Petr Jelinek was all in and at risk for around 8,000 with the and his table neighbor took the flip with . The board came and that was it for the Czech.
One table over, Barny Boatman got his stack in with against the of Jeff Cormier, who had just sat down for his second bullet, and the board came to bust Boatman. The same table also featured Sam Grafton and broke right after, Ivo Donev had busted there before as well.
Among the players to have already busted twice on Day 1e was Petr Targa, who will have to re-enter on Day 1f as of 6 p.m. local time.
Chris Ferguson survived the bubble in Event #6 €2,200 Pot-Limit Omaha and became the first casualty in the money to rack up points for the 2017 WSOP Player of the Year race. Ferguson then jumped into Day 1e and sits next to Ivan Freitez and Georgios Zisimopoulos, the same table also features big stack Shabtai Koren and Luis Dono.
Thomas Pettersson picked up back-to-back kings and won both of them, doubling his stack through Oliver Heidel.
Then, Cosmin Joldis raised to 700 and Teunis Kooij called from one seat over, as did Pettersson. "Three in a row?" Jeff Cormier asked to Pettersson and announced all in soon after. Joldis asked for a count and reshoved to the 10,800 jam of Cormier, which forced out Kooij and Pettersson.
"You can't have black kings because I have one of them," Cormier joked and turned over . Joldis rolled over and the flop fell . "I am dead," Cormier sighed and added "I am so dead" on the turn when Joldis improved to quads, the river was already a formality.
Soon after, Joldis got value from for top pair after his opponent in tzhe small blind check-called bets of 1,800 on the turn and 3,400 on the river.
A three-bet to 2,000 was in front of Fabian Gumz on the button and his sole remaining opponent in the hijack reraised to 4,700. Gumz gave it some consideration and called to see a flop of . The hijack only briefly hesitated before firing a continuation bet of 5,000 and Gumz folded.
Thomas Pettersson raised to 800 and was called by two opponents on the button and the big blind. The flop fell and the action checked to the Swede, who bet 1,250. Only the big blind called and checked again the on the turn. Pettersson bet 3,500 with 2,500 behind and that was enough to win the pot.
Before the break, Patrick Schuhl doubled with versus after check-shoving a flop of for his last 3,575 in a three-bet pot. The Frenchman got the turn and river run out and never looked back after to build his stack further.