Event #1: €350 Opener No-Limit Hold'em Day 1b | 2019 World Series of Poker Europe

Level: 10

Blinds: 500/1,000

Ante: 1,000

10-15-2019 00:43 UTC+2

Pictures From Day 1b

Christian Zetzsche

10-15-2019 00:35 UTC+2

Break Time

Gaelle Jaudon

Level 9 : 400/800, 800 ante

The remaining 275 players are now heading to a 15-minute break.

10-15-2019 00:34 UTC+2

Massive Pot for Pham

Gaelle Jaudon

Level 9 : 400/800, 800 ante

In a five-way pot and with already more than 14,000 in the middle, the flop read when Hoang Vinh Pham and Tirza Wichelhaus checked in the blinds. Mihai Niste bet 3,500 and Petr Segl raised it to 11,200, called by Husam Qumseya. Pham decided to shove for a stack worth 59,900 and it folded to Segl who reshoved. Qumseya tanked before folding and the cards were tabled:

Hoang Pham:
Petr Segl:

Segl had the dominated hand and found no help on the turn and river and Pham took down the pot and the big double up.

Player	Chips	Progress
Hoang Pham	155,000 155,000	155,000
Petr Segl	80,000 -69,000	-69,000
Tirza Wichelhaus	72,000 72,000	72,000
Husam Qumseya	49,000 49,000	49,000
Mihai Niste	24,000 24,000	24,000

Tags: Mihai Niste Petr Segl Vinh Pham

10-15-2019 00:17 UTC+2

Litvinyuk Doubles Through Elliott

Gaelle Jaudon

Level 9 : 400/800, 800 ante

All the chips went in the middle preflop between Elena Litvinyuk, who was at risk for a stack worth 20,500 with , and Stephen Elliott with .

The board brought no surprise with and Litvinyuk found the double up she needed.

Player	Chips	Progress
Elena Litvinyuk	42,000 12,000	12,000

Stephen Elliott	28,000 28,000	28,000

Tags: Elena Litvinyuk

10-15-2019 00:13 UTC+2

Ferguson Takes a Seat

Gaelle Jaudon

Level 9 : 400/800, 800 ante

The 2017 WSOP Player of the Year just took a seat in this event to try to catch his seventh WSOP bracelet.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ankur Gupta	108,000 108,000	108,000
Eyal Bensimhon	105,000 105,000	105,000

Kristof Lenart	85,000 85,000	85,000
Walter Arnold	75,000 45,000	45,000
Maor Doviko	49,000 49,000	49,000
Hagay Kraus	43,000 13,000	13,000
Chris Ferguson	30,000 30,000	30,000

Johannes Englundh	30,000 30,000	30,000
Anatoly Korochenskiy	26,400 -42,600	-42,600

Level: 9

Blinds: 400/800

Ante: 800

10-14-2019 23:41 UTC+2

New Chipcounts

Gaelle Jaudon

Level 8 : 300/600, 600 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Petr Segl	149,000 119,000	119,000
Kai Penzersinski	127,000 127,000	127,000
Hyunsil Park	39,000 39,000	39,000
Petr Kubenka	38,000 500	500
Tasho Sehitaj	37,500 37,500	37,500
Maciej Lipowski	34,000 34,000	34,000
Quan Zhou	32,000 32,000	32,000
Karol Machnicki	28,300 28,300	28,300
Shaun Deeb	27,400 27,400	27,400

Jakub Cmelensky	22,500 22,500	22,500
Vitaly Entin	16,700 16,700	16,700

10-14-2019 23:30 UTC+2

In and Out

Gaelle Jaudon

Level 8 : 300/600, 600 ante

The leader of the actual race for the WSOP Player of the Year made his way to the exit while Erik Cajelais, who won a gold bracelet in the £2,500 Pot-Limit Hold’em/Pot-Limit Omaha WSOPE in 2009 took a seat.