Event #15: €550 Colossus No-Limit Hold'em Day 1h | 2019 World Series of Poker Europe

11-02-2019 16:15 UTC+2

Player	Chips	Progress
Anson Tsang	25,000	25,000
Alexandre Viard	25,000	25,000
Peter Ralbovsky	25,000	25,000
Uzi Gellman	25,000	25,000
Antonin Navratil	25,000	25,000
Mario Nobile	25,000	25,000
Sebastian Toedling	25,000	25,000
Maximil Bauermeister	25,000	25,000
Tiziano Fasan	25,000	25,000
Andreas Suchowerskyj	25,000	25,000
Thorben Fischer	25,000	25,000
Erjat Balinca	25,000	25,000
Abderrahman Chouiba	25,000	25,000
Karel Novotny	25,000	25,000
Oliver Frey	25,000	25,000
Roman Sahin	25,000	25,000
Thomas Kowalski	25,000	25,000
Marc Pichler	25,000	25,000
Marco Leimbach	25,000	25,000
Kevin Hamacher	25,000	25,000
Volkan Cakar	25,000	25,000
Siegfried Hochstaffl	25,000	25,000
Joseph Floyd	25,000	25,000
Wolfgang Rodler	25,000	25,000
Shachar Yonayov	25,000	25,000

Charlie Defresne raised it up from under the gun and Meir Chen three-bet to 2,800 from a couple of seats over. Christian Zimnick flat-called in middle position and the action was back on Defresne who also called.

The flop came and the action checked around to the on the turn. Defresne led out for 3,900 which Chen called and Zimnick folded. The completed the board and Defresne checked this time. Chen checked it back and Defresne showed which was good enough to win the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Charlie Defresne	65,000	65,000
Meir Chen	2,600	2,600

Tags: Charlie Defresne

Level: 6

Blinds: 200/400

Ante: 400

11-02-2019 15:47 UTC+2

Double KO for [Removed:349]

Ernestok

Level 5 : 200/300, 300 ante

Petr Zalsky opened the action with a raise to 900 from middle position and got calls by Ertan Ates and Alexander [Removed:349], before Avihai Benshoham shoved from the big blind for 7,200. Zalsky didn't understand that his opponent was all in and threw a chip into the middle, trying to get it back when he realized what happened. The floorman arrived and he informed that he has to call the all in, which he did for almost half his stack. [Removed:349] called too and they went heads-up to the flop.

The dealer spread the and Zalsky check-called [Removed:349]'s shove to sent the hand to a three-way showdown.

Avihai Benshoham:
Petr Zalsky:
Alexander [Removed:349]:

The on the turn and the on the river didn't change anything and [Removed:349] sent two players to the rail.

Player	Chips	Progress
Alexander Bernhardt	81,000
Avihai Benshoham	Busted
Petr Zalsky	Busted

Tags: Avihai Benshoham Petr Zalsky Alexander Bernhardt

11-02-2019 15:45 UTC+2

Campbell Chipping Up

Adam Lamers

Level 5 : 200/300, 300 ante

A completed board of was spread across the felt with Robert Campbell and Andreas Mages heads-up in the blinds. Campbell led out for 1,500 from the small blind into a pot of around 5,000. Mages raised to 4,5000 and Campbell thought for a minute before making the call.

Mages flipped over for just a pair of threes while Campbell revealed for a pair of nines in order to claim the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Robert Campbell	52,000	27,000
Andreas Mages	42,000	17,000

Tags: Robert Campbell Andreas Mages

11-02-2019 15:33 UTC+2

Ben Shows a Set

Adam Lamers

Level 5 : 200/300, 300 ante

Simon Berri opened to 700 from early position and was called by Shahaf Nacson on his left. Rafael Ben three-bet to 3,300 from the big blind which got Berri to fold but Nacson called.

The flop came and Ben led out for 7,000 which Nacson called. The turn was the and Ben moved all in for 10,100. Nacson briefly thought about it but decided to ditch his cards. Ben showed for a set of kings and raked in the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Rafael Ben	35,800	35,800
Shahaf Nacson	16,000	16,000

Tags: Rafael Ben Shahaf Nacson

11-02-2019 15:30 UTC+2

Early Eliminations

Ernestok

Level 5 : 200/300, 300 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Mohamed Bounaim	Busted
Jozef Ondrusek	Busted
Tobias Sattler	Busted
Yakov Bar El	Busted
Marcel Baskharon	Busted
Jozef Komorny	Busted
Johannes Herbers	Busted
Joris Zitella	Busted
Aleksandar Lazarevic	Busted
Josip Svilicic	Busted
Raul Husiev	Busted
Francesco Delfoco	Busted
Julien Hernandez	Busted
Marc Orsulic	Busted
Remigiusz Wyrzykiewicz	Busted
Claudio Lambertini	Busted
[Removed:218]	Busted
Aliriza Misirlioglu	Busted
Dariusz Jedrzejczyk	Busted
Sean Reddy	Busted
Do Chung Tran	Busted
Ralf Hochbaum	Busted

Level: 5

Blinds: 200/300

Ante: 300

11-02-2019 15:01 UTC+2

First Break of the Day

Adam Lamers

Level 4 : 100/300, 300 ante

The tournament clock is currently showing a total of 544 entries with late registration still open for quite some time. The players are heading on their first 20-minute break of the day.

11-02-2019 15:01 UTC+2

Graf Bluffs Off his Stack

Ernestok

Level 4 : 100/300, 300 ante

Alexander Graf was found all in for his last 6,800 on the river of a board showing .

Ferat Uysal was his opponent and he decided to call after some tanking. Graf said "good call" and opened his with just queen high, while Uysal had with top pair to send Graf to the rail.