Title: Eureka Poker Tour Prague Post by: AlrightJack on March 19, 2011, 01:46:16 PM The inaugural Eureka Poker Tour event, taking place at the Card Casino in Prague is well underway. A total of 329 players took their seats over 2 starting days on Thursday and Friday and now 98 have returned for day 2. Several Brits still entered but while Mike Hill, Neil Rawnsley and Will Frost all exited yesterday, James Keys, Mitchell Johnson and Keith Johnson are still in the chase for the €58,400 first prize. James wasn't even going to play, but when I told him he could still potentially finish 2nd in this and make it to Snowfest on time, he took one look at the rain coming down outside and decided to eschew his intended plans to go for a walk round Prague. He took his seat just a few minutes before the late entry period closed.
Today they will play nine levels or until they get to the final eight. This is how they line up: Name Nationality PokerStars Status Chips Table Seat Marius Ionel Tripsa Romania 127,000 6 3 Jaroslav Urban Czech Republic 114,000 12 2 Cristian Murgoci Romania PokerStars Player 107,100 1 2 Kamil Kóska Poland PokerStars Qualifier 104,900 4 4 Oldřich Šiml Czech Republic 102,100 7 7 Jakub Ratulowski Poland PokerStars Qualifier 98,600 8 1 Martin Strban Slovakia PokerStars Qualifier 98,400 12 5 Lucian Mod-Luhasz Ovidiu Romania PokerStars Qualifier 98,300 9 1 Pawel Bartosz Poland PokerStars Qualifier 97,900 2 3 Chuc Viorel Ion Burlan Romania PokerStars Player 97,900 13 5 Martin Švub Czech Republic PokerStars Qualifier 93,600 5 5 Pavel Berka Czech Republic 88,800 8 2 Zsolt Vasvenszki Hungary 87,400 3 2 Grzegorz Mikielewicz Poland PokerStars Qualifier 86,100 13 1 Ringo Libolt Luxembourg PokerStars Qualifier 83,300 13 6 Stefan Brand Germany PokerStars Qualifier 78,400 6 8 Thomas Pill Denmark 77,700 14 7 Veronika Kokoceva Czech Republic 76,500 7 5 Ward de Bruyn Netherlands PokerStars Player 74,200 7 4 Gosztonyi Csaba Hungary 73,200 14 4 Petar Zografov Russia 72,800 7 1 Christian Polkow Germany PokerStars Qualifier 70,700 9 3 Michal Maryška Czech Republic 70,100 5 4 James Keys United Kingdom 69,000 1 6 Martin Jeník Czech Republic PokerStars Qualifier 67,600 14 3 Vitaly Malyakin Russia 67,400 6 5 Mitchell Johnson United Kingdom PokerStars Player 67,300 12 1 Wojciech Kaminski Poland PokerStars Qualifier 66,700 7 6 Krzysztof Nega Poland PokerStars Qualifier 65,200 9 2 Loredan Hanganu Romania PokerStars Qualifier 61,300 15 2 Sebastian Lucuta Romania PokerStars Qualifier 61,100 2 4 David Torok Hungary 61,100 14 2 Jens Eisner Denmark 61,000 9 4 Marius Pospiech Germany PokerStars Qualifier 59,700 12 7 Gianfranco Ironico Italy 59,000 5 6 Severin Schleser Austria PokerStars Qualifier 58,200 8 7 Lubor Dědič Czech Republic PokerStars Player 58,100 15 4 Robin De Bondt Belgium PokerStars Qualifier 54,300 15 5 Ondřej Vinklárek Czech Republic 52,600 3 5 Keith Johnson United Kingdom PokerStars Player 52,100 9 7 Ivan Anatolevich Skobolov Russia PokerStars Player 51,200 3 6 Kework Besiktasliyan Netherlands PokerStars Player 50,000 15 6 Thomas Winder Germany PokerStars