The occupation of the table 85 can expect a lot of exciting action. Elena Litvinyuk, Huseyn "Magic Man 558" Erbay, and the Australian backpacker Lewis Murray have made us in the past few days a lot of joy with spectacular hands.
Litvinyuk shared with us her good friend known at King's Casino under the alias "AKBARJOJE" also made Day 2. They both cashed during the last PokerNews Cup at King's Casino and hope to do so again today.
The big board is currently showing 130 players left. There are most likely a few more bustouts since then, so we are inching closer to the PokerNews Cup Main Event money bubble.
One of the most famous players on Day 2 is Marek Blasko. The Slovakian is third in the all-time money list in his country and already has in his career $505,331 win at live tournaments.
He has a good chance to add to his career total in the PokerNews Cup Main Event in Rozvadov as he started Day 2 well positioned with 241,000 chips. However, a few minutes ago his stack took a dent after he gave up on a big pot on the river.
Day 1B chip leader, Germany's Jens Dengler raised preflop to 15,000 from under the gun and only the Blasko called from the big blind. On a flop of , Dengler fired without hesitation a continuation bet of 18,000 and got the call from Blasko. Dengler fired again when the hit the turn, this time for 36,000.
After Blasko called, Dengler fired the third bullet of 60,000 chips when the filled out the board. Blasko pondered long, while studying his opponent and finally threw away his hand.
Romania's Dan Hila has been hitting King's Casino hard for over a month. He shared with us earlier in the week that after the PokerNews Cup he was likely heading to Prague for some of the action there during the Prague Poker Festival.
Hila was among the latest batch of players to exit the tournament, however, we may see him in the €200 buy-in PokerNews Bounty Hunt kicking off at 17:00 local time.
Yesterday evening Gerhard Böck was upset that he was down to 60,000 chips near the end of the night after he went all-in with pocket queens and lost against his opponent's .
Today he is off to a better start as he got it all-in with a set with on a flop, and got a called from his opponent's . His opponent was unable to get runner-runner outs to hit the board, and Böck now has a slightly below average stack of 150,000 chips.
Janja proves to be a fierce competitor on the felts, however, unfortunately for her she has exited the tournament before the money bubble. Known to wear her emotions on her sleeve while playing, she entered all four opening flights, making it to the final level in two of them before busting out of the flight.
Yesterday, however, she was able to make it through to Day 2. However, fate was not on her side today, as she got it all in with and hit top pair on the flop. Her opponent who was holding was already congratulating her on the double up. However, as often is the case, celebrations happened to early, and a hit the turn to send Janja to the rail.
Maybe she will have better luck later today as she told us she plans to enters the PokerNews Cup Hunt Bounty tournament at 17:00 CET. We have heard others today say they were looking forward to including Przemyslav Omylak, who was part of the five-way deal in the PokerNews Cup Opening Event.