The Season XVI WPT Amsterdam €3,300 Main Event was cut down to the final 32 players on Thursday, and it was Andreas Klatt grabbing the headlines once again as he continues to tear up the first-ever PokerStars Championship WPT MonteDam Swing.
Klatt bagged the fourth-largest stack remaining, just a few spots away from locking up the PokerStars Championship WPT MonteDam Swing leaderboard title with an in-the-money finish in this event. Klatt, along with the rest of the field returning for Day 3, finished Day 2 just a few spots off the money, with the top 28 set to cash. With the lead Klatt has on the MonteDam Swing leaderboard, all he has to do is cash in this event and he will win the leaderboard title.
The entire PokerStars Championship WPT MonteDam Swing has been a remarkable breakout for Klatt. First, he won the €1,100 National Championship at the PokerStars Championship Monte Carlo for €151,445. In that event, Klatt topped a huge field of 1,252 entries. The German showed that he wasn’t just a one-hit wonder when he followed up that outstanding performance with a second-place finish in the PokerStars Championship Monte Carlo €5,300 Main Event for €402,786.
The requirements for the MonteDam Swing state that a player must cash in qualifying events in both locations, Monte Carlo and Amsterdam, so Klatt will need to find a cash in the WPT Amsterdam Main Event after missing the money in the WPTDeepStacks Amsterdam event.
With Klatt stealing the headlines heading into Day 3, it was Shyngis Satubayen in pole position with a stack of 570,500 in chips. Satubayen is coming off a seventh-place finish in the WPT Amsterdam €6,000 High Roller for €17,915 and will be the man to catch when play begins again on Friday from Holland Casino.
Rounding out the top five to finish Day 2 were Brandon Mifsud in second with 541,000 and Balasz Somodi in third with 511,000, and then it was Louis Salter in fifth with 474,500.
WPT Amsterdam Main Event Top 10
1. Shyngis Satubayen – 570,500
2. Brandon Mifsud – 541,000
3. Balasz Somodi – 511,000
4. Andreas Klatt – 504,000
5. Louis Salter – 474,500
6. Hakim Zoufri – 357,500
7. Jorn Walthaus – 307,500
8. Daniel Reijmer – 300,000
9. Jonathan Rozema – 273,000
10. Daniel Danivar – 238,000
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To help secure the chip lead, Satubayen busted WPT Champions Club member Giacomo Fundaro in the final level of the night. Satubayen limped in from the button with the blinds at 1,500/3,000 with a 500 ante, Wim Emo called from the small blind, and then Fundaro moved all in from the big blind for his last 42,000. Satubayen called, Emo folded, and it was Satubayen’s pocket nines aaginst the 
for Fundaro. The nines held for Satubayen, and Fundaro, the last WPT Champions Club member in the field, was eliminated.
Others advancing to Day 3 included Omar Lakhdari, Tomas Soderstrom, Sebastian Malec, and Fabrice Soulier, who, along with Klatt and Salter, can earn an additional €1,000 bonus prize from the WPT for cashing in the event should they do so. Players who cashed in the €1,100 National Championship or €5,300 Main Event at the PokerStars Championship Monte Carlo, or those who cashed in the €1,500 buy-in WPTDeepStacks Amsterdam event, were eligible for this MonteDam Swing bonus if they were to also cash in the WPT Amsterdam Main Event.
Claire Renaut, wife of Soulier, made it to Day 3 as well. She is the last female standing and finished Day 2 with 102,000 in chips after busting an opponent on the final hand of the night.
Well-known Dutch pro Noah Boeken also survived, and he’ll take a stack of 216,000 forward.
Needless to say, there are plenty of stories to be hand in the second World Poker Tour event of Season XVI.
With a handful of late entries before the start of play on Day 2, the total field size for this event topped out at 224 entries and generated a prize pool of €639,700. The top 28 spots are planned to reach the money, with a min-cash worth €4,425. All players left are chasing the first-place prize of €152,600, which comes with a $15,000 seat into the season-ending WPT Tournament of Champions.
Day 3 will begin on Friday at 2 p.m. local time.
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