05 Sep 10

Partouche Poker Tour: Nazgul 12th After Day 2

Team PokerStrategy.com member Nazgul finished Day 2 in 12th position after Day 2 and in a great position to make a deep run. PokerNoob also survived and is in 50th position while BongBob has hit the rails.

In total, 134 players made it past Day 2 and will return to compete for a piece of the  €5,684,160 prize pool. The top 81 players will make the money and the first place prize is worth €1.3 million.

Dane Jacob Rosmussen is the current chip leader with 812,800 chips while Vanessa Selbst is still near the top, with 572,900 chips for 3rd place. Most of the other big name pros are already gone, with Phil Ivey, Gus Hansen and Phil Laak all hitting the rails on Day 2.

Nazgul with twice the chip average

Team PokerStrategy.com member Nazgul is one of the big stacks in the remaining field, as he holds 333,000 chips. He started Day 2 seated with Phil Ivey on the TV table, but Ivey was soon eliminated after losing a coin flip. Ivey went all in for 21 big blinds with 4-4 but lost the race against A-J.

In one hand against a French player, Nazgul raised preflop and barrelled twice on a board. He opted to check as another king came on the river and called a bet from villain. Villain showed 8-8 and Nazgul mucked his pocket aces.

BongBob goes out in the final hand

Fellow Team member BongBob, however, did not have as good a day and was eliminated in the very last hand of Day 2. He went all in for all of his chips with A-9 but ran up against A-Q and could not improve by the river.

PokerNoob will be the only PokerStrategist who will join Nazgul in Day 3. He currently holds 181,700 chips, which is just above the chip average.

Here are some of the key chip counts from Day 2:

Partouche Poker Tour Main Event Day 2
Rank	Name	Chips
1	Jacob Rosmussen	812,800
2	Marc Inizan	662,800
3	Vanessa Selbst	572,900
4	David Adelskov	504,200
5	Daniel Reijmer	462,900
6	Benjamin Chevalier	392,200
7	Petr Bartagov	381,500
8	Ronny Kaiser	376,300
9	Danny Neess	353,700
10	Andre Cyril	337,900
12	Nazgul	333,000
50	PokerNoob	181,700

Level info
Level	13
Blinds	1,200/2,400
Ante	300
Player info
Remaining players	134
Places Paid	81

Here are some videos and pictures from Day 2. You can also see more at the Partouche Poker Tour blog:

Day 2 Highlights

Some more highlights and interviews with Phil Laak and Phil Ivey

Phil Laak with the crazy hairdo, playing beside Antoine Saout

Michael Mizrachi playing in Day 2