{"id":24401,"date":"2012-12-04T11:20:35","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T10:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/?p=24401"},"modified":"2020-10-29T11:19:43","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T11:19:43","slug":"wpt-prague-live-updates-day-1b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wpt-prague-live-updates-day-1b.html","title":{"rendered":"WPT Prague Live Updates Day 1b"},"content":{"rendered":"

Final Chipcount.<\/h3>\n

Sorry for the delay, but here they are. Final chipcounts of day 1b. There’s 90 players in this list \u2026 plus a mysterious ‘Mister X’ having one chip. We’re not going to find out what’s up with that until tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Mikhail Mazunin – 203600
\nAlexander Staengle – 157500
\nBrian Lemke – 155400
\nVladimir Velikov – 147800
\nWojciech Lozowski – 143700
\nFabian Quo\u00df – 134900
\nDenys Drobyna Drobyna – 128900
\nElio Prescot Fox – 123200
\nRasmus Lund Vogt – 118400
\nManuel Eric Bevand – 115600
\nJuan Carlos Alvadaro Rodriguez – 114600
\nClaus Bek Nielsen – 107800
\nMathew Ernest Frankland – 107500
\nAlin Gabriel Grasu – 103400
\nAlexander Lahkov – 96600
\nRomeo Gomila – 95400
\nIonel Anton – 91500
\nJan Nelson Collado Y Fernandez – 91100
\nSimon Ravnsbaek – 89200
\nJonathan Roy – 88600
\nZoltan Szabo – 88200
\nMatej Kokalj – 86200
\nRainer Kempe – 84800
\nLeonid Bilokur – 77900
\nBen William Arthur Warrington – 77600
\nOrjan Skommo – 77200
\nMorten Per Varbak Mortensen – 75200
\nLuis Cruz Rodriguez – 74900
\nIvan Kuziv – 74400
\nV\u00edt\u011bzslav Pe\u0161ta – 74000
\nAlexander Gerlach – 66500
\nSergio Aido Espina – 65000
\nCharania Moschin – 62600
\nJonathan Duhamel – 62500
\nJohn Joseph Eames – 60800
\nHille Elisabeth – 56700
\nFaraz Quddus Jaka – 56100
\nDavid Patrick Peters – 54000
\nAndy Boy – 53800
\nStephen Patrick Odwyer – 52300
\nYann Dion – 50500
\nGilbert Christian Diaz – 50000
\nIlya Antonov – 49500
\nTibor Janos Nagygyorgy – 49300
\nJohn Edward Andress 3 – 48800
\nKonstantin Puchkov – 46100
\nManuel Blaschke – 45800
\nAna Laura Marquez Esteban – 45100
\nMark I Herm – 44500
\nKara May Scott Tobin – 42600
\nPaul, Andre Guichard – 42500
\nGrayson Bary Ramage – 41700
\nAleh Plauski – 41300
\nErik Ingvar Olofsson – 40200
\nEugene Katchalov – 40000
\nHannu Toivo Olavi Peltola – 39500
\nAndras Fekete – 39400
\nMichael Kirk Larsen – 39000
\nNicholas John Alexander Galtos – 38000
\nSean Farshid Jazayeri – 37400
\nHarald Floberghagen – 35700
\nAnton Wigg – 35000
\nKyle Joseph Frey – 33800
\nMichael Darel Benvenuti – 33700
\nNiall Farrell – 33700
\nStephan Alexander O Kjerstad – 30900
\nRoger Patrick Hairbedian – 30600
\nJonn F\u00f6rst – 30100
\nPascal Dominic Hartmann – 29300
\nRobert Cezarescu – 28000
\nYuksel Karayigit – 26900
\nJose Carlos Garcia Y Malek – 26100
\nOleksii Kravchuk – 24100
\nEoghan O Dea – 22900
\nLars Bonding – 21700
\nAndrei Nikonov – 20400
\nJakub Maciej Michalak – 19600
\nJason Mark Mercier – 18900
\nAlan Ryan Engel – 18800
\nLinh Tran – 18600
\nBzron John Alexander Kaverman – 18500
\nMads Amot – 17800
\nThomas Ryo Muhlocker – 17700
\nStjepan Jokic – 16600
\nCeline Bastian – 14900
\nMathew Heap – 14000
\nKristijonas Andrulis – 13300
\nBenjamin Hannig – 12300
\nRasmus Agerskov Larsen – 11600
\nAmichai Barer – 5500<\/p>\n

