Event #1: €550 COLOSSUS No-Limit Hold'em Day 1h | 2018 World Series of Poker Europe

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

Day 1h Completed

10-14-2018 05:32 UTC+2

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

Christian Zetzsche

Level 18 : 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

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

Place	Winner	Country	Prize (in EUR)
90	Matous Skorepa	Czech Republic	€ 885
91	Zoran Ilicic	Serbia	€ 834
92	Sinisa Bodrozic	Croatia	€ 834
93	Ersin Sancak	Austria	€ 834
94	Alessio Soriano	Italy	€ 834
95	Jan Teunis	Netherlands	€ 834
96	Adrian Pajonk	Germany	€ 834
97	Xenos Schirmer	Germany	€ 834
98	Daniel Rejc	Czech Republic	€ 834
99	Eleftherios Tzikas	Germany	€ 834
100	Hans Klimas	Germany	€ 801
101	Ioannis Chorianopoulos	Greece	€ 801
102	Alfonso Amendola	Italy	€ 801
103	Mark Eiermann	Germany	€ 801
104	Hanan Barzel	Israel	€ 801
105	Matan Barkat	Israel	€ 801
106	Erkan Cinar	Germany	€ 801
107	Fabio Gamba	Italy	€ 801
108	Ahmed Ibrahimi	Morocco	€ 801
109	Yves Hallague	France	€ 801
110	Amir Shojaei	Germany	€ 801
111	Witali Filinberg	Germany	€ 801
112	Walter Steffl	Åland Islands	€ 801
113	Hoang Anh Dam	Vietnam	€ 801
114	Nicola Benedetto	Italy	€ 801
115	Jan Mach	Czech Republic	€ 801
116	Franz Kleinsasser	Austria	€ 801
117	Evangelos Bechrakis	Greece	€ 801
118	Paschalis Papadopoulos	Greece	€ 801
119	Alexandra Radinger	Austria	€ 801
120	Giuseppe Demasi	Italy	€ 801
121	Frank Seifert	Germany	€ 801
122	Nicolas Pilato	Belgium	€ 801
123	Werner Oberbauer	Germany	€ 801
124	Johnny Oestbjerg	Denmark	€ 801
125	Agostino Ascone	Italy	€ 801
126	Peter Kamaras	Hungary	€ 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

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	164	10	Play concluded with 19:00 left in level 18, top 25 spots paid
1E	Friday October 12th	12:00	~17:40	318	33	Play 18 Levels of 30 Minutes, top 48 spots paid
1F	Friday October 12th	18:00	~23:40	405	38	Play 18 Levels of 30 Minutes, top 61 spots paid
1G	Saturday October 13th	12:00	~17:40	820	85	Play 18 Levels of 30 Minutes, top 123 spots paid
1H	Saturday October 13th	18:00	~23:40	839	89	Play 18 Levels of 30 Minutes, top 126 spots paid
2	Sunday October 14th	15:00	-	2,992	296	Level duration increases to 40 minutes
3	Monday October 15th	tba	-	tba	-	Play Down to a champion

Tags: Allen Kessler Ivaylo Sivinov Jeff Madsen King's Casino Leonardo Armino Lukas Zaskodny Makarios Avramidis Manig Loeser Markus Sturz Matous Skorepa Michael Mandl Peter Kamaras Shaun Deeb Theodore McQuilkin WSOPE

10-14-2018 05:12 UTC+2

The COLOSSUS Day 2 Seat Draw

Christian Zetzsche

Level 18 : 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chip count	Big Blinds
80	1	Marian Kubis	Slovakia	277,000	35
80	2	Christian Hettenkofer	Germany	119,000	15
80	3	Andreas Fiedler	Germany	128,000	16
80	4	Antonio De Angelis	Italy	147,000	18
80	5	Niklas Ehrenholz	Germany	325,000	41
80	6	Tomer Lev	Israel	406,000	51
80	7	Mario De Paola	Italy	160,000	20
80	8	Ricardas Vymeris	Lithuania	201,000	25
80	9	Alexander Bachmann	Germany	152,000	19

81	1	Boon Seng Ang	Singapore	146,000	18
81	2	Ohana Shlomo	Israel	292,000	37
81	3	Jan Ceska	Czech Republic	146,000	18
81	4	Kevin Koehler	Germany	376,000	47
81	5	Mattia Dolci	Italy	261,000	33
81	6	Lukasz Tomecki	Poland	418,000	52
81	7	Vladimir Ciobanu	Romania	102,000	13
81	8	Sergei Petrushevskii	Russian Federation	641,000	80
81	9	Rafi Elharar	Israel	344,000	43

