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10:25pm: DoneLevel 10 - Blinds 600/1,200 (200 ante)
That's Day 1A of the Eureka6 Rozvadov Main Event within the books. Day 1B begins at 2pm CET but before then we'll bring you a recap of today's play. That'll follow shortly.
10:10pm: Last four handsLevel 10 - Blinds 600/1,200 (200 ante)
The tournament clock have been paused and there'll be four more hands before play is finished for the day.
10:05pm: So closeLevel 10 - Blinds 600/1,200 (200 ante)
Plenty of fallers within the last level of the night and it was a case of so just about Day 2 for: Felix Kaltner, Marco Weidner, Jaroslaw Szyndler, Josip Petrovic, Frank Blumlein, Gennadii Savonik, Andre Moschke and Michael Mrakes.
9:55pm: Luca's late night chargeLevel 10 - Blinds 600/1,200 (200 ante)
Ivan Luca is as much as 110,000 after busting a player. We didn't catch it first hand but apparently Luca had queens to his opponent's pocket jacks.
9:40pm: BustedLevel 10 - Blinds 600/1,200 (200 ante)
The final level of the night has just begun.
9:35pm: BustedLevel 9 - Blinds 500/1,000 (100 ante)
Over half the sector has now been eliminated. Folks that lost the last in their chips in level nine include: Vlad Darie, Marius Pospiech, Adam Jagucik, Christoph Glatzner and Tobias Schmidt.
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As the tip of level nine approaches, listed here are the large stacks
| Daniel Karacic | Croatia | 140,000 |
| Grzegorz Wyraz | Poland | 137,000 |
| Tonino Schmitz | Germany | 125,000 |
| Gaspare Leggio | Italy | 125,000 |
| Michael Eiler | Germany | 100,000 |
| Boris Andreev | Russia | 98,200 |
| Jesper Hansen | Denmark | 93,000 |
| Harald Casagrande | Austria | 90,000 |
| Ondrej Mar | Czech Republic | 85,000 |
Michael Eiler - running up a large stack
9pm: Luttke loses flipLevel 9 - Blinds 500/1,000 (100 ante)
It's attending to that stage of the night where we're beginning to see much more pre-flop flips.
I just witnessed one play out between Gregory Luttke and Robert Hana. The action was started by Luttke, he opened to 2,200 and Hana three-bet to 6,400 total. "WHAT NUMBER OF blue chips do you've gotten left, four of 5"? asked Luttke to Hana. After it was established the overall was five 5k chips, Luttke slid forward a stack of his own and Hana called all-in.
Luttke: A♥Q♠Hana: J♣J♦
The 3♦K♦3♣8♠4♥ board kept the pair in front and meant Hana, who was all-in for 36,400, doubled to around 75,000 whilst Luttke dropped to 44,000.
8:55pm: They may be back tomorrowLevel 9 - Blinds 500/1,000 (100 ante)
Anyone eliminated today has the chance to take a look at again within the turbo Day 1C that starts at 22:00 CET tomorrow night. So we'd see a few of: Oliver Knoll, Christopher Sandig, Clemens Erretkamps, Eugen Doban, Stephen Nitzschke, Jacek Bozio, Marciej Wojcicki and Marek Bartoszewicz tomorrow.
8:50pm: Break timeLevel 9 - Blinds 500/1,000 (100 ante)
The players are back for the general two levels of the day. 131 of 219 have gotten so far as level nine and the typical stack is 41,800.
8:35pm: Break timeLevel 8 - Blinds 400/800 (100 ante)
That's the tip of level eight and the players are actually on a fifteen minute break.
8:25pm: More for MulliganLevel 8 - Blinds 400/800 (100 ante)
Andre Strobel was short stacked and made his move with A♥3♣, it wasn't so much for Lee Mulligan to name and he gave him a spin with A♠2♠.
It gave the impression of it was going to be a chopped pot however the 9♣T♠J♣K♠9♠ board made Mulligan's flush and Strobel was knocked out.
