Pokercode Member Tim Bakker Big Stack on Day 1b; Pavel Chalupka Leads Entering Day 2
The inaugural Pokercode Festival at Banco Casino Bratislava roared ahead on Day 1b of the €125,000 guaranteed Pokercode Festival Bratislava Main Event with 122 entries getting into the action to bring the total field size after the first two opening flights up to 197 entries.
The figure will be higher by the time late registration closes with more than 30 players battling it out in the turbo Day 1c and players allowed to late register and re-enter until the close of the first blind level of Saturday's Day 2.
Slovakia's Pavel Chalupka bagged the Day 1b chip lead with a stack of 430,000 placing him in the overall chip lead after passing Day 1a chip leader Vladimir Bednar who bagged 421,500. Alexander Baier was the only other player to advance thus far with more than 400,000 in chips after bagging the second-biggest stack on Day 1b.
Meanwhile, active Pokercode community member Tim Bakker had an amazing day and ended Day 1b with 356,500. Bakker catapulted to near the top of the leaderboard after he eliminated two players in the same hand including Andrej Desset.
Desset wasn't the only huge name battling it out on Day 1b as both Steffen Sontheimer and Mario Mosbock got into the action. Sontheimer fired two bullets only to come up empty-handed while Mosbock advanced to Day 2 with a short stack.
Pokercode Festival Bratislava Main Event Day 1b Top Ten Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Chips | Day 2 Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pavel Chalupka | 430,000 | 108 |
| 2 | Alexander Baier | 401,000 | 100 |
| 3 | Tim Bakker | 356,500 | 89 |
| 4 | Filip Jurga | 334,000 | 84 |
| 5 | Fabian Bernhauser | 302,000 | 76 |
| 6 | Quirin Heinz | 267,000 | 67 |
| 7 | Isuf Hoxa | 267,000 | 67 |
| 8 | Dominik Neumaier | 262,000 | 66 |
| 9 | Frank Hanisch | 252,000 | 63 |
| 10 | Gabriel Izo | 218,000 | 55 |
Pub Quiz at 9:30 p.m. CEST
Pokercode will be hosting a pub quiz on Friday evening at 9:30 p.m. CEST with Pokercode Marketing Director Milko Van Winden acting as the host for its community members where players will team up in hopes of winning an authentic t-shirt autographed by Pokercode co-founder Fedor Holz.
Day 2 Kicks Off Saturday at Noon CEST
Be sure to return to the PokerNews coverage tomorrow, Sept. 10 for Day 2 at 12 p.m. CEST. The action will start with Level 12 with blinds at 2,000/4,000 along with a big blind ante of 4,000. Blind levels will increase every 40 minutes with Day 2 completing once a final table of nine players is reached.
Players that came up empty so far will still have one final chance tomorrow with late registration closing at the end of Level 12.
Stay tuned at PokerNews to see who will advance to the final table Pokercode Festival Bratislava Main Event.