Event #5: THE COLOSSUS - €550 No-Limit Hold'em Day 2 | 2017 World Series of Poker Europe

11-01-2017 16:11 UTC+2

Sikora Takes a Hit

Christian Zetzsche

Level 17 : 2,500/5,000, 500 ante

Jaroslaw Sikora raised to 14,000 from the cutoff and his fellow countryman Przemyslaw Klejnowski moved all in from the button for 96,000. Sikora asked for a brief count and called.

Przemyslaw Klejnowski:
Jaroslaw Sikora:

The board came and Klejnowski rivered a set to remain in contention, he then said "sorry" to Sikora.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jaroslaw Sikora	400,000	-107,000
Przemyslaw Klejnowski	200,000	100,500

Tags: Przemyslaw Klejnowski Jaroslaw Sikora

11-01-2017 16:05 UTC+2

Day 2 Is Off and Running

Adam Lamers

Level 17 : 2,500/5,000, 500 ante

The cards are in the air on Day 2 of Event #5: THE COLOSSUS. The eliminations will be fast and furious to begin the day.

Level: 17

Blinds: 2,500/5,000

Ante: 500

11-01-2017 15:06 UTC+2

A total of 4,115 entries created a gross prize pool of €2,078,075 (minus gaming taxes), of which €1,640,039 remain to be paid out after ten starting days that played down to the money already. A min cash on Day 2 is worth €1,500 while the winner can look forward to a payday of €270,015 and the coveted golden bracelet.

Place	Payout (in EUR)
1	270,015
2	166,855
3	123,241
4	91,711
5	68,771
6	51,968
7	39,576
8	30,376
9	23,499
10-12	18,324
13-15	14,404
16-18	11,414
19-27	9,119
28-36	7,345
37-45	5,966
46-54	4,886
55-63	4,035
64-72	3,361
73-81	2,824
82-90	2,393
91-99	2,046
100-162	1,777
163-225	1,625
226-258	1,500

11-01-2017 14:46 UTC+2

Welcome to Day 2 of Event #5 THE COLOSSUS

Christian Zetzsche

John Racener multi-tables with top 20 stack in THE COLOSSUS

After five days of two starting days each, a massive field of 4,115 entries - including 758 re-entries - has emerged for the 2017 World Series of Poker Europe Event #5 THE COLOSSUS and the €550 tournament has reached the guarantee of €2,000,000 pretty much spot on for a gross prize pool of €2,078,075 (minus gaming taxes). The remaining prize pool to be distributed as of Day 2 is €1,640,039 and all survivors have already locked up a min-cash of €1,500, while all eyes are set on the first-place payout of €270,015.

Only 258 hopefuls remain for Day 2, which kicks off at 3 p.m. local time at the King's Casino in Rozvadov with 26 minutes remaining in level 17 at blinds of 2,500/5,000 and a running ante of 500 based on the starting day that finished the earliest. After that, the level duration increases to 40 minutes each for the remainder of the tournament until a winner is crowned on Thursday, November 2nd 2017.

Chip leader heading into Day 2 is Austria's Nebojsa Ankucic with 525,500 closely followed by Sascha Ranzinger (517,500) and Jaroslaw Sikora (507,000). Among the big stacks still in contention are Sander van Wesemael (472,000), Ognjen Sekularac (447,500), 2017 WSOP Player of the Year contender John Racener (334,000), Hossein Ensan (290,000), two-time WSOP champion Brandon Cantu (283,500), Martin Kabrhel (235,000), Vladimir Troyanovskiy (231,000) and two-time WSOP champion Kristen Bicknell (225,000). Racener is also among the last 18 remaining for Day 2 of Event #7 €1,650 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better that kicked off at 1 p.m. local time.

THE COLOSSUS Event Schedule

Day	Date	Information
October 27th	Day 1a at 12pm	11 out of 155 advanced to Day 2
October 27th	Day 1b at 6pm	12 out of 210 advanced to Day 2
October 28th	Day 1c at 12pm	10 out of 196 advanced to Day 2
October 28th	Day 1d at 6pm	111 out of 199 advanced to Day 2
October 29th	Day 1e at 12pm	11 out of 202 advanced to Day 2
October 29th	Day 1f at 6pm	11 out of 222 advanced to Day 2
October 30th	Day 1g at 12pm	19 out of 318 advanced to Day 2
October 30th	Day 1h at 6pm	29 out of 451 advanced to Day 2
October 31st	Day 1i at 12pm	70 out of 1,022 advanced to Day 2
October 31st	Day 1j at 6pm	74 out of 1,140 advanced to Day 2
November 1st	Day 2 at 3pm	258 out of 4,115 remain, levels last 40 min each
November 2nd	Day 3 at TBA	levels last 40 min each, play down to a winner

Day 2 will likely play a maximum of 12 levels and try to reach the nine-handed final table before determining a champion the next day. The PokerNews live reporting team will be on the floor to cover all the action, so make sure to tune back in regularly.