82	1	Pedro Arribas Martinez	Spain	144,000	18
82	2	Pavel Havranek	Czech Republic	301,000	38
82	3	Michael Mandl	Germany	801,000	100
82	4	Netanel Amedi	Israel	642,000	80
82	5	Thomas Kowalski	Germany	163,000	20
82	6	Barbara Martinez	France	210,000	26
82	7	Christopher Spielmann	Germany	146,000	18
82	8	Dariusz Glinski	Poland	669,000	84
82	9	Bektas Bicici	Switzerland	136,000	17

83	1	Jonas Kilian	Germany	182,000	23
83	2	Giorgi Surmava	Georgia	176,000	22
83	3	Eliyahu Saado	Israel	108,000	14
83	4	Hao Tian	China	245,000	31
83	5	Kevin Barkow	Germany	111,000	14
83	6	Oleh Shepelenko	Ukraine	67,000	8
83	7	Giuseppe Positano	Italy	239,000	30
83	8	Stefan Vogt	Germany	327,000	41
83	9	Philipp Zukernik	Israel	403,000	50

84	1	Andreas Thoeni	Austria	225,000	28
84	2	Van Tiep Nguyen	Czech Republic	289,000	36
84	3	Daniele Primerano	Italy	121,000	15
84	4	Luiz Antonio Duarte Ferreira Filho	Brazil	257,000	32
84	5	Wiljan Van Woerkum	Netherlands	186,000	23
84	6	Asher Dahan	Israel	371,000	46
84	7	Roman Sahin	Switzerland	204,000	26
84	8	Francesco Amatulli	Italy	68,000	9
84	9	Francesco Delfoco	Italy	300,000	38

85	1	Reto Herrmann	Switzerland	106,000	13
85	2	Timo Kamphues	Germany	242,000	30
85	3	Marcel Novorolnik	Slovakia	124,000	16
85	4	Pasquale Vinci	Italy	144,000	18
85	5	Bjorn Heisig	Germany	136,000	17
85	6	Marjan Mitrovski	Macedonia	294,000	37
85	7	Ronny Bouwmans	Netherlands	130,000	16
85	8	Andreas Bremer	Germany	95,000	12
85	9	Lukasz Haluch	Poland	369,000	46

86	1	Aleksandr Merzhvinskiy	Russian Federation	543,000	68
86	2	Mourad Idrissi Jazouli	Germany	363,000	45
86	3	Jasper Van 'T Hoff	Netherlands	494,000	62
86	4	Samija Nasic	Bosnia and Herzegovina	338,000	42
86	5	Daniel Alves Patricio	Portugal	177,000	22
86	6	Christian Gremaud	Switzerland	257,000	32
86	7	Xiao Lei Chen	Finland	102,000	13
86	8	Leandro Dirlewanger	Switzerland	350,000	44
86	9	Jan Ramik	Czech Republic	297,000	37

87	1	Pihlippe Bouhnik	France	249,000	31
87	2	Fabien Gun	Switzerland	92,000	12
87	3	Patrick De Waegenaere	Netherlands	310,000	39
87	4	Balazs Toth	Hungary	565,000	71
87	5	Peter Hagen	Germany	256,000	32
87	6	Roberto Manfredi	Italy	135,000	17
87	7	Krasimir Yankov	Bulgaria	236,000	30
87	8	Branislav Ondrus	Slovakia	289,000	36
87	9	Marcin Jaworski	Poland	364,000	46

94	1	Lukas Vagner	Czech Republic	286,000	36
94	2	Nicolaas Baars	Netherlands	170,000	21
94	3	Maurzio Butta	Italy	107,000	13
94	4	Nico Mussini	Italy	918,000	115
94	5	Tihomir Vinkovic	Croatia	114,000	14
94	6	Laurent Rupp	Switzerland	188,000	24
94	7	Frank Rohrmueller	Germany	123,000	15
94	8	Sanjay Sahijwani	United Kingdom	406,000	51
94	9	Yunsheng Sun	China	173,000	22

