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Filipe Oliveira Wins the Caribbean Poker Party $5,300 Main Event for $1.5 million

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Portuguese player Filipe Oliveira has won the 2018 Caribbean Poker Party $10 million guaranteed $5,300 buy-in no-limit hold’em main event. The tournament attracted a total of 1,815 entrants, which meant that the event ended up with an overlay of more than $900,000. Oliveira earned a massive $1.5 million first-place prize as the champion of this event, dwarfing his previous career live tournament earnings of just over $100,000.

Filipe Oliveira entered the final day in fifth chip position with 11 players remaining, including the likes of Anton Wigg (10th – $110,000), 2018 World Series of Poker main event seventh-place finisher Alex Lynskey (9th – $155,000) and Joe Kuether (8th – $218,500).

While Oliveira came into the day with an above average stack, he discovered himself rolling down the leaderboard after losing several big pots at the final table. He diminished down to just 3.5 big blinds during six-handed action but managed to find a triple up, getting all-in with KHeart Suit6Club Suit and flopping a six to take the lead in the hand. He held from there to chip up from 35,000,000 to roughly 120,000,000. He found another double up not long after that to get himself right back into contention.

Oliveira won a coin flip with pocket nines against the KSpade SuitJDiamond Suit of Pascal Hartmann. The board ran out ASpade Suit4Club Suit2Spade Suit8Diamond Suit5Club Suit to send the German home in fourth place with $800,000. He continued to chip up during shorthanded play, taking the chip lead into heads-up even after Craig Mason knocked out Marc MacDonnell in third place ($1,000,000). Oliveira increased his advantage even further as heads-up play continued.

In the final hand Mason raised from the button and then called Oliveira’s three-bet to 120,000,000. The flop brought the QDiamond Suit9Club Suit2Spade Suit and Oliveira bet 60,000,000. Mason moved all-in for 299,000,000 and Oliveira called with AHeart Suit9Heart Suit for middle pair and an ace kicker. Mason was in rough shape with the KHeart Suit9Spade Suit. The turn was the JDiamond Suit and the river the 4Heart Suit, securing the pot and the title for Oliveira and sending Mason to the rail in second place ($1,200,000).

Caribbean Poker Party $5,300 Main Event Official Final Table Results:

Position Player Country Prize
1 Filipe Oliveira Portugal $1,500,000
2 Craig Mason United States $1,200,000
3 Marc MacDonnell Ireland $1,000,000
4 Pascal Hartmann Germany $800,000
5 Konstantin Maslak Russia $600,000
6 Diogo Veiga Portugal $400,000
7 Alex Turyansky United States $300,000
8 Joe Kuether United States $218,500

Steffen Sontheimer Wins 2018 Caribbean Poker Party $250,000 Super High Roller Championships

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The 2018 Caribbean Poker Party Super High Roller Championships drew a field of 34 entries, each posting the massive $250,000 buy-in to build a final prize pool of $7,517,500. In the end, German poker pro”Steffen Sontheimer”:https://www.cardplayer.com/poker-players/299014-steffen-sontheimer defeated a stacked final table to emerge victorious with the title and the first-place prize of $3,685,000. This was the largest payday of the 28-year-old’s tournament career, and it brought his lifetime live earnings over $12.6 million.

After two full days of action, the field of 34 entries had been narrowed to just six players. Only the top four finishers made the money, which meant that two of the final six were ultimately sent home empty-handed. The first player to be knocked out on day 3 was Isaac Haxton, who made top pair and a flush draw with JDiamond Suit10Diamond Suit on a JClub Suit8Diamond Suit6Diamond Suit flop. He check-called the flop and the 9Club Suit turn, only to check-call the all-in shove of Sontheimer on the ASpade Suit river. Sontheimer’s ADiamond SuitJSpade Suit made two pair on the river, enough to send Haxton to the rail two spots shy of the money.

Two-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Nick Petrangelo was knocked out on the $700,000 bubble, running ASpade SuitKSpade Suit into the JSpade SuitJDiamond Suit of David Peters. The board improved neither player and Petrangelo eliminated in fifth place.

