Griffin Benger Highlights Final 10 in 2016 Unibet Open Malta Main Event | PokerNews
Day 3 of the 2016 Unibet Open Malta Main Event is currently underway. To skip to the present day's coverage, click here, or continue reading below for the Day 2 recap.
Ninety-three players returned to Casino Malta to battle it out for the trophy and €65,000 first-place prize on Day 2 of the 2016 Unibet Open Malta Main Event.
The first hurdle to tackle could be reaching the money, with 36 players cashing. Losing 57 players proved a very simple task as they busted out left and right to get things going.
Jorma Vuoksenmaa from Finland was the primary one to go, followed out the door by the likes of Miroslav Hrivnak, Simon Griffin, and lots of others.
Before you knew it, the tournament was attending to the bubble stage, with no less than three very short stacks. All three of them would survive though, as Unibet Open regular Johan Goslings ended up busting in slightly a cooler. He open-shoved his medium stack in with ace-king but soon came upon his neighbor Mads Junker had aces and covered him by only a couple thousand.
Junker, former professional soccer player with seven caps for the Danish national team, made 36 players very happy, but busted out himself a degree or two later.
The bubble hand was with regards to the one hand Global Poker League commentator Griffin Benger wasn't excited by. He raised most of his hands, wasn't scared of showdowns, and won most the pots he was in. Besides having his experience help him along the way, Griffin ran splendid as well, winning 30-70s and 40-60s find it irresistible was nothing.
For quite some time, Benger's name was on top of the chip counts by a large margin. The last couple of levels he wasn't in a position to extend his lead and actually saw several players meet up with him, and drop down slightly himself. Amongst the players to catch up was Dutch online professional Bas de Laat, who went from the role of short stack to that of chip leader in an issue of minutes. He doubled up and busted two players to get to 1.758 million.
Day 2 Chip Counts
| 1 | Bas de Laat | 1,758,000 |
| 2 | Martin Soukup | 1,340,000 |
| 3 | Mariusz Czarnojan | 1,225,000 |
| 4 | Piotr Marzejon | 963,000 |
| 5 | Tim van Meene | 889,000 |
| 6 | Griffin Benger | 680,000 |
| 7 | Gerret Van Lancker | 657,000 |
| 8 | Christian Ostfelt | 616,000 |
| 9 | Vitalii Belyaev | 454,000 |
| 10 | Emil Westerberg | 170,000 |
After 10 levels of play, the tournament was halted for the night.
The final day will start at 1 p.m. local time with two tables of 5 players. Once one player hits the rail, the 2 tables will combine to the official final table. As you by now can expect from the Unibet Open, the overall table could be broadcasted live with cards-up coverage.
PokerNews.com will again be on site for all of the updates and photos of the event, so stay tuned.
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