Markus Sturz Leads WSOPC Rozvadov Main Event Day 1b

It was a busy day at King's Casino Rozvadov for the second starting flight of the €1,650 WSOPC Main Event, with 480 players in total, including 84 re-entries, entering to bring the total number so far - late registration and re-entry is still open until the start of Day 2 - to 742, smashing the €1,000,000 guarantee.

By the end of 12 levels, it was Markus Sturz who was the grateful beneficiary of a late surge in chips to bag 368,700 in chips, comfortably ahead of Alexander Romme (310,500) who bagged the Day 1a chip lead.

Other big stacks included Cem Eryigit (230,500), Iman Gazorishadiz (213,300) and Andre Haneberg (193,000).

Also still in with a shot of WSOPC glory are Martin Kabrhel (162,300), Jaroslaw Sikora (133,300), Michael Sklenicka (80,000), Philipp Zukernik (78,300), Abdelhakim Zoufri (62,900), Yehuda Cohen (50,300).

Several well-known players entered the Main Event early on, including Bart Lybaert who jumped into an early chip lead, albeit on his second bullet on Day 1b. Also chipping up early was Abdelhakim Zoufri, who is looking for a third consecutive big-field cash here in Rozvadov; Zoufri finished 27th in the WSOPE Main Event in November, and followed that up last month with a 47th place finish in the partypoker MILLIONS Germany Main Event.

It wasn't until Yves Sergeant sent Miika Toikka to the rail aces vs fours that one player held a real chip lead, with that pot taking Sergeant to the brink of a 100,000 stack. Also up to 100,000 was Lukas Zaskodny, who was the grateful beneficiary of a jam-happy opponent. Zaskodny picked up aces and sent this player and Rozvadov regular Yehuda "ChiKKita BanAAna" Cohen to the rail with his opponents holding ace-king and tens respectively.

Martin Kabrhel, fresh from his third-place finish in last night's €2,200 Pot Limit Omaha High Roller, would bust and re-enter, building a healthy stack on his second bullet in his own innovative fashion. Also still in at this stage were big names Vojtech Ruzicka, Pierre Neuville, Carlo Savinelli, Georgios Koliofotis and Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier.

Martin Staszko was eliminated, bluffing his chips off to Anes Peckovic with a missed flush draw, but he would re-enter almost immediately. Soon thereafter the makings of a real Day 1b chip leader contender began to emerge when Markus Sturz's Aces held against the nine-five of Mikhail Vilkov. Vilkov flopped trips, but the ace on the turn gave Sturz a full house, and the pair proceeded to get the rest of their chips into the middle on the river.

Sturz would add further chips to his stack as the final level ticked away to bag 368,700 ahead of Day 2 which gets underway at 2pm local time. Stay tuned to PokerNews for all the live updates from here at King's Casino, Rozvadov.

Day 2 Seat Draw

Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
79	1	Michal Lubas	Poland	29,900	19
79	2	Cameron Hunt	United Kingdom	78,100	49
79	3	Vojtěch Škalák	Czech Republic	28,800	18
79	4	Marek Šindelář	Czech Republic	55,200	35
79	6	Maurizio Cola	Italy	27,800	17
79	7	Madalin Cornel Petraru	Romania	81,100	51
79	8	Samir Akhoullou	Belgium	37,000	23

80	1	Attila Havacs	United Kingdom	27,100	17
80	2	Bartosz Jablonski	Poland	60,100	38
80	3	Karl Snow	United Kingdom	67,200	42
80	5	Jake Buckley	United Kingdom	131,600	82
80	6	El Turco	Germany	48,000	30
80	7	Timur Margolin	Israel	141,000	88
80	8	Iman Gazorishadiz	Germany	213,200	133

83	1	Leonardo Armino	Netherlands	58,200	36
83	2	Thomas Haney	United Kingdom	29,800	19
83	3	Andreas Bölling	Germany	116,500	73
83	4	Eberyoung38	Germany	33,900	21
83	5	Emrah Cakmak	France	45,700	29
83	7	Sebastian Kappenberg	Germany	34,400	22
83	8	Oleksandr Vikhtiuk	Ukraine	38,200	24

