2018 World Series of Poker Europe

Event #1: €550 COLOSSUS No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 1h
Event Info

2018 World Series of Poker Europe

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
k10
Prize
€203,820
Event Info
Buy-in
€550
Prize Pool
€1,435,412
Entries
2,992
Level Info
Level
39
Blinds
500,000 / 1,000,000
Ante
1,000,000

The 2018 WSOP Europe Event #1: €550 COLOSSUS No-Limit Hold'em Crushes the Guarantee

Level 18 : 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante
It was a busy day at King's Casino
It was a busy day at King's Casino

The first gold bracelet event of the 2018 World Series of Poker has finished all eight starting days and a total field of 2,992 entries emerged in Event #1: €550 COLOSSUS No-Limit Hold'em to ensure that the guaranteed prize pool of €1,000,000 was easily surpassed. Thanks to 820 entries on Day 1G and another 839 entries on Day 1H, a prize pool of €1,435,412 was created and 296 players remain in contention to follow into the footsteps of Matous Skorepa.

Leading the 89 survivors in the final flight is Germany's Michael Mandl with 801,000, followed by Balazs Toth (565,000) and Markus Sturz (564,000). Several notables used their final opportunity to book a seat for Day 2 including Ivaylo Sivinov (505,000), Konstantinos Tsirakidis (399,000), Asher Dahan (371,000), Timo Kamphues (242,000), Barbara Martinez (210,000), Fabian Gumz (190,000), Anthony Ghamrawi (160,000) and Allen Kessler (154,000).

The bid of Matous Skorepa to defend his title at King's Casino ended in the first level of play on the first bullet, and in the final hand of the night on his second entry. Skorepa was left short with fewer than one big blind and lost a three-way all in against Ivaylo Sivinov and Ramez Haddad to ensure that a new COLOSSUS champion will be crowned in Europe's biggest poker arena. Skorepa cashed for €885 and other notables in the money on Day 1H include Peter Kamaras, Jan Mach, Evangelos Bechrakis, Yves Hallague, and Jan Teunis.

Day 1H Payouts

PlaceWinnerCountryPrize (in EUR)
90Matous SkorepaCzech Republic€ 885
91Zoran IlicicSerbia€ 834
92Sinisa BodrozicCroatia€ 834
93Ersin SancakAustria€ 834
94Alessio SorianoItaly€ 834
95Jan TeunisNetherlands€ 834
96Adrian PajonkGermany€ 834
97Xenos SchirmerGermany€ 834
98Daniel RejcCzech Republic€ 834
99Eleftherios TzikasGermany€ 834
100Hans KlimasGermany€ 801
101Ioannis ChorianopoulosGreece€ 801
102Alfonso AmendolaItaly€ 801
103Mark EiermannGermany€ 801
104Hanan BarzelIsrael€ 801
105Matan BarkatIsrael€ 801
106Erkan CinarGermany€ 801
107Fabio GambaItaly€ 801
108Ahmed IbrahimiMorocco€ 801
109Yves HallagueFrance€ 801
110Amir ShojaeiGermany€ 801
111Witali FilinbergGermany€ 801
112Walter StefflÅland Islands€ 801
113Hoang Anh DamVietnam€ 801
114Nicola BenedettoItaly€ 801
115Jan MachCzech Republic€ 801
116Franz KleinsasserAustria€ 801
117Evangelos BechrakisGreece€ 801
118Paschalis PapadopoulosGreece€ 801
119Alexandra RadingerAustria€ 801
120Giuseppe DemasiItaly€ 801
121Frank SeifertGermany€ 801
122Nicolas PilatoBelgium€ 801
123Werner OberbauerGermany€ 801
124Johnny OestbjergDenmark€ 801
125Agostino AsconeItaly€ 801
126Peter KamarasHungary€ 801

Action of the day

Following right into the strong turnout of the penultimate flight, Day 1H kicked off with more than 250 players in their seats and that number grew rapidly in the hours that followed. The more players bowed out in the previous starting day, the more jumped right back into the action for their final chance to take home a portion of the seven-figure prize pool.

Among those that arrived and left without anything to show for were the WSOP bracelet winners Lukas Zaskodny, Artur Rudziankov, Jeff Madsen, Dutch Boyd, Theodore McQuilkin, Sebastian Langrock and Makarios Avramidis. Current 2018 WSOP Player of the Year contender Shaun Deeb fired twice but was unable to run up a stack. Other big names that didn't make it through the final starting day were Maria Lampropulos, Manig Loeser, David Taborsky and Andrej Desset to name just a few.

In the final break of the night at the end of level 16, the money bubble was only three eliminations away and hand-for-hand play lasted all but two hands. There were two double ups on separate tables in the first attempt and Leonardo Armino ended up as the bubble boy when his flopped set of nines didn't hold up. Markus Sturz looked him up with pocket aces for the over pair and hit the two-outer right away on the turn.

In the final stages of the night, more than 30 players headed to the payout desk and the field was reduced to just 89 hopefuls that advanced. They join the survivors of each previous Day 1 and out of a total field of 2,992 entries, there are 296 players still in contention. A separate Day 2 prize pool will be created and the minimum payout will be slightly higher than the biggest prize paid on all Day 1s combined.

Day 2 will kick off on Sunday, October 14th, 2018, as of 3 p.m. local time with 19 minutes left in level 18 at blinds of 4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 big blind ante. The level duration increases to 40 minutes each and the event will play a fixed amount of levels or down to the final table, whichever comes first. Make sure to tune back in then to find out who remains in contention for the coveted gold bracelet here in Rozvadov.

2018 WSOPE €550 The COLOSSUS Schedule

DayDateStarting TimeLate RegEntriesSurvivorsFurther Information
1ATuesday October 9th18:00~23:4015412Play 18 Levels of 30 Minutes, top 24 spots paid
1BWednesday October 10th18:00~23:4016717Play 18 Levels of 30 Minutes, top 26 spots paid
1CThursday October 11th12:00~17:4012512Play 18 Levels of 30 Minutes, top 19 spots paid
1DThursday October 11th18:00~23:4016410Play concluded with 19:00 left in level 18, top 25 spots paid
1EFriday October 12th12:00~17:4031833Play 18 Levels of 30 Minutes, top 48 spots paid
1FFriday October 12th18:00~23:4040538Play 18 Levels of 30 Minutes, top 61 spots paid
1GSaturday October 13th12:00~17:4082085Play 18 Levels of 30 Minutes, top 123 spots paid
1HSaturday October 13th18:00~23:4083989Play 18 Levels of 30 Minutes, top 126 spots paid
2Sunday October 14th15:00-2,992296Level duration increases to 40 minutes
3Monday October 15thtba-tba-Play Down to a champion

Tags: Allen KesslerIvaylo SivinovJeff MadsenKing's CasinoLeonardo ArminoLukas ZaskodnyMakarios AvramidisManig LoeserMarkus SturzMatous SkorepaMichael MandlPeter KamarasShaun DeebTheodore McQuilkinWSOPE