That’s It For Day 1b.<\/h3>\n

We’re done. Chips are packed. Players left. It’s just us here wrapping up day 1b, waiting for the official chipcount.<\/p>\n

We caught up with Wojciech \u201cWozzo\u201d Lozowski right after he stood up from his table. Even after long eleven hours in the poker room<\/a> he was willing to give us a short interview.<\/p>\n

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Skyrocketing.<\/h3>\n

Alexander St\u00e4ngle has been above average the whole day \u2026 as far as we know. He continuously built up his stack, seemingly determined to get to that top spot in the chipcounts.<\/p>\n

Whilst we don’t have any hand details, we’re happy to see the bwin player doing well in the WPT Main Event. He’s slowly approaching a stack of 200,000 chips.<\/p>\n

The Czech Republic has been a good country for him in 2012. In February he finished 2nd in a \u20ac500 Bounty tournament of the GCOP (German Championship of Poker) at the Kings Casino in Rozvadov.<\/p>\n

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Meet The PartyPoker Girls.<\/h3>\n

There’s the Royal Flush Girls, the bwin Grid Girls \u2026 and if you qualify through PartyPoker you’re going to meet the PartyPoker Girls.<\/p>\n

Who needs words when there’s a picture:<\/p>\n

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Mikhail Still In The Chiplead.<\/h3>\n

Mikhail Mazunin has been day 1b’s chipleader for the last levels. At his table there’s another big stack, belonging to Denys Drobyna.<\/p>\n

The two played out a hand recently, where Denys check-called Mikhail’s bet on a flop. Another club on the turn slowed down the action and the two saw an uninteresting on the river. Again it was check-call from Denys, who mucked his cards after seeing and therefor flopped flush from Mikhail.<\/p>\n

Mazunin ~ 170,000
\nDrobyna ~ 137,000<\/p>\n

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Slowly Approaching The Last Level.<\/h3>\n

Day 1a saw less than half of the starters survive the nine levels. If today is going to end in a similar way, we’ll see a lot of all ins and calls in the last 70 minutes.<\/p>\n

Right now there are 121 players sitting at the table. With 179 starting into day 1b we lost less than a third of the field so far. There are several short stacks out there, a lot of them won’t be able to get over the finish line. Blinds are soon 400\/800 with an ante of 100. Due to the lack of eliminations so far the average stack is ‘only’ 50BB deep.<\/p>\n

One of the most active players seems to be PartyPoker’s own John F\u00f6rst from Germany. Whenever we pass his table, he’s involved in a hand. He does so rather successful, although his stack dropped during the last level. Tibor Nagygyorgy two places to his left seems determined to stop the young German as he takes every opportunity to play against him. So far without the success he was probably hoping for.<\/p>\n

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Ever Heard About This Guy?<\/h3>\n

Wojciech “Lozo” Lozowski was invited by bwin to play the WPT Prague. The Polish player is a celebrity in his home country. Lead singer of the band Afromental, he’s probably had enough experience in the spotlights to cope with the pressure at the poker table.<\/p>\n

We’ll try to get him in front of the microphone (so basically into his natural environment) for an interview. For now, watch Afromental’s video of their newest hit single ‘It’s my life’.<\/p>\n

That’s it For Two Of Our Guys.<\/h3>\n

Mikhail Surin been hanging around with a short stack for the last couple of hours. An uncontested all in here and there but not much else.
\nRight after the dinner break he got his last 8,000 in chips into the middle and was up against [Ax][Kx] and [Ax][Ax]. So far so bad. Unfortunately Mikhail was holding [Kx][Jx]. Not much on the board to help him and our Russian exits the room.<\/p>\n

Only moments later it’s Peter Griesmann’s turn to follow him. He was down to 6k, when he pushed [Ax][3x] from the small blind. The big blind found [Ax][Kx] and knocked our Austrian out. Simple as that.<\/p>\n

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Cards Are Back In The Air.<\/h3>\n

The chipcounts below are far from complete, but they should be more or less accurate. We focused on our PartyPoker and bwin qualifiers.<\/p>\n

