 Just a few days after the first Dutch bracelet, Belgium couldn't hold back on it, and in the first Belgian final table appearance ever, they shipped the bracelet in the $2,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em event immediately. He started the day with an average stack. Jan von Halle was the chipleader (you might have heard he checked his royal flush on the river in event 1, a lot of confusion but Von Halle said it was a misread). Chris Bell and Lee Watkinson his best known opponents:
Seat 1: David Kitai - 274,000
Seat 2: Ben Roberts - 82,000
Seat 3: Ayaz Mahmood - 314,000
Seat 4: Michael Greco - 120,000
Seat 5: Chris Bell - 260,000
Seat 6: Jan Von Halle - 485,000
Seat 7: Robert Cheung - 352,000
Seat 8: Keith Greer - 238,000
Seat 9: Lee Watkinson - 357,000
First bustout was Michael Greco, he got a pokerplayer's nightmare: KK vs AA on the final table, meant he was busted out by Chris Bell. The next bustouts were classics as well, first a coinflip, than top pair vs midpair and yet another coinflip meant Ben Roberts, Ayaz Mahmood and Robert Cheung were out. Lee Watkinson was the first of the favorites to go, A4 vs A6s from Chris Bell, in the 67th hand we were down to 4. Actually it was pretty boring, due to the fact that day 2 took quite long, the blinds were pretty high, meaning either they get all-in preflop, or pots are checked down all the way. Most bets get folded by the other players immediately. That being said, we did have our heads-up battle within 100 hands! On hand 99, Jan von Halle got all-in with midpair vs toppair against Davidi Kitai and got knocked out 4th. The hand after that we see Keith Greer being knocked out with JJ against the QQ of Chris Bell.
Heads-up started with 1.4mln chips for Bell, 1 mln for Kitai. With 7 players knocked out in the first 100 hands, the crowd didnt think it'd take long untill we knew who won it, but they were so wrong. At 5.45PM they started, in the next 100 hands, Kitai lost some chips but eventually gained the chiplead, about 2:1 at 8.20PM on hand 200. Bell fights back and gets a slight chiplead, and gets crippled when he moves all-in with K8o on a Q-3-2 flop. Kitai insta-calls with his pocket queens. The hand after it should have been all over, but Bell manages to win with his K7s against the A4o of Kitai. Finally, after 187 hands of heads-up play (!) we get to see the final hand. Bell raises, Kitai puts him all-in (Bell is pretty short on chips) and Bell calls with   . Kitai shows   and wins the pot, and the first Belgian bracelet, along with $244,546
1. Davidi Kitai $244,546
2. Chris Bell $155,806
3. Keith Greer $94,695
4. Jan von Halle $77,077
5. Lee Watkinson $63,313
6. Robert Cheung $50,100
7. Ayaz Mahmood $39,089
8. Ben Roberts $30,831
9. Michael Greco $22,573
By: Pindarots
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