Main Event
Day 1c Completed
2017 PokerNews Cup King's Casino Rozvadov
Main Event
Day: 1c
Fritsche Bags the Most on Day 1c; Kabrhel Among Big Stacks
Level 15
: 2,000/4,000, 500 ante
The third and penultimate starting day of the 2017 PokerNews Cup Rozvadov €250 Main Event at the King's Casino attracted a field of 196 entries in total, of which 38 advanced to Day 2 to join the 33 survivors of the previous two flights. Bagging up the most chips after 15 levels of 30 minutes each was Germany's Markus Fritsche (422,500), followed by Gintautas Strioga (344,000) and Martin Kabrhel (328,000).
TonyBet online qualifier Dmytro Nesin (300,000) was among those to get through with a big stack as well, along with Bouabdellah Karoui (250,000), Onkel Otto (218,000) and Willem de Jong (200,000). Other notables through to Day 2 via the penultimate flight include Matous Skorepa (174,500), Karol Radomski (152,500) and 2017 World Series of Poker bracelet winner Sebastian Langrock (114,000).
Fritsche vaulted into the top spot in the second-last level of the night when he scored a big double with pocket jacks against the ace-ten of Asmo Votkin, who flopped top pair. Votkin busted soon after against Gintautas Strioga and the Norwegian made the headlines prior to that with two double eliminations within quick succession. First he sent Jiri Kotvas and Cenk Oguz to the rail with flopped set versus straight versus flush draw when pairing up on the turn, before his nines held up against the pocket threes of Petr Kotik and the ace-king of Elena Litvinyuk.
Martin Kabrhel registered late and busted on his first bullet, the second bullet lasted all but a few minutes before the third attempt was a charm. The Czech version of William Kassouf, well known for his very active approach of speech play, doubled through Marian Uharcek with ace-king versus ace-jack and took the remaining chips right after with queens versus ace-five.
Among those to take a shot and bust throughout the day were King's Casino regulars Magic Man 558 and chiKKita banAAna, Ronald Van De Linde, Petr Targa, Igor Salomasov, Milan Topoly, and Michal Riczak with three bullets. Many of them jumped right into Day 1d, which wraps up later tonight.
The PokerNews live reporting team will provide all the action from the floor along with the full chip counts and seat draw for Day 2 as of 1 p.m. local time on Sunday August 20th 2017.
End-Of-Day Chip Counts (full)
Level 15
: 2,000/4,000, 500 ante
The full chip counts will be published when PokerNews receives them and a recap of today's action is to follow.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
422,500 | 91,500 |
|
344,000 | -1,000 |
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328,000 | 18,000 |
|
300,000 | 20,000 |
|
283,000 | 283,000 |
|
250,000 | |
|
218,000 | |
|
200,000 | 95,000 |
|
189,500 | 52,500 |
|
184,500 | 17,500 |
|
174,500 | -15,500 |
|
169,500 | 22,500 |
|
165,000 | 10,000 |
|
160,500 | -14,500 |
|
155,000 | 155,000 |
|
152,500 | 22,500 |
|
150,000 | 10,000 |
|
142,500 | 142,500 |
|
136,500 | 136,500 |
|
133,000 | 23,000 |
|
131,000 | -4,000 |
|
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127,500 | 37,500 |
|
114,000 | 44,000 |
|
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112,500 | 112,500 |
|
106,000 | -21,000 |
Koychev Busts in a Flip
Level 15
: 2,000/4,000, 500 ante
Koycho Koychev raised to 15,000 and Onkel Otto called before Bouabdellah Karoui moved all in. Koychev called and Onkel Otto folded, then said in table chat he folded pocket jacks.
Koycho Koychev: 
Bouabdellah Karoui: 
The board came 
and Koycho banged on the table before heading to the rail.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
250,000 | 250,000 |
|
|
218,000 | -52,000 |
|
Busted |
A Double for Ali-BabaSVK
Level 15
: 2,000/4,000, 500 ante
After a raise and a call by Martin Kabrhel in the cutoff, Ali-BabaSVK moved all in from the button and David Taborsky as initial raiser called. Kabrhel folded and the cards were tabled.
Ali-BabaSVK: 
David Taborsky:
The board came 
and the Slovakian doubled.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
310,000 | 45,000 |
|
|
140,000 | 20,000 |
|
100,000 | -40,000 |
Four More Hands
Level 15
: 2,000/4,000, 500 ante
Tournament officials have announced that in Day 1C there will be four more hands before players bag up for the night.
Berentzen Beneficiary of Quadruple All-In
Level 15
: 2,000/4,000, 500 ante
Christian Berentzen: 
Oldrich Travnicek: 
Julius Wuyts: 
Player 4: 
Four players were all in with an unknown player with the shortest stack at risk but ahead.
The board ran out 
meaning Christian Berentzen hit his nine to more than triple up. Travnicek won the sidepot against Wuyts who was left with still over 100,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
167,000 | |
|
|
135,000 | 55,000 |
|
|
110,000 | -90,000 |
Hanykýr and Cetindag Eliminated
Level 15
: 2,000/4,000, 500 ante
Karel Hanykýr was all in and at risk for 34,000 and initial raiser Matous Skorepa called.
Karel Hanykýr: 
Matous Skorepa: 
The board came 
and the queen on the turn was immediately followed by a four on the river to see the Czech bow out.
The very next hand, Tezer Cetindag got his stack in with 
and Yordy Bakker looked him up with the 
and superior stack. After a board of 
, the Dutchman got there on the turn.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
190,000 | 40,000 |
|
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90,000 | -10,000 |
|
|
Busted | |
|
Busted |
The Big Clean Up
Level 15
: 2,000/4,000, 500 ante
All the below players have been eliminated and currently take another shot in Day 1d, with updates kicking off after Day 1c wraps up.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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|
Busted | |
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|
Busted | |
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Busted | |
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|
Busted | |
|
Busted | |
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|
Busted | |
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|
Busted | |
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Busted | |
|
Busted | |
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Busted | |
|
Busted |
Level: 15
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 500