Monday, October 23, 2017 8:14 PM Local Time
"There is Another Chance Tomorrow"
Picking up the action on the flop, Oskar Wolski in the small blind and Mike Leah on the button were enjoying some table banter with the former moaning "why did I raise?" There were 4,500 in front of Wolski and Leah had reraised to 16,500. "There is another chance tomorrow," Leah added with a smile on the face and Wolski eventually moved all in to pick up a snap call by Leah with near identical stacks.
Mike Leah:
Oskar Wolski:
The turn and river completed the board and the stacks were counted. Wolski had 31,000 and Leah was covered, the Canadian left the table with "I really wish you guys good luck."
Oskar Wolski | 60,000 | 22,000 |
Mike Leah | 0 | -33,000 |
Monday, October 23, 2017 8:06 PM Local Time
Obadia Rising
The seat that formerly belonged to Georgios Zisimopoulos is now occupied by Kenny Hallaert while Barny Boatman and Alex Foxen chipped up significantly.
Just now Jose Obadia sent an opponent to the rail after defending his big blind to see a flop of . Obadia check-raised and called the shove of the button with and faced for top two. The turn instantly improved the Spaniard to a straight, and the on the river was a blank.
Barny Boatman | 89,000 | 50,000 |
Jose Obadia | 62,000 | 24,000 |
Chris Ferguson | 40,000 | 23,000 |
Alex Foxen | 28,000 | 18,000 |
Pierre Neuville | 26,000 | 16,000 |
Theodoros Aidonopoulos | 25,000 | 15,000 |
Georgios Zisimopoulos | 0 | -62,000 |
Pawel Bakiewicz | 0 | -10,000 |
Besim Hot | 0 | -7,000 |
Monday, October 23, 2017 7:59 PM Local Time
Hellmuth Among Late Entrants
The registration has officially closed and the screens show a total of 217 entries, of which 78 remain. Martin Kabrhel and Christopher Back were eliminated after coming back from dinner while Kenny Hallaert and Phil Hellmuth were among the last to register.
Phil Hellmuth | 10,000 | |
Kenny Hallaert | 10,000 | 10,000 |
Martin Kabrhel | 0 | 0 |
Christopher Back | 0 | -8,900 |
Monday, October 23, 2017 6:56 PM Local Time
Dinner Break on Day 1a
The calm after the thunderstorm has entered the poker arena of the King's Casino, as the remaining 74 players out of 213 entries were sent into a 60-minute dinner break. When they return, the tournament will switch into Freezeout mode and the payouts for the first starting day will be revealed. Whether or not they will be reached and only 12 players bag up before the end of level 18 remains to be seen.
Monday, October 23, 2017 6:48 PM Local Time
Saliba Skyrockets Into the Lead
Fahredin Mustafov entered the poker arena with a new ticket in the hand and his former seat was empty. John Racener confirmed that he had busted with the nut full house against the quads of Vivian Saliba, who indeed had a monster stack as a result.
Martin Kabrhel entered not long ago and busted with against the of Felipe Ramos, another player was in the showdown as well with to see Ramos triple up.
Last but not least, Marek Blasko folded to a push by Jan-Peter Jachtmann on the flop and sent his remaining few chips over to Chris Ferguson soon after.
Vivian Saliba | 140,000 | 110,000 |
Jeff Lisandro | 75,000 | -3,000 |
Georgios Zisimopoulos | 62,000 | 7,000 |
Christian Arstad | 55,000 | 21,000 |
Alexander Lakhov | 43,000 | 12,000 |
Jose Obadia | 38,000 | 6,000 |
Felipe Ramos | 34,000 | 25,000 |
Dario Alioto | 34,000 | 5,000 |
Thomas Pohnke | 32,000 | 10,000 |
Rene Berube | 32,000 | 12,000 |
Chris Ferguson | 17,000 | 4,000 |
Jan-Peter Jachtmann | 14,000 | 4,000 |
Alex Foxen | 10,000 | 10,000 |
Fahredin Mustafov | 10,000 | -51,000 |
Kristen Bicknell | 10,000 | 10,000 |
Martin Kabrhel | 0 | 0 |
Marek Blasko | 0 | -32,000 |
Monday, October 23, 2017 6:45 PM Local Time
Frank Busts
The last hour hasn't gone as well for Martin Frank and the Swiss was just spotted all in with a short-stack on a heads-up flop of with the only after having committed most of his stack preflop already. Frank received a quick call by his table neighbor on the button with and was drawing dead as soon as the hit on the turn.
Martin Frank | 0 | -16,000 |
Monday, October 23, 2017 6:37 PM Local Time
Triple Up for Israelashvili
Roland Israelashvili re-entered not long ago and the first big pot he was involved in would result in a triple up.
