The head of the Simpsons household at King's Casino, otherwise known under the alias as "Homer Simpson", has been quiet most of the day until recently. Fortunately for him, after this hand went down he should be safe for a little while from going home to Marge and the children.
We caught up to the action when the pot was already big when "Homer Simpson" shoved his remaining 14,800 chips on a board of . His opponent tanked for a few minutes before time was called. His opponent then called and was disappointed that his was no match for Simpson's .
"Janja" just stepped out for a cigarette break, and we caught up with the Italian poker player to see how her day was going. "My stack keeps going from 40k to 20k to 40k to 20k."
After just losing a small hand, "Janja" is now at around 27,000 chips. She shared with us that if she busts she will enter again on another day. So regardless of how today turns out, we should see some more action from of "Janja" for at least another day.
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Our hero from yesterday, Germany's Timothy Weltner was down to around 12,000 chips on his second entry of the day as of about 25 minutes ago. His fortunes have seemed to turned as he now has around 42,000 chips.
Weltner smiled at us while letting us know that nothing eventful took place and was just silently rebuilding his stack.
While the PokerNews Cup Main Event is a low buy-in affair for just €250, due to the generous €200,000 guaranteed prize pool some well-known players are in attendance.
Russia's Anna Yamshchikova has close to $78,000 in live tournament cashes to her name according to The Hendon Mob, and if Day 1A of the Main Event is any indication, she will likely add to this figure.
Yamschchikova has won many small pots and is a force to be reckoned with due to her ever growing 115,000 chip stack.
The field has grown on Day 1A to 90 players. Currently there are 63 players according to the big board still in contention to end the day with chips and make their way to Day 2 on Sunday.
Elena Litvinyuk has been doing damage lately, and now has nearly 90,000 chips after taking a couple of her opponents out. She shared with us that while there was no memorable hand, that she is winning many pots and quietly making her case to potentially be the Day 1A chip leader.
We just heard that in Vilnius, Lithuania there is currently 3,000+ police officers on a manhunt for a armed man. However, at King's Casino, Lithuania's Tomas Steponkus is arming himself with a plethora of chips and now has a stack of around 100,000.
Steponkus just won one of the biggest pots thus far today to propel himself among the chip leaders in the tournament. After calling a 27,000 chip bet of one of his opponents on a board.
A huge pot was sent his way after the cards were turned over with his opponent bluffing with and Steponkus making a nice hero- call with .
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