At 6 p.m. local time, cards will be in the air at the King's Resort for the final flight of Event #15: €550 Colossus No-Limit Hold'em at the 2019 World Series of Poker Europe.
All those that fail to make it through Day 1h wil have one last chance to book their seats for Day 2 through Day 1i and the registration period and single re-entry is available until the end of level 12. Just like the previous starting flights, players will receive 25,000 in chips and Day 1i will play through 18 levels of 30 minutes each.
Flight
Entries
Advancing to Day 2
Day 1a
143
15
Day 1b
133
16
Day 1c
128
11
Day 1d
112
13
Day 1e
171
15
Day 1f
341
40
Day 1g
349
39
Day 1h
Day 1i
Totals
1,377
149
The first seven starting days combined attracted a total of 1,377 entries but only 149 competitors made it to Day 2. However, these numbers are not final and many more will follow as Day 1h is currently underway and Day 1i will take place soon.
At the top of the leaderboard for now are Day 1c Chip Leader Sergii Karpov and he is followed by Day 1e Chip Leader Shalom Kadosh (717,000). Day 1f Chip Leader Simon Burns sits in third with 635,000. Two more groups of players will try to challenge that mark today.
The survivors of Day 1i will combine with the survivors of the other eight flights on Sunday November 3rd at 3:00 p.m. local time to continue to battle it out until the final table is reached.
Stay tuned to PokerNews as the Live Reporting Team will be on the floor to cover all the action.
The two best starting hands clashed with Eyal Tsabar all-in and at risk holding the and Liad Bezalel held the . The board came and Tsabar doubled for 22,800.
Tsabar then limped in and called the shove of Bezalel for the last 1,300.
Liad Bezalel:
Eyal Tsabar:
The board came and that spelled the end for Bezalel.
A loud scream could be heard in the tournament room and that was an indication of a big pot being shipped to Mehrzad Moadeli, who had indeed sent Yehuda Yosef to the rail in a pot worth more than four times the starting stack.
Michael Teplitski was kind enough to provide the preflop action. According to Teplitski, Bahram Zand had raised to 1,300 and was called by Moadeli, Yosef then reraised to 4,000 and Moadeli was the only caller.
Via three-bet the stacks went in after a flop of and Moadeli tabled for bottom pair and a flush draw while Yosef held pocket kings.
The turn improved Moadeli to two pair and the river was a blank. Both stacks were counted and Moadeli had 50,600, which covered Yosef by a small margin.
A raise to 6,000 was called by Rudolf Eberle in the small blind and Sebastien Soardi and Josef Gulas then shoved for 40,600 from early position. Ludovic Sultan moved all in and Eberle eventually called, Soardi then folded.
Josef Gulas:
Ludovic Sultan:
Rudolf Eberle:
The board came and the tens held up for Eberle to double for 61,400 and send Gulas to the rail.
Daniel Salner had taken a big pot off Mehrzad Moadeli and the table provided further action soon after.
Daniel Negreanu opened to 3,500 first to act and Kfir Tubi three-bet to 8,100 on the button. Marcos Gomez Carmona four-bet all in for 29,500 and Negreanu folded, as did Tubi after plenty of consideration.
It took just a few moments more and Gomez Carmona was all in once more but this time Negreanu also had his stack in as well and tabled the superior hand.
Marcos Gomez Carmona:
Daniel Negreanu:
On a board of , Negreanu hit a full house and Gomez Carmona left the table with the words "I busted against the best player in the world."
Marc Orsulic raised to 5,000 and Maria Lampropulos three-bet the cutoff to 15,000. Walter Pflueger in the small blind four-bet all in for 72,500 and Orsulic asked for a count, then folded, while Lampropulos quickly called.
Walter Pflueger:
Maria Lampropulos:
The board came and Pflueger doubled thanks to the straight on the river. Lampropulos was left with a mere six big blinds and busted shortly after.
Picking up the action on the turn, Patrick Kurfner bet 26,500 in the big blind and Francesco Candelari called in the cutoff after glancing at the stack of his opponent.
Kurfner then shoved the river for his last 51,000 and Candelari started some table chat, talked through possible hands. He initially put his opponent on pocket fives and almost ruled out the seven-five, the clock was then called on him and the Italian called within the 30 seconds.
Kurfner tabled for the straight and Candelari mucked .
The table broke right after and Kurfner mentioned "I only called because I was in the big blind."
In a battle button versus big blind, Efstathios Komitas and Yaniv Kaldaron got their stacks in after the turn and one of the biggest pots of the day thus far emerged a few spots away from the money bubble.
Yaniv Kaldaron:
Efstathios Komitas:
Komitas needed the board to pair and he did so thanks to the river to boost his stack above half a million.
