Mike Leah was on the button with the board reading and two players were in the pot for 600 each. Leah raised to 1,800 and got one caller.
The turn was the and both players checked. The river was the and Leah's opponent bet 4,100. Leah shifted slight in his seat and then took about 30 seconds to call with . He was good against the pocket sevens of his opponent.
Allen Kessler, who recently finished second to Lukas Zaskodny in the €2,200 Pot-Limit Omaha tournament, has taken his seat.
Kessler has 58 WSOP cashes and four second place finishes, but has never won a WSOP gold bracelet. PokerNews' Mo Nuwarah caught up with Kessler earlier this week. Check out that article here.
There are 102 players currently registered for Day 1b, but several have not taken their seats yet. A few have and while the others are trickling in, recent 6-time WSOP gold bracelet winner, and player of the year leader Chris Ferguson is taking photos and chatting with John Duthie.
Vladimir Troyanovskiy, Leo Margets and Orpen Kisacikoglu are also in the field to start.
Today at noon, Day 1b of Event #11: €10,350 No-Limit Hold’em Main Event kicks off. This is the final bracelet event of 2017.
This is the ninth time the WSOPE has been held, with the first series of events taking place in 2007 at the Casino at the Empire in London. Annette Obrestad became the first ever WSOPE Main Event winner at the tender age of only 18. After this inaugural event, the poker world visited London three more times for the WSOPE. France hosted the next three events, with two of them in Cannes and one in Paris. After a year hiatus, the WSOPE traveled to Berlin, with Kevin MacPhee winning the last WSOPE Main Event bracelet for €883,000.
Past World Series of Poker Europe Main Event Winners
Year
Location
Winner
Prize
2007
London
Annette Obrestad
£1,000,000
2008
London
John Juanda
£868,800
2009
London
Barry Shulman
£801,603
2010
London
James Bord
£830,401
2011
Cannes
Elio Fox
€1,400,000
2012
Cannes
Phil Hellmuth
€1,022,376
2013
Paris
Adrian Mateos
€1,000,000
2015
Berlin
Kevin MacPhee
€883,000
Structure
This year, there is a guaranteed prize pool of €5,000,000 with €1,000,000 guaranteed for first place. The buy-in will be €10,350 and players will be starting with 50,000 in chips. Levels will last 90 minutes each with a 20-minute break after each level. The players will be playing six levels today with a 90-minute dinner break after Level 4.
Players that have been eliminated today can choose to reenter before the start of Day 2 on November 6th. Registration will also be open until then. The tournament will continue until a winner has been declared on Friday, November 10th. Keep glued to PokerNews as we work towards crowning a new WSOPE Main Event champion!
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and two players were in the pot for 600 each. Leah raised to 1,800 and got one caller.
and both players checked. The river was the 
and Leah's opponent bet 4,100. Leah shifted slight in his seat and then took about 30 seconds to call with 
. He was good against the pocket sevens of his opponent.