95	1	Edris Osman	Germany	319,000	40
95	2	Stephan Kohlstetter	Germany	194,000	24
95	3	Vladimir Shabalin	Russian Federation	512,000	64
95	4	Markus Sturz	Germany	564,000	71
95	5	Thanh Le	Germany	242,000	30
95	6	Martin Schmidkunz	Germany	151,000	19
95	7	Jan Koehler	Germany	297,000	37
95	8	Slavomir Byrtus	Czech Republic	237,000	30
95	9	Tamir Segal	Israel	324,000	41

96	1	David Urban	Slovakia	147,000	18
96	2	Lazer Gjergji	Serbia	106,000	13
96	3	Robert Lenz	Germany	298,000	37
96	4	Lorenzo Papavero	Italy	140,000	18
96	5	Simon Schnidrig	Switzerland	604,000	76
96	6	Tomas Lestina	Czech Republic	99,000	12
96	7	Michal Lubas	Poland	88,000	11
96	8	Josef Snejberg	Czech Republic	521,000	65
96	9	Martin Kabrhel	Czech Republic	291,000	36

97	1	Vincent Kufner	Germany	422,000	53
97	2	Alberto Panzeri	Italy	234,000	29
97	3	Gian Mario Generosi	Italy	42,000	5
97	4	Melvin Hendriks	Netherlands	321,000	40
97	5	Yaron Kuznik	Israel	235,000	29
97	6	Jesper Hoog	Sweden	97,000	12
97	7	Piotr Wiecek	Poland	136,000	17
97	8	Petr Vlk	Czech Republic	98,000	12
97	9	Jakob Miegel	Germany	200,000	25

98	1	Refael Dahan	Israel	420,000	53
98	2	Sander Van Wesemael	Netherlands	148,000	19
98	3	Pavel Panocha	Czech Republic	168,000	21
98	4	Khalil Youssafi	Germany	80,000	10
98	5	Emilio Solimeno	Italy	302,000	38
98	6	Stieven Razab Sekh	Netherlands	245,000	31
98	7	Rifat Gegic	Serbia	712,000	89
98	8	Aksel Ayguen	Belgium	348,000	44
98	9	Meir Avigal	Israel	382,000	48

99	1	Elbert Petersen	Netherlands	157,000	20
99	2	Sandor Ambrus	Germany	262,000	33
99	3	Enrico Grella	Italy	398,000	50
99	4	Mateusz Zerko	Poland	275,000	34
99	5	Walter Matura	Austria	198,000	25
99	6	Joseph Nassar	United States	128,000	16
99	7	Jan Bednar	Czech Republic	633,000	79
99	8	Andreas Brunner	Germany	91,000	11
99	9	Konstantin Vovchenko	Ukraine	257,000	32

100	1	Marino Ferrara	Italy	173,000	22
100	2	Georg Bernitz	Germany	165,000	21
100	3	Aleksandar Denishev	Bulgaria	494,000	62
100	4	Daniel Ion Mariniuc	Romania	188,000	24
100	5	Patrick Scaramozza	Italy	126,000	16
100	6	Vojtech Susta	Czech Republic	208,000	26
100	7	Daniel Prior	Austria	649,000	81
100	8	Jakub Senk	Czech Republic	216,000	27
100	9	Pascal Drexel	Austria	204,000	26

101	1	Daniel Ortlieb	Germany	111,000	14
101	2	Grzegorz Tryba	Poland	403,000	50
101	3	Amjad Nader	Turkey	164,000	21
101	4	Richard Rijkens	Netherlands	184,000	23
101	5	Teeranan Chuennirun	Thailand	239,000	30
101	6	Chandru Alt	Switzerland	158,000	20
101	7	Radek Castka	Czech Republic	265,000	33
101	8	Stylianos Kollatos	Greece	184,000	23
101	9	Lars Kamphues	Germany	397,000	50

108	1	Albert Hoekendijk	Netherlands	233,000	29
108	2	Milan Skacel	Czech Republic	233,000	29
108	3	Brian Johanssen	Denmark	102,000	13
108	4	Wojciech Wyrebski	Poland	510,000	64
108	5	Christian Bertu	Italy	164,000	21
108	6	Bodo Sbrzesny	Germany	50,000	6
108	7	Janosch Seifert	Germany	132,000	17
108	8	Jorg Jenner	Germany	99,000	12
108	9	Vasile Strugari	Romania	201,000	25

109	1	Vincent Verdickt	Belgium	282,000	35
109	2	Mick Heder	Denmark	386,000	48
109	3	Connor Heelis	United Kingdom	447,000	56
109	4	Martin Omulec	Austria	256,000	32
109	5	Olivier Calabrese	France	177,000	22
109	6	Georgios Orestidis	Greece	400,000	50
109	7	Peter Sluštík	Slovakia	260,000	33
109	8	Andras Halasi	Hungary	244,000	31
109	9	Riccardo Saitta	Italy	166,000	21