The overall chipleader seems to be Russian player Mikhail Mazunin, who’s closing in on 150k.<\/p>\n

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Zoltan Szabo – 63,000
\nBenjamin Hannig – 11,000
\nJonn F\u00f6rst – 75,000
\nLuis Rodriguez Cruz – 23,000
\nY\u00fcksel Karayigit – 17,000
\nDiego Tripodi – 36,000
\nMarek Prazak – 39,000
\nLars Bonding – 53,000
\nIvan Kuziv – 43,000
\nPeter Griesmann – 7,000
\nHeribert Ipfelkofer – 70,000
\nMarcus Balmert – 17,000
\nMichael Kirk Larsen – 60,000
\nKim-Andre Torsvik – 45,000
\nDaniil Rumyantsev – 14,000
\nOleksii Kravchuk – 41,000
\nMikhail Surin – 8,000
\nHarald Floberghagen – 42,000
\nKara Scott – 40,000
\nAndras Fekete – 31,000<\/p>\n

Dinnerbreak.<\/h3>\n

After grabbing something to eat ourselves we’ll do some chipcounts. Cards are back in the air in an hour.<\/p>\n

Piotr Franczak Active.<\/h3>\n

He managed to get chips very early on after taking a successful shot at French bunnyman Ilan Boujenah<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

This time our Polish player couldn’t close the deal. On a [2x] he got all the money in holding . His opponent Sergio Aido Espina was on a flushdraw with . While the turn didn’t change the situation, a third diamond on the river gave the Spaniard a flushdraw and a 50k pot.<\/p>\n

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\nPiotr Franczak writing to his friends about his recent loss<\/em><\/p>\n

The Party is Over.<\/h3>\n

A couple of PartyPoker players are drawing thin. While Peter Griesmann and Mikhail Surin are hanging onto a small stack.
\nVesa Leikos and Toma\u017e Kogov\u0161ek on the other hand couldn’t get a much needed double up.<\/p>\n

Toma\u017e went all in holding and ran right into aces from bunny Paul Guichard. The board didn’t give much help to our Slovenian player, who left the tournament rather disappointed.<\/p>\n

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Some Stacks.<\/h3>\n

During the break we started looking around. And counting. There aren’t any huge stacks, 60,000 seems to be the benchmark right now (starting stack was 30k).<\/p>\n

Alexander St\u00e4ngle seems to have the biggest stack among our PartyPoker players, with 65k he could very well be overall chipleader. Fabian Quoss is hard on his heels with almost 60k.<\/p>\n

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\nFabian Quoss<\/em><\/p>\n

Here’s a fine selection of stacks:<\/p>\n

Alexander St\u00e4ngle – 65,000
\nFabian Quoss – 60,000
\nAmatos Gomila – 40,000
\nKara Scott – 28,000
\nIvan Kuziv – 55,000<\/p>\n

From WSOP to WPT.<\/h3>\n

Duhamel isn’t the only WSOP bracelet holder that took the re-entry option on day 1b. We just saw Brian Lemke entering the room. We caught him on camera last night. Videos are still being edited.<\/p>\n

The turnout build up to a total of 167 players, with two levels of late registration left. Still, only five have left the tournament area so far.<\/p>\n

We’re off to another break, returning with 150\/300 blinds and ante 25. We may get some chipcounts during the break.<\/p>\n

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Bluffs, Re-entries and Pigs.<\/h3>\n

It’s always fun to be around Andras Fekete. If you followed this blog on past events, you probably remember him from WPT Malta<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

During the break I grabbed him for a quick interview. Honestly, I don’t know what to say, I wasn’t even sure if he’s joking or not. But listen for yourself:<\/p>\n

He gave me a longer insight on the whole pig thing. It’s a Hungarian tradition and the pig looks more like a sheep to me. If you’re interested, search for ‘mangalica’, as we’re done with that story here.<\/p>\n

Duhamel – The Return.<\/h3>\n

During the break Jonathan Duhamel and Eugene Katchalov took their seats. The former was already playing yesterday on day 1a. So he’s actually entitled to play the freeroll today, where all busted players from day 1a get the chance to win another Main Event seat.<\/p>\n

