Stolar Leads After Day 1b; Dedusha; Lykov and ElkY Advance with Decent Stacks

The second and final starting day of the 2017 World Series of Poker International Circuit €1,650 Main Event at the King's Casino in Rozvadov saw a far bigger field emerge in Europe's biggest poker arena. After 12 levels of 45 minutes each, the tournament screens showed 448 entries, which boosts the total field to 646 entries.

Only 186 players bagged up chips and it was local player Pavel Stolar that jumped into the overall lead with 228,600, edging past Artan Dedusha who claimed 223,100. Vazha Kometiani, who is third in Georgia's all-time money list, seems to be the third biggest stack after Day 1b with 190,600 while further big stacks include Roberto Manfredi (187,000), Arturs Scerbaks (183,000), Vlad Darie (182,100), Maxim Lykov (176,600), Rifat Gegic (176,200) and Tomas Fara (170,600).

Jan Timo Jobmann already recorded seven cashes in Rozvadov this year, and he added a WSOP Circuit Ring in the €666 NLHE Event and a third place finish in the €420 Bounty Event to his poker resume. Jobmann finished Day 1b with very respectable 143,000 in chips. Other notables that made it through to Day 2 were Sander van Wesemael (126,700), Philipp Zukernik (118,400),Pedro Lamarca (95,700), Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier (93,500) and Jeff Lisandro (53,200). Felipe Ramos, who already finished second in two tournaments during the festival including the €5,300 High Roller, was among the big names that didn't bag up.

The day started with a bang by Liang Feng, as the Chinese and Prague resident clashed with Ondrej Drozd in the first level of the day when the duo got it in preflop for almost 600 big blinds each with kings versus queens. Feng flopped best with top set, Drozd turned a straight and Feng rivered quads kings to spike an early double. Fabrice Halleux, who finished fourth in the €5,300 High Roller, was among the early casualties as well after running into the set of Luigi Micu, and the Belgian also busted on his second bullet.

Ivo Donev's rise to the top came just before the dinner break when the Austrian flopped top set against bottom set and an overpair to bust two opponents. Donev eventually settled for 100,000, which is still well above average for the start of Day 2. Pierre Neuville ran with jacks into the aces of Andrej Cintula and was not spotted for another attempt after that anymore, while Gregor Greko was among those that fired two bullets and ran out of chips as many times. Greko flopped top two pair and Tomas Fara held middle set to send the German to the rail.

Things heated up towards the end of the day and Artan Dedusha seemed poised to claim the overnight spotlight before losing some chips after trading two big pots with Sandro Pitzanti during the last hands of the night. Pavel Stolar's flopped set and rivered full house to bust Timur Caglan in a big pot vaulted the Czech into the lead, however and both were separated by a mere three big blinds when they bagged up.

More than 250 players will return for Day 2 as of 2 p.m. local time on Sunday, October 15th and at least 10 levels of 60 minutes each are scheduled for the penultimate tournament day. Action resumes with blinds of 800-1,600 and a running ante of 200, and the registration will close once the cards are back in the air. The tournament is well short of the 851 entries - including 114 re-entries - of the previous year, but the guarantee of €1,000,000 has almost been covered.

The PokerNews live reporting team will provide all the action from the floor until a winner is crowned, so make sure to tune back in regularly to find out who lifts the trophy here at King's Casino in Rozvadov.

Main Event Day 2 Seat Draw

Table	Seat	Player	Nationality	Chip Count	Big Blinds
79	2	Manuel Fischer	Germany	119,700	75
79	3	Hermann Behrens	Germany	36,200	23
79	4	Vojtěch Škalák	Czech Republic	53,000	33
79	5	Tomasz Alojzy Sumek	Poland	21,000	13
79	6	Vardan Lapayan	Armenia	108,100	68
79	7	Emil Lukáč	Slovakia	66,700	42
79	8	Rifat Gegic	Germany	176,200	110

