Just before the blinds increased, Felix "xflixx" Schneiders opened from the cutoff to 1,760 and got a call by "konraad" in the small blind and "CPalCR" in the big blind.
Schneiders fired out for 3,934 after the came on the flop. "konraad" raised to 17,762.
"CPalCR" got out of the way before Schneiders three-bet jammed for 33,920. "konraad" called and players turned over their cards.
Felix "xflixx" Schneiders:
"konraad":
Schneiders had a set of snowmen but had to fade some outs with his opponent holding a flush draw. No diamonds came on the turn nor on the river and Schneiders doubled up.
It wasn't long ago that Ramon "RamonColillas" Colillas was down to just a couple of blinds. Now, he has well above a starting stack.
A player opened to 2,530 from middle position. "Korrshunof" called from the button before Colillas jammed for 18,833 from the small blind. The opening raiser folded and "Korrshunof" called.
Ramon "RamonColillas" Colillas:
"Korrshunof":
Colillas' cowboys held strong with the coming out on the board to double up.
Vitor "vitoradiron" Adiron open-jammed his big stack from the small blind with and Ben "Spraggy" Spragg called off his stack of 13,412 in the big blind with .
It was looking good for Spragg to double after his opponent whiffed on the flop. However, a paired up Adiron on the turn and Spragg bricked the river to lose his stack.
Spragg immediately hopped back into the action after the hand for his fourth and final bullet of the WCOOP Low Main Event.
"SkgalgMSO" opened to 3,200 from under the gun. Ben "Spraggy" Spragg three-bet jammed for 34,050 and "SkgalgMSO" called.
Ben "Spraggy" Spragg:
"SkgalgMSO":
The came on the flop to give Spragg a better pair than his opponent hit. The followed on the turn to give Spragg two pair. However, the spiked the river to give "SkgalgMSO" trips and Spragg was ousted for the fourth and final time.
Shortly after, Ramon "RamonColillas" Colillas dusted off his third bullet and is now onto his fourth and final bullet.
Ramon "RamonColillas" Colillas three-bet jammed for about 22,000 with and was called by "VIgnasPokerV" with .
The ran out on the board and Colillas lost his fourth and final bullet.
Shortly after, Arlie "Prince Pablo" Shaban lost all his chips. He went back in for a second bullet and lost that as well. Shaban is now onto his third bullet with time clicking away on Day 1.
Day 1 of the four-day WCOOP-72-L: $55 NLHE 8-Max NLHE Main Event at PokerStars was a monumental success with 34,426 entrants generating a $1,721,300 prize pool.
This not only already crushed the $1.25 million guarantee but the prize pool will continue to grow with late registration open until near the start of Day 2 on Monday, Sept. 21 at 3:05 p.m. EDT / 7:05 p.m. CEST.
A total of 8,336 players survived the opening day battle led by Hungary's "uzzy993" with 671,549 in chips. This places him more than 80 big blinds ahead of his nearest competitors in Panama's "yayo8422", Austria's "roman1607", and Germany's "Hering CNG" all bagging slightly more than 500,000 in chips.
WCOOP-72-L: $55 NLHE [8-Max, NLHE Main Event], $1.25M Gtd Day 1 Leaderboard
Place
Player
Country
Chips
Big Blinds
1
uzzy993
Hungary
671,549
373
2
yayo8422
Panama
521,735
290
3
roman1607
Austria
510,437
284
4
Hering CNG
Germany
507,384
282
5
dinosg
Canada
481,095
267
6
zeisseli
Finland
476,837
265
7
David7770
Georgia
470,670
261
8
assortiment
Russia
460,084
256
9
suits.sunman
Russia
454,246
252
10
tarantino1111
Chile
440,737
245
Team PokerStars Update
A total of eight PokerStars Ambassadors joined the action with half that making it through to Day 2. Felix "xflixx" Schneiders was the most successful of the pack after growing his 25,000 starting stack into 90,517 in chips using a single entry.
Mason "Pye_Face21" Pye and Georgina "GJReggie" James also both advanced to Day 2 on a single bullet while it took Arlie "Prince Pablo" Shaban three tries before he got through as well.
Meanwhile, Fintan "easywithaces" Hand, Ben "Spraggy" Spragg, and 2019 PSPC Champion Ramon "RamonColillas" Colillas were all on unable to advance but it wasn't for a lack of trying with the trio each firing the maximum four bullets.
Tom “MajinBoob” Hayward also didn't advance for Day 1 but called it a day after two bullets. Hayward may still be witnessed back in the field as he like many others can still re-enter until the start of Day 2.
Stay Tuned for Day 2
The action will resume for Day 2 on Monday, Sept. 21 at 1:05 p.m. EDT / 7:05 p.m. CEST and should prove to be an action-packed day. Not only will the big field be trimmed down past the 4,863 players or so that will get paid but deep into the money with the action concluding with just 160 players remaining.
Blind levels will be trimmed down from 20 minutes per level to 15 minutes the rest of the way.
Stay tuned at PokerNews as we bring you the highlights of the WCOOP Low Main Event at PokerStars.