Event #1: €1,100 No-Limit Hold'em MONSTER STACK Day 1c | 2017 World Series of Poker Europe

Event #1: €1,100 No-Limit Hold'em MONSTER STACK

Day 1c Completed

10-22-2017 02:08 UTC+2

Sander van Wesemael Bags the Lead After Day 1C

Adam Lamers

Level 14 : 1,200/2,400, 400 ante

The three starting flights have all come to an end in Event #1: €1,100 No-Limit Hold'Em MONSTER STACK at the World Series of Poker Europe. Sander van Wesemael bagged the largest stack after Day 1C and will head into Day 2 with the chip lead bringing 323,500 chips with him.

Van Wesemael is coming off an impressive summer in Europe, capturing the title in three €330 PokerStars Cup events in a row. His largest cash came at the event in Barcelona where he took home €127,000. Van Wesemael made a deep run in the WSOP International Circuit Main Event in Rozvadov but bowed in 38th place. He will be looking to add to his already impressive $541,220 career earnings dating back to the end of 2014.

There were a total of 306 entries that took to the felt on Day 1C but only 64 were able to find a bag at the end of the day. Valentin Vornicu was one of those, bagging the second largest stack of 296,500. Vornicu, now calling California home, has over $1,000,000 in live tournament earnings. His largest came just one year ago when he finished in 23rd place at the WSOP Main Event for $269,430. Giovanni Petroni rounds out the top three with 239,000 after he sent Phil Hellmuth packing earlier in the day.

Some other familiar names to make it through to Day 2 include Scott Stewart (207,500), Konstantinos Tsirakidis (178,000), Georgios Zisimopoulos (102,500), Allen Kessler (95,500), Ivo Donev (72,000), and Dominik Desset (47,000).

Many notables sat down for their third bullet today but were still unable to make anything happen. John Racener, Alex Foxen, Kristen Bicknell, Kenny Hallaert, Chris Ferguson, Jeff Lisandro, and Marc MacDonnell were a few to come up empty-handed. Bertrand Grospellier, Phil Hellmuth, Roberto Romanello, Brandon Cantu, and Jan Timo Jobmann were also sent to the rail throughout the day.

Martin Kabrhel entered the field rather early compared to usual, and he had a rollercoaster kind of day. At some points, his chips were moving more than his mouth which is also uncharacteristic. Kabrhel found a massive double up with pocket fours versus ace-king when the flop came . Soon after, however, Kabrhel's pocket aces got cracked by Konstantinos Tsirakidis when Tsirakidis flopped a set of sevens. Kabrhel left the tournament area but not without leaving a few memorable comments behind.

There will be a total of 114 players returning on Sunday for Day 2 and the money bubble will be in everyone's eyes when the action resumes. With a total of 561 entries throughout the three starting flights, there will be a prizepool of €538,280 to battle for. There will be 85 places being paid, with a min-cash worth €1,592 and the eventual champion taking home €117,708.

The action will resume on Sunday at 2:00 P.M. local time inside the Poker Arena at King's Casino. Continue to follow along with the PokerNews live reporting team as we bring you all of the live updates from the tournament floor.

Day 2 Seat Draw

Table	Seat	Player	Nationality	Chip Count	Big Blinds
83	1	Ivo Donev	Austria	72,000	24
83	2	Sasa Stancic	Canada	42,000	14
83	3	Erich Kollmann	Austria	119,000	40
83	4	Pavel Šourek	Czech Republic	54,000	18
83	5	Walid Abdi Ali	Germany	73,500	25
83	6	Serge Danis	Switzerland	113,500	38
83	7	Viktor Kovachev	Bulgaria	88,000	29
83	8	Theodoros Aidonopoulos	Greece	75,000	25
83	9	Jonas Holm	Sweden	72,500	24

84	1	Eddy Scharf	Germany	59,000	20
84	2	Arsenii Karmatckii	Russian Federation	72,500	24
84	3	Jesper Mertz	Denmark	64,000	21
84	4	Aleksandr Pantiukhin	Russian Federation	100,500	34
84	5	David Dolák	Czech Republic	40,000	13
84	6	Aleksandar Tomović	Serbia	22,000	7
84	7	Patrik Ciklamíni	Slovakia	35,500	12
84	8	Alexander Schlien	Germany	31,500	11
84	9	Alexandre Viard	France	118,500	40

