Another player who is making a return to the tournament poker scene after some time away is Amsterdam, Netherlands’ Jorn Walthaus, who faced a difficult challenge out of the gate in the 2013 World Series of Poker Main Event’s final day. Walthaus began Day 7 with 1.9 million in chips, which was good for 26th place out of 27 players.

Walthaus’ tournament poker career got off to an outstanding start, making the final table of the European Poker Tour’s Main Event in Deauville, France in 2009. Eventually bowing out of that final table in sixth place for a €142,400 payday, Walthaus continued on to earn another four cashes in 2009. After a 131st place performance in 2010 in a $1,500 No Limit Hold’em tournament at the WSOP, however, Walthaus had not had another tournament cash prior to the 2013 WSOP Main Event.

Walthaus got into chip difficulty during his 2013 run after clashing with JC Tranon Day 6. Calling a Tran raise with Yevgeniy Timoshenko, a 4-9-2 flop was what greeted them. After both Timoshenko and Tran checked, Walthaus fired out a bet of 310,000 that only Tran called.

The two men checked a queen on the turn and, after a seven came on the river, Tran woke up with a bet of 700,000. Making the call, Walthaus saw a big portion of his stack slide to Tran when he displayed pocket fours for a flopped set. Down to 2.2 million, Walthaus did not make any more noise through the evening’s play to eventually end up with s stack of 1.9 million to begin the tournament’s play down day.

It shaped up to be a difficult road for Walthaus if he were going to go deeper in the 2013 WSOP. Stuck in between the big stacks of Sylvain Loosliand Anton Morgenstern(the second and first place stacks in the tournament) and also having to deal with former November Niner Steve Gee on his immediate left, Walthaus needed to find an early double up in order to be able to make any serious inroads into the Day 7 play.

However, a long stay on Day 7 wasn’t meant to be, as Walthaus fell by the wayside in 26th place for $285,000.