Merit Royal Diamond Casino & Spa is the current venue of the EPT Cyprus. The whole festival kicks off with the traditional $1,100 buy-in Eureka Main Event, which last year brought in 2,659 entries. So everyone was waiting to see if that number could be surpassed.
Yes, it did! The Eureka Main Event has now reached 2,803 entries and so the prizepool worth $2,662,850 will be distributed. 418 players have advanced to today's Day 2 and they are led by Romanian player Marian Virlanuta with a stack of 1,156,000. Leo Worthington-Leese, Julien Sitbon, Stoyan Madanzhiev, Marle Spragg, Sebastian Huber, Fintan Hand, Samuel Mullur, Benjamin Spragg, Barny Boatman, Andreas Frohli and Adi Rajkovic are also in the field.
Kayhan Mokri in the 20k NLH deal
Yesterday, in addition to the Eureka Main Event, there was also a one-day $20,000 buy-in NLH tournament that brought 47 entries and a prizepool of $902,776. The winner here had a prize of $311,576 awaiting him.
Names like Adrian Mateos, Leonard Maue and Roman Hrabec came to play for this amount. However, neither of them made it to the ITM. Cash prizes awaited the top 6 players and the tournament ended with a heads-up deal, after which Kayhan Mokri took home the biggest prize of $260,800. The winner, however, was Ognyan Dimov, who won the trophy and the sum of $253,876.
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ognyan Dimov | Bulgaria | $253,876 |
| 2 | Kayhan Mokri | Norway | $260,800 |
| 3 | Alexey Ponakov | Latvia | $139,900 |
| 4 | Juan Pardo | Spain | $103,800 |
| 5 | Markkos Ladev | Estonia | $81,200 |
| 6 | Ren Lin | China | $63,200 |
Source - PSLive, Pokernews
