The first of the last two flights of Event #5: THE COLOSSUS ended today with 70 players making it through to Day 2 tomorrow, Wednesday, November 1st. After more than 9 hours of play, Nebojsa Ankucic took the chip lead honor for Day 1i with 525,500 chips. This also means he has taken over the overall chip lead of all the players that have made it through to Day 2.
Day 1i had a total of 1,022 entries and 70 players made it through to Day 2. It was the second biggest flights of the series, only surpassed by Day 1j, which had 1,140 entries. Out of the 70 players today, second in the chip counts is Belgian Bjorn Bouwmans (420,500). The cash he will earn for this event will be his biggest ever and his second in his poker career. Thomas Hofmann is taking 407,000 chips with him, this is his first cash in Rozvadov so he will be looking forward to achieving some great results here.
Other notables making it through to Day 2 are two-time WSOP bracelet winner Kristen Bicknell (225,000), Master Classics of Poker winner Abdelhakim Zoufri (205,500) and Jaroslav Peter (143,500). Unfortunately, not everyone made it through today, players like Pedro Oliveira, Aneris Adomkevicius, Walter Treccarichi, Ivo Donev, Phil Hellmuth, William Kassouf, Manig Loeser and many others fell today.
Keep your eyes on PokerNews as the last flight ends today. Tomorrow all the action of Day 2 starts at 3 p.m. local time so make sure to come back to follow all the latest updates!
After several double ups and eliminations, in the sixth round of hand-for-hand play there were six all-ins and calls. In that round 3 players were eliminated and one of them was Vlado Sevo. He had gone all with and was called by . The board ran out - no help for Sevo as he was eliminated.
Here's an overview of the other hands:
Hand #1:
Player 1:
Player 2:
Player 3:
The board ran out - The first player tripled up, the second player took the side pot and the third player lost a chunk of his stack.
Hand #2:
Button (at risk):
Small Blind:
The board ran out - it looked like the player in the small blind was going to eliminate the player on the button but the ace on the river gave her a set of aces and the double up.
Hand #3:
Button:
Small Blind (at risk):
The board ran out - no help for the small blind as she was eliminated.
Hand #4:
The flop read and two players were involved in the hand:
Player 1:
Player 2:
The turn brought them the and the river the - player 2 had hit a straight on the flop. Even though player 1 had hit an ace on the turn for a set of aces, the river didn't help him and he was eliminated.
Hand #5:
Small Blind:
Big Blind:
The board ran out - no danger for the first player but as their stacks were pretty even, they needed to be counted out exactly. In the end, the player in the small blind doubled up and the player in the big blind was left with less than 4,000.
The 3 eliminated players would share the prize money for 154th place
Theodoros Aidonopoulos was all in and called by the player on his left. He had the bigger stack so he could eliminate a player to get closer to the bubble.
Theodoros Aidonopoulos:
Opponent:
The board ran out - Aidonopoulos hit an eight on the flop for two pair, eights and fours and got the elimination to his name.
Just after the break, and after the reentry period was closed, Manig Loeser was all in with against the of Petr Segl on the flop. The turn brought them the and the on the river sent Loeser to the rail.
Loeser still has a chance to enter Day 1j which starts at 6 p.m. local time today.
The final day of five days of starting flights for Event #5: THE COLOSSUS is here. The World Series of Poker Europe has seen 1,953 hopefuls trying to make it through to Day 2 on Wednesday, November 1st and only 114 players have done so. Day 1i is the ninth flight out of ten here at the King’s Casino in Rozvadov and it is expected that there will be a large field today.
The guaranteed prize pool of €2,000,000 prize pool has attracted some of the biggest names from the poker world, and some of them are one step closer to victory. Players like Jaroslaw Sikora (507,000), Sander van Wesemael (472,000), Ognjen Sekularac (447,500), John Racener (334,000), Brandon Cantu (283,500), Michael Magalashvili (241,500), Martin Kabrhel (235,000), Kenny Hallaert (206,000), Alex Foxen (189,000) and Marcel Luske (184,500).
The players will be playing 18 30-minute levels or until there are eleven players remaining. Registration is possible until the start of Level 9 which is around 4.40 p.m. local time. One single re-entry is allowed during that period. The players will be sent on a 20-minute break after Level 4, 8, 12 and 14. There is one more flight today, Day 1j will start at 6 p.m. local time with registration closing around 10.40 p.m. local time.
For the players that haven’t qualified yet, today is their final chance so keep refreshing this page as the PokerNews live reporting team will be here to bring you all the updates from start till end.
THE COLOSSUS Event Schedule
Day
Date
Information
October 27th
Day 1a at 12 pm
11 out of 155 advanced to Day 2
October 27th
Day 1b at 6 pm
12 out of 210 advanced to Day 2
October 28th
Day 1c at 12 pm
10 out of 196 advanced to Day 2
October 28th
Day 1d at 6 pm
11 out of 199 advanced to Day 2
October 29th
Day 1e at 12 pm
11 out of 202 advanced to Day 2
October 29th
Day 1f at 6 pm
11 out of 222 advanced to Day 2
October 30th
Day 1g at 12 pm
19 out of 318 advanced to Day 2
October 30th
Day 1h at 6 pm
29 out of 451 advanced to Day 2
October 31st
Day 1i at 12 pm
18 Levels 30 min each, late reg 8 levels ~ 4.40 pm
October 31st
Day 1j at 6pm
18 Levels 30 min each, late reg 8 levels ~ 10.40 pm
and was called by 
. The board ran out 
- no help for Sevo as he was eliminated.
- The first player tripled up, the second player took the side pot and the third player lost a chunk of his stack.
- player 2 had hit a straight on the flop. Even though player 1 had hit an ace on the turn for a set of aces, the river didn't help him and he was eliminated.
- no danger for the first player but as their stacks were pretty even, they needed to be counted out exactly. In the end, the player in the small blind doubled up and the player in the big blind was left with less than 4,000.
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