Coolbet Open 2023

The heads-up was an interesting match to watch, it was either going to be Finland or Egypt who would take home the trophy and the first prize of € 60.000! It was eventually Finland who took the title!

Aziz lost half of his stack during the heads-up, and went eventually all-in for 3,100,000 with Ace-Four against the Tens of Hakala. The board finished eventually with [Qx][Tx][8x][9x][7x]. And hereby it all came to an end here at the Coolbet Open 2023!

Tomorrow we will recap not only the final day, but the whole week as well! A lot of interesting things have happened here throughout the week, which we are going to share with you all!

	Ville Tapani Hakala		1st – € 60.000
	Maged Aziz		2nd – € 38.690

VILLE TAPANI HAKALA		12,990,000
Maged Aziz		5,465,000

Ylva Thorsrud run in the Main Event came to an end on 3rd place for € 25.190. She pushed her last chips into the middle with K 4 , and ended up being against the 10 10 of Aziz. with a Queen-high board, and no fours either, she ended her good run in this Main Event.

Ylva Thorsrud

3rd – € 25.190

Yehuda Yosef from Israel, mostly had been chip leader this tournament. But at the final table he saw himself in a difficult spot suddenly and had his tournament life at risk.

Yosef: A K

Hakala: 5 5

It would turn out to be a very sick board with J 2 5 , and the turn Q . The river would give a flush to Yosef, but it was Hakala who made the best hand as he got four-of-a-kind 5 .

We had to say goodbye to the last player from Israel. The nationality with the most unique players in this tournament, a stunning 120!

Yehuda Yosef

4th – € 18.440

After doubling up his stack, Rafael Ben decided it was time to attack the dominating Chip Leader. He opened the action himself, and Hakala put Rafael Ben at risk when he put him all-in. Rafael Ben instantly called, which was quite opportunistic when looking on his cards. He needed help:

Rafael Ben: A 4

Hakala: A K

The flop gave plenty of choppertunities 8 10 10 , but with the A on the turn, it became extremely difficult. When the 8 landed on the river, it was the end of the story for the passionate player from Israel.

Rafael Ben

5th – € 13.940

We are down to five players as one of the Fins in the game in the likes of Hokkanen, walked towards the pay out desk. It was waiting for the bust outs for a long time, but it seems the players have found the right gear for now!

Hakala opened the action as chip leader, and fellow Fin Hokkannen went all-in, which got called by Hakala.

Hokkanen needed to hold with 8’s, but Hakala made a street on the turn with Ace-Jack. End of story for one of the Fins.

JAAKKO MIKAEL HOKKANEN

6th – € 10.340

Florian Fuchs, one of the players who took care of quite some action here at Day 3, unfortunately went out in 7th place. Against the chip leader Hakala it came down to coinflip another coinflip for Fuchs, as he lost a super important flip not too long ago against Rafael Ben with Tens against Ace-Queen.

Hakala had opened up the action, and Fuchs put it in for 20 big blinds. Hakala thought for a bit and made the call.

Fuchs: A K

Hakala: 8 8

The board ran out: 2 9 7 J 3

Unfortunate for the player Fuchs, which finally rings a bell where I know him from. I spoke to him swiftly, and he mentioned he was part of The Grindhouse #1.

Florian Fuchs

7th – € 7.260

Level 29: 60,000/120,000/120,000

Average: 2,657,143

Players: 7/620

	VILLE TAPANI HAKALA	5,860,000
	FLORIAN FUCHS	3,515,000
	JAAKKO MIKAEL HOKKANEN	1,090,000
	YLVA KIM THORSRUD	1,515,000
	RAFAEL RAFI BEN	1,515,000
	YEHUDA YOSEF	3.620.000
	MAGED AZIZ	1,340,000

It is break time here in the Main Event, with 7 players left in the contest. During the break, we talked to Ylva Thorsrud and she stated that not much happened yet at all. Florian Fuchs, one of the leaders of the pack, then mentioned he was fairly tired after a long week of poker. 3 days in a row, 10 to 12 hours of poker, is taking its toll for some it seems. Let’s pray and see if the fireworks will go up in the air after the break.

Jasmine Schuster, from Vienna in Austria, put her last 680,000 chips into the middle, and got called by Yosef. We were up to the races with a 1,9M pot:

Schuster: A 6

Yosef: J J

Board: 8 3 A 2 2

Schuster nicely doubled up here, but shortly after, she still was going to be sent to the rail.

Yosef opened up the action, and got a 3-bet from Hakanan. Schuster however woke up with a great hand and decided to go for it with 1,6M in chips. Yosef laid it down, but Hakala called the all-in with Aces. Schuster needed help with her Ace-King, but wasn’t lucky enough to break the aces. Hakala chips up to 4,5M chips, and Schuster is the first one to leave the official final table in 8th place.

Jasmine Schuster

8th – € 5.090

As the average is still like 30 big blinds deep, the players are carefully looking for the right spots. Everyone wants to win of course, but the aggressive play factor isn’t that big just yet. Let’s hope the pots will be a bit more juicy soon enough!

Aziz opened up the action to 120,000 and Thorsrud made the call with A Q . Rafael Ben also decided to call from the big blind with 10 8 .

Flop: 8 3 Q

Ylva Thorsrud made a continuation bet, and Ben decided to hang in and called. Turn K made both people check. And the A on the river gave Thorsrud another bet, on which Ben found the fold.

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Hakala, the big stack at the final table, just lost an all-in with pocket 4’s against the Ace-Ten from Aziz. A nice Ten on the flop took care of it all, and Aziz is completely back in the game.

At 18:00 CET it is time for yet another satellite tournament to The Festival Series here at the Coolbet Open. Martin ‘Franke’ von Zweigbergk is also here splashing every single pot you can image. He actually had made it to the second day of the Main Event, as the shortest stack of all with 19,000 chips. Within 5 minutes it was Game-Over.

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Level 27: 40,000/80,000/80,000

Average: 2,325,000

Players: 8/620

	1	YEHUDA YOSEF	3.810.000
	2	VILLE TAPANI HAKALA	3.540.000
	3	FLORIAN FUCHS	2.970.000
	4	JAAKKO MIKAEL HOKKANEN	2.555.000
	5	YLVA KIM THORSRUD	2.305.000
	6	RAFAEL RAFI BEN	1.505.000
	7	JASMINE SCHUSTER	1.000.000
	8	MAGED AZIZ	770.000

Schuster finally found a spot to put her chips into the middle with [Qx][Jx], Yosef checked his cards from the big blind and decided to make the call with [Ax][Qx]. Hereby, one of the two remaining females in the tournament, was at risk. With a [Jx] on the flop, she managed to take the lead, and good for her, she kept that lead until after the river. Sweet double up!

Fuchs put himself at risk when he called for his tournament life on the turn on a board [5x][Kx][Qx][Ax]. He was quite behind with [Ax][Jx] against the [Kx][Qx] of Rafael. When the river landed Fuchs improved his hand to a higher two-pair [5x], and managed to sit down a little bit more comfortable.

During the break prior to the Final Table, Fuchs did some small meditation session outside the casino. It seems that it worked out well in regard to help from above. With over $400,000 in live career earnings, he is looking to top it up even more here at the Coolbet Open. Florian came in the picture late on Day 2, when he absolutely crushed his opponents by very dominating plays. Here on Day 3, the final day, he continued to boost up his stack. It took a little hit on the final table, but he is in the top of the ranks again after the hand mentioned above. Let’s see what he can bring more.

YEHUDA YOSEF		4.695.000
VILLE TAPANI HAKALA		3,385,000
KIM THORSRUD		2,455,000
JAAKKO MIKAEL HOKKANEN		2,335,000
RAFAEL RAFI BEN		2,300,000
FLORIAN FUCHS		1,565,000
MAGED AZIZ		1,040,000
JASMINE SCHUSTER		605,000

#1-€ 60.000

#2-€ 38.690

#3-€ 25.190

#4-€ 18.440

#5-€ 13.940

#6-€ 10.340

#7-€ 7.260

#8-€ 5.090

#9-€ 4.195

What a cooler to start the final table with! Ville Hakala with the Aces, against Oystein Stay with Kings! No king on the board and a massive pot goes to Finland and Hakala goes straight towards the lead.

Ville Hakala		4,500,000
Oystein Stai		800,000

By following a tournament from the very first minute until the very end, you are picking up quite some information about the players. Especially towards the final table, the actions are more frequent and we have a closer look on it.

• Yehuda Yosef: busted out on day 1a, in the last level of the day. And re-entered the tournament on day 1c. He had build up himself again a decent stack, and with his full table being bigger stacks as well, it would be likely to have the overall chip leader eventually from that table. That happened and Yosef became the overall chip leader with 860,000. On day 2, he never had been in any trouble and easily kept his stack safe through the entire day. On day 3, at first he stayed under the radar, but once being at the feature table he knew it was time to shine. You can see that he is not afraid that easily, showing the Ace-Jack call against the Fin Oskari. From there onwards, he took down pot after pot and is again the chip leader of the tournament. Most definately he will make sure there will be fireworks at the last table of this Main Event.

To reach the final nine players, we had to get rid of one more player. Eventually it would be Daniel Shaker, who would not make it from the three Austrians left in the game.

Yosef opens up the action with Ace-King, and gets a three-bet from the active player Florian Fuchs with Eight-Nine. Shaker then decides to give it a go, with Yosef of course making the call.

Yosef: [Ax][Kx]

Shaker: [Ax][Jx]

The board ran out Q 2 7 10 4 , and we lose Shaker in 10th place.

Daniel Shaker

10th – € 3.590

	Country	Player Name	Chips	HendonMob
		Florian Fuchs	3.190.000	$400,587
		Jaakko Hokkanen	1.995.000	$12,600
		Oystein Stai	2.935.000	$122,197
		Yehuda Yosef	4.560.000	$8,697
		Maged Aziz	800,000	$243,226
		Rafael Rafi Ben	1.230.000	$9,147
		Ylva ‘Jevakim’ Thorsrud	815.000	$121,045
		Jasmine Schuster	740.000	$1,496
		Ville Tapani Hakala	2.190.000	$71,855

Young gun Jukka Oskari from Finland stands next to us in the rail. A couple minutes ago he busted out of the Coolbet Open Main Event in 11th place for € 3.590.

Oskari opens with K K to 100,000. Yosef finds A J in the big blind and raises it up to 350,000. Great news for Oskari and after some thinking he his remaining 1,400,000 all in the middle.

The board runs out 10 2 Q 9 A , and as unlucky as it gets, Oskari is out in 11th place.

Jukka Oskari

€ 3.590

FLORIAN FUCHS		3.560.000
JAAKKO MIKAEL HOKKANEN		2.820.000
OEYSTEIN STAI		2.485.000
YEHUDA YOSEF		1.770.000
MAGED AZIZ		1.540.000
OSKARI JUKKA TAPIO PIIRA		1.455.000
RAFAEL RAFI BEN		1.105.000
YLVA KIM THORSRUD		1.090.000
JASMINE SCHUSTER		995.000
DANIEL SHAKER		835.000
VILLE TAPANI HAKALA		800.000

Brandon Mifsud from Malta, with a great American accent, busts out in 12th place from the feature table. Again someone who had a very good second day at the Main Event, but bite the dust on the final day. He takes home € 3.590.

He defend with 7 6 his blind, against the open of Ylva Thorsrud with A A .

Flop : 8 J 3

It went all-in on the flop and Mifsud didn’t improve his hand to a flush and gave away a fair amount of his stack.

