Event #2: €550 Pot-Limit Omaha Day 1a | 2019 World Series of Poker Europe

10-14-2019 17:04 UTC+2

Player	Chips	Progress
Aleh Rashetnikau	25,000
Alfredo Vega Meister	25,000
Natascha Stamm	25,000
Leonid Yanovski	25,000
Pavol Guris	25,000
Ken Beckers	25,000	25,000
Dierk Franssen	25,000	25,000

Player	Chips	Progress
Christopher Back	25,000
Stanislav Parkhomenko	25,000
Michal Wozniak	25,000
Daniele Vesco	25,000
Ivo Donev	25,000
Sebastian Krakau	25,000
Yian Zeng	25,000
Mikko Hirvonen	25,000
Abelardo Hafauri	25,000
Juozas Bizokas	25,000
Jose Rivas	25,000
Benedikt Feige	25,000
Krzysztof Jaguscik	25,000
Irena Macesovic	25,000
Martin Staszko	25,000
Aditya Singh	25,000
Aleh Rashetnikau	25,000
Stanislav Koleno	25,000
Leonid Yanovski	25,000

Another Batch of Names

Ernestok

Level 2 : 100/200, 0 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Pavol Guris	25,000
Pavel Sourek	25,000
Christopher Schofield	25,000
David Baker	25,000
Frank Schuler	25,000
Arunas Garunkstis	25,000
Stanislaw Miadzel	25,000
Massimo Foresti	25,000
Rok Lihtenvalner	25,000
Sebastian Erras	25,000
Marcel Brunner	25,000
Michal Wozniak	25,000
Robert Wirth	25,000
Aaron Duczak	25,000
Igoris Kuklis	25,000

Level: 2

Blinds: 100/200

Ante: 0

10-14-2019 16:34 UTC+2

Double Elimination for Kaimakamis

Ernestok

Level 1 : 100/100, 0 ante

It didn't took long for the first elimination of the day and it was a double one. It was a four-way pot, where Andreas Koelsch limped acting first, Vangelis Kaimakamis raised to 400 from the very next seat and he got calls from Dierk Franssen in the small blind, Ken Beckers in the big blind and the initial limper.

The flop came , Franssen led to 1,500 chips, Beckers called, Koelsch folded, Kaimakamis raised to 6,000, Franssen called and Beckers shoved for 12,000. Kaimakamis went all in over the top covering all players and Franssen called the shove for the first three-way all in of the day.

Vangelis Kaimakamis:
Dierk Franssen:
Ken Beckers:

Kaimakamis needed to fade hearts to bust two players and he managed to deliver after the on the turn and the on the river.

Player	Chips	Progress
Vangelis Kaimakamis	65,000	65,000
Andreas Koelsch	24,000	24,000
Ken Beckers	Busted
Dierk Franssen	Busted

Tags: Andreas Koelsch Dierk Franssen Ken Beckers Vangelis Kaimakamis

10-14-2019 16:21 UTC+2

"Show Us the Full House"

Ernestok

Level 1 : 100/100, 0 ante

Joseph Floyd raised from the hijack and he got calls from David Mackenzie in the cutoff and Ali Deniz Akok in the big blind.

The flop came , Akok checked and Floyd bet 600 chips, getting called only by Akok.

The hit the turn and Akok check-called again, this time for 1,000.

The completed the board on the river and Floyd bet 3,000 this time, but Akok threw his cards to the muck after one minute of tanking.

The players in the table asked Floyd to show them his full house, but he replied that he didn't have one and mucked his cards, too.

Player	Chips	Progress
Joseph Floyd	28,000	3,000
David Mackenzie	24,000	-1,000
Ali Deniz Akok	23,000	-2,000

Tags: Ali Deniz Akok David Mackenzie Joseph Floyd

10-14-2019 16:11 UTC+2

First List of Names

Ernestok

Level 1 : 100/100, 0 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Ricardas Vymeris	25,000
Ali Deniz Akok	25,000
Joseph Floyd	25,000
David Mackenzie	25,000
Natascha Stamm	25,000
Andrey Polshkov	25,000
Bartel Kars	25,000
Alfredo Vega Meister	25,000

Level: 1

Blinds: 100/100

Ante: 0

10-14-2019 16:07 UTC+2

Shuffle Up and Deal

Ernestok

Play just started for Event #2 of the 2019 World Series of Poker Europe with six tables and 23 players in their seats.

10-14-2019 14:42 UTC+2

Day 1a of Event #2: €550 Pot-Limit Omaha Kicks Off at 4PM

Ernestok

Hanh Tran - Winner of Event #3: €550 Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed

Welcome to Event #2 of the 2019 World Series of Poker Europe, which is a Pot-Limit Omaha event with a €550 buy-in. It is the second event of the festival at King's Resort in Rozvadov and it comes with a guaranteed prize pool of €100,000 and two starting days. Many familiar faces are expected in the event from all over the world in Europe's biggest poker room.

Defending champion of this event is Austria's Hanh Tran, who won this event last year to put the second bracelet on his wrist for 2018. Tran prevailed in a field of 572 entries to win his second gold bracelet and a first-place prize of €59,625. He defeated Latvia's Oleg Pavlyuchuk heads-up, with the final table including well-known players such as Romain Lewis and Michael Magalashvili.

Each Day 1 is scheduled to play a total of 18 levels of 30 minutes, while Day 2 and 3 increase the level duration to 40 minutes. Every four levels there will be a 15-minute break and the late registration will end after 12 levels of play. All participants will have to work their way through the field with a 25,000 starting stack and will have the option for unlimited re-entries during both starting flights.

Day 1 Level Structure

Level	Duration (min.)	Small Blind	Big Blind
1	30	100	100
2	30	100	200
3	30	100	200
4	30	200	300
Break	15
5	30	200	300
6	30	200	400
7	30	300	500
8	30	300	600
Break	15
9	30	400	800
10	30	500	1,000
11	30	600	1,200
12	30	800	1,600
Break	15
13	30	1,000	2,000
14	30	1,000	2,500
15	30	1,500	3,000
16	30	2,000	4,000
Break	15
17	30	3,000	5,000
18	30	3,000	6,000

The PokerNews live reporting team will be there from start-to-finish to cover all the action on the way to crown another WSOP bracelet winner at the 2019 WSOPE.

Tags: Hanh Tran Michael Magalashvili Oleg Pavlyuchuk Romain Lewis