83	1	Michal Mrakeš	Czech Republic	140,000	88
83	2	Xiaofeng Zhan	Germany	51,500	32
83	3	Amar Begović	Germany	31,800	20
83	4	Lukáš Přibyl	Czech Republic	31,900	20
83	6	Feng Liang	Czech Republic	100,200	63
83	7	Michele Casaburi	Italy	41,800	26
83	8	Rakesh Lalwani	Morocco	48,600	30

84	1	Alfred Nader	Lebanon	135,300	85
84	3	Hossein Ensan	Germany	115,000	72
84	4	Dariusz Jedrzejczyk	Poland	10,400	7
84	5	Martin Kabrhel	Czech Republic	115,100	72
84	6	Aleksei Ivanov	Belarus	19,300	12
84	7	Ivo Donev	Austria	100,000	63
84	8	Jose Ponce	Germany	127,200	80

85	1	Radek Částka	Czech Republic	70,600	44
85	2	Raphel Wimmer	Austria	24,000	15
85	3	Claduio Di Giacomo	Italy	76,000	48
85	4	Philipp Zukernik	China	118,400	74
85	5	Roberto Manfredi	Italy	187,000	117
85	7	Jaromír Háněl	Czech Republic	68,000	43
85	8	Lambros Vrakas	Germany	160,300	100

89	2	Robert Gunter Jr	United States	15,000	9
89	3	Phil Hellmuth	United States	35,500	22
89	4	Majid Ejlal Noubarian	Iran, Islamic Republic Of	104,100	65
89	5	Siamak Tooran	Germany	23,300	15
89	6	Viacheslav Belyaev	Russian Federation	114,300	71
89	7	Michal Ozimek	Poland	83,100	52
89	8	Micky Blasi	Malta	88,800	56

90	1	Daniel Smiljkovic	Germany	63,200	40
90	3	Lukasz Szymon Grossmann	Poland	119,400	75
90	4	Aviv Meiri	Israel	59,600	37
90	5	Milan Kubicki	Germany	16,000	10
90	6	Michael Hoch	Germany	62,500	39
90	7	Levan Dzidzikashvili	Georgia	21,900	14
90	8	Daniel Nietrzebka	Poland	89,000	56

91	1	Christian Stoyanov	Germany	54,600	34
91	2	Zbyněk Koreš	Czech Republic	143,600	90
91	3	Luboš Hrubý	Czech Republic	34,900	22
91	5	Maxim Lykov	Russian Federation	176,600	110
91	6	Hubert Baran-Osinski	Poland	111,000	69
91	7	Krzysztof Slabik	Poland	72,300	45
91	8	Antoninó Kármán	Hungary	18,500	12

95	1	Grzegorz Grochulski	Poland	27,400	17
95	2	Piotr Brodzik	Poland	25,300	16
95	3	Ján Bendík	Slovakia	64,500	40
95	4	Marek Tatar	Slovakia	130,000	81
95	5	Viliyan Petleshkov	Bulgaria	96,800	61
95	6	Maciej Kondraszuk	Poland	61,900	39
95	7	Michael Sklenička	Czech Republic	63,700	40

96	1	Roman Schäfer	Germany	90,700	57
96	3	Kai Juhani Välimäki	Finland	105,500	66
96	4	Piotr Zawadzki	Poland	201,600	126
96	5	Francisco Morgado Lopes	Portugal	145,000	91
96	6	Ivan Barić	Croatia	143,700	90
96	7	Georgi Dangel	Germany	170,000	106
96	8	Irakli Kutchava	Israel	14,400	9

97	2	Horst Riedlingen	Germany	58,000	36
97	3	Massimilliano Patroncini	Italy	62,100	39
97	4	Vazha Katsarava	Israel	40,900	26
97	5	Philipp Lütkemeier	Germany	22,600	14
97	6	Stanislaw Miadzel	Germany	101,000	63
97	7	Vitalii Trusevych	Ukraine	49,600	31
97	8	Aleksandr Pozdniakov	Russian Federation	58,400	37

