Orpen Kisacikoglu opened to 17,000 from the hijack. Sirzat Hissou and Salih Atac called from the cutoff and button. Boris Angelov, who had just joined the feature table, moved all in for 127,000 from the small blind.
Kisacikoglu folded his A♣8♦, and Hissou did the same with his J♥7♥. Atac opted to release his K♥J♣, and Angelov's Q♥Q♦ took down the pot.
Two hands later, Angelov raised to 16,000 from the cutoff. Fahredin Mustafov three-bet to 52,000 from the button and called when Angelov jammed for 194,000.
Boris Angelov: Q♦Q♠
Fahredin Mustafov: 7♥7♦
Angelov picked up queens again and he doubled up after the 4♣9♥J♠6♠4♠ runout.
Niklas Astedt opened from the button to 23,000. Sirzat Hissou then three-bet to 75,000. Astedt then four-bet to 150,000. Hissou then five-bet to 300,000 before Astedt moved all in for the remainder of his 800,000 stack.
Niklas Astedt: A♥K♣
Sirzat Hissou: K♦K♥
Astedt needed to hit an ace to take the lead but he couldn't find one across the 9♥2♦3♦7♦J♣ runout.
Daniel Dvoress 8♥6♥ opened to 27,000 second to act and Tom-Aksel Bedell 7♥6♣ defended his big blind.
Bedell check-called bets of 38,000 and 120,000 for the final board to read 7♠5♠3♣J♥4♥.
Both players rivered a straight, but Dvoress had the checkmark with an eight-high straight. Bedell bet 225,000 and called when Dvoress jammed for 413,000.
Bedell dropped below one million and Dvoress shot up the counts.
Alex Foxen 4♠3♠ opened to 27,000 from the cutoff and Viktor Blom 10x8x defended his big blind.
Blom check-called for 18,000 on the K♣J♥9♠ flop, and made his straight on the Q♠ turn. Foxen picked up a flush draw, which came in after action checked through to the 2♠ river.
Blom led out for 86,000, and Foxen raised to a sizeable 459,000. Blom found the fold and remained with a starting stack.
[Removed:548] opened from under the gun to 32,000. He was called by Orpen Kisacikoglu in the cutoff, Sirzat Hissou on the button and Boris Angelov in the big blind.
Angelov led for 52,000 on the 7♣6♦9♣ flop for 52,000 before [Removed:549] reraised all in. Kisacikoglu and Hissou folded and Angelov called and had [Removed:549] slightly covered.
[Removed:548]: J♥J♦
Boris Angelov: 9♠8♥
[Removed:549]'s jacks held across the Q♦ turn and the J♠ river gave him a set.
The next hand, Angelov shoved 71,000 on the button and both [Removed:558] and Fahredin Mustafov folded in the blinds. Angelov showed 10♠9♠.
A few hands later, Salih Atac opened from early position to 32,000. Angelov moved all in for 111,000. Orpen Kisacikoglu put in two 100,000 chips. Atac folded.
Boris Angelov: A♦K♣
Orpen Kisacikoglu: Q♠Q♦
Kisacikoglu's queens couldn't hold as Angelov found a king on the river of the 4♥9♦6♥8♠K♥ to secure a double up.
Viktor Blom left the feature table, and Daniel Rezaei recapped the hand to PokerNews.
Blom opened to 55,000 before Rezaei three-bet to 165,000. Blom jammed for just under a million and Rezaei called. Blom had pocket nines and was the underdog to Rezaei's queens. Blom failed to improve and was eliminated.
A few hands after, Daniel Dvoress limped in the small blind and called when Rezaei made it 90,000 from the big blins. Dvoress then check-folded to a bet of 80,000 on the K♣8♠2♦ flop.
Martin Kabrhel opened to 60,000 from the button. Roman Hrabec and Salih Atac called from the blinds.
Hrabec jammed for 135,000 on the 8♦6♦5♥ flop and Atac called before Kabrhel ditched his hand.
Roman Hrabec: Q♣9♠
Salih Atac: 7♦5♠
Atac was ahead with his pair of fives while Hrabec had two overs and gutshot. Hrabec turned a double-gutter following the 10♦ turn but was flushed out of contention after the Q♦ river gave Atac the checkmark.
Sirzat Hissou opened to 65,000 second to act before Daniel Rezaei three-bet to 210,000 from the cutoff. Tom-Aksel Bedell four-bet jammed for 775,000 from the big blind, putting the action on Hissou. The latter called and Rezaei got out of the way.
Tom-Aksel Bedell: A♥Q♠
Sirzat Hissou: A♦K♣
Bedell called for a queen but that asked for a jack after he had a draw to Broadway on the K♥10♦3♠ flop. The 7♦ turn and A♠ river provided no help and the Norwegian bowed out late on in Day 1.
Action was picked up with Alex Foxen all in against Enrico Camosci. Camosci had Foxen slightly covered.