89	1	Domenico Gala	Italy	64,500	22
89	2	Hamza Miri	Germany	124,000	41
89	3	Usman Siddique	United Kingdom	111,000	37
89	4	Zhivko Sotirov	Bulgaria	63,000	21
89	5	Maciej Kondraszuk	Poland	46,000	15
89	6	Avelino Hernani Ribeiro	Portugal	51,500	17
89	7	Sergio Hamamoto	Portugal	107,000	36
89	8	Micky Blasi	Malta	213,000	71
89	9	Pawel Czichowski	Germany	199,000	66

90	1	Ali Sameeian	Germany	80,500	27
90	2	Helma Weber	Germany	102,000	34
90	3	Werner Scharnagl	Australia	39,000	13
90	4	Vincent Moscati	United States	105,500	35
90	5	Adi Rajkovic	Austria	90,000	30
90	6	Ján Bendík	Slovakia	101,000	34
90	7	Yohan Zenou	France	88,500	30
90	8	Olivian Balint	Romania	42,000	14
90	9	Darren Delahunty	United Kingdom	44,000	15

95	1	Sergio Fernandez	Spain	267,000	89
95	2	Sander van Wesemael	Netherlands	323,500	108
95	3	Mario Mosböck	Austria	71,500	24
95	4	Konstantinos Tsirakidis	Germany	178,000	59
95	5	Andriy Palyuga	Czech Republic	40,500	14
95	6	Ricardo Chauriye	Chile	96,000	32
95	7	Andre Reich	Germany	26,500	9
95	8	Bruno Tarisco	Italy	41,500	14
95	9	Thomas Morstad	Norway	64,500	22

96	1	Jakob Miegel	Germany	29,500	10
96	2	Petter Solli Berg	Norway	33,500	11
96	3	Emil Lukáč	Slovakia	192,000	64
96	4	Maxim Lykov	Russian Federation	153,500	51
96	5	Mike Leah	Canada	96,000	32
96	6	Jeff Cormier	Canada	265,000	88
96	7	Sondre Einarsen	Norway	57,000	19
96	8	Dominik Arnold	Austria	167,500	56
96	9	Yaniv Botbol	France	72,000	24

101	1	Scott Stewart	United States	207,500	69
101	2	Valentin Vornicu	United States	296,500	99
101	3	Tobias Bornefalk	Sweden	207,000	69
101	4	Yehuda Cohen	Germany	105,500	35
101	5	Carlo Savinelli	Italy	55,500	19
101	6	Matthias Gerigk	Germany	47,000	16
101	7	David Petrzelka	Czech Republic	83,500	28
101	8	Sebastián Kos	Czech Republic	104,500	35
101	9	Tezer Cetindag	Germany	21,500	7

102	1	Ariel Morgenshtern	Israel	74,000	25
102	2	Zdenko Slavík	Slovakia	33,000	11
102	3	Dzmitry Rabotkin	Czech Republic	96,500	32
102	4	Andrej Desset	Slovakia	86,500	29
102	5	Walter Treccarichi	Italy	90,000	30
102	6	Ismael Bojang	Austria	268,500	90
102	7	Hannes Neurauter	Germany	106,000	35
102	8	Stoyan Obreshkov	Bulgaria	45,000	15
102	9	Matouš Houžvíček	Czech Republic	37,500	13

107	1	Kai Gimre	Norway	84,000	28
107	2	James Akenhead	United Kingdom	46,500	16
107	3	Paul Michaelis	Germany	11,500	4
107	4	Andriy Gerts	Ukraine	106,500	36
107	5	Viliyan Petleshkov	Bulgaria	178,500	60
107	6	Ryan Hefter	United States	208,000	69
107	7	Pierre Neuville	Belgium	122,500	41
107	8	Avi Hamo	Israel	41,000	14
107	9	Josef Guláš	Czech Republic	88,500	30

108	1	Ryan Hughes	United States	81,500	27
108	2	Oleksandr Shcherbak	Ukraine	140,000	47
108	3	Robert Schulz	Austria	143,000	48
108	4	Timo Kamphues	Germany	97,000	32
108	5	Peter Bstieler	Germany	96,500	32
108	6	Fahredin Mustafov	Bulgaria	183,000	61
108	7	Richard Pfeffer	Hungary	39,500	13
108	8	Chi Cuong Huynh	Switzerland	85,000	28
108	9	Thanh Hoang	Czech Republic	179,000	60

