Event #1: €1,100 No-Limit Hold'em MONSTER STACK Dia 1c | 2017 World Series of Poker Europe

2017-10-22 02:08 UTC+2

Sander van Wesemael Bags the Lead After Day 1C

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Nível 14 : 1,200/2,400, 400 ante

The three starting flights have all come to an end in Event #1: €1,100 No-Limit Hold'Em MONSTER STACK at the World Series of Poker Europe. Sander van Wesemael bagged the largest stack after Day 1C and will head into Day 2 with the chip lead bringing 323,500 chips with him.

Van Wesemael is coming off an impressive summer in Europe, capturing the title in three €330 PokerStars Cup events in a row. His largest cash came at the event in Barcelona where he took home €127,000. Van Wesemael made a deep run in the WSOP International Circuit Main Event in Rozvadov but bowed in 38th place. He will be looking to add to his already impressive $541,220 career earnings dating back to the end of 2014.

There were a total of 306 entries that took to the felt on Day 1C but only 64 were able to find a bag at the end of the day. Valentin Vornicu was one of those, bagging the second largest stack of 296,500. Vornicu, now calling California home, has over $1,000,000 in live tournament earnings. His largest came just one year ago when he finished in 23rd place at the WSOP Main Event for $269,430. Giovanni Petroni rounds out the top three with 239,000 after he sent Phil Hellmuth packing earlier in the day.

Some other familiar names to make it through to Day 2 include Scott Stewart (207,500), Konstantinos Tsirakidis (178,000), Georgios Zisimopoulos (102,500), Allen Kessler (95,500), Ivo Donev (72,000), and Dominik Desset (47,000).

Many notables sat down for their third bullet today but were still unable to make anything happen. John Racener, Alex Foxen, Kristen Bicknell, Kenny Hallaert, Chris Ferguson, Jeff Lisandro, and Marc MacDonnell were a few to come up empty-handed. Bertrand Grospellier, Phil Hellmuth, Roberto Romanello, Brandon Cantu, and Jan Timo Jobmann were also sent to the rail throughout the day.

Martin Kabrhel entered the field rather early compared to usual, and he had a rollercoaster kind of day. At some points, his chips were moving more than his mouth which is also uncharacteristic. Kabrhel found a massive double up with pocket fours versus ace-king when the flop came . Soon after, however, Kabrhel's pocket aces got cracked by Konstantinos Tsirakidis when Tsirakidis flopped a set of sevens. Kabrhel left the tournament area but not without leaving a few memorable comments behind.

There will be a total of 114 players returning on Sunday for Day 2 and the money bubble will be in everyone's eyes when the action resumes. With a total of 561 entries throughout the three starting flights, there will be a prizepool of €538,280 to battle for. There will be 85 places being paid, with a min-cash worth €1,592 and the eventual champion taking home €117,708.

The action will resume on Sunday at 2:00 P.M. local time inside the Poker Arena at King's Casino. Continue to follow along with the PokerNews live reporting team as we bring you all of the live updates from the tournament floor.

Day 2 Seat Draw

Table	Seat	Player	Nationality	Chip Count	Big Blinds
83	1	Ivo Donev	Austria	72,000	24
83	2	Sasa Stancic	Canada	42,000	14
83	3	Erich Kollmann	Austria	119,000	40
83	4	Pavel Šourek	Czech Republic	54,000	18
83	5	Walid Abdi Ali	Germany	73,500	25
83	6	Serge Danis	Switzerland	113,500	38
83	7	Viktor Kovachev	Bulgaria	88,000	29
83	8	Theodoros Aidonopoulos	Greece	75,000	25
83	9	Jonas Holm	Sweden	72,500	24

84	1	Eddy Scharf	Germany	59,000	20
84	2	Arsenii Karmatckii	Russian Federation	72,500	24
84	3	Jesper Mertz	Denmark	64,000	21
84	4	Aleksandr Pantiukhin	Russian Federation	100,500	34
84	5	David Dolák	Czech Republic	40,000	13
84	6	Aleksandar Tomović	Serbia	22,000	7
84	7	Patrik Ciklamíni	Slovakia	35,500	12
84	8	Alexander Schlien	Germany	31,500	11
84	9	Alexandre Viard	France	118,500	40

89	1	Domenico Gala	Italy	64,500	22
89	2	Hamza Miri	Germany	124,000	41
89	3	Usman Siddique	United Kingdom	111,000	37
89	4	Zhivko Sotirov	Bulgaria	63,000	21
89	5	Maciej Kondraszuk	Poland	46,000	15
89	6	Avelino Hernani Ribeiro	Portugal	51,500	17
89	7	Sergio Hamamoto	Portugal	107,000	36
89	8	Micky Blasi	Malta	213,000	71
89	9	Pawel Czichowski	Germany	199,000	66

