Level: 14
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 2,000
2019 Winamax SISMIX
Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2019 Winamax SISMIX
Buy-in
€500
Entries
2,036
Level
50
Blinds
600,000 / 1,200,000
Ante
1,200,000
Defending Champion Calamusa Out of Beer Pong in First Round
Level 14
: 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante
The Beer Pong Open here at the Winamax SISMIX is often called the 'Second Main Event' of the festival, and the crowds were four-five deep as Matthieu Duran welcomed them to the event.
As expected, there were plenty of Team Pros in action during the first matches, with Sylvain Loosli, Guillaume Diaz and defending champion Pierre Calamusa.
"A little bit tense," said Calamusa, who won the Beer Pong Open at the last SISMIX in Marrakech. "It's a lot of pressure. The SISMIX Beer Pong is the most important one."
With players crowding around the television screens to try and find the draw, and plenty of recognisable teams from past Winamax live events including teams in matching doctors outfits and shirts.
Guillaume Diaz was 7-2 down with his partner, against a team wearing matching Elvis wigs and shades and although they managed to claw themselves back to just 2-1 down, they bowed out. Also eliminated in the first round was Sylvain Loosli after a tense 1-1 shootout.
Meanwhile, Calamusa was engaged in more of an arm wrestle than a beer pong match. It was attritional, with neither team moving more than one cup ahead. Eventually they, like Loosli, found themselves on the wrong end of a 1-1 shootout and were eliminated, the defending champion crashing out in the first round.
The PokerNews team? Partnering the PokerPT.com team managed to dig themselves out of a 7-1 hole against Antonin Teisseire and High Roller runner-up Sonny Franco to emerge victorious. Onwards to the second round!
Level: 15
Blinds: 1,200/2,500
Ante: 2,500
Half the Field Remain
Level 15
: 1,200/2,500, 2,500 ante
With 549 entrants so far on Day 1b, and late registration open for at least another level and the dinner break, the tournament clock is showing 241 players remaining.
They include Winamax Team Pros Bruno Lopes and Adrian Mateos, the latter of which is defending champion. They are joined by WIPs Norman Chatrier and Mahmoud Gassama.
2017 WSOPE champion Marti Roca is still going strong, but High Roller final tablists Julien Montois and Thomas Simsen, as well as High Roller champion Jon Ander Vallinas have been eliminated.
Level: 16
Blinds: 1,500/3,000
Ante: 3,000
Zawadowicz Over 300,000
Level 16
: 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
Pawel Zawadowicz opened to 1,600 and an opponent three-bet all in for 60,100. Zawadowicz thought before calling.
Pawel Zawadowicz: 
Opponent: 
Zawadowicz was ahead and held on the 
runout, boosting his stack further still to over 300,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
340,000 |
Mateos Folds to Opponent's Shove
Level 16
: 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
With the board reading 
Adrian Mateos checked a pot with 100,000 chips in the middle to his opponent who moved all in for around 70,000.
Mateos folded and his opponent promptly turned over 
for top pair.
Here are some other chip counts from around the tournament.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
225,000
135,000
|
135,000 |
|
170,000
120,000
|
120,000 |
|
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|
150,000
110,000
|
110,000 |
|
70,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
Dinner Break
Level 16
: 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
Players are going on a 75-minute dinner break.
Level: 17
Blinds: 1,500/3,500
Ante: 3,500
Recent Eliminations
Level 17
: 1,500/3,500, 3,500 ante
WIPs Mahmoud Gassama and Norman Chatrier are among the recent eliminations with less than four levels to go.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Busted |