With his 8 remaining big blinds, he got it in right after with Deuces against the Ace-Nine of Aziz Maged.

Brandon Mifsud

12th – € 3.590

As the feature table is being streamed, we will focus mainly on the outer table. There is an interesting line-up with three Austrian friends all next to each other, Florian Fuchs, Daniel Shaker, and Jasmine Schuster. Alongside them we have Yehuda Yosef and Rafael Rafi Ben from Israel, and the young Jukka Oskari from Finland.

Florian Fuchs is applying continuous pressure on the table and finds himself involved in many pots so far. While another active player, Daniel Shaker, cannot find any spots to join in on the action today. Yesterday, however he was in the same situation as Fuchs.

Jukka Oskari keeps himself quite, based on the poker action. One all-in he won with 9’s against the Ace-Ten from Fuchs, and celebrated very passionately.

Rafael Rafi Ben is also reasonably active involved in pots with the current chip leader Florian Fuchs, and takes down some pots here and there. Yehuda Yosef on the hand, chip leader from Day 1, keeps himself under the radar so far.

It’s not always the case that the best hand wins in poker. Keito Kaljulaid, from Estonia, busted out in 13th place when his Aace-Queen couldn’t hold against the Ace-Jack of Ylva Thorsrud. Keito also mentioned that another player at the table had folded a Jack, which makes it even more unfortunate.

• On Friday, Keito jumped into the €165 Turbo and managed to win it all for €3,850.

Keito Kaljulaid

13th – € 3.050

Unfortunately for Peter, it wasn’t his day today. As ultimate short stack, he managed to become 14th for € 3.050. In the last hand his pocket 4’s couldn’t hold against the King-Jack of Maged Aziz. A king on the turn would seal the deal for Aziz to chip up, and for Peter to hit the showers.

Peter Jaroslav

14th – € 3.050

It’s not a good start for the Norwegian players left on Days 3. Roy Sorknes and Jonatan Wedde went out respectively in 15th and 16th place.

Sorknes had to find a miracle when he found himself al-in with [Ax][5x] versus the pocket sixes of Florian Fuchs. Sadly for him, no Ace appeared on the board and he busted out of Day 3 within 30 minutes.

Roy Sorknes		15th – € 3.050
Jonatan Wedde		16th – € 2.605

Place	Country	Player Name	Prize
1		JAAKKO MIKAEL HOKKANEN	2,760,000
2		FLORIAN FUCHS	2,350,000
3		BRANDON CHARLES MIFSUD	2,220,000
4		YEHUDA YOSEF	1,900,000
5		DANIEL SHAKER	1,720,000
6		JASMINE SCHUSTER	1,690,000
7		MAGED AZIZ	955,000
8		RAFAEL RAFI BEN	820,000
9		VILLE TAPANI HAKALA	675,000
10		OSKARI JUKKA TAPIO PIIRA	655,000
11		JONATAN KROGVIV WEDDE	615,000
12		YLVA KIM THORSRUD	605,000
13		KEITO KALJULAID	485,000
14		OEYSTEIN STAI	410,000
15		ROY THOMAS SORKNES	355,000
16		JAROSLAV PETER	260,000

We are live again from the Coolbet Open here at Bratislava. The last 16 players are all set to kick off and to try and reach the final table, where the big money is going to be shared. The top prize of 60,000 is in play, where many always have played for, to get finally this first prize and the trophy.

Jasmine Schuster, is one of the two female players who is in good shape at the final 16. With 1,690,000 in chips, she is currently in sixth place. Let’s get the cards in the air!

A little after, we will provide you the chip counts from the remaining players. Tomorrow at 12:00 CET, play will continue!

We have lost the last two players before the end was there for Day 2. Saevarsson could not win with his A 10 versus the Deuces from Oskari. Board ran out 4 8 J 7 8 .

Unfortunate for the last ‘Colo Colo’ football fan. As he, and many other Icelanders were dressed every day in a shirt of the popular football club from Chile.

17	KJARTAN SAEVARSSON		€ 2.605
18	CHRISTIAN SYKORA		€ 2.605

We are down to 18 players in a rapid way. There are officialy no more local players in the game. Two more people to bust and then we stop playing for today.

19	BARNABAS NAGY			€ 2.605
20	PER ERIK GJELTEN			€ 2.240
21	MARTIN ILAVSKY			€ 2.240

Level 22: 10,000/25,000/25,000

Average: 885,714

Players: 21/620

The player UTG made it 55,000 to go, where Shaker made the call from the button. The big blind however, moved all-in for 290,000. It got folded to Shaker, who then made the call.

Rafi ben Rafael: [Ax][Ax]

Daniel Shaker: [8x][8x].

No eight, nor an ace on the board, and Rafi made a victory dance.

Daniel Shaker	1,200,000
Rafi ben Rafael	700,000

Level 21: 10,000/20,000/20,000

Average: 808,696

Players: 23/620

The Norwegian Roy Sorknes found himself all-in and and risk against the Greek Pougaridis. He was miles ahead with Jacks against the Nines of the Greek. The board ran blank for both, and Sorknes coming close to an average stack

Roy Sorknes

750,000

Yesterday, during the last two opening flights of the Main Event, we had a surprise guest in the name of Martin Karbhel. The controversial Czech poker player came for the second event in a row here to Banco Casino to play the Main Event. A massive 196 entries were done on Day 1e, while Day 1f made it happen that the guarantee would be reached. We made a little recap about the whole day, including the seat draws and and chip counts for Day 2.

We have 24 players left, with some very interesting players still active with over averaged stacks. Ylva Thorsrud and Jasmine Schuster are keeping the female participation high here. And then Fuchs, Shaker, Jonatan Wedde, are being really focused to get a massive run here. Yehuda Yosef, chip leader after Day 1, still has a big amount of chips in front of him. While Andrej Desset and Martin Ilavsky need to keep the Slovakian pride on a high level.

24	ANDREJ DESSET		€ 1.940
25	JOEL CHRISTIAN SALMIRINNE		€ 1.940
26	BOGDANS PETRUKS		€ 1.940
27	FRODE HOEL		€ 1.940
28	OSAR ARON KROGVIK WEDDE		€ 1.940
29	ROTEM BAR NOY		€ 1.940
30	GILLES FELIX M MAGNY		€ 1.940
31	ERIK POLLUVEER		€ 1.705
32	MANUEL BLASCHKE		€ 1.705
33	HAGSTROM KIM JOHNNY MICHAEL		€ 1.705
34	ROSTYSLAV SABISHCHENKO		€ 1.705
35	STANISLAV KOLENO		€ 1.705

We are coming back from break:

Level 21: 10,000/20,000/20,000

Average: 688,889

Players: 27/620

MAGED AZIZ		325,000
YEHUDA YOSEF		1,800,000
RAFAEL RAFI BEN		650,000
YLVA KIM THORSRUD		850,000
GRIGORIOS POUGARIDIS		625,000
PER ERIK GJELTEN		250,000

FRODE HOEL		120,000
BOGDANS PETRUKS		150,000
FLORIAN FUCHS		1,350,000
DANIEL SHAKER		1,800,000
JONATAN KROGVIV WEDDE		500,000
JAROSLAV PETER		350,000

The Young Guns of Austria started to have a play in the ball park. Florian Fuchs opened up the action to 35,000. And Daniel Shaker 3-bet to 100,000. They both have a little more as the 1 million chip mark. Manuel Blaschke however, was not impressed at all, and moved all-in for approximately 400,000.

When Fuchs went out of the way, Shaker made the call and we would go to the races:

Shaker: A K

Blaschke: 4 4

The flop was good news for Blaschke, and bad at the same time with 10 10 Q . The turn was still safe with a 7 , but the river sealed the deal for Shaker with the K .

Daniel Shaker		1,600,000
Manuel Blaschke		Busted

Sabishchenko from Ukraine, was all-in and at risk with his 7s against the Aces of Saevarsson. An ace on the flop made it all history for the Ukrainian and left the poker room with €1,705 in cash.

Kjartan Saevarsson		550,000
Rostyslav Sabishchenko		Busted

36	PEKKA SAMULI IKONEN		€ 1.705
37	SHAHAR LEVINGER		€ 1.705
38	OHAD AHARON FREUND		€ 1.705
39	SAEVAR INGI SAEVARSSON		€ 1.705
40	YAIR KIMHI		€ 1.505
41	HALLDOR MAR SVERRISSON		€ 1.505
42	GUNTER JOSEF JAKWERTH		€ 1.505
43	DORON FERENBACH LAHAV		€ 1.505

One of the two ladies left in the tournament, Ylva Thorsrud from Norway, just doubled up to a very nice stack. Saevar Saevarsson tangled with her in an all-in situation pre-flop.

Thorsrud: K K

Saevarsson: A 10

The board ran out with 4 four diamonds, of which the last diamond was an Ace. For a little moment there was a some confusion, but indeed, the Ace was not good enough for Saevarsson as Thorsrud made a flush.

Little bit after, Saevarsson gave away his last chips and busted out.

Ylva ‘Jevakim’ Thorsrud		950,000
Saevar Saevarsson		Busted

Yair Kimhi just came off from the Feature Table, until he moved to table #22. The same players where he was with at the Feature Table joined him. Already three times he won an all-in situation today, and every time we heard him saying ”Guys, this is my tournament. It’s my day today”. The fourth all-in however…

The Poker Gods didn’t like the force, so decided it was time to bust out in 40st place. GG!

Tonight is the last Streamers Hyper Turbo at 21:00 CET, and this time its the turn of ‘Sycksbe‘, to have his name linked to the tournament. Since day 1, Christian Arstad is absolutely grinding the Coolbet Open from A to Z. Currently, he is playing the PLO Hi/Lo, but after he will compete in his own Hyper Turbo Tournament.

Level 19: 6,000/12,000/12,000

Average: 465,000

Players: 40/620

Maged Aziz was all-in for his tournament life with just 40 players remaining. He went all-in for 151,000 from early position and Juka Oskari made the call from middle position. When the rest went out of the way, we had a showdown.

Aziz: J Q

Oskari: A A

The board ran out Q 10 3 7 2 , and Aziz moved up in the ranks.

Maged Aziz

332,000

There are 42 players left in competition, and all of them have they eyes on the first prize of €60,000, and the most prestigious title of this Coolbet Open. We are playing down to 16 players today, or until the end of 10 levels of 60-minutes each.

Level 19: 6,000/12,000/12,000

Average: 442,857

Players: 42/620

We also have new players on the Feature Table with Brandon Mifsud and Oskar Wedde in the mix, which you can check down below:

Player Name	Country	Chips
STANISLAV KOLENO		150,000
MAGED AZIZ		500,000
JASMINE SCHUSTER		375,000
OSKARI JUKKA TAPIO PIIRA		520,000
ANDREJ DESSET		540,000
JOEL CHRISTIAN SALMIRINNE		250,000
CHRISTIAN SYKORA		425,000

Player Name	Country	Chips
KJARTAN SAEVARSSON		197,000
BOGDANS PETRUKS		250,000
ROY THOMAS SORKNES		440,000
ROTEM BAR NOY		510,000
GRIGORIOS POUGARIDIS		160,000
KEITO KALJULAID		300,000
ROSTYSLAV SABISHCHENKO		410,000

Player Name	Country	Chips
VILLE TAPANI HAKALA		320,000
JAAKKO MIKAEL HOKKANEN		1,075,000
JONATAN KROGVIV WEDDE		220,000
OEYSTEIN STAI		500,000
RAFAEL RAFI BEN		410,000
JACOB AMOS MELLOUL		440,000
FRODE HOEL		160,000

Player Name	Country	Chips
GUNTER JOSEF JAKWERTH		177,000
PER ERIK GJELTEN		382,000
SHAHAR LEVINGER		130,000
FLORIAN FUCHS		820,000
DANIEL SHAKER		1,150,000
MANUEL BLASCHKE		510,000
JAROSLAV PETER		300,000

Oskar Wedde, who sits at table #25, and just like his brother Jonathan still in the game in the Main Event, opened up the action to 25,000 from the Button. Martin Ilavsky from Slowakia called from the big blind.

