The Mystery Bounty is now down to the last two tables and its getting serious. All the big bounties have long gone and the remaining contestants are now fully focused on the first prize of €27,150, which includes an entry into the WSOPE Main Event. The average stack is now just under 2m and the chip leader, Mikael Hanouna has about 5.5m. Other well stacked players still in the running include Viorel Gavrila, Igor Kubarev, Maksim Belomestnoi and Aleksander Giorgiev.
I spoke to Aleksander earlier and he’s running good at the table, but terrible when it comes to picking the bounties. Earlier on, two of the €10,000 bounties were pulled one after the other and he was next in line to press the red button that starts the chest opening sequence. There had been great cheers and gasps when the big bounties were pulled, but these turned into groans when Aleksander got the minimum €100 prize. He has since taken several more bounties and every single one was for €100. Still, it’s got to better than when he bubbled the H.O.R.S.E at the recent Battle of Malta, where he had been one of the early chip leaders, oof...not to mention being taken out by reporting colleague Frank Visser, oof oof.
