The spectacular WPT Prime Liechtenstein Championship officially kicked off yesterday. The tournament brought a guarantee of CHF 1,000,000 for a buy-in of CHF 1,100 to the Grand Casino Liechtenstein. Only 12 percent of the entries can make it to the ITM.
The opening Flight 1A brought 212 entries and by the end of the day, 27 players had wrapped up their advancement stack. The chipleader here is Swiss player Augustin Ratiu with a stack of 836,000. However, the list of advancers also includes the well-known Austrian player Andreas Fröhli, who bagged a stack of 252,000.
Today, the Championship will continue with Flight 1B, which is scheduled to start at 12:00. A total of 5 opening flights will be played, after which players will advance to Day 2 and then to the final day. The final day is scheduled for Monday 9 September.
1. Augustin Ratiu - 836,000 (84 bb)
2. Niko Mykkänen - 789,000 (79 bb)
3. Anca Eggenberger - 532,000 (53 bb)
4. Karo Nuri - 502,000 (50 bb)
5. Georg Strebel - 467,000 (47 bb)
6. Marcel Pfister - 445,000 (45 bb)
7. Simon Feistle - 403,000 (40 bb)
8. Eemil Tuominen - 365,000 (37 bb)
9. Rene Kistler - 360,000 (36 bb)
10. Sven Wildhaber - 340,000 (34 bb)
11. Stefan Weber - 319,000 (32 bb)
12. Alain Ferrari - 306,000 (31 bb)
13. Mandred Müller - 301,000 (30 bb)
14. Fustin Sasa - 255,000 (26 bb)
15. Andreas Fröhli - 252,000 (25 bb)
16. Mikael Tuomas Andersson - 222,000 (22 bb)
17. Cetin Coban - 216,000 (22 bb)
18. Zoran Duranovic - 211,000 (21 bb)
19. Vladimir Luchkou - 194,000 (19 bb)
20. Christoph Schaufelberger - 194,000 (19 bb)
21. Randy Rolf Hofmänner - 189,000 (19 bb)
22. Andy Michael Graf - 169,000 (17 bb)
23. Mattias Kuhz - 142,000 (14 bb)
24. John Kabbaj - 139,000 (14 bb)
25. Markus Brunner - 111,000 (11 bb)
26. Matt Weideo - 100,000 (10 bb)
27. Karl Franz Schuler - 98,000 (10 bb)
One Day Tournament that lasted two days
Back on Wednesday, there was a One Day 30K tournament that, according to the name, was only supposed to last one day. However, with a buy-in of CHF 500 and a guarantee of CHF 30,000, the tournament attracted up to 121 entries, bringing the prizepool to CHF 54,450.
Due to this, it was not able to finish in one day and so the top 5 players together met on the next day. The chipleader here was a player with the nickname "Flecki". However, he ended up taking second place with a prize of CHF 8,800. The winner was the Swiss player Anca Camelia Eggenberger, going by the nickname "Damage". She took home the trophy along with a prize money of CHF 15,370.
Source - WPT, GC Liechtenstein, Flickr
