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2016 PokerNews Cup Main Event Day 1b: Reinhard Foidl Leads After Day 1b as 43 Advance
- Updated: August 13, 2016
The second out of four starting days of the €250 buy-in PokerNews Cup at the King’s Casino in Rozvadov attracted a field of 191 entries, which includes 29 reentries and boosted the overall field thus far to 347. After 14 levels of 30 minutes each, just 43 participants bagged up chips. It was an open race towards the end of the night for the lead, and ultimately it was Austria’s Reinhard Foidl who accumulated the most with 350,000.
Foidl is followed by Spain’s Francisco Arce (335,000), who is now calling Vienna his home and came over with two friends, and Josef Mestl (321,500) completes the overnight podium. Sebastian Langrock also claimed a big stack with 302,000 and the German said that he likes the event because if offers a better structure for Day 1 than most of the low-budget tournaments. Furthermore, the guarantee in combination with an affordable buy-in makes for a lot of action at the tables and the mix of different player types adds to the fun experience.
Others that made it through to Day 2 include Calin Furdui (229,000), Karol Janiszewski (183,000), and Konstantin Kostyakov (60,500). Patrick Wolff and Pavel Novotny played twice to no …
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