Four-handed play began with Sontheimer holding a massive chip lead, having 16.9 million of the roughly 34.2 million chips in play. The final four battled it out for a while, with the shorter stacks all doing their best to outlast each other and earn an additional $720,00 for laddering up to third place.

High roller regular Mikita Badziakouski was the first to fall. His stack had dwindled to around 12 big blinds when it folded to Sean Winter in the small blind. Winter moved all-in with the AHeart SuitQDiamond Suit and Badziakouski called with his KDiamond SuitJClub Suit. The board came down AClub Suit9Heart Suit2Heart SuitKHeart Suit3Diamond Suit and Badziakouski busted in fourth place ($700,000). This was the Belarusian’s 11th final table of 2018, and he earned 240 Card Player Player of the Year points for his latest deep run. With five titles, 4,926 points and $14,594,839 in year-to-date earnings, Badziakouski now sits in 10th place in the 2018 POY race standings.

Just moments later Sontheimer opened to 400,000 from the button holding the AHeart SuitKClub Suit. David Peters moved all in for 1,995,000 with the KHeart SuitQClub Suit out of the small blind. Winter folded and Sontheimer made the call. Sontheimer hit a king on the turn to send Peters to the rail in third place. The 2016 Card Player Player of the Year award winner earned $1,420,000 and 320 POY points for his 23rd final table of the year. With $10,290,733 in cashes so far and 7,197 points, the American poker pro has secured his hold on the fourth-place spot on the POY leaderboard.

With that Sontheimer took roughly 22 million chips into heads-up play against Sean Winter, who held just over 12 million. The two were pretty deep stacked, but it didn’t end up taking that long for all the chips to get into the middle.

In the final hand of the tournament Winter limped in from the button for 160,000 holding the AClub SuitQHeart Suit and Sontheimer raised to 700,000 from the big blind with the AHeart SuitKHeart Suit. Winter then three-bet to 2,000,000. Sontheimer moved all in, having Winter’s stack of 10,295,000 covered. Winter made the call and saw that he was in rough shape as the dealer prepared to burn and turn. The board came down 10Spade Suit5Diamond Suit3Heart Suit4Spade Suit9Diamond Suit and Sontheimer’s ace-king high was enough to earn him the pot and the title. Winter took home $2,430,000 as the runner-up, the largest cash of his career. He earned 400 POY points for his 13th final-table finish of 2018, climbing into 37th place in the POY rankings as a result.

Sontheimer took home 480 POY points as the champion. This was his fifth final table showing of the year, but he remains just outside of the top 200 after taking down this event.

Here is a look at the payouts and POY points awarded at the final table:

Place Player Earnings (USD) POY Points
1 Steffen Sontheimer $3,685,000 480
2 Sean Winter $2,430,000 400
3 David Peters $1,420,000 320
4 Mikita Badziakouski $700,000 240

David Haye Knocked Out in Less than a Round During First Poker Tournament

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Former cruiserweight and heavyweight champion David Haye has suffered an embarrassing defeat in his first poker tournament in Blackpool, England.

The retried boxer joined a recent £165/$210 side event at GUKPT Blackpool as part of his  partnership with Grosvenor Casinos. Anteing up alongside 127 other players, Haye was using the event to improve his skills ahead of next year’s GUKPT Goliath where he’ll aim to win his first major poker title.

However, despite a crash course ahead of the tournament, Haye was eliminated within three hands. Such was the speed of his exit that Grosvenor’s live reporting team missed the action, meaning it was up to the organizers to alert the media via an official press release.

David Haye Battered in Three

As Haye watched from the sidelines with his mentors, Jeff Kimber, Katie Swift and Joe Beevers, Dave Maudlin went on to clinch the £5,860/$7,543 top prize after beating Roy Finlay heads-up.

Although he lasted less than a round at the poker table, coach Kimber said Haye’s experience battling over 12 rounds in the ring should help him bounce back.

“He’s got loads to learn but he’s a champion sportsman and that competitive edge means he wants to learn more and get better” said Jeff Kimber.

