Event #9: €1,100 NLH Mystery Bounty Day 1 | 2023 WSOP Europe

Event #9: €1,100 NLH Mystery Bounty

Day 1 Completed

11-08-2023 04:28 UTC+1

Alexandra Botez Headlines 161 Survivors on Day 1 of the €1,100 Mystery Bounty

David Salituro

Level 15 : Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

Alexandra Botez made her name in the chess world, building a streaming empire that has seen her amass more than one million followers on both Twitch and YouTube. Her first step in conquering the world of poker began with making it through Day 1 of the €1,100 Mystery Bounty at the World Series of Poker Europe.

Botez was one of 161 players who bagged chips at the end of the night, finishing with 168,000. She had her first taste of WSOP success when she cashed in the Main Event this summer and will have her sights set on her second cash when Day 2 resumes at 2 p.m. local time tomorrow inside King’s Resort in Rozvadov.

Jacob Amsellem holds the chip lead with 440,000, followed by Samuel Ju (412,000), Demetrio Caminita (385,000), Anestis Anagnostidis (354,000), and Marco Poccia (341,000). Nicola Karl built up his massive stack when he rivered a set of aces after Michael Rodrigues turned a set of fours, busting the WSOP bracelet winner in a nearly 300,000 chip pot. Karl later made quad sevens and got paid on the river on his way to bagging up 337,000.

Day 1 Top 10 Chip Counts

Rank	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	Jacob Amsellem	Israel	440,000	147
2	Samuel Ju	Germany	412,000	137
3	Demetrio Caminita	Italy	385,000	128
4	Anestis Anagnostidis	Germany	354,000	118
5	Marco Poccia	Italy	341,000	114
6	Till Templin	Germany	336,000	112
7	Nicola Karl	Germany	331,000	110
8	Vladas Tamasauskas	Lithuania	326,000	109
9	Jan Wieckenberg	Germany	323,500	108
10	Fausto Tantillo	Italy	323,000	108

Other top stacks include Vladas Tamasauskas (326,000) and Fausto Tantillo (323,000), while Manig Loeser (175,500), Nacho Barbero (142,500), Andrea Dato (122,500), and Ana Marquez (108,000) headline the notables progressing to Day 2. Near the bottom of the leaderboard is Ermanno Di Nicola (89,000), who jumped into this event after winning his first WSOP bracelet in the Colossus last night, as well as online legend Viktor Blom (74,000) and French bracelet winner Alexandre Reard (78,000).

A total of 803 players packed into the tournament room on Day 1 to chase the bracelet and mystery bounty prizes. Not everyone was fortunate enough to make it through, and over the course of nearly 15 levels the likes of Felipe Ramos, Alex Keating, Ren Lin, Ole Schemion, and Jessica Teusl all hit the rail. Wooram Cho, who’s already cashed five times so far at the WSOPE, fired nine bullets trying to claim another prize but came up empty each time.

More than the WSOPE gold bracelet will be at stake tomorrow. The mystery bounty prizes kick in, with players hoping to pull one of the top €30,000 prizes. The exact distribution of the mystery bounty envelopes, as well as the total prize pool, will be announced shortly after play resumes. There will be 26 minutes left on Level 15 with blinds of 1,500-3,000 and a 3,000 big blind ante.

The plan is to play down from 161 all the way to a winner, so Day 2 should be an incredibly long, arduous journey for someone hoping to achieve WSOP glory. PokerNews will be back following the journey and providing live updates as the field plays on toward the final table and the crowning of a champion.

Tags: Alex Keating Alexandra Botez Alexandre Reard Ana Marquez Andrea Dato Anestis Anagnostidis Demetrio Caminita Ermanno Di Nicola Fausto Tantillo Felipe Ramos Jacob Amsellem Jan Wieckenberg Jessica Teusl Manig Loeser Marco Poccia Michael Rodrigues Nacho Barbero Nicola Karl Ole Schemion Ren Lin Samuel Ju Till Templin Viktor Blom Vladas Tamasauskas Wooram Cho

11-08-2023 03:13 UTC+1

End-of-Day Chip Counts (full)

David Salituro

Level 15 : Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Jacob Amsellem	440,000 -10,000	-10,000

