The third and penultimate starting day filled the poker room of Europe's biggest card room, the King's Casino in Rozvadov, and generated a field of 333 unique players and 59 reentries. Many of those that didn't make it immediately jumped into Day 1d, which started four hours apart, while the €90+€10 King's Local Championship also saw a strong turnout with 325 entries.
After 14 levels of 30 minutes each, only 92 players bagged up for Day 1c and Italy's Giuseppe De Tomasso (534,500) won the race against table mate Tippy333 (511,000) to claim the lead. De Tomasso consistently increased his stack and also won a flip against Vasile Iuga to become a contender while Tippy333 won a big pot with kings against the ace-king suited of Erbse. Deniz Sinanmis cracked aces in a big pot and finished third with 330,000, while Slovakia's Martin Chodelka (311,500) and Johannes Hellwig (290,000) complete the top five.
Other big stacks and notables that advanced to Day 2 include Sergei Matveev (250,000), Andrej Dikos (191,500), Antonín Felfel (145,000), Thomas Zurek (132,000), and Patrick Wolff (104,000). Among those to fall were Daniela Jäger, Claudia and Roman Volf, Scott Hanna, David Taborsky, Elena Litvinyuk, Karol Radomski and Antonio Quarta.
Even before the registration of the fourth and final starting day was closed, the guaranteed prize pool of €200,000 had been eclipsed and more than 1,000 entries were recorded. The final numbers will be available as soon as the chip counts for Day 1d become available and the payouts will be released prior to the start of Day 2 tomorrow at 1 p.m. local time as well.
Deniz Sinanmis raised to 5,100 and a short stack called from two seats over. Nicolas [Removed:361] then three-bet to 15,000 and Sinanmis four-bet to 38,000. The short stack folded and later said in table chat he folded queens. [Removed:361] moved all in for more than 90,000 and Sinanmis called it off with the superior stack.
[Removed:361]:
Sinanmis:
The flop of improved Sinanmis to a set of kings and he made a full house on the turn, the river sent [Removed:361] to the rail.
Daniela Jäger raised to 4,000 and Giuseppe De Tomasso called in the small blind before Vasile Iuga three-bet to 15,000 out of the big blind with around 25,000 behind. Jäger folded, but De Tomasso moved all in and Iuga called.
Iuga:
De Tomasso:
The board ran out and the pair of sixes held for the Italian.
Johannes Hellwig defended his big blind against the raise of Angelo Pugliese and check-called two streets on the board before moving all in for his last 16,875 on the river. Pugliese snap-called with pocket queens, but Hellwig showed for a straight.
One hand later, Patrick Wolff limped in and the player from one seat over raised to 3,000. Hellwig made it 11,400 to go in the small blind and just the cold-caller paid. On the flop, Hellwig bet 16,500 and was called before moving all in after the turn.
Some table talk emerged and the opponent asked "queens no good?" before then folding. Hellwig showed him and the rush in two hands got him up to almost double the average.
In two consecutive hands, Patrick Wolff and Jacek Pustula were active and both won one each to boost their respective stacks. Wolff had started on the very same table and busted, but reentered and got drawn to the same table and different seat.
Hand 1:
Pustula raised to 1,600 from under the gun and picked up four callers. On the flop all checked. The small blind bet the turn for 2,600 and Pustula called, as did Wolff. After the river, the small blind checked and Pustula forced two folds by betting 7,500.
Hand 2:
Sandro Pitzanti raised and picked up several callers including Wolff in the hijack and Pustula in the big blind. The flop of was checked to Wolff and he bet 10,000. Only Pitzanti called and checked again the turn. Wolff bet another 10,000 and was called before the very same action took place on the river. Wolff showed for a turned full house and scooped the pot.
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In 90 minutes from now at 1 p.m. local time, Europe's biggest card room, the King's Casino in Rozvadov once again welcomes players from near and far for the €225+€25 PokerNews Cup Main Event. Today provides two starting days, as Day 1c gets underway at 1 p.m. local time and Day 1d is scheduled for 5 p.m. later in the afternoon. The highlight of the festival boasts a guaranteed prize pool of €200,000, providing perfect value for players with a limited budget.
The King's Casino has also added another Turbo Satellite that kicked off half an hour ago and more than 100 players were already registered to take advantage of the 10-seat guarantee. In the Main Event, all participants will receive a total of 30,000 chips and 14 levels of 30 minutes each will be played.
The late registration and reentry period in each flight remains open until the end of level 11, during that time everyone can also purchase a single reentry per starting day as well. Day 1c will conclude at approximately 9 p.m. whereas Day 1d bags and tags at 1 a.m. in the early morning.
Thus far, a field of 347 entries has emerged so far throughout two starting days, of which 70 advanced to Day 2 tomorrow as of 1 p.m. local time. Two other Side Events played down to a winner yesterday also. Main Event Day 1a chip leader Ronny Voth won the €100+€10 Pot-Limit Omaha Event and Olle Icke, who also bagged up chips on the first starting flight, took down the Ticket & Ca$h tournament. The event drew 190 entries and 20 players cashed, all of them received an entry to the Main Event.
Make sure to tune back in regularly to follow the updates of the PokerNews live updates team to find out who lifts the trophy on Monday.
improved Sinanmis to a set of kings and he made a full house on the 
turn, the 
river sent [Removed:361] to the rail.
and the pair of sixes held for the Italian.
board before moving all in for his last 16,875 on the river. Pugliese snap-called with pocket queens, but Hellwig showed 
flop, Hellwig bet 16,500 and was called before moving all in after the 
turn.
flop all checked. The small blind bet the 
turn for 2,600 and Pustula called, as did Wolff. After the 
was checked to Wolff and he bet 10,000. Only Pitzanti called and checked again the 
for a turned full house and scooped the pot.
