€1,500 Main Event
Day 1 Started
2019 The Patrik Antonius Poker Challenge
€1,500 Main Event
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2019 The Patrik Antonius Poker Challenge
Buy-in
€1,500
Prize Pool
€217,280
Entries
160
Level
23
Blinds
15,000 / 30,000
Ante
15,000
Get Ready for the PAPC €1,500 Main Event
The inaugural Patrik Antonius Poker Classic (PAPC) at the Hilton Tallinn Park and Olympic Park Casino set history yesterday for the biggest buy-in poker event in Estonian poker history after Finland's Pauli Ayras won the PAPC €25,000 High Rolller for €163,300.
The festival will be heating up even further today with the highlight of the festival, the PAPC €1,500 Main Event, kicking off the first of its four days of action today at 12 p.m EEST.
The Main Event boasts an amazing structure with players kicking off the action with 30,000 in chips and blinds increasing every 60 minutes. The event will move along fast by taking advantage of one of the latest trends in live poker with the single big blind ante in play.
Today's action will feature eight blind levels today and can players will be allowed to re-enter an unlimited amount of times up until the late-registration period closes at the conclusion of the first blind level of tomorrow's Day 2.
Many big names are in attendance including Patrik Antonius and Joni Jouhkimainen, who won the PAPC €550 PLO Turbo event last night. Other players in Tallinn for the PAPC include Juha Helppi, Timothy Adams, David "Chino" Rheem, Dan "Jungleman" Cates, Ilari Sahamies, Teun Mulder, and Robert Mizrachi.
Many of these players will play in Day 1 of the PAPC Main Event while others will try their hand on a live-streamed €100/€200 pot-limit Omaha cash game running throughout the day or compete in one of the side events.
The PAPC Main Event Day 1 Blind Structure
| Level | Small blind | Big blind | Ante |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 25 | 50 | |
| 2 | 50 | 100 | |
| 3 | 75 | 150 | |
| 4 | 100 | 200 | 200 |
| 5 | 150 | 300 | 300 |
| 6 | 200 | 400 | 400 |
| 7 | 300 | 600 | 600 |
| 8 | 400 | 800 | 800 |
Many side events are also taking place today including the PAPC €5,200 PLO at 6 p.m. EEST, the €110 Duplicate to the €5,200 PLO at 6 p.m. EEST, the €550 NL Hold'em Turbo at 9 p.m. EET, and the €110 5 Card Pot Limit Omaha at 11 p.m. EET. The second and final day of the PAPC €330 Championship resumes at 9 p.m. EEST and will also play down to a winner.
Stay tuned as The PokerNews live reporting team will be on the floor to provide all the action until a champion is crowned.
Level: 1
Blinds: 25/50
Ante: 0
Shuffle Up and Deal!
Level 1
: 25/50, 0 ante
The tournament director has just announced the start of the tournament. The big board is currently reading 29 entrants, a figure that will surely increase with unlimited re-entries allowed until the late-registration closes after conclusion of the first blind level of Day 2.
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Level 1
: 25/50, 0 ante
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Notable Names in the Field
Level 1
: 25/50, 0 ante
Some of the players that haven't arrived fashionably late and are already competing include Mati Pirn, Paul Fowler, Kasper Mellanen, Roope Tarmi, and Feras Abid.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
30,000 | |
|
30,000 | |
|
30,000 | |
|
30,000 | |
|
30,000 |
Guilbert Wins an Early Pot from Pirn
Level 1
: 25/50, 0 ante
France's Johan Guilbert is one of the more notable players already competing and is already off to a good start.
He three-bet to 550 from the big blind and got a call from the original raiser Mati Pirn and another player.
Guilbert fired out 800 after the 
came on the flop. Pirn called and the other player folded.
Pirn then called a bet of 2,000 after the 
came on the turn before calling a much larger bet of 7,500 after the 
completed the board on the river.
Guilbert turned over 
for a flopped straight and is the early chip leader with about 41,000 in chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
41,000
41,000
|
41,000 |
|
|
20,000
-10,000
|
-10,000 |
Big PLO Cash Game Later Today
Level 1
: 25/50, 0 ante
There will be a big €100/€200 PLO game streamed live on the PAPC Facebook channel and First Land of Poker Twitch channel. We will also be embedding the action in our coverage under when it goes live under the Live Stream tab.
Michaeli With Trips
Level 1
: 25/50, 0 ante
Dan Michaeli opened from the cutoff before he called a three-bet of 400 from Marvin Hannemann in the big blind.
Hannemann led out for 500 after the 
came on the flop and got a call. He then check-called a bet of 1,500 after the paired the board on the turn.
Both players checked after the 
came on the river. Michaeli turned over 
for trips and took down the pot after Hannemann tossed his hand into the muck.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
33,000 | |
|
27,000 |
Berge Picks Off Guilbert, Evans Joins the Field
Level 1
: 25/50, 0 ante
Guilbert seems ready for action. The Frenchman just fired a bet of 2,500 into a pot of around 3,500 on the river with the 
on the board.
Martin Berge thought for a minute before he made the call. Guilbert immediately turned over 
and said "nice hand" to his opponent after Berge tabled 
.
Also joining that table right before the hand started was American Lena Evans, whose women's poker group Poker League of Nations will be hosting the PAPC €110 Ladies Open on Saturday.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
35,000
35,000
|
35,000 |
|
|
35,000
-6,000
|
-6,000 |
|
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |