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4.25pm: Half the day is done
And that's four of today's eight scheduled levels in the books. You'll find level 15 updates and beyond in a new post shortly.

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4.20pm: Overkill
The ace on the river was a bit of overkill as Damien Lhommeau's pocket aces improved to a set, although they didn't need to as they were already ahead of Alexandros Kolonias's pocket jacks. The latter was at risk and has therefore been eliminated.

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87 remain, 72 get paid.

4.15pm: Eight is the magic number
All tables are now playing eight handed poker. And tournament director Teresa Nousiainen just took to the microphone to inform players that they'll play eight levels today with no dinner break.

4.05pm: Exits
We're getting ever closer to the money here at Eureka Prague, these players unfortunately have fallen just short: Steve Watts, Dmitry Yurasov, Radoslaw Jacek Morawiec, Drazen Kapusta, Acatincai Andrei, Daniel Guerrero Lujan, Gregor Androjna, Alexandros Gkampranis, Artur Olczyk, Blorn Johansson and Mal Hagan.

3.45pm: Chip leaders
As level 14 gets underway, just 99 players remain, which makes the average stack 99,800. These players all have far more than that though: Matej Kalcic (340,000), Pawel Keller (310,000), Bernd Vogelhuber (250,000), Ioannis Triantafyllakis (250,000), Jacek Ladny (240,000), Daniel Havlik (235,000), Alexandros Kolonias (230,000), Dany Parlafes (230,000) and Marcel Buissink (220,000).

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3.25pm: Dutchman is done
More on how Steven van Zadelhoff exited from his twitter account (@svzff):
'Andddd outtt #eureka Repush 21bb KQhh button vs active opener HJ, behind me isolates AQcc. Flop flushdr no help.'

3.15pm: Poleaxed in Prague
More exits to tell you about: Tomáš Fucík, Igor Pihela, Juraj Berzinec, Kakhaber Japaridze, Kenneth Hicks, Radim Soudsky, Trevor Dinneen, Guy Tomaselli, Predrag Lekovic, Kajetan Masiewicz, Mirko Radovic, Jurijs Binklers, Andriy Mushak, Pawel Walczak, Rasmus Agerskov, Robertas Vaitkevicius, Neu Matthias, Steven Van Zadelhoff, Andrey Martyanov, Anghel Vasile, Amit Zulkowitz and Tiberiu Zanfirache are all out.

3.05pm: More for Marquez
As I wandered towards Team PokerStars Pro Ana Marquez's table I could see that she was stacking chips, a good sign surely? Indeed it was. The Spaniard is up to 130,000 from a start of day 71,200.

2.50pm: One exit, one double up
I caught two hands in quick succession: one exit and one double up.

The exit: Kakhaber Japaridze was all-in pre-flop with pocket tens against Alexandru Fuioaga's pocket nines. A nine on the flop saw the pot go the Romanian's way and with 225,000 he's now one of the chip leaders.

The double up: On a 8♣7♥3♦ flop Dennis Huebner led out for 8,000 from the small blind, Elena Tamarovskaya moved all-in and Huebner called all-in for 39,400 total.

Huebner: 3♥3♠
Tamarovskaya: A♥K♦

The Russian was drawing dead and the meaningless T♥ and 2♣ completed the board, and she was left with just 8,000.

2.45pm: Double Dutch
It's not been the best of starts to the day for Steven van Zadelhoff, the Dutchman took to twitter to say. 'Slow start on day2 of #eureka Prague. Down to last 120, 72 get paid. I have 47k for 23bb let's double up!'

2.35pm: Leader board update
With just the main and side events of Eureka Prague to go the Eureka Poker Tour Season 2 leader board is up for grabs. Of the current top five only one - Alija Filipovic - is still in the main event. Although points are also awarded for side event results, a min-cash in the main event would put Filipovic in first place.

The Eureka Croatia champion is currently in third place - good for a Eureka Season 3 Main Event Entry and a €530 ticket. Should he top the TLB he'll win a EPT Season 9 Main Event Entry, that's a €3,670 swing so he'll be sweating the bubble - should he get there - extra hard. He's currently got around 68,000 for a little below average.

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2.20pm: Back in their seats
Play is under way again and level 13 will undoubtedly prove unlucky for some. There are currently 126 players still in contention, 72 of whom will get paid.

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2.05pm: Break time
That's two levels done and dusted, players are now on a 15-minute break.

