€1,700 NLH Main Event
Day 1b Started
€1,700 NLH Main Event
Day 1b Started
The third edition of the World Series of Poker International Circuit in Europe's biggest poker arena at the King's Resort in Rozvadov shapes up to be the largest for the current year. The entire series awards 12 coveted WSOP Circuit rings will be awarded and all eyes are set on the €1,700 Main Event, which will very likely surpass the guaranteed prize pool of €1,000,000 by a significant margin.
The previous two editions in 2022 attracted 808 and 648 entries respectively with Volkan Alkan as the last champion back in April. He secured a top prize worth €160,500 and an entry for the 2022 WSOP Europe €10,350 Main Event in November on top. Alkan was among the big stacks on Day 1a, which gathered 307 total entries.
Feyzullah Karaarslan was not spotted during the first of two starting days yet but ring event winners such as Dorian Melchers, Renat Bohdanov and Michael Ugucctoni all entered the fray with mixed success.
The second and final starting day gets underway at 2pm local time and once again features a total of nine 60-minute levels. There will be a 15-minute break every two levels with an extended 45-minute dinner break after level four, during which the buffet at King's Resort will be a popular destination for all participants.
Two re-entries are allowed on each starting day and the tournament comes with a starting stack of 50,000, which is good enough for 250 big blinds in the first level featuring blinds of 100-200 and a big blind ante of 200.
Day 1b Level Structure
Level | Duration | Small Blind | Big Blind | BBA |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 60 min | 100 | 200 | 200 |
2 | 60 min | 100 | 300 | 300 |
Break | 15 min | |||
3 | 60 min | 200 | 400 | 400 |
4 | 60 min | 200 | 500 | 500 |
Dinner Break | 45 min | |||
5 | 60 min | 300 | 600 | 600 |
6 | 60 min | 400 | 800 | 800 |
Break | 15 min | |||
7 | 60 min | 500 | 1,000 | 1,000 |
8 | 60 min | 600 | 1,200 | 1,200 |
Break | 15 min | |||
9 | 60 min | 800 | 1,600 | 1,600 |
End approx. 0.30 am |
King's Casino has continued the successful qualifier program of the previous year and more than 200 players already won their entry to the 2022 WSOPE €10,350 Main Event throughout major live poker festivals at the venue. Another 12 players will be added to the last because the top 12 finishers in this event will gain an entry to the marquee event. The hunt for the WSOP glory is just around the corner and takes place from October 26 until November 16 with 15 WSOP gold bracelets up for grabs.
The late registration for the WSOPC €1,700 Main Event remains open all day long and for the first two levels on Day 2 at approximately 4.20 pm local time on Saturday, October 9, 2022. Stay tuned for all the poker action right here on PokerNews as the live reporting team will be on the floor from start to finish.
Level: 1
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 200
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Silvan Boesiger | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Boaz Fisher | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Uwe Mauerhoff | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Yiannakis Papapetrou | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Firoz Mangroe | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Vinesh Kotecha
|
50,000 | 50,000 |
Pasquale Di Ceglie | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Wilhelm Isaak | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Halil Coknez | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Mohamed Madani | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Arash Karimkhanzand | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Sergio Benso | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Samuel Ju | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Christopher Schofield | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Michael Strauch | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Adel Kabbani | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Georgios Tsouloftas | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Michael Magalashvili | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Waldemar Kopyl | 50,000 | 50,000 |
David Taborsky | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Gerhard Brimmers | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Peter Siemund | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Andrea Ricci | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Peter Mikschik | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Kelly Kaeser bet a three-way flop of flop to force a fold from Christopher Schoefield while Leonidas Georgopoulos stuck around. Georgopoulos also called another bet worth 2,200 on the turn and the river was checked.
Kaeser tabled the and that won the pot while Schofield sighed "I folded eight nine". Georgopoulos asked why he had folded to a small pot on the flop to which Schofield replied "I didn't feel it".
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Kelly Kaeser
|
53,000 | 53,000 |
Christopher Schofield | 49,000 | -1,000 |
Leonidas Georgopoulos | 48,000 | 48,000 |
Heads-up to the flop, Ioannis Gerontas checked his option out of the blinds and called a bet worth 500 by Pasquale Di Ceglie. Both instantly checked the turn and the river was also checked by Gerontas.
Di Ceglie now bet 2,000 and that won the pot.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Pasquale Di Ceglie | 52,000 | 2,000 |
Ioannis Gerontas | 48,500 |
With 4,100 in the middle to the turn, the action checked around between Arash Karimkhanzand, Raffael Wilbertz and Ivo Gerber. They also checked down the river as well.
Wilbertz showed the and Gerber mucked. However, Karimkhanzand had the best of it with the to add to his stack early on Day 1b.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Arash Karimkhanzand | 53,000 | 3,000 |
Raffael Wilbertz
|
49,000 | |
Ivo Gerber | 49,000 |
The Day 1b field has already reached 113 entries and several notables jumped into the action throughout the last few minutes.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Jaromir Hanel | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Jacek Pustula | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Thomas Hofmann | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Artan Dedusha | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Andreas Gondrom | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Oldrich Travnicek | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Ibrahim Usta
|
50,000 | 50,000 |
Ori Hasson
|
50,000 | 50,000 |
Nicolas Sievers
|
50,000 | 50,000 |
Tonino Schmitz | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Duc Quy Nguyen | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Ilie Smintana Januszewski
|
50,000 | |
German Schnitzel
|
50,000 | 50,000 |
Alaettin Keles | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Andrej Desset came into the day on a mission to do better than 1a and immediately started applying pressure. The latest three-way pot saw him up against Sergio Benso and Ferhat Yildiz which led them to the flop.
It checked to Desset and he bet 3,100 from the cutoff into a pot of three times as much. Benso reluctantly folded and Yildiz came to the same conclusion.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Andrej Desset | 55,000 | 55,000 |
Sergio Benso | 48,500 | -1,500 |
Ferhat Yildiz
|
48,000 | 48,000 |
The field has reached 140 entries and no seat open have occurred thus far.
Most pots remain rather small with the latest of them featuring four-way action for 1,100 each to the flop. The action checked all the way to Bulent Belek on the button and he bet 2,900. That was all it took to shut down his three opponents and Belek earned the pot.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Bulent Belek
|
55,000 | 55,000 |
Braz Borges Fagundes Junior | 49,000 | 49,000 |
David Tal
|
48,000 | 48,000 |