Both saw a flop 3 9 4 . It was Ilavsky with the check/raise to 60,000, which got called by Wedde after some tanking. The turn gave flush possibilities with 10 , and this time it was Ilavksy who opened up the action with a bet of 85,000, which also got called by Wedde.

The river gave another ten with the 10 . Illavsky continued his raid and moved all-in on the river, which got insta-called by Wedde who showed Q 8 for a Flush. Ilavsky could only show J 9 and gave a massive part of his stack away.

Oskar Wedde		750,000
Martin Ilavsky		250,000

44	EDEN SHAUL ELBAZ		€ 1.505
45	RUSLAN VOLKOV		€ 1.505
46	ANDRES ROBERT VILHJALMSSON		€ 1.505
47	ELOD ZSOMBOK		€ 1.505
48	ALBERT ZARHI		€ 1.340
49	SIGURDUR AKI SIGURDSSON		€ 1.340
50	DANIEL EIHAIANY		€ 1.340
51	VITALII SHCHERBA		€ 1.340
52	ADEM MARJANOVIC		€ 1.340
53	ANDREJ CINTULA		€ 1.340
54	ANDRAS MATRAI		€ 1.340
55	LUKASZ PAWEL FRACZEK		€ 1.340
56	MARCIN IGOR PUCZYLOWSKI		€ 1.215
57	ITZHAK DAGMI		€ 1.215
58	ERIK HAMRE		€ 1.215
59	DAVID ELKA		€ 1.215
60	GUDJON IVAR JONSSON		€ 1.215
61	JONA BIRGER BOMAN		€ 1.215
62	MIKLOS BANYASZ		€ 1.215
63	HEIMAR LILL		€ 1.215
64	RUSLAN SOLOMONOV		€ 1.110

We have the chip leader Yehuda Yosef, and Coolbet Twitch Streamer Ylva ‘Jevakim’ Thorsrud!

Level 17: 4000/8000/8000

Average: 290,625

Players: 64/620

As per usual, after the bubble burst, there are a lot of casualties: 

65	DARREN GERARD HIGGINS		€ 1.110
66	JOONA PYRY RAINAMAA		€ 1.110
67	MEIR SHIMON CHEN		€ 1.110
68	ALEXANDRU BUDAI		€ 1.110
69	JEROEN AARTS		€ 1.110
70	PETER BUMBA		€ 1.110
71	KARL PETER MIKAEL BRATT		€ 1.110
72	LARS HUSUM NILSEN		€ 1.005
73	PRIIT VANEM		€ 1.005
74	JOHAN BENGT AAKE EKDAHL		€ 1.005
75	TOMAS PATKA		€ 1.005
76	EDGARAS TRUSKAUSKAS		€ 1.005
77	PHILIPP SANDER		€ 1.005
78	SAMI MITWALI		€ 1.005

Level 16: 3000/6000/6000

Average: 238,462

Players: 78/620

After many double ups of the short stacks, we finally have reached the money. There were 3 all-in situations, so the chance was there we were going to get to the money.

• First all-in situation was at table #21, where the absolute short stack Yair Kimhi went all-in for 27,000. Two players decided to make the call, but the short stack had Kings and held up against the two. Triple up!
• At table #23 it was pocket Jacks at risk against King-Queen. On the turn it have King-Queen a straight draw, but with only two Jacks left in the deck, chances were slim. Double up for the Jacks.
• At table 62# we finally had the bubble burst when Aces were all-in versus Jacks. The board remained only low, and thus we had another victim, who would leave without any cash in this tournament.

Level 16: 3000/6000/6000

Average: 235,443

Players: 79/620

And we have a bust out at table #28. The short stack was at risk with his King-Queen, against Ace-Four. 

Board: [7x][4x][3x] [10x] [10x]

DIMITRIOS KATSIKAS

Level 16: 3000/6000/6000

Average: 232,500

Players: 80/620

Still hand-for-hand here and we will take a couple of interesting situations:

• Philip Sander from Germany opened up the action to 32,000, and was put all-in by Levinger who was sitting in the CU. With just 40,000 behind for Sander, it was a very odd move from the German, which tanked for 5 minutes before folding his hand.
• At another table we had an all-in situation with a player at risk with [Ax][Jx] against [Kx][7x]. The board ran out [Ax][Kx[7x]. The turn gave a blank, but the river was a [Jx] and so the short stack doubles up
• Edgaras fell to the last 19,000 and went all-in preflop with [Jx][5x] against an opponent’s [Ax][Kx]. With a board of [Kx] [Jx] [Tx] [7x] [5x], he secured a double up, and the hand-for-hand play continues.

Level 16: 3000/6000/6000

Average: 232,500

Players: 80/620

The hand-for-hand play is taking its time. Players are as per usual very patiently when they have to make a decision. We have had one all-in situation in the past five hands. Which we mentioned before in this blog.

Level 16: 3000/6000/6000

Average: 232,500

Players: 80/620

Saevarsson was all-in and a risk at the hand-for-hand play. When the cards opened he showed K K . His opponent had A 4 . Saevarsson was on the spot, on the flop. So it was an easy call for him to make here on the bubble.

Board K J 4

The turn and river gave a blank, which gave Saavarsson now 360,000 in chips to play with.

We are getting close to the money now, so it’s time the short stacks start to double up.

• Heimar Lill managed to double up his 36,000 stack with 10 Q , against A K . The board ran out Q-High and he could hope a bit more for a deep run today.
• Another Estonian, Erik Polluveer, threw in his last 50,000 with Ace-Nine, and got called by chip leader Yehuda Yosef with Ace-Jack. Fortunately for Estonia, the board would show two nines, and two kings.
• Sigurd Aki Sigurdsson went allin with King-Jack, and got called by Ace-King. A jack on the flop would be enough to double up, leaving his opponent crumbled.

Ilian Norhian from Israel just stood up from his table as he busted out the main event in 86th place. He went all-in for his remaining 40,000 chips from early position with A K . He got called by the big blind, who plays around 450,000 in chips, with J 6 .

When the dealer opened up the flop, it was end of story for Norhian, as the board showed 9 3 2 . Turn and river did not matter anymore. After regretfully wishing everyone good luck at the table, he left the room.

LUKASZ PAWEL FRACZEK		500,000
ILAN NORHIAN		Bust

Level 15: 2000/5000/5000

Average: 216,279

Players: 86/620

We have two female players left in the game. One of them, Ylva ‘Jevakim’ Thorsrud, was tangling with the overall chip leader back on Day 1b. Today she is on the same table again, and expect some fine class of action on table #22. Both women, are looking to reach far in the Main Event today.

Ylva Thorsrud		300,000
Jasmine Schuster		180,000

Throughout the week we met Icelander online qualifier Hjoertur Davidsson. Extremely friendly, and is having a blast here in Bratislava. He just told us that he was struggling today as he managed to make it quite late last night. Fortunately for him, he managed to already double up since he busted Oyststein Brenden with Aces.

Hjoertur Davidsson

125,000

Place	Player Name	Country
96	JAN ARTHUR SVENDSEN
97	NIKOLAOS ZACHARAKIS
98	KRZYSZTOF ZWIERZ
99	OLE JOHNNY FAGERSLETT KARLSEN
100	PETER ZOLNAI
101	DOMINIK OSTROWSKI
102	MARIUS MOREL
103	OEYSTEIN BRENDEN
104	CHRISTIAN ARSTAD
105	IGOR JANIS
106	OFER TADMOR
107	CEM MAURITZ ALTIKARDES
108	VEGARD MELGALVIS ANDREASSEN
109	JAN ERIK ROENNINGHAUG
110	MARTIN ‘FRANKE’ VON ZWEIGBERGK

Level 16: 2000/5000/5000

Average: 187,879

Players: 99/620

The first place is set on a very number of € 60.000, and a min cash is good for € 1,005. 78 Players will reach the money.

#1-€ 60.000

#2-€ 38.690

#3-€ 25.190

#4-€ 18.440

#5-€ 13.940

#6-€ 10.340

#7-€ 7.260

#8-€ 5.090

#9-€ 4.195

#10-€ 3.590

#11-€ 3.590

#12-€ 3.590

#13-€ 3.050

#14-€ 3.050

#15-€ 3.050

#16-€ 2.605

#17-€ 2.605

#18-€ 2.605

#19-€ 2.605

#20-€ 2.240

#21-€ 2.240

#22-€ 2.240

#23-€ 2.240

#24-€ 1.940

#25-€ 1.940

#26-€ 1.940

#27-€ 1.940

#28-€ 1.940

#29-€ 1.940

#30-€ 1.940

#31-€ 1.940

#32-€ 1.705

#33-€ 1.705

#34-€ 1.705

#35-€ 1.705

#36-€ 1.705

#37-€ 1.705

#38-€ 1.705

#39-€ 1.705

#40-€ 1.505

#41-€ 1.505

#42-€ 1.505

#43-€ 1.505

#44-€ 1.505

#45-€ 1.505

#46-€ 1.505

#47-€ 1.505

#48-€ 1.340

#49-€ 1.340

#50-€ 1.340

#51-€ 1.340

#52-€ 1.340

#53-€ 1.340

#54-€ 1.340

#55-€ 1.340

#56-€ 1.215

57-€ 1.215

#58-€ 1.215

#59-€ 1.215

#60-€ 1.215

#61-€ 1.215

#62-€ 1.215

#63-€ 1.215

#64-€ 1.110

#65-€ 1.110

#66-€ 1.110

#67-€ 1.110

#68-€ 1.110

#69-€ 1.110

#70-€ 1.110

#71-€ 1.110

#72-€ 1.005

#73-€ 1.005

#74-€ 1.005

#75-€ 1.005

#76-€ 1.005

#77-€ 1.005

#78-€ 1.005

Martin ‘Franke’ von Zweigbergk, founder of the The Festival Series, which is being organised later this year in Brastislava, was the absolute short stack at the beginning of Day 2 with 19,000 chips. It would eventually last two hands, when he got it in with [5x][6x], against [7x][7x]. Franke needed a lot of help and almost got there, but was dead on the turn. [9x][8x][Kx][8x]. The river did not matter anymore.

Martin ‘Franke’ Von Zweigbergk

Busted – 110th Place

Ladies and Gentleman,

Good morning, straight from Banco Casino in Bratislava at the Coolbet Open. Today we will continue with the Main Event and we will play until 16 players remain, or 10 levels. The levels have been increased from 45 minutes to 60 minutes. Seatdraw is visible in the liveblog as well as on the website of Coolbet.

There are a total 110 players left, and presumably 75 players will be in the money. This has to be confirmed still by the casino. Short stacks will be trying to double up in the first level, so that they can make it to the money. There is still some way to go, as 35 players need to bust before the money starts rolling.