110	1	Marek Blasko	Slovakia	175,000	22
110	2	Lorenzo Pio	Italy	20,000	3
110	3	Alexandre Petit	France	104,000	13
110	4	Corentin Schmauch	France	309,000	39
110	5	Georges Chehade	Lebanon	174,000	22
110	6	Eduards Kudrjavcevs	Latvia	24,000	3
110	7	Vojtech Ruzicka	Czech Republic	163,000	20
110	8	Nelio Gatta	Italy	211,000	26
110	9	Anton Deglinne	Belgium	179,000	22

111	1	Haqif Maliqi	RKS	332,000	42
111	2	Samir Akhoullou	Belgium	90,000	11
111	3	Ernst Schnelzer	Germany	74,000	9
111	4	Nika Kakoishvili	Georgia	226,000	28
111	5	Rakesh Lalwani	India	289,000	36
111	6	Jan Bendik	Slovakia	822,000	103
111	7	Aleksei Ivanov	Belarus	77,000	10
111	8	Alexander Dmitrienko	Russian Federation	126,000	16
111	9	Pawel Skrzypczak	Poland	107,000	13

112	1	Peter Maerz	Germany	98,000	12
112	2	Frithjof Koehler	Germany	250,000	31
112	3	Guoliang Wei	China	60,000	8
112	4	Evian Christ	United States	492,000	62
112	5	Mykhailo Gutyi	Ukraine	142,000	18
112	6	Doron Lahav	Israel	105,000	13
112	7	Balazs Ujvari	Hungary	309,000	39
112	8	Marcin Chmielewski	Poland	312,000	39
112	9	Kevin Paschmann	Germany	132,000	17

113	1	Daniel Frosch	Germany	380,000	48
113	2	Andreas Kupka	Germany	343,000	43
113	3	Hichem Ayachi	Tunisia	358,000	45
113	4	Itzhak Bitton	Israel	270,000	34
113	5	Kristoffer Rasmussen	Denmark	210,000	26
113	6	Daniel Klein	Germany	97,000	12
113	7	Allen Kessler	United States	154,000	19
113	8	David Lehnen	Germany	166,000	21
113	9	Elias Abou Saleh	Lebanon	200,000	25

114	1	Tomas Hajek	Czech Republic	321,000	40
114	2	Piotr Trebacz	Poland	51,000	6
114	3	Matthias Steinberg	Germany	182,000	23
114	4	Ali Cetinbilek	Turkey	135,000	17
114	5	Christian Hoschuetzky	Germany	207,000	26
114	6	Mateusz Chwastek	Poland	504,000	63
114	7	Ovidiu Oprea	Romania	204,000	26
114	8	Evangelos Vougiouklakis	Greece	26,000	3
114	9	Viliyan Petleshkov	Bulgaria	468,000	59

115	1	Erich Kollmann	Austria	184,000	23
115	2	Marian Dumitrache	Romania	238,000	30
115	3	Thierry Delpui	France	306,000	38
115	4	Nachal Loewenthal	Czech Republic	345,000	43
115	5	Thorsten Holst	Germany	59,000	7
115	6	Arnold Schuler	Switzerland	98,000	12
115	7	Mirko Mann	Germany	125,000	16
115	8	Aleksandr Nemtsov	Russian Federation	111,000	14
115	9	Oleg Pavlyuchuk	Russian Federation	296,000	37

116	1	Stefan Schmitz	Germany	86,000	11
116	2	Horst Hoefig	Germany	44,000	6
116	3	Nicola Stagi	Italy	299,000	37
116	5	Giovanni Grela	Italy	346,000	43
116	6	Maurizio Cola	Italy	248,000	31
116	7	Elhanan Lior Torgeman	Israel	115,000	14
116	8	Klaus Schiefer	Germany	298,000	37
116	9	Sebastian Kos	Czech Republic	593,000	74

123	1	Gaetan Cariou	France	212,000	27
123	2	Hesham Eshaqzai	Netherlands	335,000	42
123	3	Oliver Heidel	Germany	393,000	49
123	4	Martin Herb	Germany	287,000	36
123	5	Michael Forster	Germany	206,000	26
123	6	Mohamed Seghiri	France	94,000	12
123	7	Aleksandr Pozdniakov	Russian Federation	112,000	14
123	8	Maksym Bidiuk	Ukraine	292,000	37
123	9	Oshri Lahmani	Israel	666,000	83

