The board showed 
when we picked up the action as Tony Dunst called a bet of 2,500 from Rui Sousa. Sousa was seated in the big blind, and on the river when the 
popped up he bet another 4,200.
Dunst, two seats to Sousa's left, tanked for quite some time before slamming the chips needed to make the call onto the table.
Sousa showed 
and Dunst showed his 
to claim the pot.
When you're playing a big international poker tournament, there's a decent chance you'll have to face some tough opposition. However, it's not very common to see a table so stacked that there's not a single player we don't recognize. Usually there's one or two faces at some of the tougher "tables of doom" we've seen in the past, but not at this one we found today.
Aptly named Table 1 today, this seat draw carries seven recognizable pros. Among them, they represent $23.3 million in live tournament earnings with David Peters leading the way at $6.8 million.
Being moved to this table will feel like a death sentence, as butting heads with such tough competition will surely make your quest to reach Day 3 much, much harder. They say table draw can be everything in tournament poker, and today we'll see that notion play out right in front of us.
Since the breaking order is from high to low, Table 1 will never be broken.
Here's what the table looks like, from a money-earned perspective:
| Name | Live Tournament Earnings |
|---|---|
| David Peters | $6,827,863 |
| Martin Finger | $6,535,683 |
| Kevin MacPhee | $5,342,029 |
| Elliott Smith | $1,502,267 |
| Valdemar Kwaysser | $1,452,342 |
| Erwann Pecheux | $1,093,432 |
| Rasmus Agerskov | $630,183 |
Just now, we saw a raise to 1,400, a call from Rasmus Agerskov and a three-bet from David Peters to 5,800 on the button. The action folded back to Agerskov who moved all in to put Peters at risk. Peters folded right away, and Agerskov took down this pot.
Dermot Blain started the day low on chips, but he just managed to double up to get back up over the starting stack. Blain just shoved holding 
for his last 15,600 an he got called by 
.
The board brought no trouble for the Irishman, and Blain now sits on around 32,000 chips.
| Table | Seat | Name | Country | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Erwann Pecheux | FRA | 72,700 |
| 1 | 2 | Rasmus Agersilow | DAN | 65,000 |
| 1 | 3 | David Peters | USA | 46,100 |
| 1 | 4 | Kevin Mac Phee | USA | 67,500 |
| 1 | 5 | Martin Finger | AUT | 12,100 |
| 1 | 6 | Valdemar Akos Kwaysser | HUN | 51,000 |
| 1 | 7 | Elliott Smith | CAN | 12,500 |
| 2 | 1 | Chris Downling | IRL | 29,300 |
| 2 | 2 | Paul Francois Tedeschi | UK | 46,600 |
| 2 | 3 | Gaelle Baumann | FRA | 77,100 |
| 2 | 4 | Frederik Brink Jesen | 46,000 | |
| 2 | 5 | Oliver Heidel | GER | 80,700 |
| 2 | 6 | Eugene Katchalov | UK | 32,400 |
| 2 | 7 | Josef Gulas | CZ | 37,700 |
| 3 | 1 | Sylvain Loosly | FRA | 35,200 |
| 3 | 2 | Rai Sousa | POR | 36,900 |
| 3 | 3 | Koray Aldemir | AUT | 27,600 |
| 3 | 4 | Tony Dunst | USA | 26,900 |
| 3 | 5 | Aurelie Quelain | FRA | 51,300 |
| 3 | 6 | Pierre Mothes | GER | 82,900 |
| 3 | 7 | Morten Mortensen | DEN | 26,600 |
| 4 | 1 | Guy Gorelik | ISR | 84,600 |
| 4 | 2 | Fahredin Mustafov | BUL | 35,000 |
| 4 | 3 | Rainer Kempe | UK | 62,100 |
| 4 | 4 | Vostech Ruzicka | CZ | 93,000 |