Tags: Brandon Cantu Hossein Ensan John Racener Kristen Bicknell Martin Kabrhel Nebojsa Ankucic Ognjen Sekularac Sander van Wesemael Sascha Ranzinger Vladimir Troyanovskiy

11-01-2017 12:14 UTC+2

Day 2 Seat Draw

Christian Zetzsche

Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
79	1	Renzo Avancini	Italy	200,600	40
79	2	Nino Wagner	Germany	106,500	21
79	3	[Removed:321] Zanjani	Germany	118,000	24
79	4	Frank Rohrmuller	Germany	130,000	26
79	5	Grigorios Thanos	Greece	65,500	13
79	6	Martin Urbanek	Czech Republic	85,000	17
79	7	Kevin MacPhee	United States	134,000	27
79	8	Torsten Böhringer	Germany	446,000	89
79	9	Sebastian Hennig	Germany	202,000	40

83	1	Michael Magalashvili	Israel	241,500	48
83	2	Miroslav Prosa	Czech Republic	208,000	42
83	3	Sebastian Kos	Czech Republic	129,000	26
83	4	Ognjen Sekularac	Serbia	447,500	90
83	5	Florian Fuchs	Austria	75,000	15
83	6	John Racener	United States	334,000	67
83	7	Zoltan Schmidt	Hungary	145,000	29
83	8	Ionut Voinea	Romania	202,000	40
83	9	Salvatore Camarda	Italy	106,000	21

84	1	Gudmundur Sigurjonsson	Iceland	79,000	16
84	2	Michael Rau	Germany	128,500	26
84	3	Brice Jungmann	France	141,000	28
84	4	Gaetan Cauchy	France	83,000	17
84	5	Miroslav Jozic	Germany	174,000	35
84	6	[Removed:35]	Germany	139,000	28
84	7	Haris Kovacevic	Bosnia	95,500	19
84	8	Jan Wozniak	Czech Republic	100,000	20
84	9	Rifat Gegic	Germany	125,500	25

85	1	Martin Thiel	Germany	344,500	69
85	2	Dmitriy Dobryakov	Czech Republic	204,000	41
85	3	Simon Mint	India	201,500	40
85	4	Anastasios Parisis	Greece	226,000	45
85	5	Kevin Holtz	Luxembourg	249,000	50
85	6	Martin Paap	Netherlands	77,500	16
85	7	Viktor Schweizer	Germany	115,000	23
85	8	Csaba Kuremszki	Hungary	232,000	46
85	9	Gert-Jan Kars	Netherlands	132,500	27

89	1	Zsolt Vass	Hungary	51,000	10
89	2	Andreas Wittke	Germany	62,000	12
89	3	Ozan Guruz	Czech Republic	365,500	73
89	4	Moshe Alazar	Israel	100,000	20
89	5	David Rodriguez	Spain	49,500	10
89	6	Mihai Hanu	Romania	270,000	54
89	7	Mike Leah	Canada	166,500	33
89	8	Laercio Yamauti	Brazil	117,000	23
89	9	Lucas Gomes Silva	Brazil	66,000	13

90	1	Yaron Kuznik	Israel	175,500	35
90	2	Thapar Devesh	India	106,000	21
90	3	Marek Ohnisko	Czech Republic	87,000	17
90	4	Itai Wissotzky	Israel	121,000	24
90	5	Tamas Fricz	Hungary	212,000	42
90	6	Attila Szadai	Hungary	184,500	37
90	7	Benjamin Chalot	Hungary	25,000	5
90	8	Simeon Todorov	Bulgaria	71,500	14
90	9	Stoyan Boyadzhiev	Bulgaria	142,500	29

91	1	Tomas Junek	Czech Republic	136,500	27
91	2	Latif El Azzimani	Belgium	158,500	32
91	3	Reynir Brynjólfsson	Iceland	43,500	9
91	4	Jonathan Khalifa	United States	241,000	48
91	5	Konstantinos Misailidis	Greece	419,000	84
91	6	Itamar Turgeman	Israel	148,000	30
91	7	Francesco Fama	Germany	166,500	33
91	8	Oliver Mihajlovski	Macedonia	87,000	17
91	9	Alexander Scheiermann	Germany	107,500	22