Prior to partnering with Grosvenor Casinos, Haye claimed to be a complete poker novice. Although he was involved in a promotional event for Full Tilt back in 2014, his skills as a player are virtually nonexistent.

As a testament to his lack of poker knowledge, the sports star admitted during a recent training video (see below) that he still gets confused by clubs and spades.

Sports Star Still Valuable Despite Poor Performance

Irrespective of his recent performance, Haye’s route to the 2019 GUKPT Goliath will give Grosvenor Casinos with some valuable exposure. With remote gaming duty in the UK set to rise by six percent in 2019, British operators are looking to bolster their bottom-lines any way they can.

By enlisting the services of David Haye, Grosvenor is bidding to harness the boxer’s mainstream profile and attract new players to ante up online and live.

Although Grosvenor Casinos might be slightly late to the party, using sports stars to promote poker is one that’s been successful for other operators over the years. In 2015, Partypoker signed retired boxer Carl Froch, while PokerStars has worked with Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar Jr and a host of other sports stars.

While many are still prepared to debate the idea of poker being a sport, the value of using famous faces such as David Haye isn’t seen as a gamble by the leading operators.

Greektown Casino-Hotel Sells To Penn National, VICI For $1 Billion

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Just two months after a report that billionaire Dan Gilbert was looking to cash out of the casino industry, his company JACK Entertainment (formerly Rock Gaming) has confirmed the sale of their Detroit property, the Greektown Casino-Hotel.

Gilbert, who also owns casinos in Cleveland and Cincinnati, made the deal for $1 billion, and plans to invest proceeds from the sale in other Detroit-area real estate projects. The 56-year-old and his partners will net a few hundred million after taxes and paying off the casino’s $400 million in debt.

The buyer is a partnership formed by New York-based VICI properties, which is an offshoot of Caesars Entertainment, and Penn National Gaming. VICI has committed $700 million to buy the land, while Penn will pay $300 million for the casino and hotel. Additionally, VICI has agreed to lease the property to Penn for an annual rent of $55.6 million for 15 years.

The purchase is the latest in a buying spree for Penn National, which acquired Pinnacle Entertainment in October for $2.8 billion.

In June, the company purchased the Margaritaville Resort Casino in Bossier City, Louisiana for $115 million. In 2017, Penn bought Bally’s Casino and Resorts Casino in Tunica, Mississippi, and in 2015, they picked up the Tropicana in Las Vegas for $360 million.

In total, Penn National now has a hand in 41 gaming facilities in 19 jurisdictions, including Florida, Illinois, Colorado, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Texas, Missouri, Kansas, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, New Mexico, Ohio, and West Virginia. In 2017, the company brought in $3.1 billion, and employed nearly 19,000.

Roger Teska Wins 2018 Caribbean Poker Party $25,500 MILLIONS World

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The 2018 Caribbean Poker Party, put on by partypoker LIVE, drew headlines for its two marquee events: a pair of massive $10,000,000 guaranteed no-limit hold’em tournaments in the $25,500 MILLIONS World no-limit hold’em high roller and the $5,300 CPP main event. The MILLIONS World drew a field of 394 entries, a gigantic turnout for a $25,000 buy-in event. After four days of action American high-stakes cash game player Roger Teska emerged victorious as the champion, capturing his first major live tournament title and the top prize of $2,000,000.

The final day of this tournament saw nine players return to the final table, with Teska sitting in seventh chip position at the start of play. Teska began his rise up the leaderboard by eliminating Niall Farrell in eighth place ($300,000). Farrell got all-in with pocket deuces, only to have Teska shove behind him with pocket eights and fold out the rest of the field. The board came down ASpade Suit10Spade Suit4Spade Suit10Diamond SuitQDiamond Suit and Farrell was sent to the rail.

High roller superstar Steve O’Dwyer began the day as the chip leader, and despite a few early setbacks, he was able to take control of the final table as the night wore on. O’Dwyer knocked out 2016 Super High Roller Bowl champion Rainer Kempe in seventh place ($350,000) to further his lead.