101	1	Silviu Togui	Romania	76,000	48
101	2	Jean Paul Pasqualini	France	21,900	14
101	3	Rui Figueiredo	Portugal	42,200	26
101	4	Vladimír Fabok	Slovakia	74,700	47
101	5	Vazha Kometiani	Georgia	190,600	119
101	7	Andro Scarpa	Croatia	140,000	88
101	8	Artan Dedusha	United Kingdom	223,100	139

102	2	Bart Fergiatakis	Netherlands	115,100	72
102	3	Ali Sameeian	Germany	53,300	33
102	4	Kamphues Lars	Germany	45,300	28
102	5	Morgan Bonnaud	France	53,500	33
102	6	Giovani Di Ceglie	Croatia	36,800	23
102	7	Jan Mach	Czech Republic	136,200	85
102	8	Christian Oswald	Germany	25,200	16

103	1	Abboud Fadi	Lebanon	149,000	93
103	2	Bertrand Grospellier	United Kingdom	93,500	58
103	3	Peter Boros	Slovakia	61,200	38
103	4	Aleksandr Pantiukhin	Russian Federation	52,600	33
103	5	Steven Stephan	Germany	129,600	81
103	7	Vlado Sevo	Austria	35,200	22
103	8	Neculai Macovei	Romania	98,200	61

107	1	Pedro Lamarca	Spain	95,700	60
107	3	Sebastian Langrock	Austria	44,500	28
107	4	Petr Setka	Czech Republic	219,400	137
107	5	Lászlo Toth	Hungary	186,100	116
107	6	Artur Wasek	Poland	125,500	78
107	7	Ricardo Morais Caprichoso	Portugal	57,000	36
107	8	Velodi Shonia	Georgia	75,900	47

108	1	Ricardo Chauriye	Chile	33,500	21
108	2	Sandro Pitzanti	Netherlands	65,000	41
108	3	Eleftherios Tzikas	Germany	95,800	60
108	4	Arsenii Karmatckii	Russian Federation	31,600	20
108	5	Abbas Moradi	United Arab Emirates	22,200	14
108	6	Vladimir Andjelic	Italy	17,000	11
108	8	Andrej Desset	Slovakia	22,400	14

109	1	Lukasz Wasek	Poland	106,000	66
109	2	Dennis Kraus	Germany	89,800	56
109	4	Georges Chehade	Lebanon	27,200	17
109	5	Štefan Mital	Czech Republic	60,000	38
109	6	Benjamin Richardson	Australia	132,600	83
109	7	Wladimir Majer	Germany	61,200	38
109	8	Martin Gutierrez	Spain	50,200	31

113	1	Karol Radomski	Poland	70,200	44
113	2	Sergiu Cornea	Romania	66,500	42
113	3	Sergiy Seredyuk	Ukraine	51,300	32
113	4	Daniele Scatragli	Italy	80,600	50
113	5	Giuseppe Gridella	Italy	66,200	41
113	7	Armen Zakaryan	Armenia	38,700	24
113	8	Yitshak Bahar	Israel	63,700	40

114	1	Walid Abdi Ali	Germany	80,200	50
114	2	Van Tiep Nguyen	Czech Republic	98,600	62
114	3	Pierre Mothes	Germany	80,700	50
114	4	Cheng-Wei Yin	Belgium	131,400	82
114	5	Dawid Paczka	Poland	34,300	21
114	6	Jan Šubík	Czech Republic	102,800	64
114	7	Stephan Jark	Germany	102,000	64

115	1	Bijan Mauer	Germany	42,400	27
115	2	Victor Kait	Israel	31,800	20
115	3	Jaroslav Peter	Czech Republic	55,300	35
115	5	Jan Dominik Horni	Germany	34,200	21
115	6	Georgios Vrakas	Germany	77,600	49
115	7	Peter Siemund	Germany	34,100	21
115	8	Rainer Ziermann	Germany	77,200	48

