Evangelos Beghrakis and Stefan Rapp have increased their stacks to more than double. Rapp's latest hand saw him spike trips queens with the and his opponent held for an equally strong hand. However, Rapp made a full house on the river and the same card gave his opponent a flush to create juicy action.
Ivan Luca defended his big blind against a raise by Friedrich Brunsch and the duo checked through the turn. On the river, Luca bet 5,600 into a pot of what appeared to be around 2,000 and Brunsch gave it some thought before making the call.
Luca was ready to muck and motioned to his opponent to show first, which Brunsch obliged to by flashing . The Argentinian showed the and indeed mucked with the second card apparently being an eight. "I knew it!" Brunsch triumphed and raked in the pot.
Another notable in today's field is Pavel Binar, the Czech is above starting stack.
Two players that won't be returning to their seats after the dinner break are defending Eureka Rozvadov champion Raphael Wimmer as well as 2015 World Series of Poker Europe bracelet winner Makarios Avramidis. The latter committed his stack with on a heads-up flop against Felix Kaltner.
The flop was king high with two diamonds and Kaltner's ace-king held up despite an additional gutshot on the turn.
The first five minutes of the new level are done and dusted, as is the option for players to buy into the first starting day. According to the screens, 219 participants have ponied up the €1,100 entry and that's more than two times the 98 entries of the last Eureka Main Event here in Rozvadov.
An official number remains to be confirmed, though.
On the turn, Friedrich Brunsch bet 3,000 into a pot o 6,500 and his opponent Dieke Meyer raised to 10,000. Brunsch then shoved all in and Meyer asked for a count. Once the dealer had determined it to be 27,175, Meyer glanced over and asked "you like the turn?", but Brunsch just shook his head.
"Okay so be it," was Meyer's reaction when he got called and flipped over his only to see Meyer turn over . The blank river changed nothing whatsoever and that was it for Brunsch.
Robert Zipf had magically appeared after the dinner break and the German, who regularly plays on the European Poker Tour, confirmed that he jumped into the event at the last possible minute.
Another familiar face is Marek Blasko, the high stakes cash game expert from Slovakia has grinded up some small profit on Day 1a already.
The board was already complete, reading and Teodor Popovic led for 10,000 from under the gun with a pot of more than double of that. The action was then on David Urban and the Slovakian tanked for a long time to see the clock called on him. Urban then moved all in himself and now Popovic was in the tank.
Eventually, the clock was called on Popovic, too, and the one minute of consideration ran down without any move to see his cards dead. Urban flashed for a bluff and scooped the big pot.
and his opponent held 
for an equally strong hand. However, Rapp made a full house on the river and the same card gave his opponent a flush to create juicy action.
turn. On the 
river, Luca bet 5,600 into a pot of what appeared to be around 2,000 and Brunsch gave it some thought before making the call.
. The Argentinian showed the 
and indeed mucked with the second card apparently being an eight. "I knew it!" Brunsch triumphed and raked in the pot.
on a heads-up flop against Felix Kaltner.
only to see Meyer turn over 
river changed nothing whatsoever and that was it for Brunsch.
