Make that a 9-1 chip lead now

Keith now heads up against Antonio Rodriguez from Dieguez Rodriguez from Spain. He has a 2-1 chip lead.

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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.

[Name Nationality PokerStars Status Chips Table Seat]

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

Good luck to all who play. Been only 8 months since I left, but it feels like a long time ago. Have a lot of good memories of GUKPTs at the Vic so hope its another good one for all the players, staff and bloggers. Out in Prague right now for the first of the new Eureka Poker Tour events, which also starts tomorrow. Looks like it will be a good turnout.

23rd of December, that's my birthday. Geez I run bad.

Thread does what it says on the tin, twice! Not only is it a tedious ruling, but a tedious thread also.

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Buy-in seems a bit low. Surprised they took the affordable option instead of going for a more interesting one of say $500,000 (with rebuys).

Good luck for the future Julian, fwiw, I think you're a great ambassador for the game, whether you have a sponsor or not.

On another note, I lol everytime someone talks about sites 'snapping' people up.

Slovenia does actually use the Euro and in most of the other countries, their casinos usually choose the Euro over their own currency for gaming purposes. It also keeps it more consistent and avoids currency exchange issues for online satellites, which are all in Euros.

I did 12 years at Blue Square/Grosvenor. It was time for a change.

Online qualifiers on PokerStars, Events>Specials tab