Sebastian Langrock was eliminated while Roland Israelashvili was more fortunate and doubled through Shaun Deeb. In a three-bet pot to the flop, Israelashvili got his last 53,000 in and Deeb called.
Roland Israelashvili:
Shaun Deeb:
The turn locked things up for Israelashvili, which made the river a formality.
"You know why he called me? Because he doesn't want that I win a bracelet," Israelashvili said and Deeb, still in very good as dominating chip leader, shot back with a "You will do that all on your own."
On the three-way flop of , Hanh Tran checked out of the big blind and Andreas Dyll bet 23,000. Raffaele Castro raised the pot and was all in for 131,000, Tran folded and Dyll called after some consideration.
Raffaele Castro:
Andreas Dyll:
The turn and river let Castro double and he celebrated with Ana Maria David.
On the flop of , Daniel Rezaei bet the pot for 100,000 and Raffaele Castro gave it some thought, then moved all in for around 250,000 to see Rezaei call it off with the superior stack.
Raffaele Castro:
Daniel Rezaei:
The turn and river let Castro initially celebrate, but Rezaei quickly pointed out that he had the superior full house. A devastated Castro shared the bad news in Italian with Ana Maria David and headed to the payout desk.
At the same time, Shaun Deeb took a hit to his big stack as Christian Teubner doubled through him. Deeb's cards were already in the muck and he paid off Teubner, who had hit a full house with on a board of .
Hanh Tran doubled twice through Daniel Rezaei to cut the stack of the fellow countryman into half. In the second hand he got it in with versus on a flop of and the turn and river completed the board. Tran doubled for 231,000 to put a big dent into Rezaei's stack.
In the meanwhile, Juergen Heidl and Narcis-Gabriel Nedelcu were both eliminated as well.
Ana Maria David clashed with Torsten Schlesier in a battle of the blinds against Torsten Schlesier when they got it in after a flop of . David had the for gutshot and flush draw, Schlesier held for the flopped straight. Neither the turn nor the river helped David and she was eliminated.
Stefan Vogt sent his stack over to Max Pescatori, the Italian had aces up and that was enough to eliminate Vogt.
Right after, the last three hands for the night were announced.
Daniel Rezaei raised to 20,000 and was called by Viliyan Petleshkov in the cutoff and Christopher Back on the button. On the flop of , action checked to Back and the Canadian bet 40,000. Only Rezaei came along for the ride and check-called an even bigger bet of 150,000 on the turn.
The fell on the river and Rezaei checked, prompting Back to move all in for more than 240,000.
"Wow, I guess I really gonna bust in the last hand," Rezaei said and gave it brief consideration before calling.
Back tabled the for the nut flush and Rezaei mucked for turned two pair and an inferior flush on the river.
One table over, Ivaylo Sivinov managed to back in the very last hand again after already doing so in the final hand of Day 1a.
Shaun Deeb has taken yet another step at taking down the 2018 World Series of Poker Player of the Year leaderboard, as he has secured the third cash in as many events of the 2018 World Series of Poker Europe at the King's Casino in Rozvadov. After a min-cash in The COLOSSUS and an 11th place in Event #2: €1,650 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed Deepstack, Deeb is in a decent position for another deep run as he bagged up the second-biggest stack on Day 1b of Event #3: €550 Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed.
After yesterday's first flight had already surpassed the guaranteed prize pool of €100,000 thanks to 230 entries, the second starting day even topped that result with a massive field of 342 entries. The 572 total entries include 231 entries and the prize pool was more than doubled to €274,417 with both starting days paying out a portion already.
Of the 342 Day 1b entries, only 25 players bagged up chips after 18 levels of 30 minutes each and it was Canada's Christopher Back that skyrocketed into the top spot in the final hands of the night. Back sent Daniel Rezaei to the rail in the final hand of the night when he rivered the nut flush against the turned two pair and inferior flush of the Austrian. Not even half an hour prior to that, Rezaei had topped the counts with 100 big blinds only to run out dry before bagging and tagging.
Back claimed 885,000 to his name, just shy of 90 big blinds for Day 2, and Deeb follows in second place with 667,000. The four-time WSOP bracelet winner entered mid-way through level six and quickly jumped to the top spot, holding more than two times as many chips as the next best during the later stages of the day.
Another two WSOP bracelet winners follow right after Deeb on the Day 1b leader board: Hanh Tran (626,000) and Max Pescatori (565,000) will return with big stacks when the tournament plays down to a final table. Other notables that advanced through the second starting day are Oleg Pavlyuchuk (478,000), Viliyan Petleshkov (219,000), Roland Israelashvili (196,000), Netanel Amedi (151,000), Michal Mrakes (141,000), David Boyaciyan (108,000) and one-time WSOP bracelet winner Dario Alioto (82,000).
Aleksandar Denishev was crowned the bubble boy when his top two pair were no good against the flopped set of sixes of Max Pescatori. The top 52 spots were paid and 27 players secured a payday without bagging up chips including Teunis Kooij, Jessica Teusl, Andreas Walnum, Lukas Zaskodny, Jeff Madsen, Sebastian Langrock and Narcis-Gabriel Nedelcu.
