Rifat Gegic finished third in the 2017 World Series of Poker International Circuit Main Event here at King's Casino a few days ago and continued the good performances with deep runs in yesterday's two flights. Gegic finished 13th and 14th respectively but failed to bag up chips for Day 1. "I will probably finish 15th next," the German said sarcastically and joined the action just now.
Joining the action on the flop, the player in the small blind and Michal Mrakes in the big blind invested 500 each with some 1,100 in the middle already. The fell on the turn and the small blind checked. Mrakes now bet 1,000 and his opponent eventually folded.
Mrakes came close at bagging up a stack for Day 2 last night but was eventually eliminated in the penultimate level of Day 1d.
Among those to be in their seats right at the start were Petr Jelinek, Ivo Donev, Oleksandr Shcherbak, Patrick Schuhl, Oliver Heidel and Sergei Petrushevskii. Shcherbak won the first gold bracelet here at King's Casino while Donev is also among those to have been crowned a WSOP champion previously already.
Another day, another chance to take a shot at the €2,000,000 guaranteed prize pool of Event #5 THE COLOSSUS at the 2017 World Series of Poker Europe awaits with Day 1e, the fifth of ten starting days kicking off at 12 p,m. noon local time. The event comes with a buy-in of €550 and has attracted a total of 760 entries throughout the previous four starting days, however the big fields are yet to come with hotel rooms near and far being sold out for the upcoming days.
Each starting day will play a maximum of 18 levels of 30 minutes each or down to a specific number of hopefuls, which happened to be 11 on all four starting days. The registration for the early flight on each day remains open until the start of level nine at approximately 4.40 p.m. local time and a single re-entry is allowed during that period.
So far, 44 players qualified for Day 2 on Wednesday November 1st 2017 when all remaining players and prize pools will be combined to potentially play down to a final table. The overall chip leader for Day 2 so far is Konstantinos Misailidis after amassing 419,000 last night on Day 1d, while other notables already through include John Racener (334,000), Brandon Cantu (283,500), Stanislaw Miadzel (273,000), Kenny Hallaert (206,000), Alex Foxen (189,000), Marcel Luske (184,500), Mike Leah (166,500), Viliyan Petleshkov (165,500), Ryan Leng (141,000), and defending WSOPE Main Event champion Kevin MacPhee (134,000).
THE COLOSSUS Event Schedule
Day
Date
Information
October 27th
Day 1a at 12pm
11 out of 155 advanced to Day 2
October 27th
Day 1b at 6pm
12 out of 210 advanced to Day 2
October 28th
Day 1c at 12pm
10 out of 196 advanced to Day 2
October 28th
Day 1d at 6pm
111 out of 199 advanced to Day 2
October 29th
Day 1e at 12pm
18 Levels 30 min each, late reg 8 levels ~ 4.40pm
October 29th
Day 1f at 6pm
18 Levels 30 min each, late reg 8 levels ~ 10.40pm
October 30th
Day 1g at 12pm
18 Levels 30 min each, late reg 8 levels ~ 4.40pm
October 30th
Day 1h at 6pm
18 Levels 30 min each, late reg 8 levels ~ 10.40pm
October 31st
Day 1i at 12pm
18 Levels 30 min each, late reg 8 levels ~ 4.40pm
October 31st
Day 1j at 6pm
18 Levels 30 min each, late reg 8 levels ~ 10.40pm
November 1st
Day 2 at 3pm
Levels last 60 min each, play down to final table
November 2nd
Day 3 at TBA
Levels last 60 min each, play down to a winner
The PokerNews live reporting team will be there throughout the event to provide all the action until a winner is crowned.
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flop, the player in the small blind and Michal Mrakes in the big blind invested 500 each with some 1,100 in the middle already. The 
fell on the turn and the small blind checked. Mrakes now bet 1,000 and his opponent eventually folded.
