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$565 Colossus Lives Up to Expectations
Posted by: James Carter. - Sun, 2015-05-31 14:02
The $565 Colossus event of the 2015 WSOP was hyped as the biggest ever WSOP event and at the official end of registration - even though precise numbers are not yet available - it is clear that it has indeed lived up to all those expectations and then some. About 24,000 players ended up putting the buy-in into the middle, and some of them managed to get off to a superb start. Steven Geralis for instance, managed to build up a stack of 159k chips, having started off just 5k. Everything considered, such a massive stack does indeed give a player an opportunity which may just turn out to be a once-in-a-lifetime one, to take down a massive prize and to possibly even win the biggest
WSOP tournament of all time. Geralis had one really tough opponent to deal with at his table, Roberto Romanello, but the Italian of mostly EPT fame, was bounced in less than 30 minutes.
While Geralis is a semi-professional player, with just over $100k in career tournament profits, Simon Deadman is the definition of a true professional. Deadman is another of the early Colossus large-stacks.
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Deadman finished with some 125k chips in his stack, but at this point he isn't particularly impressed. He knows that for such events, one has to have an exceptionally good run for several days to warrant any sort of excitement. A Day 1 large-stack can indeed be a fleeting condition in an event like the Colossus which can and will chew such large stacks right up and spit them out.
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