59 Players Progress to Day 2 of the EAPT Bratislava Main Event
It's time for Day 2 of the EAPT Bratislava Main Event, here at Banco Casino. Among the 389 entrants recorded in this event, 59 players successfully qualified through one of the five Day 1s during the last days and will be back today, Saturday, January 27, for the second part of the tournament.
Day 1e, the last flight of all, was the one to build a big stack, as Miklos Zsuffa bagged 883,000 chips last night. He is the overall chip leader for Day 2, ahead of all the other chip leaders of Day 1s: Rostyslav Sabishchenko (715,000), Adrian Filip (630,000), and Zsolt Szabo (614,000). Only Ruslan Volkov isn't in the Top 10, as he ended Day 1c with the biggest stack of his flight, but only 332,000 chips.
Day 1s Chip Counts Top 10
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Miklos Zsuffa | Hungary | 883,000 | 442 |
| 2 | Rostyslav Sabishchenko | Ukraine | 715,000 | 358 |
| 3 | Adrian Filip | Romania | 630,000 | 315 |
| 4 | Zsolt Szabo | Hungary | 614,000 | 307 |
| 5 | Matej Macejak | Slovakia | 608,000 | 304 |
| 6 | Benjamin Lakatos | Hungary | 602,000 | 301 |
| 7 | Maksym Sheingart | Israel | 550,000 | 275 |
| 8 | Christoph Hillinger | Austria | 546,000 | 273 |
| 9 | Boris Progner | Slovakia | 483,000 | 242 |
| 10 | Steinn Karlsson | Iceland | 460,000 | 230 |
Maksym Sheingart (550,000), Steinn Karlsson (460,000), Konstantinos Nanos (395,000), or Michel Molenaar (194,500) also secured the minimum cash prize, as well as Roy Even, who'll start the day with a single blind.
Play resumes at noon local time on Level 10, with blinds of 1,000/2,000 and a 2,000 big blind ante. This very low level compared to the sixteen levels played on the other flights is due to Day 1c, which ended early because of the small number of players on this flight. That also explains why the chip leaders will have more than 300 blinds.
The situation will be back to normal during the day, as blinds will increase every 45 minutes. The day will end at the end of Level 25 or when 16 players remain.
Stay tuned as the PokerNews live reporting team will once again be on the floor following the action on the road to crowning a champion.