With a total of 426 entries, Days 1a and 1b felt like warm-ups compared to the 1,138 entrants recorded today, Thursday, December 7, on Day 1c of the €1,100 Eureka Main Event of the 2023 PokerStars European Poker Tour at the Hilton Prague.
But out of this massive field, only 171 players made it to the money as they managed to bag chips when 15% of the field remained. If qualifying for Day 2 was a tough task for some players, it was an easy job for Marcin Dziubdziela, who ended up as the chip leader with 852,000 chips. It is almost one average stack ahead of another Polish player, Damian Wroblewski, second in chips with 701,000, while the third place belongs to Laurent Vauquelin (671,000).
Eureka Main Event Day 1c Top 10 Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marcin Dziubdziela | Poland | 852,000 | 142 |
| 2 | Damian Wroblewski | Poland | 701,000 | 117 |
| 3 | Laurent Vauquelin | France | 671,000 | 112 |
| 4 | Miroslav Forman | Czechia | 601,000 | 100 |
| 5 | Danut Chisu | Romania | 505,000 | 84 |
| 6 | Totti Arosuo | Finland | 501,000 | 84 |
| 7 | Julien Sitbon | France | 500,000 | 83 |
| 8 | Manuel Valduga | Italy | 497,000 | 83 |
| 9 | Christos Xanthopoulos | Greece | 495,000 | 83 |
| 10 | Andrej Tekel | Austria | 491,000 | 82 |
After finishing 17th in this event in 2022, Danut Chisu will try to do better this year. He's off to a good start as he has managed to reach the Top 10 (505,000), ahead of Julien Sitbon, who bagged half a million chips. Ran Shahar (425,000) and Ercan Atmaca (227,000) qualified with a stack above average as well, along with PokerStars Ambassador Felix Schneiders (208,000). Ramon Colillas also made it to the money, but with a smaller stack (67,000).
A few other notables also found a bag to enter Day 2, such as Jason Wheeler (158,000), Jacques Guenni (155,000), 2023 EPT Monte-Carlo FPS champion Daisuke Ogita (154,000), Frederik Thiemer (126,000), or the recent WSOPE Main Event winner Max Neugebauer (106,000).
However, this flight was unsuccessful for players like Benjamin Spragg, Marle Spragg, William Kassouf, Niklas Astedt, or Tamas Adamszki, who won the EPT Prague €10,200 No-Limit Hold'em event for €117,150 earlier in the day.
To qualify for Day 2, they'll have to take one or several other shots in the last two flights which will take place tomorrow, Friday, December 8. Action will start at 11:00 a.m. with Day 1e on 30-minute levels. Then, Day 1f will kick off at 6:00 p.m., with 20-minute levels.
Stay tuned as the PokerNews live reporting team is on-site and will be back tomorrow for continued coverage of the €1,100 Eureka Main Event.
