Marechal	48,000,000	5,000,000
Luigi Pignataro	12,000,000	-5,450,000

Since eliminating Luc Ramos, Xiaohua Yang has kept up his aggression by raising three pots in a row.

In the first, he folded to a three-bet from Luigi Pignataro, but got the next two through uncontested, with the latest being an open with    from under the gun.

Xiaohua Yang	17,725,000	1,500,000
Luigi Pignataro	17,450,000	-100,000

The eight players have taken their seats and the cards are in the air for the final table of Event #3: €1,350 Mini Main Event.

The final table of Event #3: €1,350 Mini Main Event at the 2024 World Series of Poker Europe has been set. Among the eight players returning today to King's Resort Rozvadov is German player Andreas Krause. Krause's first-ever recorded live cash dates back to 1999, and he has been racking up results continuously since then.

Krause is the only player left with WSOP final table experience, having made three of them throughout his lengthy career. The closest he has ever come to capturing a bracelet was his runner-up finish in a $2,500 Stud Hi/Lo event at the 2000 WSOP in Las Vegas. Today, over 24 years since that day, he will be aiming to go one better and be crowned the champion, walking away with the top prize of €213,350.

However, Krause is facing an uphill battle. Even though he comes back as third in chips with a stack of 14,000,000 or 28 big blinds, chipleader Frederic Marechal will sit down with 43,000,000, more than three times as much. Even Luigi Pignataro, who sits in second place with 17,550,000, is not within reaching distance of taking over Merachal's enormous lead.

The other players who have made the final eight of a field of 1,286 include absolute short stack Luc Ramos, whose 3,775,000 chips represent less than eight big blinds, Day 1 chipleader Xiaohua Yang (11,450,000), and Dimitrios Anastasakis (12,250,000), whose eighth WSOP cash is resulting in his deepest run yet.

Final Table Seating and Chip Counts

The guaranteed prize pool of €1,500,000 was just shy of being met, meaning that the €31,050 all players have guaranteed themselves include a little bit of overlay. Meanwhile, all podium finishers will walk away with six-figure sums, while second and first receive more than 100 buy-ins for their performances.

Remaining Payouts

* All remaining payouts include a ticket to the €10,350 WSOP Europe Main Event

The final table will kick off at 1 p.m. local time with 28 minutes and 27 seconds remaining in Level 33: 250,000/500,000 with a 500,000 big blind ante. Each subsequent level will have a duration of 60 minutes, and the players will be sent on break after every two levels.

A cards-up live stream will also be broadcast on King's Resort's Twitch and YouTube channels. The streams are on a 30-minute delay, with the live report following the same delay to avoid any spoilers.

Be sure to stick to PokerNews to find out who etches their name in WSOP history as the final table of the Mini Main Event plays down to its winner.