Event #9: €1,100 NLH Mystery Bounty Day 1 | 2024 WSOP Europe

Event #9: €1,100 NLH Mystery Bounty

Day 1 Completed

10-02-2024 03:39 UTC+1

Shaun Deeb Bags Big After Day 1 of Event #9: €1,100 NLH Mystery Bounty

Tim Baker

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

It’s the early hours of the morning here at the King’s Resort in Rosvadov, where Day 1 of Event #9: €1,100 NLH Mystery Bounty at the 2024 World Series of Poker Europe has come to a close. The 515-entrant field created a prize pool of €484,100, where the winner wil take home a top prize of €69,050.

Play came to an end in the fifteenth 40-minute level when the field had been narrowed down to 103 players, all of whom will return tomorrow at 2 p.m. local time for Day 2. Leading the chip counts is Ramana Epparla from the United States with an impressive stack of 534,500. This will prove to be very helpful in his bounty-hunting adventure getting underway from the start of play tomorrow. 

The most decorated WSOP player heading to the baize for Day 2 is Shaun Deeb, who sits in sixteenth position with 241,000. The six-time bracelet winner joined the field near the start and steadily added to his stack throughout the day. Deeb has yet to taste WSOP success in Europe, so he’ll be hoping to use his wealth of poker experience to his advantage and navigate his way to bracelet number seven tomorrow.

Top 10 Chip Counts

Rank	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	Ramana Epparla	United States	534,500	178
2	Paco Kaplan	Germany	505,500	169
3	Arturo Paduano	Italy	453,000	151
4	Genc Shabani	Kosovo	341,000	114
5	Jiri Kun	Czechia	326,500	109
6	Adrian State	Romania	321,500	107
7	John Armbrust	United States	316,000	105
8	Bernd Reich	Germany	299,500	100
9	Aaron Duczak	Canada	275,000	92
10	Marek Bartoszewicz	Poland	272,000	91

Second place on the podium with 505,000 goes to Germany's Paco Kaplan, whilst third place is taken by Arturo Paduano of Italy with 453,000. Paduano is no stranger to bringing big stacks through to Day 2's. Just yesterday he entered the second day of Event #6: €5,000 Pot Limit Omaha with a top three stack, only to exit in one of the first few levels. Paduano is on the hunt for his first WSOP final table and will be hoping to pick up some juicy bounties along the way.

With such a large field many other familiar faces secured their seats for tomorrow, including Aaron Duczak (275,000), Ankit Ahuja (242,000), Safwane Bahri (228,000), Amir Mozaffarian (167,500), two-time bracelet winner Martin Kabrhel (165,000), Gabi Livshitz (161,500), Darius Samual (151,000), Ilija Savevski (135,000), Andrej Desset (122,000), Fabio Peluso (87,500), and Tobias Peters (49,500)

The majority of those who entered today will not be returning to go bounty hunting tomorrow. Some of the more notable players to bust included bracelet winners Kristen Foxen, Jessica Teusl, Emil Bise, Wing Po Liu, Sergiu Covrig, Anson Tsang, Alex Foxen, and the 2024 WSOP Europe Mini Main Event champion Christopher Campisano.

The mystery bounties kick in from the start of play tomorrow, with players hoping to pull one of the top prizes. The exact bounty amounts and distribution will be announced shortly after play resumes. Only 78 players will make the money with a minimum-cash of €1,365.

The blinds will resume at 1,500/3,000 and a 3,000 big blind ante with 9:01 minutes remaining of level 15. The plan for Day 2 will be to play down through the final table until an eventual champion has been crowned. 

Join PokerNews tomorrow from King’s Resort in Rozvadov for all the action from this event here and more here at WSOP Europe.

Tags: Aaron Duczak Adrian State Amir Mozaffarian Andrej Desset Ankit Ahuja Anson Tsang Arturo Paduano Bernd Reich Christopher Campisano Darius Samual Emil Bise Fabio Peluso Gabi Livshitz Genc Shabani Ilija Savevski Jessica Teusl Jiri Kun John Armbrust Marek Bartoszewicz Martin Kabrhel Paco Kaplan Ramana Epparla Safwane Bahri Sergiu Covrig Shaun Deeb Tobias Peters

10-02-2024 03:03 UTC+1

End of Day Chip Counts (full)