Qualifier 49,400 13 4 Frederickx Alexander Belgium 46,700 3 1 Sergey Levin Russia 46,200 15 1 Ján Petráš Czech Republic 46,000 13 3 Stelyan Georgiev Bulgaria PokerStars Qualifier 45,300 4 3 Ole Petter Nordbø Norway PokerStars Qualifier 43,900 1 7 Marius Culescu Romania 43,700 1 3 János Mécs Hungary PokerStars Qualifier 43,600 4 8 Vlado Banicevic Montenegro 42,900 5 1 Gábor Körtvélyessy Hungary PokerStars Qualifier 42,700 2 6 Tamas Hermecz Hungary 42,500 4 6 Calin Furdui Romania PokerStars Player 41,600 15 3 Tomas Petru Czech Republic 41,400 6 4 Bart Hoogeboom Netherlands PokerStars Player 39,800 13 7 Jérôme Brugger Switzerland PokerStars Qualifier 39,100 12 4 Antonio Dieguez Rodriguez Spain PokerStars Qualifier 39,000 15 7 Bohumil Valenta Czech Republic 38,400 8 4 Roman Kadziela Poland 38,200 6 2 Michael Garcell United States PokerStars Qualifier 38,100 9 6 Constantin Flutur Sorin Romania PokerStars Qualifier 38,100 12 3 Stefan Kollar Slovakia 38,100 14 5 Béla Tóth Hungary PokerStars Qualifier 37,300 14 6 Antti Kalevi Virtanen Finland PokerStars Qualifier 36,900 5 2 Marco Johanes Adams Netherlands 34,200 8 5 Claudia Csongei Hungary PokerStars Player 33,000 2 5 Peter Harangozo Hungary PokerStars Qualifier 31,500 2 2 Pawel Sanojca Poland PokerStars Player 31,100 9 5 Petr Kralicek Czech Republic 30,900 12 6 Lukosevicius Mindaugas Lithuania PokerStars Qualifier 30,600 2 7 Sergey Orekhov Russia 30,400 1 8 Ioannis Prokopakis Greece PokerStars Qualifier 30,300 14 1 Keller Csaba Hungary 27,600 3 3 Mikhail Rudenko Russia 26,800 7 2 Fabrizio Salina Switzerland 26,200 5 7 Mario Zeljko Croatia PokerStars Qualifier 25,600 5 8 Florian Mücke Germany PokerStars Qualifier 25,100 6 6 Kim Alexander Eduardovich Russia PokerStars Qualifier 24,800 2 1 Pawek Boruta Poland 24,800 4 5 Jiri Stuchlik Czech Republic 22,600 4 1 Marcus Ekman Sweden PokerStars Qualifier 22,300 7 3 Christoph Kohler Germany PokerStars Player 22,200 1 5 Lieke van Wordragen Netherlands PokerStars Qualifier 21,600 1 1 Sabin Filev Bulgaria 21,600 4 2 Julian Hasse Germany PokerStars Qualifier 20,500 4 7 Patric Hümmerich Germany PokerStars Player 19,600 7 8 Miloslav Ilanovský Slovakia 18,700 1 4 Łukasz Paluch Poland PokerStrars Qualfier 16,600 8 6 Grzegorz Cichocki Poland PokerStars Qualifier 16,400 6 1 Tomasz Szpila Poland PokerStars Qualifier 15,300 3 4 Yuriy Leskiv Ukraine 14,500 3 8 Ahmad Hassanein Denmark PokerStars Qualifier 14,000 6 7 Guenther Lukat Germany PokerStars Player 13,700 13 2 Nikolai Aleis Germany 12,700 3 7 Jan Petermann Germany PokerStars Qualifier 11,300 2 8 Tomas Fibigr Czech Republic 11,100 8 3 Thomer Pidun Germany PokerStars Qualifier 10,900 5 3 Title: Re: Eureka Poker Tour Prague Post by: The Camel on March 19, 2011, 02:43:08 PM "Take a look around Prague"
Is that what they call it these days? Title: Re: Eureka Poker Tour Prague Post by: MC on March 19, 2011, 02:59:46 PM "Take a look around Prague" Is that what they call it these days? lolz Title: Re: Eureka Poker Tour Prague Post by: Mitch on March 19, 2011, 03:08:16 PM Me and Keys busto, Keith about avg on 1st break.
