2014 PokerStars.com EPT Season 11 Prague Main Event Day 1a Begins
Welcome to the European Poker Tour Season 11 Prague Poker Festival which is joining forces with the Eureka Poker Tour once more. In total there will be 59 separate tournaments at this year’s festival including the Eureka 4 Prague which enters its final day today after attracting a huge 1,738 entries with a €280,000 first place prize.
The €5,300 EPT Main Event kicks off today at the Hilton Prague Hotel with the first of two Day 1s. Plenty of top names have already been confirmed to play in this tournament including Team PokerStars Pro Online Mickey Petersen, Marc-Andre Ladouceur and Vincente Delgado as well as Team PokerStars Pros George Danzer, Jan Heitmann and Marcin Horecki.
This is the eighth time an EPT has been held at Prague and last year Julian Track, a mature student from Germany, emerged victorious over the 1,007 star studded field to capture the title and the €725,000 first-place prize.
While the Main Event gets underway the Super High Roller has reached the final seven and will play down to a winner today. Leonid Markin is chip leader with 3.35m in chips chasing the first place prize of €771,360. You can follow the PokerNews coverage by clicking here.
There’s a real feeling of Christmas in the air here in Prague, but more importantly today cards are in the air at 12 Noon local time with eight levels of play scheduled, each of them taking 75 minutes to complete. Players sit down with a 30,000 starting stack with blinds kicking off at 50 / 100.
The PokerNews Live Reporting team will bring you all the news of who is playing and action from the tables throughout the day as well as the latest interviews and news from Remko Rinkema and the Video Team. Stay tuned!