Teska took out Ben Tollerene in sixth place ($450,000) to keep pace with the rest of the table entering five-handed play, while O’Dwyer continued to do his best to pull away from the pack. O’Dwyer won a massive preflop coinflip, with his ASpade SuitKClub Suit beating Andras Nemeth’s 9Spade Suit9Heart Suit. O’Dwyer flopped an ace to eliminate Nemeth in fifth place ($550,000).

While O’Dwyer continued to climb, Teska doubled through France’s Paul Tedeschi to further climb the leaderboard. O’Dwyer collected the last of Tedeschi’s chips to send him home in fourth place ($700,000). With that, the remaining three players all guaranteed themselves seven-figure paydays in this event.

Teska busted Charles La Boissonniere in third place ($1,000,000). Teska made a move with QSpade Suit7Diamond Suit, shoving from the small blind to try to take down La Boissonniere’s big blind. The Canadian woke up with the 9Heart Suit9Club Suit and made the call, only to be eliminated when the flop brought a queen for Teska.

Steve O’Dwyer took more than a 3-to-1 chip lead into heads-up play. Early on in the match the two players found themselves in a massive preflop cooler situation, with Teska picking up the QDiamond SuitQClub Suit against O’Dwyer’s KSpade SuitKHeart Suit. All of the chips went in, and O’Dwyer was a big favorite to secure the title right there. Teska flopped a set of queens, though, and held from there to double up and nearly even out the stacks.

By the time the final hand arose Teska had built a solid lead. With blinds of 2,000,000-4,000,000 O’Dwyer raised to 9,000,000 from the button holding 5Diamond Suit5Club Suit. Teska shoved all-in with the 10Club Suit8Club Suit and O’Dwyer called off for 126,000,000. The board came down 8Heart Suit4Spade Suit2Heart SuitQDiamond Suit3Club Suit and Teska made a pair of eights on the flop to win the pot and the title.

O’Dwyer was awarded $1,300,000 and 1,750 Card Player Player of the Year points as the second-place finisher. This was his 13th final table of the year, and with four titles and $5,833,175 in earnings so far this year he has climbed into ninth place on the overall 2018 POY race leaderboard. Rainer Kempe added 525 POY points for his deep run. This was the German’s 23rd final table of the year, and he now sits in seventh place in the standings. Teska took home 2,100 points as the champion. This was just his second final table of the year, but this win alone was enough to move him into 70th place.

$25,500 MILLIONS World Final Table Results:

Position Player Country Prize
1 Roger Teska United States $2,000,000
2 Steve O’Dwyer Ireland $1,300,000
3 Charles La Boissoniere Canada $1,000,000
4 Paul Tedeschi France $700,000
5 Andras Nemeth Hungary $550,000
6 Ben Tollerene United States $450,000
7 Ranier Kempe Germany $350,000
8 Niall Farrell United Kingdom $300,000
9 Joao Vieira Portugal $250,000

partypoker Secures Online Gambling License in Czech Republic

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partypoker obtains Czech gambling license more than a year after it withdrew its original license application

Poker operator partypoker has obtained a license from the Czech Finance Ministry to operate in the country’s regulated online gambling market.

According to the Ministry of Finance’s whitelist of licensed gambling operators, partypoker was issued its license on November 10, 2018. It is also interesting to note that said list contains the names of only a few more online gambling operators, including PokerStars. The flagship brand of Canada’s The Stars Group was actually the first international iGaming operation to receive a license from the Czech Finance Ministry following the re-regulation of the Central European country’s gambling market early in 2017.

It is still unknown when partypoker will go live with its .cz online poker website.

A new gambling law allowing international gambling companies to apply for a license from the Czech Finance Ministry and operate in a regulated environmenttook effect in the country on January 1, 2017. While Czech regulators had hoped that the new regime would make the local gaming space extremely attractive to major operators, unnecessarily complex bureaucracy combined with heavy taxes and restrictions on bonus offers drove the biggest industry names away from the freshly regulated market.

