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With the field down to 36 players, play has just come to a end here on Day 2 of the WPT Venice. What a fantastic result for the bwin team with 11 of our players heading on through to the Day 3 and guaranteed to take home at least 8,300€. LocStaOnFire and nammer4life continued to lead the way for the team, both finishing on huge stacks of over 200k, and French player vincent582 came out of nowhere to finish on 258k. A fair chunk of those chips came on the penultimate hand of the day when he knocked out team mate BonniePBilly.

vincent582, LocStaOnFire and nammer4life

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Danish team member BonniePBilly has just earned himself 7,600€ by coming in 39th place in the WPT Venice. BonniePBilly was eliminated by fellow team member vincent582 in a huge bug hand that sent vincent582 to the top of the bwin team chip count.

The hand started with a battle of the blinds, with our very own vincent582 raising from cut off to 20k and BonniePBilly pushing with 100k from the button. The blinds folded and vincent582 made the call and turned over JcJh. BonniePBilly reluctantly showed his As8d. The board ran out with 5sTh6s5d9c and BonniePBilly was out and vincent582 moved up to a very handy 250k.

BonniePBilly coming home in 39th position.

French player pokerng survived the bubble with just 41k and not surprisingly got his chips in the middle just a few hands after the bubble burst.

pokerng pushed pre-flop with Ks 9s and was called by an opponent with As 9c. The flop came 7h Ah Jc 2h Kh and pokerng’s WPT journey finished in 45th spot and 7,600€ for his effort. Great work fella!

pokerng Cashing Out

pokerng

With 45 players left in Michael Binger is our unfortunate bubble boy. It went down with Mike McDonald holding 2s2d vs Bingers AcQd. So now we’re in the money and starting off with the payouts of 7600€ and only to go up and up, make sure you stay tuned for more!

Here we go! Just one more bust and then we are in the money!

Play is now hand for hand and the tension in the Casino di venezia Poker Room is simply amazing. Every time any player starts to take some time over a decision a huge crowd gathers around the table. Just to spice things up there is a 700€ bounty on the player who busts the bubble boy! Nice!

Tension! The anticipation is palpable

Wow! With the bubble approaching I thought the action might have started to slow down, but there is no stopping it today!

Where to start? Well, French team member LocStaOnFire has made the biggest move of the bwin team members since the last update, chipping up to a massive 235k by dominating his table and taking a huge pot from American pro Michael McDonald. LocStaOnFire and McDonald are easily the most aggressive players on their table and the two locked horns in a hand that sent LocStaOnFire from the middle of the pack right up to the top 10.

The Hand started with LocStaOnFire three betting and McDonald making the call. The flop the came J♣7♣2♠, LocStaOnFire checked it down and McDonald checked behind. A 5♠ came on the river, LocStaOnFire fired out 30k and McDonald called. The river then showed with a 7x and LocStaOnFire fired out another 40k, McDonald took his time and again flatted. LocStaOnFire showed J♠J♦ for the flopped set, rivered full house and McDonald mucked and sent a huge pot to LocStaOnFire.

LocStaOnFire is.. well on fire!

nammer4life is also looking set for his first cash at a bwin live event, just cruising on 191k. It will be fantastic story if nammer4life does finally get up for a cash after his heartbreaking elimination to a 2 outer on the bubble at the 2007 WSOPE.

Go nammer4life! This man really deserves a cash

Here are the latest chips counts;

LocStaOnFire – 235k
nammer4life – 191k
Daumbeach – 135k
yoggilours – 124k
psycho2620 – 120k
Ilawa – 107k
BonniPBilly – 90K
freetcha – 75,400
vincent586 – 72,3k
puchi x – 65k
pokerng – 41k
nastelous_x – 34k

We are so close to the money now with only 47 players remaining. The average stack is 126,702 and blinds are 2500/5000/500 when the players return from the dinner break. The chip leader is Danilo Ginobbi with 315k.

