Day 1h of Event #5: THE COLOSSUS ended today with 29 players making it through to Day 2 on Wednesday November 1st. After more than 9 hours of play Jaroslaw Sikora takes the chip lead honours for Day 1h with 507,00 chips. This also means he is the overall chip leader of all the players that have made it to Day 2 already.
Sikora has been here for a few weeks already having cashed three times this month during the WSOP Circuit events. Sikora is definitely no stranger to big tournaments and big cashes as he has accumulated more than $1,000,000 in live cashes already. Second in chips is Laszlo Toth from Hungary who has also been here in Rozvadov for a while already. He has two cashes in the earlier WSOP Circuit events here. He is taking 484,500 with him to the tables on Wednesday. Sander van Wesemael is third in chips today with 472,000. After nursing a pretty short stack at the beginning of the day, things started going a lot better for him in the second half of the day.
Other notables making it through to Day 2 are Michael Magalashvili (241,500), new WSOPE bracelet winner Martin Kabrhel (235,000), Erich Kollmann (217,500), Erik Cajelais (160,500) and Vladimir Burstein (120,000). Unfortunately, not everyone make it through today, players like Theodoros Aidonopoulos, Catalin Pop, Pierre Neuville, Sebastian Langrock, Chris Ferguson, Ryan Hughes, Dermot Blain and many others fell today.
The last two flights take place tomorrow here at the King’s Casino so stay tuned to PokerNews for all the latest news.
Jan Riha went all in from the cutoff and so did Christopher Back in the small blind with a bigger stack. Sander van Wesemael, seated in the big blind called.
Sander van Wesemael:
Christopher Back:
Jan Riha:
The board ran out - Van Wesemael hit two pair, kings and queens and that was more than enough to eliminate Riha and Back from the tournament.
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Welcome back to Event #5: THE COLOSSUS here at the World Series of Poker Europe. Day 1h is the eight flight out of ten where players have a shot at making it through to Day 2 on Wednesday, November 1st here at the King’s Casino in Rozvadov.
In total there have already been 1,502 entries registered, they’ve all tried to get their hands on their share of the guaranteed prize pool of €2,000,000 and 66 have already made it one step further. These include Ognjen Sekularac (447,500), John Racener (334,000), Brandon Cantu (283,500), Kenny Hallaert (206,000), Alex Foxen (189,000) and Marcel Luske (184,500).
Eighteen levels of 30 minutes each are scheduled to be played or until there are eleven players remaining. Registration is open for eight levels and the break that follows that. So, at approximately 10.40 p.m. local time, the period to register or to do one single reentry will close. Breaks last 20 minutes and will take place after every four levels.
More and more players are arriving from all over the world to join the field so stay around while the PokerNews live reporting team brings you all the latest news.
THE COLOSSUS Event Schedule
Day
Date
Information
October 27th
Day 1a at 12 pm
11 out of 155 advanced to Day 2
October 27th
Day 1b at 6 pm
12 out of 210 advanced to Day 2
October 28th
Day 1c at 12 pm
10 out of 196 advanced to Day 2
October 28th
Day 1d at 6 pm
11 out of 199 advanced to Day 2
October 29th
Day 1e at 12 pm
11 out of 202 advanced to Day 2
October 29th
Day 1f at 6 pm
11 out of 222 advanced to Day 2
October 30th
Day 1g at 12 pm
18 Levels 30 min each, late reg 8 levels ~ 4.40 pm
October 30th
Day 1h at 6 pm
18 Levels 30 min each, late reg 8 levels ~ 10.40 pm
October 31st
Day 1i at 12 pm
18 Levels 30 min each, late reg 8 levels ~ 4.40 pm
October 31st
Day 1j at 6pm
18 Levels 30 min each, late reg 8 levels ~ 10.40 pm
- Van Wesemael hit two pair, kings and queens and that was more than enough to eliminate Riha and Back from the tournament.
