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

10-14-2018 00:10 UTC+2

Manig Loeser Eliminated

Christian Zetzsche

Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

Down to the last 13,700, Manig Loeser moved all in from middle position and Stylianos Karadaglis reshoved out of the small blind.

Manig Loeser:
Stylianos Karadaglis:

After a board of , Loeser found no help and was eliminated.

Sven Lorenz also walked out of the tournament area and simply said "I had queens, he had kings."

Player	Chips	Progress
Stylianos Karadaglis	60,000 60,000	60,000
Manig Loeser	Busted

Sven Lorenz	Busted

Tags: Manig Loeser Sven Lorenz

10-14-2018 00:16 UTC+2

Player	Chips	Progress
Laurent Rupp	225,000 225,000	225,000
Giuseppe Demasi	220,000 120,000	120,000
Giorgi Mevlupishvili	210,000 210,000	210,000
Michael Mandl	190,000 190,000	190,000

Sanjay Sahijwani	180,000 180,000	180,000
Volodymyr Kernytskyi	175,000 65,000	65,000
Amir Shojaei	165,000 20,000	20,000
Lukas Zaskodny	140,000 30,000	30,000

Petar Petrov	136,000 136,000	136,000
Refael Dahan	130,000 25,000	25,000
Elena Litvinyuk	90,000 5,000	5,000
Michael Eiler	24,000 24,000	24,000

Stefan Bucur	Busted
Pete Chen	Busted

Xia Li Chen	Busted
John D Silva	Busted
Florin Elisei	Busted
Atik Miah	Busted
Waldemar Kopyl	Busted
Shaun Deeb	Busted

Mustafov No More

Christian Zetzsche

Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

Fahredin Mustafov and table neighbor Miroslav Janek clashed and the former ended up all in and at risk for around 45,000.

Fahredin Mustafov:
Miroslav Janek:

Janek paired his king on the flop and the turn and river brought no help for Mustafov.

Player	Chips	Progress
Barbara Martinez	150,000 85,000	85,000
Tomas Fara	150,000 53,200	53,200

Miroslav Janek	100,000 100,000	100,000
Asher Dahan	95,000 -35,000	-35,000
Aleksei Ivanov	93,000 43,000	43,000
Josef Gulas	70,000 70,000	70,000

Maria Lampropulos	65,000 30,000	30,000
Fahredin Mustafov	Busted

Tags: Fahredin Mustafov Miroslav Janek

10-14-2018 00:30 UTC+2

Cohen Busts Erichsen

Christian Zetzsche

Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

Bo Erichsen was all in and at risk for around 16,000 and initial raiser Mordechai Cohen called to out the Dane at risk.

Bo Erichsen:
Mordechai Cohen:

The board came and the kicker played to eliminate Erichsen. Stephan Klam followed suit one table over after losing a flip.

Player	Chips	Progress
Mordechai Cohen	70,000 41,000	41,000
Daniel Dinulescu	Busted
Shlomi Benguigui	Busted
Stephan Klam	Busted
Bo Erichsen	Busted

Tags: Bo Erichsen Mordechai Cohen Stephan Klam

10-14-2018 00:39 UTC+2

Shojaei Takes a Hit Before Third Break

Christian Zetzsche

Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

The 258 remaining players out of a field of 839 entries are in the midst of their third 15-minute break of the day.

Just before everyone headed out of the tournament area, Amir Shojaei took a small hit to his stack. He raised to 4,500 and called the shove of Michael Bauer for 22,500.

Michael Bauer:
Amir Shojaei:

The board came and Bauer remained in contention.

Player	Chips	Progress
Amir Shojaei	180,000 15,000	15,000
Michael Bauer	48,000

Tags: Amir Shojaei Michael Bauer

10-14-2018 00:48 UTC+2

Day 1H Payouts Announced

Christian Zetzsche

Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

A total of 839 entries created a prize pool of €402,510 and the top 126 spots will get paid. The vast majority of the below payouts will be moved to the separate Day 2 prize pool and all those that cash today can use the funds to enter the next upcoming bracelet events at King's Casino.

Place	Prize (in EUR)
1	80,111
2	49,470
3	34,633
4	24,598
5	17,727
6	12,966
7	9,628
8	7,259
9	5,558
10-12	4,323
13-15	3,417
16-18	2,745
19-27	2,242
28-36	1,862
37-45	1,573
46-54	1,352
55-63	1,183
64-72	1,054
73-81	957
82-90	885
91-99	834
100-126	801

Level: 13

Blinds: 1,000/2,500

Ante: 2,500

10-14-2018 01:00 UTC+2

Grenz and Roth Run Out of Chips

Christian Zetzsche

Level 13 : 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Only minutes after coming back from the break, Ralf Grenz and Antal Roth were eliminated in the span of two minutes.

Grenz jammed for around 36,000 with the and Philippe Bouhnik called from one seat over with the , the board ran out and Bouhnik made a straight.

Roth jammed in a battle of the blinds with big stack Amir Shojaei and found himself all in and at risk with versus . There was no help on the and Roth departed without anything to show for.

Player	Chips	Progress
Amir Shojaei	205,000 25,000	25,000
Philippe Bouhnik	140,000 140,000	140,000
Antal Roth	Busted
Ralf Grenz	Busted

Tags: Amir Shojaei Antal Roth Philippe Bouhnik Ralf Grenz

10-14-2018 01:05 UTC+2

Vychlopen Departs After Three-Way All In

Christian Zetzsche

Level 13 : 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Francesco Cirianni was all in for the last 21,000 and behind him the stacks of Peter Vychlopen and Milan Topoly also went into the middle of the table with Topoly as biggest stack of the trio.

Francesco Cirianni:
Peter Vychlopen:
Milan Topoly:

The board came the and Cirianni tripled up, Vychlopen was eliminated by Topoly. The biggest stack on the table now belongs to Teeranan Chuennirun.

Player	Chips	Progress
Teeranan Chuennirun	180,000 85,000	85,000
Milan Topoly	95,000 -33,000	-33,000
Robert Schulz	75,000 50,000	50,000

Francesco Cirianni	70,000 70,000	70,000
Jeff Madsen	35,000 -8,000	-8,000

Peter Vychlopen	Busted

Tags: Milan Topoly Peter Vychlopen Teeranan Chuennirun Francesco Cirianni

10-14-2018 01:13 UTC+2

The Field is Shrinking Rapidly

Christian Zetzsche

Level 13 : 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

After coming back from the break, more than 30 players were eliminated and the screens currently show a total of 218 hopefuls remaining out of 839 entries.

Player	Chips	Progress
Daniel Dodet	Busted
Ramez Haddad	Busted
Michel Fajga	Busted
Tezer Cetindag	Busted
Maksym Lavrov	Busted
Jaroslav Peter	Busted
Julie Silberstein	Busted
Milan Sasek	Busted
Giovanni Sances	Busted
Scott Hanna	Busted
David Novotny	Busted
Mihail Cuza	Busted
Bharath Janardhan	Busted