Daniel Prior Takes Day 1C Chip Lead Honors; Rezaei, Snejberg, and Sun Also Make It Through
After 18 levels of play, the third of eight starting days of Event #1: €550 COLOSSUS No-Limit Hold'em during the 2018 World Series of Poker Europe here in the King’s Casino is in the book. Day 1C attracted 125 entries for it’s first afternoon flight of the series and 12 of them managed to find a bag for Day 2. In total over the first three starting flights, the COLOSSUS has attracted 446 entries for the €1,000,000 guaranteed prize pool.
Daniel Prior takes the honor of being the Day 1C chip leader bagging 649,000 in chips, pipping Daniel Rezaei to the top spot. Rezaei tagged 623,000 at the end of a day where both of them were both aggressively fighting to be on top. Josef Snejberg closes the podium with 527,000 in chips. Other notable players making it to Day 2 include Gaetan Cariou (212,000), Yunsheng Sun (173,000), and Alexander Bachmann (152,000).
Alexander Shelukhin ended up being the bubble boy when he ran his ace-four into the ace-queen of Rezaei. Out of the 125 players, 19 of them would make the money, and seven of them busted before the end of the day, including Roland Israelashvili and Jan Bednar who collected €809 for their efforts today before jumping into Day 1d.
The COLOSSUS Day 1C Payouts
| Place | Player | Country | Prize (in EUR) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | Chandru Alt | Switzerland | €940 |
| 14 | Marek Soukup | Czech Republic | €940 |
| 15 | Avi Hamo | Israel | €940 |
| 16 | Jan Bednar | Czech Republic | €809 |
| 17 | Zoltan Szabo | Hungary | €809 |
| 18 | Roland Israelashvili | United States | €809 |
| 19 | Vladas Burneikis | Lithuania | €809 |
Action of the day
The day was off to a slow start as the noon start might have been a shock to some of the players’ system as the previous two starting flights all started at 6 PM. Israelashvili was responsible for one of the first eliminations of the day when he called Thomas Wolf’s shove on the seven-ten-king flop with queen-ten. Wolf held ace-king but Israelashvili managed to hit a straight on the river to send Wolf back to the cashier.
Other players that failed early on in the day include Ronny Voth, Oliver Heidel, Kevin Paschmann, Timo Kamphues, Renato Kaneoya, Rifat Gegic, Anatolii Zyrin, Anson Tsang, Hannes Neurauter, Sander van Wesemael, Chris Ferguson, Philippe Bouhkin, Andrey Andreev, and Jakob Miegel. Bouhkin actually made a huge call to eliminate Sun on his first bullet when he called Sun’s shove on the jack-queen-four-trey-ten board with king-high. Sun had bluffed with seven-high, unfortunately, Bouhkin himself couldn’t make it into the money stages.
The 2018 WSOPE €550 The COLOSSUS Schedule
| Day | Date | Starting Time | Late Reg | Entries | Survivors | Further Information |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1A | Tuesday October 9th | 18:00 | ~23:40 | 154 | 12 | Play 18 Levels of 30 Minutes, top 24 spots paid |
| 1B | Wednesday October 10th | 18:00 | ~23:40 | 167 | 17 | Play 18 Levels of 30 Minutes, top 26 spots paid |
| 1C | Thursday October 11th | 12:00 | ~17:40 | 125 | 12 | Play 18 Levels of 30 Minutes, top 19 spots paid |
| 1D | Thursday October 11th | 18:00 | ~23:40 | tba | tba | Play 18 Levels of 30 Minutes, the money will be reached |
| 1E | Friday October 12th | 12:00 | ~17:40 | tba | tba | Play 18 Levels of 30 Minutes, the money will be reached |
| 1F | Friday October 12th | 18:00 | ~23:40 | tba | tba | Play 18 Levels of 30 Minutes, the money will be reached |
| 1G | Saturday October 13th | 12:00 | ~17:40 | tba | tba | Play 18 Levels of 30 Minutes, the money will be reached |
| 1H | Saturday October 13th | 18:00 | ~23:40 | tba | tba | Play 18 Levels of 30 Minutes, the money will be reached |
| 2 | Sunday October 14th | 15:00 | - | tba | tba | Level duration increases to 40 minutes |
| 3 | Monday October 15th | tba | - | tba | - | Play Down to a champion |
With four more starting flights coming up as Day 1d is happening right now, players have another shot to make it through to Day 2, Sunday, October 14. The PokerNews live reporting team will be on the floor to bring you all the COLOSSUS action.
to give Burneikis two pair, Rezaei a set of queens, and Israelashvili top pair and a straight draw.
to give Rezaei quad queens and leave the rest drawing dead.
on the river was just a formality to complete the board and eliminate Israelashvili and Burneikis from Day 1c.
with around 40,000 in the middle already. Philippe Bouhnik was sitting in the tank in the cutoff and the clock was called on him. As the break had started, the clock was canceled by the person that called it so Bouhnik could dive deeper into the tank. 
for the bluff, Bouhnik quickly flipped over 
for king-high and roared from happiness for making the right call to take him to over 100,000 in chips.
, Rezaei now put Van Wesemael all-in for his last remaining chips. Van Wesemael considered his options and then called with 
but was beaten by Rezaei's 
who had turned a straight to eliminate Van Wesemael for now.
to give Israelashvili the straight indeed to send Wolf away from the tables, for now.