Winning almost $9 Million at the 2010 WSOP Main Event<\/strong><\/a>, Mr. Duhamel doesn’t need that kind of charity. We’re curious to see how his 2nd attempt will work out. Should he bust today, we’ll probably see him tomorrow for a 3rd time.<\/p>\n

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It’s Crowded In Here.<\/h3>\n

We’re up to 150 players on day 1b.<\/p>\n

On almost every table there are multiple PartyPoker and bwin players. On table nine three of them are sitting right next to each other. Let’s see if Michael Larsen, Kim Torsvik and Daniil Rumyantsev are staying out of each others way. There’s Gaelle Bauman to their left, so we’ll keep a close look to that table.<\/p>\n

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After two levels of play we got our first 15-minutes break. When we return the blinds will be 100\/200.<\/p>\n

Update on Day 1a.<\/h3>\n

Having the final list of all PartyPoker and bwin qualifiers in my hands, I tracked down some who actually played yesterday. And made it through to day 2!<\/p>\n

Here’s the three guys and their chipcount after day 1a:<\/p>\n

Pawel Brzeski – 173,100
\nEddie Tasbas – 78,600
\nMichael Aron – 15,000<\/p>\n

Pawel is actually sitting in 3rd place of the chipcounts<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Rabbit Down.<\/h3>\n

One of them at least. Ilan Boujenah has the dubious honour to be the first person busting on day 1b.<\/p>\n

Ilan 3-bets preflop to 1,250 (blinds 50\/100), two players join him to see a [Jx][9x][2x] flop with two spades. After a called and raised c-bet it is Ilan and Polish player Piotr Franczak wo remain in the hand.<\/p>\n

Before the turn is dealt, Ilan moves all in blind. Piotr awaits the turn (which is another jack), before calling and turning over [Jx][Tx] for trips. Ilan shows for a flushdraw but misses all his outs on the river.<\/p>\n

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Day 1b is Looking Good.<\/h3>\n

Level 1 has just started and we’re already up to 125 players. Late registration is open for the first six levels. Day 1a saw a total of 115 people starting the WPT Prague Main Event.<\/p>\n

According to our list, there should be 29 players from PartyPoker and bwin at the tables. It will take us some time to find them all.<\/p>\n

Rabbit Invasion.<\/h3>\n

No idea where they came from. No idea what they want. No idea how I should behave around them. They sure scare the shit out of me.
\nKinda makes me think about those bunnies hopping around in teletubby episodes \u2026 which makes it even scarier!<\/p>\n

Maybe that’s why I’m not sitting at the poker table. Better doing reports from behind the bulletproof windows of the media section.<\/p>\n

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Against better judgement I looked up their names:
\nYou may remember Gaelle Baumann from this years WSOP Main Event, the others are Celine Bastian, Ilan Boujenah and Paul Guichard.<\/p>\n

I don’t really want to, but will get more information about what’s going on.
\nActually, it seems as there are more animals taking their seats at the tables.<\/p>\n

Ready to go?<\/h3>\n

We are. It’s 1pm here in Prague. Like yesterday we’ll have a slight delay. The tournament area is slowly filling up. Funny enough, it seems that 80% of the players sitting at the tables have a PartyPoker or bwin gear\/patch on them.<\/p>\n

While I’m typing here, we got our standard ‘Shuffle Up and Deal’. So off we go.<\/p>\n

Welcome Back.<\/h3>\n

We already took our seats in the media section of the Kings Casino at the Corinthia Hotel in Prague. As for now we’re the only people here \u2026 apart from that one guy who’s fixing the felt of a poker table.<\/p>\n

Kickoff for day 1b will be at 1pm. Today we’re going to see most of the PartyPoker and bwin qualifiers at the WPT Prague tables.<\/p>\n

If you’d like to read about day 1a, you can do so in yesterdays live blog<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

What are your thoughts? Let us know in the comments and follow us on Twitter<\/a><\/strong> for more poker greatness.<\/p>\n

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Final Chipcount. Sorry for the delay, but here they are. Final chipcounts of day 1b. There’s 90 players in this list \u2026 plus a mysterious ‘Mister X’ having one chip. We’re not going to find out what’s up with that until tomorrow. Mikhail Mazunin – 203600 Alexander Staengle – 157500 Brian Lemke – 155400 Vladimir<\/p>\n

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