Married pros Alex and Kristen Foxen will return for Day 2 in pursuit of chip leaders Sirzat Hissou and Daniel Rezaei after the €50,000 Diamond High Roller drew 19 entries to King’s Resort Rozvadov in the Czech Republic at World Series of Poker Europe.
The surviving 13 runners will join late registrants on Day 2 to play for a prize pool of at least €1,000,000.
Hissou bagged the chip lead with over 3.4 million in chips from a starting stack of 1 million and Daniel Rezaei is right behind with 3.3 million. Martin Kabrhel is in the distance with the third-highest stack of 2.1 million while Salih Atac and Stephen Chidwick make up the rest of the top five.
The big stack accounts for 86 big blinds with levels starting at 15K/30K/30K on Day 2. Hissou is a regular feature on final tables at WSOP Europe and on the European Poker Tour and the German pro is in a good spot to pick up his first bracelet.
Team Foxen fires three bullets
Team Foxen will return in the middle of the pack with two more levels of registration available. Alex is on the heels of a second-place finish in the WSOPE €25,000 NLH GGMillions — a tournament where he eliminated his wife — twice. Both players arrived in the first level to join early arrivals Chidwick, Blom, Hissou, and 2022 champ Orpen Kisacikoglu.
Kristen Foxen fired two bullets on Day 1. Kristen was an early bustout, but she bought back into the event and will return for the second day with just over the starting stack. Alex chipped up early and doubled his starting stack but suffered in the second half of the day to bag less than he sat down with.
Niklas Astedt joined the fray for featured table action and suffered an early setback. The bronze medalist from this year’s WSOP Main Event recovered quickly but a Level 7 clash with Hissou ended his run before Day 2. He’s joined on the bustout list by Boris Angelov, Viktor Blom, Roman Hrabec, and Tom-Askel Bedell.
Niklas Astedt gave his chips to the eventual leader and left. Will he return for more on Day 2?
The rest of the field
The final 13 players come from 12 different countries and only Canada is doubling up with Daniel Dvoress joining Kristen Foxen from the Great White North. They're joined by Bulgaria's Fahredin Mustafov, Klemens Roiter, Italian online crusher Enrico Camosci, and Sergi Reixach.
Mustafov has already cashed twice in bracelet events at the 2024 WSOPE with a ninth-place finish in the €5,000 PLO and a small cash in the €2,000 PLO. Camosci — a bracelet winner from the 2020 WSOP Online series — is looking for a live title, while Reixach, Mustafov, and Roiter are looking for their first bracelet.
Reixach will enter Day 2 with the short stack and Camosci is second from the bottom with just over half the starting stack. Kisacikoglu, who won his first lone bracelet in the inaugural edition of this event three years ago, will return with 875K — good for 22 big blinds.
WSOPE €50K Diamond High Roller Top 10 Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sirzat Hissou | Germany | 3,435,000 |
| 2 | Daniel Rezaei | Austria | 3,365,000 |
| 3 | Martin Kabrhel | Czechia | 2,155,000 |
| 4 | Salih Atac | Switzerland | 1,910,000 |
| 5 | Stephen Chidwick | United Kingdom | 1,585,000 |
| 6 | Daniel Dvoress | Canada | 1,125,000 |
| 7 | Kristen Foxen | Canada | 1,065,000 |
| 8 | Fahredin Mustafov | Bulgaria | 1,000,000 |
| 9 | Alex Foxen | United States | 930,000 |