Really well run tourny, good structure and excellent dealers. Deffo planning on playing some more of these. Title: Re: Eureka Poker Tour Prague Post by: smashedagain on March 19, 2011, 06:42:21 PM Mr rabb always sails a good shiP.
Title: Re: Eureka Poker Tour Prague Post by: AlrightJack on March 20, 2011, 08:08:27 PM 5 left on the final table, including Keith Johnson, who is currently the chip leader, on 1.8m of the 4.9m in play. If anyone wants to follow his progress, updates can be found on the PS blog.
Title: Re: Eureka Poker Tour Prague Post by: millidonk on March 20, 2011, 10:41:42 PM Keith and Antonio Dieguez Rodriguez HU.
Title: Re: Eureka Poker Tour Prague Post by: AlrightJack on March 20, 2011, 10:54:35 PM Keith now heads up against Antonio Rodriguez from Dieguez Rodriguez from Spain. He has a 2-1 chip lead.
Title: Re: Eureka Poker Tour Prague Post by: AlrightJack on March 20, 2011, 10:57:07 PM Make that a 9-1 chip lead now
Title: Re: Eureka Poker Tour Prague Post by: paulhouk03 on March 20, 2011, 11:24:21 PM win
Title: Re: Eureka Poker Tour Prague Post by: AlrightJack on March 20, 2011, 11:51:06 PM Keith ships for €58,400!
Eureka! Title: Re: Eureka Poker Tour Prague Post by: cambridgealex on March 21, 2011, 12:42:45 AM Great series, really recommend it to all fish. If you're a winning player I wouldn't bother - very high standard, poorly run etc. Better off playing elsewhere.
Title: Re: Eureka Poker Tour Prague Post by: AlrightJack on March 21, 2011, 12:51:36 AM lol, see you at the next one Alex.
Title: Re: Eureka Poker Tour Prague Post by: bergeroo on March 21, 2011, 01:17:28 PM I really liked the main event - I thought it seemed like a really good structure for an 800euro event. Would have loved the side events to have a bit of a higher buy in - not high roller style, but perhaps half the main event buy in and slightly bigger turbos, but this is not really a complaint.
The turbos were capped at 80 and for some reason they didn't have any alternates even though more people wanted to play? Seemed a bit odd! When I pointed out there were 9 seats at a poker table, so there was one spare seat, they let me in as number 81. The dealers were basically competent, if a bit surly. I asked one his name and he said "why?". Local players seemed to be able to get away with a little bit more, like reaching over the line with a pile of chips and dropping one for a call and just little sloppy things like that - but many were more recreational, so that's fine. However, in a cash game I was in a hand with an absolutely terrible ruling. I don't know if the tour uses the floor staff and has a tournament director from the casino or has its own. After this i really hope it has its own! It was a 25/50 krone cash game which is the equivalent of 1/2 euro. Hand is as follows. Guy opens from early position, mid position calls, button calls, as do I in the small blind and the big blind comes along too. Flop is QJT and I check and it checks around to the button. Button is a slow player and is kind of covering his cards, so the dealer burns and turns. A second queen on the turn QJT(Q). These mistakes happen and I believe that in every other casino I've ever been in the turn queen will now be shuffled back into the deck, the button decides his flop action and then a new turn is dealt. Or the queen is put aside, the next card is burnt and turned. Ie the river is now the turn, then the queen is shuffled into the deck before the river is dealt - that way only one card is now different. I believe either one of these rulings is super standard? What instead happened was the turn was dealt. The dealer noticed the button, an older Czech guy hadn't acted and then gave him the option to act, having now already seen what card was coming on the turn! He checked and then the dealer came to me in the sb for my turn action. I instantly said to the dealer - wait a minute, that turn doesn't go - he's got unfair extra information for his flop action. At this point, the dealer who had been quite fluent in English before, suddenly didn't seem to speak much any more. I had to just sit there and ask him to call the floor about five times. Eventually the floor comes over. A stern, well built, 50-something Czech lady. Dealer explained it to her in Czech, I then explained it to her in