Table 93 is ready for action with two big stacks on the table. Both Netherland's Hermanus van Beek and Denmark's Thomas Pedersen appear to be continuing where they left off on Day 1 building their stacks to 550,000 each.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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Australian backpacker has been trying to finance his trip around Europe through playing in poker events. He was dreaming of winning the event for the top prize of €37,229 so he could continue traveling until his heart was content and still have a few bucks left over.
Unfortunately for Murray, he exited the tournament before the money. The Aussie started the bustout hand with seven big blinds and play folding around to him. He jammed 
and was unable for his hand to hold against his opponent's 
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Lewis Murray, who cashed in the Opening Event, displayed solid play throughout the Main Event and the PokerNews Cup side events. We hope to see more of him in other tournaments where he hopes to have better success.
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The tournament director Michael Pipta, who has been very helpful to us and the players throughout the PokerNews Cup Main Event, just informed us that play will continue during Day 2 the sooner of the tournament reaching the final 16 players or 27 blinds levels are in the books. Since the Day began on Level 15, it is possible that there will be 13 levels of play today.
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As is often the case on Day 2, players have been busting out in quick fashion. The field has been reduced to 113 from the 190 that started play today with two blind levels in the books.
Level: 17
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 1,000
Janja proves to be a fierce competitor on the felts, however, unfortunately for her she has exited the tournament before the money bubble. Known to wear her emotions on her sleeve while playing, she entered all four opening flights, making it to the final level in two of them before busting out of the flight.
Yesterday, however, she was able to make it through to Day 2. However, fate was not on her side today, as she got it all in with 
and hit top pair on the flop. Her opponent who was holding 
was already congratulating her on the double up. However, as often is the case, celebrations happened to early, and a hit the turn to send Janja to the rail.
Maybe she will have better luck later today as she told us she plans to enters the PokerNews Cup Hunt Bounty tournament at 17:00 CET. We have heard others today say they were looking forward to including Przemyslav Omylak, who was part of the five-way deal in the PokerNews Cup Opening Event.
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Yesterday evening Gerhard Böck was upset that he was down to 60,000 chips near the end of the night after he went all-in with pocket queens and lost against his opponent's .
Today he is off to a better start as he got it all-in with a set with 
on a 
flop, and got a called from his opponent's . His opponent was unable to get runner-runner outs to hit the board, and Böck now has a slightly below average stack of 150,000 chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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150,000 | 82,500 |
Romania's Dan Hila has been hitting King's Casino hard for over a month. He shared with us earlier in the week that after the PokerNews Cup he was likely heading to Prague for some of the action there during the Prague Poker Festival.
Hila was among the latest batch of players to exit the tournament, however, we may see him in the €200 buy-in PokerNews Bounty Hunt kicking off at 17:00 local time.
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One of the most famous players on Day 2 is Marek Blasko. The Slovakian is third in the all-time money list in his country and already has in his career $505,331 win at live tournaments.
He has a good chance to add to his career total in the PokerNews Cup Main Event in Rozvadov as he started Day 2 well positioned with 241,000 chips. However, a few minutes ago his stack took a dent after he gave up on a big pot on the river.
Day 1B chip leader, Germany's Jens Dengler raised preflop to 15,000 from under the gun and only the Blasko called from the big blind. On a flop of 
, Dengler fired without hesitation a continuation bet of 18,000 and got the call from Blasko. Dengler fired again when the 
hit the turn, this time for 36,000.
After Blasko called, Dengler fired the third bullet of 60,000 chips when the 
filled out the board. Blasko pondered long, while studying his opponent and finally threw away his hand.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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475,000 | 63,000 |
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