Both Ali Sameeian and Daniel Rose were among the shorter stacks with less than 20 big blinds recently. Both their media cards found the way to the media desk, indicating that their run on Day 1a has come to a premature end. The can however reenter in the Turbo heat Day 1c for a late shift tomorrow in order to take a shot at the guaranteed prize pool of €500,000.
Tournament staff has also confirmed a total of 219 entries for the first flight.
The action escalated on the flop with Alex Kravchenko at risk for more than starting stack. His opponent Andre Strobel went into the showdown with pocket tens and Kravchenko's had a ton of outs in order to improve.
It was a blank on the turn that changed nothing, however the river was the money card for the Russian.
The board was already complete, reading and Teodor Popovic led for 10,000 from under the gun with a pot of more than double of that. The action was then on David Urban and the Slovakian tanked for a long time to see the clock called on him. Urban then moved all in himself and now Popovic was in the tank.
Eventually, the clock was called on Popovic, too, and the one minute of consideration ran down without any move to see his cards dead. Urban flashed for a bluff and scooped the big pot.
Robert Zipf had magically appeared after the dinner break and the German, who regularly plays on the European Poker Tour, confirmed that he jumped into the event at the last possible minute.
Another familiar face is Marek Blasko, the high stakes cash game expert from Slovakia has grinded up some small profit on Day 1a already.
On the turn, Friedrich Brunsch bet 3,000 into a pot o 6,500 and his opponent Dieke Meyer raised to 10,000. Brunsch then shoved all in and Meyer asked for a count. Once the dealer had determined it to be 27,175, Meyer glanced over and asked "you like the turn?", but Brunsch just shook his head.
"Okay so be it," was Meyer's reaction when he got called and flipped over his only to see Meyer turn over . The blank river changed nothing whatsoever and that was it for Brunsch.
The first five minutes of the new level are done and dusted, as is the option for players to buy into the first starting day. According to the screens, 219 participants have ponied up the €1,100 entry and that's more than two times the 98 entries of the last Eureka Main Event here in Rozvadov.
An official number remains to be confirmed, though.
Two players that won't be returning to their seats after the dinner break are defending Eureka Rozvadov champion Raphael Wimmer as well as 2015 World Series of Poker Europe bracelet winner Makarios Avramidis. The latter committed his stack with on a heads-up flop against Felix Kaltner.
The flop was king high with two diamonds and Kaltner's ace-king held up despite an additional gutshot on the turn.
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flop with Alex Kravchenko at risk for more than starting stack. His opponent Andre Strobel went into the showdown with pocket tens and Kravchenko's 
had a ton of outs in order to improve.
on the turn that changed nothing, however the 
river was the money card for the Russian.
for a bluff and scooped the big pot.
turn, Friedrich Brunsch bet 3,000 into a pot o 6,500 and his opponent Dieke Meyer raised to 10,000. Brunsch then shoved all in and Meyer asked for a count. Once the dealer had determined it to be 27,175, Meyer glanced over and asked "you like the turn?", but Brunsch just shook his head.
only to see Meyer turn over 
