The tournament director just announced that there will be 12 levels of play for Day 1a, which should take us to around 1am. Breaks take place every three blind levels with a longer dinner break planned after the completion of level 6.
The field continues to grow - and is now at 179 entrants - as a few more players have taken their seats. Players will be allowed to reenter once today if they bust out of the tournament. Day 1b will follow the same pattern, also allowing players a single reentry.
The field is currently at 170 players and growing. Not all of last night's satellite winners have made it to the casino floor yet. One of the tournament directors shared with us that he predicts at the first of the two opening days we will witness 250 entrants and believes we will see at least double that number tomorrow.
While the action is slow as expected during the first blind levels, the first players are starting to bust. Belgium's Nick Bogaert just doubled up when he was able to three-bet all in on the river with vs. his opponent's on a board of .
Dejan Divkovic entered the competition and same applied for Jerome Sgorrano. The Belgian qualified for the second tournament in a row through a Satellite and just three-bet out of the big blind. His opponent in the small blind called and they saw a flop of . The small blind checked and Sgorrano continued for 600 into a pot of 900, receiving a call.
Both players checked the turn and Sgorrano then folded to a bet worth 1,625 on the river.
WPTN Brussels champion and EPT9 Berlin third-place finisher Lasse Frost is among the participants, though his table doesn't contain any big notables yet. The Dane blends in perfectly into the mix of amateurs and pros that take a shot here in Rozvadov and the field size has since increased to 156 entries.
Players are still filing in as level two begins with blinds at 50/100. The field for Day 1a currently stands at 146 players, and with late entry available all-day long, the field size is expected to grow exponentially.
Level one is about to be over and the screens have been updated, showing at least 145 entrants for the first starting day. A single reentry is allowed per day and this may bump up the field further.
Sebastian Langrock may not be known to many of the international poker players yet but the German came to fame in the TV show "Who wants to be a Millionaire," taking down the full payday. Langrock already had a passion for poker back then and the new bankroll allowed him to play more tournaments, which frequently led him to the King's Casino.
Among those to join the field as of lately were the likes of Erich Kollmann Johann Rosnick and Jacek Pustula as well as Szymon Bujok. Marek Fritz already had a couple of decent results in the King's Casino as well.
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