The tournament director just asked the dealers to shuffle up and deal. The turnout today for Day 1B of the €200,000 Guaranteed PokerNews Cup Main Event will likely be bigger than yesterday with already 64 entrants in the field.
Level: 1
Blinds: 50/100
Ante: 0
The second starting day of the €250 buy-in PokerNews Cup Main Event at the King's Casino in Rozvadov, Czech Republic is scheduled to get underway in half an hour from now at 17:00 local time. In yesterday's first flight, 98 entries were generated with 19 survivors making it through to Day 2. The two Lithuanian players to enter the tournament, Rytas Staniukynas (446,000 chips) and Tomas Steponkus (339,500 chips) currently hold the top two spots after Day 1A.
As it is a Friday night, we expect more players to enter in this flight to compete for the at least €200,000 guaranteed prize pool.
Also on today's schedule is a €35 buy-in Mega Satellite to the Main Event which started at 13:00 CET and awarded 11 seats - three more than the eight guaranteed. Additionally, the €100 buy-in PokerNews Cup Pot Limit Omaha 1 x Rebuy or AO event just kicked off at 16:00 CET which features a €10,000 prize pool, and later in the evening at 19:00 CET there will be the €50 buy-in King's Hold'em Adventure NLH event with €10,000 guarantee.
We bumped into Australian traveler and poker enthusiast Lewis Murray at the buffet, and after busting out of the satellite he told us that he plans to join in on the Pot Limit Omaha tournament. He told us he decided to stay at King's Casino instead of heading to Prague as originally planned stating, "I am not going to be such a nit." He also shared with us that he will be playing again tomorrow in the Main Event in Day 1C.
The winner of the PokerNews Cup Opening Event Timothy Weltner was also spotted at the buffet and shared with us he plans to play the €50 buy-in event. Weltner was one of the day 1A survivors with 102,500 chips.
Players will be able to re-enter today one time if they bust out. Additionally, players that busted yesterday can enter up to two times today. King's Casino will also allow players that finished yesterday with a short-stack to forfeit their chips and start fresh on any of the opening days if they so choose.
Main Event
Day 1b Started