English. She definitely knew what happened and the order it did, but she said to me - ok carry on with the hand, you are to act. To me this is an absolutely ridiculous ruling, it quite possible completely affected the hand. I continued to try and say that the turn should be shuffled back into the deck but eventually she walked away. I considered just sitting there and not acting and getting someone to call a clock on me which would require the floor lady to come back over but that would have been stupid and petty. Instead I played out the hand and the rest of the orbit and then went and cashed out my chips with the intention of never playing there again. The best part was at the end of the hand, the button bet the river and everyone folded, he then flashed a queen. So indeed him seeing the turn could well have completely influenced his flop action. I don't think it was an angle shoot, more incompetence and the button certainly wasn't good enough to take advantage anyway, but it doesn't fill me with confidence to play in a place that doesn't know basic poker situations like thisand where I may get the rough end of the stick in a ruling if I am not Czech. I don't expect perfect dealing and rulings all the time. But dealers and floor in the Italian Poker Tour and UK Poker Tour venues - both Stars sponsored events, have been first class in my experience, so I was disappointed more than anything. I'm sure Jonathan has no direct control over the dealers at the casino, but he does choose the venues, so I guess I just wanted to write about this hand. I certainly plan to play Zagreb in September and all the best with the tour! Title: Re: Eureka Poker Tour Prague Post by: AlrightJack on March 21, 2011, 02:51:10 PM Hi, thanks for the feedback. The venue in Prague has a reputation for having the best dealers in the country and the TD/Manager Vaclav Rychtarik is very experienced and extremely competent. This was one of the main reasons we decided to use this venue and all things considered, i would be happy to go back there. That said, the venue by their own admission did have a few newer dealers working during the event, so although the overall standard was pretty good, there may have been a few who were not so skilled amongst them.
We will have our own TD at all the remaining Eureka events this year to ensure consistency and maintain standards, but dealers and floor staff will largely be provided by each venue. The next stop in Nova Gorica is at the Perla Casino, which is one of the largest in Europe and they have a lot of experience running poker events - The IPT goes there regularly, as do several other tours. The Bulgarian event is also at a casino we have previously held an event at and is also a well run and managed venue. For almost all our tours we have control over how the main event and side events are run, but usually cash games are run by the venue rather than by us. I will however pass your comments on the ruling on to the Card Casino Prague, as I am sure they will find it useful feedback. We're considering having a high roller side event at one or two of the stops later in the year and I'm also working on a new format that I hope to be able to run at a Eureka event at some point. Title: Re: Eureka Poker Tour Prague Post by: bergeroo on March 21, 2011, 06:23:25 PM Mr Raab - thanks for the reply!
Certainly I can see why the buy in level of 800 has been chosen for the main events and I think that is a good amount, but yeah a more beefy selection of side events would encourage someone like me to make a trip of it and go and check out the tournament in one or two of these interesting countries/cities - but of course you have to find a balance and there are only 4/5 days in the festival. Like I say, I think it was a really good first event, just soured with me after the terrible floor ruling. All the best with the next one. Title: Keith Johnson - Eureka Poker Tour Prague! Post by: jack2off on March 21, 2011, 07:07:29 PM http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/tournaments/eureka-poker-tour/season-1-6/prague-3/
Nice one Keith, DTD reg! great bloke! Title: Re: Keith Johnson - Eureka Poker Tour Prague! Post by: BAM on March 21, 2011, 07:14:46 PM Jeez Mitch more gym work please!
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