Day 2 of Record-Breaking €1,100 Eureka Main Event Sees 659 Hopefuls Return
Across six starting flights, 4,403 entries have been made in the €1,100 Eureka Main Event, held as part of the PokerStars European Poker Tour Prague. Outdoing the 4,017 entries that stood as the previous Eureka record, a massive prize pool of €4,226,880 has been collected.
The exact payout structure has yet to be announced, but each of the 659 players who come back to Hilton Prague today at noon for Day 2 has secured a min-cash, and the winner is expected to take home more than 2022’s winner Pieter Theelen, who collected €496,760 in last year’s edition of the Eureka Main Event.
Speaking of Theelen, he made it to Day 2 once more, and with an above-average stack of 218,000 chips. He will start with roughly 44 big blinds, as blinds will be rolled back to the 2,000/5,000 level that Day 1a ended on. With 26 minutes left to play in that level, Thielen will have some time to try to catch up with chipleader Mengshi Tian, who starts today with the biggest overall stack, having bagged 889,000 chips on Day 1e.
Meanwhile, Day 1c chipleader Marcin Dziubdziela comes into Day 2 in second place with 852,000 chips, while Mircea Flutur completes the podium, having bagged 772,000 chips on Day 1a. Day 1d chipleader Amir Mozaffarian (700,000) and Thomas Syversen (667,000), who managed to secure the biggest bag at the final flight of the tournament, also find themselves in the top ten chip counts at the start of Day 2.
Start of Day 2 Top Ten Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mengshi Tian | Hong Kong | 889,000 | 178 |
| 2 | Marcin Dziubdziela | Poland | 852,000 | 170 |
| 3 | Mircea Flutur | Romania | 772,000 | 154 |
| 4 | Damian Wroblewski | Poland | 701,000 | 140 |
| 5 | Amir Mozaffarian | Germany | 700,000 | 140 |
| 6 | Laurent Vauquelin | France | 671,000 | 134 |
| 7 | Michel Karim | Sweden | 669,000 | 134 |
| 8 | Thomas Syversen | Norway | 667,000 | 133 |
| 9 | Fabio Peluso | Italy | 622,000 | 124 |
| 10 | Domenico Frisenna | Italy | 611,000 | 122 |
Meanwhile, household names like Danut Chisu (505,000), Julien Sitbon (500,000), Pablo Silva (335,000), and mixed-games wizard and COOP-legend Tobias Leknes (329,000) will also have plenty of chips to play with on Day 2.
UKIPT Player of the Year David Docherty (305,000) will also join the second day of the biggest Eureka Main Event ever, as well as the Red Spade brigade of Felix Schneiders (208,000), Parker Talbot (194,000), Fintan Hand (92,000), and Ramon Colillas (67,000). Alejandro Lococo will join his colleagues with 155,000 chips, looking for repeated success after shipping this very event at the postponed 2021 EPT Prague
After the 26 remaining minutes of Level 16 have been completed, seven more 60-minute levels are scheduled to be played on Day 2, with no dinner break to be had. At that point, the field will have completed Level 23: 10,000/25,000 with a 25,000 big blind ante, and all remaining players will bag their chips up for Day 3, which is happening on December 10th.
Be sure to stick around on PokerNews for all of the exciting action on Day 2 of the €1,100 Eureka Main Event, and witness who will survive the onslaught to still have a shot at obtaining one of the massive six-figure payouts that are in store for the top finishers of the tournament.