On the flop of the stacks of Israelashvili, Roberto Romanello and Ethem Tosun went in to create the following showdown:
Roland Israelashvili:
Roberto Romanello:
Ethem Tosun:
The turn and river completed the board and Israelashvili missed out on the diamonds only to spike the nut straight, while both opponents chopped the side pot with the same inferior straight.
Roland Israelashvili | 33,000 | 23,000 |
Roberto Romanello | 6,000 | -4,000 |
Ethem Tosun | 5,000 | -13,000 |
Monday, October 23, 2017 6:33 PM Local Time
Boatman Essentially Triples
There were already 15,000 in the middle and the flop showed . Robert Wirth moved all in for his last 6,525 from the small blind and Joseph Di Rosa Rojas called in the hijack. Barny Boatman moved all in from the button for more than Wirth and Di Rosa Rojas called.
Robert Wirth:
Barny Boatman:
Joseph Di Rosa Rojas:
"I am loving my hand right now," the defending champion Boatman said and locked up the big pot with the turn, making the river a formality. Boatman sent Wirth to the rail and doubled through Di Roja Rosas for 8,300.
Barny Boatman | 39,000 | 18,000 |
Joseph Di Rosa Rojas | 20,000 | 20,000 |
Robert Wirth | 0 | -20,000 |
Monday, October 23, 2017 6:20 PM Local Time
Wolski Doubles Through Cohen
Oskar Wolski raised to 1,300 first to act and Tal Shemon Cohen three-bet to 4,600 from one seat over, which Wolski called. On the flop, Wolski check-raised all in and Cohen called after having invested another 8,500 until that point already.
Oskar Wolski:
Tal Shemon Cohen:
The turn and river were both blanks and Wolski doubled for 15,450.
Oskar Wolski | 38,000 | 38,000 |
Tal Shemon Cohen | 9,000 | -19,000 |
Monday, October 23, 2017 6:15 PM Local Time
"Now I get to Play In Position"
Brandon Cantu was eliminated after getting it in with the third nuts against the nuts of one opponent, while Mike Leah folded the second nuts. Cantu returned to the very same table and took a seat between his nemesis of the previous hand and Leah, joking "now I get to play in position."
Roberto Romanello busted and got the exact same seat one table over again and the same also applied for Chris Ferguson.
Ivo Donev | 70,000 | 15,000 |
Mike Leah | 33,000 | -5,000 |
Alexander Lakhov | 31,000 | 15,000 |
James Hoeppner | 28,000 | 17,000 |
Roland Israelashvili | 10,000 | 0 |
Brandon Cantu | 10,000 | 500 |
Sander van Wesemael | 8,500 | 8,500 |
Monday, October 23, 2017 6:09 PM Local Time
Mustafov Shows a Set
Mike Leah limped in from the cutoff and called a raise to 2,350 by the button before both players checked down the flop and thge turn. Leah check-folded the river and flashed to see his opponent offer to pick two of the four cards. Leah took the opportunity with a smile on the face and flashed the .
Fahredin Mustafov played the same game over on another table when checking a flop of out of the big blind. John Racener bet 1,500 and Mustafov check-raised to 6,750. Racener folded and Mustafov first flashed the followed by for a set of deuces.
Fahredin Mustafov | 61,000 | 5,000 |
Mike Leah | 38,000 | -2,000 |
John Racener | 29,000 | -1,000 |
Monday, October 23, 2017 6:01 PM Local Time
Updated Stacks
Two levels of late registration and unlimited re-entries remain and among those to bust recently were Kenny Hallaert and James Akenhead. The latter was part of a double elimination in favor of Ivo Donev.
Jeff Lisandro | 78,000 | 16,000 |
Konstantinos Alexiou | 73,000 | 3,000 |
Fahredin Mustafov | 56,000 | 1,000 |
Ivo Donev | 55,000 | 15,000 |
Michael Magalashvili | 35,000 | 17,000 |
Christian Arstad | 34,000 | 34,000 |
Marek Blasko | 32,000 | 21,000 |
Vivian Saliba | 30,000 | 7,000 |
John Racener | 30,000 | 15,000 |
Dario Alioto | 29,000 | -10,000 |
Thomas Pohnke | 22,000 | 12,000 |
Yehuda Cohen | 22,000 | 0 |
Rene Berube | 20,000 | 7,000 |
Robert Wirth | 20,000 | -9,000 |
Alexander Lakhov | 16,000 | 16,000 |
Chris Ferguson | 13,000 | 3,000 |
James Hoeppner | 11,000 | 1,000 |
Roberto Romanello | 10,000 | 10,000 |
Felipe Ramos | 9,000 | 9,000 |
Kenny Hallaert | 0 | -35,000 |
Rolf Galasen | 0 | 0 |
James Akenhead | 0 | -10,000 |
Monday, October 23, 2017 5:35 PM Local Time
Half the Field Remains at Second Break
According to the screens there are already 179 entries, of which 90 players remain, and they have been sent into their second 20-minute break of the day.
