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Eureka 4 Prague Main Event field attracted 1,738 players (including 8 no-shows) and as we denoted before, it smashed previous records.
The field increased by 423 players in comparison to last year's tour stop in the Czech capital, and easily surpassed Vienna's 1,432-entry field. Today's day 1b brought the biggest flight with 1,263 entries including 8 no-shows (to reach a 4-figure number for the very first time in a single day). Altogether, the season 4 counts impressive 3,662 attendants, which is 1,236 more than last in season 3 despite taking off one stop.
Eureka Poker Tour season 4: Vienna - 1,432 players Rozvadov - 492 players Prague - 1,738 players
KATCHALOV ADVANCED WITH A BIG STACK, PYZARA ON TOP OF DAY 1B Many famous players attended tody's record-breaking field including about twenty EPT champions; for instance Kevin McPhee, Harrison Gimbel, Salvatore Bonavena, Robin Ylitalo, Ruben Visser and several others. Team PokerStars Pro Online Mickey Petersen qualifies for being mentioned in that group as well; his fellow team-mates also entered this field - Marcin Horecki and George Danzer were eliminated as well as the Dane (it took only one hand in the Danzer's case) but Eugene Katchalov managed to get through with very promising 142,100 chips. Eureka 4 Vienna champ and current tour's leaderboard leader Zoltan Gal busted in day 1b and so did Marvin Rettenmaier, Shayam Srinivasan, Chris Moorman. On the other hand, Kacper Pyzara finished day 1b with the biggest stack; he bagged 225,100 chips after ten levels of play. Yesterday's leader Tomas Fara still holds the overall top spot as he leads 542 survivors into day 2 (142 from day 1a plus 400 from day 1b.
Eureka 4 Prague day 1b top five chip counts: 1st - Kacper Pyzara, Poland, 225,100 2nd - Cedric Demore, France, 210,400 3rd - Lucas Blanco, Spain, 189,200 4th - Franck Calonnec, France, 182,300 5th - Bjoern Nyman, Finland, 177,300