As mentioned earlier, PokerStars was the first foreign brand to enter the Czech Republic following the implementation of its new law. The online poker operator launched its .cz website in February 2017 and for quite a while operated as the only foreigner in the local iGaming space. More companies eventually applied for and were issued licenses from local authorities.

partypoker’s Previous Attempt to Obtain a Czech License

Following the reorganization of the Czech gambling market, partypoker announced that it would temporarily suspend its Czech operation until it obtained the necessary authorization to operate in the nation’s regulated iGaming space.

A few months later, the operator informed its Czech customers that it had withdrawn its application for a Czech license due to issues related to the country’s new regulatory regime. The issues had much to do with the overall lack of appeal of the Czech gaming space following the implementation of the new gambling law.

Under said law, gambling companies had to undergo a complex and lengthy application process. In addition, the new legislation imposed a new tax regime, requiring licensed companies to pay a 23% tax on online sports betting revenue and a 35% one on online casino revenue in addition to a 19% corporate tax.

While the Czech Republic has thus far failed to attract many major industry names, the country’s Finance Ministry hailed earlier this year its efforts to reorganize the local market and purge it from unlicensed operations.

According to data from the Finance Ministry, the local market grew 1.1% in 2017 to CZK39.8 billion (approx. $1.7 billion). Online gambling spiked 56% to CZK8.3billion (approx. $360.6 million), thus accounting for more than a fifth of the overall market. The Ministry of Finance also revealed that its efforts to curb unregulated gambling had resulted in a 90% drop in the number of international companies servicing local customers without the necessary authorization.

Poker Stories Podcast: Attorney Turned Poker Pro Kelly Minkin On Juggling Two Careers

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Poker Stories is a long-form audio podcast series that features casual interviews with some of the game’s best players and personalities. Each episode highlights a well-known member of the poker world and dives deep into their favorite tales both on and off the felt.

Kelly Minkin missed the poker boom completely, and has only been playing tournaments for the last five years, but she has already established herself as top competitor on the circuit. Minkin was twice the last woman standing in the World Series of Poker main event, taking 29th in 2015 and 50th last summer. She also has two World Poker Tour final table appearances, taking third in both the 2015 Lucky Hearts Poker Open and the 2018 bestbet Bounty Scramble.

In total, the 31-year-old has racked up more than $1.3 million in live tournament earnings, and she’s done so mostly while holding down a full-time job. Minkin had her sights set on a career in medicine as a surgeon, but after taking the LSAT on a whim, she got into law school. She decided to finish it out, and eventually took a job with a Phoenix-area law firm, spending her days working with clients and her nights at the poker tables.

Highlights from this interview include spelling bee words, having very specific goals, taking the LSAT for fun and getting into law school, heads-up in front of Hellmuth, science’s lack of fluidity, being the green M&M, completely missing the poker boom, playing tournaments for dad, lawyer by day-poker pro by night, electrocuted strippers, last-minute trips to South America, two WSOPlast-woman-standing titles, $25k pots at Commerce with Danny Wong, getting fired from Abercrombie & Fitch, busting from a tournament with three cards, listening to ‘cool guy’ music, arm wrestling for cash, and trimming the end for free.

You can check out the entirety of the interview in the audio player at the top of the page or download it directly to your device to play on the go from iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.

Catch up on past episodes featuring notables such as Doyle Brunson, Daniel Negreanu, Justin Bonomo, Nick Schulman, Barry Greenstein, Michael Mizrachi, Bryn Kenney, Mike Sexton, Brian Rast, Freddy Deeb, Joe Cada, Chris Moneymaker, Maria Ho and many more. If you like what you hear, be sure to subscribe to get the latest episodes automatically when they are released.

Partypoker to Host Largest Online Poker Event Ever

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Partypoker will make a lucky — and skilled, of course — poker player’s holiday happy. The poker site that seems intent on making a grab for PokerStars’ dissipating glory is hosting a $20 million guaranteed tournament, making it the largest online event ever, from Nov. 25-Dec. 5.

This will be the second installment of the $5,300 buy-in Millions event. Last year’s winner, Jonathan “sordykrd” Van Fleet, took home $1.027 million.

But this year’s champion is going to receive much more. The 2017 version of this tournament guaranteed “only” a $10 million prize pool. That will be doubled to $20 million for the upcoming event.

