2019 PokerNews Cup Casino Finix

Main Event
Day: 1cd
Event Info

2019 PokerNews Cup Casino Finix

Final Results
Winner
Prize
€18,450
Event Info
Buy-in
€550
Prize Pool
€100,000
Entries
141
Level Info
Level
26
Blinds
25,000 / 50,000
Ante
50,000

Welcome to the Final Two Opening Flights of the PokerNews Cup Kulata Main Event

PokerNews Cup
PokerNews Cup

Welcome to the final two opening flights of the PokerNews Cup Main Event at Finix Casino. The action for Day 1c kicks off at 1 p.m. EEST followed by the turbo-charged Day 1d six hours later at 7 p.m. EEST.

Players will be competing for at least a share of €100,000 guaranteed for a €550 buy-in or less if they qualified online or through one of the many €60 live satellites running at Finix Casino. One of the players that qualified via a live satellite is PokerNews Global Live Reporting Manager Yori Epskamp from the Netherlands.

There will be plenty of opportunities for players to build a monster stack starting off with 50,000 in chips and unlimited reentries permitted during each of the four opening flights on May 15-17. The first three flights, including today's Day 1c, feature 30-minute blind levels. The final Day 1d flight will be fast-paced with 15-minute blind levels.

The action for each opening flight continues until just 15 percent of the field remains, at which time all players will already be in the money. Players that successfully bag chips on Day 1 will battle it out in a deeper structure of 40-minute blind levels on May 18-19 until is crowned.

Here is a look at today's structure with breaks taking place after every four blind levels.

LevelSmall BlindBig BlindBig Blind Ante
150100 
275150 
3100200 
4150300300
5200400400
6200500500
7300600600
8400800800
95001,0001,000
106001,2001,200
118001,6001,600
121,0002,0002,000
131,0002,5002,500
141,5003,0003,000
152,0004,0004,000
162,5005,0005,000
173,0006,0006,000
184,0008,0008,000
195,00010,00010,000
206,00012,00012,000

Rosen Simeonov bagged a tournament-leading 640,000 in chips on Day 1a, just ahead of Marian Ivanov, who bagged 580,000 chips on Day 1a. On there heels are Christina Orfanidou (Day 1a - 324,000), Vasileios Gkogkas (Day 2 - 229,000), and Andreas Chalkiadakis (Day 1b - 204,000).

Rosen Simeonov
Rosen Simeonov

Stay tuned at PokerNews as we bring you the biggest hands and highlights of the PokerNews Cup at Finix Casino.

*Images courtesy of Katerina Lukina

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