€1,100 Eureka Main Event
Dia 1a Terminado
€1,100 Eureka Main Event
Dia 1a Terminado
A mammoth-sized field turned out for the €1,100 Eureka Main Event inside the Hilton Prague, which has become one of the must-play events of the PokerStars European Poker Tour Prague.
Day 1a of the tournament attracted a whopping 959 entries, surpassing the 694 figure which came on the same day in March's edition of EPT Prague. Day 1b, which is just wrapping up also saw an increase and had a further 434 entries.
Day 1c and Day 1d have also begun to create a players list with 314 and 1 registering for the final two starting flights. Overall, 1,708 entries have been counted so far and is on pace to break the attendance record which stands at 3,155.
The Day 1a field generated €920,960 of the €1,639,680 prize pool, which looks to eclipse the €3,028,800 collected back in the Spring time.
Event | Entries | Advanced | Prize Pool |
---|---|---|---|
€1,100 Eureka Main Event Day 1a | 959 | 144 | €920,640 |
€1,100 Eureka Main Event Day 1b | 434 | 65 | €416,640 |
€1,100 Eureka Main Event Day 1c | 314 | - | €301,440 |
€1,100 Eureka Main Event Day 1d | 1 | - | €960 |
€1,100 Eureka Main Event Day 2 | - | - | - |
€1,100 Eureka Main Event Day 3 | - | - | - |
€1,100 Eureka Main Event Day 4 | - | - | - |
A host of poker's top names turned out for Day 1a, but were unable to make into the final 15% of the field. The likes of Fedor Holz, Pierre Calamusa, Andrea Ricci, Kyriakos Papadopoulos and Jessica Teusl all fell short of navigating the first hurdle.
PokerStars Ambassadors Alejandro Lococo and Benjamin Spragg also hopped into the Eureka Main Event but suffered the same fate as the names above.
When the dust settled on Day 1a, Damir Savio ended the session as chip leader with a stack of 849,000. Tournament circuit regular Dawid Smolka also had a fruitful day on the felt and bagged 680,000 in chips. France's Aurelien Russo rounds out the top three chip counts and will begin Day 2 with a healthy stack worth 606,000.
The bubble burst in quick fashion, and the 144 Day 1a advancers have all locked up the min-cash which will be determined when the rest of the Day 1's play out.
Place | Name | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
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1 | Damir Savio | Italy | 849,000 | 106 |
2 | Dawid Smolka (pictured) | Poland | 680,000 | 85 |
3 | Aurelien Russo | France | 606,000 | 76 |
4 | Toni Kaukua | Finland | 595,000 | 74 |
5 | Fredrik Skarfstad | Sweden | 558,000 | 70 |
6 | Konstantin Farber | Germany | 475,000 | 59 |
7 | Yulian Bogdanov | Bulgaria | 443,000 | 55 |
8 | Thomas Channell | England | 436,000 | 55 |
9 | Peter Tordai | Hungary | 424,000 | 53 |
10 | Safwane Bahri | France | 421,000 | 53 |
PokerNews will be on the ground for Day 1c and Day 1d of the Eureka Main Event, which gets underway on Friday, December 9 at 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. CET respectively.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Damir Savio
|
849,000 | 849,000 |
Dawid Smolka | 680,000 | 680,000 |
Aurelien Russo | 606,000 | 331,000 |
Toni Kaukua | 595,000 | 595,000 |
Fredrik Skarfstad | 558,000 | 558,000 |
Konstantin Farber | 475,000 | 101,000 |
Yulian Bogdanov | 443,000 | 443,000 |
Thomas Channell | 436,000 | 116,000 |
Peter Tordai | 424,000 | 424,000 |
Safwane Bahri | 421,000 | 101,000 |
Pascal Vos | 416,000 | 44,000 |
Alessio Isaia | 410,000 | 410,000 |
Shkelzen Varaku | 404,000 | 144,000 |
Tauan de Oliveira | 399,000 | 399,000 |
Shai Arbel | 388,000 | 388,000 |
Jürgen Resch | 367,000 | 367,000 |
Jozsef Harsing | 365,000 | 165,000 |
Kamal Boughareb | 344,000 | 344,000 |
Eros Nastasi | 339,000 | -6,000 |
Michel Molenaar | 331,000 | 331,000 |
Adi Rajkovic | 328,000 | 328,000 |
Elias Suhonen | 328,000 | 328,000 |
Maria Agnoletto Andrea | 327,000 | 327,000 |
Valentin-Marius Cristea | 326,000 | 36,000 |
Marek Rous | 321,000 | 321,000 |
Day 1a of the €1,100 Eureka Main Event has come to a close following the bursting of the bubble.
144 of the 959 entries have made it through to Day 2, which plays out on Saturday, December.
Day 1b concludes in a few hours time, with Day 1c and 1d getting underway on Friday, December 9 and 12 p.m. and 6 p.m. CET respectively.
Full chip counts and end of day recap to follow shortly.
Day 1a will close when two more players are eliminated, so the tournament director has indicated that the event will be going into hand-for-hand play.
Nível: 18
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 8,000
Thomas Vieth was all in from middle position for 86,000,000 and action folded to Majid Nadeem, who shoved as the bigger stack from the small blind.
Vieth, was the favorite for the stack boost as he had the and was up against Nadeem's . Vieth continued to survive as the board ran out with the .
A couple hands later, Nadeem was all in again David Farkas, who was once down to one big blind. His last 30,000 was at risk, While Nadeem has 56,000 total.
David Farkas:
Majid Nadeem:
Again Nadeem doubled up a table mate and was now firmly in the danger zone with 146 players remaining,
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Thomas Vieth | 182,000 | -8,000 |
David Farkas | 75,000 | 57,000 |
Majid Nadeem | 26,000 | -129,000 |
Boris Kuzmanovic opened to 12,000 from under the gun and was called by Thomas Channell from the small blind.
Channell check-called for 22,000 on the flop before the turn checked through to the river. Channell then led with a bet which quickly folded out his opponent.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Thomas Channell | 320,000 | 70,000 |
Boris Kuzmanovic | 300,000 | 35,000 |
With 148 players remaining, the pace of play has slowed down with many pots being concluded preflop, with little action.
Day 1a will close when there are four more eliminations.
Nível: 17
Blinds: 3,000/6,000
Ante: 6,000