Samuel Ju	412,000 62,000	62,000
Demetrio Caminita	385,000 385,000	385,000
Anestis Anagnostidis	354,000 184,000	184,000
Marco Poccia	341,000 341,000	341,000
Till Templin	336,000 21,000	21,000
Nicola Karl	331,000 -59,000	-59,000
Vladas Tamasauskas	326,000 126,000	126,000
Jan Wieckenberg	323,500 321,500	321,500
Fausto Tantillo	323,000 43,000	43,000
Fabio Anobile	318,500 318,500	318,500
Anthony Amsellem	310,500 310,500	310,500
Tadas Trumpulis	302,000 302,000	302,000
Yi Zhan Peng	300,500 25,500	25,500
Daniele Sacchi	297,500 -22,500	-22,500
Andras Balogh	283,500 253,500	253,500
Natalia Samsonova	272,000 102,000	102,000
Tal Herzog	266,500 266,500	266,500
Anton Kotliar	264,500 264,500	264,500
Adrian Strobel	264,000 171,000	171,000
Hugo Machado	262,000 222,000	222,000
Koray Korkmaz	261,500 261,500	261,500
Hyunsup Kim	259,000 259,000	259,000
Jun Beum Chun	258,500 258,500	258,500
Orhan Sen	252,500 52,500	52,500

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11-08-2023 03:12 UTC+1

Day 2 Seat Draw

Calum Grant

Level 15 : Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

Table	Seat	Name	Nationality	Chip count	Big Blinds
61	1	Giovanni Giudice	Italy	165,000	55
61	2	Monika Zukowicz	Poland	105,500	35
61	3	Hugo Machado	Portugal	262,000	87
61	4	Michele Pucci	Italy	40,500	14
61	5	Anton Johansson	Sweden	129,000	43
61	6	Serhii Kolosov	Ukraine	213,000	71
61	7	Viktor Blom	Sweden	74,000	25
61	8	Julien Loire	France	29,500	10

138	1	Yulian Bogdanov	Bulgaria	50,000	17
138	2	Martin Morawiec	Czech Republic	97,000	32
138	3	Oliver Huber	Germany	210,500	70
138	4	Benjamin Pitoun	France	111,000	37
138	5	Alexandra Botez	United States	162,000	54
138	6	Marco Poccia	Italy	341,000	114
138	7	Kiryl Audziunin	Belarus	34,000	11
138	8	Youngshin Im	Korea, Republic of	219,500	73

139	1	Natalia Samsonova	Russian Federation	272,000	91
139	2	Axel Bayout	France	65,500	22
139	3	Rostyslav Sabishchenko	Ukraine	114,500	38
139	4	Alexandre Viard	France	184,000	61
139	5	Jacek Piontke	Poland	241,000	80
139	6	Marius Iftimia	Romania	32,000	11
139	7	Alexandre Reard	France	78,000	26
139	8	Abdellah Bouzergan	Morocco	142,500	48

140	1	Frederik Thiemer	Germany	158,000	53
140	3	Sebastien Grax	France	80,000	27
140	4	Martin Schamaun	Switzerland	70,000	23
140	5	Anton Kotliar	Israel	264,500	88
140	6	Ana Marquez	Spain	108,000	36
140	7	Petr Kubenka	Czech Republic	185,500	62
140	8	Giuseppe Demasi	Italy	251,000	84

141	1	Daniele De Feo	Italy	127,000	42
141	2	Aliaksei Chernak	Belarus	214,000	71
141	3	Andras Balogh	Hungary	283,500	95
141	4	Tim Kraemer	Germany	182,500	61
141	5	Radu Pitic	Romania	99,000	33
141	7	Gaspare Sposato	Italy	149,000	50
141	8	Jelka Andelic	Italy	67,500	23

142	1	Till Templin	Germany	336,000	112
142	3	Eusebiu Jalba	Romania	115,000	38
142	4	Marin Dragutan	Moldova	188,000	63
142	5	Namir Dfaili	Switzerland	164,500	55
142	6	Luigi Shehadeh	Italy	49,500	17
142	7	Stav Melinek	Israel	228,000	76
142	8	Joao Tomas	Portugal	76,000	25

143	1	Quan Zhou	China	127,000	42
143	2	Yehor Shumeiko	Ukraine	192,000	64
143	3	Otto Lemke	Germany	246,500	82
143	4	Francesco Delfoco	Italy	83,000	28
143	5	Jakub Koleckar	Czech Republic	54,500	18
143	7	Heiko Hinkelmann	Germany	140,000	47
143	8	Vladas Tamasauskas	Lithuania	326,000	109

144	1	Alf Martinsson	Sweden	128,000	43
144	2	Pawel Zawadowicz	Poland	83,500	28
144	3	Kasparas Klezys	Lithuania	178,000	59
144	4	Miguel Martinez Abad	Spain	70,000	23
144	5	Sven Andersson	Sweden	33,500	11
144	6	Adrian Cebula	Poland	227,500	76
144	7	Lars Garp	Sweden	155,000	52
144	8	Adrian Strobel	Germany	264,000	88

