Event #7: €1,650 NLH 6-max Day 1 | 2023 WSOP Europe

Event #7: €1,650 NLH 6-max

Day 1 Completed

11-07-2023 02:37 UTC+1

Besmir Hodaj Bags Day 1 Chip Lead in Event #7: €1,650 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Max

Maxime Taldir

Level 14 : Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

120 players can still dream of winning a gold bracelet as they qualified for Day 2 of Event #7: €1,650 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Max of the 2023 World Series of Poker Europe at King’s Resort in Rozvadov.

495 entrants were recorded in this 2023 edition, which is more than last year’s 413 runners. Thus, the prize pool is larger, with €705,375 that will be shared tomorrow. The payout details will be announced at the start of Day 2.

At the end of Day 1, Besmir Hodaj is in the lead with 620,000 chips, nearly one full average stack ahead of the rest of the Top 5, which includes Jacopo Achille (495,000), Maor Zaharagi (465,000), two-time bracelet winner Barny Boatman (455,000) and Ting Yi Tsai (425,500).

Day 1 Top Ten Chip counts

Rank	Player	Country	Chip counts	Big blinds
1	Besmir Hodaj	Italy	620,000	207
2	Jacopo Achille	Italy	495,000	165
3	Maor Zaharagi	Israel	465,500	155
4	Barny Boatman	United Kingdom	455,000	152
5	Ting Yi Tsai	Taiwan	425,500	142
6	Miroslav Forman	Czech Republic	416,500	139
7	Frederik Thiemer	Germany	401,000	134
8	Jorge Ufano	Spain	400,500	134
9	Christian Duerschlag	Germany	324,500	108
10	Dennis Wilke	Germany	320,000	107

Miroslav Forman was lucky enough to hit a straight on the river to crack aces in the last levels. Thanks to this pot, he ends the day with 416,500 chips. Frederik Thiemer (401,000) and Jorge Ufano (400,500) also qualified with big stacks, along with Andrea Dato (255,000), Daniel Koloszar (188,500) and Ruslan Volkov (166,500), who holds the average stack. Carlo Savinelli (157,000), Virgile Turchi (130,000), Joao Tomas (117,500) and Nils Pudel's stacks (104,500) will be slightly smaller, but still big enough to wrestle.

A few WSOP bracelets winner are in the race too (nine in total) with Fabio Peluso (218,500) or Renji Mao (149,500). However, most of them have smaller stacks, such as France's Jonathan Pastore (76,000) and Julien Sitbon, who doubled up in the last level (57,000), Ori Hasson (46,500), and Antoine Vranken (39,000).

Day 2 is scheduled to begin on November 7 at 1 p.m. local time and play down until a winner is crowned. Play will resume on Level 15, which features 1,500/3,000 blinds with a 3,000 big blind ante with 40-minute levels and a 15-minute break every three levels.

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Tags: Andrea Dato Antoine Vranken Barny Boatman Besmir Hodaj Carlo Savinelli Christian Duerschlag Daniel Koloszar Dennis Wilke Fabio Peluso Frederik Thiemer Jacopo Achille Joao Tomas Jonathan Pastore Jorge Ufano Julien Sitbon Maor Zaharagi Miroslav Forman Nils Pudel Ori Hasson Renji Mao Ruslan Volkov Ting Yi Tsai Virgile Turchi

11-07-2023 02:35 UTC+1

Day 2 Seat Draw

Maxime Taldir

Level 14 : Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chip counts	Big blinds
61	1	Zlatin Penev	Bulgaria	249,000	83
61	2	Julien Loire	France	78,500	26
61	3	Lachezar Petkov	Bulgaria	73,500	25
61	4	Ali Shahni	United States	102,000	34
61	5	Ismet Oral	Turkey	145,000	48
61	6	Davide Muccini	Italy	18,500	6

138	1	Carlo Savinelli	Italy	157,000	52
138	2	Jun Beum Chun	Korea, Republic of	92,000	31
138	3	Nils Pudel	Germany	104,500	35
138	4	Julien Sitbon	France	57,000	19
138	5	David Boyaciyan	Netherlands	210,000	70
138	6	Oleksii Natoptanyi	Ukraine	280,000	93

139	1	Jannis Bode	Germany	214,500	72
139	2	Jeremy Pappano	United States	69,500	23
139	3	Jorge Ufano	Spain	400,500	134
139	4	Vincent Pedersen	Germany	186,500	62
139	5	Timo Kamphues	Germany	130,000	43
139	6	Aleksandar Tomovic	Serbia	77,000	26

140	1	Bernhard Güntner	Netherlands	77,000	26
140	2	Dennis Wilke	Germany	320,000	107
140	3	Aaron Duczak	Canada	191,000	64
140	4	Deividas Butnoras	Lithuania	112,000	37
140	5	Jensen Bernard	Belgium	38,500	13
140	6	Fabio Peluso	Italy	218,500	73

