Day 1b of The Big Wrap Kicks Off at 4PM!
In one hour from now the second and final live starting day of the 2019 The Big Wrap kicks off at King's Casino and Resort in Rozvadov near the border to Germany. The tournament comes with a price tag of €2,350 and a guaranteed prize pool of €1,000,000, which certainly gathers the attention of four-card poker lovers from near and far to showcase their Pot-Limit Omaha (PLO) skills at the tables.
The first live Day 1 attracted a field of 128 players and 52 hopefuls punched their tickets last night. On top of that, 10 players out of 20 entries also claimed a stack to their name on the virtual felt via event co-sponsor partypoker. Anton Morgenstern topped the online Day 1 with an impressive stack of 535,000 and he sits in third place behind Day 1a chip leader Sergey Verkhoturov (1,070,000) and Didier Rabl (726,000).
Whether or not anyone will be able to turn their 100,000 starting stack into more than that remains to be seen in the hours to come as the second flight is scheduled to play 12 levels of 40 minutes each. There will be a break every three levels and a 60-minute dinner break after the completion of level six.
Big Wrap Day 1 Level Structure
| Level | Duration | Small Blind | Big Blind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 40 min | 100 | 200 |
| 2 | 40 min | 100 | 300 |
| 3 | 40 min | 200 | 400 |
| 4 | 40 min | 200 | 500 |
| 5 | 40 min | 300 | 600 |
| 6 | 40 min | 400 | 800 |
| 7 | 40 min | 500 | 1,000 |
| 8 | 40 min | 600 | 1,200 |
| 9 | 40 min | 800 | 1,600 |
| 10 | 40 min | 1,000 | 2,000 |
| 11 | 40 min | 1,000 | 2,500 |
| 12 | 40 min | 1,500 | 3,000 |
The late registration and re-entry period for the event remains open all Day 1 and in the first two 40-minute levels on Day 2. All players have the option to re-enter twice per Day 1 and on Day 2, and the best stack forward applies if participants should bag up more than once. The only player to do so on partypoker and Day 1a was King's regular The Talk.
Four-Way Deal in €550 Warm-Up
Another event concluded yesterday evening and Hungary's Richard Toth topped a field of 450 entries in the €550 Big Wrap Warm-Up. Toth finished second in this very event in the April 2019 edition and there was a deal with four players remaining with money left up for grabs to the eventual champion.
| Place | Winner | Country | Prize (in EUR) | Deal (in EUR) | Prize (in USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Richard Toth | Hungary | €41,661 | €33,395 | $37,011 |
| 2 | Paresh Doshi | United Kingdom | €26,462 | €24,160 | $26,776 |
| 3 | Manfred Ronacher | Austria | €19,836 | €26,208 | $29,046 |
| 4 | NEUK1 | Germany | €16,053 | €20,249 | $22,442 |
| 5 | BOSKO | Austria | €12,654 | $14,024 | |
| 6 | Jakub Cihar | Czech Republic | €9,662 | $10,708 | |
| 7 | David Wajntraub | Sweden | €7,097 | $7,866 | |
| 8 | Jonas Kronwitter | Germany | €5,216 | $5,781 |
Many of those that busted on Day 1a are expected to be back in action today such as Marcel Luske, Tomasz Kozub, Martin Kabrhel and Jesper Hougaard. Stay tuned for the PLO action from Rozvadov with the PokerNews updates until a champion is crowned on Monday, September 16th, 2019.