113	2	Giovanni Petroni	Italy	239,000	80
113	3	Benjamin Garcia Rivera	Spain	155,500	52
113	4	Urs Hauser	Switzerland	40,000	13
113	5	James Hoeppner	United States	39,500	13
113	6	Georgios Zisimopoulos	Greece	102,500	34
113	7	Francois Corouge	France	69,500	23
113	8	Dominik Desset	Slovakia	47,000	16
113	9	Federico Quevedo	Costa Rica	56,500	19

114	1	Aneris Adomkevicius	Lithuania	153,000	51
114	2	Milan Topoly	Slovakia	26,000	9
114	4	Matthias Kürschner	Germany	135,000	45
114	5	René Crha	Czech Republic	186,500	62
114	6	Tal Shemon Cohen	Israel	90,000	30
114	7	Thomas Lentrodt	Germany	47,500	16
114	8	Allen Kessler	United States	95,500	32
114	9	Vlado Sevo	Austria	123,000	41

119	1	Atila Aydin	Germany	34,500	12
119	2	Viktor Katzenberger	Hungary	92,000	31
119	4	Georges Ghossan	Lebanon	104,000	35
119	5	Christophe Pereira	Portugal	170,000	57
119	6	Morten Glosli	Norway	23,500	8
119	7	Steffen Retterholt	Norway	37,000	12
119	8	Dario Marinelli	Italy	117,000	39
119	9	Romain Follet	France	44,500	15

Tags: Alex Foxen Allen Kessler Bertrand Grospellier Brandon Cantu Chris Ferguson Dominik Desset Georgios Zisimopoulos Giovanni Petroni Jan Timo Jobmann Jeffrey Lisandro John Racener Kenny Hallaert Kristen Bicknell Marc MacDonnell Martin Kabrhel Phil Hellmuth Roberto Romanello Sander van Wesemael Scott Stewart Valentin Vornicu

10-22-2017 01:31 UTC+2

End-of-Day Chip Counts (full)

Adam Lamers

Level 14 : 1,200/2,400, 400 ante

Josep Maria Galindo Lopez five-bet all in out of the small blind with pocket kings to run into the pocket aces of Emil Lukac and bust just before bagging and tagging. Fewer than 70 hopefuls made it through from Day 1c and the full chip counts will be published when PokerNews receives them.

A full recap of today's action and the seat draw for Day 2 will follow shortly.

Player	Chips	Progress
Sander van Wesemael	323,500	13,500
Valentin Vornicu	296,500	86,500
Giovanni Petroni	239,000	59,000
Scott Stewart	207,500	47,500
Tobias Bornefalk	207,000	2,700
Pawel Czichowski	199,000	199,000
Emil Lukac	192,000	92,000
Thanh Hoang	179,000	179,000
Konstantinos Tsirakidis	178,000	-17,500
Christophe Pereira	170,000
Dominik Arnold	167,500	22,500
Benjamin Garcia Rivera	155,500	71,500
Matthias Kürschner	135,000	65,000
Hamza Miri	124,000
Vlado Sevo	123,000	8,000
Erich Kollmann	119,000	59,000
Alexandre Viard	118,500	13,500
Serge Danis	113,500	-21,500
Sergio Hamamoto	107,000
Andriy Gerts	106,500	6,500
Yehuda Cohen	105,500	9,500
Vincent Moscati	105,500	5,500
Georgios Zisimopoulos	102,500	-67,500
Helma Weber	102,000	22,000
Dzmitry Rabotkin	96,500	56,500

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Tags: Emil Lukac Josep Maria Galindo Lopez

10-22-2017 01:19 UTC+2

Straver and Castelluccio Gone

Christian Zetzsche

Level 14 : 1,200/2,400, 400 ante

Jesper Straver was all in for 12,000 and two players called including one in late position and Andriy Gerts in the big blind. The two remaining players checked down the bopard until the river when Gerts bet and forced a fold.

Straver showed and Gerts had that beat with .

Sergio Castelluccio also eventually bowed out, sending his remaining chips over to Helma Weber.

