The second of two starting days of Event #10: €10,350 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event will start at 12 p.m. local time at the King's Resort. Yesterday's flight had a total of 140 entries and only 73 survived Day 1A. Players that have busted out of the first flight have the option to reenter the tournament on Day 1B, or on Day 2 as registration for the tournament is still open until the end of the dinner break after the fourth level on Day 2.
Marco Slacanac ended Day 1A as the chip leader after he bagged 544,300 in chips. Vladimir Geshkenbein (500,000) and Alex Foxen (411,700) are second and third in the chip counts. Players started with 100,000 and the average chip stack at the end of Day 1A was 191,781. The players today will play the same seven 90-minute levels that the players on Day 1A played. They will start in the level 100/300 without an ante. The ante will come into play in the third level of the day, which will be 200/400 with a big blind ante of 400.
Last year's tournament was won by Marti Roca de Torres. He took home over one million Euros after defeating 528 other players. The winner of this year's event will take home the coveted gold bracelet and the biggest share of the €5,000,000 guaranteed prize pool.
Structure
Level
Duration
Small Blind
Big Blind
Big Blind Ante
1
90 minutes
100
3000
-
15-minute break
2
90 minutes
200
400
-
15-minute break
3
90 minutes
200
400
400
15-minute break
4
90 minutes
300
500
500
60-minute dinner break
5
90 minutes
300
600
600
15-minute break
6
90 minutes
400
800
800
15-minute break
7
90 minutes
500
1,000
1,000
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Alexandre Viard raised to 1,000 from mid-position and was called by Mustapha Kanit (cutoff), Madhav Gupta (button), and Lukasz Grossmann and Tobias Revenas in the blinds.
The flop came , Grossmann, Revenas, and Viard checked. Kanit bet 2,400, Gupta and Grossmann were the only players to make the call.
The turn was the , Grossman now check-called the 8,100 continuation-bet of Kanit while Gupta folded.
The river completed the board with the , Grossmann now check-folded to the 17,300 bet of Kanit.
James Chen raised from the hijack, another player three-bet and Shan Huang called in the big blind, so did James Chen.
The flop came , Huang and Chen checked, the other player bet 4,000, Huang raised to 15,800, Chen three-bet to 43,500. Their opponent quickly got out of their way and Huang tanked and then shoved. Chen snap-called.
Shan Huang:
James Chen:
Huang had flopped a set of fives, Chen had flopped the straight and flush draw. The turn was the to give Chen a flush so Huang needed the board to pair up but the on the river didn't do that as he was eliminated during the second level of the day.
Mykhailo Gutyi raised to 1,000 from the hijack and Winfred Yu, who only just sat down, three-bet to 3,000 from the cutoff. Orpen Kisacikoglu called in the small blind. Gutyi four-bet to 10,500, Yu responded with a five-bet to 35,000 and Kisacikoglu got out of their way. Gutyi six-bet shoved for 49,000 which Yu snap-called.
Mykhailo Gutyi:
Winfred Yu:
The board ran out for Gutyi's pocket queens to hold for the double-up.
Sebastian von Toperczer raised to 1,600 from the under-the-gun position. Rainer Kempe called from middle position and Timur Margolin called from the button.
The flop was dealt and all three players checked.
The turn was the and Von Toperczer checked to Kempe who bet out 8,000. Margolin called and Von Toperczer also didn't want to miss out on the action and he called.
The river was the and Von Toperczer and Kempe checked to Margolin. Margolin fired big when he bet 26,800. Von Toperczer folded, but Kempe had a tough decision.
Kempe peeked his cards a couple of times. He counted out the call, peeked another time and ended up calling the bet.
Kempe immediately opened up , but he mucked them right after he saw Margolin open up .
Wai Leong Chan raised to 1,500 from middle position and Timur Margolin called from late position. Ming Xi three-bet from the button to 4,200 and both Chan and Margolin called.
The flop brought and all three players opted to check.
The turn came down and it checked to Xi. He put in a bet of 6,400 and Chan raised to 22,500. Margolin got out of the way and Xi thought about it for a minute before announcing all in. the all-in bet was for about 89,000, but Xi covered Chan by 15,000.
Chan called and opened up . Xi was behind, but he still had outs with . The river was a complete blank and Chan's flush held on to the lead.
Luiz Ferreira raised under the gun to 2,100 and the only player interested in the pot was Sanjay Sahijwani. He didn't just call as he three-bet to 7,000. Ferreira was the one that called and they went to a flop.
The flop came down and both players checked. The betting happened on the turn when Ferreira put in three 5,000 chips. Sahijwani called and the river fell.
Ferreira doubled his sizing as he put in 30,000 on the river. Sahijwani called and mucked his hand when he saw Ferreira open up .
