Johan Jakobsson shrugged off the arrival of a famous face at his table to maintain his Day Two momentum.Victor Ramdin (pictured), who has been a regular entertainer in the WSOP Main Event coverage of recent years, was the respected pro pulling up a chair two seats to our man’s right, but ‘Dusty_Rat’ refused to panic.
The Paradise player flopped a set of threes against two other opponents to double through, but couldn’t resist taking on the infamously aggressive Ramdin in a later pot.
“I raised his big blind with 6-3 of diamonds and obviously he can’t just let it go, so he re-raised me pre-flop,” explained Dusty. “But I wasn’t about to fold either, so I called him.
“The flop came 7-7-5 and he checks to me. I don’t like the check there, I’d prefer him to bet there so I take a free card because I’m 100% sure he’s going to check-raise. A King hit the turn and he bet out, so I folded and he showed Queens.
“It doesn’t make any difference to me that I’ve seen him on TV,” he added, “I don’t know his game any better because although I’ve heard of him, I’ve maybe only watched him in one tournament.
“At the moment I’m just focused on making the end of the day because right now I’m pretty tired and need to sleep.”
Tom Garland continued his short stack survival act by doubling up moments before the last break, getting it in with JJ vs 88 to hit six figures for the first time.
Fellow Paradise qualifier Didier Erb (pictured below) has a similar stack on around 132,000 after taking down a nice pot with a flopped pair and flush draw before going uncontested again in the second betting round, holding AJ.
The Frenchman remained focused on one goal however, despite falling below the average – which now over 150,000 chips.
“I’m very happy to be in the final 100 players but as I said before, I’m playing for the final table so whether I finish 85th or 48th, I’m not happy because I want to go further.”
Prize Pool Reminder
1st $721,373
2nd $446,274
3rd $315,828
4th $228,614
5th $167,405
6th $124,006
7th $92,900
8th $70,365
9th $53,892
10th-12th $41,725
13th-15th $32,653
16th-18th $25,838
19th-27th $20,653
28th-36th $16,681
37th-45th $13,629
46th-54th $11,246
55th-63rd $9,365
64th-72nd $7,860
73rd-81st $6,689
82nd-90th $5,727
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