124	1	Petr Hlavacek	Czech Republic	172,000	22
124	2	Chris Ferguson	United States	167,000	21
124	3	Toon Hanot	Belgium	234,000	29
124	4	Fabian Gumz	Germany	190,000	24
124	5	Julius Kana	Germany	123,000	15
124	6	Weiqiang Hu	Austria	484,000	61
124	7	Michael Magalashvili	Israel	163,000	20
124	8	Vittorio Londoni	Italy	587,000	73
124	9	Pierre Kauert	Germany	88,000	11

125	1	Michael Panovec	Germany	395,000	49
125	2	Anthony Ghamrawi	Austria	160,000	20
125	3	Ivaylo Sivinov	Bulgaria	505,000	63
125	4	Edgars Strupka	Latvia	122,000	15
125	5	Ondrej Lon	Czech Republic	381,000	48
125	6	Julian Adamson	United Kingdom	150,000	19
125	7	Aleksandr Konovalov	Russian Federation	273,000	34
125	8	Eyal Bensimhon	France	244,000	31
125	9	Alexander Dovzhenko	Russian Federation	89,000	11

126	1	Bennet Schmidt	Germany	175,000	22
126	2	Stefan Toma	Romania	232,000	29
126	3	Michail Kavouras	Greece	488,000	61
126	4	Flavio Decataldo	Italy	574,000	72
126	5	Milad Oghabian	Netherlands	274,000	34
126	6	Darren Lalli	United Kingdom	142,000	18
126	7	Dejan Jakovljevic	Netherlands	432,000	54
126	8	Davide Della Longa	Italy	699,000	87
126	9	Luca Bartoli	Italy	330,000	41

127	1	Andreas Martin Hafner	Germany	113,000	14
127	2	Gerrit Müller	Germany	544,000	68
127	3	Bjorn Bouwmans	Netherlands	176,000	22
127	4	Daniel Rezaei	Austria	623,000	78
127	5	Victor Paraschiv	Romania	251,000	31
127	6	Christoph Grabner	Austria	235,000	29
127	7	Dominique Lamy	France	235,000	29
127	8	Dror Ramaty	Israel	488,000	61
127	9	Oded Cohen	Israel	136,000	17

128	1	Moshe Dror	Israel	81,000	10
128	2	Mirza Meskic	Austria	356,000	45
128	3	Andriy Palyuga	Ukraine	280,000	35
128	4	Tornike Tchkonia	Georgia	365,000	46
128	5	Pavel Kovalenko	Russian Federation	237,000	30
128	6	Jens Steuber	Germany	157,000	20
128	7	Anson Tsang	China	60,000	8
128	8	Daniel Wuyts	Belgium	211,000	26
128	9	Franco Polidori	Italy	75,000	9

129	1	Ricardo Chauriye	Chile	144,000	18
129	2	Hannes Neurauter	Germany	121,000	15
129	3	Rytas Staniukynas	Lithuania	172,000	22
129	4	Vasileios Tsaknis	Greece	149,000	19
129	5	Matthias Klose	Germany	150,000	19
129	6	Georgios Sefertzis	Greece	242,000	30
129	7	Ramez Haddad	Canada	35,000	4
129	8	Daniel Boros	Hungary	771,000	96
129	9	Giorgi Mevlupishvili	Georgia	310,000	39

130	1	Robert Hrebcik	Slovakia	196,000	25
130	2	Matthias Janssen	Germany	162,000	20
130	3	Konstantinos Tsirakidis	Greece	399,000	50
130	4	Mirko Kratzer	Germany	122,000	15
130	5	Tomas Fara	Czech Republic	68,000	9
130	6	Vangelis Kaimakamis	Greece	119,000	15
130	7	Cesare Raso	Italy	286,000	36
130	8	Carmelo Vasta	Italy	485,000	61
130	9	Marco Roser	Austria	176,000	22

10-14-2018 05:00 UTC+2

End-of-Day 1H Chip Counts (full)

