Waldemar Kopyl Leads 45 Advancing From Final PokerNews Cup Starting Flight

The poker playing public of Rozvadov saved the best until last with 228 players entering the final flight of this year's €250 PokerNews Cup Main Event. This brought the total number of entrants to 617, a slight dip on last year's number.

With two flights in the same day there were a number of familiar faces across both flights, with the likes of Mike Hansen, chiKKita banAAna, Olaf and Magic Man 558 featuring in both starting flights.

After 15 levels, the leader of the 45 players from the final starting flight going into Day 2 is Waldemar Kopyl with 482,500. Close behind him is Rifat Gegic with 461,000.

Kopyl began to amass chips in earnest in the final levels of the day, getting it in with a flush draw against a straight draw, only for his flush draw to come in on the turn. He also later went on to flop a set of sevens against the top pair of a third player in a pot worth well over 300,000 in chips.

There are a bunch of players hovering at just under 300,000, including Tezer Cetindag (293,500), Peter Muller (276,000), Paul van Alst (266,500), Holger Bansner (272,400) and Zurab Ejibia (282,500). They will be looking for a strong start to Day 2 to kick on to challenge among the Day 1 chipleaders.

Here are the details of the chip leaders from all Day 1 flights:

Day	Entries	Chip Leader	Country	Chip Count
1A	15/87	Vytautas Milbutas	Lithuania	696,000
1B	18/106	Paulius Katinas	Lithuania	546,000
1C	38/196	Markus Fritsche	Germany	422,500
1D	45/228	Waldemar Kopyl	Germany	482,500

Other stacks advancing from Day 1D include Roman Cieslik (81,500), Timothy Waltner (101,500), Khossrow Paydar (52,000), and chiKKita banAAna (77,500).

In a strange perk of this tournament, David Taborsky (191,000) bagged up for the second time in this tournament after bagging 101,000 in Day 1C. It is unclear how many players exactly did the same thing has him, but he has the opportunity to take his best stack forward.

In total there will be 114 players advancing to Day 2 which will be covered live on PokerNews tomorrow as of 1 p.m. local time. Before the restart, the details of how many players will cash will be released and action recommences in level 16 at blinds of 2,500/5,000 with a running ante of 500.

Day 2 Seat Draw

Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
79	1	Markus Fritsche	Germany	422,500	85
79	2	Ömer Sahin	Germany	212,000	42
79	3	Yordy Bakker	Netherlands	127,500	26
79	4	Eimantas Navickas	Lithuania	90,500	18
79	5	Wolfgang Jeindl	Austria	237,500	48
79	6	Krzysztof Misiura	Germany	79,500	16
79	7	Oldrich Travnicek	Czech Republic	131,000	26
79	8	Jean Bellance	France	92,500	19

83	1	Roman Cieslik	Germany	81,500	16
83	2	Michal Riczak	Czech Republic	97,000	19
83	3	Ali-BabaSVK	Slovakia	150,000	30
83	4	Darius Liesis	Lithuania	155,000	31
83	5	Igor Derevianko	Lithuania	45,500	9
83	6	Alexander Weel	Germany	114,000	23
83	7	Mario Heissmann	Austria	88,000	18
83	8	Vytautas Milbutas	Lithuania	696,000	139

84	1	Josef Steiner	Germany	136,500	27
84	2	Jens Steuber	Germany	109,500	22
84	3	Ronald Mielenski	Germany	108,000	22
84	4	Martin Kluckner	Austria	143,000	29
84	5	Christian Berentzen	Denmark	184,500	37
84	6	Przemyslaw Misztela	Poland	59,500	12
84	7	JOBBI	Germany	240,000	48
84	8	[Removed:401]	France	108,000	22

85	1	Christophe Simonis	Belgium	97,000	19
85	2	Mickey Koomen	Netherlands	184,000	37
85	3	Rytas Staniukynas	Lithuania	51,000	10
85	4	Bertram Bechtold	Germany	106,000	21
85	5	Nadir Aslan	Germany	120,000	24
85	6	BigKing777	Germany	280,000	56
85	7	Vorderer	Germany	155,500	31
85	8	Dmytro Nesin	Ukraine	300,000	60

89	1	Paul van Alst	Netherlands	266,500	53
89	2	Philipp Zukernik	Canada	153,500	31
89	3	Paolo Madaudo	Germany	96,000	19
89	4	Bariskaan Cinitas	Turkey	475,000	95
89	5	Jonathan Morlet	Belgium	92,500	19
89	6	Stefan Schmidt	Germany	14,000	3
89	7	Goga 27	Germany	72,000	14
89	8	William Oberst	Germany	283,000	57

