€1,100 Eureka Main Event Day 1a | 2022 PokerStars EPT Prague

€1,100 Eureka Main Event

Day 1a Completed

12-09-2022 03:46 UTC+1

Notable Names Bow Out as €1,100 Eureka Main Event Draws Gigantic Field

Calum Grant

Level 18 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

A mammoth-sized field turned out for the €1,100 Eureka Main Event inside the Hilton Prague, which has become one of the must-play events of the PokerStars European Poker Tour Prague.

Day 1a of the tournament attracted a whopping 959 entries, surpassing the 694 figure which came on the same day in March's edition of EPT Prague. Day 1b, which is just wrapping up also saw an increase and had a further 434 entries.

Day 1c and Day 1d have also begun to create a players list with 314 and 1 registering for the final two starting flights. Overall, 1,708 entries have been counted so far and is on pace to break the attendance record which stands at 3,155.

The Day 1a field generated €920,960 of the €1,639,680 prize pool, which looks to eclipse the €3,028,800 collected back in the Spring time.

Eureka Main Event By The Numbers

Event	Entries	Advanced	Prize Pool
€1,100 Eureka Main Event Day 1a	959	144	€920,640
€1,100 Eureka Main Event Day 1b	434	65	€416,640
€1,100 Eureka Main Event Day 1c	314	-	€301,440
€1,100 Eureka Main Event Day 1d	1	-	€960
€1,100 Eureka Main Event Day 2	-	-	-
€1,100 Eureka Main Event Day 3	-	-	-
€1,100 Eureka Main Event Day 4	-	-	-

Notable Names Struggle in Day 1a

Left to Right: Pierre Calamusa, Andrea Ricci, Kyriakos Papadopolous, Jessica Tuesl — Left to Right: Pierre Calamusa, Andrea Ricci, Kyriakos Papadopoulos, Jessica Teusl

A host of poker's top names turned out for Day 1a, but were unable to make into the final 15% of the field. The likes of Fedor Holz, Pierre Calamusa, Andrea Ricci, Kyriakos Papadopoulos and Jessica Teusl all fell short of navigating the first hurdle.

PokerStars Ambassadors Alejandro Lococo and Benjamin Spragg also hopped into the Eureka Main Event but suffered the same fate as the names above.

When the dust settled on Day 1a, Damir Savio ended the session as chip leader with a stack of 849,000. Tournament circuit regular Dawid Smolka also had a fruitful day on the felt and bagged 680,000 in chips. France's Aurelien Russo rounds out the top three chip counts and will begin Day 2 with a healthy stack worth 606,000.

The bubble burst in quick fashion, and the 144 Day 1a advancers have all locked up the min-cash which will be determined when the rest of the Day 1's play out.

Eureka Main Event Day 1a Top 10 Chip Counts

Place	Name	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	Damir Savio	Italy	849,000	106
2	Dawid Smolka (pictured)	Poland	680,000	85
3	Aurelien Russo	France	606,000	76
4	Toni Kaukua	Finland	595,000	74
5	Fredrik Skarfstad	Sweden	558,000	70
6	Konstantin Farber	Germany	475,000	59
7	Yulian Bogdanov	Bulgaria	443,000	55
8	Thomas Channell	England	436,000	55
9	Peter Tordai	Hungary	424,000	53
10	Safwane Bahri	France	421,000	53

PokerNews will be on the ground for Day 1c and Day 1d of the Eureka Main Event, which gets underway on Friday, December 9 at 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. CET respectively.

12-09-2022 02:50 UTC+1

End of Day 1a Chip Counts (full)

Calum Grant

Level 18 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Damir Savio	849,000 849,000	849,000

Dawid Smolka	680,000 680,000	680,000
Aurelien Russo	606,000 331,000	331,000
Toni Kaukua	595,000 595,000	595,000
Fredrik Skarfstad	558,000 558,000	558,000
Konstantin Farber	475,000 101,000	101,000
Yulian Bogdanov	443,000 443,000	443,000
Thomas Channell	436,000 116,000	116,000
Peter Tordai	424,000 424,000	424,000
Safwane Bahri	421,000 101,000	101,000
Pascal Vos	416,000 44,000	44,000
Alessio Isaia	410,000 410,000	410,000
Shkelzen Varaku	404,000 144,000	144,000
Tauan de Oliveira	399,000 399,000	399,000
Shai Arbel	388,000 388,000	388,000
Jürgen Resch	367,000 367,000	367,000
Jozsef Harsing	365,000 165,000	165,000
Kamal Boughareb	344,000 344,000	344,000
Eros Nastasi	339,000 -6,000	-6,000
Michel Molenaar	331,000 331,000	331,000
Adi Rajkovic	328,000 328,000	328,000
Elias Suhonen	328,000 328,000	328,000
Maria Agnoletto Andrea	327,000 327,000	327,000
Valentin-Marius Cristea	326,000 36,000	36,000
Marek Rous	321,000 321,000	321,000

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12-09-2022 02:40 UTC+1

Bubble Bursts; 144 Players Bag for Day 2

Calum Grant

Level 18 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Day 1a of the €1,100 Eureka Main Event has come to a close following the bursting of the bubble.

144 of the 959 entries have made it through to Day 2, which plays out on Saturday, December.

Day 1b concludes in a few hours time, with Day 1c and 1d getting underway on Friday, December 9 and 12 p.m. and 6 p.m. CET respectively.

Full chip counts and end of day recap to follow shortly.

12-09-2022 02:33 UTC+1

Hand-for-Hand Play Begins

Calum Grant

Level 18 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Day 1a will close when two more players are eliminated, so the tournament director has indicated that the event will be going into hand-for-hand play.

Level: 18

Blinds: 4,000/8,000

Ante: 8,000

12-09-2022 02:31 UTC+1

Nadeem Doubles Up Two Opponents

Calum Grant

Level 17 : Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante

Thomas Vieth was all in from middle position for 86,000,000 and action folded to Majid Nadeem, who shoved as the bigger stack from the small blind.

Vieth, was the favorite for the stack boost as he had the and was up against Nadeem's . Vieth continued to survive as the board ran out with the .

A couple hands later, Nadeem was all in again David Farkas, who was once down to one big blind. His last 30,000 was at risk, While Nadeem has 56,000 total.

David Farkas:
Majid Nadeem:

Again Nadeem doubled up a table mate and was now firmly in the danger zone with 146 players remaining,

Player	Chips	Progress
Thomas Vieth	182,000 -8,000	-8,000
David Farkas	75,000 57,000	57,000
Majid Nadeem	26,000 -129,000	-129,000

12-09-2022 02:19 UTC+1

Channell Folds Out Kuzmanovic

Calum Grant

Level 17 : Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante

Boris Kuzmanovic opened to 12,000 from under the gun and was called by Thomas Channell from the small blind.

Channell check-called for 22,000 on the flop before the turn checked through to the river. Channell then led with a bet which quickly folded out his opponent.