2021 World Series of Poker Europe

Event #2: €550 Pot-Limit Omaha
Day: 1b
Event Info

2021 World Series of Poker Europe

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
aaq3
Prize
€59,250
Event Info
Buy-in
€550
Prize Pool
€295,925
Entries
623
Level Info
Level
35
Blinds
150,000 / 300,000
Ante
300,000
Players Info - Day 1b
Entries
424
Players Left
43

Eldabach Claims Overall Lead After Day 1b; Peters and Zerjav Among Big Stacks

Level 18 : 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante
Dorel Eldabach
Dorel Eldabach

The second and final starting day of Event #2: €550 Pot-Limit Omaha attracted a large field in Europe's biggest poker arena at the King's Resort in Rozvadov. After 199 entries on the first flight the day prior, a strong turnout more than doubled that tally as 424 entries were recorded on the final starting day. That brought the total field up to 623 entries and created an overall prize pool of €295,925.

The lion's share of that, $264,910 to be exact, will be up for grabs in the upcoming two days as the second gold bracelet event of the 2021 World Series of Poker Europe will play down to a champion. Only 43 players survived Day 1b and they will join the 19 contenders of Day 1a to battle for their chance at claiming live poker's most coveted prize.

Dorel Eldabach claimed the Day 1b and overall lead after accumulating 625,000 in chips. The King's regular and Pot-Limit Omaha specialist has eight WSOP cashes to his name, most notably a runner-up finish in the 2020 GGPoker.com Event #62: $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha for $168,478. Eldabach surpassed Bjorn Verbakel (609,000), Ken Beckers (551,000) and Ugur Coskun (514,000) on the overnight leaderboard as the only four players with more than half a million in chips.

Top 10 Chip Counts Day 1b Event #2: €550 Pot-Limit Omaha

PositionPlayerCountryChip Count
1Dorel EldabachIsrael625,000
2Bjorn VerbakelNetherlands609,000
3Ken BeckersBelgium551,000
4Ugur CoskunSwitzerland514,000
5Tobias PetersNetherlands483,000
6Blaz ZerjavSlovenia479,000
7Taras SlabykGermany459,000
8Udo HemmertGermany434,000
9Saulius TumosaLithuania398,000
10Jose ObadiaSpain368,000

Big stacks after Day 1b also belong to Tobias Peters, Blaz Zerjav, Saulius Tumosa and Jose Obadia. Peters was forced to re-enter and steadily built his stack from there on out and notched up large pots with the eliminations of Simon Taberham and Florian Sarnow. Likewise, Zerjav thrived after a late surge when he first doubled and then knocked out Pierre Mothes.

Lithuania's Tumosa was involved in the action on the money bubble and ensured a min-cash of €900 for nearly two dozen players when he sent Nicola Angelini to the rail on the money bubble.

Other notables to advance from Day 1b include Michael Magalashvili, Quirin Zech, David Hu, and Aliaksandr Shylko. A trio of WSOP bracelet winners also made it through as Martin Kabrhel, Sebastian Langrock and Stoyan Madanzhiev bagged and tagged for the night. Kabrhel fired multiple bullets before running up a stack but was one of the players at risk right before the money bubble.

Martin Kabrhel
Martin Kabrhel

Once the min-cash of €900 was secured, 21 players collected payouts in the final two levels of the night including notables such as Andriy Lyubovetskiy, Dario Alioto, Danny Covyn, and Tomasz Gluszko. Alioto cashed on both Day 1s but failed to make the cut in his bid for a potential second gold bracelet.

Payouts on Day 1b Event #2: €550 Pot-Limit Omaha

PlaceWinnerCountryPrize (in EUR)
44Michael AdamCzech Republic€ 1,055
45Arkadiusz LiszewskiPoland€ 1,055
46Hamoun HabibiNetherlands€ 1,055
47Pierre MothesGermany€ 1,055
48Nick MaljersBelgium€ 1,055
49Andriy LyubovetskiyUkraine€ 985
50Tomasz PuchalskiPoland€ 985
51Danny CovynBelgium€ 985
52Christina Joergensen SolliNorway€ 985
53Adrian KyiakUkraine€ 985
54Alexander EderAustria€ 985
55Linda van de ReeNetherlands€ 985
56Pawel KellerPoland€ 985
57Benoit MichielsensBelgium€ 900
58Dario AliotoItaly€ 900
59Denys FedorenkoUkraine€ 900
60Valter HanssonSweden€ 900
61Konstantinos TzimasGreece€ 900
62Karsten KobbingGermany€ 900
63Tomasz GluszkoPoland€ 900
64Hristo PeychevBulgaria€ 900

The 62 remaining contenders will return at 2pm local time on Monday, November 22 for the penultimate tournament day. Blinds will recommence at 4,000-8,000 and a big blind ante of 8,000. Day 2 is scheduled to play down to the final table, which will then be live-streamed the following day. As usual, the PokerNews live reporting team will provide as many of the key hands as possible en route to crowning a champion here in Rozvadov.

Tags: Aliaksandr ShylkoBjorn VerbakelBlaz ZerjavDanny CovynDario AliotoDavid HuDorel EldabachFlorian SarnowJose ObadiaKen BeckersMartin KabrhelMichael MagalashviliNicola AngeliniQuirin ZechSaulius TumosaStoyan MadanzhievTobias PetersUgur Coskun