The registration period has closed with 124 unique entries and 49 reentries to not surpass the $1,000,000 guaranteed prize pool. A min-cash is worth $9,004 plus any bounties players have earned along the way for 20 players while the winner will walk away with $101,250 and bounties.
This is what the 56 remaining players are playing for:
Ludovic "ludovi333" Geilich shoved from the hijack for 297,842 for Samuel "€urop€an" Vousden to reshove for 333,960 from the cutoff and get called by Jens "Knossi" Knossalla in the small blind.
Ludovic "ludovi333" Geilich:
Samuel "€urop€an" Vousden:
Jens "Knossi" Knossalla:
The board ran out for Vousden to bust Geilich and double through Knossalla.
"Amadeus7777" raised to 50,000 from the early position and Simon "simon1471" Higgins called on the button and so did Aliaksei "ale6ka" Boika in the big blind.
The flop came , Boika checked, "Amadeus7777" bet 75,00, Higgins raised to 234,095 for Boika to shove for 279,123 and "Amadeus7777" and Higgins both to make the call.
The turn was the , "Amadeus7777" checked and now Higgins shove for 345,527 which "Amadeus7777" called.
Aliaksei "ale6ka" Boika:
Simon "simon1471" Higgins:
"Amadeus7777":
Boika had flopped two pair while "Amadeus7777" had hit top pair and Higgins held the overpair but the on the river gave "Amadeus7777" trips to bust both opponents.
Samuel "€urop€an" Vousden raised to 55,000 from the hijack and was called by "girafganger7" and "bayaraa1002" in the blinds.
The flop came , it was checked to Vousden who continued with a bet of 48,563 which only "bayaraa1002" called.
The turn was the and they both checked to the on the river. "bayaraa1002" checked and Vousden bet 291,376. "bayaraa1002" opted to shove with the bigger stack for Vousden to make the call for the 1,416,399 he had behind with the for the nut-flush but "bayaraa1002" held the for the full house to bust him.
Patrick "pads1161" Leonard raised to 73,500 from the hijack and Adrian "Amadi_017" Mateos three-bet shoved from the small blind for 213,937 which Leonard called.
Adrian "Amadi_017" Mateos:
Patrick "pads1161" Leonard:
The board ran out for Leonard to river the higher pair to bust Mateos.
Artur "mararthur1" Martirosian raised to 600,000 in the last hand of the previous level, keeping 48,440 behind. The action folded to Pieter "XMorphineX" Aerts in the small blind who three-bet to 1,160,000, keeping 39,872 behind for "Garrin4e" to fold their big blind and Martirosian to make the call for the rest.
Artur "mararthur1" Martirosian:
Pieter "XMorphineX" Aerts:
The board ran out for Aerts to hold with the higher pocket pair for the higher full house to get the field two away from the money.
Espen "Hymn2Ninkasi" Jorstad raised to 110,000 from the middle position and Christian "WATnlos" Rudolph three-bet shoved with the bigger stack for Niklas "Lena900" Astedt to fold his big blind and for Jorstad to make the call for the 1,790,922 he had behind.
Espen "Hymn2Ninkasi" Jorstad:
Christian "WATnlos" Rudolph:
The flop came for Rudolph to hit two pair immediately.
The turn was the for Jorstad to be left drawing dead as the completed the board to burst the bubble.
Day 1 of the PokerStars WCOOP-39-H: $5,200 NLHE [Progressive KO, High Roller] attracted 124 unique players who needed to reenter 49 times to get to a total of 173 entries for the $1,000,000 guaranteed prize pool. Twenty players would get paid in this tournament and that is also the number of players who have made it through to Day 2 which will take place on Saturday, September 12 at 7:05 CEST.
Claiming the Day 1 chip lead is "wesoly78" with 5,036,933 after first doubling up through Ognyan "cocojamb0" Dimov in the latter stages of the tournament before taking out Andrey "Anjeyyy" Novak to get to the bubble. "wesoly78" is followed in the counts by "bayaraa1002" with 4,828,054 who had been near the top of the count throughout the second half of the day but took a chunk out of the stack of "girafganger7" to end up in second place.
Closing out the podium is Christian "WATnlos" Rudolph with 4,382,833 who was also responsible for bursting the bubble just before the end of the day when he took out Espen "Hymn2Ninkasi" Jorstad. Jorstad raised and then called the three-bet shove of Rudolph with jacks while the latter held ace-trey. Rudolph flopped two pair and then improved to a full house to burst the bubble.
"Serebity_p", Sergei "Futti18" Koliakov, "Pwndidi", Gleb "Ti0373" Tremzin, "girafganger7", "Garrin4e" all bagged an above average stack too. But with players like Niklas "Lena900" Astedt, Pieter "XMorphineX" Aerts, and Viktor "papan9_p$" Ustimov with more than twenty big blinds for Day 2, anything could still happen.
PokerStars WCOOP-39-H: $5,200 NLHE [Progressive KO, High Roller] Top Ten Chip Counts
Rank
Player
Chip Counts
Big Blinds
1
"wesoly78"
5,036,933
84
2
"bayaraa1002"
4,828,054
80
3
Christian "WATnlos" Rudolph
4,382,833
73
4
"Serebity_p"
3,404,066
57
5
Sergei "Futti18" Koliakov
3,210,575
54
6
"Pwndidi"
3,126,072
52
7
Gleb "Ti0373" Tremzin
2,793,489
47
8
"girafganger7"
2,324,048
39
9
"Garrin4e"
2,180,665
36
10
"TNDynamite"
1,846,520
31
With three reentries available for all the players, the all-ins were flying in from the start. Teun "tinnoemulder" Mulder was the first of many to bust today when his bluff was caught by "ArtHouse2011". PokerStars representatives Fintan "EasyWithAces" Hand and Ben "Spraggy" Spragg also fired a bullet today but unsuccessfully so. Hand fell when he four-bet shoved with ace-queen and was looked up by Yuri "theNERDguy" Dzivielevski who held jacks. "Spraggy" had flopped top pair when his chips went in against "roo_400" who held the open-ended straight draw and got there on the turn.
Sami "Lrslzk" Kelopuro busted to Artur "mararthur1" Martirosian just when the registration closed to leave 60 players in the field to battle it out for their share of the prize money. Andras "probirs" Nemeth had just won his second WCOOP title in WCOOP-37-H: $5,200 PLO [6-Max, High Roller] for $140,506 but fell to Rudolph in this tournament.
Semi-retired Fedor "CrownUpGuy" Holz jumped in just before the registration closed but couldn't run up his stack either. Thomas "WushuTM" Muehloecker, Joao "Naza114" Vieira, and "Aleks Better" all used their maximum amount of bullets but only the latter managed to make it work in the end.
When the players return on Saturday, they will continue with Level 22 which has a small blind of 30,000, a big blind of 60,000, and a running ante of 7,500 as only a minute or so has been used of it today. According to the tournament lobby, the level duration won't increase until the final table has been reached so the levels should last 20 minutes each until that point.
The PokerStars Twitch Stream will be live too on Saturday with commentary provided by James Hartigan and Joe Stapleton with hole cards on a 30-minute delay and PokerNews will be back to bring you all the coverage right here on a similar delay. As all the players enjoy a day off on Friday, make sure to return on September 12 to read about the conclusion of this event.