Chip leader is Yehuda Yosef from Israel (861,000), and absolute short stack is Martin ‘Franke’ von Zweigbergk, founder of The Festival Series (19,000).

We will be trying to take note of as much action as possible today with PokerListings.

Good Luck to all the players!

The official seat draw is in for the Coolbet Open Main Event Day 2:

Player Name		Chip Count	Seat/Table
Jeroen Aarts		78,000	28/8
Mauritz Altikardes		48,000	24/8
Vegard Andreassen		92,000	71/7
Christian Arstad		65,000	73/6
Maged Aziz		390,000	71/2
Miklos Banyasz		235,000	72/4
Rotem Noy Bar		187,000	82/8
Eric Beausoleil		41,000	82/1
Rafi Ben		180,000	62/7
Manuel Blaschke		245,000	21/7
Jona Boman		124,000	71/1
Karl Bratt		80,000	71/5
Oystein Brenden		96,000	22/6
Alexandru Budai		126,000	61/6
Peter Bumba		94,000	73/2
Andrej Cintula		140,000	72/2
Itzhak Dagmi		312,000	25/2
Hjoertur Davidsson		125,000	22/5
Andrej Desset		237,000	24/6
Daniel ELhaiany		75,000	63/2
Johan Ekdahl		184,000	63/6
Eden Elbaz		269,000	28/6
David Elka		115,000	73/1
Lahav Ferenbach		128,000	22/4
Lukasz Fraczek		225,000	23/5
Ohad Freund		254,000	64/1
Florian Fuchs		180,000	63/7
Per Erik Glelten		168,000	23/2
Ville Hakala		92,000	72/7
Erik Hamre		121,000	61/2
Darren Higgins		119,000	72/1
Frode Hoel		50,000	72/8
Jaakko Hokkanen		117,000	28/2
Meir Chen		122,000	24/7
Pekka Ikonen		184,000	62/1
Martin Ilavsky		510,000	25/4
Gunter Jakwerth		375,000	62/6
Igor Janis		66,000	82/3
Gudjon Jonssson		72,000	64/8
Keito Kaljulaid		150,000	63/5
Richard Kapun		127,000	82/6
Ole Karlsen		175,000	71/8
Dimitrios Katsikas		109,000	28/1
Julius Kettunen		83,000	28/5
Kim Johnny Michael Hagstrom		175,000	82/2
Kimhi Yair		52,000	25/8
Stanislav Koleno		239,000	64/6
Roland Kozmich		135,000	28/4
Shahar Levinger		100,000	23/3
Heimar Lill		82,000	23/8
Gilles Magny		286,000	72/6
Liran Manteka		97,000	72/3
Adem Marjanovic		101,000	71/3
Andras Matrai		138,000	25/5
Jacob Melloul		407,000	64/4
Brandon Mifsud		321,000	25/3
Sami Mitwali		144,000	73/8
Marius Morel		76,000	71/4
Barnabas Nagy		775,000	72/5
Dimitrios Nanos		111,000	24/4
Lars Nilsen		91,000	63/4
Ilan Norhian		49,000	23/7
Dominik Ostrowski		80,000	61/3
omas Patka		151,000	21/2
Jaroslav Peter		109,000	82/7
Bogdans Petruks		123,000	73/4
Juraj Picek		172,000	62/5
Piira Oskari Jukka Tapio		275,000	64/5
Erik Polluveer		60,000	64/2
Grigorios Pougaridis		481,000	61/1
Marcin Puczylowski		154,000	25/1
Joona Rainamaa		126,000	62/4
Jan Erik Roenninghaug		32,000	63/8
Rostyslav Sabishchenko		94,000	64/7
Kjartan Saevarsson		125,000	71/6
Saevar Saevarsson		236,000	22/1
Joel Salmirinne		108,000	63/1
Philipp Sander		54,000	23/1
Daniel Shaker		270,000	61/4
Nadav Shenhav		35,000	28/3
Vitalii Scherba		245,000	24/5
Jasmine Schuster		118,000	61/8
Hafthor Smari Sigmundsson		89,000	82/5
Sigurdur Aki Sigmundsson		84,000	21/6
Habor Skrinyar		82,000	21/8
Ruslan Solomonov		161,000	21/5
Roy Sorknes		489,000	21/3
Matteo Spozio		111,000	23/4
Oystein Stai		225,000	73/7
Jan Arthur Svendsen		78,000	22/8
Halldor Mar Sverrisson		252,000	73/3
Christian Sykora		225,000	82/4
Ofer Tadmor		66,000	61/5
Tarmo Tammel		66,000	22/2
Ylva Thorsrud		242,000	22/3
Edgaras Truskauskas		200,000	64/3
Nikolas Tsoukas		83,000	61/7
Priit Vanem		90,000	24/1
Andres Vilhjalmsson		190,000	24/2
Ruslan Volkov		217,000	25/6
Martin ‘Franke’ von Zweigbergk		19,000	25/7
Jonathan Wedde		61,000	21/1
Oskar Wedde		256,000	62/8
Yehuda Yosef		861,000	22/7
Emmanouil Zacharakis		275,000	73/5
Nikolaos Zacharakis		113,000	28/7
Albert Zarhi		143,000	24/3
Peter Zolnai		185,000	23/6
Elod Zsombok		84,000	21/4
Krzysztof Zwierz		137,000	62/2

BARNABAS NAGY	775,000
MARTIN ILAVSKY	510,000
ROY THOMAS SORKNES	489,000
GRIGORIOS POUGARIDIS	481,000
ITZHAK DAGMI	312,000
GILLES FELIX M MAGNY	286,000
EMMANOUIL ZACHARAKIS	275,000
VITALII SHCHERBA	245,000
LUKASZ PAWEL FRACZEK	225,000
FLORIAN FUCHS	180,000
OLE JOHNNY FAGERSLETT KARLSEN	175,000
JURAJ PICEK	172,000
TOMAS PATKA	151,000
ALBERT ZARHI	143,000
ANDRAS MATRAI	138,000
RICHARD KAPUN	127,000
ALEXANDRU BUDAI	126,000
JONA BIRGER BOMAN	124,000
MEIR SHIMON CHEN	122,000
DARREN GERARD HIGGINS	119,000
JASMINE SCHUSTER	118,000
DAVID ELKA	115,000
PETER BUMBA	94,000
GABOR ENDRE SKRINYAR	82,000
KARL PETER MIKAEL BRATT	80,000
GUDJON IVAR JONSSON	72,000
JONATAN KROGVIV WEDDE	61,000
YAIR KIMHI	52,000
JAN ERIK ROENNINGHAUG	32,000

It’s the end of Day 1e and we have 30 survivors who will continue play tomorrow at 12:00 CET. Picek, a local player, put on his dancing shoes and threw in his 85,000 chips from the button. The big blind decided to call the all-in with A Q . Picek showed J 4 .

The board ran out 4 5 4 7 K .

Juraj Picek

172.000

Level 14: 2000/4000/4000

Average: 168,000

Players: 35/196

45 Minutes left on the clock. Plenty of action still going on at the tables, where everyone tries to survive one more level before they can bag and tag their remaining chips. With late registration still open for Day 1f (turbo), the guarantee has been reached already!

We saw Dayan jumping up from his chair when he managed to spike a straight flush on the river for his tournament life.

Board: 6 7 10 9 2

Dayan had 8 8 and his opponent had A K . It was all good for his opponent, until the turn popped up.

Yehuda Dayan

105,000

The table of Martin Kabrhel has been moved to the tv table. It is being promised to have a lot of action!

Level

Player Name	Country	Chips
SEBASTIAN OLIVARES		36,000
ALEXANDRU BUDAI		75,000
MARTIN ILAVSKY		220,000
MARTIN KABRHEL		155,000
ROBERT ADORJAN KOMLODI		160,000
ROBERT SAHLSTROM		35,000

Level 13: 1500/3000/3000

Average: 153,947

Players: 38/195

Player Name	Country	Chips
JAN ERIK ROENNINGHAUG		50,000
DAVID ELKA		150,000
ITZHAK DAGMI		225,000
FLORIAN FUCHS		160,000
MEIR SHIMON CHEN		150,000
JASMINE SCHUSTER		100,000

During the last WSOP in Las Vegas, Martin Kabrhel became hot news in the poker world. The poker player from Czech Republic, was accused of potential cheating at an High Roller event. Today, he thought it was a great idea to come play the Coolbet Open Main Event.

Level 11: 1000/2000/2000

Average: 111,923

Players: 52/194

Going in towards the end of level 11, there is still one more level of late registration. After that, we will play two more levels of 45 minutes each, until we reach the end of the starting flight Day 1e.

Most likely, the players who bust in the last level will nog re-enter in Day 1e, but will play the turbo flight 1f instead.

Recent busts:

Player Name	Country
RUSLAN VOLKOV
ZOLTAN ISTVAN KOVACS
JUKKA ILMARI LIPPONEN
OSKAR JOHAN HASTAD
TAMIR NUNA
REUVEN RONEN ELKESLASY

Downstairs in the cash game area, you can buy-in into a ‘one-hand Satellite’ for the last opening flight of the Main Event. The last turbo flight, started at 21:00 CET, will be the last chance for players to qualify themselves for the second day of the Main Event. 10 Players can buy-in for just €50, and the winner of the flip gets a Main Event ticket worth € 550. Then you think, where is the fee? With this ticket, you don’t pay any fee. It’s on the house!

Jonatan Wedde is mostly known for his Twitch Channel. Alongside his brother Oskar Wedde, who already managed to bag a stack in yesterday’s Day 1c. He will go as table captain on stream today, together with fellow countrymen Niklas Klein, and Mikkel Jensen.

In live tournaments Jonatan does not have any titles in his possession just yet, perhaps this will change during the Coolbet Open Main Event.

With their Twitch Stream, they are representing Coolbet.

We will have a new feature table after the break:

JONATAN KROGVIV WEDDE		115,700
OSKAR JOHAN HASTAD		82,400
OLEXANDR LIZANETS		73,400
DEJAN VRECKO		70.700
REUVEN RONEN ELKESLASY		46.600
JOHAN GUNNLAUGUR ROLFSSON HANNEN		29.900
MIKKEL HOFF JENSEN		22.000
NIKLAS TANGEN KLEIN		21.500

We took the chip counts of table #57, where the Greek, Zacharakis, is currently the chip leader of Day 1e:

Player Name	Country	Chips
YAIR KIMHI		81,800
PATRIK KUNIK		62,700
ROBERT MARCUS MARTIN SAHLSTROM		45,200
TAAVI VAELISSON		43,700
RUSLAN VOLKOV		26,500
NEVOH YEMINI		87,100
EMMANOUIL ZACHARAKIS		307,000

With 20 out of 21 entries still in the game, the Rebuy Tournament could have wished for a bigger turnout. With 4 levels 20-minute levels left on the clock, there is however plenty of time to register. Also for this tournament there is a guaranteed in place of € 4,750.

Level 8: 500/1000/1000

Average: 67,143

Players: 84/188

With four more levels of late registration after the current level, there is plenty of time to find your spot at the tables. Perhaps you might even end up at the feature table, which is being streamed lived on Twitch and Youtube. After the next level, we will go into the next break and then we will provide you with the chip counts.

We will play today until the end of level 14.

On the second floor, the 8-game is being played. With 38 players on the list, it is to be called very decent. The guatantee of € 4,750 already has been reached, and late registration is still open for another four levels of 25 minutes each.

