Philipp Gruissem is well-known for his tournament play with almost $11 million in live tournament cashes according to The Hendon Mob. He was unable to add to this total in the High Roller, which he was eliminated from before the last break. He is expected to join the €1 million guaranteed partypoker LIVE MILLION €1,100 Main Event, but we will have to wait and see which day he will join the field on.
The poker pro is also known to be a fierce competitor in cash games as well and is now playing for huge money in a televised €100/€100 no-limit hold'em match on the PokerRoomKings Twitch Channel. You can watch him and others compete by clicking on the Live Streaming tab in our coverage.
The Day 1e field has grown to 121 entrants with 110 players still in their seats. The average stack of the players in the field is very deep with 110 big blinds.
Among the players to double their opening stack is Slovakia's Andrej Desset with around 240,000 in chips. A good part of his stack came in a hand where he held ace-king. He chipped up in a big way after he was able to get his opponent who was holding pocket tens to get all his chips in the middle on an ace-high board.
Desset was relatively unheard of until a couple of months ago. In early April he shipped the partypoker Grand Prix Vienna Main Event for €92,530. As if that wasn't enough, a couple of weeks later he took down the partypoker Grand Prix Germany Main Event here at King's Casino for a cool €100,000.
As we reported earlier, partypoker Ambassador Natalia Breviglieri was excited about winning the Charity Event and was a bit emotional about her win meaning that the Lindsey Lodge Hospice will receive a healthy donation of €10,000.
Breviglieri shared with us that she wanted to enjoy the moment while emotions were running high, but still planned on getting into the Day 1e field of the Main Event. She kept her promise and is one of the latest players to enter today's field.
The King's Big Bang recently kicked off. The tournament offers a lofty €50,000 guaranteed prize pool for a €110 entry. Currently, there are 168 players in the field of that tournament with late registration open until the end of Level 11. Players can also re-enter up to two times during this period.
The High Roller is getting closer to the money with 20 players left in that event and 10 getting paid at least €4,000. The top prize in that tournament is €60,000. Partypoker Ambassador Anatoly Filatov entered the second and final day in the chip lead and is still king of the hill in that tournament seven hours later. You can check out our coverage here of the High Roller.
We earlier mentioned in our coverage that Germany's Timothy Weltner won his very first tournament as part of a deal he made in the PokerNews Cup Opening Event.
Also part of that deal was Matúš "Matty" Schnierer who is one of the many local Czech players that entered today's Day 1e field ready for battle.
He shared that he was "up and down" all day long and now has a stack of 75,000 chips. Schnierer also has dealt cards in the past and is now looking for his first big score. He currently has over $42,000 in live tournament cashes according to the Hendon Mob which includes many final table finishes. Most recently, he took 52nd place in the partypoker Grand Prix Germany Main Event for €1,550.
Czech Republic's Josef Antos is among the chip leaders and possibly the first player to reach at least 500,000 in chips.
He recently got into a preflop raising battle holding pocket aces against an opponent holding pocket kings. His opponent eventually declared himself all in for around 235,000 and Antos quickly called having his opponent covered by 30,000. The board ran out blanks for both players and after the hand, Antos' chip stack was five times of what he started with.
