The tension is building in Prague as the European Poker Tour (EPT) reaches its business end of the series, and the World Poker Tour (WPT) get ready for their final starting day of the bwin WPT Main Event at the Card Casino.
Max Silver is the man everyone will be trying to catch when the final 61-players compete for the right to either make it through five full levels, or reach the final 16, in Day 5 of the EPT Prague Main Event.
The former United Kingdom & Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT) champion sits atop of the field with 3,987,000 in chips, but he has plenty of quality snapping at his heels.
It wouldn’t be the deep end of a major poker tournament if it didn’t contain one, or ten, Germans and this field is no exception. Julian Track (3,010,000), former Partouche Poker Tour (PPT) and Masters Classic winner Ole Schemion (2,700,000) and the recent Eureka Poker Tour Prague winner Dimitri Holdeew (1,200,000) are all hoping to surpass Silver on their way to gold.
Stephen Chidwick (2,084,000), World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner Sigurd Eskeland (1,264,000) and three-time EPT final table act Andrew Chen (1,134,000) are also in the field.
€10,000 EPT High Roller Reaches Day 2
The €10,000 EPT High Roller has reached day 2 and 84 players remain from the starting field of 135 entrants with Georgios Karakousis leading the way with 407,200 chips.
The two-time EPT Main Event runner-up Max Heinzelmann (268,300), Jonathan Little (241,000), Vanessa Selbst (236,000), Isaac Haxton (207,900) and Dan Shak (205,800) are just a few of the players who also finished the day with chip stacks in excess of 200,000.
That number of entrants could still increase as players have until the start of play to register.
The bwin WPT Prague Main Event Reaches Day 1C
The third starting flight of the bwin sponsored WPT Prague main event is ready to kick of at the Card Casino, and its expected to be the largest of the three fields with more players spilling over from the EPT series.
Day 1A ended with the WPT Grand Prix de Paris runner-up, Vasili Firsau, at the head of the chip counts with 167,700, and he remains the chip leader proper after the WSOP bracelet winner, Jason Duval, headed the top of the Day 1B charts with 153,000 chips.
Other notables through to Day 2 include the two-time WPT Champion Marvin Rettenmaier (89,600), two-time WSOP bracelet winner Roger Hairabedian (92,500), former EPT Champion Kevin MacPhee (83,800) and PartyPoker Ambassador Kara Scott (61,800).
Day 1C action will kick off at 12:00 (local time) and re-entry will be open all day.
