Eureka3 Czech Republic: Day 3 full updates
6.50pm: Fechner loses race, busts in ninth Well that didn't last long. A matter of six or so hands into the nine-handed play, we have lost Frank Fechner in ninth and have our final table line up...
View ArticleEureka3 Czech Republic: Swift and bruising day at King's as Thomas Erler...
The bare data of a final table scarcely tells the story of how those players got there. But let's lead with the facts and get to the nitty gritty later. Today at the King's Casino in Rozvadov, we...
View ArticleEureka3 Czech Republic: Final table player profiles
Here's how the final eight line up for Eureka3 Czech Republic at King's Casino, Rozvadov. Seat 1: Thomas Erler, Germany, 1,642,000 Thomas Erler is the 38-year-old chip leader, who has often enjoyed his...
View ArticleEureka3 Czech Republic: Final table level 27 updates (30,000-60,000 10,000 ante)
6.40pm: Bart Lybaert is Eureka3 champion, winning €115,000 Fabian Leib out in second, winning €77,250 There we are. The day is done. "Finally, it's over," said Fabian Leib, exhausted. He got pretty...
View ArticleEureka3 Czech Republic: Bart Lybaert lays all-comers to waste and picks up...
Last month in London, a 21-year-old Belgian poker player named Bart Lybaert recorded the first cash of his young career. Suffice to say, 139th place for £1,200 at the UKIPT main event did not set the...
View ArticleEureka headed to Croatia
You have a month. That's long enough to do just about anything. In this case, your only mission is to find a way to get to Croatia for the next stop of the Eureka Poker Tour. PokerStars is going to...
View ArticleWin a Eureka Side Pass (worth €1,200) for free!
Do you want a free €1,200 package to play at Eureka Croatia? Of course you do. Nine side event packages, each worth €1,200, are up for grabs and you can freeroll one of these Eureka Side Passes into...
View ArticleEureka satellites ready to send you to Croatia
The Eureka Poker Tour's event in Croatia is just a week away, but you still have a chance to win your seat. Satellites are running on PokerStars with buy-ins as low as €1, and you can win your seat all...
View ArticleEureka3 Croatia: The final countdown
This is the tenth Eureka Poker Tour main event, meaning that thus far, as the official final table of Eureka events are eight handed, that roughly 72 players have made a main event final table on the...
View ArticleEureka3 Croatia: Lodden loving life
"It was the best feeling I've had in poker," says Johnny Lodden, his poker face breaking out into a grin. "Making it to that final table was amazing. I've had a lot of top 20 finishes so to make it to...
View ArticleEureka3 Croatia: The Belgians are coming (and going)
They might only be four strong but what a quartet the nation of strong beer, buns containing sultanas and chips with mayo have bought to Eureka3 Croatia. Matthias De Meulder Opening the batting for the...
View ArticleEureka3 Croatia: Hey it's you from off the telly
If you've ever tuned in to watch Champions League football on a rainy Wednesday night in Slovenia then the face below would be instantly familiar to you. If it's not then that's not an insult either as...
View ArticleEureka3 Croatia: Easy come easy go for Dag Palovic
You don't have to be in the presence of Team PokerStars Pro Dag Palovic to notice that he stands out at the poker table (even when sitting) for a couple of reasons. Firstly he's usually the only one...
View ArticleEureka3 Croatia: PokerStars qualifier Christian Kolke leads after Day 1
The second of two flights was the day when the big guns came to town and the field was not only bigger in size, but reputation. But, the old adage of the bigger you are the harder you fall came to pass...
View ArticleEureka3 Croatia: Day 2 is moving day
Hello and welcome to Day 2 of Eureka3 Croatia, 103 players from the 283 who started have made it this far and all of them will be hoping to still be around when Day 3 shuffle ups and deals 24 hours...
View ArticleEureka3 Croatia: Last shorter and last longers
Poker tournaments come in all shapes and sizes but if there's one thing you can guarantee about them all it's this. At the start of Day 2 there will be carnage. No matter how many levels you play on...
View ArticleEureka3 Croatia: Stacks and exits as bubble approaches
The bubble is in sight here in Croatia as just 59 players remain, 40 of whom will get paid. So all in all that means at least two-thirds of the players who remain will make the money. The actual bubble...
View ArticleEureka3 Croatia: The €64,000 question, who will win?
Hot off the press is the prize pool structure for the main event here in Croatia. A total of 283 players entered the main event of Eureka3 Crotia creating a prize pool of €274,510. The winner, as you...
View ArticleEureka3 Croatia: Day 2, level 14-18 updates (blinds 4,000 - 8,000 ante 1,000)
11.35pm: Day 2 is done And that's the end of Day 2 of the Eureka3 Croatia main event. We're down to the final dozen and a full wrap on how we went from 103 players to just 12 is on the way. Play...
View ArticleEureka3 Croatia: Greek chipping magnet leads final dozen in Dubrovnik
Just 12 players remain in the hunt for the Eureka3 Croatia title, the €64,000 frist prize, the trophy and the right to call themselves a champion. Leading the final dozen when play resumes tomorrow...
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