Welcome to Day 2a of the partypoker LIVE Grand Prix Austria €115 Main Event here at the Montesino Casino in Vienna, Austria. 278 out of 2794 players that started Day 1s over the past weeks will return to play 14 40-minutes levels. As all players are already in the money, they will be looking to cash even more.
The chip leader is Manuel Blaschke with 2,532,000 chips, he will be doing his best to maintain this position into Day 3. He has some experience here in the Montesino Casino as he won a tournament a few weeks ago. Trailing behind him in the chip counts are Josef Tod (1,620,000), Milan Dunko (1,598,000), Aleksandar Lugonjic (1,550,000), Afshin Fattahi (1,483,000) and Goran Delic (1,452,000).
Some other notable names to pay attention to are partypoker Pro Natalia Breviglieri, Jan Nakladal and Manuela Richter, .
Day 2 will kick off at 2.30 pm so, keep following the live updates here on PokerNews to find out who will make it to Day 3 together with the players that survived Day 2b in CCC Simmering and the online Day 2 survivors.
The start of the tournament has been slightly delayed as the players that just got through the Day 1 hyper-turbo need to be re-drawn into the Day 2 seat draw.
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Table 32 just witnessed one of our first exits of the day.
Krisztian Kassai and Sascha Schönherr went to war on a flop, with Kassai putting in a check-raise to 62,000 before Schönherr clicked it back to 120,000. This proved to be an awkward raise size for Kassai's 250,000-chip stack, as he would need to commit himself should he want to continue with the hand.
After a little consideration, Kassai went with the shove and was called immediately by Schönherr's . As soon as he saw the bad news, Kassai's demeanor completed deflated, with someone else at the table asking, "do you have king queen?" Kassai indeed tabled and was drawing to running cards.
It was all over on the turn, as Kassai stood up the leave the tournament. He handed in his seat card at the cash desk, but unfortunately didn't make any additional money since being paid €250 at the end of Day 1.