| 4 | 5 | Arkrdius Olszovy | POL | 39,800 |
| 4 | 6 | Marc Macdonnell | IRL | 15,500 |
| 4 | 7 | Anthony Zinno | USA | 50,500 |
| 5 | 1 | Vasili Firsan | BEL | 20,100 |
| 5 | 2 | Atanayev Anton | RUS | 31,300 |
| 5 | 3 | Pierre Neuville | BEL | 32,500 |
| 5 | 4 | Francois Goulet | CAN | 17,000 |
| 5 | 5 | Aliaksei Boika | BEL | 95,500 |
| 5 | 6 | Robert Leynar | USA | 23,200 |
| 5 | 7 | Li Yingui | CHI | 116,000 |
| 6 | 1 | Thomas Julian | AUT | 36,100 |
| 6 | 2 | Luca Moschitta | ITA | 14,200 |
| 6 | 3 | Gregor Grochulsky | POL | 46,700 |
| 6 | 4 | Gleb Tremzin | RUS | 58,700 |
| 6 | 5 | Dietrick Fast | GER | 13,900 |
| 6 | 6 | Georgos Zisimopoulos | GRE | 59,700 |
| 6 | 7 | Diogo Cardoso | POR | 68,900 |
| 7 | 1 | Igor Yardshevskyy | UKR | 98,300 |
| 7 | 2 | Aleksandas Denichev | BUL | 71,000 |
| 7 | 3 | Alexander Ivarsson | SWE | 81,200 |
| 7 | 4 | Grasu Alin | ROM | 14,900 |
| 7 | 5 | Fedor Holz | AUT | 30,300 |
| 7 | 6 | Ben Richardson | AUS | 30,200 |
| 7 | 7 | Cieslik Roman | DAN | 27,100 |
| 8 | 1 | Anton Astapau | RUS | 37,200 |
| 8 | 2 | Martin Mulsow | AUT | 59,100 |
| 8 | 3 | Mohamed Mamouny | ALG | 45,200 |
| 8 | 4 | Scott Margereson | UK | 50,500 |
| 8 | 5 | Joshua Cranfield | WAL | 176,400 |
| 8 | 6 | Steve Odwyer | IRL | 65,700 |
| 8 | 7 | Remigiusz Wyrzykiewicz | POL | 101,500 |
| 9 | 1 | Carlos Branco | POR | 29,900 |
| 9 | 2 | Emrak Cakmak | FRA | 47,500 |
| 9 | 3 | Dara O'kearney | IRL | 15,600 |
| 9 | 4 | Akimov Baurzman | KAZ | 81,500 |
| 9 | 5 | Chris Hunicher | USA | 31,400 |
| 9 | 6 | Pedro Marques | POR | 30,200 |
| 9 | 7 | Keith Johnson | UK | 47,500 |
| 10 | 1 | Nicolay Gryzin | RUS | 15,000 |
| 10 | 2 | Matas Cimbolas | LIT | 70,900 |
| 10 | 3 | Jaroslav Sikora | POL | 52,700 |
| 10 | 4 | Jerry Odeen | SWE | 44,800 |
| 10 | 5 | Martin Staszko | CZ | 25,400 |
| 10 | 6 | Johnny Mehl Hansen | DAN | 37,500 |
| 10 | 7 | Vitaly Luhkin | RUS | 37,800 |
| 11 | 1 | Imar Soika | BEL | 66,400 |
| 11 | 2 | Savin Pavel | RUS | 56,200 |
| 11 | 3 | Pavel Veksler | 53,100 | |
| 11 | 4 | Alain Adnek | FRA | 50,300 |
| 11 | 5 | Michael Wang | USA | 52,200 |
| 11 | 6 | Raiden Kan | 22,400 | |
| 11 | 7 | Artur Karamuca | ALB | 70,400 |
| 12 | 1 | Jorane Kerignard | MAL | 50,600 |
| 12 | 2 | Jan Tomasz | POL | 83,800 |
| 12 | 3 | Diogo Vega | POR | 74,300 |
| 12 | 4 | Jakub Mjchalak | POL | 10,000 |
| 12 | 5 | Pablo Gordillo Caballero | UK | 68,500 |
| 12 | 6 | Fuad Serhan | UK | 21,200 |
| 12 | 7 | Oliver Price | UK | 60,500 |
| 13 | 1 | Simon Deadnan | UK | 44,000 |
| 13 | 2 | Alexsander Boleslov | RUS | 25,900 |
| 13 | 3 | Yordan Kanliev | BUL | 26,900 |
| 13 | 4 | Yann Dion | CAN | 32,500 |
| 13 | 5 | Michael Abecassis | FRA | 33,300 |
| 13 | 6 | Nicholas Palma | USA | 43,100 |
| 13 | 7 | Brian Senie | USA | 91,200 |
| 14 | 1 | Ozgur Arda | TUR | 21,600 |
| 14 | 2 | Martin Kabrher | CZ | 65,200 |
| 14 | 3 | Robert Heidorn | UK | 43,600 |
| 14 | 4 | Javier Gomez | SPAIN | 74,600 |
| 14 | 5 | Saren Smith Hansen | 18,600 | |
| 14 | 6 | Ben Baruch Maya | ISR | 70,500 |
| 14 | 7 | Pierre Chevalier | FRA | 105,000 |
| 15 | 1 | Konrad Abela | MAL | 29,600 |
| 15 | 2 | Aleksei Istomin | 37,800 | |
| 15 | 3 | Sean Beniot | CAN | 36,500 |
| 15 | 4 | Vladimir Bozinovic | SER | 47,800 |
| 15 | 5 | Byron Kaverman | 108,800 | |