Lee Mulligan, 34,000Andre Strobel, 0
8:15pm: Luca keeps climbingLevel 8 - Blinds 400/800 (100 ante)
A couple of levels ago Ivan Luca was right down to just 12,000. He's now as much as over 50,000 after eliminating Vojtech Skalak. On a A♠A♣J♣ flop Luca bet 2,500 and Skalak check-raised all-in for 12,400 total. Luca thought for a short while before calling.
Don't mess with this man
Luca: A♦5♠Skalek: T♣9♣
The T♥ turn and 6♦ river kept Luca in front and sent Skalek to the rail.
Ivan Luca, 52,000Vojtech Skalak, 0
8pm: Chip countsLevel 8 - Blinds 400/800 (100 ante)
It's still Boris Andreev who leads, the Russian player has 103,000.
| Boris Andreev | Russia | 103,000 |
| Felix Kaltner | Germany | 90,000 |
| David Urban | Slovakia | 83,000 |
| Grzegorz Wyraz | Poland | 68,000 |
| Michael Eiler | Germany | 66,000 |
| Tillmann Raschke | Germany | 64,000 |
| Sebastian Langrock | Germany | 49,000 |
| Alex Kravchenko | Russia | 48,000 |
| Ivan Luca | Argentina | 40,000 |
| Brandon Boswell | USA | 38,000 |
| Rasmus Agerskov | Denmark | 36,000 |
| Petr Satek | Czech Republic | 35,000 |
| Lee Mulligan | United Kingdom | 34,000 |
| Marius Pospiech | Germany | 28,000 |
| Jan-Peter Jachtmann | Germany | 28,000 |
Boris Andreev
7:45pm: The numbers are inLevel 7 - Blinds 300/600 (75 ante)
Late registration closed at first of this level and the tournament staff have confirmed that 219 players entered today.
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Exits everywhere! It's goodbye to Ali Sameeian, Stefano Perin, Stefan Deckert, Udo Hemmert, Dennis Hubner, Andreas Losche, Friedrich Brunsch, Josef Snejberg, Jens Hansen, Jan Krnac, Stonewall Jackson, Antonio Karman and Vitezslav Cech.
7:25pm: Call the clocksLevel 7 - Blinds 300/600 (75 ante)
I've just witnessed something that I've never seen before in live poker:
I arrived on the table to look a T♥T♣5♥5♦9♦ board at the felt. Teodor Popovic had bet 10,000 right into a pot of 23,000 and David Urban was within the tank. He took see you later to come back to his decision that the clock was called.
The floor was called and concrete was read his rights. He'd got over halfway into his allotted minute before he took action and his play was to transport all-in. He had about 50,000 total and covered Popovic, who had 28,000 back.
Whilst Urban was within the tank Popovic had looked very cool, simply bouncing a pen off and on the felt. No he stopped and instead started to shuffle his cards. He kept doing that for no less than two to 3 minutes and he seemed no towards a decision.
It gave the impression of we would get the clock called twice at the same street here, something I'd never seen before. Eventually a player on the table had enough and did indeed call the clock. It's going to be noted it wasn't the similar player who had called the clock on Urban, nor was it Urban himself.
So Popovic was now at the clock and it ticked down to zero at which point his hand was declared dead. Urban pointed on the PokerStars Blog and said: "ONLY FOR you," and showed K♣J♣ to the table for a stone bluff. No guts, no glory.
David Urban, 83,000Teodor Popovic, 28,000
7:05pm: The Poker God's care not for reputationLevel 7 - Blinds 300/600 (75 ante)
At the very end of level seven two of the more familiar faces within the field were eliminated as Makarios Avramidis (a WSOP bracelet winner) and Raphael Wimmer (a Eureka Main Event champion) were both eliminated.
Wimmer won't be the winner this time
7:03pm: Six down, four to goLevel 7 - Blinds 300/600 (75 ante)
The players are back of their seats for level seven. They'll be a break on the end of level eight after which two more levels before Day 1 is over.
6:47pm: Break timeLevel 6 - Blinds 200/400 (50 ante)
The players are on a fifteen minute break.
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There's no easy technique to say this but: Adrian Esslen, Kim Torvald Kallmann, Timo Scarcella, Demir Ismail, Tobias Peters and Ling Chen are all out.
