After a rather quiet first day, the second flight of the inaugural Main Event of the Mega Poker Series saw a total of 56 entries, of which 38 bagged up chips at the end of eight 60-minute levels. Leading the field of survivors and taking over the chip lead is Francisco “Kikuxo” Fernandez with massive 346,500. The Spaniard got the best of it in every big pot he played and busted several players, including Danny Covyn and Daniel Chutrov.
Poker Royale qualifier Johannes Geischläger was the first casualty after his king-high flush was beaten by the only better hand. Another three players followed quickly out of the door in the same level and Kikuxo was among the big stacks by then. A few players shot two bullets, be it after busting from Day 1a or running out of chips through the levels of Day 1b, and Alex Tikhoniouk made it through with a short stack. Andrew Leatham was less fortunate and lost with kings to aces while Ivan Tononi’s aces ran into the set of eights by Daniel Burkart.
David Lappin stayed under the radar for most of the day, slowly increasing his stack, before making a late push and getting value of turned trips to bag up very solid 243,000 chips. Not far behind is MPS Poker Royale third-place finisher Sascha Ranzinger with 218,200, who got there with a move on a flush draw versus Theo Steimer. Other notables include Mario Eder (174,500), MPS Madrid 2014 and Season 3 leader board champion Aristotelis Tavris (168,100), Irish poker icon Andy Black (134,600), Jacek Pustula (127,800), Mike Hill (109,300) and Poker Royale boss Peter Hajszan (90,600).
MPS Dublin 2015 Final Chip Counts Day 1b
MPS Dublin 2015 Seat Draw Day 2
The action will resume tomorrow Thursday at 14:00 local time with level nine at blinds 1,000-2,000 and a running ante of 300. Players can still late register or re-enter before the first card is dealt and there are currently 40 out of 63 entries remaining. The payout will most likely include the top eight spots and thus the official final table.