90	1	Ali Sameeian	Germany	80,500	27
90	2	Helma Weber	Germany	102,000	34
90	3	Werner Scharnagl	Australia	39,000	13
90	4	Vincent Moscati	United States	105,500	35
90	5	Adi Rajkovic	Austria	90,000	30
90	6	Ján Bendík	Slovakia	101,000	34
90	7	Yohan Zenou	France	88,500	30
90	8	Olivian Balint	Romania	42,000	14
90	9	Darren Delahunty	United Kingdom	44,000	15

95	1	Sergio Fernandez	Spain	267,000	89
95	2	Sander van Wesemael	Netherlands	323,500	108
95	3	Mario Mosböck	Austria	71,500	24
95	4	Konstantinos Tsirakidis	Germany	178,000	59
95	5	Andriy Palyuga	Czech Republic	40,500	14
95	6	Ricardo Chauriye	Chile	96,000	32
95	7	Andre Reich	Germany	26,500	9
95	8	Bruno Tarisco	Italy	41,500	14
95	9	Thomas Morstad	Norway	64,500	22

96	1	Jakob Miegel	Germany	29,500	10
96	2	Petter Solli Berg	Norway	33,500	11
96	3	Emil Lukáč	Slovakia	192,000	64
96	4	Maxim Lykov	Russian Federation	153,500	51
96	5	Mike Leah	Canada	96,000	32
96	6	Jeff Cormier	Canada	265,000	88
96	7	Sondre Einarsen	Norway	57,000	19
96	8	Dominik Arnold	Austria	167,500	56
96	9	Yaniv Botbol	France	72,000	24

101	1	Scott Stewart	United States	207,500	69
101	2	Valentin Vornicu	United States	296,500	99
101	3	Tobias Bornefalk	Sweden	207,000	69
101	4	Yehuda Cohen	Germany	105,500	35
101	5	Carlo Savinelli	Italy	55,500	19
101	6	Matthias Gerigk	Germany	47,000	16
101	7	David Petrzelka	Czech Republic	83,500	28
101	8	Sebastián Kos	Czech Republic	104,500	35
101	9	Tezer Cetindag	Germany	21,500	7

102	1	Ariel Morgenshtern	Israel	74,000	25
102	2	Zdenko Slavík	Slovakia	33,000	11
102	3	Dzmitry Rabotkin	Czech Republic	96,500	32
102	4	Andrej Desset	Slovakia	86,500	29
102	5	Walter Treccarichi	Italy	90,000	30
102	6	Ismael Bojang	Austria	268,500	90
102	7	Hannes Neurauter	Germany	106,000	35
102	8	Stoyan Obreshkov	Bulgaria	45,000	15
102	9	Matouš Houžvíček	Czech Republic	37,500	13

107	1	Kai Gimre	Norway	84,000	28
107	2	James Akenhead	United Kingdom	46,500	16
107	3	Paul Michaelis	Germany	11,500	4
107	4	Andriy Gerts	Ukraine	106,500	36
107	5	Viliyan Petleshkov	Bulgaria	178,500	60
107	6	Ryan Hefter	United States	208,000	69
107	7	Pierre Neuville	Belgium	122,500	41
107	8	Avi Hamo	Israel	41,000	14
107	9	Josef Guláš	Czech Republic	88,500	30

108	1	Ryan Hughes	United States	81,500	27
108	2	Oleksandr Shcherbak	Ukraine	140,000	47
108	3	Robert Schulz	Austria	143,000	48
108	4	Timo Kamphues	Germany	97,000	32
108	5	Peter Bstieler	Germany	96,500	32
108	6	Fahredin Mustafov	Bulgaria	183,000	61
108	7	Richard Pfeffer	Hungary	39,500	13
108	8	Chi Cuong Huynh	Switzerland	85,000	28
108	9	Thanh Hoang	Czech Republic	179,000	60

113	2	Giovanni Petroni	Italy	239,000	80
113	3	Benjamin Garcia Rivera	Spain	155,500	52
113	4	Urs Hauser	Switzerland	40,000	13
113	5	James Hoeppner	United States	39,500	13
113	6	Georgios Zisimopoulos	Greece	102,500	34
113	7	Francois Corouge	France	69,500	23
113	8	Dominik Desset	Slovakia	47,000	16
113	9	Federico Quevedo	Costa Rica	56,500	19

