Day 1b of WSOP Europe Main Event Starts at Noon
Today at noon, Day 1b of Event #11: €10,350 No-Limit Hold’em Main Event kicks off. This is the final bracelet event of 2017.
This is the ninth time the WSOPE has been held, with the first series of events taking place in 2007 at the Casino at the Empire in London. Annette Obrestad became the first ever WSOPE Main Event winner at the tender age of only 18. After this inaugural event, the poker world visited London three more times for the WSOPE. France hosted the next three events, with two of them in Cannes and one in Paris. After a year hiatus, the WSOPE traveled to Berlin, with Kevin MacPhee winning the last WSOPE Main Event bracelet for €883,000.
Past World Series of Poker Europe Main Event Winners
| Year | Location | Winner | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | London | Annette Obrestad | ￡1,000,000 |
| 2008 | London | John Juanda | ￡868,800 |
| 2009 | London | Barry Shulman | ￡801,603 |
| 2010 | London | James Bord | ￡830,401 |
| 2011 | Cannes | Elio Fox | €1,400,000 |
| 2012 | Cannes | Phil Hellmuth | €1,022,376 |
| 2013 | Paris | Adrian Mateos | €1,000,000 |
| 2015 | Berlin | Kevin MacPhee | €883,000 |
Structure
This year, there is a guaranteed prize pool of €5,000,000 with €1,000,000 guaranteed for first place. The buy-in will be €10,350 and players will be starting with 50,000 in chips. Levels will last 90 minutes each with a 20-minute break after each level. The players will be playing six levels today with a 90-minute dinner break after Level 4.
Players that have been eliminated today can choose to reenter before the start of Day 2 on November 6th. Registration will also be open until then. The tournament will continue until a winner has been declared on Friday, November 10th. Keep glued to PokerNews as we work towards crowning a new WSOPE Main Event champion!
| Level | Duration | Small Blind | Big Blind | Ante |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 90 minutes | 75 | 150 | - |
| 20-minute break | ||||
| 2 | 90 minutes | 150 | 300 | - |
| 20-minute break | ||||
| 3 | 90 minutes | 150 | 300 | 25 |
| 20-minute break | ||||
| 4 | 90 minutes | 200 | 400 | 50 |
| 90-minute break | ||||
| 5 | 90 minutes | 250 | 500 | 75 |
| 20-minute break | ||||
| 6 | 90 minutes | 300 | 600 | 100 |
| 20-minute break |