Main Event
Day 1 Started
2018/19 WSOP Global Casino Championship
Main Event
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2018/19 WSOP Global Casino Championship
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$1,040,000
Entries
129
Level
27
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
100,000
The 2019 WSOP Global Casino Championship Kicks Off at 2 pm
For the fifth consecutive year, Harrah's Cherokee Casino Resort will play host to the WSOP Global Casino Championship. Located in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, Harrah's Cherokee offers a beautiful backdrop for this annual prestigious tournament that will offer up a guaranteed prizepool of $1,000,000.
The Global Casino Championship is an exclusive, invite-only tournament in which most players receive free entries. For each Circuit stop throughout the season, the Main Event winner and the Casino Champion each receive a free seat. In addition, the top 50 players on the season leaderboard also earn free entries. With nearly 40 Circuit stops throughout the season, there will be an estimated 130 players earning a free entry into this event.
Previous winners of this event include 2018 champion Warren Sheaves and 2017 winner Sean Yu who each took home $296,941. Familiar names Loni Harwood (2015) and Dominik Nitsche (2014) have also etched their names as champions of this event. The winner will also get to wrap one of the nicest WSOP gold bracelets around their wrist when this is all said and done.
There is a direct buy-in option for players who meet certain criteria. The entry fee is $10,000 and it is rake-free. Each direct buy-in will be added to the $1,000,000 guaranteed prizepool. In order to be eligible for a direct buy-in, players must be in the top 100 of the 2018 WSOP player-of-the-year standings or have won a circuit ring from the 2018/2019 season.
The action will get underway at 2 pm local time in the conference center of the Harrah's Cherokee Casino. Players will be given a starting stack of 60,000 chips with the blinds starting at 100/200 and a 200 big blind ante. The levels will be 60 minutes in length with a 15-minute break after every two levels and a 60-minute dinner break after the sixth level.
There is no re-entry permitted in this event that will take place over the next three days. Registration will remain open until the start of level 11 which is the first level on Day 2. A total of 10 levels will be played today before the players bag up their chips to return for Day 2 tomorrow.
Follow along with the PokerNews live reporting team for complete coverage of the Global Casino Championship.
Level: 1
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 200
Shuffle Up and Deal
Level 1
: 100/200, 200 ante
The tournament director has gone over some of the WSOP sanctioned rules before instructing the dealers to shuffle up and deal. The cards are in the air with 76 players in their seats to kick off the first level of 100/200 with a 200 big blind ante.
Early Entries
Level 1
: 100/200, 200 ante
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Kabrhel Asking for a Round of Straddles
Level 1
: 100/200, 200 ante
As Martin Kabrhel was under the gun, he asked the table if they would be interested in a round of straddles but it was pretty standard none of them obliged. Kabrhel was standing from his seat when he looked at his cards and quickly made it 800 to go. The player on his left three-bet to 2,200 and the action folded back to Kabrhel who called.
The flop fell 
and Kabrhel check-called a bet of 2,200 from his opponent. The 
paired the board on the turn and Kabrhel checked again. His opponent tossed in another bet of 3,100 and Kabrhel gave it some thought but decided to fold.
"If you don't talk to him, the hands will go a lot faster," another player at the table said.
"That is not very nice," Kabrhel responded.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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55,000
-5,000
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-5,000 |
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More Notables In the Field
Level 1
: 100/200, 200 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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60,000
60,000
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60,000 |
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60,000
60,000
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60,000
60,000
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60,000
60,000
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60,000
60,000
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60,000 |
Two Bets Work for Lee
Level 1
: 100/200, 200 ante
Bernard Lee raised it up to 600 from the cutoff and was called by Stanislav Angelov on the button and Jake Bazeley in the big blind. The flop came 
and Bazeley checked to Lee who continued for 900. Angelov folded and Bazeley stuck around to see the 
on the turn.
Bazeley checked again and Lee fired out another bet 1,700. Bazeley quickly sent his cards to the muck and Lee picked up the pot to climb above starting stack.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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65,000
5,000
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5,000 |
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53,000
-7,000
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-7,000 |
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Level 1
: 100/200, 200 ante
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More Entries in the First Level
Level 1
: 100/200, 200 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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