While the marathon final table of the Diamond High Roller was taking place yesterday, another group of hopefuls were sitting down in a tournament hoping to make a similar deep run.
The �10,000 Platinum High Roller at King��s Resort��s Grand Big Wrap festival attracted 60 total entries on Day 1, with 32 players returning for Day 2 at 2 p.m. local time. Jonas Kronwitter bagged the chip lead with 432,000, followed closely by Damjan Radanov (417,000) and reigning WSOP Europe champion Omar Eljach (395,000).
Top 10 Chip Counts
Rank
Player
Country
Chip Count
Big Blinds
1
Jonas Kronwitter
Austria
432,000
144
2
Damjan Radanov
United States
417,000
139
3
Omar Eljach
Sweden
395,000
132
4
Goran Urumovic
Sweden
362,000
121
5
Aku Joentausta
Finland
293,500
98
6
Samuel Ju
Germany
268,500
90
7
Hossein Ensan
Germany
255,000
85
8
Maximilian Klostermeier
Denmark
240,000
80
9
Alex Livingston
Canada
238,000
79
10
Veselin Karakitukov
Bulgaria
235,500
79
Several players who cashed in the Diamond High Roller also jumped right into this event and built up another stack. They include Hossein Ensan (255,000), Maximilian Klostermeier (240,000), Alex Livingston (238,000), Eelis Parssinen (167,500), and Cailin Jin (164,000). Lautaro Guerra (80,000) and Anton Suarez (61,500), meanwhile, find themselves near the bottom of the counts.
Alex Livingston
The action on Day 2 picks up on Level 9 with blinds of 1,500-3,000 and a 3,000 big blind ante. Late registration is open until the end of Level 11, which should come around 5 p.m. Players are allowed unlimited reentries, so the field should grow considerably over the course of the first few hours of the day on the way to matching the �1,000,000 guaranteed prize pool.
This is scheduled as a two-day event, with a winner being crowned today. But, as the Diamond High Roller showed, anything is possible when elite players are competing for such a large prize pool. PokerNews will be along for the entire journey providing live updates until one player emerges victorious.
