Picking the action up on a 6♠A♦6♦10♥A♠ board in a three-way pot, Rene Keller bet 1,600, causing Mathieu Rabalison to fold but getting the call from Maksim Petrov.
Petrov showed Ax7x for a full house to take down an early pot as Keller mucked his hand.
A new day has begun at the PokerStars European Poker Tour Prague, which means that another starting flight of the €1,100 Eureka Main Event is on the schedule at the luxurious Hilton Prague.
Two of the six starting flights have already been completed on the first day of the iconic poker festival, seeing 426 entries across Day 1a and Day 1b. As all flights play down until the money has been reached, 63 players secured their bags for Day 2 already, with Mircea Flutur from Romania amassing the chip lead. He ended up with a whopping 772,000 chips on Day 1a, which was good for 154 big blinds when play concluded. Flutur is head and shoulders above his nearest competitors so far, as France’s Christian Ly sits in second place with 571,000 chips.
Hometown hero Ondrej Goetz had the most chips in his possession when the slightly faster-paced Day 1b reached its conclusion, bagging 514,000 chips to start Day 2 with, which happens on Saturday, December 9th. PokerStars AmbassadorsParker Talbot (194,000) and Alejandro Lococo (155,000) also found themselves with chips at the end of their starting flights.
€1,100 Eureka Main Event Top Ten Chip Counts
Rank
Player
Country
Chip Count
Big Blinds
1
Mircea Flutur
Romania
772,000
154
2
Christian Ly
France
571,000
114
3
Ondrej Goetz
Czechia
514,000
103
4
Komil Khadimov
Poland
493,000
99
5
João Mestre Ferreira
Mexico
481,000
96
6
Ender Lacin
Turkey
427,000
85
7
Joonas Helin
Finland
411,000
82
8
Tomas Chmela
Slovakia
363,000
73
9
Nikolai Ogoltsov
Czechia
361,000
72
10
Alejandro Vazquez
Spain
344,000
69
Mircea Flutur
Meanwhile, Day 1c will follow the same recipe as Day 1a, meaning that every player starts with 30,000 chips in their possession. When the action kicks off at noon local time, blinds will be at 100/100 with a big blind ante of 100. Levels will be 40 minutes throughout the day, and the flight will play down to 15% of the field, at which point the money will have been reached and the remaining players can bag and tag for Day 2.
As with every starting day, the late registration is open for ten levels, after which the starting stack is worth 20 big blinds. A 75-minute dinner break is conveniently scheduled after Level 10, meaning that players can fill their bellies before making a last-minute effort on Day 1c. Each player has two entries at their disposal. If they exhaust both bullets on Day 1c, Day 1d is slated to start at 6 p.m., which follows the same structure but with 30-minute levels instead, in addition to shorter breaks.
As always, stay tuned to PokerNews as another big turnout is expected, guaranteeing plenty of action, big pots, and bad beats from the beautiful capital of Czechia.
