2018 World Series of Poker Europe

Event #7: €2,200 Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed
Day: 1
Event Info

2018 World Series of Poker Europe

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
k633
Prize
€91,730
Event Info
Buy-in
€2,200
Prize Pool
€358,853
Entries
187
Level Info
Level
27
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
0

Tsang Tops Day 1 in Event #7; Riess; Deeb and Ferguson Among 35 Survivors

Level 15 : 2,500/5,000, 0 ante
Anson Tsang tops Day 1 in Event #7
Anson Tsang tops Day 1 in Event #7

What started with just 10 players in the early afternoon turned out to smash yet another guarantee at the 2018 World Series of Poker Europe at Europe's biggest poker arena in the King's Casino in Rozvadov. Initially, Event #7: €2,200 Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed was scheduled with a guaranteed prize pool of €200,000 and that was not only surpassed but almost doubled thanks to 187 entries in total.

The first 12 of 15 scheduled levels offered unlimited re-entries and the players took full advantage of that, as 106 unique players re-entered 81 times to create a prize pool of €358,853. Only the top 29 spots will receive a portion of that and at the end of level 15, the tournament screens showed 35 players remaining.

Hong Kong's Anson Tsang dominated the late stages of Day 1 and bagged up a very impressive stack of 931,000, while second-placed Ilya Bulychev follows with 748,000. After that, there is a pretty big gap to Chinese high roller Quan Zhou, who claimed 480,000 to his name. Other notables with big stacks include Aaron Duczak (307,000), Daniel Rezaei (302,000) and 2013 WSOP Main Event champion Ryan Riess (259,000).

Shaun Deeb bagged up the third-biggest stack in Event #6: €1,650 Mixed Pot-Limit Omaha/No-Limit Hold'em and will return to the feature table as of 3 p.m. local time on Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018, to battle for his 5th bracelet and put an end to the 2018 WSOP Player of the Year race. One hour prior to that, Deeb will unbag 208,000 for Day 2 of the PLO Event as that's what he claimed to his name after firing three late bullets in this tournament.

Shaun Deeb
Double Bag for Shaun Deeb

Other notables among the 35 Day 1 survivors include Jan-Peter Jachtmann (224,000), Jason Gray (179,000), Chris Ferguson (171,000), Anthony Zinno (166,000), Chin Wei Lim (130,000), Roland Israelashvili (113,000), James Chen (95,000) and Allen Kessler (74,000). Day 2 will recommence with blinds of 3,000/6,000, the level duration increases to 60 minutes each for the remainder of the event and cards will be back in the air at 2 p.m. local time.

Action of the Day

With a slight delay, the first of three tournament days kicked off with a mere nine players spread over two tables. As soon as the bubble of Event #6 had burst, the field kept growing by the minute and the guarantee was met before the dinner break already. Among those to come and go without anything to show for were Hanh Tran, Dutch Boyd, Winfred Yu, €550 Pot-Limit Omaha runner-up Oleg Pavlyuchuk, Jeff Madsen, Martin Kabrhel and Jesper "Kipster" Hougaard to name just a few.

Defending champion Lukas Zaskodny ran out of chips on his first bullet in level two already after his rivered set of aces was no good against the turned straight of Xixiang Luo. Zaskodny quickly re-entered but joined the rail just before the end of the registration period, opting not to try again.

Lukas Zaskodny
No back-to-back titles for Lukas Zaskodny

The chips were traded back and forth, big stacks vanished in the matter of an hour as notables such as Pedro Marques and Daniel Barriocanal went from hero to zero in quick succession. Anatolii Zyrin played five hands on his first bullet and busted, re-entered and almost tripled up right away before also joining the rail.

In the late stages of the day, several notables such as Dario Alioto, Ludovic Geilich, Martin Kabrhel and Danny Tang ran out of steam, too. Geilich busted in a three-way all in with Kabrhel as Ilya Bulychev flopped best and Tang's roller coaster ride came to an end at almost the same time one table over. He had the bets of it preflop with suited aces, but Aaron Duczak eventually got there with a flush.

Ismael Bojang, Ivan Leow and Yehoram Houri didn't survive the furios final either as they fell short of bagging and tagging. In Houri's case, it was a painful exit in the very last hand when the Frenchman flopped the nut straight and faced Ilya Bulychev's middle set. Instead of a paired board, running hearts gave the Russian a flush and Houri was gone.

Day 2 will see the 35 hopefuls head to the looming money bubble as of 2 p.m. local time before playing down to the official eight-handed final table. As usual, the PokerNews live reporting team will be on the floor from start-to-finish.

Day 2 Seat Draw

TableSeatPlayerCountryChip CountBig Blind
1501Roland IsraelashviliUnited States113,00019
1502Jason GrayUnited Kingdom179,00030
1504Shaun DeebUnited States208,00035
1505Gergely BartosHungary107,00018
1506Allen KesslerUnited States74,00012
1507Aaron DuczakCanada307,00051
1508Eemil TuominenFinland225,00038
      
1511Ludvig SternerSweden388,00065
1512Anton JohanssonSweden205,00034
1514Gisle OlsenDenmark288,00048
1515Willm EngelkeGermany96,00016
1516Michal MrakesCzech Republic44,0007
1517Ihar PliashkoBelarus120,00020
1518Ronald KeijzerNetherlands141,00024
      
1521James ChenTaiwan95,00016
1522Ryan RiessUnited States259,00043
1523Quan ZhouChina480,00080
1524Pavel BinarCzech Republic179,00030
1525Maksim ShutsBelarus55,0009
1527Zoltan SzaboHungary120,00020
1528Chris FergusonUnited States171,00029
      
1651Anson TsangHong Kong931,000155
1652Daniel PerkusicGermany106,00018
1653Anthony ZinnoUnited States166,00028
1654Michal SchuhCzech Republic224,00037
1656Hok Yiu LeeChina258,00043
1657Chin Wei LimMalaysia130,00022
1658Roman CieslikGermany92,00015
      
1661Daniel RezaeiAustria302,00050
1663Jan-Peter JachtmannGermany224,00037
1664Alexander NordenSweden53,0009
1665Tomasz GluszkoPoland126,00021
1666Ilya BulychevRussian Federation748,000125
1667Aleksandar TrajkovskiMacedonia104,00017
1668Andriy LyubovetskiyUkraine168,00028

Tags: Aaron DuczakAllen KesslerAnatolii ZyrinAnson TsangAnthony ZinnoChin Wei LimChris FergusonDanny TangIlya BulychevIsmael BojangIvan LeowLudovic GeilichLukas ZaskodnyMartin KabrhelPedro MarquesRyan RiessShaun DeebXixiang LuoYehoram Houri