At the beginning of Level 17 play ended for Day 1D of Event #5: THE COLOSSUS with 11 players advancing to Day 2 on Wednesday. Konstantinos Misailidis takes the honour of being the chip leader of Day 1D with 419,000 chips.
Misailidis’ biggest cash up till now was worth €18,280 for a tournament he won in Bulgaria in 2016. He will be looking to improve that result here in THE COLOSSUS. Second in chips is Rene Berube with 366,500 who has been very active all evening, he had several clashes with Michal Mrakes with Berube coming out on top in the end. Brandon Cantu finished third in chips with 283,500. He eliminated several players including Kristen Bicknell and Fabian Gumz.
Other notables making it through to Day 2 are Marcel Luske (184,500) and Kevin MacPhee (134,000). Unfortunately, not everyone was lucky enough to make it through, players like Chris Ferguson, Ryan Hughes, Georgios Zisimopoulos, Fabrice Soulier, Roberto Romanello and many others.
Day 1E and 1F will take place tomorrow here at the King’s Casino so keep following PokerNews for all the latest updates.
Michal Mrakes walked away from the tournament area and Rene Berube said that Mrakes raised to 10,000 from the button and Berube three-bet to 35,000 from the big blind. Mrakes called.
The flop came , Berue bet 26,000 and Mrakes called. The turn was a three and now Berube bet 36,000, Mrakes shoved and Berube snap-called with the bigger stack. Mrakes had ace-eight but Berube had ace-jack for quad jacks.
PokerNews has activated the My Stack App for this event, allowing you to directly adjust your chip counts in our live reporting blog using your iPhone or Android phone.
You can download the app for iPhone or Android now to get started. Then, create a new PokerNews account or update your current one to start updating your status immediately. Your followers can see all the live action that you're involved in.
Click here to download the My Stack app for iPhone, or click here to download the My Stack app for Android.
The fourth flight of Event #5:THE COLOSSUS - €550 No-Limit Hold’em is set to start at 6 p.m. here at the King’s Casino.The first three flights saw a combined total of 561 players with another 6 flights scheduled over the next days. 23 players have already made it through to Day 2 on the 1st of November with more joining from Day 1c.
Some of the notables that have already made it through include John Racener (334,000), Fahredin Mustafov (206,000), Kenny Hallaert (190,000), Alex Foxen (189,000), Viliyan Petleshkov (165,500), Mike Leah (155,500) and Ryan Leng (141,000).
The players will be playing 18 30-minute levels or until there are 11 players left. They will be starting with a stack of 10,000 chips and can reenter once during the same flight. Breaks last 20 minutes and will take place after every four levels of play.
Keep your eyes on the PokerNews coverage for all of today’s action.
Day
Date
Information
October 27th
Day 1a at 12pm
11 out of 155 advanced
October 27th
Day 1b at 6pm
12 out of 210 advanced
October 28th
Day 1c at 12pm
18 Levels 30 min each, late reg 8 levels ~ 4.40pm
October 28th
Day 1d at 6pm
18 Levels 30 min each, late reg 8 levels ~ 10.40pm
October 29th
Day 1e at 12pm
18 Levels 30 min each, late reg 8 levels ~ 4.40pm
October 29th
Day 1f at 6pm
18 Levels 30 min each, late reg 8 levels ~ 10.40pm
October 30th
Day 1g at 12pm
18 Levels 30 min each, late reg 8 levels ~ 4.40pm
October 30th
Day 1h at 6pm
18 Levels 30 min each, late reg 8 levels ~ 10.40pm
October 31st
Day 1i at 12pm
18 Levels 30 min each, late reg 8 levels ~ 4.40pm
October 31st
Day 1j at 6pm
18 Levels 30 min each, late reg 8 levels ~ 10.40pm
and Rene Berube had tabled 
. Michal Mrakes was counting out the chips to pay for Berube's all-in.
