Julian Thomas Leads High Roller After Day 1 in Rozvadov

Christian Zetzsche

Level 8 : 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

The 2017 partypoker LIVE German Poker Championships saw a total of 40 entries for the �5,300 High Roller tournament at the King's Casino in Rozvadov, putting the event on track to meet the guarantee of �250,000. Late registration and unlimited re-entries are available for another four levels on Day 2 and the action will recommence as of 2 p.m. local time on Thursday, August 10th.

Leading the field of 33 survivors that bagged up chips is 2013 WPT Prague champion Julian Thomas (288,000), who edged past Moritz Dietrich (278,100) in the last level of the night. Thomas was among those to join with a slight delay and immediately scored a huge boost to his stack when his back door nut straight on the turn was good enough to double through Manig Loeser's turned set of jacks.

German High Roller regular Philipp Gruissem rounds out the top three overnight with 219,200, while Paul Michaelis follows close behind with 214,500. Just before the clocks were stopped and the last hands for the night announced, the WSOP bracelet winner from Berlin flopped a set of nines and scored a full double through the flopped set of deuces of Pierre Neuville. The Belgian made it through to Day 2 with just 59,000 as a result.

Other notables and big stacks include 2017 WSOP Main Event 8th place finisher Jack Sinclair (190,400), Ismael Bojang (180,000), partypoker team pro Kristen Bicknell (156,500), Sander van Wesemael (114,300), Matthias de Meulder (112,300), Maxi Lehmanski (82,700), the second-ever Czech WSOP bracelet winner Artur Rudziankov (77,800), partypoker team pro Jan-Peter Jachtmann (77,300), 2016 November Niner Vojtech Ruzicka (28,800) and former EPT champion Hossein Ensan (26,000).

Among those to bust on Day 1 were Kenny Hallaert, Andreas Eiler and Anatoly Filatov. They may all very well be back in action for level nine with blinds of 800-1,600, the button ante is in play. All new entries and re-entries will receive 100,000 in chips and the tournament is scheduled to play down to a winner on Day 2, though depending on the field size this may be alternated still.

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Day 2 Seat Draw

Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
83	1	Scott Hanna	Czech Republic	106,000	66
83	2	Jan-Peter Jachtmann	Germany	77,300	48
83	3	Oliver Heidel	Germany	96,400	60
83	5	Wim Neys	Belgium	67,900	42
83	7	Ismael Bojang	Germany	180,000	113

84	2	Maxi Lehmanski	Germany	82,700	52
84	3	Sander van Wesemael	Netherlands	114,300	71
84	4	Paul Michaelis	Germany	214,500	134
84	5	Michal Schuh	Czech Republic	92,600	58
84	6	Matthias de Meulder	Belgium	112,300	70

89	3	Fabrice Halleux	Belgium	98,500	62
89	4	Jonathan Wong	United Kingdom	95,700	60
89	5	Jan Mach	Czech Republic	124,400	78
89	7	Hossein Ensan	Germany	26,000	16
89	8	Jack Sinclair	United Kingdom	190,400	119

90	1	Roman Cieslik	Germany	113,700	71
90	2	Artur Rudziankov	Czech Republic	77,800	49
90	3	The Talk	Germany	99,400	62
90	6	Joseph Oren	United States	143,500	90
90	8	Kristen Bicknell	Canada	156,500	98

95	2	Van Tiep Nguyen	Germany	185,000	116
95	3	Pierre Neuville	Belgium	59,000	37
95	4	Kacper Pyzara	Poland	145,100	91
95	6	Robin Hegele	Germany	62,600	39
95	7	Michael Brandau	Germany	71,100	44

96	2	Philipp Gruissem	Germany	219,200	137
96	6	Abraham Passet	Germany	94,900	59
96	7	Petr Liesner	Czech Republic	122,000	76
96	8	Vojtech Ruzicka	Czech Republic	28,800	18

101	1	Manig Loeser	Germany	50,900	32
101	2	Moritz Dietrich	Austria	278,100	174
101	4	Benjamin Benoit	France	119,800	75
101	7	Julian Thomas	Austria	288,000	180