Will Kassouf and Shaun Deeb have some history already and have been seated at the same table for most of the day.
Kassouf raised to 2,500 from the cutoff and was called by Deeb in the big blind. The flop came , Deeb check-called the 3,200 continuation-bet of Kassouf. The turn brought them the , now Deeb lead out for 5,500 and Kassouf folded.
After the hand, Martin Kabrhel took his seat on Deeb's right and they were both visibly not happy about it. It turned into a spat almost immediately. Kabrhel has just won Event #9: €100,000 No-Limit Hold'em King's Super High Roller for €2,624,340.
Things like "Go back to the US!", "You talk too much!" and more like that were being thrown around between them.
Kabrhel raised to 5,000 from the cutoff and Deeb three-bet to 15,500 on the button. Kabhrel shoved and Deeb grabbed some chips but before he said call, Kabrhel had already flipped over his cards. The floor was called over and Kabhrel started arguing that Deeb had made the forward motion. Deeb argued that he just grabbed some chips from his stack but didn't make the movement to put them over the line.
The floor told them to finish the hand and that she would deal with the situation after. Deeb called.
Shaun Deeb:
Martin Kabrhel:
The board ran out for them to split the pot.
Kabrhel received a one-round penalty for exposing his cards too early. Kabrhel kept arguing his case with the floor and the tournament director but they stood their grounds. Kassouf tried to put his two cents forward too but was dealt with quickly.
The second day of the 2018 World Series of Poker Europe €10,350 Main Event is in the books after seven levels of play. The field size surpassed the first starting flight but the €5,000,000 guaranteed prize pool has not been reached yet as the total number of entries on Day 1B was 201. Together with the entries of Day 1A, this makes it a total of 341 entries. Out of the 201 players today, 148 managed to find a bag for Day 2, Monday, October 30.
Topping the chip counts is someone that is well-known throughout the poker world, Spain’s own Adrian Mateos collected 393,700 over the course of the day after he had been eliminated from Event #9: €100,000 No-Limit Hold'em King's Super High Roller for €331,943 earlier in the day. Mateos already has three bracelets of which one was actually won for being victorious in the WSOPE Main Event in 2013 in Enghien-les-Bains. He will definitely be wanting to win another one, right here in the beautiful King’s Resort.
Trailing Mateos in the chip counts today is a duo from Canada. Hani Bahna bagged 309,900 and Aaron Duczak will take 302,100 in chips with him into Day 2. Bahna and Duczak both have over $300,000 in cashes, but Bahna has never cashed in Rozvadov while Duczak collected four of them last year and already has five this year.
Other notable players bagging more than twice the start stack at the end of play today include Renato Nowak (296,500), Tobias Peters (296,200), Felix Bleiker (292,800), Mustapha Kanit (266,800), Xixiang Luo (255,700), Mathijs Jonkers (252,300), Wai Leong Chan (242,600), Martin Mulsow (237,500), Boris Kolev (230,000), and Martin Kabrhel with 204,000.
Kabrhel had a bit of a rocky start when he received a one-round penalty for exposing his cards too early but managed to make the most of his late entry. The late entry wasn’t without reason though as he had just won his second career bracelet in the €100,000 No-Limit Hold'em King's Super High Roller for €2,624,340!
Other players to keep an eye on on Day 2 include Tobias Ziegler, Viktor Blom, John Duthie, Roger Teska, Timothy Adams, Gal Yifrach, Allen Kessler, Fahredin Mustafov, Mykhailo Gutyi, Jan-Peter Jachtmann, Timur Margolin, Ismael Bojang, Will Givens, Anson Tsang, Julian Thomas, Dario Sammartino, Davidi Kitai, Bertrand Grospellier, Norbert Szecsi, Dutch Boyd, and Paul Hoefer for example.
Not everyone made was fortunate enough though to make it through. Shaun Deeb shot two bullets but missed with both of them so won’t be back tomorrow. This is also the case for the 2018 WSOP Main Event Champion, John Cynn. Other players who busted but might be back tomorrow on Day 2 as they can still reenter during the first four levels include Stefan Schillhabel, Dominik Nitsche, Steve O’Dwyer, Michael Soyza, Marcel Luske, and Shan Huang.
Day 2 will start at noon local time, Monday, October 30, with Level 8 which features a small blind of 600, big blind of 1,200, and a big blind ante of 1,200. Six levels of play are scheduled with a 15-minute break after each level and a 60-minute break after Level 11. The late registration and reentry period will be closed at the end of the dinner break. Players who made Day 2 on their first bullet and bust or use their first bullet on Day 2, may reenter during these first four levels of play.
The PokerNews live reporting team will be on hand to bring you all the updates as the 221 surviving players will come together to battle it out to make it through to Day 3.