Welcome to Day 1a of the PokerNews Cup Main Event in Rozvadov
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The PokerNews Cup festival at the King's Casino in Rozvadov, Czech Republic, kicked off yesterday August 10th and the €80 Opening Event drew a total of 111 entries and 64 reentries. The first 17 spots shared a portion of the €11,638 prize pool and Germany's Jimmy emerged victorious, taking home €2,928 for his efforts.
In 90 minutes from now at 7 p.m. local time, the highlight of the event series gets underway with Day 1a of the €225+€25 Main Event. There are a total of four starting days with each of them offering the participants the chance to reenter in order to take a shot at the guaranteed prize pool of €200,000. All players receive 30,000 in chips and the levels last 30 minutes each on Day 1, 45 minutes on Day 2 and then increase to 60 minutes each for the final day.
Plenty of players from near and far are expected and some of them are already in the €35+€5 Satellite that guarantees 10 seats for the Main Event, which kicked off at 5 p.m. local time. The PokerNews live reporting team will be there to cover all the action in one of Europe's biggest card rooms until a winner is crowned, so tune back in regularly.