84	1	Harald Sammer	Austria	28,100	18
84	2	MIO	Germany	47,000	29
84	4	Žebrák	Czech Republic	28,600	18
84	5	Yehuda Cohen	Germany	50,300	31
84	6	Lukáš Záškodný	Czech Republic	166,400	104
84	7	Martin Hogarty	United Kingdom	27,000	17
84	8	Tezer Cetindag	Germany	79,000	49

85	1	Fabien Baldelli	France	59,000	37
85	2	EL PATRON	Spain	99,600	62
85	3	Piotr Kuszczak	Poland	88,000	55
85	4	Micky Blasi	Malta	58,000	36
85	5	Dennis Wilke	Germany	72,200	45
85	7	Alexander Heim	United Kingdom	50,400	32
85	8	Josef Guláš	Czech Republic	36,800	23

86	1	Bertrand Grospellier	France	63,100	39
86	2	Robert Schulz	Germany	79,600	50
86	3	Matouš Houžvíček	Czech Republic	159,700	100
86	4	Ivan Curic	Croatia	51,900	32
86	5	The Bank	Germany	53,200	33
86	6	Sampsa Hytönen	Finland	53,800	34
86	7	Grzegorz Wyraz	Poland	53,400	33

89	1	Dennis Kirsch	Germany	158,600	99
89	2	Alexey Zlobin	Russian Federation	28,500	18
89	4	Gerhard Schleicher	Germany	25,900	16
89	5	Majid Ejlal Noubarian	Islamic Republic Of Iran	151,900	95
89	6	Serif Gözegir	Germany	114,600	72
89	7	Andreas Heider	Germany	44,800	28
89	8	Inderinderin	Germany	71,000	44

90	1	Michael Sklenička	Czech Republic	80,000	50
90	2	Regine Frauenhoffer	Germany	32,000	20
90	4	Robert Auer	Austria	112,900	71
90	5	Oded Cohen	Israel	94,600	59
90	6	Langhans	Germany	75,200	47
90	7	Kevin Brzozowski	United Kingdom	21,600	14
90	8	Joshua Davis	United Kingdom	26,700	17

91	1	Ben Zech	Germany	187,600	117
91	2	Frédéric Abadie	France	48,800	31
91	3	Andrej Desset	Slovakia	60,700	38
91	4	Kajetan Lew Orecki	Poland	37,200	23
91	5	Weddy73	Germany	40,300	25
91	6	MMMM	Germany	41,200	26
91	8	Nutes	Spain	77,000	48

92	1	Igor Pihela Jr	Estonia	174,500	109
92	2	Dominik Poremba	Germany	149,900	94
92	3	Rehman Kassam	United Kingdom	20,600	13
92	4	Adam Bashford	United Kingdom	34,100	21
92	5	Viliyan Petleshkov	Bulgaria	96,300	60
92	6	Richard Kellett	Ireland	105,100	66
92	7	Bruno Alpi	Italy	35,500	22

95	1	Jiří Horák	Czech Republic	120,100	75
95	3	Jan Bednář	Czech Republic	138,000	86
95	4	Yves Sergeant	Belgium	89,500	56
95	5	Philip Pöppinghaus	Germany	142,400	89
95	6	Simon Binder	Germany	80,200	50
95	7	Tonio Röder	Germany	25,400	16
95	8	"""Cristiano"" THE GREATEST"	Germany	147,700	92

96	1	Jan Bloemedaal	Netherlands	32,600	20
96	2	Dejan Govedič	Slovenia	143,200	90
96	3	JULEZ	Germany	35,700	22
96	4	Niklas Ehrenholz	Germany	62,700	39
96	6	Ján Petráš	Czech Republic	28,400	18
96	7	František Žána	Czech Republic	76,800	48
96	8	Sean Lloyd	United Kingdom	17,000	11

97	1	Silvan Seelmann	Germany	19,100	12
97	3	Piotr Wiecek	Poland	104,900	66
97	4	Alex Prew	United Kingdom	31,400	20
97	5	Marko Duric	Croatia	100,600	63
97	6	Lukáš Klíma	Czech Republic	119,100	74
97	7	Sebastian Dornbracht	Germany	60,800	38
97	8	Frederic Schwarzer	Germany	29,400	18

