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€2,750 High Roller
Day 1 Completed
2019 WSOP International Circuit Holland Casino Rotterdam
€2,750 High Roller
Day: 1
Event Info
2019 WSOP International Circuit Holland Casino Rotterdam
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 1
Buy-in
€2,750
Prize Pool
€181,875
Total Entries
75
Level
23
Blinds
10,000 / 25,000
Ante
25,000
Entries
57
Players Left
21
Players Left 1 / 75
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Level 14
: 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
A hectic first day of the €2,750 High Roller at the World Series of Poker International Circuit has come to an end after fourteen levels in the Holland Casino in Rotterdam. Initially, the tournament was supposed to play twelve levels of 40-minutes each but during the first level of the day, all players agreed to change the duration of the levels to 30 minutes and play 14 levels instead. During the day, 57 entries were attracted to the biggest buy-in tournament of the series and only 21 players have made it through to Day 2.
David Hu finished at the top of the chip counts with 316,500 in chips. Hu chipped up early in the day and kept chipping up throughout the day to get to the top of the counts and stay there. Hu is followed closely by Gary Hasson from Belgium. Third in the counts is Tom Vogelsang with 266,900 who was happy to have bagged more than Teun Mulder who finished fifth in the chip counts with 208,200. Joris Ruijs takes fourth place with 234,000 after having had to reenter at some point in the day.
Gazmen Bekteshi, Vojtech Ruzicka, and Roland Rokita were the only other players to have bagged an above average stack. But the rest of the field contains many well-known players still in the running. Players like Jonathan Abdellatif, Govert Metaal, Gregory Luttke-Grech, Alexandre Reard, Rens Feenstra, and Zhong Chen have all found a bag to put chips in.
Luuk Gieles was down to his last 10,000 but managed to build that stack back up to 98,400 to keep on defending his title. Abdelhakim Zoufri won this event in 2017 and had to reenter in the latter stages of Day 1 and ended up bagging 70,800. But not everyone was fortunate enough to do the same as Raoul Refos, Tobias Peters, Maksym Lavrov, Kevin Paqué, Sonny Franco, Javier Zarco, and Alberto Stegeman all busted.
But they don’t have to despair, the late registration and reentry period will remain open during the first two levels of Day 2. The 21 remaining players will return to the felt at 1 p.m. local time on Tuesday, November 19 to continue to battle it out to take down the tournament and win the WSOP Circuit Ring plus the first-place prize. The seat draw will be done at the start of Day 2 and posted by the PokerNews live reporting team as soon as possible. Play will continue with a restart of Level 14 which features a small blind of 1,500, big blind of 3,000, and big blind ante of 3,000. The level duration will be increased to 40 minutes each.
The Main Event will also recommence at 2 p.m. local time with Day 1b. Day 1c has been moved to 10 p.m. local time as it already featured a turbo structure and the organization wanted to give all players who participated in the High Roller to jump into the Main Event after getting eliminated. The PokerNews live reporting team will be there to cover both events with a winner taking the down the High Roller at the end of the day. Don’t miss out on the updates so make sure to return right here.
Level 14
: 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
Level 14
: 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
The full chip counts and recap of today's action are to follow. There will be no seat draw until just before the start of the event as the tournament organization will do this on the spot as the late registration and reentry period will remain open for the first two levels of Day 2.
Level 14
: 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
Level 14
: 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
The tournament clock has been paused and the players need to play three more hands before they can bag and tag their chips for Day 2.
Level 14
: 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
The flop read 
with 24,000 in the middle.
Raoul Refos checked his small blind, George Rensen shoved in the big blind for 16,000. Gregory Luttke-Grech raised from the cutoff and Refos shoved for 48,000. Luttke-Grech called.
George Rensen: 
Raoul Refos: 
Gregory Luttke-Grech: 
The rest of the board was completed with the 
on the turn and the 
on the river. Rensen earned a triple-up with two pair and Refos doubled for the 32,000 he had left after paying Rensen.
Level 14
: 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
Zhong Chen and Gerry van Aalst have left the High Roller stage while Dwayne Sluis took his seat in the last level of the night.
Level 14
: 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
Gregory Luttke-Grech raised to 6,000 from under the gun and Roland Rokita shoved in the small blind for 33,500. Tobias Peters looked down at his cards in the big blind and then decided to shove too. Grech looked at Peters' stack and then made the call.
Roland Rokita: 
Tobias Peters: 
Gregory Luttke-Grech: 
The board ran out 
for Rokita to hit the runner-runner flush to triple up and for Luttke-Grech to take the remainder of Peters' stack with the rivered set of jacks.
Level: 14
Blinds: 1,500/3,000
Ante: 3,000
