888poker LIVE Is Back In Bucharest For Day 1a of �560 Main Event
The poker spotlight returns to Bucharest today for the first of four starting flights in the �560 888poker LIVE Main Event, with a guaranteed �200,000 prize pool waiting to be claimed. The festival has been underway for the past five days of exciting action at 888poker Room Bucharest, with professionals and online qualifiers getting into the mix as Day 1 begins at 5 p.m. local time.
Action during the first three Main Event starting flights will see players try to survive a total of twelve 45-minute levels, while the turbo Day 1d flight features 20-minute levels. The remaining field will then combine for Day 2 on Saturday, March 23 before the final table will crown a new champion on Sunday, March 24.
The 888poker LIVE series last visited Bucharest in August, when Romanian Viorel Gavrila outlasted a field of 191 entries to earn the largest tournament cash of his poker career, after beating Admir Qinami heads up with pocket aces over kings.
2023 888poker LIVE Bucharest Main Event Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize (EUR) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Viorel Gavrila | Romania | �30,000 |
| 2 | Admir Qinami | Albania | �19,500 |
| 3 | Marius Gicovanu | Romania | �14,500 |
| 4 | Andrii Zaika | Ukraine | �11,500 |
| 5 | Razvan Belea | Romania | �9,200 |
| 6 | Gheorghe Velcea | Romania | �6,900 |
| 7 | Konstantinos Vatseris | Greece | �5,300 |
| 8 | Maksims Gorbacs | Latvia | �4,000 |
| 9 | Alexandru Marcu | Romania | �3,500 |
Other past 888poker LIVE champions in the Romanian capital include 2022 winner Slaven Popov, who captured his first live tournament win by defeating a field of 272 entries to earn �35,000 after a heads-up deal.
Prior to that, the festival endured a three-year hiatus dating back to 2019 when Darius Neagoe took down the trophy over a field of 505 entries. The inaugural event back in 2018 saw Romanian Andrei Racolta take top spot for �71,042.
Main Event action kicks off at 5 p.m. local time, when all players will receive a starting stack of 50,000 chips. The opening level will see blinds of 100/100 and a 100 big blind ante. The tournament features unlimited reentries, with late registration remaining open until the start of Day 2.
Stay tuned as the PokerNews live reporting team will follow all the action, counting down to identifying a new champion here in Bucharest.