Kulev Leads Heading Into Day 2 of the €10,200 No-Limit Hold'em Bounty High Roller at 12:30 p.m.
The first event of the long-awaited PokerStars European Poker Tour Prague enters Day 2 today at 12:30 p.m. local time at the King’s Casino here in the heart of Prague.
Alex Kulev, the Dublin-based Bulgarian poker pro, leads the field of 25 remaining by some distance after a successful Day 1 sees him bring a nice stack of 604,000 into Day 2, which is good for 121 big blinds to start the day.
Timothy Adams of Canada starts the day second in chips with 452,000, Niklas Astedt of Sweden (389,000), Lithuanian Audrius Skakelis (375,000) and Bulgarian Ognyan Dimov (371,000) round out the top five stacks at the start of Day 2. In total, players from nine different countries make up the top ten stacks, with even more represented throughout the remaining 25 players.
Day 2 Top Ten Chip Counts
| Position | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds Day 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alex Kulev | Ireland | 604,000 | 121 |
| 2 | Timothy Adams | Canada | 452,000 | 90 |
| 3 | Niklas Astedt | Sweden | 389,000 | 78 |
| 4 | Audrius Stakelis | Lithuania | 375,000 | 75 |
| 5 | Ognyan Dimov | Bulgaria | 371,000 | 74 |
| 6 | Rodrigo Seiji | Brazil | 339,000 | 68 |
| 7 | Yuri Dzivielevski | Brazil | 323,000 | 65 |
| 8 | Daichi Tominaga | Japan | 291,000 | 58 |
| 9 | Andras Nemeth | Hungary | 287,000 | 57 |
| 10 | Zhong Chen | Netherlands | 251,000 | 50 |
Day 2 will begin at Level 11 with blinds at 2,500/5,000 and a big blind ate of 5,000. Day 1 drew 56 total entries and 25 made it to Day 2. But late registration is still open until the start of play, so it is likely that there will be a few more entries who jump in with the 20 big blind stack to take a shot at Day 2 to further increase the current prizepool of €543,200 as well as the €5,000 for each bounty collected by each player.
Each level on Day 2 will be 30-minutes in length and the plan is to play all the way down to a winner as PokerNews will have all the action as the first winner is crowned in this kick-off event in Prague.
and Beresford was eliminated. Theologis not only collected the Brit's bounty but also doubled through Nemeth for 190,000.
flop opened up some chop opportunities but the kicker played on the 
river runout. Song collected his second bounty of the day and further climbed on the leaderboard.
flop left Hissou in dire shape and he was in need of running cards. One of them appeared on the 
turn but the miracle never happened after the 
river followed to seal his fate.
looking to take out the 
for not much help to the ace-king. The turn was the 
and the river came the 
to end the day for the Brazilian as Grafton took in more to his growing stack.
. Both players checked to the turn which was the 
. Seiji bet 60,000 and Grafton called.
. Seiji took a time extension before jamming all in. Grafton snap-called and turned over his hand in an instant showing the 
and the river came the 
to end Nemeth's run as the bubble boy in 9th place.
flop and the 
flop and Astedt bet 100,000, picking up a call from Grafton.
and Astedt nodded. "You win," he said and sent the cards into the muck.