There were three all-in and call at the same time and another two pending showdowns that ended up in a tank-fold, and the field was reduced from 97 to 95 players to let the bubble burst before hand-for-hand mode went into effect.
Shay Aldorf was the first to fall with his for a set ran into the of Stefan Mital for the higher set.
Eli Molina then departed on a different table and last but not least, Georges Chehade avoided another bubble drama when he doubled through Walter Pflueger.
Pflueger had raised to 12,000 in the cutoff and was called by Dominique Potenza in the small blind. Chehade pushed for 89,000 in the big blind and Pflueger reshoved to isolate.
The final starting day of the 2019 World Series of Poker Europe Event #15 €550 Colossus drew the second-biggest field thanks to 628 total entries and that boosted the total field size to 2,738 entries and generated a prize pool of €1,300,550.
Some players already secured a portion of that through the nine starting days but a new payout structure for all 313 Day 1 survivors will be published before the start of Day 2 on Sunday, November 3rd, 2019. Cards will be back in the air at 3 p.m. local time with blinds of 4,000-8,000 and a big blind ante of 8,000. As of Day 2, the level duration also increases to 40 minutes each.
Out of the 628 entries, only 80 players bagged and tagged for the night as Marco Kalchgruber was the last player to forfeit his stack at the end of the night and take home €841 for his efforts.
At the end of level 18 and the final hands for the night it was Yordanov Karagogov that earned the honors of Day 1i chip leader after claiming 616,000 to his name. The Georgian who lives in Prague was one of just two players to accumulate more than half a million in chips as Rudolf Eberle follows in second place with 560,000.
Other notables that advanced through the final flight were Stefan Mital (404,000), Dominique Potenza (395,000), Vladimir Schwarz (372,000), Stefan Raschbauer (359,000), Claudio Di Giacomo (322,000), Jan Ramik (298,000), Bertrand Grospellier (285,000) and Tezer Cetindag (272,000).
It was also the last chance for the 2019 Player of the Year contenders Daniel Negreanu and Anthony Zinno to claim a stack for Day 2. Negreanu had cashed in a previous flight but came up short in the end and would have suffered the same fate again if he had lost the flip with ace-king against the pocket eights of Czech WSOP bracelet winner Lukas Zaskodny. However, a king appeared on the flop and the rail that gathered around the table in the very last hand of the night had reason to celebrate.
Negreanu made it through with 235,000 while Zaskodny put 131,000 in his bag. Zinno also made it through with 261,000 and keeps his slim chances of the 2019 POY title alive. Shaun Deeb and Robert Campbell had bagged in the previous flight and all eyes will be on the "fantastic four" in the final tournament of the 2019 WSOPE in Europe's biggest poker arena at the King's Resort in Rozvadov.
Among those to bust throughout the last starting day were such familiar names as Anson Tsang, Manuel Blaschke, Konstantinos Tsirakidis, Matous Skorepa, Elena Litvinyuk, Remi Wyrzykiewicz, Maria Lampropulos, Dorde Jovanovic and Tomas Ribeiro to name just a few.
Lampropulos saw her hopes of Day 2 vanish when she ran with kings into the pocket aces of Walter Pflueger. While a king appeared on the turn, a ten on the river restored the preflop order and improved Pflueger to the ace-high straight. Close to the money bubble on the very same table, Yaniv Kaldaron turned a wheel but Efstathios Komitas rivered a full house.
In the final level of the night the money bubble burst when Shay Aldorf and Eli Molina were eliminated on different tables with the former coming up short in a set-over-set clash with Stefan Mital. Once the bubble burst, more than a dozen players were sent to the payout desk including Roberto Manfredi, Sebastien Soardi, and Petr Mifek.
Day 1i Payouts
Place
Winner
Country
Prize (in EUR)
Prize (in USD)
81
Marco Kalchgruber
Germany
€841
€934
82
Christoph Merten
Germany
€805
€894
83
Amit Gibel
Israel
€805
€894
84
Sebastien Soardi
France
€805
€894
85
Petr Mifek
Czech Republic
€805
€894
86
Igor Salimovic
Serbia
€805
€894
87
Rinat Tulepbergenov
Kazakhstan
€805
€894
88
Leif Petersen
Netherlands
€805
€894
89
Marek Sulc
Czech Republic
€805
€894
90
Roberto Manfredi
Italy
€805
€894
91
Falko Koehnke
Germany
€789
€876
92
Bruno Englebert
Belgium
€789
€876
93
Guenter Jakwerth
Austria
€789
€876
94
Ehud Salomon
Israel
€789
€876
95
Somphong Daoheuang
Germany
€789
€876
All Day 1 survivors combine to a single field for the first time and return to the tables at 3 p.m. local time in order to get one step closer to the coveted gold bracelet on the penultimate day of the festival in Rozvadov. PokerNews will be your one-stop-shop for all the action.