{"id":26769,"date":"2013-03-18T02:02:44","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T01:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/?p=26769"},"modified":"2019-10-31T16:25:36","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T16:25:36","slug":"wpt-national-london-main-event-day-2-ends-as-daniel-bergmann-burst-the-bubble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wpt-national-london-main-event-day-2-ends-as-daniel-bergmann-burst-the-bubble.html","title":{"rendered":"WPT National London Main Event Day 2 Ends as Daniel Bergmann Burst the Bubble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/wpt1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"wpt\" width=\"590\" height=\"393\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26770\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/wpt1.jpg 590w, https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/wpt1-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Day 2 of the World Poker Tour National London Main Event is complete after the 115 players who returned to Aspers Casino Westfield with hopes of becoming a WPT National champion were whittled down to just 27. That\u2019s correct folks, we are in the money!<\/p>\n<p>Play came to a close with 2:57 left of Level 16 when we were attracted to Table 2 by the words, \u201call-in and a call!\u201d We arrived to see <strong>Daniel Bergmann<\/strong> all-in and at risk of elimination, his <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/as.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/kh.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> needing plenty of help to crack the <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/ad.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/ac.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> of <strong>Sebastian Muller<\/strong>. That help never arrived as the board ran out <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/5d.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/8c.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/8d.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/4c.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/js.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> to eliminate Bergmann, whose exit meant the surviving 27 players had locked up a payout of at least \u00a33,000.<\/p>\n<p>The player everyone has to catch is <strong>Elior Sion<\/strong> and his monster stack of 573,000 chips, one of only two players \u2013 the other being <strong>Brandon Hall<\/strong> on 515,500 \u2013 to surpass half-of-a-million chips. London-based Sion has some impressive results to his name, including a score of \u00a332,000 earned last week in a \u00a310,000 buy-in 8 Game tournament, his largest cash to date.<\/p>\n<p>Other big stacks include <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/lady-is-kind-to-the-lady-we-are-now-on-the-bubble.html\">Emma Tolley<\/a><\/strong> (418,500), <strong>Gabriel Carter<\/strong> (300,500), <strong>Rasmus Larson<\/strong> (209,500) and <strong>Yan Del Rey<\/strong> (208,500).<\/p>\n<p>At the opposite end of the spectrum are <strong>Santiago Nadal<\/strong> (29,500), <strong>Jack Salter<\/strong> (38,000) and PartyPoker qualifier <strong>Paul Coughlan<\/strong> (84,000). All three will need to double up sooner rather than later otherwise they will be helping themselves to a min-cash.<\/p>\n<p>Each of the 27 players who will return to their seats on Monday at 14:00GMT will do so knowing they are guaranteed at least \u00a33,000 for their efforts. Anyone who manages to navigate their way through until play ends will not only have locked up \u00a310,000 but will also have a WPT National final table to their name. See you there!<\/p>\n<h3>WPT National London Main Event top 10 chip counts<\/h3>\n<p>Elior Sion \u2013 573,500<br \/>\nBrandon Hall \u2013 515,500<br \/>\nSebastian Muller \u2013 477,500<br \/>\nEmma Tolley \u2013 418,500<br \/>\nGabriel Carter \u2013 300,500<br \/>\nRasmus Larson \u2013 209,500<br \/>\nYann Del Rey \u2013 208,500<br \/>\nDanny Blair \u2013 198,500<br \/>\nGicomo Fundaro \u2013 192,500<br \/>\nZydrunas Lukosiunas \u2013 184,500<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<h3>Join the conversation!<\/h3>\n<p>Who is your money on to go the furthest? Nguyen or Tolley? Let us know in the comments below and remember to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/PartyPoker\"><strong>follow us<\/strong><\/a> on Twitter and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PartyPoker\"><strong>like us<\/strong><\/a> on Facebook now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 2 of the World Poker Tour National London Main Event is complete after the 115 players who returned to Aspers Casino Westfield with hopes of becoming a WPT National champion were whittled down to just 27. That\u2019s correct folks, we are in the money! Play came to a close with 2:57 left of Level<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wpt-national-london-main-event-day-2-ends-as-daniel-bergmann-burst-the-bubble.html\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":26770,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2182,300],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26769"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76633,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26769\/revisions\/76633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26769"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=26769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}