The premiere Norwegian championship hosted at Card Casino Bratislava brought to our capital the poker atmosphere of world events, a great cash game action, and last but not least, great poker events with rich guarantees. One of them is the Poker North Masters, which boasted a €500,000 guarantee with an €800 buy-in.

Even though before Saturday's event it looked downright threatening with a possible non-fulfilment of the guarantee, players from all over the world joined forces at the right time and made sure that the guarantee was successfully conquered. Thanks to a massive 361 entries in flight 1E and another 97 entries in the evening turbo, the final number of entries settled at 718, which means the successful conquest of the guarantee. We will find out the final prize pool and the detailed payout structure in the introduction of day 2.

The strongest Saturday event, first from 2:00 p.m., belonged to the last classic flight 1E, whose number of entries stopped at a respectable 361. By the end of the day, 83 advancing to day 2 were formed from this group!

In the evening, the accelerated turbo, which had to record at least 70 entries, was given the task of "touching up" the guarantee. Reality brought  97 entries, and at the end of the day, the names of another 32 advanced. 

The plan is now clear, from 12:00 p.m. today, all 185 advancers will meet at the tables of the second game day, the task of which is to first burst the bubble, and then form the final team, which will play for the highest rewards on Monday's final day.