Main Event
Day 1a Completed
2015 Unibet Open Antwerp
Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2015 Unibet Open Antwerp
Buy-in
€1,000
Prize Pool
€321,000
Entries
321
Level
28
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
20,000
Niko Koop Leads 2015 Unibet Open Antwerp After Day 1a
Level 10
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
The first of two starting days of the €1,100 Unibet Open Antwerp Main Event at "De Shop" saw a field of 125 participants take to the felt. After 10 levels of 60 minutes each, only 35 bagged up chips with Niko Koop finishing as the dominant leader with 385,000 in chips.
To put things into perspective, Maksym Lavrov is in second place with 191,000 and Morgan Wald in third with 173,600. That puts Koop over two times the stack of Lavrov.
Koop's day started very swingy before he got lucky in a three-way all-in clash, cracking the pocket kings of Rob van de Riet with ace-jack and busting the Dutchman soon after with red queens versus king-jack. From there, a massive all-in pot with ace-king against the ace-queen of Stefan Mattsson catapulted the Russian into the top spot and he never looked back.
Oanh Bui was one of the early casualties after turning a flush with the 
. Niels de Wijs three-bet all in after the river and told Bui that he held the nut flush before the showdown. But, the Dutchwoman was already committed and called off to get shown the 
.
Meanwhile, 2015 Unibet Open Cannes finalist Joachim Kleiven followed in Level 3 after losing almost all chips with ace-king against the kings of Alex Hendriks, though the latter also hit the rail after running into the flopped queen-high flush of Patrick Aerts.
Among some other familiar names to run out of chips were the de Meulder brothers, Matthias and Christophe, Unibet ambassador Charlotte van Brabander, Guy Goosens, Jasper Wetemans, Dan Glimne, Dieter van Itterbeeck, Vincent Gabel, Boris Kuzmanovic, Marc Naalden, and Jochum Weenink.
Other notables that made it through to Day 2 included Matthias de Clercq (163,000), Bert Geens (150,800), Hans Sybrandi (141,100), the very entertaining and honest de Wijs (84,300), Pieter de Korver (72,900), and Bart Lybaert (49,200). They will be back at the tables as of 12 p.m. local time on Saturday for the penultimate tournament day while Day 1b gets underway at the same time tomorrow.
The PokerNews Live Reporting team will be back Friday to provide updates from what is happening and you can also watch the live stream of the feature table on Twitch and in the tab above.
End-of-Day Chip Counts (full)
Level 10
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
385,000 | |
|
191,000 | |
|
173,600 | |
|
168,000 | 5,000 |
|
165,900 | 65,900 |
|
|
163,000 | |
|
150,800 | 800 |
|
144,300 | |
|
143,300 | 61,800 |
|
141,100 | 100 |
|
133,900 | 133,900 |
|
|
131,500 | |
|
122,500 | 47,500 |
|
114,100 | 114,100 |
|
|
112,700 | -12,300 |
|
|
111,200 | -28,800 |
|
108,400 | 52,400 |
|
107,600 | |
|
93,500 | 93,500 |
|
84,300 | |
|
78,600 | 78,600 |
|
72,900 | |
|
|
70,000 | 70,000 |
|
|
66,700 | 16,700 |
|
|
64,600 | -36,400 |
Assorted End-of-Day Chip Counts
Level 10
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
385,000 | 25,000 |
|
|
191,000 | |
|
|
173,600 | -6,400 |
|
|
163,000 | 73,000 |
|
|
163,000 | 13,000 |
|
|
150,000 | 40,000 |
|
|
144,300 | -10,700 |
|
|
141,000 | 41,000 |
|
|
131,500 | 26,500 |
|
|
107,600 | -52,400 |
|
|
84,300 | -700 |
|
|
72,900 | 7,900 |
|
49,200 | 2,200 |
Sendar Busts to Hellberg
Level 10
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
Short stack Imro Sendar moved all in for 28,000 within the last four hands over on the feature table and Claes Ruben Hellberg called with the 
. Sendar was at risk with 
and failed to improve on a board of 
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
125,000 | 125,000 |
|
|
Busted |
Martinsson Busts in Last Hand
Level 10
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
Tomas Martinsson had moved all in a few times and had one split pot before then shoving the last hand with the 
. Maksym Lavrov called from one seat over with the 
whereas the rest of the table folded. The flop 
gave Martinsson some hope with the flush draw, but both the 
turn and river blanked to make the Swede the last casualty on Day 1a.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
191,000 | 43,000 |
|
Busted |
Clock Stopped; Four More Hands
Level 10
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
The clock has been stopped with 38 players remaining according to the screens and there is little doubt about the current chip leader. Niko Koop probably accumulated double as many chips as the second biggest stack while four more hands will be played.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
360,000 | 40,000 |
Lots of Seat Open at the End
Level 10
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
Wim Neys was one of two players to exit on the feature table in a three-way all in. Emil Hegedus was the second player at risk while David Baltus looked them up with the biggest stack and the best hand.
Neys: 
Hegedus: 
Baltus: 
The board ran out 
and that sent two players to the rail on the feature table.
Also eliminated: Tomasz Kozub and Aage Eikeland.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted | |
|
Busted | |
|
|
Busted | |
|
|
Busted |
Aerts Doubles Through Kuzmanovic
Level 10
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
Micael Emanuelson raised to 4,500 and Patrick Aerts called from one seat over before Boris Kuzmanovic squeezed to 12,500 out of the small blind. Emanuelson folded but Aerts called to see the flop of 
. Kuzmanovic continued for 8,500 and Aerts raised to 18,000, triggering the all in by his opponent and a snap-call.
Kuzmanovic: 
Aerts: 
Both the 
turn and the 
river were blanks and crippled the stack of Kuzmanovic before the Croatian busted shortly after.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
140,000 | 65,000 |
|
Busted |
Wald Gets his Revenge
Level 10
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
Morgan Wald flat-called a raise on the button and Pieter de Korver checked the flop 
. Wald checked behind and called a delayed continuation bet for half the pot on the 
turn before de Korver check-called a bet worth 13,000 on the 
river. Wald flipped over 
for a flush draw that improved to a straight and de Korver mucked.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
180,000 | 30,000 |
|
|
65,000 | -30,000 |