6:30pm: Falandys suffers Voss lossLevel 6 - Blinds 200/400 (50 ante)
On the river of a 2♦6♦9♣A♠5♠ board Mathias Falandys bet 2,100 just for Christian Voss to transport all-in for 9,900 total. Having got a count Falandys considered his options after which threw out two blue 5k chips to indicate a call.
Voss showed 8♥7♥ for the rivered straight, Falandys mucked but because it was an all-in hand his cards were turned over to expose he had A♥T♥.
6:20pm: Sweet turn for KaltnerLevel 6 - Blinds 200/400 (50 ante)
Felix Kaltner (cutoff) and Lee Mulligan (button) were heads-up to a 4♠6♦Q♥ flop and there has been enough within the pot to indicate this was a three-bet pot. Kaltner checked to Mulligan and called very swiftly when Mulligan bet 2,500.
That was all of the betting they'd be though as both players checked the 7♠ turn and 4♣ river. Kaltner showed 7♣7♥ for the turned set although from post-hand discussion it's likely he didn't want to hit a 3rd seven to win.
Felix Kaltner, 59,000Lee Mulligan, 26,000
6:10pm: The six-figure clubLevel 6 - Blinds 200/400 (50 ante)
Boris Andreev is the primary player over 100,000 and it was the nice old style aces versus kings that got him there. But, he was the player with kings and flopped a 3rd one to bust TutusTuncay.
The Russian is as much as 105,000, that's 3.5x the average.
6pm: The last of the extent five bust outsLevel 6 - Blinds 200/400 (50 ante)
Whilst 214 players have shown as much as play today just 193 remain. Level six has just started, folks who fell in level five were: Robert Ashelm, Oliver Dopp, Hasan Unal, Tutus Tuncay, Stefano Perin and Zofia Mudrochova.
5:45pm: Big names arriveLevel 5 - Blinds 150/300 (25 ante)
This event just got tons of tougher. That's because Ivan Luca and Alex Kravchenko have both entered this event during level five.
Ivan Luca (pictured within the Rozadov High Roller)
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The bad news for Alexandru Benchea, Eleftherios, Adrian-Constantin Tulba, Wolfgang Hosl, Dominic Lindner and Kurtulus Albayrak is that they are all out of the primary Event. The excellent news is that there are plenty of side events that they are able to play.
5:35pm: Raschke races aheadLevel 5 - Blinds 150/300 (25 ante)
Tillmann Raschke looks to be the early chip leader. The German is as much as 72,000 and has almost tripled his stack already.
5:20pm: Over 200Level 5 - Blinds 150/300 (25 ante)
The field has ticked as much as 206 runners total now, greater than double the number who played Day 1A during Season 5.
5:10pm: GoneLevel 4 - Blinds 100/200 (25 ante)
The introduction of the running ante has definitely upped the speed of departures. Eureka5 Hamburg champion Tom Holke is a type of at the rail. He's been joined by UKIPT champion Daniel Stacey, Maciej Kondraszuk and Milan Topoly.
4:55pm: Add another bracelet to the list...Level 4 - Blinds 100/200 (25 ante)
And over $1,600,000 in lifeterm earnings. Jan-Peter Jachtmann has just sat down. The German player won the $10,000 pot-limit Omaha event on the World Series of Poker in 2012. That win earned him $661,000 of his tournament earnings. Whilst that is still his only six-figure score he's had four cashes of over $50,000.
He's a threat, that's for sure.
4:45pm: Chip countsLevel 4 - Blinds 100/200 (25 ante)
A few counts of the names, notables and massive stacks within the Day 1A field. UKIPT5 Isle of Man champion Dan Stacey is a contemporary arrival.
| Brandon Boswell | USA | 55,000 |
| Michael Eiler | Germany | 38,000 |
| Petr Satek | Czech Republic | 35,000 |
| Rasmus Agerskov | Denmark | 34,700 |
| Marius Pospiech | Germany | 33,000 |
| Lee Mulligan | United Kingdom | 30,700 |
| Makarios Avramidis | Greece | 29,300 |
| Tom Holke | Germany | 26,000 |
| Sebastian Langrock | Germany | 26,000 |
| Daniel Stacey | United Kingdom | 23,200 |
| Raphael Wimmer | Austria | 22,600 |
| Josef Snejberg | Czech Republic | 18,075 |
Tom Holke
4:35pm: Round fourLevel 4 - Blinds 100/200 (25 ante)
Players are back of their seats and cards are within the air. Level four sees the introduction of a running ante.