98	1	Florian Sarnow	Germany	44,200	28
98	2	Andreas Mages	Austria	136,200	85
98	4	Nebojsa Ankucic	Austria	51,100	32
98	5	Mathias Wessel	Germany	99,900	62
98	6	Jonathan Hayward	United Kingdom	80,400	50
98	7	Stefan Raschbauer	Austria	69,700	44
98	8	Igna Poker	Spain	99,300	62

101	1	Claudio Di Giacomo	Italy	47,000	29
101	2	Ali Arseven	Germany	21,800	14
101	3	Norbert Raible	Germany	28,900	18
101	4	Layslight	Netherlands	101,000	63
101	5	Markus Sturz	Germany	368,700	230
101	6	Eyal Bensimhon	Austria	250,500	157
101	8	Alex Montgomery	United Kingdom	124,200	78

102	1	Amar Begovic	Bosnia and Herzegovina	39,900	25
102	2	Prezes	Poland	18,000	11
102	3	Elena Litvinyuk	Russian Federation	52,200	33
102	4	Robin Hegele	Germany	110,000	69
102	6	Milad Oghabian	Netherlands	37,900	24
102	7	Russel Betts	Ireland	102,300	64
102	8	Friedrich Räz	Switzerland	54,500	34

103	1	Michal Schuh	Czech Republic	61,200	38
103	2	Maximilian Redolfi	Germany	12,300	8
103	3	Oleh Haisiuk	Ukraine	163,500	102
103	4	Daniel Charlton	United Kingdom	60,900	38
103	5	Michael Koran	Switzerland	38,600	24
103	6	Sebastián Kos	Czech Republic	84,300	53
103	7	Matthew Wood	Ireland	64,100	40

104	1	Aleksandr Pozdniakov	Russian Federation	79,500	50
104	2	Marcin Dziubdziela	Poland	76,300	48
104	3	Mihail Florin Popa	Germany	34,400	22
104	4	Antoine Vranken	Netherlands	106,600	67
104	5	Loic Roussia	France	75,000	47
104	7	Marius Asanache	Romania	57,200	36
104	8	Tyler Komoroske	United States	36,500	23

107	1	Igor Hudáček	Slovakia	106,800	67
107	2	Andrei Grimberg	Romania	130,600	82
107	3	Boris Kuzmanovic	Croatia	45,500	28
107	4	Daniel Reeves	United Kingdom	51,100	32
107	5	Marc Sloan	Ireland	54,400	34
107	6	Francesco Delfoco	Italy	55,000	34
107	7	Vladyslav Kovalenko	Ukraine	55,500	35

108	1	Andreas Hildebrand	Germany	72,700	45
108	2	Nuno Miguel Carvalho Cabral	Portugal	37,700	24
108	3	IamTheBoss12	Germany	99,700	62
108	4	James Nixon	United Kingdom	50,700	32
108	5	Gareth Iddon	United Kingdom	25,800	16
108	6	Martin Kabrhel	Czech Republic	162,300	101
108	7	Amjad Nader	Syrian Arab Republic	50,100	31

109	1	Kandola Parminder Singh	United Kingdom	43,500	27
109	2	Levantito	Spain	167,300	105
109	3	Ruslan Datsenko	Ukraine	39,800	25
109	4	Tamer Ibrahim	Egypt	117,000	73
109	6	Nometiembla	Spain	27,300	17
109	7	Martin Mulsow	Germany	35,000	22
109	8	Marek Blaško	Slovakia	83,500	52

110	1	Remigiusz Wyrzykiewicz	Poland	61,800	39
110	2	Damian Porebski	Poland	25,400	16
110	4	Anes Pečkovič	Germany	72,200	45
110	5	Greko Gregor	Germany	20,900	13
110	6	Petr Svoboda	Czech Republic	111,100	69
110	7	Bigsmd	Germany	112,700	70
110	8	Jürgen Heidl	Austria	73,000	46

