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Almost 1,200 Entries After Five Starting Flights – The Festival in Bratislava – Day 5

Yesterday was the biggest day of The Festival in Bratislava with two Main Event starting flights, hundreds of players in the Banco Casino, roughly a dozen side events, cash games and no less than two players’ parties.

Here’s the lowdown of what happened yesterday:

Two Main Event Flight, 1,196 Entries

Yesterday’s Headline was – of course, the Poker Main Event. At noon the tournament began with flight Day 1d and after 12 levels and almost nine hours of play, this flight had 458 entries in the books with 141 of those bagging chips for Day 2.

In the later hours of the evening, the turbo flight Day 1e commenced. With 20-minute levels this was the last reasonable way for players to build a stack for the Main Event. This flight amassed another 144 entries and 58 of those survived.

Those are the total numbers so far:

Flight	Entries	Survivors	Average	Advanced	Chip Leader	Chips	Blinds
Day 1a	134	39	103,077	29.1%	Rikard Larsson	256,000	85
Day 1b	180	51	105,882	28.3%	Ronald Zapantis	296,000	99
Day 1c	280	91	92,308	32.5%	Attila Kuna	384,000	128
Day 1d	458	141	97,447	30.8%	Pavel Svach	303,000	101
Day 1e	144	58	74,483	40.3%	Erik Seffer	183,000	61
Total	1,196	380	94,421	31.8%

We’re not quite done with registrations yet as we keep the late reg open for the first two levels of Day 2. Players will receive a starting stack of 30,000 chips which is equal to 10 big blinds in the first level.

We now of at least one player who will take advantage of this super-late registration. The Festival’s Founder Martin “Franke” von Zweigbergk will re-enter once more after having fired six bullets in the two flights yesterday. Two more and this would put him on the top spot for the number of re-entries in this year’s Main Event – currently, there is one player who had re-entered seven times!

Here’s a list of more successful players in the Main Event so far. Pictured above is the overall chip leader Attila Kuna:

Name	Chips	Big Blinds	Table	Seat
Attila Kuna	384,000	128	57	3
Pavel Svach	303,000	101	23	8
Ronald Zapantis	296,000	99	73	1
Yasen Dichev	278,000	93	74	8
Hans Erlandsson	263,000	88	44	2
Ongorur Mehmet	261,000	87	71	2
Rickard Larsson	256,000	85	42	9
Wang Lu	253,000	84	56	8
Sascha Manns	251,000	84	74	7
Michael Sklenička	250,000	83	62	6
Carsten Lund Larsen	245,000	82	31	9
Riccardo de Rubeis	243,000	81	24	8
Iraklis Manikaros	240,000	80	22	1
Dragos-Constantin Negrii	230,000	77	41	1
David Kurbel	224,000	75	54	9
Markku Tammisto	219,000	73	85	2
Fotios Ntamaris	211,000	70	43	1
Ioannis Fronimakis	209,000	70	43	6

• Full Chip Counts after Day 1
• Seat Draw for Day 2

Play will re-start today at noon and we play to play at least 12 levels. Level time will be 45 minutes with breaks every 90 minutes.

An update about all the side events can be found in our side event section of the live blog.

Today’s schedule

Besides the Main Event today we will begin a PLO Freezeout at 2 pm, an NLH Freezeout at 3 pm and €125 NLH tournament with a whopping €30k guarantee.

Also running today are our two Sports Book Championships.

This is the full schedule for day:

Time	Event	Buy-In	Re-Entry	Chips / Levels
12:00	MAIN EVENT DAY 2 €500,000 gtd.	500+50	2 lvls	30k / 45
13:00	Gambling Cabin Sportsbook Tourney	25+5 225+25	No	-
14:00	PLO Freezeout	225+25	No	25k / 25
15:00	NL Texas Freezeout	225+25	No	25k / 25
17:00	NL Texas 30.000 gtd.	110+15	12 lvls	50k / 25
20:00	Coolbet Club Championship Norway	Closed	No	20k / 20
20:00	Cash Game Challenge €10/10 Texas (*)	1000		-
23:00	PLO Turbo Midnight Madness	110+15	8 lvls	10k / 15
22:30	Cash Game Challenge €10/10 PLO4 (*)	1000		-

We’re looking forward to a fantastic Saturday in the Banco Casino with plenty of action!

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