4:20pm: Take a breakLevel 3 - Blinds 75/150
That's the tip of level three and the players are actually on a fifteen minute break.
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Claudius Istrate calmly placed the all-in triangle on top of chips. His river shove was for 7,550 right into a pot of an identical size. Adrian Esslen was the person within the tank and he was eyeing up a T♦9♠8♥J♦5♣ board.
During this pause within the action Lee Mulligan told me that the turn had checked through but that Istrate had bet the flop, Felix Kaltner had called, Esslen had raised and Istrate have been the lone caller.
The triangle toppled from Istrate's chips a few time but he diligently replaced it every time this happened. After a few minutes Esslen released his cards and Istrate showed Q♠T♣ for the turned straight.
Adrian Esslen, 18,025Cladius Istrate, 15,500
4pm: A COUPLE OF fallersLevel 3 - Blinds 75/150
A couple more players have fallen through the level three. Thomas "THE CONTROVERSY" Traboulsi is out, as is Nick "Sandmann" Korts.
3:45pm: Ace start for BoswellLevel 3 - Blinds 75/150
Brandon Boswell is as much as 55,000 after he eliminated Josef Gulas in a pot worth 32,000. His Czech opponent five-bet jammed with pocket jacks into Boswell's pocket aces and didn't catch up.
He's the second one exit of the day.
3:30pm: Holke takes a hitLevel 2 - Blinds 50/100
I joined the action to peer Eureka5 Hamburg champion Tom Holke all in favour of a large pot. Holke is straightforward to identify in a tournament room as he wears a Cowboy hat within the colours of the German flag. He'd bet 2,700 right into a pot of 6,200 at the river of a Q♦2♣8♠3♦4♠ board.
Petr Satek was his lone opponent and after about 20 seconds thinking time the Czech player made the decision. Holke was reluctant to turn but he did eventually turn over 2♠7♠ (2,700 for 2-7!) and Satek then showed K♠8♦ to say the pot.
Petr Satek, 35,000Tom Holke, 26,000
3:15pm: Who desires to be a millionaire?Level 2 - Blinds 50/100
There are quite a few poker players who've had success at the game show circuit. Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree is legendary for her appearance on a show called Golden Balls as an example. But we predict you would be hard pushed to search out someone who's had more on screen success than Sebastian Langrock.
On 11th March 2013 he became the eleventh person to win the jackpot (€1 million) at the Wer wird Millionär? gameshow (Who becomes a millionaire?). He's playing today, his poker abilities have did not match his quizzing smarts as yet as he's racked up 'just' €239,417 in live tournament earnings so far.
Just for fun let's examine in case you are as smart as Langrock. Below is the question that won him the jackpot. See when you can get it right. No googling allowed, but you'll phone a chum if you happen to like.
Q:Who have to be conversant in the twenty-past-four position?
A: Driving InstructorB: Karate MasterC: WaiterD: Agricultural architect
3pm: Show us your braceletLevel 2 - Blinds 50/100
We've mentioned already how Pius Heinz's WSOP bracelet is on display here within the King's Casino (see 2:25pm post). Well he is not the one player in Rozvadov with a WSOP bracelet to his name.
At this year's WSOP Europe in Berlin, Makarios Avramidis defeated a stacked field to win the €2,200 No Limit Hold'em Six Max event. Beating the likes of Marvin Rettenmaier and Stephen Chidwick earned him €105,000.
He's one in every of 162 runners who've entered the fray so far.
2:46pm: Man downLevel 2 - Blinds 50/100
As the clock ticked into level two the primary elimination of the day occurred. Nandor Solyom is the primary player out on Day 1A.
2:35pm: A funny thing happened that allows you to the hotel roomLevel 1 - Blinds 25/50
The thing with premium poker players is they spend such a lot time clicking buttons that they, how lets say, lack some life skills in certain areas. As this story neatly illustrates.