95	1	Alex Foxen	United States	189,000	38
95	2	Age Spets	Norway	78,000	16
95	3	Achour Badal	Germany	161,500	32
95	4	Jeff Cormier	Canada	150,000	30
95	5	Stanislaw Miadzel	Poland	273,000	55
95	6	Mario Scholz	Germany	24,500	5
95	7	Karel Kratochvil	Czech Republic	214,000	43
95	8	Diamond Grabovci	Kosovo	219,000	44
95	9	Daniel Heredi	Hungary	96,500	19

96	1	Tibor Uveges	Hungary	330,000	66
96	2	Lászlo Toth	Hungary	484,500	97
96	3	Marcel Brunner	Switzerland	186,000	37
96	4	David Geber	Hungary	183,500	37
96	5	Remco Verbakel	Belgium	181,500	36
96	6	Konstantin Novoa Ferreras	Germany	133,000	27
96	7	Andrei Boghean	Romania	250,000	50
96	8	Dirk Reinbach	Germany	30,000	6
96	9	Kisohkumar Ramachandrani	Switzerland	363,500	73

97	1	Erik Cajelais	Canada	160,500	32
97	2	Volodymyr Trubanov	Ukraine	188,000	38
97	3	Neville Fitz-Jim	Netherlands	130,000	26
97	4	Krasimir Yankov	Bulgaria	56,500	11
97	5	Viliyan Petleshkov	Bulgaria	165,500	33
97	6	Jochen Hippelein	Germany	48,000	10
97	7	Gergo Kovacs	Hungary	212,000	42
97	8	Jan Ramik	Czech Republic	171,000	34
97	9	Sergii Karpov	Ukraine	76,500	15

101	1	Milan Skacel	Czech Republic	321,500	64
101	2	Sander van Wesemael	Netherlands	472,000	94
101	3	Bijan Mauer	Germany	127,000	25
101	4	Karl Hans	Germany	219,000	44
101	5	Bjorn Bouwmans	Belgium	420,500	84
101	6	Brandon Cantu	United States	283,500	57
101	7	Max Pescatori	Italy	81,000	16
101	8	Marco Magistro	Italy	428,000	86
101	9	Beatrix Wolfsberger	Austria	94,000	19

102	1	Philipp Lutkemeier	Germany	193,500	39
102	2	Andrii Kozlenko	Ukraine	83,000	17
102	3	Kevin Spielmann	Germany	99,500	20
102	3	Jacek Skiscim	Czech Republic	99,500	20
102	4	Ronald Keijzer	Netherlands	90,000	18
102	5	Pavel Svach	Czech Republic	191,500	38
102	6	Petr Svoboda	Czech Republic	79,500	16
102	7	Miklos Banyasz	Hungary	77,000	15
102	8	Gaetano Moreci	Belgium	61,000	12
102	9	Günter Fortkord	Germany	216,000	43

103	1	Christos Paratsatidis	Germany	94,000	19
103	2	Harsh Shori	India	111,000	22
103	3	Jeffrey Szlanyinka	Belgium	71,000	14
103	4	Alexander Wittmann	Germany	78,000	16
103	5	Tsani Minchev	Bulgaria	320,000	64
103	6	Pascal Pflock	Germany	245,500	49
103	7	Pablo Vecchi	Switzerland	108,000	22
103	8	Wolfgang Hösl	Germany	34,000	7
103	9	Matthew Soyk	United States	82,000	16

107	1	Nicholas Schreck	Germany	114,000	23
107	2	Ryan Leng	United States	141,000	28
107	3	Gil Thierry	Belgium	55,500	11
107	4	Maarten Mol	Netherlands	93,000	19
107	5	Milenko Stanojcic	Netherlands	70,500	14
107	6	Angelo Toni Bamberger	Germany	53,000	11
107	7	Karol Radomski	Poland	68,000	14
107	8	Tibor Borzak	Hungary	191,500	38
107	9	Makarios Avramidis	Greece	235,000	47