Kai Cocklin

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

Player	Chips	Progress
Ramana Epparla	534,500 284,500	284,500

Paco Kaplan	505,500 25,500	25,500
Arturo Paduano	453,000 18,000	18,000
Genc Shabani	341,000 41,000	41,000
Jiri Kun	326,500 159,500	159,500
Adrian State	321,500 31,500	31,500
John Armbrust	316,000 297,000	297,000
Bernd Reich	299,500 -5,500	-5,500
Aaron Duczak	275,000 275,000	275,000
Marek Bartoszewicz	272,000 272,000	272,000
Zdenek Zizka	260,500 -19,500	-19,500
Yannick Jobin	258,500 258,500	258,500
Iraklis Manikaros	251,000 11,000	11,000
Ankit Ahuja	242,000 2,000	2,000
Stefan Drusca	241,500 241,500	241,500
Shaun Deeb	241,000 71,000	71,000

Vitalii Shcherba	237,000 237,000	237,000
Bruno Mota	235,500 -24,500	-24,500
Yehor Shumeiko	235,500 235,500	235,500
Edgaras Pipine	233,500 233,500	233,500
David Hu	231,500 181,500	181,500
Alf Martinsson	231,000 201,000	201,000
Safwane Bahri	228,000 165,000	165,000
Philipp Krieger	211,500 81,500	81,500
Mariusz Golinski	201,500 101,500	101,500

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10-02-2024 02:32 UTC+1

Day 1 Comes to an End

Kai Cocklin

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

Day 1 of the €1,100 NLH Mystery Bounty has come to an end with 103 players remaining from the 515-strong field.

Stay tuned for a full recap of the day's action and those all-important chip counts.

10-02-2024 02:26 UTC+1

Scherle Wins a Race to Survive

Tim Baker

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

Fabian Scherle got his last 37,000 into the middle from the button with May Mor making the call from the big blind to put him at risk of elimination just before the end of the day.

Fabian Scherle: A♠Q♠ All in
May Mor: 10♠10♦

Scherle found a favorable runout of 2♥3♦9♣Q♥3♠ to win the pot, having paired his queen on the turn.

Player	Chips	Progress
May Mor	105,000 40,000	40,000
Fabian Scherle	75,000

Tags: Fabian Scherle May Mor

10-02-2024 02:11 UTC+1

Oliva Forces Fluereci to Fold

Kai Cocklin

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

There were around 30,000 chips in the pot on a flop of J♥Q♠2♥, which four players checked around to the 8♣ turn. Robert Fluereci bet 16,500, Jakub Oliva called, then Samuel Ju & Cristian Cirja folded.

When the 8♠ dropped on the river, Fluereci checked and Oliva fired 55,000. Fluereci only had around 25,000 remaining in his stack and after a minute of thinking, he folded.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jakub Oliva	150,000 150,000	150,000
Samuel Ju	130,000 130,000	130,000
Cristian Cirja	70,000 5,000	5,000
Vivian Saliba	40,000 40,000	40,000

Robert Fluereci	25,000 25,000	25,000

Tags: Cristian Cirja Jakub Oliva Robert Fluereci Samuel Ju

10-02-2024 02:07 UTC+1

More Recent Eliminations

Tim Baker

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

Player	Chips	Progress
Nathaniel Levi	Busted
Marcus Wuttke	Busted
Daniele Grasso	Busted
Ron Jeda	Busted
Arnaud Schmitt	Busted
Daewoong Song	Busted
Gassan Azzam	Busted
Marius Schneider	Busted

Borislav Bogdanov	Busted
Oleksii Natoptanyi	Busted
Axel Bayout	Busted
Timur Margolin	Busted

10-02-2024 02:00 UTC+1

Reich Calls Down With Sevens

Tim Baker

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

Bernd Reich min-raised from early early position and Patrick Grassmann three-bet to 18,500 from late position. After the rest of the table folded, Reich called.

Reich check-called a bet of 11,000 on the 4♥3♣3♠ flop.

Both players checked the J♥ turn for the 9♣ to fall on the river. Reich checked for the last time and Grassman fired out 28,000. Reich quickly called and Grassman showed A♠K♦ for just ace-high. Reich had 7♣7♠ for a pair of sevens to win the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Bernd Reich	305,000 305,000	305,000
Patrick Grassmann	105,000 -85,000	-85,000

Tags: Bernd Reich Patrick Grassmann

10-02-2024 02:00 UTC+1

Azzam Runs Into Samual's Aces

Kai Cocklin

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

Paul Runcan opened to 6,000 and Gassan Azzam shoved for around 60,000, then Darius Samual made the call from the next seat. The action got back to Runcan, who only needed a second to fold his cards.

Gassan Azzam: 4♠4♣ All in
Darius Samual: A♥A♦

Azzam needed to find a four otherwise he'd be sailing out of the tournament as he had run straight into Samual's rockets. The board ran out 5♣10♥9♦Q♥3♠, which was no help to Azzam and he was eliminated.