2pm: More exits
The players continue to bust out in their droves here in Prague. Those to have hit the rail recently include Mate Bajka, Gary Clarke, Aiman El Hafiz De Pablo, Hefler Istvan, David Vedral, Kestutis Gricius, Dimitar Yosifov, Ivan Barczi, Mika Ladislav, Enver Khvitia, David Frejka, Sasa Zorc, Mauro Pomponi, Veronika Pavlikova, Kamil Jamro, Ankush Mandavia, Roberto Romanello, Andrej Nagy and Arturas Antonianas.

1.45pm: Chip leader
By my reckoning Matej Kalcic is the new chip leader, the Slovenian has around 200,000. Overnight chip leader Marc Daubach is holding steady with around 160,000.

1.35pm: In your eye
I'd like to think that if there's an equivalent phrase to 'in your eye' in the Greek language then that's what would've been going through Ioannis Triantafyllakis mind in the following hand.

From under-the-gun he opened to 3,200 from a stack of around 110,000, next to act Dejan Dikovic three-bet to 7,100 and there was then a four-bet to 12,000 from middle position. It folded back to Triantafyllakis and after a few seconds thought he moved all-in. Both opponent's quickly mucked their hands.
1.25pm: Plus two
Yesterday I reported that the total number of runners for Eureka Prague was 650. Well it's actually crept up overnight to 652. The extra two are down to two no shows.

1.15pm: Zorc straightened on
Sasa Zorc was all-in for his last 10 blinds with A♦K♠. He was in good shape against Florian Loehnert's K♦9♠ and it seemed a double up was in the offing. But, a 7♠8♥2♥J♥T♥ board saw Loehnert river a straight to eliminate him.

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1.05pm: Prizepool
As I alluded to earlier (see 12.15pm) the winner of Eureka Prague will pocket €140,000, but now we have the entire payout structure. You can feast your eyes on it here.

12.50pm: Exits
As per usual at the start of Day 2 there's been plenty of exits. All of the following have hit the rail during level 11; Nikolai Kalinkin, Marius-Ovidiu Volovei, David Stogel, Cemil Incegul, Filip Szpak, Andrey Da Silva, Damian Siewert, Adam Hamaoui, Alexey Andreev, Jakub Michalak, Grayson Ramage, Alexander Stepin, Celine Bastian, Vadim Belov, Niels Meibom-Larsen, Florian Calin, Eusebiu-Nicolae Jalba, Tomas Petru, Mikhail Shevchuk, Aleksei Bubnov and Lenar Nurullin.

12.35pm: Flying the flag
Whilst yesterday was a total bust for Team PokerStars Pro, one member did advance from Day 1A. Team PokerStars Pro Ana Marquez made it through with an above average 71,200. In the opening stages of Day 2 she's increased it a touch, moving up to 75,000.

12.20pm: Seat Draw
There are 20 tables in action today and you can see the draw for them all right here.

12.15pm: Show me the money
Whilst I don't have the entire payout structure just yet (I'll post that on the blog when I do) I can tell you that the winner of Eureka Prague will receive €140,000. In total 72 of the 652 players will get paid with a min-cash worth €2,210.

The bubble will definitely burst today, those in the know (the tournament staff) predict Level 15 is the favourite for when it's likely to go pop.

12pm: We bring the Stars out
Six-hundred and fifty-two! Wow! That was the final number of runners for Eureka Prague. Huge.

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And at times yesterday the player list read more like and EPT than a National tour, EPT winners like Roberto Romanello and Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree sat down to play as did other tournament superstars like Dan Smith and Bryn Kenney.

Yet, such is the beauty of poker that for all these superstars it's a recreational player who leads the Day 2 field, Marc Daubach, a Belgian who lives in London, bagged up 165,900 to lead the way.

He and 175 others are all taking their seats right now for the start of Day 2 and the prospect of a first female winner on the Eureka Poker Tour is still very much alive, one of those looking to do just that is Czech player Veronika Pavlikova. She already has one PokerStars title to her name (France Poker Series - Snowfest, Rhone-Alps), she'll be looking to make it two here in Prague.

PokerStars Blog reporting team in Prague: Nick Wright. Photos by Tomas Stacha.

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Day 41 of the 2019 World Series of Poker will be another exciting one with four events in motion including two new ones getting underway in the $3,000 Limit Hold'em and the Final Fifty No-Limit Hold'em, which features a huge $50,000 buy-in.

The Main Event continues along with Julian Milliard (lead photo) leading the almost 2,900 survivors to start Day 3. In addition, the Little One for One Drop also will attract many players with the third and final opening flight kicking off today.