90	1	Roman Tvrzník	Czech Republic	146,000	29
90	2	Tezer Cetindag	Germany	293,500	59
90	3	Khossrow Paydar	Denmark	52,000	10
90	4	Vadim Taller	Germany	103,000	21
90	5	Kristijan Sopta	Croatia	105,000	21
90	6	Cenk Oguz	Belgium	135,000	27
90	7	augene	Lithuania	78,500	16
90	8	Sebastien Le Port	France	112,500	23

91	1	Benjamin Benoit	France	239,500	48
91	2	Daniel Wuyts	Belgium	133,000	27
91	3	LuckyRocky	Germany	183,500	37
91	4	DUPLO	Germany	118,000	24
91	5	Uta Kemularia	Georgia	102,500	21
91	6	Action Man	Germany	146,000	29
91	7	Paulina Rimkute	Lithuania	108,500	22
91	8	Barrelnbink	Germany	232,500	47

95	1	Paulius Katinas	Lithuania	546,000	109
95	2	Daniel Novak	Slovakia	101,000	20
95	3	Waldemar Eckstein	Germany	67,000	13
95	4	Güney Ardil	Germany	102,000	20
95	5	Lukas Klima	Czech Republic	79,500	16
95	6	Irakli Kemularia	Georgia	176,500	35
95	7	Arnas Vaškeviciu	Germany	174,500	35
95	8	Timur Caglan	Germany	354,500	71

96	1	Karlovarsky Kral	Czech Republic	165,000	33
96	2	Uwe Klos	Germany	88,000	18
96	3	Rene Selbst	Germany	99,000	20
96	4	Onur Kazgan	Turkey	169,500	34
96	5	Johann Jupek	Germany	118,500	24
96	6	Martin Greizinger	Czech Republic	65,500	13
96	7	Zurab Ejibia	Georgia	282,500	57
96	8	Andrey Yakovlev	Israel	150,500	30

97	1	Martin Kabrhel	Czech Republic	328,000	66
97	2	Sebastian Langrock	Austria	114,000	23
97	4	Filip Marsalek	Slovakia	58,000	12
97	5	David Taborsky	Czech Republic	191,000	38
97	6	Waldemar Kopyl	Germany	482,500	97
97	7	Matous Skorepa	Czech Republic	174,500	35
97	8	Manuel Helgert	Germany	97,500	20

101	1	Maciej Kondraszuk	Poland	142,500	29
101	2	Rokas Barzdzius	Lithuania	88,000	18
101	3	Jonathan Dartevelle	Belgium	125,500	25
101	4	Olaf	Czech Republic	99,500	20
101	5	Rifat Gegic	Germany	461,000	92
101	6	Karl-Heinz Metz	Germany	121,000	24
101	8	Petteri Voutilainen	Finland	107,500	22

102	1	Deividas Ciakas	Lithuania	32,000	6
102	2	Holger Bansner	Germany	272,500	55
102	3	Jaroslav Mandik	Czech Republic	189,500	38
102	4	chiKKita banAAna	Germany	77,500	16
102	5	Ronald Van De Linde	Netherlands	23,000	5
102	6	Yaron Kuznik	Israel	100,000	20
102	8	Peter Müller	Austria	276,000	55

103	2	Mi**Zocky	Germany	175,000	35
103	3	Remi Blanc	France	65,500	13
103	4	Timothy Weltner	Germany	101,500	20
103	5	Benas Kuzmickas	Lithuania	64,500	13
103	6	Petr Susta	Czech Republic	56,500	11
103	7	Gintautas Strioga	Norway	344,000	69
103	8	Michael Lender	Denmark	98,000	20

107	1	Karol Radomski	Poland	152,500	31
107	2	Marek Blasko	Slovakia	325,500	65
107	3	Jörg Kunz	Germany	297,000	59
107	4	Nerijus Luksa	Norway	46,000	9
107	5	Mindaugas Miknevičius	Lithuania	66,500	13
107	6	Oluf Velbaek	Denmark	175,500	35
107	7	Airidas Stažys	Lithuania	90,000	18

108	1	Johan Groot	Netherlands	160,500	32
108	3	Edgaras Pipine	Latvia	96,500	19
108	4	Wolfgang Grassl	Germany	161,000	32
108	5	Onkel Otto	Germany	218,000	44
108	6	Willem de Jong	Netherlands	200,000	40
108	7	Bouabdellah Karoui	France	250,000	50
108	8	Michael Hill	Austria	97,500	20