145	1	Hyungwoon Kim	Korea, Republic of	84,500	28
145	2	Tadas Trumpulis	Lithuania	302,000	101
145	3	Krishna Madhariwar	India	226,000	75
145	4	Seref Anar	Turkey	38,000	13
145	5	Ori Hasson	Israel	149,500	50
145	6	Kacper Pawlowski	Poland	115,000	38
145	7	Namhyung Kim	Korea, Republic of	166,500	56
145	8	Vitalii Seman	Ukraine	49,000	16

146	1	Stefan Schoss	Germany	88,500	30
146	2	Ramo Balic	Bosnia and Herzegovina	62,000	21
146	3	Simone Andrian	Italy	252,500	84
146	4	Robert Bickley	United Kingdom	165,500	55
146	5	Jin-Hoon Lee	Korea, Republic of	121,500	41
146	6	Franz Holzner	Germany	147,500	49
146	7	Fabio Anobile	Italy	318,500	106
146	8	Alessandro De Michele	Italy	37,500	13

147	1	Symeon Alexandridis	Greece	250,000	83
147	2	Samuel Ju	Germany	412,000	137
147	3	Roman Ulanov	Ukraine	127,000	42
147	4	Bogdan Munteanu	Romania	23,000	8
147	5	Siarhei Chudapal	Belarus	84,000	28
147	6	Kiryl Kiryliuk	Belarus	46,000	15
147	7	Adi Rajkovic	Austria	164,500	55
147	8	Stanisław Miądzel	Poland	209,500	70

153	1	Aaron Stalmach	Poland	178,000	59
153	2	Daniel Budin	Czech Republic	87,500	29
153	3	Junhyoung Ki	Korea, Republic of	148,000	49
153	5	Matthew Davenport	United Kingdom	234,500	78
153	6	Ion Tabacaru	Romania	44,000	15
153	7	Philipp Krieger	Germany	111,500	37
153	8	Jan Wieckenberg	Germany	323,500	108

154	1	Jeremy Pappano	United States	82,000	27
154	2	Cornelis De Moree	Netherlands	184,500	62
154	3	Rene Heinricher	Austria	49,000	16
154	4	Sam Dryden	United States	154,000	51
154	5	Jun Beum Chun	Korea, Republic of	258,500	86
154	7	Tomasz Pawel Gluszko	Poland	125,000	42
154	8	Anestis Anagnostidis	Greece	354,000	118

155	1	Dimitrios Katsikas	Greece	178,000	59
155	2	Guillaume Ferrer	France	81,500	27
155	3	Ran Koller	Portugal	23,500	8
155	4	Koray Korkmaz	Turkey	261,500	87
155	5	Alexander Norden	Sweden	47,500	16
155	6	Yi Zhan Peng	Taiwan	300,500	100
155	7	Nacho Barbero	Italy	142,500	48
155	8	Arvin Vahdat	Iran	107,500	36

156	1	Riadh Farhat	France	213,000	71
156	2	Christian Duerschlag	Germany	82,500	28
156	3	Roman Cieslik	Germany	230,000	77
156	4	Cedric Schwaederle	France	149,500	50
156	5	Francisco Mir	Spain	30,000	10
156	6	Finn Zwad	Germany	46,000	15
156	7	Massimiliano Zanasi	Italy	125,500	42
156	8	Nicola Karl	Germany	331,000	110

157	1	Cristian David	Romania	233,500	78
157	2	Irena Macesovic	Lithuania	198,000	66
157	3	Aaron Duczak	Canada	54,500	18
157	4	Jacob Amsellem	France	440,000	147
157	5	Jareth East	United Kingdom	23,500	8
157	6	Luc Ramos	Switzerland	160,000	53
157	7	Julien Sitbon	France	102,500	34
157	8	Ioannis Angelou-Konstas	Greece	114,000	38

158	1	Ilija Savevski	Macedonia	35,000	12
158	2	Thanh Trung Tran	Germany	211,000	70
158	3	Daniele Sacchi	Italy	297,500	99
158	4	Besmir Hodaj	Albania	130,000	43
158	5	Orhan Sen	Germany	252,500	84
158	6	Habip Yilmaz	Turkey	55,500	19
158	7	Stefan Raschbauer	Austria	114,000	38
158	8	Ermanno Di Nicola	Italy	89,000	30

159	1	Jared Strauss	United States	70,000	23
159	2	Anthony Mahaut	France	176,500	59
159	3	Patrik Zidek	Czech Republic	151,000	50
159	4	Aleksei Donets	Russian Federation	32,500	11
159	5	Ali Shahni	United States	102,500	34
159	6	Andrea Radicchi	Italy	111,000	37
159	7	Demetrio Caminita	Italy	385,000	128
159	8	Fabio Peluso	Italy	228,000	76