141	1	Natalia Samsonova	Russian Federation	119,500	40
141	2	Adem Marjanovic	Austria	162,500	54
141	3	Eric Blumer	Germany	65,000	22
141	4	Maor Zaharagi	Israel	465,500	155
141	5	John Nergaard	Norway	83,500	28
141	6	Sascha Minerva	Germany	215,000	72

142	1	Andrea Dato	Italy	255,000	85
142	2	Siarhei Chudapal	Belarus	150,500	50
142	3	Michel Knoepfer	Germany	116,500	39
142	4	Bogdan Munteanu	Romania	97,000	32
142	5	Artsiom Panasiuk	Belarus	200,500	67
142	6	Antoine Vranken	Netherlands	39,000	13

143	1	Vincent Skolin	Sweden	176,500	59
143	2	Gaspare Sposato	Italy	55,500	19
143	3	Joao Tomas	Portugal	117,500	39
143	4	Igor Falkovsky	Belarus	233,000	78
143	5	Ting Yi Tsai	Taiwan	425,500	142
143	6	Toni Ravnak	Serbia	94,500	32

144	1	Anton Kotliar	Israel	299,000	100
144	2	David Hu	Netherlands	138,500	46
144	3	Giovanni Petroni	Italy	98,000	33
144	4	Daniel Koloszar	Hungary	188,500	63
144	5	Nicola Noah Karl	Germany	50,000	17
144	6	Karl Skolin	Sweden	238,000	79

145	1	Adrian Strobel	Germany	63,000	21
145	2	Klas Krueger	Germany	133,500	45
145	3	Marcello Miniucchi	Italy	179,500	60
145	4	Glib Karpov	Ukraine	208,500	70
145	5	Jacopo Achille	Italy	495,000	165
145	6	Lukas Pazma	Slovakia	91,000	30

146	1	Tobias Peters	Netherlands	163,500	55
146	2	Tal Herzog	Israel	93,500	31
146	3	Vito Labarile	Italy	196,500	66
146	4	Traian Stanciu	Romania	308,000	103
146	5	Fabian Rolli	Switzerland	131,000	44
146	6	Mario Llapi	Albania	68,500	23

147	1	Barny Boatman	United Kingdom	455,000	152
147	2	Algirdas Saveikis	Lithuania	47,000	16
147	3	Simon Beckmann	Germany	193,000	64
147	4	Albert Gorelik	United States	205,000	68
147	5	Refael Dahan	Israel	133,000	44
147	6	Leandro Dirlewanger	Switzerland	184,000	61

153	1	Ruslan Volkov	Ukraine	166,500	56
153	2	Jonathan Humphrey	United Kingdom	140,000	47
153	3	Bernard Larabi	Hungary	226,500	76
153	4	Dragoljub Martinovic	Serbia	252,000	84
153	5	Ramlal Basdeo	Trinidad and Tobago	53,000	18
153	6	Yehuda Cohen	Israel	80,000	27

154	1	Besmir Hodaj	Albania	620,000	207
154	2	Daniel Heredi	Hungary	85,000	28
154	3	Nino Junior Pansier	Netherlands	30,000	10
154	4	Koray Korkmaz	Turkey	206,500	69
154	5	Christian Schneider	Germany	176,000	59
154	6	Andrei Spataru	Romania	142,000	47

155	1	Ramo Balic	Bosnia and Herzegovina	253,500	85
155	2	Jonathan Pastore	France	76,000	25
155	3	Sergiu Covrig	Romania	175,000	58
155	4	Adi Rajkovic	Austria	45,000	15
155	5	[Removed:490]	Germany	214,000	71
155	6	Virgile Turchi	France	130,000	43

156	1	Davide Suriano	Italy	116,000	39
156	2	Hugo Bohn Machado	Portugal	265,000	88
156	3	Alberto Cigliano	Italy	86,000	29
156	4	Ori Hasson	Israel	46,500	16
156	5	Axel Bayout	France	226,000	75
156	6	Alexander Kleinhans	Germany	180,000	60

157	1	Bruno Desimoni Cunha Mota	Italy	171,000	57
157	2	Miroslav Forman	Czech Republic	416,500	139
157	3	Maksim Vaskresenski	Belarus	129,000	43
157	4	Pascal Pflock	Germany	68,000	23
157	5	Matthew Davenport	United Kingdom	214,000	71
157	6	Michael Horn	Germany	80,000	27

158	1	Andrej Desset	Slovakia	155,000	52
158	2	Daniel Lehmann	Norway	129,000	43
158	3	Jakub Koleckar	Czech Republic	101,000	34
158	4	Iman Ghashayar	Netherlands	204,000	68
158	5	Sandro Zarriello	Austria	40,000	13
158	6	Christian Duerschlag	Germany	324,500	108

159	1	Stefan Bittger	Germany	152,000	51
159	2	Rafi Elharar	Israel	71,500	24
159	3	Andrii Vasylyk	Ukraine	88,500	30
159	4	Frederik Thiemer	Germany	401,000	134
159	5	Vladimir Troyanovskiy	Russian Federation	124,500	42
159	6	Georges Sultanem	France	208,000	69

