Regnhard Hermansen Leading at 2015 King’s Cup Main Event After Day 1a

Regnhard Hermansen is leading the PokerStars.net King's Cup Main Event after Day 1a. The Dane bagged 162,000 chips to top 83-entry field (created by 78 unique players plus 5 re-entries).

Hermansen is closely followed by Russia's Boris Tapelzon, whose stack emerged to 155,000. Fourteen levels of play saw 26 players survive for Day 2 including Estrellas 3 Barcelona third and tenth place finishers Ali Sameeian (71,600) and Josef Antos (77,000) plus the last Czech standing in this year's World Series of Poker Main Event Jaroslav Peter (313rd for $29,329), who will continue with 80,700.

Team PokerStars Pro Martin Hruby also attended today's flight. However, the Czech EPT7 Vienna runner-up was eliminated at the end of the penultimate level.

Tomorrow, the King's Casino will host another two starting days with a huge action anticipated as Day 1b kicks-off at 2pm, while Day 1c will follow later, starting at 8pm. Among qualifiers for Day 1b, Stefan Becker is certainly a player to keep an eye on. The German has been doing well online on PokerStars and has a WCOOP, SCOOP and MicroMillions titles under his belt.

Day 1a top five chip counts:

1st - Regnhard Hermansen, Denmark, 162,000

2nd - Boris Tapelzon, Russia, 155,000

3rd - Piotr Buda, Poland, 128,700

4th - Tobias Denk, Germany, 116,800

5th - Jelka Andelic, Italy, 108,700

The PokerStars.net King's Cup is back in the small town of Rozvadov, located near the Czech and German border. The popular King's Casino, regular Eureka Poker Tour host, is once again sharing forces with PokerStars to provide an action-packed 16-event festival running from September 3-6. This time, all tournaments are scheduled in a turbo format, creating a unique Turbo Edition.