The Main Event of the 2017 World Series of Poker Europe Starts Today!

On Saturday, November 4th, the long-awaited Event #11: €10,350 No-Limit Hold’em Main Event kicks off, the final bracelet event of 2017. The first start starting flight will get underway at noon local time with players from all over the world coming together at the King’s Casino to take a shot at winning a highly coveted title and the subsequent gold WSOP bracelet.

This is the ninth time the WSOPE has been held, with the first series of events taking place in 2007 at the Casino at the Empire in London. Annette Obrestad became the first ever WSOPE Main Event winner at the tender age of only 18. After this inaugural event, the poker world visited London three more times for the WSOPE. France hosted the next three events, with two of them in Cannes and one in Paris. After a year hiatus, the WSOPE traveled to Berlin, with Kevin MacPhee winning the last WSOPE Main Event bracelet for €883,000.

Past World Series of Poker Europe Main Event Winners

Year	Location	Winner	Prize
2007	London	Annette Obrestad	£1,000,000
2008	London	John Juanda	£868,800
2009	London	Barry Shulman	£801,603
2010	London	James Bord	£830,401
2011	Cannes	Elio Fox	€1,400,000
2012	Cannes	Phil Hellmuth	€1,022,376
2013	Paris	Adrian Mateos	€1,000,000
2015	Berlin	Kevin MacPhee	€883,000

Structure

This year, there is a guaranteed prize pool of €5,000,000 with €1,000,000 guaranteed for first place. The buy-in will be €10,350 and players will be starting with 50,000 in chips. Levels will last 90 minutes each with a 20-minute break after each level. The players will be playing six levels today with a 90-minute dinner break after Level 4.

Players that have been eliminated today can choose to reenter tomorrow on Day 1b or before the start of Day 2 on November 6th. Registration will also be open until then. The tournament will continue until a winner has been declared on Friday, November 10th. Keep glued to PokerNews as we work towards crowning a new WSOPE Main Event champion!

Level	Duration	Small Blind	Big Blind	Ante
1	90 minutes	75	150	-
	20-minute break
2	90 minutes	150	300	-
	20-minute break
3	90 minutes	150	300	25
	20-minute break
4	90 minutes	200	400	50
	90-minute break
5	90 minutes	250	500	75
	20-minute break
6	90 minutes	300	600	100
	20-minute break