114	1	Aneris Adomkevicius	Lithuania	153,000	51
114	2	Milan Topoly	Slovakia	26,000	9
114	4	Matthias Kürschner	Germany	135,000	45
114	5	René Crha	Czech Republic	186,500	62
114	6	Tal Shemon Cohen	Israel	90,000	30
114	7	Thomas Lentrodt	Germany	47,500	16
114	8	Allen Kessler	United States	95,500	32
114	9	Vlado Sevo	Austria	123,000	41

119	1	Atila Aydin	Germany	34,500	12
119	2	Viktor Katzenberger	Hungary	92,000	31
119	4	Georges Ghossan	Lebanon	104,000	35
119	5	Christophe Pereira	Portugal	170,000	57
119	6	Morten Glosli	Norway	23,500	8
119	7	Steffen Retterholt	Norway	37,000	12
119	8	Dario Marinelli	Italy	117,000	39
119	9	Romain Follet	France	44,500	15

Tags: Alex Foxen Allen Kessler Bertrand Grospellier Brandon Cantu Chris Ferguson Dominik Desset Georgios Zisimopoulos Giovanni Petroni Jan Timo Jobmann Jeffrey Lisandro John Racener Kenny Hallaert Kristen Bicknell Marc MacDonnell Martin Kabrhel Phil Hellmuth Roberto Romanello Sander van Wesemael Scott Stewart Valentin Vornicu

2017-10-22 00:16 UTC+2

Castelluccio Rivers a Flush, ElkY Eliminated

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Nível 13 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

Yehuda Cohen opened to 5,000 from the hijack and Sergio Castelluccio pushed all-in for 29,200 on the button. Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier was the short stack in the big blind and put his last 13,000 in the middle as well. Cohen made the call and all three hands were face up.

Castelluccio:
Cohen:
Grospellier:

The flop came and Cohen hit a pair of jacks to take the lead but Castelluccio picked up a flush draw. The turn was the , changing nothing, and the river brought the . Castelluccio rivered a flush and doubled through Cohen, while eliminating Grospellier late in the evening.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Yehuda Cohen	96,000	-24,000
Sergio Castelluccio	73,000	33,000
Bertrand Grospellier	Eliminado

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2017-10-22 00:10 UTC+2

Kortan From Hero to Zero

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Nível 13 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

In the last break, Veysel Kortan was the dominating chip leader and now his stack has been reduced to zero, his seat was empty and Sander van Wesemael was all smiles on the other side of the table.

According to van Wesemael, Kortan raised blind to 3,200 in the previous level and one opponent called before the Dutchman three-bet to 11,000. Only Kortan called and check-raised a flop of from 10,000 to 28,000, which van Wesemael called. After the turn, Kortan bet 28,000 and picked up a call before shoving the river for 47,500.

Van Wesemael said in table chat he would need some time to make up the mind, to which the clock was called but not enforced yet. After more consideration, van Wesemael called with the for two pair and Kortan sheepishly turned over (no spade) for complete air to bust with a bang.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Sander van Wesemael	300,000	162,200
Veysel Kortan	Eliminado

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2017-10-21 23:58 UTC+2

Kabrhel's Rollercoaster of a Day Ends in Tragedy

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Nível 12 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

The flop read and Martin Kabrhel checked to his opponent who fired a bet of 6,400 into a pot of around 8,000. Kabrhel check-raised to 13,000 and his opponent pushed all-in. Kabrhel snapped him off and tabled for a set. His opponent was drawing to a chop with . The turn was the and the river brought the to earn Kabrhel a double up to over 80,000 chips.

A few hands later, Kabrhel was involved in a three-way pot with Konstantinos Tsirakidis and one other player that was all-in for around 15,000. The flop came and the action was checked to Kabrhel who bet 14,000 on the button. Tsirakidis check-raised to 33,000 and Kabrhel shipped all-in. Tsirakidis instantly called and tabled . Kabrhel showed and the all-in player held . The turn was the and the river brought the . Tsirakidis doubled up through Kabrhel leaving him with just 12,000 chips.

Soon after, Kabrhel got the remaining chips in from the cutoff with the and Kai Gimre in the big blind called with . The board ran out and ace-high was good enough to drag in the pot and eliminate Kabrhel.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Konstantinos Tsirakidis	185,600	185,600
Kai Gimre	105,000	105,000
Martin Kabrhel	Eliminado

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2017-10-21 22:58 UTC+2

Foxen and Ferguson Eliminated

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Nível 11 : 600/1,200, 200 ante

Joining the action on the turn, the stacks of Alexandre Viard in the big blind and Alex Foxen on the button went into the middle of the table. There were some 20,000 in the middle and Viard was the player at risk for 45,800.