Two more team veterans have just been eliminated agonizingly close to the money with KristapsK3 and CorpseGr both getting busted in pretty crushing style.

First up Latvian team veteran KristapsK3 was out in 54th place when in a pretty sick three way pot. The action started with UTG raising to 8k from Seat 1 (blinds 1500/3000/400), KristapsK3 called from SB leaving 90k behind as did BB. The flop came A♥J♥T♣ KristapsK3 checked it, Seat 2 bet 10k and Seat 3 called. KristapsK3 went to the tank before pushing all in over the top. Both players then called, with Seat 1 leaving on 9k behind.

A K♥ came on the turn and Seat 1 pushed his 9k straight in. Seat 3 called and turned over A♣J♠ for two pair whilst seat 1 show KxQx for the flopped straight. Kristaps shook his head and showed T♥T♠ for the flopped set. All hope wasn’t lost for KristapsK3 he had a good chance for the win with a flush draw and if the board paired, but a 9♣ sent the friendly Latvian to the rails crushed.

KristapsK3 getting his stack in

it's always a pleasure to have KristapsK3 at bwin live events and I hope to see him back on the team soon

Things got even worse for the team a few minutes later when corpseGr pushed all-in preflop with 8x8x only to run into KxKh. The board ran out with 4 hearts, giving corpseGR’s opponent a flush and the disappointed German was out in 52nd.

corpsegr came so close far, but sadly no cash

Ilawa has just got some breathing space by busting PokerStars Pro Benjimen Kang. Both players were starting to get a short with not much more than 30K when Ilawa pushed pre-flop with AxKx. Kang called with KxKx, but an Ax on the flop gave Ilawa a much needed injection of chips and moved him back up over 60k.

Benjiman Kang Kings couldn't hold up against ilawa

As a result of Ilawa busting Kang, Table 8 was broken and pokerng was sent to Table 5 where he found himself seated next to team mate mienam. Just a few hands in, mienman pushed all in on SB after a raise from Dario Minieri UTG. pokerng on BB then pushed all in over the top and Minieri went to the tank before folding JxJx face up. “He’s got Aces” Minieri told the table. Minieri was right, pokerng turned over his A♦A♣ to have miennam’s 6♠6♣ pretty much cooked. A blank board and pokerng pocketed a 90k pot.

mienman ran right into a pokerng's Aces

Ladies and Gentlemen we’re fast approaching the payout structure here at the WPT Venice. Overall we’re looking at a prize pool of € 1,521,260, which will be distributed as follows:

1. 397,960 €
2. 238,840 €
3. 159, 740 €
4. 109,540 €
5. 86,720 €
6. 66,940 €
7. 48,680 €
8. 31,940 €
9. 22,820 €
10.-12. 16,740 €
13.-15. 13,700 €
16.-18 11,400 €
19.-27. 9,880 €
28.-36. 8,360 €
37.-45. 7,600 €

The numbers are dropping like crazy here on Day 2 of the WPT Venice and there is now only 65 players remaining out of the 152 staters. Out of those 65 there are still 16 team members still standing and a good portion those players are in strong position to make deep runs with nammer4life, Daumbeach, xxxmichto and LocStaOnFire are all sitting big stacks of over 100k. Only 19 more busts until we are on the bubble and the atmosphere here at Casino di Venezia is really starting to build.

Here are the counts;

nammer4life – 130k
Daumbeach – 120k
xxxmichto – 110k
LocStaOnFire – 105k
psycho2620 – 102k
BangJohansen – 100k
CorpseGr – 80k
KristapsK3 – 71k
pokerng – 60k
Ilawa – 58k
yoggilours – 57k
miennam – 50k
vincent586 – 46k
puchi x – 40k
MickeMusxxx – 30k
nastelous_x – 26k
freetcha – 25k
Speedzebre – 15k
ala1981 – 12k

Blinds have just moved to 1200/2400 with a 300 ante and the average stack is just over 80k.