108	1	Maciej Lewandowski	Poland	25,500	5
108	2	Wilhelm Isaak	Germany	71,500	14
108	3	Nursultan Abilkassym	Kazakhstan	230,500	46
108	4	Jiri Horacek	Czech Republic	295,500	59
108	5	Zurab Ejibia	Georgia	191,500	38
108	6	Jochen Geiselmann	Germany	67,500	14
108	7	Ali Yildirim	Germany	64,000	13
108	8	Nikola Brankovic	Germany	153,500	31
108	9	Joachim Wachholz	Germany	25,000	5

109	1	Zsolt Vastag	Hungary	135,500	27
109	2	Chih-Wen Chen	Taiwan	52,500	11
109	3	Jaco Valk	Netherlands	80,500	16
109	4	Bahram Khaksan	Germany	115,000	23
109	5	Kaloyan Markov	Bulgaria	153,000	31
109	6	Christian Ambrosio	Italy	165,000	33
109	7	Lukas Svoboda	Czech Republic	175,500	35
109	8	Fahredin Mustafov	Bulgaria	206,000	41
109	9	Rudy von Rotz	Netherlands	87,500	18

113	1	Georgios Vrakas	Germany	135,000	27
113	2	Rafael Weber	Germany	113,500	23
113	3	Ivan Fedor	Slovakia	84,000	17
113	4	Tomasz Chmiel	Poland	58,500	12
113	5	David Petrzelka	Czech Republic	217,000	43
113	6	Aldo Lumia	Italy	24,500	5
113	7	[Removed:218]	Germany	85,000	17
113	8	Roman Motovsky	Czech Republic	173,000	35
113	9	Lukasz Grossmann	Poland	451,500	90

114	1	Borys Rozhanovskyi	Ukraine	84,500	17
114	2	Shabtai Koren	Israel	63,500	13
114	3	Zoltan Bartus	Hungary	148,000	30
114	4	Petr Subik	Czech Republic	65,000	13
114	5	Michael Amann	Germany	68,000	14
114	6	Hael Al-Labani	Germany	86,000	17
114	7	Petr Stastny	Czech Republic	78,500	16
114	8	Alexander Neff	Germany	55,000	11
114	9	Andreas Klatt	Germany	165,000	33
115	1	Dorde Jovanović	Serbia	69,500	14

115	2	Pasini Dorenico	Germany	303,500	61
115	3	Barny Boatman	United Kingdom	62,500	13
115	4	Guy Robinson	Israel	126,000	25
115	5	Antoine Vranken	Netherlands	84,000	17
115	6	Kfir Levy	Israel	104,000	21
115	7	Milad Oghabian	Netherlands	115,500	23
115	8	Fahir Han	Turkey	271,500	54
115	9	Luis Dias Barros	Luxembourg	186,000	37

119	1	Xenos Schirmer	Germany	88,500	18
119	2	Patrick Schuhl	France	292,500	59
119	3	Vladislav Donchev	Bulgaria	206,500	41
119	4	Frederic Delval	France	125,500	25
119	5	Adam Karda	Hungary	99,000	20
119	6	Andras Matrai	Hungary	274,000	55
119	7	Martin Kabrhel	Czech Republic	235,000	47
119	8	Karel Novotny	Czech Republic	205,000	41
119	9	Sebastian Curcu	Germany	329,000	66

120	1	Przemyslaw Klejnowski	Poland	99,500	20
120	2	Donato Alessi	Italy	76,000	15
120	3	Ivan Kruljac	Croatia	87,000	17
120	4	Mirko Nann	Germany	102,500	21
120	5	Aleksandr Pantiukhin	Russia	198,500	40
120	6	Tibor Hegedus	Hungary	116,500	23
120	7	Oleg Suntsov	Russia	57,500	12
120	8	Daniel Granov	Czech Republic	172,000	34
120	9	Jaroslaw Sikora	Poland	507,000	101

121	1	Attila Toth	Austria	115,500	23
121	2	Richard Farkas	Hungary	175,500	35
121	3	Jakub Fujerik	Slovakia	237,500	48
121	4	Ondrej Jkubcik	Czech Republic	135,000	27
121	6	Ferat Uysal	Germany	149,500	30
121	7	Emma Fullarton	United Kingdom	97,500	20
121	8	Dimitrios Gkatzas	Greece	218,000	44
121	9	Jakob Miegel	Germany	306,000	61

125	1	Jakub Kaderabek	Czech Republic	102,000	20
125	2	Kenny Hallaert	Belgium	190,000	38
125	3	Oleh Haisiuk	Ukraine	55,000	11
125	4	Sergei Petrushevskii	Russia	62,000	12
125	5	Jaroslav Peter	Czech Republic	143,500	29
125	6	Sebastian Wolfrom	Germany	323,500	65
125	7	Denis Panagopulos	Czech Republic	79,500	16
125	8	Gregor Gatterer	Austria	100,500	20
125	9	Erich Kollmann	Austria	217,500	44