113	1	Abdelhakim Zoufri	Netherlands	62,900	39
113	2	Milan Šimko	Czech Republic	119,800	75
113	3	Siamak Tooran	Germany	116,200	73
113	4	Paul Jackson	United States	127,100	79
113	6	Iso Mujevič	Germany	80,400	50
113	7	GIN.ALI	Germany	28,900	18
113	8	Florian Goß	Germany	54,700	34

114	1	Rajeev Dhiri	United Kingdom	55,100	34
114	3	René Zembinský	Czech Republic	84,600	53
114	4	Lukáš Souček	Czech Republic	9,000	6
114	5	Edževit Zukorlič	Germany	114,700	72
114	6	JOBBI	Germany	117,000	73
114	7	Vojtěch Růžička	United Kingdom	127,100	79
114	8	Giorgi Darchia	Georgia	119,000	74

115	1	Paris	Germany	58,800	37
115	3	Adam Maxwell	Ireland	103,000	64
115	4	Hubert Matuszewski	Poland	22,300	14
115	5	Maximilian Trenkle	Germany	92,700	58
115	6	The Talk	Germany	36,000	23
115	7	Johann Rösnick	Germany	65,000	41
115	8	Clyde Tjauw-Foe	Netherlands	27,000	17

116	2	Petr Konáš	Czech Republic	90,500	57
116	3	Oleksandr Zhyrnov	Ukraine	67,500	42
116	4	Tiberiu Radu	Romania	36,000	23
116	5	Heiko Hoffmann	Switzerland	141,800	89
116	6	Marc Siebtroth	Germany	73,800	46
116	7	Stanislav Kozlovskyi	Ukraine	66,700	42
116	8	Josef Vogel	Germany	79,000	49

119	1	Aleksandr Konovalov	Russian Federation	42,700	27
119	2	Nicolas Garrigues	France	66,500	42
119	3	Tom Dingenen	Belgium	57,000	36
119	4	Jan Köhler	Germany	79,900	50
119	5	Malakinaikos	Greece	107,700	67
119	7	Martin Gabriel	Slovakia	124,800	78
119	8	Jonas Lechner	Germany	62,800	39

120	2	Karol Radomski	Poland	33,100	21
120	3	Enrico Campanile	Germany	131,400	82
120	4	Sandro Pitzanti	Netherlands	123,600	77
120	5	Jessica Teusl	Austria	48,100	30
120	6	Rifat Gegic	Serbia	166,300	104
120	7	Alina-Maria Bachner	Romania	130,700	82
120	8	David Novák	Czech Republic	67,100	42

121	1	Vladimír Bednár	Slovakia	89,900	56
121	2	Lukasz Prejs	Poland	16,000	10
121	3	Apostolos Chatzopoulos	Germany	24,000	15
121	4	Markus Kentzler	Germany	84,200	53
121	6	Radek Jantoš	Czech Republic	125,300	78
121	7	Daniele Linciano	Germany	150,300	94
121	8	Andre Haneberg	Germany	193,000	121

122	2	Stanislav Koleno	Slovakia	57,500	36
122	3	Benjamin Test	Israel	54,800	34
122	4	Harry Duke	Ireland	78,700	49
122	5	eMKey	Slovakia	33,600	21
122	6	Meir Lang	Israel	34,400	22
122	7	Martin Kuba	Czech Republic	114,300	71
122	8	Paul Redolfi	Germany	17,000	11

125	1	Daniel Wiedmann	Germany	30,000	19
125	2	Mehmet Emin Ögrük	Germany	85,600	54
125	3	Ilie Smintanca-Januszewski	France	61,900	39
125	5	Rene Mitsching	Germany	47,100	29
125	6	Andrei Demidov	Russian Federation	104,000	65
125	7	Manuel Seiz	Germany	48,500	30
125	8	Cedric Adam	France	31,300	20

126	2	Andreas Michelmann	Germany	40,700	25
126	3	Manuel Bulut	Germany	108,200	68
126	4	Rickie Silcock	United Kingdom	87,400	55
126	5	Kolja Lücking	Germany	59,000	37
126	6	AlphAbets	Germany	51,000	32
126	7	Martin Staszko	Czech Republic	42,800	27
126	8	Alexander Romme	Germany	310,500	194

