Day 2 of the WPT Amsterdam €3,300 Main Event was completed last night with 38 remaining players. As many as 8 levels were played yesterday but they were not enough for the money bubble to burst.
The WPT Amsterdam €3,300 Main Event, or the second stop on the new WPT Main Tour season’s schedule, attracted a field of 318 entries. The generated prize pool amounts to €911,881 and the top 36 finishers are to receive a share of the money. The Main Event champion will be paid the amount of €200,000, with a $15,400 seat into the season-ending Tournament of Champions being included.
As it could be expected, the event attracted some really popular poker pros, with Steve O’Dwyer, Jack Salter, and Joris Ruys being among them. However, all three were among the players to leave the tournament in its early stages. WPT regulars like Morten Mortensen, Frank Williams, and Giuseppe Pantaleo also could not make it through Day 2.
Play is set to resume today with the 38 survivors returning to burst the bubble and to play down to the six-handed final table. The 6 finalists will have to determine the eventual champion on Saturday, May 14.
Day 3 of the Main Event will kick off with local player Farid Chati as the chip leader with 546,000. Chati is closely followed by Emrah Cakmak, who bagged up a total of 544,000 in chips last night.
Speaking of Chati, so far, the player has $445,061 in live tournament earnings. He seems to be a regular at Dutch casinos. Most recently, he won the 2015 Master Classics of Poker €1,080 No-Limit Hold’em Freeze Out for the amount of €39,788. Over the years, the player has also appeared at the tables of numerous Dutch and other European tournaments.
Day 3 of the event will also see a number of popular poker pros returning at the tables of Holland Casino Amsterdam, with three-time WPT champion Anthony Zinno, Andjelko Andrelevic, and Jason Wheeler being few of those.
Amsterdam is the second stop on the WPT Main Tour schedule for Season XV. The season kicked off on April 29 with the partypoker WPT Canadian Spring Championship at Playground Poker Club in Kahnawake, Quebec.