160	1	Manig Loeser	Germany	175,500	59
160	2	Christian Bertu	Italy	97,500	33
160	3	Jamel Ghizaoui	France	233,000	78
160	4	Sandro Zarriello	Austria	44,000	15
160	5	Anthony Amsellem	France	310,500	104
160	6	Andrej Desset	Slovakia	28,500	10
160	7	Andrea Dato	Italy	122,500	41
160	8	Roman Pavliuk	Ukraine	158,000	53

161	1	Ercan Atmaca	Netherlands	167,500	56
161	2	Aliaksandr Shylko	Belarus	113,500	38
161	3	Robert Burlacu	Romania	59,500	20
161	4	Andrii Andrieiev	Ukraine	250,000	83
161	6	Giuseppe Mazza-Boussemart	France	101,500	34
161	7	Vadzim Lipauka	Belarus	147,500	49
161	8	Tal Herzog	Israel	266,500	89

162	1	Dan Maricuta	Romania	51,000	17
162	2	Ruslan Volkov	Ukraine	178,000	59
162	3	Hyunsup Kim	Korea, Republic of	259,000	86
162	4	Alexander Romme	Germany	99,000	33
162	5	Fausto Tantillo	Italy	323,000	108
162	6	Rehman Kassam	United Kingdom	130,000	43
162	7	Leandro Dirlewanger	Switzerland	23,000	8
162	8	Anson Tsang	Taiwan	128,500	43

11-08-2023 03:04 UTC+1

Burneikis' Exit Marks End of Day 1

Calum Grant

Level 15 : Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

Vladas Burneikis was all in for his last 34,000 and was at risk to Alf Martinsson.

Vladas Burneikis: J♣J♥
Alf Martinsson: QxQx

Burneikis was the final player eliminated on Day 1 as he failed to improve on the 8♦7♥2♦6♣Q♣ runout.

The 161 players are now bagging and tagging their stacks. Chip Counts and a recap of today's action will follow shortly.

Day 2 will resume at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, November 8. The clock has been paused on Level 15 and has 26:32 left on the clock.

Player	Chips	Progress
Alf Martinsson	100,000
Vladas Burneikis	Busted

Tags: Alf Martinsson Vladas Burneikis

11-08-2023 02:58 UTC+1

Baby Pair Good For Peng

David Salituro

Level 15 : Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

Lars Garp raised to 6,000 in middle position, then called when Yi Zhan Peng three-bet to 20,000 in the hijack.

The flop came 6♠3♠3♦ and Peng continued for 15,000. Garp called and both players checked the 8♣ turn.

Peng bet another 25,000 on the 8♦ river and Garp again quickly called as Peng showed 4♠4♣. That proved good enough to win the pot as Garp mucked his cards.

Player	Chips	Progress
Yi Zhan Peng	275,000 65,000	65,000
Tobias Garp	150,000

Tags: Lars Garp Yi Zhan Peng

11-08-2023 02:48 UTC+1

Templin Three-Bet Jams the River

Calum Grant

Level 15 : Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

Action was caught on the river with 53,000 in the pot on the 2♥Q♠4♥Q♣J♥ board.

Till Templin bet 35,000 from the big blind. Jin-Hoon Lee then made it 100,000 from middle position. Templin responded by moving all in for 167,500. Lee went into the tank and folded.

Massimiliano Zanasi was at the table and said, "You can only have two hands, queen-jack or four-four."

Player	Chips	Progress
Till Templin	315,000
Jin-Hoon Lee	132,500 -147,500	-147,500

Tags: Jin-Hoon Lee Massimiliano Zanasi Till Templin

Level: 15

Blinds: 1,500/3,000

Ante: 3,000

11-08-2023 02:43 UTC+1

Another Round of Bustouts

David Salituro

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

Player	Chips	Progress
Vivian Saliba	Busted

Wooram Cho	Busted
Renji Mao	Busted

Kimon Fountoukidis	Busted
Selahaddin Bedir	Busted
Maurizio Melara	Busted
Michael Rodrigues	Busted

11-08-2023 02:41 UTC+1

Sabishchenko Brings Karl Down a Bit

David Salituro

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

Nicola Karl raised to 5,500 on the button before Rostyslav Sabishchenko three-bet to 18,000 in the big blind. Karl then moved all in and Sabishchenko snap-called for 65,000.

Rostyslav Sabishchenko: A♣A♠
Nicola Karl: A♥J♦

Karl had run right into aces as the board ran out 7♠7♥8♣K♦2♠, earning Sabishchenko a late-night double up and halting Karl's march to the top of the leaderboard.

Player	Chips	Progress
Nicola Karl	390,000 20,000	20,000
Rostyslav Sabishchenko	130,000 20,000	20,000

Tags: Nicola Karl Rostyslav Sabishchenko