| 15 | 6 | Dimitar Danchev | BUL | 31,300 |
| 15 | 7 | Fabrice Soulier | FRA | 15,700 |
| 16 | 1 | Timur Margolin | ISR | 48,900 |
| 16 | 2 | Alex Papazian | ROM | 23,300 |
| 16 | 3 | Fabrice Halleux | BEL | 38,700 |
| 16 | 4 | Ludovic Riehl | FRA | 74,500 |
| 16 | 5 | Ismael Bojan | AUS | 48,300 |
| 16 | 6 | Ben Heath | USA | 58,300 |
| 16 | 7 | Stephen Wookhead | UK | 39,200 |
| 17 | 1 | Charlie Carrol | UK | 38,100 |
| 17 | 2 | Yung Hwang | USA | 74,400 |
| 17 | 3 | Dike Jefferson | UK | 40,400 |
| 17 | 4 | Adam Tuk | CAN | 60,000 |
| 17 | 5 | Miguel Silva | POR | 60,600 |
| 17 | 6 | Heikki Heikki Piira | FIN | 19,300 |
| 17 | 7 | Ludovic Geilich | SCO | 48,700 |
| 18 | 1 | Dilan Linde | USA | 17,200 |
| 18 | 2 | Marcin Wydrowski | POL | 27,100 |
| 18 | 3 | Artan Dedusha | UK | 22,300 |
| 18 | 4 | Erik Scheidt | GER | 18,700 |
| 18 | 5 | Rui Milhomens | POR | 58,400 |
| 18 | 6 | Ben Ward | UK | 23,700 |
| 18 | 7 | Giacomo Funparo | ITA | 45,500 |
| 19 | 1 | Sebastien Ìpauli | GER | 42,600 |
| 19 | 2 | Joao Vieira | POR | 70,800 |
| 19 | 3 | David Abren | 60,400 | |
| 19 | 4 | Richard Milne | 10,600 | |
| 19 | 5 | Sergio Aido | ESP | 10,100 |
| 19 | 6 | Jason Wheeler | USA | 36,000 |
| 19 | 7 | Erdar Sulleyman | GER | 87,200 |
| 20 | 1 | Atanas Maunov | BUL | 40,000 |
| 20 | 2 | Yen Han Chen | TAIW | 26,900 |
| 20 | 3 | Tom Hall | UK | 64,300 |
| 20 | 4 | Mamouns Smain | FRA | 95,800 |
| 20 | 5 | Manig Loeser | AUT | 36,600 |
| 20 | 6 | Alex Lynskey | AUT | 24,000 |
| 20 | 7 | Ben Dobson | UK | 43,300 |
| 21 | 1 | Marco Caza | CAN | 14,600 |
| 21 | 2 | Ranno Sootla | 92,000 | |
| 21 | 3 | Dermot Blain | IRL | 14,300 |
| 21 | 4 | Bryan Paris | USA | 61,300 |
| 21 | 5 | Jonathan Dimmig | USA | 76,500 |
| 21 | 6 | Anton Bertilsson | SWE | 51,300 |
| 21 | 7 | Yuliyan Kolev | BUL | 23,200 |
A total of 20 players entered, or re-entered, before the start of play on Day 2, and here's an overview of the names.
The cards are now in the air for the second day of play in this WPT Prague Main Event. The levels from this day forward will be 90 minutes, with a 15-minute break after every level. Today six levels will be played, and there will be a one-hour dinner break at the completion of the fourth level.
Level: 9
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 100
The players had a chance to warm up during Day 1a and Day 1b, but from now on the pressure will be building. All remaining players will now be in one room, and at the end of today we'll have a much better idea of who will be contending for the WPT Prague 2015 title.
Coming into the day it's Josh Cranfield's fairytale story that has everyone exciting. Cranfield qualified on partypoker for no more than £12 and now he holds a commanding chip lead on Day 2. The field however is stacked, and Cranfield will have to battle through a long list of top pros in order to make his dream of winning a WPT come true.
Among the big stacks heading into Day 2 we have Byron Kaverman, Igor Yaroshevskyy, Vojtech Ruzicka and Gaelle Baumann. Out of the 233 entries into this event, 147 remain and registration remains open until the cards are in the air.
Play will commence at 2:00 p.m. local time and five 90-minute levels will be played.
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