I'm indebted to Lee Mulligan for this story, which he told me shortly before play began. "I'm staying at this hotel out within the sticks," began Mulligan. "AND THAT I saw this Argentinian guy wandering around within the snow at 2am."
Interesting.
So it's second left after which the primary right...
"I've seen this problem before," continued Mulligan, who's from Bristol, not Buenos Aires. "At this hotel there's an annexe and it is not immediately clear while you get your keys where your room is. He was quite some way from where he had to be so I gave him a lift."
During this ride the pair struck up conversation and Luca told Mulligan that he'd been travelling around Europe playing poker and won something. "It was only once I got back and looked him up online that I realised what a sicko he was," said Mulligan.
Mulligan is already in his seat, no sign of Luca yet. Let's hope he doesn't wander off again.
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Pius Heinz won the WSOP Main Event in 2011, banking over $8,700,000 within the process. He is, in his own words, "retired from poker." Well maybe not. He was here on the King's Casino to play a high stakes cash game that was streamed on Twitch after which hopped into the €5,000 High Roller that started on Wednesday.
That event attracted 22 entries (16 uniques and 6 re-entries) and Heinz beat the lot of them. It was no easy task to pocket the primary prize of € 44,814 though. Three handed he was up against Ivan Luca and Martin Kabrhel, who're no strangers to high stakes tournaments. With Luca vanquished in third he and Kabrhel were both deep-stacked but it surely was the German who prevailed to earn the trophy.
His WSOP Main Event bracelet is on display here within the casino, maybe he'll put the trophy within the same display case?
Just when he thought he was out...
2:15pm: SpottedLevel 1 - Blinds 25/50
It's early days but we, and by we I mean my German colleague Robin Scherr, has already spotted a couple of familiar faces within the field.
There are two Eureka Main Event champions already seated. They're Raphael Wimmer, the Austrian won this event last season, and Tom Holke. The German player took down Eureka5 Hamburg.
But what's a Eureka title when you've won an EPT Main Event? Michael Eiler has that distinction, he won EPT7 Vienna where he defeated a last table that included Martin Hrubý and Daniel Negreanu to win €700,000. He's also within the field today.
2pm: Shuffle up and dealLevel 1 - Blinds 25/50
Right on time this event is under way. There are currently 128 players of their seats, already eclipsing the 98 who played Day 1A at this event last year.
1:50pm: Time to begin Season 6
For the fourth time the Eureka Poker Tour is back in Rozvadov and we're here to kick off the tour's sixth season. Playing host to the tour is the King's Casino, that is located at the border of the Czech Republic and Germany.
The 22 event festival is already in full swing, but today our attention turns to the flagship €500,000 guaranteed Main Event, which year on year has attracted more players. It gets underway at 2pm CET.
Eureka Rozvadov Main Event history:Season 3: 421 players, €500,000 prize pool, Bart Lybaert from Belgium for €115,000Season 4: 493 players, €500,000 prize pool, Martin Meciar from Slovakia for €87,600Season 5: 664 entries, €644,080 prize pool, Raphael Wimmer from Austria for €99,695
Key Eureka6 Rozvadov Facts:
- 25,000 starting stack- Blinds starting at 25/50 for 500 big blinds- Levels are 45 minutes on Day 1 and they're going to be 10 of them. On Day 2 from level 15 onwards levels increase to 60 minutes.- Late registration is open until the beginning of level seven.- Day 1A is today, Day 1B occurs tomorrow and there is also a distinct Turbo Day 1C at 10pm CET. That's only open to players who've busted either Day 1A or 1B. The sector will then combine for the primary time on Sunday. Players will reach the money on Day 2 after which play right down to a last table on Day 3. The overall table will play out on Tuesday. Cue mad celebrations and swigging of pilsner from the trophy (possibly).- Full Eureka6 Rozvadov schedule here.
PokerStars Blog Reporting Team at Eureka6 Rozvadov: Nick Wright. Photos by Tomas Stacha. Follow the PokerStars Blog on Twitter: @PokerStarsBlog
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