Welcome to Day 2 of the PokerNews Cup Rozvadov
In 90 minutes from now at 1 p.m. local time, Day 2 of the €225+€25 PokerNews Cup Main Event gets underway at the King's Casino in Rozvadov. The biggest card room in Europe attracted a stunning field of 1,104 entries to gerate a prize pool of €235,980 and the top 103 spots will get paid at least €637, while the first place is awarded with a payday of €44,707.
After 14 levels of 30 minutes each throughout four starting days, the field of hopefuls has been whittled down to just 251 and they will return to the tables with blinds of 2,000-4,000 and a running ante of 500. As of Day 2, the levels increase to 45 minutes each and will be one hour on the final day of the event tomorrow. At the top of the counts are the two big stacks of Day 1c in Giuseppe De Tomasso (534,500) and Tippy333 (511,000) followed by Day 1d's Adam Markiewicz (490,000).
Ronny Voth finished at the top of 27 survivors on Day 1a and also won the Pot-Limit Omaha Side Event one day later, he will return with 391,000. Alexander Rettenbacher (365,500) is joined by two other Austrians in the overall top ten with Reinhard Foidl (350,000) and Walter Matura (343,000) hot on his heels.
Other notables through to the penultimate day include Deniz Sinanmis (330,000), Sebastian Langrock (302,000), Ri?ardas Vymeris (301,500), Miroslav Lelek (253,000), Szymon Bujok (198,000), Petr Targa (164,500), King's regular Zarathustra (132,000), Marek Blasko (90,000) and Martin Kabrhel (46,000). The Czech WSOP Main Event November Niner Vojtech Ruzicka participated in Day 1d, but failed to bag up chips.
Besides Day 2 of the Main Event, the festival also provides a €60+€10 No-Limit Hold'em Side Event today as of 7 p.m. local time with a guaranteed prize pool of €5,000 and 15,000 in chips, the levels last 25 minutes. All payouts can be found in the respective payout tab above and the Day 2 seat draw can be found here. The PokerNews live reporting will be on hand to cover all action until the winner is crowned.