Mikalai Vaskaboinikau bet 10,000 from the button on a board of and Mustapha Kanit jammed in the big blind for about 30,000. Vaskaboinikau quickly called with and his top two was way in front as Kanit had inferior two pair: . The river was a .
"Sorry," Vaskaboinikau said.
"It's OK," Kanit said, cheerfully enough as he headed out.
Tsugunari Toma shoved over an open from Jimmy Guerrero and was dominated with against . The board ran out , which meant a lucky double for Toma... except all of the cards were hearts so they chopped it up with identical flushes.
[Removed:17] was one of seven players buying into the event today, but he's out already, in what must have been the first or second hand of the day.
Anthony Zinno opened for 4,000 under the gun and Mazin Khoury called from middle position. Yan shoved right behind him, pushing for 50,000 (25 big blinds). Action folded around to Zinno who folded as well. Khoury called right away.
Benoit Lam opened for a raise in the hijack and got three-bet by the player on the button to 14,000. Daniel Dvoress shoved all in from the next seat for 58,500, and Lam reshipped to isolate.
Lam:
Dvoress:
The board did nothing for Dvoress and he wished everyone good luck.
Yesterday, the main room of the Hilton Hotel Prague convention center was filled with high rollers all waging €10,000 to battle it out.
191 unique players and 56 reentries made for 247 entries total so far, but registration remains open until the start of play today, so that number might even just grow a little.
103 out of 247 players survived Day 1 of this three-day event. Day 2 will commence today at 12:30 p.m. local time and blinds will resume at 1,000/2,000 with a running ante of 300.
Since late registration remains open until cards are in the air, the total prize pool and payout information will be announced as soon as Day 2 gets underway. The same goes for the table draw, to not give late entrants an unfair advantage, that draw won't be available till right before the event gets underway again.
As always, PokerNews will be on hand to provide all the live coverage of this exciting event.