Monday, October 23, 2017 5:33 PM Local Time
Another One Bites the Dust
Four players including Vincent Moscati in the big blind and Ivo Donev from under the gun headed to the flop of and the action checked to the player one seat over from Donev, who bet 1,600. All three opponents called and the appeared on the turn. Again Moscati and Donev checked and the pot-sized bet of 7,900 followed.
The button called all in for 6,800 while Moscati and Donev quickly got out of the way. The button had for top two pair only to see his opponent turn over for bottom set. A blank river changed nothing and yet another player ran out of chips. James Akenhead joined the action on the same table, having registered not long ago.
Ivo Donev | 40,000 | 2,000 |
Vincent Moscati | 28,000 | 5,000 |
Chris Moneymaker | 25,000 | 15,000 |
James Akenhead | 10,000 | 10,000 |
Monday, October 23, 2017 5:30 PM Local Time
Lisandro Busts One
On the heads-up turn of , Jeff Lisandro bet 2,000 from the big blind and the player in under the gun moved all in for 7,675. Lisandro called after brief consideration.
Opponent:
Jeff Lisandro:
The river turned the two pair of Lisandro into a full house and the opponent was done for now. Some table chat broke out right after with Ethem Tosun and Lisandro added "if he would have played his hand properly, raised preflop and raised the flop, I would have folded."
Jeff Lisandro | 62,000 | 52,000 |
Monday, October 23, 2017 5:23 PM Local Time
Zisimopoulos Rising
Georgios Zisimopoulos sent Anatoliy Zyrin to the rail and joined the big stacks in level six while Mike Leah also further bumped his stack. The action has become a bit less frantic, but more than 70 bullets were already fired without success with the screens showing 95 players out of 170 entries remaining.
Georgios Zisimopoulos | 55,000 | 45,000 |
Fahredin Mustafov | 55,000 | 20,000 |
Mike Leah | 40,000 | 16,000 |
Jose Obadia | 32,000 | 2,000 |
Tal Shemon Cohen | 28,000 | 4,000 |
Yehuda Cohen | 22,000 | 22,000 |
John Racener | 15,000 | 15,000 |
Anatoliy Zyrin | 0 | -19,000 |
Monday, October 23, 2017 5:15 PM Local Time
Racener Busts Again
John Racener had barely sat down for another bullet when he got the stack in preflop and two other players also went at war for a three-way showdown.
Racener had the best of it preflop with the versus and but the board ran out to give one of the opponents quads.
John Racener | 0 | -10,000 |
Monday, October 23, 2017 5:05 PM Local Time
Berude Doubles Through Israelashvili
On the flop of , Roland Israelashvili bet 2,500 and Rene Berude check-raised all in for 4,850 to see Israelashvili call.
Rene Berude:
Roland Israelashvili:
"Oh, I am in good shape," Israelashvili said only to add "not anymore" as soon as the fell on the turn. The river was a mere formality and Berude doubled with the nut straight.
Rene Berube | 13,000 | 13,000 |
Roland Israelashvili | 10,000 | -7,000 |
Monday, October 23, 2017 4:55 PM Local Time
Donev's Stack is Rising
Ivo Donev has built his stack up to almost four times the starting stack after being moved tables. One of the key hands saw him in the big blind with and he flopped the nut straight on a flop of . Two opponents got it in, one holding the bottom end of the straight and the other an open-ended straight draw for the better straight with , however, both turn and river bricked.
Ivo Donev | 38,000 | 19,000 |
Monday, October 23, 2017 4:47 PM Local Time
Frank Forces Out Racener and Saliba
The chips continue to fly from left to right and vice versa, and John Racener busted soon after giving up a three-way pot with Vivian Saliba and Martin Frank. The latter checked the flop and Racener bet 1,800, Saliba called and both folded to the check-raise of Frank for 8,000.
Racener busted soon after to Fahredin Mustafov on that very table and is expected to return with a fresh stack shortly.
Ryan Hughes | 74,000 | 4,000 |
Konstantinos Alexiou | 70,000 | 70,000 |
Fahredin Mustafov | 35,000 | 25,000 |
Kenny Hallaert | 35,000 | -16,000 |
Jose Obadia | 30,000 | 12,000 |
Vincent Moscati | 23,000 | 13,000 |
Vivian Saliba | 23,000 | 10,000 |
Barny Boatman | 21,000 | 2,000 |
Michael Magalashvili | 18,000 | 0 |
Ethem Tosun | 18,000 | 15,750 |
Martin Frank | 16,000 | 16,000 |
John Racener | 10,000 | -4,000 |
Brandon Cantu | 9,500 | 9,500 |
Georgios Koliofotis | 4,500 | 4,500 |