How to Enter Cheaply

Mega satellites for the mega tournament begin November 25 and the Main Event runs December 1-4. You can win your way into the event for as little as $0.01, although the likelihood of working your way from the bottom to the top aren’t great.

If you don’t have the patience to grind through numerous satellites, you can buy directly into a $530 mega satellite where one in every 10 players earn a buy in to the $20 million tournament.

Satellites for the event have been running since September 23. There are eight daily satellites running leading up to the Millions tournament. You could conceivably go from $0.01 in one day to a $5,300 buy-in. But, again, that’s a difficult task. The odds of winning six consecutive satellites are low.

The first step, as mentioned, is a $0.01 tournament. If you win that, you move up to the $1.10 level. Advance again and then take on the $5.50 satellites. Win another one and move up to the $22 tournaments in hopes of advancing to a $109 satellite. If you’re still alive at this point, you only have to beat the $530 level to earn a seat.

Party Grab for PokerStars Dreams

Going from very little to a lot has been done before numerous times online.

Just ask Chris Moneymaker. The 2003 WSOP Main Event champion won a $10,000 seat for just $86 in a PokerStars satellite. He then parlayed that into $2.5 million, which is only a fraction of the money he’s earned from winning that tournament. With all the sponsorship deals he’s since received, that $86 investment sure was profitable.

You won’t become Chris Moneymaker famous for winning the Millions event, and likely won’t kick off the next poker boom. But you could become the winner of the biggest online poker tournament in history. Well, until PokerStars one-ups Partypoker and hosts an even bigger event.

The two competing poker sites always try to out-duel the other.

The Unibet Open returns to Dublin from Nov. 21-25

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The Unibet Open is heading back to the Irish capital of Dublin for the first time in seven years. The five-day festival will start from November 21-25 at the Bonnington Hotel Dublin.

As is always the case, Ian Simpson, Fredrik Bergmann, Espen Jorstad, Dara O’Kearney, David Lappin, Daiva Byrne, Rauno “Estonian Jesus” Tahvonen and Unibet Poker ambassadors will be battling it out throughout the festival.

O’Kearney, who hails from County Clare, said: “I’m thrilled that after a seven-year absence the Unibet Open is coming back to Ireland. 2011 Dublin was my first Unibet Open and I’m delighted that another generation of Irish players will get the chance to experience all the atmosphere and craic that makes Unibet events so special. I’m also looking forward to welcoming all the Unibet regulars and Chip Race listeners to enjoy the unique experience that comes with playing in Ireland.”

Lappin added: “Unibet love to spoil their players so I’m absolutely delighted that the final Unibet Open of 2018 will be in my hometown of Dublin. Between the poker, the parties and the craic at the bar, it’s going to be an absolutely amazing event.”

Simpson, who won the Irish Open for €265,000 in 2013, said: “Playing poker in Dublin is especially sentimental to me. It’s where my poker journey started when I came fourth in the Irish Open in 2012. I went on to win the event the very next year, but more importantly, won my wife Emma’s hand in marriage. Having Unibet run an event there is incredibly exciting, as our team is the best there is. Couple that with how much I love the city and the Irish poker community and you’ve got the perfect event for me.”

Unibet Open is expecting a huge turn out for November’s event. Poker is enormously popular in Ireland and Dublin has a rich heritage when it comes to hosting world-class tournaments. Unibet Open Dublin will have a live stream running on twitch.tv/unibetpoker throughout the festival with Unibet Ambassador and expert commentator David Vanderheyden joined by special guests to follow all the action from the feature table.

A special €10,000 invitational “Battle Royale” freeroll will also take place featuring Unibet’s sponsored eSports players battling it out for a €5,000 first prize.

