Half the Field Remains at Second Break
Level 6
: 200/400, 0 ante
According to the screens there are already 179 entries, of which 90 players remain, and they have been sent into their second 20-minute break of the day.
2017 World Series of Poker Europe
Event #2: €550 Pot-Limit Omaha
Day: 1a
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2017 World Series of Poker Europe
Buy-in
€550
Prize Pool
€207,744
Entries
523
Level
30
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
0
Another One Bites the Dust
Level 6
: 200/400, 0 ante
Four players including Vincent Moscati in the big blind and Ivo Donev from under the gun headed to the flop of 
and the action checked to the player one seat over from Donev, who bet 1,600. All three opponents called and the 
appeared on the turn. Again Moscati and Donev checked and the pot-sized bet of 7,900 followed.
The button called all in for 6,800 while Moscati and Donev quickly got out of the way. The button had 
for top two pair only to see his opponent turn over 
for bottom set. A blank 
river changed nothing and yet another player ran out of chips. James Akenhead joined the action on the same table, having registered not long ago.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
40,000 | 2,000 |
|
28,000 | 5,000 |
|
25,000 | 15,000 |
|
10,000 | 10,000 |
Lisandro Busts One
Level 6
: 200/400, 0 ante
On the heads-up turn of 
, Jeff Lisandro bet 2,000 from the big blind and the player in under the gun moved all in for 7,675. Lisandro called after brief consideration.
Opponent: 
Jeff Lisandro: 
The 
river turned the two pair of Lisandro into a full house and the opponent was done for now. Some table chat broke out right after with Ethem Tosun and Lisandro added "if he would have played his hand properly, raised preflop and raised the flop, I would have folded."
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
62,000 | 52,000 |
Zisimopoulos Rising
Level 6
: 200/400, 0 ante
Georgios Zisimopoulos sent Anatoliy Zyrin to the rail and joined the big stacks in level six while Mike Leah also further bumped his stack. The action has become a bit less frantic, but more than 70 bullets were already fired without success with the screens showing 95 players out of 170 entries remaining.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
55,000 | 45,000 |
|
55,000 | 20,000 |
|
40,000 | 16,000 |
|
32,000 | 2,000 |
|
28,000 | 4,000 |
|
22,000 | 22,000 |
|
15,000 | 15,000 |
|
Busted |
Racener Busts Again
Level 6
: 200/400, 0 ante
John Racener had barely sat down for another bullet when he got the stack in preflop and two other players also went at war for a three-way showdown.
Racener had the best of it preflop with the 
versus 
and 
but the board ran out 
to give one of the opponents quads.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
Busted |
Level: 6
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 0
Berude Doubles Through Israelashvili
Level 5
: 150/300, 0 ante
On the flop of 
, Roland Israelashvili bet 2,500 and Rene Berude check-raised all in for 4,850 to see Israelashvili call.
Rene Berude: 
Roland Israelashvili: 
"Oh, I am in good shape," Israelashvili said only to add "not anymore" as soon as the fell on the turn. The river was a mere formality and Berude doubled with the nut straight.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
13,000 | 13,000 |
|
10,000 | -7,000 |
Donev's Stack is Rising
Level 5
: 150/300, 0 ante
Ivo Donev has built his stack up to almost four times the starting stack after being moved tables. One of the key hands saw him in the big blind with 
and he flopped the nut straight on a flop of 
. Two opponents got it in, one holding the bottom end of the straight and the other an open-ended straight draw for the better straight with 
, however, both turn and river bricked.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
38,000 | 19,000 |
Frank Forces Out Racener and Saliba
Level 5
: 150/300, 0 ante
The chips continue to fly from left to right and vice versa, and John Racener busted soon after giving up a three-way pot with Vivian Saliba and Martin Frank. The latter checked the flop and Racener bet 1,800, Saliba called and both folded to the check-raise of Frank for 8,000.
Racener busted soon after to Fahredin Mustafov on that very table and is expected to return with a fresh stack shortly.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
74,000 | 4,000 |
|
70,000 | 70,000 |
|
|
35,000 | 25,000 |
|
35,000 | -16,000 |
|
|
30,000 | 12,000 |
|
|
23,000 | 13,000 |
|
23,000 | 10,000 |
|
21,000 | 2,000 |
|
18,000 | |
|
|
18,000 | 15,750 |
|
16,000 | 16,000 |
|
|
10,000 | -4,000 |
|
9,500 | 9,500 |
|
4,500 | 4,500 |
Cohen Versus Leah
Level 5
: 150/300, 0 ante
Joining the action on the 
flop, Mike Leah checked and called a bet of 650 by Tal Shemon Cohen before the 
appeared on the turn. Leah checked agaian and called a bet of 1,200 before checking the river.
Cohen eventually checked behind, admitting in table chat he was afraid of a check-raise by Leah, and tabled first before flashing his two other cards. Leah jokingly said "I raise" and showed the for trips nines, then mucked for the busted nut flush draw.
"That's what I was afraid of, the nine nine run out and you check raise me on the river."
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
24,000 | 9,000 |
|
|
24,000 | 6,000 |