Day 1b of the €1,100 Main Event Will Start at 2 PM
Welcome back to the PokerNews coverage of the €1,100 Main Event at the 2019 WSOP International Circuit in Holland Casino Rotterdam. Cards will be in the air for Day 1b at 2 p.m. and there will be another starting flight at 10 p.m. later tonight. The tournament features a guaranteed prize pool of €250,000 with the winner not only taking home the lion share but also the coveted WSOP Circuit Ring. The winner of the Main Event also receives a ticket worth $10,000 for the WSOP Global Casino Championship.
It's the third time that the WSOP Circuit visits Holland Casino in Rotterdam. Eyal Bensimhon took the ring and €93,349 first-place prize down the first time and non-other than three-time GPI ranking winner of the Netherlands Tobias Peters won in 2018 when he beat Bart Beens heads-up. Peters won €67,766 and a WSOP Circuit Ring. The buy-in for this year's Main Event was reduced from €1,650 to €1,100.
The players will start with 30,000 chips and they will play twelve 40-minute levels. There are twelve levels scheduled for today with a 15-minute break after every three levels. There will be a split dinner break with half the field going on a break after level six and the other half going on a break after Level seven.
They are all chasing Renato Messina who finished Day 1a with the chip lead after bagging 237,000. He is the only non-Dutch player who sits in the top five as he is followed by Rashed Zade, Jerome Riverola, Kevin Pagué, and Francisco Marti.
Make sure to keep an eye on PokerNews to follow along as Day 1b progresses.