2018 Unibet Open Dublin Schedule

Date Time (CET) Event Buy-in Levels Starting Stack
Nov. 20 19:30 Satellite Main Event €165 20 min. 10,000
Nov. 21 12:00 Tag Team Championship 15 min. 20,000
14:00 Unibet DSO Cup Day 1 €330 40 min. 30,000
17:00 Satellite Highroller €330 12 min. 12,000
18:00 Unibet Esports Battle Royale X 30/20 min. 25,000
19:30 Satellite Main Event €165 20 min. 10,000
20:00 NLH Highroller – Day 1 €2,200 40 min. 30,000
Nov. 22 12:00 Main Event Day 1A €1,100 60 min. 30,000
12:00 NLH Highroller – Day 2 €2,200 40 min. 30,000
13:00 Unibet DSO Cup Day 2 40 min.
16:00 NLH Freezeout €220 20 min. 15,000
20:00 Satellite Main Event €165 20 min. 10,000
Nov. 23 12:00 Main Event Day 1B €1,100 60 min. 30,000
16:00 Satellite Main Event €165 20 min. 10,000
20:00 Flipout €50
21:00 Main Event Day 1C €1,100 20 min. 30,000
23:00 NLH Hyperturbo €165 10 min. 15,000
Nov. 24 12:00 Main Event Day 2 60 min.
13:00 PLO €165 20 min. 15,000
13:00 #QUEENRULES (Ladies Event) €90 20 min. 15,000
15:00 NLH Superstack Day 1 €330 30 min. 25,000
18:00 Unibet Community Freeroll 10 min. 10,000
20:00 Irish Poker €110 15 min. 15,000
Nov. 25 12:00 Main Event Day 3 (Final Table) 60/45/30 min.
12:00 NLH Superstack Day 2 40 min.
12:00 NLH Progressive Superknockout (50%) €220 20 min. 15,000
14:00 NLH Hyperturbo €110 10 mins 10,000

Mehdi Merai Leads after WPTDeepStacks Brussels Main Event Day 1A

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The WPTDeepStacks series is back to Grand Casino Brussels Viage in the capital of Belgium for another thrilling poker festival. The €1,200 Main Event is under way now and the first of its three starting flights was completed yesterday at the host casino.

Day 1A saw 144 entrants jump into action, all vying to secure a seat into Day 2 and then advance further into the tournament. Two more starting flights are to be played within the schedule of the Main Event, both of which will take place later today at the host casino.

Of all 144 competitors who registered during the opening flight, there were only 49 to survive all twelve levels played yesterday.

Mehdi Merai bagged and tagged the largest stack at the end of the day, good for 276,500 in chips. The player is looking to score his first cash from the World Poker Tour. He has two previous in-the-money finishes from live tournaments, the most recent of which he collected this past spring when he finished third in the Winamax SISMIX Main Event in Marrakech. The player took home the amount of $54,125 for his efforts.

Andrea Ricci with 250,000 and Vincent Londez with 227,500 rounded out top three of the temporary leaderboard after Day 1A of the tournament. And Michael Gathy with 190,000 and Bruno Soutavong with 184,000 completed the top five of the chip counts chart.

Other Notables in Contention

Dutchman Rens Feenstra, who topped the field of the WPT Amsterdam Main Event this past spring, was also among the players to secure a seat into Day 2. However, he will not enjoy an easy start of the next stage of the tournament as he only bagged 25,500last night.

There were also a number of notables who entered the Main Event yesterday but could not make it through all twelve events. WPTDeepStacks Vilamoura champ Jimmy Livramento, reigning WPTDeepStacks Player of the Year Tobias Peters, and Joris Ruijs were among those to exit the tournament on Day 1A.

However, they still have chance to advance into Day 2 as Day 1B is about to kick off at the host casino. Action starts at 2 pm local time. There will also be an additional starting flight to take place today. Day 1C is slated to begin at 10 pm local time, but it will feature a turbo structure to give interested players one last chance to secure a spot into Day 2.

Greece’s Ioannis Angelou-Konstas  won the latest edition of the WPTDeepStacks Brussels Main Event. The player bested a field of 315 this past spring for a first-place prize of €75,000. Angelou-Konstas has one more title from the poker series. Last October, he took down the WPTDeepStacks Main Event in the Netherlands for €56,806 in prize money. Most recently, the Greek player celebrated his triumph in the £5,300 buy-in partypoker MILLIONS Dusk Till Down Main Event for his career’s largest prize of £940,000.

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