Peter Kamaras started Day 2 the way he ended Day 1a: stacking chips. Kamaras raised to 3,600 under the gun, Gil Thierry called on the button and Do Chung Tran defended his big blind. Tran and Kamaras checked the flop to Thierry, who bet 5,600. Tran folded and Kamaras called.
On the turn, Kamaras checked, Thierry bet 9,000 and Kamaras called again. The river was the and now Kamaras elected to lead out 14,500. Thierry didn't like the situation he was in and eventually folded his hand.
Christian Amin Nofal started the day with just 4,800 chips and was just spotted moving all in for 26,000. Norbert Berent looked him up from a few seats over and the rest of the table folded.
"Tens against eights", Clyde Tjauw Foe murmured as he walked past the reporters' desk. That's all she wrote; the Dutchman quickly left the tournament area and will be back for the €2,200 High Roller later today.
Lukas Zaskodny raised on the button and a reasonably short stacked Arkadiusz Liszewski defended his big blind. On the flop, Lizweski checked and Zaskodny bet 3,500. Lizwekski check-raised to 13,600, basically committing himself to the hand. Zaskodny raised all in and Lizweksi called off around 15,000 extra.
Lukas Zaskodny:
Arkadiusz Liszewksi:
Zadkodny's pair of jacks remained ahead after the on the turn and on the river, eliminating Liszewksi in one of the first hands of the day.
On Day 1c, Martin Mulsow lost a big flip with pocket queens against ace-king and then ended the turbo heat 1d well below average after re-entering last night. Now, Mulsow faced the raise of Mykola Lakatosh and three-bet shoved in the first hand with . Lakatosh called with ace-king and the German turned a jack only to see Lakatosh fill up to a straight on the river.
"My luggage is already packed, I will play a satellite for the High Roller now and leave if I don't win the ticket," Mulsow added on his way out. He was soon followed by Andrey Andreev and Rasmus Agerskov.
The tournament director has announced the total prize pool and payouts. The total prize pool is €1,098,310, more than doubling the guarantee of €500,000. 215 players will get paid at least €1,534 for their troubles. The winner on Monday night will receive an astonishing €146,464 for outlasting them all.
There are two no-shows - players who qualified on PokerStars but didn't show up - bumping the total number of entries to 1,123.
Welcome to Day 2 of the record-setting PokerStars Festival Main Event Rozvadov! 1,121 players in total showed up on one of the four starting days, more than doubling the initial guarantee of €500,000 and surpassing the inaugural London festival's number of 944. It's also the biggest PokerStars event ever held in King's Casino. 507 of them found a way to day 2, with Peter Kamaras topping them all at 270,600. The Hungarian set the tone on Day 1a and claimed the overall chiplead as well.
The home crowd can root for Michal Mrakes, who sits in second with 264,100. Sven Weide rounds out the top 3 with 212,000. Other notables to appear on Day 1c include Team PokerStars Pro Online Randy "nanonoko" Lew (120,900) and Jaime Staples (25,700), Petr Targa (170,800), Martin Staszko (146,200), Martin Kabrhel (136,900), Cheng-Wei Yin (133,000), Ioana Silvana Apostol (117,300), Rehman Kessam (117,000), Jonas Lauck (17,100) and Hubert Matuzewski (16,900).
The action will kick off at noon local time. Today will feature 12 levels of 60 minutes and will see the field play into the money. The total prize pool and payouts will be announced shortly after the start of the day. Blinds will start at 800/1,600 with a running ante of 200. Day 3 will be held on Monday, where we will play down until a winner is crowned. Follow PokerNews throughout the day and don't miss any of the exciting action from King's Casino in Rozvadov!