We arrived at table #21 when there was around 12,000 in the pot. The flop was spread out on the table, 7 Q 3 , on which Reuven Elkeslasy bet out 6,000. It was Johan Rolfsson Hannen from Iceland who decided to make the call. Both of the players saw a 2 on the turn. Elkeslasy moved all of his remaining chips into the middle (18.800), and Johan Rolffson Hannen went into the tank.

Going into the tank for a duration of at least five minutes is quite a while. But not a single player decided to ask for the clock on him, which indicated that Rolffson Hannen must have had a hard choice which was understood. Eventually he folded and Elkeslasy took down a nice pot.

After the hand, talks were done by the two players. .Elkeslasy eventually mentioned he had pocket 7’s, and Rolfsson Hannen had Ace-Queen.

Player Name	Country	Chips
REUVEN RONEN ELKESLASY		43,000
JOHAN GUNNLAUGUR ROLFSSON HANNEN		52,000

The Live Stream of the Coolbet Open is live! Come and check out the action at the feature table of the Main Event, here at Coolbet Open Bratislava.

Level 7: 400/800/800

Average: 47,064

Players: 109/171

The Coolbet Open is getting already close to reach its guaranteed prize pool of €300,000. Included in the players who entered the tournament, there are around 100-200 qualifiers from Coolbet itself. Through one of the many weekly final passport satellites you had the chance of winning a package for Bratislava worth €1300. They also had a campaign where you could win for yourself, and your friends, a trip to Las Vegas!

PokerListings also often gives away guaranteed packages through competitions. Make sure to check it out, and maybe we will send you to Las Vegas!

Player Name	Country	Chips
THORODDUR EIRIKSSON		120,000
GILLES FELIX M MAGNY		120,000
MARTIN ILAVSKY		130,000
RAFAEL RAFI BEN		200,000
GRIGORIOS POUGARIDIS		120,000
MARIUS MOREL		110,000
MEIR SHIMON CHEN		160,000

The recap of Day 4 here at the Coolbet Open is online! Yehuda Yosef is currently in the lead of the Main Event with 861,000 chips. Not a bad start!

When asking around to our Slovakian friends here at the Banco Casino, to see which player stands out from the local community, all answers were anonymous, Andrej Desset. When looking on his results so far, we can see results registered from 2012 onwards. With a total of 207 cashes, you can consider him as a poker player who tries to make a living out of it.

Currently, he is #4 on the Slovakian All-Time money list with over $1,000,000 in cashes. His biggest cash comes from 2017, where he won a main event in Czech Republic for $107,000.

Today he is trying to build himself a stack on Day 1e from the Coolbet Open Main Event. For sure an event which he would like to add to his impressive amount of cashes.

When looking at the Norwegian score today, the amount of entries isn’t that big compared to previous days. We expect the 8-game to be a total Norwegian party. Here are some of the Norwegian chip counts so far:

VEGARD MELGALVIS ANDREASSEN		40.000
AUDUN FLAGE		35.000
MIKKEL HOFF JENSEN		24.000
MAGNUS KRISTENSEN		30.000
DANIEL MELHUS LIPOVOJ		22.000
JONNY JOHANNES PEDERSEN		30.000
ESPEN RINGSTAD		20.000
JAN ERIK ROENNINGHAUG		30.000

Level 5: 200/500/500

Average: 38,378

Players: 111/142

At this very moment, we have a total of 487 across all opening flights, with more than six levels of late registration left. The number of entries of yesterday’s Day 1c will be surpassed today most definitely.

Today we are going to have the last two opening flights of the Coolbet Open Main Event. Expectations are set high today, as the locals usually turn up to try and accumulate chips for Day 2. Currently, there are already 83 entries on the scoreboard for Day 1e. In the evening as per usual, another turbo flight will be played out.

Not only the Main Event is on the schedule today, many side events will take place. The 8-Game is extremely popular in Scandinavia, so we expect there a massive prize pool as well.

Schedule:

Tournament Name:	Time (CET):	Buy-In:	Late Reg:	Starting Chips:
Coolbet Open Main Event – Day 1e	12:00	€ 550	Level 12 (45min)	30.000
NLHE Re-Entry	15:00	€ 225	Level 10 (20min)	15.000
Coolbet Open 8-Game (6-Max)	17:00	€ 165	Leven 8 (25min)	20.000
NLHE Rebuy/Add-on	18:00	€ 60	Level 8 (20min)	5.000/5.000/10.000
One Hand Flips Satellites for Main Event	20:00	€ 50	No Late Reg	1
Coolbet Deepstack Turbo	20:00	€ 165	Level 12 (15 min)	50.000
Coolbet Open Main Event – Day 1f	21:00	€ 550	Level 12 (15min)	30.000
Jevakim’s FridayFun Turbo	23:00	€ 115	Level 8 (15min)	20.000

PETER ZOLNAJ	185.000
KEITO KALJULAID	150.000
ERIK HAMRE	121.000
DIMITRIOS NANOS	111.000
JAROSLAV PETER	109.000
OYSTEIN BRENDEN	96.000
HAFTHOR SIGMUNDSSON	89.000
DOMINIK OSTROWSKI	80.000
JAN SVENDSEN	78.000
DANIEL EIHAIANY	75.000
PRIIT VANEM	50.000
ILAN NORHIAN	49.000
MAURITZ ALTIKARDES	48.000
MARTIN VON ZWEIGBERGK	19.000

YEHUDA YOSEF	861.000
MAGED AZIZ	390.000
GUNTER JOSEF JAKWERTH	375.000
DANIEL SHAKER	270.000
EDEN SHAUL ELBAZ	269.000
OSKAR WEDDE	256.000
HALLDOR MAR SVERRISSON	252.000
MANUEL BLASCHKE	245.000
STANISLAV KOLENO	239.000
OEYSTEIN STAI	225.000
CHRISTIAN SYKORA	225.000
EDGARAS TRUSKAUSKAS	200.000
ANDRES ROBERT VILHJALMSSON	190.000
JOHAN BENGT AAKE EKDAHL	184.000
HAGSTROM KIM JOHNNY MICHAEL	175.000
RUSLAN SOLOMONOV	161.000
NIKOLAOS ZACHARAKIS	113.000
DIMITRIOS KATSIKAS	109.000
LARS HUSUM NILSEN	91.000
ELOD ZSOMBOK	84.000
CHRISTIAN ARSTAD	65.000
ERIK POLLUVEER	60.000
PHILIPP SANDER	54.000

Day 1c is in the books. Full Chip Counts will follow. 23 Players left.

Level 9: 600/1200/1200

Average: 46,000

Players: 22/34

Registration is still open for another 50 minutes, so if you want to build up a decent stack for Day 2 fast, now is your chance.

We reached the last 24 players in this flight. Players busted rapidly after each other this level, with 23 minutes left on the clock to play. How much more will not last the day?

Gunter Jakwerth

480,000

Level 14: 2000/4000/4000

Average: 211,250

Players: 24/169

• We arrived at table #31 and saw that Oskar Wedde was tangling with the ultimate chip leader of the tournament so far, Yohuda Yosef. On a King high board, Wedde opened the action on the turn, which Yosef called. On the river Yosef bet out 25,000 in a pot of a size of around 40,000, which Wedde instantly called. Wedde showed [Kx][7x] for two pair eventually as the river gave the [7x]. Yosef showed top-pair with [Kx][2x].

In the morning, Coolbet had arranged an hospitality event, which turned out to be Wakeboarding. Oskar Wedde was also present, and was the first one to actually keep himself in balance on a Wakeboard.

Level 13: 1500/3000/3000

Average: 129,231

Registration: Closed

Players: 39/168

We are through to the 13th level of the day at the Main Event Day 1c, which means that the late registration has officially been closed for this flight. We are having 39 players left in the competition, who all will try to find a bag in about 1,5 hour from now.

Player Name	Country	Chips
YAVOR YANKOV		270,000
YEHUDA YOSEF		335,000
ERIK POLLUVEER		190,000
OSKAR WEDDE		90,000
ANTTI ROUHONEN		240,000
DIMITRIOS KATSIKAS		190,000
DANIEL SHAKER		240,000
JAN IVERSEN		157,000
ENDRE EIKESETH		200,000

On today’s livestream of Coolbet, the Finals of the Nations Cup are being played out to a winner. This Sit ‘N Go, where 9 players out of every region of Coolbet is participating in, has a prize pool of €20,000. It will be divided over the top 3 places.

Come and watch the anti-climax of the Nations Cup!

The Main Event turbo opening flight of today, day 1d, has started with 19 players. We will keep our focus on flight 1c, but for sure will mention the eventual chip counts in the end.

Tournament Name	Buy-in	Players
NLHE Re-Entry	€ 225	3/39
Nations Cup	Closed	5/9
Turbo NLHE	€ 165	49/96
PLO/PLO5	€ 225	36/44

Level 10: 800/1600/1600

Average: 82,000

Start Stack: 30,000

Players: 60/164

Players on table #31 are having a ball at the moment. Many players have stacks above de 100,000 chip mark, which means they can gather even more chips towards the end of the registration period. Three of those players are from Israel.

All below players are in the top of the current chip counts. There are two more levels of 45 minutes left to play, until the registration will close. After that, there are another two more levels to be played. Remaining players will advance to Day 2 of the Coolbet Open here in Bratislava.

Player Name	Country	Chips
GUNTER JAKWERTH		113,000
MATHIAS EMINGER		170,000
ANDRES VILHJALMSSON		150,000
MIKLOS ZSUFFA		140,000
YEHUDA YOSEF		170,000
ANTTI TEODOR ROUHONEN		140,000
RUSLAN SOLOMONOV		110,000
DORON PERETZ		175,000
HALLDOR SVERRISSON		110,000
JONNY PEDERSEN		180,000

Yesterday we already saw Yehuda Yosef playing the Main Event Day 1a. Despite he had build himself a great stack, he did not manage to take it with him over the finish line. He busted out in 25th place, while 15 players advanced to Day 2.

Today at Day 1c, he managed to gather again 5+ starting stacks for himself, and can find himself back in the top of the chip counts:

Gustav Ekhagen		170,000
Yehuda Yosef		160,000

Let’s pick out a player from the Main Event and try to find all the poker statistics of the player. We will highlight
Alexandru Budai from Romania.

Alexandru has got over $100,000 in live career earnings following TheHendonMob (world’s biggest poker search engine). His best live poker cash was $55,603 which he scored back in March from this year in Bratislava, not bad for a $300 buy-in. He topped a field of 1,088 players, so he experienced to win a sized Main Event before.

When looking further in his records, we can find that the buy-ins all remain in the same range. However, what people tend to forget is that these scores are ‘only scores’. It doesn’t mention how many attempts were needed for this. What we do find interesting is that he just started to have his cashes from 2021 onwards, implying that he only started playing from around that period. To have $100,000 in cashes behind your name within 3 playing years, is quite impressive nowadays still.

The location of the cashes only happened in the Eastern side of Europe, which is again quite logical when you live in Romania.

Currently, he unfortunately busted in the Main Event 1c, but we are quite positive he will return to fire another bullet in perhaps the turbo flight which starts at 21:00 CET.

Alexandru Budai

Busted

Level 8: 500/1000/1000

Average: 56,747

Start Stack: 30,000

Players: 83/157

Player Name	Country
BORIS PROGNER
JONAS EIRIKUR NORDQUIST
OLE JOHAN WASENIUS
KARL PETER MIKAEL BRATT
TAL BARASOFSKY
TARMO TAMMEL (2x)

Yesterday we had seen a few situations where the floormanager was asked for his judgement. Many cases on the poker tables can easily be avoided, just by reading the full rules of the game of poker. Players often think they stand above the law when it comes to making decisions. But do we actually know all the in’s and out’s of it?