Player	Chips	Progress
Andriy Gerts	100,000
Helma Weber	80,000	25,000
Jesper Straver	Busted
Sergio Castelluccio	Busted

Tags: Helma Weber Jesper Straver Sergio Castelluccio Andriy Gerts

10-22-2017 01:12 UTC+2

Michaelis Doubles Through Gimre

Adam Lamers

Level 14 : 1,200/2,400, 400 ante

A player in middle position opened to 5,200 and Kai Gimre called on the button. Paul Michaelis was on the button and shipped all-in for 29,500. The initial raiser folded and Gimre made the call.

Michaelis:
Gimre:

Michaelis was in a dominated position but the flop came giving him two pair. The turn was the and the river brought the giving Michaelis a big double up at the end of the night.

Player	Chips	Progress
Kai Gimre	73,000	-32,000
Paul Michaelis	67,000	49,000

Tags: Paul Michaelis Kai Gimre

10-22-2017 01:11 UTC+2

The Last Five Hands for Tonight

Christian Zetzsche

Level 14 : 1,200/2,400, 400 ante

The clocks have been stopped with 70 players remaining and they will play five more hands before bagging and tagging.

10-22-2017 01:06 UTC+2

Castelluccio Doubles Two

Christian Zetzsche

Level 14 : 1,200/2,400, 400 ante

"I give you all my chips and you give them away," Yehuda Cohen said to Sergio Castelluccio after the latter had doubled up Helma Weber, while a short stack and Urs Hauser chopped to build their stacks as well.

First it was Weber that doubled for 25,200 with versus after the board came .

Then, a short stack was all in for 11,200 with and Urs Hauser was at risk for 27,100 with the . Castelluccio went into the showdown with the and the board came .

Player	Chips	Progress
Helma Weber	55,000	55,000
Urs Hauser	42,000	-23,000
Sergio Castelluccio	33,000	-40,000

Tags: Helma Weber Sergio Castelluccio Urs Hauser Yehuda Cohen

10-22-2017 00:57 UTC+2

Bornefalk Eliminates Two Players in One Hand

Adam Lamers

Level 14 : 1,200/2,400, 400 ante

Ivaylo Sivinov raised to 5,200 from early position and Tobias Bornefalk called directly to his left. The action was folded around to the big blind who moved all-in for around 20,000 and Sivinov pushed all-in over the top for 47,000. Bornefalk asked for a count and then made the call with . He had his opponents dominated with Sivinov holding and his other opponent showing .

The flop came and Bornefalk flopped the only pair. Both of his opponents picked up straight draws but the on the turn and the on the river secured the double knockout for Bornefalk.

Player	Chips	Progress
Tobias Bornefalk	204,300	69,300
Ivaylo Sivinov	Busted

Tags: Tobias Bornefalk

10-22-2017 00:57 UTC+2

Danis Wins Some Off Stewart and van Wesemael

Christian Zetzsche

Level 14 : 1,200/2,400, 400 ante

With the completed board showing , Sander van Wesemael and Serge Danis checked in the blinds. Scott Stewart bet 16,000 from the cutoff and was called by both opponents. Stewart rolled over for a bluff, which van Wesemael had beat with . However, it was Danis that raked in the pot with for a pair of jacks.

Despite losing this pot, van Wesemael still appears to be the current chip leader as Valentin Vornicu and a few others are around 100,000 chips behind the Dutchman.

Player	Chips	Progress
Sander van Wesemael	310,000	-20,700
Valentin Vornicu	210,000	45,600
Scott Stewart	160,000	8,500
Serge Danis	135,000	80,000

Tags: Sander van Wesemael Scott Stewart Serge Danis Valentin Vornicu

10-22-2017 00:52 UTC+2

Zenou's Two Barrels Work

Christian Zetzsche

Level 14 : 1,200/2,400, 400 ante

Josep Maria Galindo Lopez opened to 4,500 and Yohan Zenou in the hijack three-bet to 11,500 in order to pick up a call by the Spaniard. The flop fell and Galindo Lopez checked, then called a bet of 9,000 by Zenou. On the turn, Galindo Lopez checked once more and Yenou's second bet of 11,500 won the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Josep Maria Galindo Lopez	90,000	90,000
Yohan Zenou	90,000	43,000

Tags: Josep Maria Galindo Lopez Yohan Zenou