Peter Splettstosser turned a set of kings only to run into the flopped straight of Hanno Offen, who held on a nine-high flop. Also eliminated: Josef Gulas, the son of the same player that busted early yesterday.
Branislav Ondrus and Josef Pavelka both final-tabled the Eureka 5 Rozvadov Main Event and finished 7th respectively 2nd. And then there is Dag Palovic, one of the well known players from Slovakia.
Jan Nakladal made a deep run in the 2013 World Series of Poker Main Event and came 18th while Charles La Boissonniere finished 27th very recently in the EPT Dublin Main Event. Further entries include Martin Mulsow and Mario Eder, who both share the same table.
Thomas Erler has several cashes to his name but no big score yet with all but two results coming from the King's Casino in Rozvadov. Back in Season 3, the German finished 6th in the Eureka Main Event here and also added another 11th place in the World Series of Poker Circuit Main Event last November as well.
The screens now show 229 players registered and among those to have taken their seat just now were Thomas Zurek, Antonin Duda and 2015 World Series of Poker bracelet winner Paul Michaelis. Duda has two 7th place finishes in Main Events of the European Poker Tour to his name.
There are two Meiri's in today's field, Aviv and Yan. The latter just took down an early pot when betting the river for 1,500 out of the small blind. His opponent had barely filled out the registration sheet and paid with king-queen only to get shown for bottom set by Meiri.
Abdul Khodr usually plays the smaller circuits like the European DeepStack while Ronny Voth is a regular on the European Poker Tour. And Peter Siemund as well as Frederic Schwarzer are among the early registrants.