Event #11: €10,350 No-Limit Hold'em MAIN EVENT
Jour 1b a débuté
2017 World Series of Poker Europe
Event #11: €10,350 No-Limit Hold'em MAIN EVENT
Jours 1b
Event Info
Résultats
Event Info
Info Niveau
2017 World Series of Poker Europe
Buy-in
€10,350
Prize Pool
€5,025,500
Entrants
529
Niveau
35
Blinds
250,000 / 500,000
Ante
75,000
Day 1b of WSOP Europe Main Event Starts at Noon
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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!
| Level | Duration | Small Blind | Big Blind | Ante |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 90 minutes | 75 | 150 | - |
| 20-minute break | ||||
| 2 | 90 minutes | 150 | 300 | - |
| 20-minute break | ||||
| 3 | 90 minutes | 150 | 300 | 25 |
| 20-minute break | ||||
| 4 | 90 minutes | 200 | 400 | 50 |
| 90-minute break | ||||
| 5 | 90 minutes | 250 | 500 | 75 |
| 20-minute break | ||||
| 6 | 90 minutes | 300 | 600 | 100 |
| 20-minute break |
Niveau: 1
Blinds: 75/150
Ante: 0
Cards in the Air
Niveau 1
: 75/150, 0 ante
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.
| Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
|---|---|---|
|
50,000 | 50,000 |
|
50,000 | 50,000 |
|
50,000 | 50,000 |
|
50,000 | 50,000 |
|
50,000 | 50,000 |
|
50,000 | 50,000 |
Kessler Enters
Niveau 1
: 75/150, 0 ante
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.
| Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
|---|---|---|
|
50,000 | 50,000 |
Leah Calls the River
Niveau 1
: 75/150, 0 ante
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.
| Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
|---|---|---|
|
58,000 | 58,000 |
WSOP Player of the Year Update
Niveau 1
: 75/150, 0 ante
Action has started extremely slowly here at King's Casino. Only a handful of tables are even dealing as the 120-odd players who are registered for Day 1b are spread between a multitude of tables as more entries slowly trickle in.
While there's little to watch early from a poker sense, we thought we'd take a look at the World Series of Poker Player of the Year standings heading into the very last points event f the year. It was a hot topic heading into WSOP Europe, with the much-maligned Chris Ferguson leading the way after a strong WSOP that saw him rack up a highly impressive 17 cashes, including two final tables that both saw him place top-four in $10,000 Championship events.
Of course, Ferguson only solidified his standing here at King's. He tacked on six more cashes, the most recent of which resulted in his sixth bracelet win, coming in the $1,500 PLO8 event.
While Ferguson has showed up and showed out, making headlines along the way, he isn't out of the woods just yet.
John Racener, Ryan Hughes, Mike Leah and Alex Foxen are four of the next five players in the standings. All four made the journey here to Rozvadov. While the latter two appear to be too far behind to make up necessary ground, Racener and Hughes appear to be drawing live still.
Currently, Racener is 136 points back of Ferguson. Hughes has more ground to make up at 184 points.
Using the handy calculator the WSOP has provided to make a rough guess of Player of the Year points, it looks like a min-cash here in the Main Event will be worth approximately 50 points. Since the winner here is guaranteed €1 million, we can have a good idea that first place will award about 230 points.
Given that, even a min-cash for Ferguson here would likely cement him the banner. Hughes would surely need a final table run and likely a brick from Ferguson. Racener has a little more room to make his pass, but he needs a very strong result as well, especially if Ferguson were to cash.
One ultra-long shot: Kenny Hallaert. He made the final table of the High Roller for One Drop here in Rozvadov, albeit with just a handful of big blinds. If he were to somehow win that, and then win the Main Event, and Ferguson were to miss cashing here in the Main, Hallaert would appear likely to move past the six-time bracelet winner. Check with your bookie to see what odds you can get on that parlay. For fun only of course — we at PokerNews do not endorse unregulated gambling.
Here's a look at the top 10 standings:
| Place | Player | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chris Ferguson | 1,178.53 |
| 2 | John Racener | 1,042.04 |
| 3 | Ryan Hughes | 994.32 |
| 4 | John Monnette | 865.21 |
| 5 | Mike Leah | 849.16 |
| 6 | Alex Foxen | 833.45 |
| 7 | Dario Sammartino | 775.89 |
| 8 | Ray Henson | 768.49 |
| 9 | Ben Yu | 766.49 |
| 10 | Kenny Hallaert | 742.38 |
And here's a look at the history of the WSOP POY honors:
| Year | Winner | Bracelets Won | Final Tables |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Daniel Negreanu | 1 | 5 |
| 2005 | Allen Cunningham | 1 | 4 |
| 2006 | Jeff Madsen | 2 | 4 |
| 2007 | Tom Schneider | 2 | 3 |
| 2008 | Erick Lindgren | 1 | 3 |
| 2009 | Jeff Lisandro | 3 | 4 |
| 2010 | Frank Kassela | 2 | 3 |
| 2011 | Ben Lamb | 1 | 4 |
| 2012 | Greg Merson | 2 | 2 |
| 2013 | Daniel Negreanu | 2 | 4 |
| 2014 | George Danzer | 3 | 5 |
| 2015 | Mike Gorodinsky | 1 | 3 |
| 2016 | Jason Mercier | 2 | 4 |
150 Players So Far
Niveau 1
: 75/150, 0 ante
The second flight of the WSOPE Main Event has 150 players currently registered with a little over 20 minutes in level 1. Sofia Lovgren joined the field, with other 888 Ambassadors expected to enter later in the day.
Dara O'Kearney is also in the field and is seated with the current #3 on the Player of the Year leaderboard Ryan Hughes. Hughes appears to have lost around half his stack to his neighbor, but is still very deep with plenty of play left.
| Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
|---|---|---|
|
51,000 | |
|
51,000 | |
|
28,000 |
More Notables
Niveau 1
: 75/150, 0 ante
| Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
|---|---|---|
|
50,000 | |
|
50,000 | |
|
50,000 | |
|
50,000 | |
|
50,000 | 50,000 |
|
50,000 | |
|
50,000 | |
|
5,000 |
Schulz Pays Kessler
Niveau 1
: 75/150, 0 ante
Robert Schulz opened for 450 under the gun and Allen Kessler three-bet to 1,200 a couple of seats over. The next player called, as did Schulz, so it was three to a 
flop. Schulz checked, Kessler bet 1,900, and Schulz called after the third player mucked. Both checked the 
, leading to an 
river. Schulz checked and quickly called 3,000 from "Chainsaw," who showed down 
for a set.
| Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
|---|---|---|
|
|
57,000 | 7,000 |
|
|
48,000 | -2,000 |