Here's what's on tap today, in the daily What to Watch For on PokerNews, sponsored by 888poker.

Event #73: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em MAIN EVENT - World Championship

The Main Event became the second biggest of all time when the field grew with 344 late registrants before the start of yesterday's Day 2c. That made for a total of 8,569 entrants to create a monstrous $80,548,600 prize pool and a $10 million first-place prize. This is only behind the turnout of 8,773 entrants in 2006 when Jamie Gold won the $12 million top prize.

The field is down to 2,880 players with 1,087 surviving on Day 2ab and another 1,793 bagging chips on Day 2c.

The action resumes today with Day 3 starting at noon PDT with five more blind levels of two hours each starting at 1,200/2,400 and a big blind ante of 2,400. It is possible that players will be in the money by the end of the day with 1,286 players guaranteed at least a min-cash of $15,000 but first level of Day 4 is just as likely.

The top five chip stacks entering the day all came out of the Day 2c field with Julian Milliard (947,900), Vlastimil Pustina (930,700), Andrew Brokos (895,400), Aleksa Pavicevic (867,700), and Nai Hu (798,300) all bagging big stacks. Just behind this group is Day 2ab chip leader Timothy Su with 791,000 in chips.

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Follow PokerNews as our Live Reporting team will be covering the event from start to finish with live updates, beginning with today's Day 3 at noon PDT. Live updates can be found here.

Event #75: $1,000+111 Little One for One Drop No-Limit Hold'em

This event kicks off the final of its three opening flights today at noon PDT with players starting with 20,000 in chips. Players have the option of adding another 20,000 with a $111 donation to the One Drop Foundation, an international non-profit organization founded by Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberté that has been providing access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene since 2007.

Yesterday's Day 1b field size of 1,537 entrants more than doubled the 702 entrants from Day 1a to create a total field size of 2,239 thus far. This number will grow in leaps and bounds with unlimited reentries not only allowed throughout the ten blind levels of an hour each today, but also during the first two blind levels of tomorrow's Day 2.

Thus far, Stefan Ivanov has the chip lead with 613,000 in chips after bagging a monster stack yesterday followed by Hophuong Lay (591,000), Joris Ruijs (557,000), David Lolis (524,000), and Amit Zulkowitz (518,000).

Follow PokerNews as our Live Reporting team will be covering the event from start to finish with live updates, beginning with today's Day 1c at 11 a.m. PDT. Live updates can be found here.

Event #77: $3,000 Limit Hold'em 6-Handed

It won't be just no-limit hold'em featured today as this limit event kicks off the first of its four days today.

The action begins today at 3 p.m. PDT with players starting with 20,000 in chips and will end after ten blind levels of an hour each are in the books. Players can late register for this event until the start of Level 9 at around midnight.

Surviving players are scheduled to battle for three more days until a winner is crowned on July 11.

Yaser Al-Keliddar won his first bracelet in this last year which came with a $154,338 top prize after finishing on top of a field of 221 entrants and denying Finnish poker legend Juha Helppi (second - $95,380) his first bracelet. Helppi managed to get a bracelet this year when he won the $10,000 Limit Hold'em Championship for $306,622.

Follow PokerNews as our Live Reporting team will be covering the event from start to finish with live updates, beginning with today's Day 1 at 3 p.m. PDT. Live updates can be found here.

Event #90: Final Fifty No-Limit Hold'em

You may notice a jump in event numbers here with this $50,000 buy-in event listed as Event #90. This is because this event is a late addition to the schedule with organizers originally planning for 89 bracelet events. This event was added in early June after the WSOP received some feedback from the high roller community.

'We got some feedback from players who thought [the initial $50k event] was too early in the series and they weren’t around for it,' said VP of Corporate Communications Seth Palansky. 'We also goofed by not having a $25K High Roller NLH on the schedule this year, which was more feedback we received from players.'

The action begins at 6 p.m. PDT with players starting with 300,000 in chips and 40-minute blinds starting at 1,000/1,000 and a big blind ante of 1,000. The action should move along fast with this event including a shot clock.

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The day will end after twelve blind levels are played. The final field size and prize pool won't be known until the start of tomorrow's Day 2 at 4 p.m. PDT with late registration and unlimited reentries remaining open until then.

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Follow PokerNews as our Live Reporting team will be covering the event from start to finish with live updates, beginning with today's Day 1 at 6 p.m. PDT. Live updates can be found here.

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