€1,100 Main Event Day 1a | 2019 WSOP International Circuit Holland Casino Rotterdam

Level: 12

Blinds: 800/1,600

Ante: 1,600

11-18-2019 00:00 UTC+2

Recent Chip Counts

Shirley Ang

Level 12 : 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Francisco Marti	180,000
Danny van Zijp	102,000
Kevin Paqué	100,000	70,000
Tobias Peters	83,000	-7,000
Martin Paap	29,000	-44,000
Mark Roovers	Busted

11-17-2019 23:46 UTC+2

Mangroe Hits the Runner-Runner to Stay Alive

Shirley Ang

Level 11 : 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

The flop read when the player in the small blind bet 5,000. Firoz Mangroe raised to 10,000 in the early position and Taoufik Ahkim three-bet to 15,000 in the cutoff. The small blind shoved and Magroe did the same for 39,000 in total. Ahkim called with the biggest stack.

Small Blind:
Firoz Mangroe:
Taoufik Ahkim:

Ahkim had flopped top two pair while both the small blind and Mangroe had the flush draw but the small blind also had the gutshot to a straight flush.

The rest of the board was completed with the on the turn and the on the river for Mangroe to hit a runner-runner to trips to stay alive and eliminate the small blind while earning a full double-up through Ahkim.

Player	Chips	Progress
Taoufik Ahkim	166,000	-27,000
Firoz Mangroe	114,000	75,500

Tags: Firoz Mangroe Taoufik Ahkim

11-17-2019 23:35 UTC+2

Burns Busts

Shirley Ang

Level 11 : 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

Simon Burns was seen leaving the tournament area but was still willing to explain what had happened during the previous level:

He opened to 2,200 on the button with with a stack worth twenty big blinds and was called by both players in the blind.

The flop came with one club. Jerome Riverola in the small blind checked, the big blind bet 3,000 and was called by both Burns and Riverola.

They all checked through the for the to complete the board on the river. It was checked to Burns who decided to shove for around 75% of the pot. riverola snap-called and the big blind folded for Riverola to reveal offsuit for the pair of sixes to catch Burns' bluff.

Player	Chips	Progress
Simon Burns	Busted

Tags: Simon Burns Jerome Riverola

Level: 11

Blinds: 600/1,200

Ante: 1,200

11-17-2019 23:20 UTC+2

Some Chip Counts

Shirley Ang

Level 10 : 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Eric Mertens	105,000	-18,800
Wim Neys	65,000	3,000
Abdelhakim Zoufri	50,000
Edwin Tournier	26,000	-38,000
Zhong Chen	Busted

11-17-2019 22:56 UTC+2

Messina Hits a Runner-Runner Straight Flush

Shirley Ang

Level 10 : 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

Renato Messina had just played the biggest pot of the tournament up till now and his table mate was kind enough to relay the information.

Messina had opened from the early position for 1,800 and was called by four other players to go five-way to the flop which was the . It was checked to the player on the button who bet 5,000 and only Messina called.

The turn was the and both players checked.

The river completed the board with the , Messina fired a bet of 18,000 over the line and the player on the button shoved for around 100,000. Messina snap-called with for the runner-runner straight flush and saw he was good as his opponent had for the turned full house.

Table #14 was broken up in the meanwhile and Taoufik Ahkim has taken his seat on Messina's left for the two biggest stacks in the room to be seated next to each other.