Welcome to the Final Two Opening Flights of the PokerNews Cup Kulata Main Event

Welcome to the final two opening flights of the PokerNews Cup Main Event at Finix Casino. The action for Day 1c kicks off at 1 p.m. EEST followed by the turbo-charged Day 1d six hours later at 7 p.m. EEST.

Players will be competing for at least a share of €100,000 guaranteed for a €550 buy-in or less if they qualified online or through one of the many €60 live satellites running at Finix Casino. One of the players that qualified via a live satellite is PokerNews Global Live Reporting Manager Yori Epskamp from the Netherlands.

There will be plenty of opportunities for players to build a monster stack starting off with 50,000 in chips and unlimited reentries permitted during each of the four opening flights on May 15-17. The first three flights, including today's Day 1c, feature 30-minute blind levels. The final Day 1d flight will be fast-paced with 15-minute blind levels.

The action for each opening flight continues until just 15 percent of the field remains, at which time all players will already be in the money. Players that successfully bag chips on Day 1 will battle it out in a deeper structure of 40-minute blind levels on May 18-19 until is crowned.

Here is a look at today's structure with breaks taking place after every four blind levels.

Level	Small Blind	Big Blind	Big Blind Ante
1	50	100
2	75	150
3	100	200
4	150	300	300
5	200	400	400
6	200	500	500
7	300	600	600
8	400	800	800
9	500	1,000	1,000
10	600	1,200	1,200
11	800	1,600	1,600
12	1,000	2,000	2,000
13	1,000	2,500	2,500
14	1,500	3,000	3,000
15	2,000	4,000	4,000
16	2,500	5,000	5,000
17	3,000	6,000	6,000
18	4,000	8,000	8,000
19	5,000	10,000	10,000
20	6,000	12,000	12,000

Rosen Simeonov bagged a tournament-leading 640,000 in chips on Day 1a, just ahead of Marian Ivanov, who bagged 580,000 chips on Day 1a. On there heels are Christina Orfanidou (Day 1a - 324,000), Vasileios Gkogkas (Day 2 - 229,000), and Andreas Chalkiadakis (Day 1b - 204,000).