WCOOP-72-L: $55 NLHE [8-Max NLHE Main Event] Day 1 | PokerStars WCOOP 2020

WCOOP-72-L: $55 NLHE [8-Max NLHE Main Event]

Day 1 Completed

09-21-2020 00:39 UTC

Hungary's "uzzy993" Bags Day 1 Chip Lead in the 2020 WCOOP Low Main Event at PokerStars

Jaxon

Level 17 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

Day 1 of the four-day WCOOP-72-L: $55 NLHE 8-Max NLHE Main Event at PokerStars was a monumental success with 34,426 entrants generating a $1,721,300 prize pool.

This not only already crushed the $1.25 million guarantee but the prize pool will continue to grow with late registration open until near the start of Day 2 on Monday, Sept. 21 at 3:05 p.m. EDT / 7:05 p.m. CEST.

A total of 8,336 players survived the opening day battle led by Hungary's "uzzy993" with 671,549 in chips. This places him more than 80 big blinds ahead of his nearest competitors in Panama's "yayo8422", Austria's "roman1607", and Germany's "Hering CNG" all bagging slightly more than 500,000 in chips.

WCOOP-72-L: $55 NLHE [8-Max, NLHE Main Event], $1.25M Gtd Day 1 Leaderboard

Place	Player	Country	Chips	Big Blinds
1	uzzy993	Hungary	671,549	373
2	yayo8422	Panama	521,735	290
3	roman1607	Austria	510,437	284
4	Hering CNG	Germany	507,384	282
5	dinosg	Canada	481,095	267
6	zeisseli	Finland	476,837	265
7	David7770	Georgia	470,670	261
8	assortiment	Russia	460,084	256
9	suits.sunman	Russia	454,246	252
10	tarantino1111	Chile	440,737	245

Team PokerStars Update

Felix Schneiders — Felix "xflixx" Schneiders bags the most among the PokerStars Ambassadors on Day 1 of the WCOOP Low Main Event

A total of eight PokerStars Ambassadors joined the action with half that making it through to Day 2. Felix "xflixx" Schneiders was the most successful of the pack after growing his 25,000 starting stack into 90,517 in chips using a single entry.

Mason "Pye_Face21" Pye and Georgina "GJReggie" James also both advanced to Day 2 on a single bullet while it took Arlie "Prince Pablo" Shaban three tries before he got through as well.

Meanwhile, Fintan "easywithaces" Hand, Ben "Spraggy" Spragg, and 2019 PSPC Champion Ramon "RamonColillas" Colillas were all on unable to advance but it wasn't for a lack of trying with the trio each firing the maximum four bullets.

Tom “MajinBoob” Hayward also didn't advance for Day 1 but called it a day after two bullets. Hayward may still be witnessed back in the field as he like many others can still re-enter until the start of Day 2.

Stay Tuned for Day 2

The action will resume for Day 2 on Monday, Sept. 21 at 1:05 p.m. EDT / 7:05 p.m. CEST and should prove to be an action-packed day. Not only will the big field be trimmed down past the 4,863 players or so that will get paid but deep into the money with the action concluding with just 160 players remaining.

Blind levels will be trimmed down from 20 minutes per level to 15 minutes the rest of the way.

Stay tuned at PokerNews as we bring you the highlights of the WCOOP Low Main Event at PokerStars.

Tags: Artie Shaban Ben Spragg Felix Schneiders Fintan Hand Georgina James Mason Pye PokerStars Ramon Colillas Tom Hayward WCOOP

09-20-2020 23:59 UTC

Assorted Day 1 Chip Counts

Jaxon

Level 17 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
McFelin	414,416	-236
Scrwooj	406,173	110,564
Akkerx	402,455	4,838
nickus_poker	391,339	131,777
Trumbets	368,563	-41,462
bacooo	341,804	-23,430
dickler1	334,653	196,253
JohnPaiste	311,053	5,469
Vizonto	308,510	-36,080
Geka555	304,284	55,087
ham-g-unot	301,035	-112,980
kounelis4	289,204	23,236
jaoo22	287,514	-121,317
DubbCitySauce	267,978	62,596
demoflash	251,363	203,039
petros19890	250,365	84,199
Helmut0711	236,169	143,228
SlusarOleg	230,293	-140,709
armin021	229,635	101,401
PomGinJ	219,306	-104,550
Tiu Patinh@s	215,636	110,145
Korrshunof	211,194	86,548
Irfan20949	191,987	-9,839
seppmann7	188,956	-57,481
noway55	170,975	41,163

