Event #15: €3,000 NLH Closer Day 1 | 2021 World Series of Poker Europe

12-06-2021 23:07 UTC+2

Day 2 Seating Draw

Will Shillibier

Level 15 : 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

Table	Seat	Player	Nationality	Chip count	Big Blinds
5	1	Said Madani	Germany	355,000	71
5	2	Antunes Teixeira	United States	111,000	22
5	3	Georgios Tsouloftas	Cyprus	150,000	30
5	4	Dinesh Alt	Switzerland	155,500	31
5	6	Mirnes Vejzovic	Bosnia and Herzegovina	82,500	17
5	7	Rachid El Yaacoubi	France	819,500	164
5	8	Symeon Alexandridis	Greece	193,500	39
5	9	Oleg Nikolaenko	Russian Federation	240,000	48

6	1	Thomer Pidun	Germany	199,500	40
6	2	Giovanni Petroni	Italy	78,500	16
6	3	Manuel Fischer	Germany	370,500	74
6	4	Uri Gilboa	Israel	126,000	25
6	5	Omar Huang	Sweden	260,000	52
6	6	Andrea Radicchi	Italy	488,500	98
6	7	Arin Mohamad	Germany	49,000	10
6	8	Demetrio Caminita	Italy	99,000	20
6	9	Maria Teixeira	United States	183,000	37

7	1	Daniel Schausberger	Austria	194,000	39
7	2	Massimiliano Zanasi	Italy	287,000	57
7	3	Alik Zazian	Russian Federation	99,000	20
7	4	Dominik Znasik	Slovakia	83,000	17
7	5	Romain [Removed:338]	France	662,500	133
7	6	Stefan Aerts	Belgium	121,000	24
7	7	Or Hadad	Israel	188,500	38
7	8	Anil Ataoglu	Germany	456,500	91

8	1	Alessandro Pichierri	Italy	696,000	139
8	2	Artur Martirosian	Russian Federation	232,000	46
8	3	Romain Le Dantec	France	235,000	47
8	4	Andrea Dato	Italy	73,500	15
8	5	Antoine Vranken	Netherlands	131,000	26
8	6	Julien Sitbon	France	115,000	23
8	7	Clayde Terlaan	Netherlands	165,000	33
8	8	Claudio Di Giacomo	Italy	62,000	12
8	9	Matteo Calzoni	Italy	375,500	75

9	1	Felix Trau	Germany	250,000	50
9	2	Lars Kamphues	Germany	158,500	32
9	3	Petr Kubenka	Czech Republic	464,500	93
9	5	Milos Petakovic	Serbia	371,000	74
9	6	Tobias Peters	Netherlands	95,500	19
9	7	Aliaksandr Shylko	Belarus	114,500	23
9	8	Rafael Ben	Israel	230,000	46
9	9	Vadzim Lipauka	Belarus	116,000	23

10	1	Dzmitry Urbanovich	Poland	110,500	22
10	2	Timo Kamphues	Germany	375,000	75
10	3	Yannick Schumacher	Germany	198,500	40
10	4	Toni Kaukua	Finland	285,000	57
10	5	Azad Dogan	Germany	86,000	17
10	7	Yosefi Cohen	Israel	142,500	29
10	8	Gary Hasson	Belgium	174,500	35
10	9	Saeed Rehman	Germany	465,500	93

12-06-2021 23:20 UTC+2

El Yaacoubi Leads the Final 50 Players After Day 1 of Event #15: €3,000 NLH Closer

Adam Lamers

Level 15 : 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

After 15 levels on Day 1, play has come to an end in Event #15: €3,000 No-Limit Hold'em Closer. It was a wild day that saw plenty of action throughout, accumulating a whopping 228 entries and a prize pool of €606,480.

Only 50 players will return to the felt for Day 2 and Rachid El Yaacoubi will be leading the way after amassing a huge stack of 819,500 chips to end the day. He edged out Alessandro Pichierri in the late stages, despite Pichierri leading the better part of the day.

El Yaacoubi spends the majority of his time playing tournaments in his home country of France, but his largest career score came right here at King's Resort earlier this year when he pocket a six-figure payday. He will be looking to top that number tomorrow and also earn himself a piece of WSOP jewelry in the process.

Some other notables to join him on Day 2 include Andrea Radicchi (488,500), Timo Kamphues (375,000), Manuel Fischer (370,500), Artur Martirosian (232,000), and bracelet winner Antoine Vranken (131,000). It will be a fight to get into the money with only 35 places being paid and a min-cash worth €5,029.

With the unlimited re-entry option open for the first 12 levels of the day, it created a lot of action which in turn cost some players a lot of cash at the registration desk. Some players were in for two, three, and even four bullets on the day. However, nobody topped the nine total entries from Emil Bise who still fell short of advancing to Day 2.

The action is slated to resume tomorrow at 10 a.m. local time on level 16 with the blinds at 2,500/5,000 and a 5,000 big blind ante. The levels will continue to be 40 minutes in length with a 15-minute break after every three levels. The scheduled plan is to play down to a winner but a judgment call will be made based on the progress of the tournament.

The PokerNews live reporting team will be here to bring you all of the live updates en route to crowning a new WSOP Europe champion who will take home €148,008 and a gold bracelet.

Tags: Alessandro Pichierri Andrea Radicchi Antoine Vranken Artur Martirosian Emil Bise Manuel Fischer Rachid El Yaacoubi Timo Kamphues

Event #15: €3,000 NLH Closer

Day 1 Completed