Event #3: €550 Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed Day 1B Payouts
Place
Winner
Country
Prize (in EUR)
26
Ivaylo Sivinov
Bulgaria
994
27
Daniel Rezaei
Austria
994
28
Stefan Vogt
Germany
994
29
Ana Maria David
Romania
994
30
Narcis-Gabriel Nedelcu
Romania
994
31
Juergen Heidl
Germany
994
32
Raffaele Castro
Italy
994
33
Sebastian Langrock
Austria
896
34
Apostolos Chatzopoulos
Greece
896
35
Jochen Kaiser
Germany
896
36
Jeff Madsen
United States
896
37
Marco Figuccia
Italy
896
38
Yehuda Cohen
Israel
896
39
Pavel Sourek
Czech Republic
896
40
Antti Marttinen
Finland
896
41
Thomas Pohnke
Austria
832
42
Lukas Zaskodny
Czech Republic
832
43
Martin Frank
Switzerland
832
44
Sterling Savill
United States
832
45
Pasquale Vinci
Italy
832
46
Sebastian Kos
Czech Republic
832
47
Andreas Walnum
Norway
832
48
Michael Bartov
Sweden
832
49
Andrej Isjurow
Germany
796
50
Roman Cieslik
Germany
796
51
Jessica Teusl
Austria
796
52
Teunis Kooij
Netherlands
796
Action of the Day
Within the first two levels of the day, more than 100 entries had emerged and the second and final starting day seemed poised to top the previous flight by quite a margin. Indeed, Day 1a was topped by more than 100 entries and plenty of notables took several shots at running up a stack.
Among those to come and go well before the money bubble were Anson Tsang, Pete Chen, Rex Clinkscales, Cord Garcia, Jan-Peter Jachtmann, Anthony Zinno, Jan Bendik, Georgios Koliofotis, Chin Wei Lim, Erich Kollmann, Jan-Peter jachtmann, Allen Kessler and Gianluca Speranza to name just a few. Martin Kabrhel late-registered and quickly doubled up his stack but was also among those to bust without anything to show for.
The money bubble was reached towards the end of level 15 and Aleksandar Denishev ended up as the bubble boy. Despite Andreas Walnum sitting to his left with a fraction of a big blind only, Denishev got it in with top two pair on the turn and ended up second-best to the flopped set of sixes of Max Pescatori. Right after, the floodgates opened and a dozen hopefuls busted before the final break of the night.
In the final two levels of the day, Daniel Rezaei went from short stack to chip leader, only to see his massive stack of 100 big blinds vanish in the matter of 15 minutes. Rezaei doubled Hanh Tran twice in quick succession and lost a massive pot to Christopher Back at the very end to become the penultimate casualty of the day.
All remaining 25 Day 1b survivors will join the 21 players that bagged up chips on Day 1A. The second tournament day will kick off on Wednesday, October 17th, 2018, at 2 p.m. local time and the 46 players out of a field of 572 entries remain in contention. The level duration will increase to 40 minutes each and the action recommences at blinds of 5,000/10,000.
Day 2 Seat Draw
Table
Seat
Player
Country
Chip Count
Big Blinds
138
1
Tarek Alonso
Chile
218,000
22
138
2
Max Pescatori
Italy
565,000
57
138
3
Luchezar Pumpalov
Bulgaria
208,000
21
138
4
Dutch Boyd
United States
190,000
19
138
5
Michael Magalashvili
Israel
339,000
34
138
6
Florian Sarnow
Germany
196,000
20
138
7
Grant Hart
United States
132,000
13
138
8
Michal Mrakes
Czech Republic
141,000
14
139
1
Dimitrios Gkatzas
Greece
177,000
18
139
2
Vasile Strugari
Romania
214,000
21
139
3
Hael Al Labani
Germany
310,000
31
139
4
Sergei Popov
Russian Federation
112,000
11
139
5
Guillaume Diaz
France
99,000
10
139
7
Norbert Burkhard
Germany
132,000
13
139
8
Torsten Schlesier
Germany
180,000
18
140
1
Oleg Pavlyuchuk
Russian Federation
478,000
48
140
2
Hanh Tran
Austria
626,000
63
140
3
Peter Jaksland
Denmark
343,000
34
140
4
Alexander Bachmann
Germany
137,000
14
140
5
Aaron Duczak
Canada
265,000
27
140
6
Martin Rothaermel
Germany
202,000
20
140
7
Manish Goenka
India
98,000
10
140
8
Romain Lewis
France
209,000
21
153
1
Michael Juen
Austria
181,000
18
153
2
Jason Gray
United Kingdom
197,000
20
153
3
Dor Tal
Israel
643,000
64
153
5
Christian Teubner
Germany
432,000
43
153
6
Alfredo Vega Meister
Spain
300,000
30
153
7
Jerome Saliou
France
166,000
17
153
8
Jerome Abitbol
France
104,000
10
154
1
Shaun Deeb
United States
667,000
67
154
2
David Boyaciyan
Netherlands
108,000
11
154
3
Ondrej Franta
Czech Republic
221,000
22
154
4
Netanel Amedi
Israel
151,000
15
154
5
Roland Israelashvili
United States
196,000
20
154
6
Sebastian Obermeier
Germany
249,000
25
154
7
Chris Ferguson
United States
148,000
15
154
8
Amar Begovic
Bosnia and Herzegovina
112,000
11
155
1
Christopher Back
Canada
885,000
89
155
2
Dario Alioto
Italy
82,000
8
155
3
Andreas Dyll
Germany
164,000
16
155
4
Michael Soyza
Malaysia
224,000
22
155
5
Edward Lawrie
United Kingdom
72,000
7
155
6
Viliyan Petleshkov
Bulgaria
219,000
22
155
7
Toni Haemaelaeinen
Finland
176,000
18
155
8
Jonas Kilian
Germany
177,000
18
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