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09-20-2020 23:45 UTC

Top Ten Stacks on Day 1

Jaxon

Level 17 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

Place	Player	Country	Chips	Big Blinds
1	uzzy993	Hungary	671,549	373
2	yayo8422	Panama	521,735	290
3	roman1607	Austria	510,437	284
4	Hering CNG	Germany	507,384	282
5	dinosg	Canada	481,095	267
6	zeisseli	Finland	476,837	265
7	David7770	Georgia	470,670	261
8	assortiment	Russia	460,084	256
9	suits.sunman	Russia	454,246	252
10	tarantino1111	Chile	440,737	245

Player	Chips	Progress
uzzy993	671,549	671,549
yayo8422	521,735	521,735
roman1607	510,437	-11,151
Hering CNG	507,384	507,384
dinosg	481,095	-4,172
zeisseli	476,837	476,837
David7770	470,670	26,210
assortiment	460,084	16,225
suits.sunman	454,246	454,246
tarantino1111	440,737	440,737

09-20-2020 23:37 UTC

Day 1 Concludes

Jaxon

Level 17 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

Day 1 is now in the books. There were 34,426 entrants with 8,336 survivors when the break for the day was announced to bring the total prize pool to $1,721,300 and growing.

The prize pool will continue to grow with late-registration open until the start of Day 2.

Stay tuned at PokerNews for the recap of Day 1 of the WCOOP-72-L: $55 NLHE [8-Max NLHE Main Event], $1.25M Gtd.

09-20-2020 23:29 UTC

Colillas Exits the Low Main Event

Jaxon

Level 17 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

Ramon "RamonColillas" Colillas three-bet jammed for about 22,000 with and was called by "VIgnasPokerV" with .

The ran out on the board and Colillas lost his fourth and final bullet.

Shortly after, Arlie "Prince Pablo" Shaban lost all his chips. He went back in for a second bullet and lost that as well. Shaban is now onto his third bullet with time clicking away on Day 1.

Player	Chips	Progress
VIgnasPokerV	97,938	97,938
Arlie "Prince Pablo" Shaban	25,000	-35,376
Ramon "RamonColillas" Colillas	Busted

09-20-2020 23:25 UTC

Spragg Hits the Rail

Jaxon

Level 17 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

"SkgalgMSO" opened to 3,200 from under the gun. Ben "Spraggy" Spragg three-bet jammed for 34,050 and "SkgalgMSO" called.

Ben "Spraggy" Spragg:
"SkgalgMSO":

The came on the flop to give Spragg a better pair than his opponent hit. The followed on the turn to give Spragg two pair. However, the spiked the river to give "SkgalgMSO" trips and Spragg was ousted for the fourth and final time.

Shortly after, Ramon "RamonColillas" Colillas dusted off his third bullet and is now onto his fourth and final bullet.

Player	Chips	Progress
SkjalgMSO	97,590	97,590
Ramon "RamonColillas" Colillas	25,000
Ben "Spraggy" Spragg	Busted

09-20-2020 23:22 UTC

Third Bullet for Colillas

Jaxon

Level 17 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

Just before the blinds increased, Ramon "RamonColillas" Colillas opened to 2,926 from middle position and got calls from both players in the blinds.

"lissssss246" open-jammed for a huge stack after the came on the flop. Colillas called off for 29,074 and the other player folded.

"lissssss246":
Ramon "RamonColillas" Colillas:

Colillas' opponent hit their flush after the came on the turn and Colillas bought in for his third bullet after the on the river was unable to give him a better flush.