Event #2: €550 Pot-Limit Omaha
Jour 1a terminé
2019 World Series of Poker Europe
Event #2: €550 Pot-Limit Omaha
Jours 1a
Event Info
Résultats
Event Info
Info Niveau
Info Joueurs - Jour 1a
2019 World Series of Poker Europe
Buy-in
€550
Entrants
476
Niveau
34
Blinds
125,000 / 250,000
Ante
0
Entrants
169
Joueurs Survivants
12
12 Players Remain after Day 1a; Brunner and Dudley in the Lead
Niveau 18
: 3,000/6,000, 0 ante
The first Non-Holdem event of the 2019 World Series of Poker Europe is Event #2: Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed and the first of the two starting days is in the books, here in King's Resort. A total of 169 players registered the event and after 18 levels of play there were just 12 of them left in the field.
Marcel Brunner is the player who bagged the most chips in Day 1a, advancing to Day 2 with 668,000, but the competition following him is very tough. Dash Dudley has already proved that Pot-Limit Omaha is his game for 2019, since he won his first bracelet during the summer in Event #52: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed for $1,086,967. Dudley bagged 657,000 chips and he will be in a great shape for another deep run in a PLO event during a WSOP festival. Other notables still in contention include Sebastian Pauli (544,000), Anson Tsang (360,000) and Dragos Trofimov (140,000).
Three players that are into the top ten of the 2019 WSOP POY race managed to reach the money, with Robert Campbell, David "ODB" Baker and Daniel Negreanu all getting paid and busting before the end of the day. The unlucky bubble-boy was Alexandre Viard who lost in 27th place and was the last player to leave Day 1a empty-handed.
Day 1A Payouts of Event #2: €550 Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed
| Place | Winner | Country | Prize (in EUR) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | Rok Lihtenvalner | Slovenia | 1,074 |
| 14 | Arunas Garunkstis | Lithuania | 1,074 |
| 15 | Robert Campbell | Australia | 908 |
| 16 | Micha Felner | Israel | 908 |
| 17 | David Baker | United States | 787 |
| 18 | Kan Ying | China | 787 |
| 19 | Netanel Amedi | Israel | 787 |
| 20 | Roland Israelashvili | United States | 787 |
| 21 | Robert Wirth | Germany | 787 |
| 22 | Daniel Negreanu | Canada | 787 |
| 23 | Dmitrii Shevchenko | Russia | 787 |
| 24 | Martin Staszko | Czech Republic | 787 |
| 25 | Ali Deniz Akok | Germany | 787 |
| 26 | Aaron Duczak | Canada | 787 |
Action of the day
Day 1a started with more than 40 players in the 8-handed tables, and the option of unlimited re-entries gave them the opportunity to play with a more loose strategy in order to build a big stack. One player who took full advantage of it was Shaun Deeb, who made eight re-entries in total and still didn't manage to advance to Day 2.
Other notables who give it a shot but busted through the course of the day were bracelet winners Ismael Bojang, Jeff Lisandro and Jan-Peter Jachtmann. One re-entry for Bojang and Lisandro, while Jachtmann played with just one bullet and they didn't manage to reach the money.
When the registrations closed there were just 40 players remaining in the field and 26 of them were to get paid, according to the event's payout structure. Alexandre Viard found a king-high flush draw with king-queen-five-three and two clubs in a seven-three-two flop. He was up against Sebastian Obermeier who was holding an ace-high flush draw plus a pair of jacks with ace-jack-jack-six. A red four and a red eight on the turn and the river, respectively, sent Viard to the rail in the bubble.
After the burst of the bubble, eliminations happened very quickly and 14 players departed from the field over the course of two and a half levels. Except the POY contenders, Arunas Garunkstis, Roland Israelashvili and Martin Staszko were among the casualties n the money.
Day 1b will kick off at 4 p.m. local time on Tuesday, October 15th, 2019, and another big field size is expected for the second and final starting day. Stay tuned to PokerNews for all the updates from the second bracelet event of the festival at Europe's biggest poker arena.
End-of-Day 1a Chip Counts (complet)
Niveau 18
: 3,000/6,000, 0 ante
| Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
|---|---|---|
|
668,000 | 163,000 |
|
657,000 | 37,000 |
|
544,000 | 59,000 |
|
421,000 | -19,000 |
|
360,000 | -15,000 |
|
338,000 | -2,000 |
|
338,000 | 16,000 |
|
306,000 | 126,000 |
|
293,000 | 23,000 |
|
140,000 | 77,000 |
|
86,000 | -29,000 |
|
75,000 | -71,000 |
Play Halted for the Day
Niveau 18
: 3,000/6,000, 0 ante
12 players are left in the event and the officials have stopped it for today. A full recap will follow shortly.
Niveau: 18
Blinds: 3,000/6,000
Ante: 0
Two More Eliminations
Niveau 17
: 3,000/5,000, 0 ante
The action is rapid after the players reached the paid spots, and in the last hands there were two more eliminations. Arunas Garunkstis lost two pots in a row against Dragos Trofimov and he left the field with 13 players.
At first Trofimov doubled over his opponent to cripple him and in the very next hand Garunkstis put his last three big blinds in the middle with 
only to get called by Trofimov's 
.
The board ran out 
and Garunkstis hit the rail.
A couple of minutes earlier it was Robert Campbell who busted, while securing points for the 2019 WSOP POY race and the prize money of 14th place. Campbell received €908 and Garunkstis €1,074.
| Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
|---|---|---|
|
Eliminé |
Felner Out; Receives First Payjump
Niveau 17
: 3,000/5,000, 0 ante
Micha Felner was left with 25,000 chips, which were equal to just five big blinds. He put them in the middle preflop and he went three-way on the flop with Dash Dudley and Anson Tsang.
The flop came 
and Dudley reached to his chips, prompting Tsang to throw his cards in the muck.
Dash Dudley: 
Micha Felner: 
The on the turn and the 
in the river kept Dudley's advantage and Felner busted in 16th place for €908.
| Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
|---|---|---|
|
|
620,000 | 49,000 |
|
Eliminé |
Baker Left Short and Busts
Niveau 17
: 3,000/5,000, 0 ante
David Baker was yet another player in the last three tables of this event who was chasing the 2019 WSOP POY points. He managed to win some after busting in 17th place, along with €787 in prize money.
In his last hand he was left with 40,000 chips and he put them in the middle after Vangelis Kaimakamis' early position raise to 12,000. Kaimakamis called the shove and they went to showdown.
David Baker: 
Vangelis Kaimakamis: 
The board came 
and Baker lost the confrontation to depart from the field.
Earlier Kan Ying was the player who busted in 18th place for €787.
| Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
|---|---|---|
|
|
180,000 | 30,000 |
|
Eliminé | |
|
Eliminé |
Niveau: 17
Blinds: 3,000/5,000
Ante: 0
Last Three Eliminations in the Money
Niveau 16
: 2,000/4,000, 0 ante
Three more players eliminated in the money, receiving each €787.
| Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
|---|---|---|
|
Eliminé | |
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Eliminé | |
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Eliminé |