127	1	William Webster	United Kingdom	20,000	13
127	2	Calin-Ioan Trif	Romania	69,500	43
127	4	Paul Boizesan	Romania	108,700	68
127	5	Martin Harris	United Kingdom	95,200	60
127	6	Stephan Klam	Germany	33,200	21
127	7	Thomas George	Ireland	129,300	81
127	8	Paul Berende	Netherlands	62,200	39

128	1	Tomasz Chmiel	Poland	75,100	47
128	3	Guido Presti	Italy	85,000	53
128	4	Dominik Nissen	Germany	22,300	14
128	5	Uri Gilboa	Israel	115,400	72
128	6	Thomas White	United Kingdom	160,000	100
128	7	Stefan Scharer	Germany	68,500	43
128	8	Oliver Huber	Germany	118,300	74

131	2	Makarios Avramidis	Germany	85,800	54
131	3	Vladimir Shraiberg	Greece	91,400	57
131	4	Jonathan Lübke	Germany	32,600	20
131	5	Milad Izadmousa	Germany	32,400	20
131	6	Monty	Czech Republic	51,500	32
131	7	AM12	Germany	24,200	15
131	8	[Removed:186]	Germany	37,600	24

132	1	Oleksii Ievchenko	Ukraine	23,500	15
132	2	Markus Höffe	Germany	157,100	98
132	3	Jakub Šenk	Czech Republic	168,800	106
132	4	Grzegorz Idziak	Poland	51,000	32
132	5	Amir Hossein Goliz	Germany	47,500	30
132	6	Marek Tatar	Slovakia	103,600	65
132	7	Dominik Matejka	Czech Republic	108,200	68

133	2	Michael Sauter	Germany	86,800	54
133	3	Patrik Ciklamíni	Slovakia	56,500	35
133	4	Stephan Bier	Germany	28,600	18
133	5	Dawoud Fares	Lebanon	125,800	79
133	6	Jenya Gavrilovich	Belarus	86,300	54
133	7	DAGI	Germany	94,900	59
133	8	Neculai Macovei	Romania	111,700	70

134	1	Dominik Desset	Slovakia	29,700	19
134	2	Pavel Stolař	Czech Republic	124,500	78
134	3	Jaroslaw Sikora	Poland	133,300	83
134	5	Eugen Schirnin	Germany	45,200	28
134	6	Micheal Allmroot	Germany	32,500	20
134	7	Son of Upland	Germany	123,800	77
134	8	Marius Catalin Stancescu	Romania	121,800	76

137	1	Andrej Bogdanov	Germany	25,100	16
137	2	Jose Acebes Lopez	Spain	107,600	67
137	3	Ringo Stimac	France	48,600	30
137	4	Daniel Rowlinson	United Kingdom	80,400	50
137	5	Terry Green	United Kingdom	20,300	13
137	7	Martins Adeniya	United Kingdom	106,800	67
137	8	Simon Böllinger	Germany	45,500	28

138	1	Shmuel Maman	Israel	17,700	11
138	2	Michael Witter	Germany	52,800	33
138	4	Matthias Nachtigal	Germany	36,800	23
138	5	Aleksei Ivanov	Belarus	73,800	46
138	6	Kasim Oz	United Kingdom	136,100	85
138	7	Cem Eryigit	Belgium	230,500	144
138	8	Peter Ralbovský	Slovakia	93,300	58

139	2	Alois Śprachta	Czech Republic	76,500	48
139	4	Marcin Chmielewski	Poland	82,900	52
139	5	Christian Stoyanov	Bulgaria	63,600	40
139	6	Josef Friedl	Germany	133,600	84
139	7	Marito7	Spain	113,700	71
139	8	Maciej Kondraszuk	Poland	28,000	18

140	2	Hael Al-Labani	Germany	80,400	50
140	3	Krzysztof Dulowski	Poland	45,600	29
140	4	Philipp Zukernik	Canada	78,300	49
140	5	Howard Michael	United Kingdom	66,600	42
140	6	Ivan Popov	Bulgaria	95,500	60
140	8	Jan Mach	Czech Republic	45,900	29