119	1	Oleg Jdan	Ukraine	32,300	20
119	2	Grzegorz Wyraz	Poland	66,200	41
119	3	Tamazi Skhirtladze	Georgia	85,400	53
119	5	Oliver Kalabus	Slovakia	34,300	21
119	6	Tomas Fara	Czech Republic	170,600	107
119	7	Erol Günenc	Germany	70,400	44
119	8	Luigi Micu	Romania	89,200	56

120	1	Denis Semialjac	Germany	43,700	27
120	2	Krzysztof Dulowski	Poland	104,800	66
120	4	Michal Wilczynski	Poland	59,400	37
120	5	Guido Garnies	Germany	126,100	79
120	6	Szymon Pieszczoch	Poland	88,300	55
120	7	Eusebiu-Nicolae Jalba	Romania	131,000	82
120	8	Kai Münster	Germany	24,100	15

121	1	Tal Shemon Cohen	Israel	52,200	33
121	2	Sander van Wesemael	Netherlands	126,700	79
121	3	Kenneth Thomsen	Denmark	10,600	7
121	4	Tomasz Panek	Poland	53,200	33
121	5	Marcin Chmielewski	Poland	74,800	47
121	6	Carlo Savinelli	Italy	69,600	44
121	8	Davit Okropiridze	Georgia	29,300	18

125	1	Andre Difelice	Canada	27,200	17
125	3	Brandon Cantu	United States	141,500	88
125	4	Zdenko Slavík	Slovakia	40,700	25
125	5	Kristiyan Krusharov	Bulgaria	27,200	17
125	6	Thomas Zurek	Germany	22,000	14
125	7	Alexandar Denishev	Bulgaria	27,500	17
125	8	Aleksandr Nemtcov	Russian Federation	81,700	51

126	2	Petr Kleska	Czech Republic	14,800	9
126	3	Vadzim Lipauka	Belarus	20,700	13
126	4	Akser Osak	Poland	33,800	21
126	5	Fabrice Soulier	France	117,100	73
126	6	Quoc-Thanh Lam	Germany	21,400	13
126	7	Olaf Kühle	Germany	66,700	42
126	8	Fabrizio Naselli	Italy	34,300	21

127	1	Pavel Plesuv	Czech Republic	34,700	22
127	2	Michal Štipský	Czech Republic	138,500	87
127	3	Thanh Hoang	Czech Republic	45,700	29
127	4	Filip Hanusek	Czech Republic	25,100	16
127	5	Vlad Darie	Romania	182,100	114
127	7	Christian Jambor	Germany	61,300	38
127	8	Aliaksandr Shylko	Belarus	119,000	74

131	1	Viktor Kovachev	Bulgaria	76,000	48
131	2	Siarhei Soika	Belarus	71,300	45
131	3	Arturs Scerbaks	Latvia	183,000	114
131	4	Roman Cieslik	Germany	42,100	26
131	5	Giorgi Gorgaslidze	Georgia	41,000	26
131	6	Volodymyr Kernytskyi	Ukraine	71,600	45
131	7	Nesrin Can	Turkey	47,200	30

132	1	Oliver Wulf	Germany	117,800	74
132	2	Anatolii Zyrin	Russian Federation	62,700	39
132	3	Anatoly Korochenskiy	Russian Federation	40,000	25
132	4	Umberto Ferrato	Italy	117,800	74
132	5	Michael Magalashvili	Israel	122,900	77
132	7	Ozan Guruz	Germany	30,800	19
132	8	Karel Kovařík	Czech Republic	58,200	36

133	1	Michael Brandau	Germany	85,600	54
133	2	Vitaly Lunkin	Russian Federation	51,100	32
133	4	Adriano Scagnetti	Australia	126,100	79
133	5	Jan Timo Jobmann	Germany	143,000	89
133	6	Fabian Gumz	Germany	124,500	78
133	7	Evgenii Leonidov	Russian Federation	23,300	15
133	8	Piotr Wiecek	Poland	102,700	64

