Event #2: €1,650 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed Deepstack
Day 1 Started
2018 World Series of Poker Europe
Event #2: €1,650 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed Deepstack
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2018 World Series of Poker Europe
Buy-in
€1,650
Prize Pool
€318,074
Entries
221
Level
26
Blinds
25,000 / 50,000
Ante
50,000
Event #2: €1,650 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed Deepstack Starts at 3 p.m.
With THE COLOSSUS in full swing, the 2018 World Series of Poker Europe is now fully underway. While that event will play out over the next two days, players in King's Casino in Rozvadov get a second crack at a coveted WSOP bracelet today . At 3 p.m. local time, cards will be in the air for Event #2: €1,650 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed Deepstack, the second of ten bracelet events.
Last year, Theodore McQuilkin reigned supreme and stood tall over a 240-player field to win €88,043 as well as his first gold bracelet. The Frenchman defeated a final table that contained the likes of Jan Bednář, Anthony Zinno, Ognjen Šekularac, and Andrej Desset. "It's awesome," McQuilkin said last year after his victory. "I'm not a poker professional at all but I love playing poker. It's a real passion." The Frenchman has been spotted in Rozvadov, where the WSOPE is off to a booming start as the hefty 1M Guarantee in the COLOSSUS has been crushed already.
The €1,650 6-Max comes with a €200,000 guarantee and will be played out over the course of three days. Each player receives 30,000 in chips and Day 1 will feature 14 levels of 40 minutes each before chips are bagged for the night. Late registration will be open for the first twelve levels (~1 a.m.) and a single re-entry is allowed. The winner will be decided on Tuesday, October 16. Like all other bracelet events, PokerNews will be on the floor start-to-finish to cover all the action, so make sure to check back regularly for the latest updates.
Day 1 Blind Structure
| Level | Small Blind | Big Blind | Ante |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 100 | 100 | |
| 2 | 100 | 200 | |
| 3 | 100 | 200 | 200 |
| 15-minute break | |||
| 4 | 100 | 300 | 300 |
| 5 | 200 | 400 | 400 |
| 6 | 300 | 500 | 500 |
| 40-minute dinner break (appr. 7:20 p.m.) | |||
| 7 | 300 | 600 | 600 |
| 8 | 400 | 800 | 800 |
| 9 | 500 | 1,000 | 1,000 |
| 15-minute break | |||
| 10 | 600 | 1,200 | 1,200 |
| 11 | 800 | 1,600 | 1,600 |
| 12 | 1,000 | 2,000 | 2,000 |
| 15-minute break (end late reg., appr. 1 a.m.) | |||
| 13 | 1,000 | 2,500 | 2,500 |
| 14 | 1,500 | 3,000 | 3,000 |
Level: 1
Blinds: 100/100
Ante: 0
Shuffle Up and Deal
Level 1
: 100/100, 0 ante
Cards are in the air for Event #2: €1,650 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed Deepstack. 52 players are there at the start, with late registration open for the first twelve levels.
The First Names
Level 1
: 100/100, 0 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
30,000 | |
|
30,000 | |
|
30,000 | |
|
30,000 | |
|
30,000 | |
|
30,000 | |
|
30,000 | |
|
30,000 | |
|
30,000 |
Heads-up Play Right Off the Bat
Level 1
: 100/100, 0 ante
As per usual, not all players have sat down at the start, and some tables sport just a single player waiting for his opponents to show up.
Cards go in the air when at least two players on a table have sat down, and several tables have started off with heads-up play.
Bullimore First to Reenter
Level 1
: 100/100, 0 ante
Over at table 143, Andreas Hildebrand is the sole player sitting at his table, but unlike the other waiting players he already had made short work of his opponent. The dubious honor of first player out went to James Bullimore, who dropped his 30,000 starting chips to Hildebrand in the span of just fifteen minutes.
According to the German, the board read 
and he had bet 5,000. Bullimore then moved all in with 
and Hildebrand called it off with . The river bricked to send Bullimore to the cashier, where he bought himself back in.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
60,000 | 60,000 |
|
30,000 | 30,000 |
My Stack App Activated
Level 1
: 100/100, 0 ante
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More Players Entering
Level 1
: 100/100, 0 ante
The field is up to 75 entries and several notables have taken their seats in this event, with Malaysia's GPI #15 ranked Michael Soyza as the biggest name among them.
Guoliang Wei, who won his maiden bracelet in the $1,111 Little One for One Drop this summer at the WSOP, is also in the field, as well as fellow bracelet winner Makarios Avramidis and Andrej Desset, who finished 3rd in this very event last year.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
30,000 | 30,000 |
|
30,000 | 30,000 |
|
30,000 | 30,000 |
|
30,000 | 30,000 |
|
30,000 | 30,000 |
|
30,000 | 30,000 |
|
30,000 | 30,000 |
|
30,000 | 30,000 |
|
30,000 | 30,000 |
|
30,000 | 30,000 |
Covyn Eliminates Ros
Level 1
: 100/100, 0 ante
Over at table 153, Michiel Ros has departed during the first level of play after clashing with Danny Covyn. Earlier, Ros had made a full house with 
on an 
board to extract 7,000 from Covyn, but the Belgian won those chips back shortly after.
In Ros' final hand, he got it all in preflop with 
against Covyn's . The flop brought help for both with but the turn was a to send the second player of the day to the rail.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
60,000 | 60,000 |
|
Busted |