Welcome to the second flight of the 2017 PokerNews Cup coming from the newly-renovated King's Casino in Rozvadov. Yesterday saw 87 players take to their seats for the first flight, and today gives player's their second opportunity of four to secure entry into Day 2 of this tournament and a shot at securing a slice of the €200,000 guarantee.
Entry costs €250 and players will each receive 30,000 chips when play gets underway at 5p.m. local time. Each player will have the 696,000 chip stack of Lithuanian player and Day 1A chipleader Vytautas Milbutas in mind as a goal for them to get close to or even surpass.
Day 1B consists of 15 levels of 30-minutes and the structure is as follows:
Level
Duration
Small Blind
Big Blind
Ante
1
30
50
100
2
30
75
150
3
30
100
200
25
4
30
150
300
50
5
30
200
400
50
6
30
250
500
75
7
30
300
600
100
8
30
400
800
100
9
30
500
1,000
100
10
30
600
1,200
200
11
30
800
1,600
200
12
30
1,000
2,000
300
13
30
1,200
2,400
400
14
30
1,500
3,000
500
15
30
2,000
4,000
500
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Airidas Stažys and Paul van Alst got into a raising war and the former clicked it up to 10,000 before van Alst reshoved with the slightly inferior stack. Stažys quickly called and the cards were tabled.
Paul van Alst:
Airidas Stažys:
The board came and van Alst improved to a full house to double for massive 42,625. He left Stažys with just 3,000 and the Lithuanian busted shortly after to become the second casualty of Day 1b.
Irakli Kemularia limped from under the gun. In the next position Rytas Staniukynas raised to 800 and in the next position after that Timo Rauschenbach three-bet to 2,200.
The player on the button, as well as the players in the small and big blind both called, before Kemularia moved all in for 31,300. Staniukynas moved all in for 45,000 and Rauschenbach moved all in for around 20,000. The remaining three players folded and the cards were turned over.
Kemularia:
Staniukynas:
Rauschenbach:
"One time," said Rauschenbach, but it was Kemularia who was looking the most excited after the flop came meaning he was open ended.
The turn was the giving Kemularia the straight and leaving Rauschenbach drawing dead. Staniukynas could hit a jack to steal the pot away from Kemularia, but the river was the meaning Kemularia more than doubled up, eliminating Rauschenbach in the process.
Mike Hansen dominated his table and saw the departure of Ema Brazauskaite, while the Dane then took care of Vadim Taller. With plenty of chips already in the pot, 25,000 to be exact, and the flop showing , Hansen bet 8,500. Taller moved all in for little more and Martin Greizinger folded.
"I call," Hansen said and quickly announced the nut straight, tabling . Taller had and had some chop outs, before picking up further outs with the turn. However, the on the river improved Hansen to a straight flush and he dispatched his opponent in style.
Sarunas Linkius has also been eliminated on a different table.
Edgaras Pipine and Karol Radomski were eliminated in quick succession and Maciej Kondraszuk sent his stack over to Marek Blasko.
Then, a three-way flop of emerged and a player bet 3,300. Willem de Jong moved all in for 13,225 from the cutoff and Manfred Komling called on the button. Roman Tvrzník reraised all in and forced folds from all opponents.
Willem de Jong:
Roman Tvrzník:
"Queen on the river!" the Dutchman demanded, but both the turn and river were blanks to send de Jong to the rail as well.
The stack of Christopher Bock vanished when he had an unfortunate timing to improve to a straight with on a board of . The te-high straight was no good, as big stack Marek Lux turned over for the nut straight and that sent Bock to the rail.
Right after, Lux won another bigger pot with for top pair and Marketa Veisova lost the remainder of her short stack on a different table.
A player in middle position raised to 2,400 and Petteri Voutilainen called on the button. Timur Caglan, who won this event last year, defended his big blind and the three players saw a flop.
The flop came and all three players checked. The turn was the . Caglan bet 3,500 and the initial raiser folded. Voutilainen called.
The river was the and Caglan bet 6,500 and his opponent called.
Caglan showed for a full house and Voutilainen let a wry smile play on his lips before mucking.
"I sucked out on him, I sucked out like four or five times today," Timur Caglan said. The 2016 PokerNews Cup Rozvadov champion referred to a showdown against former chip leader Marek Lux and just added that he had the worse kicker but improved to two pair.
Mike Hansen has also been eliminated. The Dane shoved a flop of with and Michal Riczak called with . The turn and river were both blanks and Hansen was gone.
Last but not least, Lazer Gjergji was all in for 47,400 on the flop and showed . Marek Blasko had flopped a set of sixes, but the turn and river gave Gjergji the better hand. "Well played," Blasko added with a dry smile on the face.
Petteri Voutilainen open-shoved for his last 27,200 from the hijack. Rokas Barzdzius was in the cutoff and he also moved all in for 35,000. The remaining players all folded and the cards were turned over.
Voutilainen:
Barzdzius:
Barzdzius was shaking his head on the flop after it came giving his opponent a set. Even though he paired his king on the turn, he was drawing dead. The river was the and he was left with fumes.
and van Alst improved to a full house to double for massive 42,625. He left Stažys with just 3,000 and the Lithuanian busted shortly after to become the second casualty of Day 1b.
giving Kemularia the straight and leaving Rauschenbach drawing dead. Staniukynas could hit a jack to steal the pot away from Kemularia, but the river was the 
meaning Kemularia more than doubled up, eliminating Rauschenbach in the process.
, Hansen bet 8,500. Taller moved all in for little more and Martin Greizinger folded.
on the river improved Hansen to a straight flush and he dispatched his opponent in style.
turn and 
river were blanks to send de Jong to the rail as well.
on a board of 
for the nut straight and that sent Bock to the rail.
for a full house and Voutilainen let a wry smile play on his lips before mucking.
turn and 
river were both blanks and Hansen was gone.
flop and showed 