160	1	Bastien May	France	119,000	40
160	2	Alexander Norden	Sweden	90,000	30
160	3	Michael Gehrmann	Germany	67,000	22
160	4	Dan Maricuta	Romania	240,000	80
160	5	Adi Aizin	Israel	160,500	54
160	6	Candido Cappiello	Italy	293,000	98

161	1	Lars Garp	Sweden	117,500	39
161	2	Cornelis De Moree	Netherlands	203,000	68
161	3	Gergo Gecsek	Hungary	89,000	30
161	4	Renji Mao	China	149,500	50
161	5	Robert Burlacu	Romania	260,000	87
161	6	Jin-Hoon Lee	Korea, Republic of	25,000	8

11-07-2023 01:59 UTC+1

End of Day 1 Chip Counts (full)

Chris Bean

Level 14 : Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Besmir Hodaj	620,000 224,000	224,000

Jacopo Achille	495,000 495,000	495,000

Maor Zaharagi	465,500 423,500	423,500
Barny Boatman	455,000 -7,000	-7,000

Ting-Yi Tsai	425,500 28,500	28,500
Miroslav Forman	416,500 -48,500	-48,500
Frederik Thiemer	401,000 401,000	401,000
Jorge Ufano	400,500 301,500	301,500
Christian Duerschlag	324,500 52,500	52,500
Dennis Wilke	320,000 320,000	320,000
Traian Stanciu	308,000 -27,000	-27,000
Anton Kotliar	299,000 299,000	299,000
Candido Cappiello	293,000 246,000	246,000
Oleksii Natoptanyi	280,000 280,000	280,000
Hugo Bohn	265,000 265,000	265,000
Robert Burlacu	260,000 260,000	260,000
Andrea Dato	255,000 90,000	90,000

Ramo Balic	253,500 77,500	77,500
Dragoljub Martinovic	252,000 209,500	209,500
Zlatin Penev	249,000 109,000	109,000
Dan Maricuta	240,000 100,000	100,000
Karl Skolin	238,000 83,000	83,000
Igor Falkovsky	233,000 -47,000	-47,000
Bernard Larabi	226,500 226,500	226,500
Axel Bayout	226,000 226,000	226,000

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11-07-2023 01:45 UTC+1

End of Day 1

Maxime Taldir

Level 14 : Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

120 players filled their bags with chips at the end of Day 1 of Event #7: €1,650 NLH 6-max and are qualified for Day 2.

Full chip counts and recap to follow shortly.

11-07-2023 01:38 UTC+1

Two Last Hands of the Day

Maxime Taldir

Level 14 : Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

The tournament director just announced that two more hands will be played today before wrapping up.

11-07-2023 01:31 UTC+1

Maricuta Makes Panasiuk Fold

Maxime Taldir

Level 14 : Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

After Artsiom Panasiuk raised from the button, Dan Maricuta defended from the big blind, then check-called a continuation bet of 4,500 on the flop 7♣A♣9♦.

On the turn 2♦, both players checked to find the 4♦ on the river.

This time, Maricuta lead out for 21,500, and made Panasiuk fold.

Player	Chips	Progress
Artsiom Panasiuk	165,000
Dan Maricuta	140,000 -180,000	-180,000

Tags: Dan Maricuta Artsiom Panasiuk

11-07-2023 01:26 UTC+1

Sitbon Doubles Through Giudice

Chris Bean

Level 14 : Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

All the chips went into the middle preflop with Julien Sitbon at risk for 38,000 in the small blind. He was covered by Giovanni Giudice on the button.

Julien Sitbon: A♠A♣
Giovanni Giudice: 5♣5♠

Sitbon was a huge favorite to take down the pot and the completed board of 9♣4♦3♠A♥9♦ improved the Frenchman to a boat, whilst Giudice took a huge dent to his stack.

Player	Chips	Progress
Julien Sitbon	83,000 83,000	83,000

Giovanni Giudice	47,000

Tags: Giovanni Giudice Julien Sitbon

11-07-2023 01:20 UTC+1

Biggest Stacks in Final Level of Day 1 - Forman Takes Chip Lead

Chris Bean

Level 14 : Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Miroslav Forman	465,000 -35,000	-35,000
Barny Boatman	462,000 -78,000	-78,000

Ting-Yi Tsai	397,000
Besmir Hodaj	396,000 99,000	99,000

Traian Stanciu	335,000 152,000	152,000
Hugo Machado	305,000

11-07-2023 01:14 UTC+1

Straight on the River for Forman

Maxime Taldir

Level 14 : Blinds 1,000/2,500, 2,500 ante

On a K♥9♠J♥3♥ with roughly 100,000 chips in the pot, Miroslav Forman in the small blind was into the tank after Simone Pascucci shoved for 98,000 in the hijack.

It took a long moment for Forman to make a decision, but he eventually called.

Simone Pascucci: A♣A♥
Miroslav Forman: Q♦J♦

Pascucci was on his way to double up with aces. But the 10♣ landed on the river to complete Forman's straight and send Pascucci to the rail.