Look who's chip leader!
Was there ever any doubt? The Argentinian superstar started the day fourth in chips of the 63 returning players and quickly rose to the highest. He stayed there for many of the day. When his compatriot, Andres Viola, was eliminated in tenth place to set the unofficial final table of nine he was actually in second place, half a large blind behind Peter Siemund.
He soon put that right. He eliminated Domenico Gala in ninth place in a four million chip pot and can start the general table in pole position with almost double his nearest challenger. When play resumes they'll be 43 minutes left within the 30,000/60,000 (10,000 ante) level.
| Seat | Name | Country | Status | Chips |
| 1 | Mick Heder | Denmark | 1,370,000 | |
| 2 | David Urban | Slovakia | 2,005,000 | |
| 3 | Hannes Speiser | Austria | PokerStars player | 445,000 |
| 4 | Stoyan Stefanov | Bulgaria | 1,505,000 | |
| 5 | Maria Lampropoulos | Argentina | 2,455,000 | |
| 6 | Ivan Luca | Argentina | 5,355,000 | |
| 7 | Peter Siemund | Germany | 2,845,000 | |
| 8 | Robert Kokoska | Czech Republic | 895,000 |
The eagle eyed amongst you may also notice that we've got a woman on the final table. What's more she and Luca are an item. For many of the past two days Maria Lampropoulos beat a unique drum to stick within the tournament, playing a brief to medium stack extremely well to stick alive.
Today she showed she will be able to play when she gets her hands on chips too. She eliminated Jonas Lauck within the third level of the day to win an enormous 1,400,000 pot and climb to second on the time. She wouldn't be shifted either and can start tomorrow in 3rd spot with 2,455,000.
To individuals who follow poker though her deep run should come as no surprise. She's been a tear of late. She finished 58th within the EPT Dublin Main Event and followed that up with a second place in a WPT National event in Brussels just 10 days ago. That result was good for €68,200.
Siemund separates the 2 Argentinians
The player who splits those two on the top of the chip counts is the one remaining German within the field. Peter Siemund largely flew under the radar today. That may be until he won a 2,300,000 chip pot with ace-king against the ace-queen of Robert Kokoska. That explains why he starts tomorrow's final table with 2,845,000 whilst Kokoska, who was near the highest of the chip counts until then, is available in with 895,000. He's the one Czech hope of a primary Eureka Main Event title.
Urban - like minded to the poker environment
The only other player with a stack of over 2m is David Urban and he squeaks in with 2,005,000. Within the tournament we have seen him content to play post-flop poker and he's a danger, make no bones about it. He's got over $300,000 in lifetime earnings and will now add a Eureka Main Event cash to these he's had at the EPT, Estrellas and UKIPT.
Stoyan Stefanov
It's a worldly final table - Argentina (!) are the one country with a couple of player - and the Eureka6 Rozvadov Main Event trophy may well be heading to Bulgaria, Denmark or Austria tomorrow.
Stoyan Stefanov (1,505,000), Mick Heder (1,370,000) and Hannes Speiser (445,000) may all find themselves within the bottom half the chip counts but only Speiser is within the danger zone. They certainly cannot be discounted. Heder, for instance, finished fourth in a huge 2,292 runner tournament here in Rozvadov in January and Speiser has over $220,000 in live tournament earnings
Another cash for Kabrhel
Whilst those eight will return tomorrow to play for the trophy and a primary prize of €124,890 there have been 55 players who had their Eureka title dreams ended today. Michael Eiler, who returned with 1.7 big blinds, was first out and was followed by the likes of: Martin Kabrhel (51st), Tonino Schmitz (39th), Andreas Gann (38th), Grzegorz Wyraz (16th) and Daniel Rose (13th) because the field was whittled all the way down to the overall eight. You will discover who's won what thus far here.
Of more importance though is what's up for grabs tomorrow:
| 1 | € 124,890 | |||
| 2 | € 76,700 | |||
| 3 | € 54,800 | |||
| 4 | € 41,500 | |||
| 5 | € 33,100 | |||
| 6 | € 25,340 | |||
| 7 | € 18,330 | |||
| 8 | € 12,500 |
We'll be back tomorrow from 3pm CET as final eight play all the way down to a Eureka champion. Meanwhile you'll compensate for all today's action here and here.
All photos are copyright of Tomas Stacha
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