Alejandro Lococo Stays True to Form and Bags Big Stack on Day 1b of the Eureka High Roller

Day 1b of Event #17: $2,200 High Roller at the 2023 PokerStars European Poker Tour Cyprus attracted 433 runners, which along with Day 1a’s 1,011 brought the total field up to 1,444 players that made their way to the Merit Royal Diamond Hotel Casino & Spa. This generated a massive prize pool of $2,772,480.

After 20 levels of play, 64 players remained in the second flight of the day. PokerStars ambassador Alejandro Lococo (665,000) is no stranger to bagging a big stack and today was no different. He may have started off quietly but when the bubble began to approach, he could be seen pushing the action and going for all of his opponent's chips on a regular basis. He will enter Day 2 as the chip leader of this flight and be in the mix for the overall spot.

There were however multiple players to bag big stacks. Pascal Hartmann (610,000) of Germany, Sarkis Wael (484,000) of Lebanon, Henok Tekle (466,000) of the Netherlands and Ran Shahar (444,000) of Isreal will all be on Lococo's radar as Day 2 begins.

Place	Name	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	Alejandro Lococo	Argentina	665000	111
2	Pascal Hartmann	Germany	610000	102
3	Sarkis Wael	Lebanon	484000	81
4	Henok Tekle	Netherlands	466000	78
5	Ran Shahar	Israel	444000	74
6	Oleg Furman	Israel	415000	69
7	Osman Aksu	Turkey	330000	55
8	Nicanor Sula	Moldova	327000	55
9	Andreas Tomazou	Cyprus	315000	53
10	Ravil Khamatgareev	Russia	310000	52

Some other notable names to bag chips and move on to Day 2 were PSPC Champion Aliaksandr Shylko (96,000) of Belarus, 2018 EPT Barcelona Main Event Champion Piotr Nurzynski (99,000) of Poland, and 2013 EPT Barcelona Main Event Champion Tom Middleton.

Unfortunately, not everyone was so fortunate. Among those to bust on Day 1b were PokerStars Ambassadors Ben “Spraggy” Spragg and Parker “Tonkaaaa” Talbot. Plus, WSOP Bracelet winner Pete Chen to name just a few.

Day 2 will kick off Monday October 16th at 12:00 p.m. EET and will see a total of 216 players returning when the flights are combined. Play will begin with 5:12 left on the clock in level 17, 3,000/6,000/6,000 blinds, where Flight 1a left off. The seat draw and prize breakdown will be announced before play begins in the morning.

Although Lococo holds the chip lead there are multiple players from both flights on his heals and as always, it is anyone’s tournament to win.