126	1	Duncan Mclellan	United Kingdom	293,500	59
126	2	Ruben Garcia Blancas	Spain	169,500	34
126	3	Rene Berube	Canada	366,500	73
126	4	Oliver Kalabus	Slovakia	145,500	29
126	5	Sacheen Ramchandani	India	92,500	19
126	6	David Dolak	Czech Republic	63,000	13
126	7	Nghi van Tran	Canada	42,500	9
126	8	Maria Zijthof	Netherlands	272,000	54
126	9	Ivaylo Sivinov	Bulgaria	177,000	35

127	1	Vladimir Troyanovskiy	Russia	231,000	46
127	2	Marek Dovhun	Czech Republic	178,000	36
127	3	Hannes Neurauter	Germany	330,000	66
127	4	Sascha Ranzinger	Germany	517,500	104
127	5	Nebojsa Ankucic	Austria	525,500	105
127	6	Abdelhakim Zoufri	Netherlands	205,500	41
127	7	Davood Mehrmand	Germany	72,500	15
127	8	Krisztian Kis	Hungary	121,000	24
127	9	Florian Gaugusch	Austria	84,500	17

131	1	Kristen Bicknell	Canada	225,000	45
131	2	Sebastian Benoit	Belgium	83,000	17
131	3	Jason Hsu	Taiwan	151,500	30
131	4	Leonardo Romeo	Italy	130,000	26
131	5	Ivan Sebeledi	Slovakia	151,000	30
131	6	Matous Skorepa	Czech Republic	327,000	65
131	7	Jochen Blomker	Germany	270,500	54
131	8	Christian Thiry	Luxembourg	87,000	17
131	9	Stephane Schmitt	France	118,000	24

132	1	Jens Jorgensen	Denmark	301,500	60
132	2	Evrim Yilmaz	Switzerland	114,000	23
132	3	Aneris Adomkevicius	Lithuania	146,000	29
132	5	Arsenii Hvozdetskyi	Ukraine	130,500	26
132	6	Rahul Marwaha	India	82,500	17
132	7	Andras Kovacs	Hungary	71,000	14
132	8	Ting Ho	United States	108,500	22
132	9	Vlad Hrehoriac	Romania	85,000	17

133	1	Vladimir Burstein	Czech Republic	120,000	24
133	2	Roland Israelashvili	United States	182,000	36
133	3	Angelo Bennedetto	Italy	101,000	20
133	4	Hossein Ensan	Germany	290,000	58
133	6	[Removed:320]	Germany	78,000	16
133	7	Pierre De Berry	Germany	212,000	42
133	8	Rene Crha	Czech Republic	85,500	17
133	9	Marek Soukup	Czech Republic	237,500	48

137	1	Robert Schiller	Germany	111,000	22
137	2	Mathijs Janssen	Belgium	195,500	39
137	3	Martin Bartos	Slovakia	93,000	19
137	4	Yannick Pernot	Germany	124,000	25
137	5	Manoj Chamakala	Germany	110,500	22
137	6	Thomas Hofmann	Switzerland	407,000	81
137	8	Marcel Luske	Netherlands	184,500	37
137	9	Lukasz Wasek	Poland	225,500	45

11-01-2017 12:10 UTC+2

Day 2 Players (full)

Christian Zetzsche

Player	Chips	Progress
Nebojsa Ankucic	525,500
Sascha Ranzinger	517,500
Jaroslaw Sikora	507,000
Lászlo Toth	484,500
Sander van Wesemael	472,000
Lukasz Grossmann	451,500
Ognjen Sekularac	447,500
Torsten Böhringer	446,000
Marco Magistro	428,000
Bjorn Bouwmans	420,500
Konstantinos Misailidis	419,000
Thomas Hofmann	407,000
Martin Theil	399,500
Rene Berube	366,500
Ozan Guruz	365,500
Kisohkumar Ramachandrani	363,500
John Racener	334,000
Hannes Neurauter	330,000	330,000
Tibor Uveges	330,000
Sebastian Curcu	329,000
Matous Skorepa	327,000
Sebastian Wolfrom	323,500
Milan Skacel	321,500
Tsani Minchev	320,000
Jakob Miegel	306,000

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