€1,100 Eureka Main Event Jour 1d | 2022 PokerStars EPT Prague

2022-12-10 04:25 UTC+2

Antoine Labat Leads the Day 1d Field in Record-Setting €1,100 Eureka Main Event

After just over eight hours of play in the €1,100 Eureka Main Event here at the 2022 PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Prague, Day 1d has concluded and players have bagged up for Day 2.

When all four days were totaled, the attendance record of 3,155 was shattered. A total of 4,018 entries built a prize pool of €3,856,320, nearly 1,000 more runners than the previous record.

Eureka Main Event Day 1d Top 10 Chip Counts

Place	Name	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	Antoine Labat	France	957,000	80
2	Anton Suarez	Sweden	915,000	76
3	Tobias Peters	Netherlands	630,000	53
4	Benoit Huet	France	614,000	51
5	Halim Kara	Denmark	593,000	49
6	Vincent Guillon	France	515,000	43
7	Jan Streicher	Germany	507,000	42
8	Gilles Silbernagel	France	496,000	41
9	Sergio Benso	Italy	460,000	38
10	Tay Quang	Czech Republic	440,000	37

This final starting flight was the quickest of the four, owing to the 20-minute blind structure that saw the average stack at less than 20 big blinds at the end of the night. Day 2 will take place on Saturday at 12 p.m., with the 603 surviving players combining, all of them already in the money.

Four Frenchmen in the Top Ten of Day 1d

Bagging the most chips of this final flight was Antoine Labat with 957,000. Several of his countrymen also had excellent days with Benoit Huet (614,000), Vincent Guillon (515,000), and Gilles Silbernagel (496,000) all joining him on the leaderboard.

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Also finding bags were Tobias Peters (630,000), Ylva Thorsrud (200,000), and Fedor Holz (172,000).

Eureka Main Event By The Numbers

EVENT	ENTRIES	ADVANCED	PRIZE POOL
€1,100 Eureka Main Event Day 1a	959	144	€920,640
€1,100 Eureka Main Event Day 1b	434	65	€416,640
€1,100 Eureka Main Event Day 1c	1,844	277	€1,770,240
€1,100 Eureka Main Event Day 1d	781	117	€748,800
€1,100 Eureka Main Event Day 2	603	-	€3,856,720
€1,100 Eureka Main Event Day 3	-	-	-
€1,100 Eureka Main Event Day 4	-	-	-

PokerNews will continue the coverage for Day 2 of the Eureka Main Event, which picks back up on Saturday, December 10 at 12 p.m. local time. Play will start at Level 18, with blinds at 4,000/8,000/8,000.

Tags: Antoine Labat Anton Suarez Benoit Huet Fedor Holz Gilles Silbernagel Halim Kara Jan Streicher Sergio Benso Tay Quang Tobias Peters Vincent Guillon Ylva Thorsrud

2022-12-10 01:50 UTC+2

Holz Calls Correctly On Scary River for Tournament Life

Blinds 3,000/6,00/6,000

Action began on the turn in a button-versus-blind battle. The board showed .

With about 90,000 in the middle, Fedor Holz checked from the big blind. Yosuke Nakazawa bet 60,000 on the button. Holz check-called.

The river fell the . Holz checked again. Nakazawa moved all in after about 10 seconds of thought. Holz started counting his stack while considering the call for his tournament life, he had just under 60,000 remaining. Eventually, he did make the call.

Fedor Holz:
Yosuke Nakazawa:

Holz picked off the bluff, sending him up the leaderboard to about twice the average stack size.

Joueur	Jetons	Progression
Fedor Holz	302,000	210,000
Yosuke Nakazawa	216,000	-139,000

Tags: Fedor Holz Yosuke Nakazawa

2022-12-09 20:44 UTC+2

Cutri Wins Massive Three-Way Cooler

Blinds: 200/500/500

Action began on the flop with three players looking at a board of and about 4,000 in the pot.

Daniele Grassi checked from the blinds, so did Luciano Cutri from middle position. Victor Vozian bet 2,500 also from middle position. Both other players called.

The turn brought the inconspicuous . Action again checked to Vozian who fired 4,500. Grassi check-raised all in for 22,000. Next up, Cutri thought for a while before also moving all in, him for 20,000. He called his friend over from a nearby table.

Meanwhile, Vozian started tanking. After about a minute, he also made the call for a three-way river card.

Daniele Grassi:
Luciano Cutri:
Victor Vozian:

The turn drilled both Grassi and Cutri, with the former drawing dead and Vozian drawing very thin. The river fell the to ship the main pot to Cutri and the few thousand in the side pot over to Grassi.

Joueur	Jetons	Progression
Luciano Cutri	82,000	82,000
Victor Vozian	9,200	9,200
Daniele Grassi	4,000	4,000

Tags: Daniele Grassi Luciano Cutri Victor Vozian

2022-12-09 20:01 UTC+2

Paramythellis Runs Down Aces, It Was Suited

Blinds: 100/300/300

Action picked up on the flop in a heads-up pot with about 9,000 in the middle. The board showed .

Vasileios Paramythellis checked from middle position to Danut Chisu, who bet 6,000. Paramythellis called quickly.

The turn came the and both players checked without hesitation.

On the river, Paramythellis led for 8,600. Chisu didn't like it, but he obliged with a call.

Paramythellis revealed for rivered two pair, while Chisu showed his that were no good on the full board.

Joueur	Jetons	Progression
Vasileios Paramythellis	53,200	53,200
Danut Chisu	11,200	11,200

Tags: Danut Chisu Vasileios Paramythellis

2022-12-09 18:13 UTC+2

Final Starting Flight Set to Begin in €1,100 Eureka Main Event

The final starting flight of the €1,100 Eureka Main Event is all set to begin this evening here at the PokerStars European Poker Tour Prague. Day 1d begins at 6 p.m. local time.

The venue here at Hilton Prague has seen record numbers for this event, with well over 3,000 players already registered. Players who have yet to find a bag will have one final chance to do so this evening.

Several big names grabbed bags over the first two flights yesterday, some with large stacks. We won't see Fabrice Bigot (692,000), Konstantin Farber (475,000), or Sammy Truong (392,000) today as they have secured their spots for Saturday's Day 2. Although, they're all looking up at one man who knows this tournament all too well.

Alejandro Lococo sits atop the leaderboard after a fantastic showing on Thursday that led to him bagging 1,083,000. As last year's event winner, there might be magic here in the streets of Prague that Lococo is tapping into. He's set the bar very high for today's final flight.

Players today will get 30,000 starting chips to put to use with 20-minute blinds on this final Day 1 flight. Breaks of 20 minutes will be taken every two hours. Play will stop when 15 percent of the field is reached, with all players that make Day 2 in the money. Late registration is open until the start of Level 11. This is a single reentry per flight tournament.

The PokerNews live reporting team will be here throughout the series as well as through the end of this €1,100 Eureka Main Event. Stay tuned in here to be sure how it all shakes out. In the meantime, also check out our coverage of other ongoing events here at EPT Prague.