Main Event
Day 1b Started
2015 PokerNews Cup King's Casino Rozvadov
Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 1b
2015 PokerNews Cup King's Casino Rozvadov
Buy-in
€250
Entries
820
Level
25
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
10,000
Welcome to Day 1B of the 2015 PokerNews Cup
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.
Level: 1
Blinds: 50/100
Ante: 0
Shuffle Up and Deal
Level 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
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.
Lewis Murray is Back
Level 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
Australia's Lewis Murray is back in the action after yesterday thinking he would head to Prague and just an hour ago telling us he was likely to play in the Pot Limit Omaha side event.
Murray told us that, "I change my mind every second." This could be good when traveling without a complete agenda, and may prove good for him in the PokerNews Cup Main Event if he builds a stack today.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
30,000 | 30,000 |
100 Players Already Entered in Day 1B
Level 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
We mentioned earlier that today would be bigger than yesterday. Already 20 minutes into the tournament, we have 100 entrants in Day 1B, which is two more than the 98 we witnessed yesterday for Day 1A.
The field will likely continue to grow with late registration remaining open through the end of blind level 10.
PokerNews Cup Regular Karl-Heinz Metz in Attendance
Level 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
Karl-Heinz Metz has been one of the regulars at the PokerNews Cup. In eight years since the PokerNews Cup has been running, Metz has attended six times including in Australia, Saalbach-Hinterglem, Salzburg, Vienna and here at the Kings Casino in Rozvadov.
Metz cashed in the PokerNews Cup Main Event in October 2014 at the Montesino Pokertainment Centre in Vienna when he took 39th place for €510.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
30,000 | 30,000 |
Level: 2
Blinds: 75/150
Ante: 0
Online Qualifer Inna Ohorodnyk
Level 2
: 75/150, 0 ante
Inna Ohorodnyk is seated right next to the Australian traveler Lewis Murray. We learned that Ohorodnyk yesterday, we learned she lives in Ukraine and qualified into the event via an online qualifier run by our friends at partypoker.
She traveled here yesterday with a friend who also plans to play in the event.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
30,000 |
Wansa Trensch Among the Day 1A Players to Re-enter Today
Level 2
: 75/150, 0 ante
We noticed a few players around the room who entered yesterday in Day 1A and are back hoping to make it to Day 2 via today's action instead.
Thailand's Wansa Trensch is one such player. She currently lives in Germany, so her trek to King's Casino wasn't nearly as far as Aussie Lewis Murray.
So far we have players from three continents in Europe, Asia, and Australia. We wouldn't be surprised to learn by the time late registration closes during the last flight that there are representatives from more far-away places.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted |