The first of four starting days of the €250 buy-in PokerNews Cup Main Event at the King's Casino Rozvadov is in the books. Last year's edition of this very event at Europe's biggest card room, Day 1a drew 98 entries. Yesterday a total of 156 players entered, eclipsing last year's numbers to be well underway of meeting the guaranteed prize pool of €200,000.
After 14 levels of 30 minutes each, the field of 156 entries has been whittled down all the way to 27 survivors. Germany's Ronny Voth leads with a massive stack of 391,000.