137	1	Vladimír Válek	Czech Republic	21,900	14
137	3	Guy Gossens	Belgium	32,500	20
137	4	Eyal Bensimhon	Israel	169,200	106
137	5	Pavel Stolar	Czech Republic	228,600	143
137	6	Hilary Hin Cheung	United Kingdom	65,100	41
137	7	Jan Ramík	Czech Republic	50,600	32
137	8	Oguz Cenk	Belgium	27,700	17

138	1	Dominik Paus	Germany	60,800	38
138	2	Jan Bednář	Czech Republic	76,600	48
138	3	Oleksandr Sadovyi	Ukraine	53,900	34
138	4	David Táborský	Czech Republic	58,800	37
138	5	Aleksej Grenz	Germany	55,400	35
138	7	Tezer Cetindag	Germany	45,800	29
138	8	Wim Ben Verhaegen	Germany	37,200	23

139	1	Frank Schreiber	Germany	29,100	18
139	2	Boaz Meiri	Israel	37,800	24
139	3	Matthias Gude	Germany	25,000	16
139	5	Dorde Jovanović	Serbia	62,400	39
139	6	Langar Oghabian	Netherlands	45,300	28
139	7	Gerhard Brimmers	Germany	61,000	38
139	8	Anatoly Chen	Russian Federation	125,300	78

143	1	Amato Landi	Italy	37,100	23
143	2	Andrej Cintula	Slovakia	28,900	18
143	3	Jerome Sgorrano	Belgium	32,700	20
143	4	Ivan Kruljac	Croatia	39,800	25
143	5	Štefan Vágner	Slovakia	22,200	14
143	7	Dmytro Khakhalyev	Germany	79,300	50
143	8	Mathias Puzich	Germany	40,600	25

144	1	Martin Bartoš	Slovakia	17,100	11
144	3	Rabotkin Dzmitry	Czech Republic	35,000	22
144	4	Markus Kuhnen	Germany	47,000	29
144	5	Dov Peterfreund	Israel	51,500	32
144	6	Maximilian Grünberger	Germany	105,700	66
144	7	Ivo Frans Hermans	Belgium	77,000	48
144	8	Marek Blaško	Slovakia	50,000	31

145	1	Jeff Lisandro	Czech Republic	53,200	33
145	2	Vincenzo Bianco	Italy	38,800	24
145	3	Robert Schulz	Germany	66,300	41
145	4	Nourreddine Chinek	Belgium	79,800	50
145	5	Vojtěch Růžička	Czech Republic	44,700	28
145	7	Aleksandar Tomović	Serbia	72,900	46
145	8	Jakob Miegel	Germany	74,500	47

149	1	Jan-Peter Jachtmann	Germany	46,800	29
149	2	Peter Bstieler	Germany	79,700	50
149	3	Jaroslaw Sikora	Poland	147,000	92
149	4	Tudor Popa	Romania	160,200	100
149	5	Erik Sturkenboom	Netherlands	81,600	51
149	6	Sergei Petrushevskii	Russian Federation	107,400	67
149	7	Manfred Kurt Hammer	Germany	36,400	23

150	1	Martin Weiemann	Austria	88,000	55
150	2	Mateusz Dziewonski	Poland	104,400	65
150	3	Andrei Kaigorodtcev	Russian Federation	77,800	49
150	4	Catalin Pop	Romania	165,500	103
150	5	Krasimir Yankov	Bulgaria	129,700	81
150	6	Robert Zipf	Germany	76,300	48
150	7	Antoine Profit	France	113,600	71

151	1	Muhamet Perati	Italy	103,600	65
151	2	Norik Beglaryan	Armenia	66,100	41
151	3	Daniele Primerano	Italy	52,000	33
151	4	Michal Schuh	Czech Republic	65,400	41
151	5	Slavomír Byrtus	Czech Republic	60,600	38
151	7	Tomasz Litewka	Poland	77,700	49