2015 WSOP Europe Day 8: Soulier Final Tables Event #6; €550 PLO Kicks Off & More

Fabrice Soulier

Day 8 of the 2015 World Series of Poker Europe in Berlin, Germany saw Alex Komaromi become Uruguay's first-ever bracelet winner, Event #6: €3,250 No-Limit Hold'em reach it's final table, and Event #7 €550 Pot-Limit Omaha kick off. Here's a look at everything you need to know from Thursday action.

Alex Komaromi Takes Down Event #5 Bracelet

Alex Komaromi became the first-ever player from Uruguay to win a WSOP bracelet, taking down Event #5: €2,200 8-Game Mixed Event at the WSOP Europe in Berlin, Germany.

2015 WSOP Europe Day 8: Soulier Final Tables Event #6; €550 PLO Kicks Off & More 101
Alex Komaromi

Komaromi earned €65,740 and the most coveted prize in poker for his efforts, defeating a stacked final table including two-time WSOP bracelet winner and now five-time runner-up Scott Clements heads-up.

"I'm very excited," he told PokerNews. "It feels like a dream to me."

For a more thorough look at Komaromi's win, click here.

Soulier & Chartier Headline Event #6: €3,250 No-Limit Hold'em Final Table

Event #6: €3,250 No-Limit Hold'em originally began with 256 entrants, but on Thursday just 69 players returned for Day 2 action. Of those, just 27 were slated to get paid. Among those to miss out on a payday were Simon Ravnsbaek, Jeff Gross, Anthony Zinno, Phil Hellmuth, Jeff Lisandro, Pierre Neuville, Dzmitry Urbanovich, and Gintaris Simaitis, who was the unfortunate bubble boy.

Simaitis' demise came when he committed his last 30,500 holding the K4 and Sam Chartier looked him up with the QQ. Simaitis got it in as a heavy favorite, but the 578 flop made things interesting by giving Chartier a gutshot straight draw. Much to Simaitis' dismay, the 6 turn completed it, and he was drawing dead headed to the 8 river.

From there, the in-the-money eliminations began to pile up and included Allen Kessler (21st - €6,885), Ilkin Amirov (14th - €11,175), Thomas Dunwoodie (13th - €11,175), and Pavel Veksler (10th - €13,560), who bubble the final table when his 88 failed to hold against the AK of Thierry Cogniat after the board ran out A5472.

Day three will see the final nine return to battle it our for the bracelet and the €182,510 top prize, with Mario Lopez and his stack of 892,000 leading the way.

The Final Table

SeatPlayerCount
1Farid Jattin103,000
2Pavlos Xanthopoulos849,000
3Sergi Reixach197,000
4Samuel Chartier670,000
5Thierry Cogniat502,000
6Mario Lopez892,000
7Alex Rocha298,000
8Artan Dedusha158,000
9Fabrice Soulier171,000

Lee Bags Sizeable Lead After Day 1 of Event #7 €550 Pot-Limit Omaha

Day 1 of Event #7 €550 Pot-Limit Omaha, which featured a single reentry, saw 503 entrants (140 of which were reentries) take to the felt, which created a €243,955 prize pool. To be distributed among the top 56 players. Amazingly, it took just 14 levels of play for the field to be whittled down to the final 25

Among those to leave empty handed on Day 1 were Greg Merson, Marvin Rettenmaier, Scott Davies, Brian Hastings, Roger Hairabedian, Konstantin Puchkov, and bubble boy Michael Vater, who got his short stack in with the AAJ2. Marius Fritz held the 336K and ended up rivering a set when the board ran out 985J3.

Meanwhile, some notables managed a small cash including Davidi Kitai, Yusuf Kurt, and Ole Schemion, just to name a few.

Of course not everyone was so unlucky to bust. Among those advancing to Day 2 were Doug Lee, who held a more than 2-1 chip lead (593,000) over his next closest competitor, Turkey's Tayfun Oztoygan (221,500), Barny Boatman (157,000), Shannon Shorr (145,000), John Gale (134,500), Dominik Maska (73,000), and Peter Staudacher (40,000).

Top 10 Day 1 Chip Counts

PlacePlayerCount
1Doug Lee593,000
2Tayfun Oztoygan221,500
3Grzegorz Grochulski185,000
4Damian Pwalak159,500
5Barny Boatman157,000
6Shannon Shorr145,000
7John Gale134,500
8Frederic Vacher102,500
9Yigit Aktulga93,000
10Marius Fritz84,000

Players will return for Day 2 action at 1 p.m. local time and play down to the final table of eight.

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