Alexandre Viard:
Alex Foxen:

The on the river improved Viard to a flush and Foxen was left with fewer than one big blind.

In the next hand, David Urban shoved for 9,800 and Foxen called all in for 600 from the cutoff. Urban showed and Foxen had two live cards with , the board came . While Foxen was eliminated, Chris Ferguson shared the same fate on a different table, ensuring that neither of them would add points in the Player of the Year race in event #1 in Rozvadov.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Alexandre Viard	105,000
David Urban	15,000
Alex Foxen	Eliminado
Chris Ferguson	Eliminado

Tags: Alex Foxen Alexandre Viard Chris Ferguson David Urban

2017-10-21 22:23 UTC+2

No Cash for Hellmuth in the MONSTER STACK

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Nível 10 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

The seat of Phil Hellmuth was empty and the 14-time bracelet winner will have to wait until the next event at King's Casino to take another shot at the elusive 15th bracelet. As confirmed by Giovanni Petroni and Georgios Zisimopoulos, it was Petroni who sent the Poker Brat to the rail.

According to Petroni, Hellmuth raised to 2,500 from the cutoff and Petroni three-bet to 7,800 on the button before Hellmuth shoved for 27,000. Petroni called with to see Hellmuth turn over . Petroni got there with top two pair on the flop before turn and river bricked off.

Petroni then grew his stack far bigger when he flopped a set of eights to crack the pocket aces of Dominik Arnold.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Giovanni Petroni	95,000
Dominik Arnold	50,000	-20,000
Phil Hellmuth	Eliminado

Tags: Dominik Arnold Georgios Zisimopoulos Phil Hellmuth Giovanni Petroni

2017-10-21 21:50 UTC+2

Jobmann Gets Flushed Out

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Nível 10 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

Anatoliy Zyrin raised to 2,000 and Christian Arstad called on the button, Jan Timo Jobmann then shoved for 7,000 from the small blind. Zyrin reraised to 23,000 and kept 3,800 behind to see Arstad call. Zyrin announced a check in the dark and Arstad checked behind the flop. After the turn, Zyrin moved all in and Arstad called it off.

Jan Timo Jobmann:
Anatoliy Zyrin:
Christian Arstad:

"Nuts," Zyrin announced as he rolled over his made flush while Valentin Vornicu asked how he even got into that hand. The river was already meaningless and Jobmann departed, as did everyone else right after when the table broke.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Anatoliy Zyrin	56,000	36,000
Christian Arstad	20,000	-30,000
Jan Timo Jobmann	Eliminado

Tags: Anatoliy Zyrin Christian Arstad Jan Timo Jobmann Valentin Vornicu

2017-10-21 19:49 UTC+2

Michaelis With a One-Two Punch

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Nível 8 : 300/600, 75 ante

There was a raise to 1,400 from early position and Paul Michaelis called directly to his left. The hijack moved all-in for around 8,000 and the initial raiser also moved all-in over the top. Michaelis instantly called and the table erupted in "Oohs and aahs".

Michaelis was sitting in the dark with and was up against the from one opponent and the from the other. The board ran out and Michaelis scored a double knockout to climb over 50,000 chips.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Paul Michaelis	57,200	31,200

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2017-10-21 19:16 UTC+2

Scott Stewart Won't Let go

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Nível 7 : 250/500, 75 ante

Scott Stewart has made his way to the King's Casino all the way from his hometown in California. Stewart made a deep run in this year's WSOP Main Event, finishing in 13th place for $535,000. He is off to a hot start in his first appearance at WSOP Europe thus far.

On a flop reading , Stewart was facing a bet of 2,300 from the player in early position. Stewart made the call and the hit the turn. The player in early position fired another bet of 5,500 and Stewart continued to call. The landed on the river and both players checked. Stewart's opponent turned over but Stewart flopped top pair with , earning himself the pot.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Scott Stewart	58,800	20,800

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2017-10-21 17:47 UTC+2

Lucky Ladies for the Lady

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Nível 5 : 150/300, 50 ante

There was a raise to 1,000 from early position and two callers with the action on Aylar Lie in the big blind. She shipped all-in for 8,350 and was called by the initial raiser. Another player folded face up and the two remaining hands were tabled.

Lie:
Opponent:

Lie flopped her opponent dead when it fell giving her quad queens. The turn was the and the river landed the . Lie more than doubled up, nearly getting back to a starting stack.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Aylar Lie	18,800	16,500

Tags: Aylar Lie