Level 7: 400/800/800

Average: 50,899

Start Stack: 30,000

Players: 89/151

List of Chip Leaders:

Player Name	Country	Chips
ELOD ZSOMBOK		107.000
YEHUDA DAYAN		173.000
DIMITRIOS KATSIKAS		95.000
DAVID MEKIYESS		90.000
JOHAN EKDAHL		105.000
NIKOLAY PETER HERSEY		120.000
DANIEL EIHAIANY		125.000
CHRISTIAN ARSTAD		115.000

We just got informed that Jan Arthur Svendsen, the founder of the brand Coolbet, was sitting at the tables here at Day 1c of the Main Event. By all means, literally on the same moment, we saw him leaving the room as he busted out of the tournament.

Jan Arthur Svendsen

Yesterday has been a fabulous day at the Banco Casino. The recap has just been released!

Level 5: 200/500/500

Average: 42,371

Starting Stack: 30,000

Players: 98/138

Are we going to rise above the 200 entries today for Day 1c? Who knows, we at least think this is very likely! Plenty of side events are scheduled, but people want to have found a bag in the Main Event early. First things first.

Some of the recent entries:

Player Name	Country	Chips
Marius Morel		30.000
Philipp Sander		30.000
Jonatan Wedde		30.000
`Nikolay Hersey		30.000
Oystein Brenden		30.000

Tournament Name:	Time (CET):	Buy-in:	Late Reg:	Starting Chips:
Coolbet Open Main Event Day 1c	12:00	€ 550	Level 12 (45min)	30.000
NLHE unlimited re-entry	15:00	€ 225	Level 10 (20min)	10.000
Coolbet Nations Cup Final	16:00	Closed	Closed (20min)	30.000
NLHE unlimited re-entry	18:00	€ 165	Level 12 (15min)	50.000
PL Omaha 4&5 Cards / Round of Each	20:00	€ 225	Level 10 (20min)	20.000
Coolbet Open Main Event Day 1d (turbo)	21:00	€ 550	Level 12 (15min)	30.000
Acerziggy’s NLHE Hyper Turbo	23:00	€ 115	Level 8 (10min)	20.000

Welcome for another day in sunny Bratislava. Fresh and well back from (an attempt to) Wakeboarding with Coolbet, we are back in the casino for some great piece of poker action! There are many tournaments planned for today, of which logically the Main Event Day 1c and 1d are the ones which we are going to keep an eye on for the rest of the day. Already 105 entries so far for Day 1c, which will just enter now Level 3. Sensational!

When looking through the entry list, we can see also today that there are a horde of poker players from Israel trying to find a bag at the end of the day. Also the Swedes and Fins have gathered here in Bratislava, which makes the Scandinavian domination even more strong. Let’s stay put here, and enjoy the liveblog of today!

ROTEM BAR NOY	187.000
PER ERIK GJELTEN	168.000
MARCIN IGOR PUCZYLOWSKI	154.000
SAMI MITWALI	144.000
KRZYSZTOF ZWIERZ	137.000
DORON FERENBACH LAHAV	128.000
LIRAN MANTEKA	97.000
EDEN SHAUL ELBAZ	94.000
VILLE TAPANI HAKALA	92.000

JACOB AMOS MELLOUL	407.000
BRANDON CHARLES MIFSUD	321.000
OSKARI JUKKA TAPIO PIIRA	275.000
OHAD AHARON FREUND	254.000
YLVA THORSRUD	242.000
SAEVAR INGI SAEVARSSON	236.000
MIKLOS BANYASZ	235.000
ANDREJ CINTULA	140.000
ROLAND KOZMICH	135.000
HJOERTUR DAVIDSSON	125.000
KJARTAN SAEVARSSON	125.000
JOEL CHRISTIAN SALMIRINNE	108.000
NIKOLAS TSOUKAS	83.000
JEROEN AARTS	78.000
FRODE HOEL	50.000

Level 14: 2000/4000/4000

Average: 176,250

Players: 16/94

Day 1a has been a very international day, unfortunately for Chile there is no more player from their country in the game on Day 1a. Cabrera had to make a call for his tournament life and went deep in the tank, when his opponent put him all-in on the river with a board showing [9x][2x][5x][4x][9x]. After having made the call, he wanted to directly muck his hand and walk off, but the dealer explained he had to show his cards, [5x][6x] for him. Which were no good against the [Ax][3x] of his opponent, which made a wheel on the turn.

Jorge Cabrera		Busted

From today onwards, there will be Hyper Turbo tournaments on 23:00 CET. Today the tournament is called ‘The Weddes Hyper Turbo’, but we have more Twitch Streamers in Bratislava who represent Coolbet on the online platforms, like Dag Nilsen from Norway!

Level 8: 500/1000/1000

Average: 44.348

Players: 23 / 34

We will update the blog after the end of the day with all remaining chip counts of this day. For now, we will stay with Day 1a, which is soon entering its last level of the day. Currently 18 players remaining out of 94 entries.

Not even that long ago, Grabics had over 200,000 chips in front of him. Since he switched to another table, we could see all his chips standing in front of his neighbour Jacob Melloul. The player of Israel has got around 16 starting stacks in front of him, which is almost 20% of all chips in play.

Player Name	Country	Chips
JACOB AMOS MELLOUL		460.000
TAMAS GRABICS		Busted

We can see that Ylva is doing well for herself in the Main Event 1a with 260.000 chips in front of her. Good friend of her from Norway, Oskar Wedde, is having together with his brother Jonathan, their Hyper Turbo event happening at the moment. Ylva Thorsrud, streaming her online poker with her alias ‘Jevakim’, will have her eyes on reaching day 2 by playing two times average stack at the moment.

The registration has officially closed for Day 1a of the Main Event. Two more levels are left to play, so enough space to build even more mountains. The following players are in the lead of the tournament for now:

Player Name	Country	Chips
JOEL CHRISTIAN SALMIRINNE		150.000
OHAD AHARON FREUND		140.000
TAMAS GRABICS		260.000
YLVA KIM THORSRUD		190.000
PAVEL ZIKAVSKY		130.000
DAVID ELKA		155.000
ANDREJ CINTULA		150.000
JEROEN AARTS		145.000

Level 11: 1000/2000/2000

Average: 100,714

Players: 28/94

We saw a big pot brewing on table number 21, where Hungarian Tamas Grabics was involved in a 3-way pot. After the flop of Q 7 5 , it was chip leader Ohad Freund who chucked in a raise to 35,000 with around 50,000 in the main pot, and 20,000 in the side pot. Grabics went into the tank for a bit and decided to call. On the turn 4 , he then suddenly puts all his chips into the middle, which was approximately 80,000. Freund shaked his head, and folded almost instantly his hand.

When the cards opened up for the showdown, people acted surprised when they saw that Grabics ‘only’ opened up 6 6 . The short stack, Rudolf Kosa, tabled A A and was slightly ahead going into the river. But with the A being given by the dealer as a river, it was a Flush for Grabics and with that he took down the main- and the side pot.

Tamas Grabics

185,000

With only 30 players left on Day 1a, and 1,5 blind level still to go for late registration, we will give you the chip counts in the following break. That break will happen after the end of the registration period.

The turbo flight of the Main Event, Day 1b, has kicked off with 13 players so far. They are playing 15-minute levels, and have the same starting stack as every other opening flight. 14 Levels will be played until the remaining players can bag up their chips, to be able to proceed to Day 2.

Level 11: 1000/2000/2000

Average: 85,455

Starting Stack; 30,000

Players: 32/94

There are two 45-minute levels left of the registration period. After that, we will continue for two more levels until the remaining players can bag and tag their chips. In general, the atmosphere is great at the remaining tables. People talking and laughing together, very important in such events with a reasonable buy-in and mostly recreational players who come for a small poker holiday here to Bratislava.

Fact: Colo-Colo is a professional football club from Chile, currently in 3rd place in the Chilean Primera Division. Players like Claudio Bravo and Arturo Vidal have played in the past for Colo-Colo.

Player Name	Country	Chips
NIKOLAS TSOUKAS		101.800
SAEVAR INGI SAEVARSSON		98.100
OSKARI JUKKA TAPIO PIIRA		82.300
JORGE EDUARDO CARTES CABRERA		65.800
MAROS KANDA		57.000
DANIEL MELHUS LIPOVOJ		43.800
ERIK POLLUVEER		36.500

Level 10: 800/1600/1600

Average: 64,091

Players: 44/94

Freund created a massive chip lead here in Day 1a of the Main Event. Coming fresh from the tv-table, he will now be seated at table number 21 when he will return from the break. Other notable chip counts are mentioned below:

Player Name	Country	Chips
OHAD AHARON FREUND		260.000
JEROEN AARTS		140.000
NIKOLAS TSOUKAS		117.000
SEBASTIAN ANDRES VIEDMA OLIVARES		107.000
RUDOLF ADOLF KOSA		90.000
DAVID ELKA		86.000
AKI ILARI NEVALAINEN		84.000

Every evening of this week until Friday, there are turbo flights planned. Today Day 1b will be played out at 21:00 CET. With just 15-minute blind levels, and 14 levels to endure, it will approximately last until 01:15 CET including the breaks.

The PL Omaha tournament had a guaranteed prize pool of just €5,000, and it got absolutely smashed as the total prize pool currently is €21,470! What a great result for the mixed games community. Ironically enough, 11 out of 28 players remaining have a Norwegian flag behind the name.  

Place	Prize
#1	€ 5,570
#2	€ 3,520
#3	€ 2,685
#4	€ 2,095
#5	€ 1,665
#6	€ 1,290
#7	€ 965
#8	€ 750
#9	€ 625
#10	€ 495
#11	€ 495
#12	€ 495
#13	€ 410
#14	€ 410

Level 9: 600/1200/1200

Average: 55.714

Start Stack: 30.000

Players: 49/91

We made a walk through field to see how our Norwegian friends are doing.

Player Name	Country	Chips
OLE JOHAN WASENIUS		30.000
YLVA KIM THORSRUD		30.000
DANIEL MELHUS LIPOVOJ		27.500
LEIF EDDY IVERSEN		38.000
FRODE HOEL		68.000
OYSTEIN BRENDEN		30.000

Level 8: 500/1000/1000

Average: 53,400

Starting Stack: 30,000

Players: 51/90

The blinds start to be heavy for a starting stack with just 30 blinds to play with. Bust outs are becoming more frequent as we speak.

Player Name	Country
SAMI MITWALI		Busted
LOGI THOR LAXDAL		Busted
DANIEL EIHAIANY		Busted
FREDERIC XAVIER JANIK		Busted
NETZER GAMLIELY		Busted
GUDJON IVAR JONSSON		Busted
GERHARD BOCK		Busted
JONAS EIRIKUR NORDQUIST		Busted

We just got informed by the floorman that we will play until the end of Level 14 today. All remaining players will be qualified for Day 2. The late registration period goes until the end of level 12.

The Live Stream of the Coolbet Open is ready to go on air soon. In about 15 minutes Day 1a of the Main Event will be visible for the viewers on both Youtube and Twitch. There will be plenty of different events shown on the stream throughout the entire week, with as cherry on the cake, the Final Day of the Coolbet Open Main Event, but also the Coolbet Nations Cup Final.