Christian Zetzsche

Level 18 : 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Michael Mandl	801,000	141,000
Balazs Toth	565,000	45,000
Markus Sturz	564,000	89,000
Ivaylo Sivinov	505,000	5,000
Evian Christ	492,000	292,000
Weiqiang Hu	484,000	484,000
Dejan Jakovljevic	432,000	-68,000
Refael Dahan	420,000	290,000
Sanjay Sahijwani	406,000	226,000
Grzegorz Tryba	403,000	303,000
Georgios Orestidis	400,000	400,000
Konstantinos Tsirakidis	399,000	234,000
Kevin Koehler	376,000	376,000
Asher Dahan	371,000	281,000
Lukasz Haluch	369,000	369,000
Mourad Idrissi Jazouli	363,000	363,000
Hichem Ayachi	358,000	358,000
Giovanni Grela	346,000	346,000
Andreas Kupka	343,000	343,000
Haqif Maliqi	332,000	332,000
Niklas Ehrenholz	325,000	325,000
Tomas Hajek	321,000	91,000
Giorgi Mevlupishvili	310,000	130,000
Corentin Schmauch	309,000	309,000
Nicola Stagi	299,000	194,000

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10-14-2018 04:35 UTC+2

89 Players Advance From Final Flight

Christian Zetzsche

Level 18 : 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

All remaining 89 players have bagged up their chips and will join all previous Day 1 survivors when the action resumes at 3 p.m. local time. The chip counts for Day 1H and a recap of today's action are to follow.

10-14-2018 04:30 UTC+2

Defending Champion Skorepa Busts in Last Hand

Christian Zetzsche

Level 18 : 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Matous Skorepa was reduced to all but 5,000 and in the small blind after losing an all in with against Darren Lalli, who held the . The board came and Lalli doubled.

One hand remained at their table and Skorepa was checking the screens for a possible pay jump, which indeed showed between 91st and 90th place. Ramez Haddad raised to 29,000 in the cutoff and Ivaylo Sivinov called on the button. Skorepa reluctantly called it off and the flop came . Haddad bet 25,000 and Sivinov called to see the on the turn.

Haddad bet 50,000 and Sivinov moved all in for 188,000, Haddad gave it some thought and called.

Matous Skorepa:
Ivaylo Sivinov:
Ramez Haddad:

The river was a mere formality and Skorepa was eliminated. However, he made the pay jump as Sinisa Bodrozic and Zoran Ilicic busted right before that on different tables.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ivaylo Sivinov	500,000	500,000
Ramez Haddad	50,000	50,000
Sinisa Bodrozic	Busted
Zoran Ilicic	Busted
Matous Skorepa	Busted

Tags: Ivaylo Sivinov Matous Skorepa Ramez Haddad Sinisa Bodrozic Zoran Ilicic

10-14-2018 04:21 UTC+2

Last Batch of Casualties

Christian Zetzsche

Level 18 : 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Eleftherios Tzikas	Busted
Daniel Rejc	Busted
Xenos Schirmer	Busted
Adrian Pajonk	Busted
Alessio Soriano	Busted
Ersin Sancak	Busted

10-14-2018 04:15 UTC+2

The Last Five Hands

Christian Zetzsche

Level 18 : 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Tournament staff has stopped the clock with 92 players remaining and they will play another five hands until bagging and tagging.

10-14-2018 04:11 UTC+2

Bertu Left With Crumbs; Teunis Eliminated

Christian Zetzsche

Level 18 : 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Patrick Scaramozza shoved for 67,000 and fellow Italian Christian Bertu called in the big blind. Scaramozza had the and Bertu the superior . However, the board came and Scaramozza spiked a lucky double.

Jan Teunis got his stack in with the and Dejan Jakovljevic looked him up with the . The board sent Teunis to the rail.

Player	Chips	Progress
Dejan Jakovljevic	500,000	500,000
Patrick Scaramozza	140,000	140,000
Christian Bertu	30,000	30,000
Jan Teunis	Busted

Tags: Christian Bertu Dejan Jakovljevic Jan Teunis Patrick Scaramozza

10-14-2018 04:06 UTC+2

Down to the Last 100 Players

Christian Zetzsche

Level 18 : 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Among the next players to bust in quick succession were Fabio Gamba, Yves Hallague and Mark Eiermann.

Player	Chips	Progress
Walter Steffl	Busted
Witali Filinberg	Busted
Amir Shojaei	Busted
Yves Hallague	Busted
Fabio Gamba	Busted
Erkan Cinar	Busted
Mark Eiermann	Busted
Alfonso Amendola	Busted
Ioannis Chorianopoulos	Busted
Hans Klimas	Busted

Tags: Fabio Gamba Mark Eiermann Yves Hallague