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!
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.
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.
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.
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 .
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.
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.
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.
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:
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:
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
* 5 levels of late registration left
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?
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.
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:
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
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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:
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.
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.
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)