Names who will be playing at the Feature Table:

Player Name	Country	Chips
Rudolf Osa		117.800
Szymon Rajewski		32.800
Lukasz Fraczek		33.200
Brandon Mifsud		44.000
Ohad Freund		83.400
Gudjon Jonsson		46.500
Roland Kozmich		22.000

If you would like to have an ultimate start of a long poker day, then tomorrow is your chance to put on your ‘dancing shoes’ and go Wakeboarding with Coolbet. At 9:45 A.M CET, in front of Crowne Plaza people will gather, and from there Bolt Taxi’s will be booked (Costs around 7-8 Euro). Cool things are being done here at the Coolbet Open!

Level 2: 100/200

Average: 5.263

Start: 5.000

Type: Rebuy and Add-on

Prize pool: 10 Seats Guaranteed

If you would like to join in on the action of the Main Event, for just a bit less money as €550, or if you would like to have an extra bullet behind, then now is your chance to enter the Value Town. Late registration is open until end of level 8.

Level 7: 400/800/800

Average: 45.000

Players: 54/81

We are 5 hours into Day 1a of the Main Event, but the big stacks are just to be counted on one hand. The field is overall very much close to each other with their chip counts. Players are enjoying a 40-minute dinner break, before we continue with level 7.

Player Name	Country	Chips
KAREV TRALLA		107.000
RUDOLF ADOLF KOSA		119.000
ROLAND KOZMICH		100.000
JACOB AMOS MELLOUL		115.000

Yet another victim of the table talk of Karev Tralla. With his extreme loose play he will find himself in situations, where his opponents just cannot get away from their hands, when he is using big bet sizings. We arrived at the table when the flop was 2 Q K and there were about 5,000 chips in the pot.

Sturla Hiller leaded the flop with a bet of 3,500 on which Tralla went all-in for 60,000, but not before mentioning to the live reporter that it had to be written down. Once another player went out of the way, the table talk started. This time it came from Hiller as he wanted to know where he was standing. He eventually made the call and was actually in bad shape with his Aces.

Sturla Hiller: A A

Karev Tralla: 10 J

Tralla had a trillion outs and with a J on the turn, those outs became even more. Sadly for Hiller, another jack hit the river with the J , giving Tralla three-of-a-kind and the winning hand, and sending Hiller to the rail.

Player Name	Country	Chips
Karev Tralla		100.000
Sturla Hiller		Busted

Level 4: 200/400 (Late reg until end of level 10)

Average: 26,364

Start: 20,000

Players: 44/58

The Coolbet Open has many mixed games on the schedule. The first mixed game of this week is the PL Omaha 8-max with unlimited re-entries. Up to this moment, the popularity of Omaha is proving to be good here. Who will become the first mixed game event Champion of the Coolbet Open 2023?

Coolbet is tremendously big in the online poker market of Norway. With Norwegian influence in the company itself, that’s also not very surprising. Hordes of Norwegians came down to Bratislava to try and collect one of the amazing trophies here at the Coolbet Open. Yesterday we could see that during the PokerListings Deepstack event, the field was 25% Norwegian. One of the players from the country of the Fjords, is Leif Eddy Iversen.

Poker is a very competitive game, where sportsmanship plays a big role as well. Leif is one of those with such exemplary behaviour. Always kind to everyone around him, and always around friends at such poker events. It gives a good impression of this event, whereas Norwegians set the tone, on and off the tables.

In regards of poker results, Leif is doing well for himself with over $50,000 in live career earnings so far. Let’s hope for him, and for Norway, that he will reach far in this Main Event, so he can add another great cash to his name.

Leif Eddy Iversen

46.000

Yesterday you could read that many factors have influence on the gameplay in poker. Think for example about mind games. One of the greatest examples of table talk is the Englishman William Kassouf, who often headlines many poker news websites. But here at Coolbet Open we have our own poker philosopher in the name of Karev Tralla from Estonia. Although we might think that his talking wasn’t that much effective at the beginning of the day, as he is on his second bullet trying to find a bag on the end of the day.

He found himself already a great cash during the Coolbet Series, by finishing in second place in the Coolbet Open Warm-Up event for €1.915.

KAREV TRALLA

52.000

The PokerListings Deepstack event of yesterday, which attracted a total of 138 entries, was won by Deep Singh from Austria. He collected €6,315 for his outstanding performance. The recap shows you everything you need to know about the event.

Coolbet is spreading its wings all over the world. We could already see players of Latin America, where Coolbet is getting more active. In the Nordic and Baltic countries, Coolbet is already for years perhaps one of the leading real money poker sites out there. Check out here where Coolbet is standing in the ranks! Just be aware, the lists are depending on which poker sites are available in your own country of residence.

Level 4: 200/400/400

Average: 35,660

Players: 54/64

As it’s still very early in the event, there is not much to do yet with chip counts. But we did a round anyhow to see who is having a good start for themselves. A starting day of the Main Event is all about getting your start stack build up several times and to maintain it until Day 2. That’s where the marbles will be divided after all.

Player Name	Country	Chips
RUDOLF ADOLF KOSA		72.000
ROLAND KOZMICH		63.000
ANDRES ROBERT VILHJALMSSON		47.000
LEIF EDDY IVERSEN		63.000
SEBASTIAN ANDRES VIEDMA OLIVARES		50.000
DORON FERENBACH LAHAV		40.000

The last thing you are aiming for, is busting in the first couple of levels of the day during a Main Event, where the starting stack is still worth 100 big blinds. Unfortunately for those, they hit the rail early. We can see that at least the Icelandic poker player Vilhjalmsson already did a re-entry.

Level 3: 100/300/300

Average: 34,118

Players: 51/58

Player Name	Country
KAREV TRALLA		Busted
TAMAS GRABICS		Busted
BRANDON CHARLES MIFSUD		Busted
SEMIH ERCAN		Busted
CHRISTIAN AABAAD		Busted
RONY AHARON ISRAEL		Busted
ANDRES ROBERT VILHJALMSSON		Busted

Yesterday, we learned that a group of players from Chile joined the action of the Coolbet Open. It was not a coincidence eventually, because they are representing the Latin-America part of Coolbet, coming mainly to join the Nations Cup Finals. An event series which you could qualify for online. The final nine players of the finals will have the chance to win a piece of the €20.000 prize pool, spread over the top-3 places. We will keep you posted about the outcome of this unique event as well.

Player Name	Country	Chips
SEBASTIAN ANDRES VIEDMA OLIVARES		30.000
JORGE EDUARDO CARTES CABRERA		30.000

Today we are kicking off the Main Event with Day 1a. Already 47 entries so far, and 45 players are left in the competition. We expect a big attraction at 1a, as many players would like to play the mixed games side events in the coming days. Currently, the poker room on the ground floor is being used as first destination for the Main Event, and the official Main poker room upstairs, starts to be filled up literally now.

When looking through the player list, we can see a lot of players from Israel and Iceland. Will it be their day to shine?

Player Name	Country	Chips
Iury Wolf		30.000
Ofer Tadmor		30.000
Jacob Amos Melloul		30.000
Liran Manteka		30.000
Shahar Levinger		30.000
Rony Aharon Israel		30.000
Netzer Gamliely		30.000
Ohad Aharon Freund		30.000
Doron Ferenbach Lahav		30.000
David Elka		30.000
Roni Bonfil		30.000
Thorarinn Asgeirsson		30.000
Gunnar Georggson		30.000
Hoegni Gunnarson		30.000
Gudjon Jonsson		30.000
Logi Laxdal		30.000
Jonas Nordquist		30.000
Daniel Olafsson		30.000
Finnur Ragnarsson		30.000
Kjartan Saevarsson		30.000
Ingvar Sveinsson		30.000
Sigurjon Thordarson		30.000
Andres Vilhjamlsson		30.000

Yes, we have a winner! Deep Singh from Austria took down the last heads-up match and concluded his victory in style. He would not only win the great first cash prize, but also the beautiful trophy here at the Coolbet Open!

Congratulations!

The PokerListings Deepstack event will be won by someone outside Slovakia. It will either go to Poland, or to Austria. Even stacks, even chances!

Deep Singh and Dominik Ostrowski both play around 3,5M!

Philipp Sander, who had been short for a while now, had put his last 7 big blinds into the middle from the Small Blind when everyone had folded towards him, the Big Blind however, woke up with pocket 8s.

Sander: 4 5

Ralbovsky 8 8

The flop gave the flamboyant Kivu no help with 3 K 10 , but with the 2 there was hope on the horizon, unfortunately his ship sank when the river was dealt by the dealer, 4 . We lose the German poker player in 9th place.

Soon later, we got quick busts from Rapf and Hakala who couldn’t improve their position at the table.

7. Ville Hakala		€           1,180
8. Christoph Rapf		€           920
9. Philipp Sander		€           720

We have reached the final nine players! The average stack is 19 big blinds, and we are playing for the major first prize of  € 6,315!

• (All results will be posted in the recap of the day)

Player Name	Country
Christian Arstad
Ville Hakala
Oskar Hastad
Alexis Kivu
Dominik Ostrowski
Peter Ralbovsky
Cristoph Rapf
Philipp Sander
Deep Singh

Level 19: 15.000/30.000/30.000

Average: 431.250

Players: 17/138

Kjell Sterner from Sweden had left the tables just after the break. He finished in 17th place for a min cash of €355

17. Kjell Sterner

€355

Level 18: 10.000/20.000/20.000

Average: 405.882

Players: 17/138

Player Name	Country	HendonMob Score	Chips
Alexiks Kivu		$          1,251	240.000
Rastislav Antala		$        38,550	210.000
Ville Hakala		$        70,565	500.000
Oskar Hastad		$          1,198	300.000
Taras Ivasyshyn		$          3,173	115.000
Magnus Kristensen		$        20,772	400.000
Aki Nevalainen		$          2,346	340.000
Christian Arstad		$        36,968	900.000
Dominik Ostrowski		$        28,869	900.000
Peter Ralbovsky		$      228,880	330.000
Christoph Rapf		$        36,542	300.000
Maksym Ronshyn		$      225,015	130.000
Christian Saeby		$          5,283	600.000
Philipp Sander		$      127,269	240.000
Deep Singh		$        36,648	390.000
Kjell Sterner		xxxxxxxxxxxx	190.000
Taavi Vaelisson		$        61,305	465.000

Level 16: 6,000/12,000/12,000

Average 363,158

Players: 19/138

Player	Country
20. Christian Gorzcak		BUSTED
21. Asle Bloemacher		BUSTED
22. Ohad Aharon		BUSTED
23. Jonny Pedersen		BUSTED

#21ASLE BLOEMACHER00:37:58#22OHAD AHARON FREUND00:34:20#23JONNY JOHANNES PEDERSEN00:29:24#24ROBIN PETER TOMMY THOMASSEN

Christian Arstad from Norway had his chips in the middle, and his opponent in the hand was Oskar Hastad from Sweden, who had him covered by just 90,000 chips. Arstad, who run well yesterday already during the Coolbet Open Warm-Up, is looking for another big run during the PokerListings Deepstack event.

Arstad: Q Q

Hastad: K K

The board ran out 5 A Q 5 6 and hereby Norway won the battle of the Scandinavians for now, leaving Hastad absolutely gutted behind.

Christian Arstad		573.000
Oskar Hastad		90.000

In the other poker room here at Banco Casino, there is a satellite running with 10x tickets guaranteed for the €550 Main Event tomorrow. It looked like there would be a huge overlay, but eventually it was just €500.

