Event #2: €1,090 No-Limit Hold'em
Dia 1a Começado
2011 World Series of Poker Europe
Event #2: €1,090 No-Limit Hold'em
Dias: 1a
Event Info
Resultados Finais
Event Info
Informações do Nível
2011 World Series of Poker Europe
Buy-in
€1,090
Premiação
€740,160
Entries
771
Nível
23
Blinds
10,000 / 20,000
Ante
3,000
The Largest WSOP Europe Event Ever?
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Welcome to the second event at the 2011 World Series of Poker Europe. Today's event should pack the tournament rooms here in Cannes from wall to wall on what is expected to be the largest tournament field in WSOP Europe history.
Back in 2009, the WSOP staff added a £1,000 buy-in event to the schedule. That event in 2009 was won by JP Kelly and he bested the largest-ever WSOP Europe field at 608 entrants. For his win back in 2009, Kelly took home £136,803. The smallest event previously was a £1,500 one in 2008.
As it stands right now, there's already around 275 players signed up for today's flight alone, meaning this should easily become the biggest. This year the buy-in is a little bit less because it's in Euros and not British Pounds and that's another reason this thing is going to explode.
Play is set to kick off here on Day 1a at noon local time and it's going to be a great one. Be sure to stay tuned to PokerNews for all of the coverage.
Structure and Schedule
Each player will begin the tournament with 3,000 chips in this event and each level will last sixty minutes. There is no set schedule for the day time wise, but play will last until 15% of the starting field today remains. Then on Day 1b tomorrow, the field will play the same amount of time as the players did today.
The cards will be in the air shortly.
Nível: 1
Blinds: 25/25
Ante: 0
Shuffle Up and Deal!
Nível 1
: 25/25, 0 ante
The cards are in the air for Event #2 here at the World Series of Poker Europe. Let's go find out who's here, shall we?
Notables in the Field
Here's some of the early notables in the field. Note that Chris Moorman, Barry Greenstein and Jeff Hakim are all seated at the same table.
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More Names
We headed over to Majestic 2 down the hall and found plenty of more names in the field. Jonathan Karamalikis, Dave "Devilfish" Ulliott, Nicolas Chouity and Richard Toth are all seated together at one table. On another table, Dan Smith, Joe Ebanks and Will "The Thrill" Failla are joined. Then there's a third stacked table in the room with Vladimir Shchemelev, Ludovic Lacay, Randy Dorfman and Joseph Cheong.
Our main focus will be on Majestic 1 today and players will be breaking into that room from Majestic 2. We'll wander over there from time to time in order to check in on things, but will keep most of our attention on this main room.
Other names in the room can be found in the list below.
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WSOP Europe By the Numbers
Here's a look at the World Series of Poker Europe events over the years leading up until 2011. The largest prize ever won was by Annette Obrestad in 2007 when she emerged victorious in the Main Event for £1,000,000. Also note that all of the events prior to 2011 were held in London at the Casino at the Empire. All buy-ins and prizes are in British pounds, but will be in Euros this year.
| Year | Event | Players | Winner | 1st-Place Prize |
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| £2,650 H.O.R.S.E. | 105 | Thomas Bihl | £70,875 | |
| £5,250 Pot-Limit Omaha | 156 | Dario Alioto | £234,390 | |
| £10,350 Main Event | 362 | Annette Obrestad | £1,000,000 | |
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| £1,575 No-Limit Hold’em | 410 | Jesper Hougaard | £144,218 | |
| £2,650 H.O.R.S.E. | 110 | Sherkhan Farnood | £76,999 | |
| £5,250 Pot-Limit Omaha | 165 | Theo Jorgensen | £218,626 | |
| £10,350 Main Event | 362 | John Juanda | £868,800 | |
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| £1,075 No-Limit Hold’em | 608 | JP Kelly | £136,803 | |
| £2,650 Pot-Limit Hold’em/Omaha | 158 | Erik Cajelais | £104,677 | |
| £5,250 Pot-Limit Omaha | 154 | Jani Vilmunen | £204,048 | |
| £10,350 Main Event | 334 | Barry Shulman | £801,603 | |
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| £2,650 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em | 244 | Phil Laak | £170,802 | |
| £5,250 Pot-Limit Omaha | 120 | Jeff Lisandro | £159,000 | |
| £1,075 No-Limit Hold’em | 582 | Scott Shelley | £133,857 | |
| £10,350 High Roller Heads Up | 103 | Gus Hansen | £288,409 | |
| £10,350 Main Event | 346 | James Bord | £830,401 |
If you'd like to get a more in-depth look at last year's WSOP Europe, check out our very own Eric Ramsey's Look Back at the 2010 World Series of Poker Europe.
A Few Late Arrivals
Two 2011 World Series of Poker November Niners have joined the field today in Phil Collins and Matt Giannetti. Tom Dwan has also graced us with his presence and is seated at the same table as Jonathan Aguiar to start his tournament. Jean-Robert Bellande came in raising on the first hand he played, but folded to a three-bet and went back to filling out his waiver form.
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Field Growing
Nível 1
: 25/25, 0 ante
Remember when we said that this was expected to be the largest World Series of Poker Europe field ever? Well, it's well on pace for that. The board reads that today's flight already has 370 entrants with 351 remaining. If you simply double that, the record field of 608 will be crushed. Generally in tournaments, Day 1b is greater than Day 1a in two-starting-flight events. That should be the case here as well, which means this one will surely be the record setter.