The third and penultimate day of the PokerStars.net Eureka 6 Rozvadov €1,100 Main Event gets underway in 90 minutes from now at 2 p.m. local time with 63 players remaining out of a 682-entry strong field. All of them have at least €2,120 locked up for their efforts, but the eyes are set on making Eureka history and claiming the first-place payout of €124,890.
The bubble burst just prior to the dinner break yesterday evening and after that, the action continued fast and furious. This is also the likely scenario for the restart of Day 3 at blinds 5,000-10,000 and a running ante of 1,000, as two third of the participants are below average. Sitting in the top spot is Daniel Rose after claiming two big three-way pots at the end of Day 2 and the Berlin-based player is the only one above one million with astonishing 1,570,000.
Other big stacks include Martin Ilavsky (841,000), David Urban (837,000), Ivan "Negriin" Luca (701,000), online qualifier Alexandru Farcasanu (643,000), EPT regular Jonas Lauck (614,000) and Peter Siemund (436,000). Also still in are Hannes Speiser (326,000), Amir Mozaffarian (308,000), Grzegorz Wyraz (249,000), Dominik Paus (207,000), Maria Lampropoulos (119,000), Marek Blasko (72,000) and EPT7 Vienna champion Michael Eiler (17,000).
Goal of Day 3 is reaching the official final table of the last six and the levels last 60 minutes each. Tomorrow's final will then be streamed on the King's Casino website and the PokerNews live reporting team will be on hand to cover all the action until a new champion is crowned.
Dominik Paus had just lost with kings and then shoved the button with for 94,000. Serif Gozegir looked him up out of the small blind with king-queen bit found no help on the board .
One hand later, it was Gozegir at risk out of the button with for 13 big blinds and Alexandru Farcasanu called from one seat over with the . After a board of , Gozegir stood up, wished all opponents good luck and headed to the payout desk.
Maria Lampropoulos raised to 35,000 and Jonas Lauck three-bet to 100,000 on the button. Lampropoulos four-bet to 175,000 and Lauck called after both players had some previous history. On the flop , Lampropoulos bet small for 125,000 and Lauck counted his chips before shoving for 360,000 and receiving a snap call.
Lauck:
Lampropoulos:
Both the turn and river blanked and that was it for the German. Lampropoulos is now up to 1.4 million and trails Ivan Luca.
Domenico Gala opened the action with a raise to 40,000 from under the gun and Ivan Luca called, as did Gregorz Wyraz. Christian Tauscher in the small blind shoved for 129,000 and Gala min-raised, though he first didn't put in enough and it was ruled as a forced raise. Luca then made it 395,000 to go and Heder tanked for a long time before letting it go.
Luca:
Tauscher:
The board ran out and that busted Tauscher in 24th place.
Robert Kokoska opened to 40,000 from the cutoff and Alexandru Farcasanu three-bet to 100,000 from the button, which Kokoska called. On the flop , Kokoska check-raised from 85,000 to 180,000 and the Romanian online qualifier shoved for what looked like 600,000. Kokoska made the call and had slightly more chips than his opponent.
Kokoska:
Farcasanu:
The bluff of Farcasanu was caught and he failed to improve on turn and river to bust in 23rd place.
Oliver Heppchen raised to 50,000 from the hijack and Johannes Dandl flat-called before Ivan Luca three-bet to 177,000. Heppchen folded but Dandl called.
On the flop , Luca bet 50,000 and Dandl check-called before the turn saw Dandl shove for 145,000, Luca snap-called.
Dandl:
Luca:
The player at risk was drawing dead, making the river a formality.
Ten minutes into the new level, the first elimination took place. Martin Kristeller opened to 35,000 from the cutoff and Karol Radomski shoved the button fot 56,000. Maria Lampropoulos in the small blind as well as Hannes Speiser in the big blind called and they checked down the board board and Radomski showed his .
Lampropoulos held , Speiser the and Kristeller flipped over the winner in to bust his table neighbor.
The action started with a raise to 50,000 by Dragoslav Timarac and Dariusz Beres then moved all in for 217,000 out of the small blind. Timarac made the call and put his opponent at risk with the better hand.
Beres:
Timarac:
The flop changed nothing whatsoever, but Beres was then drawing dead on the turn. A meaningless on the river completed the board and Beres was eliminated in 20th place.
Robert Kokoska raised to 50,000 from the hijack and Martin Kristeller then three-bet to 130,000 from the button. Kokoska called and checked the flop before Kristeller bet 160,000.
"How much you play behind? 600? 700?" the Czech asked. Kristeller showed his stack and Kokoska then min-raised to 325,000. It was Kristeller's turn to ask for the stack size of the opponent before moving all in. Kokoska snapped with a big draw:
Kristeller:
Kokoska:
The turn improved Kokoska to a flush, but Kristeller was not drawing dead yet. It was the blank on the river that sent him to the rail, having cracked kings and then getting his aces cracked in a crazy level.
Down to just 236,000 chips, Oliver Heppchen shoved from under the gun and the action folded to Ivan Luca in the cutoff, who made the call. All other players folded and Heppchen found himself with the dominated ace.
Heppchen:
Luca:
The board ran out and that sent Heppchen to the rail in 18th place.
for 94,000. Serif Gozegir looked him up out of the small blind with king-queen bit found no help on the board 
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for 13 big blinds and Alexandru Farcasanu called from one seat over with the 
, Gozegir stood up, wished all opponents good luck and headed to the payout desk.
turn and 
river blanked and that was it for the German. Lampropoulos is now up to 1.4 million and trails Ivan Luca.
, Kokoska check-raised from 85,000 to 180,000 and the Romanian online qualifier shoved for what looked like 600,000. Kokoska made the call and had slightly more chips than his opponent.
turn and 
river to bust in 23rd place.
turn saw Dandl shove for 145,000, Luca snap-called.
board and Radomski showed his 
, Speiser the 
to bust his table neighbor.
changed nothing whatsoever, but Beres was then drawing dead on the 
on the river that sent him to the rail, having cracked kings and then getting his aces cracked in a crazy level.
and that sent Heppchen to the rail in 18th place.