2017 PokerStars Festival Hamburg

Main Event
Day: 1a
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Event Info

2017 PokerStars Festival Hamburg

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
4♥3♠
Prize
€105,850
Event Info
Buy-in
€1,100
Prize Pool
€549,990
Entries
567
Level Info
Level
30
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
20,000
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End-of-day Chip Counts (full)

Shirley Ang
Shirley Ang
Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
Player Chips Progress
Rudolf Koster de
Rudolf Koster 		258,000
Day 1A Chip Leader
Michael Ratkowski de
Michael Ratkowski
189,400
Francois Mittertreiner nl
Francois Mittertreiner 		188,900
18,900
 18,900
Oliver Niemann de
Oliver Niemann 		185,500
Kyriakos Mitsopoulos gr
Kyriakos Mitsopoulos 		176,800
36,800
 36,800
Levan Rcheulishvili ge
Levan Rcheulishvili 		168,100
92,100
 92,100
Anders Bisgard de
Anders Bisgard 		155,500
107,500
 107,500
Miroslav Malic hr
Miroslav Malic
155,400
Igor Rybak ru
Igor Rybak 		130,700
11,700
 11,700
Juergen Boehm de
Juergen Boehm 		128,100
85,100
 85,100
Leonida Mewes pl
Leonida Mewes
116,200
Claus Carstensen de
Claus Carstensen 		111,700
Jens Rinke de
Jens Rinke
111,200
Angelo Benedetto it
Angelo Benedetto 		104,800
3,800
 3,800
Norbert Seefeldt de
Norbert Seefeldt
101,800
23,800
 23,800
Fabian Demand de
Fabian Demand 		90,400
18,400
 18,400
Peter Jaksland dk
Peter Jaksland 		82,400
49,400
 49,400
Rainer Ziermann de
Rainer Ziermann 		77,400
33,400
 33,400
Davor Bendin de
Davor Bendin 		73,400
Kai Munster de
Kai Munster 		73,100
-41,900
 -41,900
Daniel Peche de
Daniel Peche 		72,500
10,500
 10,500
Joachim Karstens de
Joachim Karstens 		67,800
Rizkallah Kocheiche de
Rizkallah Kocheiche
65,700
-74,300
 -74,300
Andreas Giedt de
Andreas Giedt 		64,600
34,600
 34,600
Peyman Lueth de
Peyman Lueth
63,300

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Koster Captures the Chip Lead on Day 1a of the PokerStars Festival Hamburg Main Event

Shirley Ang
Shirley Ang
Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
Rudolf Koster
Rudolf Koster

Today Day 1a of the 2017 PokerStars Festival Hamburg Main Event started at 1 p.m. local time. The excitement could be felt here in Casino Schenefeld by the players that paid €1,100 each to have a shot of leaving Hamburg on Sunday as the winner. In total 118 players coughed up that buy-in today and Rudolf Koster was the one to end on top of the chip counts with 258,000 chips.

After 12 levels of 45 minutes had been played, 37 players were allowed to bag up their chips and have some days of rest before returning on Saturday for Day 2. Second in the chip counts is fellow German, Michael Ratkowski (189,400) who had hoped he would end the day as the chip leader to then find out that Koster had beat him to that post. The Dutchman with the German name, Francois Mittertreiner bagged 188,900 which puts him in third place for now.

Other notables that have made it through to Day 2 are Kyriakos Mitsopoulos (176,800), Anders Bisgard (155,500), Igor Rybak (130,700), Angelo Benedetto (104,800), Peter Jaksland (82,400), Kai Munster (73,100), and Phong Thanh Pham (49,100) after wielding a pretty short stack all day.

As you might expect, the field mainly consisted of German players with some other nationalities mixed in. Unfortunately, not everyone could make it to the bagging stage of the tournament, some of the players that fell today include [Removed:19], Sergej Barbarez, Pavel Sytau, Tomislav Mandic, Andrey Andreev, Salvatore Camarda, Hannes Neurauter, and Said Hossein Madani. They might be back to play in Day 1d, the only flight where players who have failed to make it through Day 1a, 1b or 1c can reenter.

The 37 remaining players will return to Casino Schenefeld on November 25th 2017 at 1 p.m. local time. They will start on Level 13 which has a small blind of 1,200, a big blind of 2,400, and a running ante of 400. Tomorrow Day 1b will start at 1 p.m local time and follow the exact same structure for the day as today.

Come back to PokerNews tomorrow for all the action of another starting day.

Tags: Anders BisgardAndrey AndreevAngelo BenedettoFrancois MittertreinerHannes NeurauterIgor RybakKai MunsterKyriakos MitsopoulosPavel SytauPhong Thanh PhamRudolf KosterSalvatore CamardaSergej BarbarezTomislav Mandic

Main Event

Day 1a Completed

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