Two of the remaining twelve players will leave tonight empty handed.

As we are coming close to the money, it is important for players to really start considering what hands they actually want to play. Blinds are high, stacks are getting more narrow, money is coming close. With an the odds calculator of PokerListings, you can reproduce certain situations to become a better poker player in general.

Level 15: 5,000/10,000/10,000

Average: 230,000

Players: 30/128

Place	Prize
#1	€6,315
#2	€4,015
#3	€3,210
#4	€2,490
#5	€1,965
#6	€1,575
#7	€1,180
#8	€920
#9	€720
#10	€575
#11	€575
#12	€575
#13	€465
#14	€465
#15	€465
#16	€355
#17	€355

Players: 38/138

Some of the recent busts:

39. Priit Vanem		BUSTED
40. Maged Aziz		BUSTED
41. Robert Sahlstrom		BUSTED
42. Jason Kiselis		BUSTED
43. Kryzstof Zwierz		BUSTED
44. Zsolt Balog		BUSTED

Level 13: 3,000/6,000/6,000

Players: 42/138

Average: 164,286

We saw an all-in on table #61, where Dominik Ostrowski (50k), one of the remaining Polish Players, just took the last chips of hometown player Zolnai (45k).

Zolnai: A J

Ostrowski: 10 J

The flop was good for Poland with 10 6 Q , and it left Zolnai with just 7 outs. Sadly for him, he didn’t improve when the board completed withh 7 and the 3 .

Dominik Ostrowski		100.000
Peter Zolnaj		BUSTED

Level 13: 3,000/6,000/6,000

Players: 47/137

Average: 145,745

The registration period has ended, and players are again on a break. With only 46 players remaining, it is important for players to know where they stand. Most likely there will be 17 players in the money, but the official numbers will be released soon enough.

Name	Country	Chips
JONNY PEDERSEN		500.000
PETER RALBOVSKY		330.000
RASTISLAV ANTALA		300.000
JAN ERIK LARSEN IVERSEN		285.000
MAKSYM RONSHYN		260.000
OHAD AHARON FREUND		235.000

Level 12: 2,500/5,000/5,000

Players: 56/132

Average: 117,857

A fun fact, indicating that the Coolbet Open attracts many different nationalities, is that there are players of 18 different countries present at the poker tables of the PokerListings Deepstack.

Level 10: 1,500/3,000/3,000

Players: 73/120

At every big live tournament during a live poker series, many table talks go about the total number of entrants expectations. Coolbet Open made use of this, by arranging a giveaway on their social media prior to the event. With 120 runners at the moment, and 3x 25-minute levels left for registration, we can safely say that this event will become more popular as the Coolbet Open Warm-Up event of yesterday (120). Oskar Wedde will bring up the number with one most likely by doing a re-entry, as he just busted out of the tournament.

Oskar Wedde

BUSTED

At the moment there are six women in the competition, battling it out to try and make a deep run today in the Deepstack tournament. Women in poker is really making progress the last several years, resulting in more and more female entrants. Slovakian Eva Mandakova is having a home game and is currently leading the pack:

Name	Country	Chips
MAILI TANNBAUM		27.000
ANNE BEZDEK		75.000
HEIDI ROENEID		83.000
LINDA KRISTIN SUHR		58.000
ANETA KALIKOVA		170.000
EVA MANDAKOVA		200.000

A great gesture of Banco Casino and Coolbet is that every break there is a possibility to make use of a buffet. During this dinner break, we collected the biggest stacks of the PokerListings Deepstack for you:

Name	Country	Chips
TAAVI VAELISSON		194.000
TIBOR HOFFMANN		172.500
ROBIN THOMASSEN		145.000
DEEP KANDRA SINGH		139.000
VADYM LISHCHUK		121.000
OSKAR HASTAD		113.000
JOEL SALMIRINNE		186.000
EVA MANDAKOVA		170.000

The Deepstack tournament is already party of the Coolbet Open since the first ever live series. This week, the Deepstack tournament is carrying for the first time the PokerListings name.

Let’s have a look on the total entries across all Coolbet live series:

Year	Total Entries
2023	104*
2022	196
2019	176
2019	112
2018	90
2018	54

Fact: The 2023 edition is a one-day event, while the others were mostly two-day events.

Asle Blømaker, a Norwegian poker player who became 3rd yesterday in the Coolbet Open Warm-Up event for €1,535, has been sitting calmly in the PokerListings Deepstack so far. Are we going to see another deep run from one of the many kind Norwegians?

Asle Blømaker

57.000

Are you coming to visit the Coolbet Open at the Banco Casino in Bratislava, Slovakia? Then for sure you are curious about things like the weather, the poker tournaments, hospitality events, Coolbet Lounge… We try to sum it up for you in a small message:

Weather predictions: Sun, Sun, and Sun! (between 26-30 degrees).

Hospitality events: On schedule is wakeboarding, bowling, and much more.

Norway Effect: 25% of the fields

Estonian Effect: 10% of the fields

Non-European Effect: 5% of the fields

Highlights: Main Event + 8-Game + Mystery Bounty + PokerListings Deepstack

Coolbet Lounge: Relax, Enjoy, Learn poker, Backgammon matches!

Overall Score: 11 out of 10

Name: PokerListings Deepstack

Level 5: 400/800/800

Players 79/88

It is being promised to be a long day today at the Banco Casino. Currently, there are 79 out of 88 entrants still in the game, with late registration still open for 8 levels. It is to be expected the tournament will last at least until 4 A.M in the morning.

Here are the chip counts of the players who accumulated the most chips until the first break:

OLE JOHAN WASENIUS		92.000
JOHAN BENGT AAKE EKDAHL		80.000
TONIS MAIPUU		180.000
PETER ZOLNAI		100.000
PETER BUMBA		92.000
STURLA FLATAKER		80.000
ANETA KALIKOVA		75.000

You come in a spot early in the tournament and you opened up the action with A Q , knowing you are playing starting stack of 50,000 chips. With the blinds on 300/600/600, a loose player where you have lots of information of during previous events, raises it up to 10,200, where he plays 35,000 in total.

You decide to only call, and see a flop of 6 10 J . You check into the loose player, and he goes all-in for his remaining 24,800.

You go in the tank, and the loose player tries to get into your mind telling you that he wants you call.

What do you do?

A. Call, and pray to the poker gods

B. Give him the credit and fold

Tips and trick about poker strategy and the psychological aspect of the poker game are welcome? Check out this link.

Around the block here at the PokerListings deepstack, during the Coolbet Open. Of course, many Norwegians are competing in this event, but to give you a bit of an insight about the other countries:

Leif Eddy Iversen		50.000
Stig Moen		50.000
Karev Tralla (2nd place warm-up event)		50.000
Aneta Kalikova		50.000
Adir Kfir		50.000
Vadym Lishchuk		50.000
Luis Aranedo		50.000
Sebastian Olivares		50.000
Oskar Hastad		50.000
Jaakko Hokkanen		50.000

You are planning to late reg the PokerListings Deepstack or one of the satellites running today? Backgammon fans are welcome in the Coolbet Lounge for some friendly matches!

The €225 PokerListings Deepstack will start at 17:00 CET. Currently, already 18 people registered and the queue at the cash desk is a fact. The PokerListings Deepstack is definitely a cool tournament to have on your Resume, by winning the event.

Good Luck Everyone!

At the Coolbet Open there are two satellites scheduled for The Festival Series in Bratislava later this year. There are still 40 minutes left to enter the tournament and with 9 out of 11 players left, there is a big overlay possible. There are 2 packages guaranteed worth € 1,600 each.

If you fancy value, now is the chance!

We are on the second day of the Coolbet Open here at the Banco Casino in Bratislava. Yesterday, we already had seen a great amount of entries during the Coolbet Open Warm-Up event with a total of 120. It was eventually Norwegian regular Ole Johnny Fagerslett Karlsen who took down the event and had the privilege of holding up the first trophy of the week. He bested Karev Tralla from Estonia heads-up , while he was quite far behind at the beginning of the final stage of the tournament. He managed however to get the job done fairly easily. Results are mentioned below in this post and in the results tab. Today, the PokerListings Deepstack is topping as a headline event, with two satellite events running on the side.

Schedule September 5th:

Time	Event Name	Buy–in	Type	Chips	Late reg
15:00 CET	Satellite to The Festival Series Bratislava (2x € 1600 gtd)	€ 60	Rebuy/Addon	5k/5k/10k	Level 8
17:00 CET	PokerListings Deepstack ( €20,000 gtd)	€ 250	Re-Entry	50k	Level 12
20:00 CET	Satellite to Coolbet Open Main Event (10x € 550 tickets gtd)	€ 60	Rebuy/Addon	5k/5k/10k	Level 8

Results Coolbet Open Warm-Up € 115 :

1		OLE JOHNNY FAGERSLETT KARLSEN	€2.245*
2		KAREV TRALLA	€1.915*
3		ASLE BLOEMACHER	€1.535*
4		VEIKO AAVA	€1.550*
5		TERJE KRISTOFFER KLOKKERNES JAHN	€875
6		SVEIN OLAV EIDSAETER	€685
7		ENDRE NESSET	€515
8		CHRISTIAN ARSTAD	€400
9		JEROEN AARTS	€315
10		PER ERIK GJELTEN	€275
11		JASON KISELIS	€255
12		ERIK HAMRE	€255
13		MELVIN SCHROEN	€200
14		KEITO KALJULAID	€200
15		AK	€200

Here at the Banco Casino in the electric capital (poker) city of Slovakia called Bratislava, the 6^th annual edition of the Coolbet Open will take place. Never before there was an event of Coolbet outside Estonia, where the headquarters is based of this iconic poker operator. PokerListings will give you all the insights, gossip at and outside the tables, bad beats, and a view of the great atmosphere in the always-loaded Banco Casino. As of Tuesday, 5^th of September, we will be kicking off with the Live Blog.

With plenty of events being held throughout the week, let’s go through the highlights of the week:

• € 550 Main Event (€ 300.000 Guaranteed)**
• € 250 PokerListings Deepstack**
• € 165 Coolbet Open 8-Game (6-max)
• The € 1100 Coolbet NHL Masterclass (6-max)
• € 330 Coolbet Open Mystert Bounty
• € 115 Streamers NLH Hyper Turbo’s

** Live Coverage

Every single day there are several possibilities to grind your way up the ranks. Whether it’s with NLHE tournaments, mixed games, or one of the many satellites, at any tournament there is plenty of time to build some stacks. You don’t have a good run? Don’t worry! There is plenty of cash game action available 24/7. And if that’s not all, there are numerous events being organized outside the poker events!

Make sure to go through the full schedule, as game selection is key for a poker player 😉

See you at the tables!

Previous Main Event Winners:

Year	Winner	Country	Buy-In	Total entries	First Prize
2022	Kaido Mikk		€        550	652	€        65,700
2019	Ott Toome		€        550	686	€        71,700
2019	Mathias Siljander		€        550	531	€        60,100
2018	Mats Albertsen		€        550	589	€        60,510
2018	Sebastian Wahl		€        550	425	€        50,100

The Coolbet Open 2023 in Bratislava takes place 4th to 10th September at Banco Casino in the beautiful capital of Slovakia. PokerListings blogger Melvin Schroen will live report from the event starting September 5th with our own PokerListings Deepstack, followed by Coolbet Open Main Event and various side events. Make sure to share this post to your friends who wants to follow the action!

See you on Tuesday!