Main Event
Day 1a Completed
2019 The Big Wrap
Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 1a
2019 The Big Wrap
Buy-in
€2,350
Prize Pool
€1,000,000
Entries
474
Level
33
Blinds
250,000 / 500,000
Ante
0
Entries
128
Players Left
52
Verkhoturov Tops Day 1a of The Big Wrap in Rozvadov
Level 12
: 1,500/3,000, 0 ante
There are very few Pot-Limit Omaha tournaments with a big guaranteed prize pool, let alone one with seven figures, but that didn't stop the King's Casino and Resort in Rozvadov to put €1,000,000 on the line for all four-card lovers in yet another edition of The Big Wrap. With a buy-in of €2,350, that requires more than 450 entries in total and the first of two starting days attracted a field of 128 entries in total, consisting of 107 unique players and 21 re-entries.
If there was any doubt over who will be the overnight chip leader, Sergey Verkhoturov put an end to those thoughts at the end of the penultimate level when he turned a full house in a three-bet pot and sent Calogero Lupo to the rail in one of the biggest pots of the day so far. It vaulted the Belorussian to more than ten times the starting stack and he ended the day with an astonishing 1,070,000 in chips.
Second in chips is Kyrylo Shkrob (494,000) followed by Salavat Shafigullin (475,000) and Tim Hoffmann (427,000). Other notables that advanced with a healthy stack after the first of two starting days were Robert Cowen (410,000), Ilyaz Dosikov (385,000), Leonid Yanovski (379,000), and Han Kuo (368,000).
King's regular The Talk was one of 10 players to already have secured a stack for Day 2 thanks to the online Day 1 on partypoker and managed to bag up more than double of what he already had at his disposal from the virtual felt, advancing to Day 2 with 352,000. He needed a second bullet for it, though, after he was eliminated in the first level of the day.
Many other familiar faces of the European poker circuit headed to Rozvadov to take a shot at the seven-figure prize pool. The exploits of Maksim Shuts, Robert Zipf, Stanislav Koleno, Andrej Desset, Jesper Hougaard, Marcel Luske and Samuel Albeck were not crowned by success just yet. However, they may all enter once more on Day 1b and also in the first two levels of Day 2 with a fresh stack of 100,000.
The first bullet of Tomasz Kozub went down in flames when his flopped top two pair and gutshot straight draw ended up second-best to the set of aces of Yves Henschel and he ran out of chips a second time towards the end of the night. The second entry of Netanel Amedi ended with a flopped set of aces when Petr Svoboda got there with a runner-runner straight. The luck of Svoboda ran out soon after as his wrap failed to pick up any help against Kyrylo Shkrob.
Towards the end of the night, the late entries and bustouts from Besim Hot, Martin Kabrhel and Renato Nowak brought a sudden surge of intense PLO action to the tables and fewer than half of the field remained when it came to bagging and tagging.
The second and final starting day kicks off on Saturday, September 14th, 2019, at 4 p.m. local time and the PokerNews team will be back on the floor to provide all the action from start to finish.
End-of-Day 1a Chip Counts (full)
Level 12
: 1,500/3,000, 0 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,070,000 | 70,000 |
|
494,000 | 24,000 |
|
475,000 | -5,000 |
|
427,000 | 7,000 |
|
423,000 | 423,000 |
|
410,000 | 190,000 |
|
385,000 | -35,000 |
|
379,000 | 284,000 |
|
368,000 | 273,000 |
|
352,000 | 62,000 |
|
339,000 | 99,000 |
|
334,000 | 234,000 |
|
330,000 | 230,000 |
|
324,000 | -26,000 |
|
297,000 | 97,000 |
|
288,000 | 28,000 |
|
288,000 | -2,000 |
|
|
282,000 | 282,000 |
|
|
278,000 | 278,000 |
|
|
275,000 | -25,000 |
|
267,000 | 27,000 |
|
245,000 | -40,000 |
|
243,000 | -47,000 |
|
223,000 | 3,000 |
|
222,000 | 157,000 |
Day 1a Completed
Level 12
: 1,500/3,000, 0 ante
There were a total of 128 entries and 52 players bagged up at the end of level 12. The full chip counts and a recap of today's action are to follow.
Late Exit for Nowak
Level 12
: 1,500/3,000, 0 ante
Matthew Beck clashed with Renato Nowak and got his stack of 129,000 in after a 
flop, holding the 
for top two pair and a flush draw. Nowak was trailing with the 
and the 
turn and 
river let Beck double.
Nowak wanted to go all in blind the next hand, which did not happen. However, he ended up losing the remainder of his short stack against Tim Hoffmann and departed just shy of bagging and tagging.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
420,000 | 420,000 |
|
|
290,000 | 70,000 |
|
Busted |
Late Surge by Urumovic
Level 12
: 1,500/3,000, 0 ante
Goran Urumovic doubled with a straight flush against the turned nut full house by Salavat Shafigullin and soon after also scored a pot against Yusuf Kurt. The completed board showed 
and Kurt bet 37,000, which Urumovic called after some consideration.
Urumovic admitted he had a good hand with 
for a flush and apologized for a possible slowroll. "It was a bluff catcher, still," he said while Kurt mucked his cards.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
480,000 | 80,000 |
|
|
290,000 | -130,000 |
|
|
260,000 | 175,000 |
Last Four Hands
Level 12
: 1,500/3,000, 0 ante
Besim Hot jumped in late and failed to run up a stack. He was joined on the rail by Martin Kabrhel and Jesper Hougaard.
With 12 minutes remaining in the level, the clocks were stopped with 56 players remaining and they will play another four hands for tonight.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
300,000 | -55,000 |
|
|
290,000 | 25,000 |
|
240,000 | 160,000 |
|
140,000 | 80,000 |
|
130,000 | 30,000 |
|
Busted | |
|
Busted | |
|
Busted |
Azor Doubles Through Christensen
Level 12
: 1,500/3,000, 0 ante
Ran Azor in the big blind jammed the 
river for the last 44,500 and there were 100,500 in the middle until then. Gustav Christensen tank-called and Azor tabled 
for the nuts, Christensen mucked 
for a set.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
189,500 | 49,500 |
|
|
150,000 | -110,000 |
Back to the Drawing Board for Donev
Level 12
: 1,500/3,000, 0 ante
Having defended his big blind against the button raise of Kyrylo Shkrob, Ivo Donev check-raised the pot on the 
flop and bet 100,000 on the 
turn with fewer than that behind. Shkrob moved all in and Donev mucked 
face up after just a few seconds.
Shkrob verified with the dealer that it was indeed a fold and flashed 
before raking in the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
470,000 | 10,000 |
|
|
60,000 | -135,000 |
Berente Doubles
Level 12
: 1,500/3,000, 0 ante
Juergen Pollack and Tomasz Kozub were eliminated right when the last level of the night kicked off and Mark Berente avoided the same fate after he doubled through Maksim Shuts.
Berente was all in after the 
flop with the and Shuts looked him up with 
. The 
turn and river run out gave Berente a full house and he doubled.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
160,000 | 65,000 |
|
90,000 | -130,000 |
|
Busted | |
|
|
Busted |