Alex Foxen: 3♠3♦
Enrico Camosci: A♦10♦
Kabrhel called for a ten, which arrived along with a three on the flop of Q♠10♥3♣. Foxen's set held across the 6♥ turn and 4♥ river to leave Camosci short.
The next hand. Camosci was all in and at risk for 105,000. Kabrhel called blind from the big blind.
Enrico Camosci: K♥4♦
Martin Kabrhel: 7♣2♠
Kabrhel once again called for a card, this time a king. Foxen called for a "four-four" flop and it arrived on 4♥9♣4♠. Trips were good for Camosci across the A♥ turn and 6♠ river.
Camosci found himself all in again for 25,000, this time against Fahredin Mustafov.
Enrico Camosci: Q♣Q♥
Fahredin Mustafov: 8♣7♣
Camosci's queens held across the 4♥10♠K♣J♠4♦ flop to secure another double up.
Sirzat Hissou is on the verge of potentially claiming his first World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet after an impressive showing in Event #12: €50,000 NLH Diamond High Roller at the 2024 WSOP Europe, hosted at King's Resort in Rozvadov. The German player ended Day 1 as the chip leader, seizing control in the final hands when his Big Slick sent Tom-Aksel Bedell to the rail. With 3,435,000 chips, Hissou sits in pole position ahead of Daniel Rezaei, who bagged 3,365,000 chips.
Rezaei's climb up the leaderboard was thanks to a pivotal hand against Viktor Blom. Blom four-bet jammed pocket nines into Rezaei's pocket queens, but the Austrian held firm with a clean board to eliminate Blom and become the first player to pass the three million chip mark.
Late registrant Martin Kabrhel secured a top-three spot with 2,155,000 chips, but he trails the leaders by 30 big blinds.
€50,000 NLH Diamond High Roller Chip Counts
Rank
Player
Country
Chip Count
Big Blinds
1
Sirzat Hissou
Germany
3,435,000
86
2
Daniel Rezaei
Austria
3,365,000
84
3
Martin Kabrhel
Czechia
2,155,000
54
4
Salih Atac
Switzerland
1,910,000
48
5
Stephen Chidwick
United Kingdom
1,585,000
40
6
Daniel Dvoress
Canada
1,125,000
28
7
Kristen Foxen
Canada
1,065,000
27
8
Fahredin Mustafov
Bulgaria
1,000,000
25
9
Alex Foxen
United States
930,000
23
10
Orpen Kisacikoglu
Turkey
875,000
22
11
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Austria
655,000
16
12
Enrico Camosci
Italy
520,000
13
13
Sergi Reixach
Spain
350,000
9
Astedt Among Those to Fall on Day 1
As expected, the €50,000 buy-in attracted poker’s elite and VIPs eager to capture WSOP glory and a slice of the €1,000,000 guaranteed prize pool. After 12 levels of play, 13 of the 19 entries advanced to Day 2, which resumes at 2 p.m. local time on Friday, October 4.
Kristen and Alex Foxen
Notable names returning for the finale of the €50,000 NLH Diamond High Roller include several accomplished bracelet winners. Among them are British poker phenom Stephen Chidwick, Canadian high roller Daniel Dvoress, and the formidable husband-and-wife duo, Alex Foxen and Kristen Foxen. Also returning is Turkish high-stakes regular and 2022 champion of this event, Orpen Kisacikoglu.
A. Foxen has already come close to victory this series, but was denied his second WSOP bracelet by Alessandro Pichierri in Event #8: €25,000 NLH GGMillion€. Foxen made an impressive comeback from the short stack in that event, securing a €223,900 payday on Tuesday. He will be looking to recreate that comeback magic and claim victory this time around.
K. Foxen was the only player to fire a second bullet into the Diamond High Roller after Kisacikoglu caught her speeding in the early stages. This left her on fumes and Hissou collected the rest of K. Foxen's stack to mark her as the day's first casualty. On her second bite of the cherry, she bagged slightly north of the 1 million chip starting stack, ending the first stage with 1,065,000.
Niklas Astedt
Niklas Astedt, the 2024 WSOP Main Event third-place finisher, was next to bust. The Swedish online poker legend found himself in a brutal cooler, running ace-king into Hissou's pocket aces in a five-bet preflop pot.
Boris Angelov, who finished two spots below Astedt in Poker's World Championship, was next to depart. Blom was vanquished next ahead of Salih Atac eliminating Roman Hrabec during the night’s final level. The last player to bow out was Bedell, though Enrico Camosci barely avoided joining him after surviving two all-ins late in the night.
Along with the eliminated players, new players can also hop into the action, as late registration remains open until the end of Level 14, the second level of Day 2. With the stakes high and a coveted WSOP bracelet on the line, there’s still time for fresh faces or returning players to etch their name in poker's history books.
As always, stay tuned and follow all the action on PokerNews to see which player becomes poker's latest champion.
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