WPT Prague day 1B: Qualifer Josh Cranfield Bags Massive Lead
Welsh player and partypoker qualifier Joshua Cranfield was today’s hero at King’s Casino in Prague, but just as at the end of Day 1A yesterday, several tough pros lie in wait behind him to chase down the new overall chipleader as a top quality field produced yet another day of quality as well as quantity.
Cranfield is certainly the story of the event so far, albeit as early as Day 1, because the young man who qualified for just 12 pounds ended the day with 176,400, not far off double yesterday’s chip leader. That is impressive in itself, but considering the quality of the table-mates he battled all day on Table 1, it is even more so. Charlie Carrel, Stephen Chidwick and many other came and took him on, but as the dust settles and the players who made it through look forward to Day 2, Cranfield’s name may be one they have to look up. To date, the young Welshman has just over $1500 in live cashes to his name. But he performed brilliantly in high pressure pots from start to finish to consistently and deserves the lead.
A whole host of big names made Day 2, with Eugene Katchalov, Pierre Neuville, Fedor Holz, Pablo Gordillo and Dermot Blain all surviving to fight another day. but perhaps the biggest and most immediate threat to Cranfield’s chip-lead is in the form of the American sensation, Byron Kaverman. With $3.4m in live cashes in 2015 alone and a half-million dollar win just a few short weeks away, Kaverman played here like he has done all year, like a machine. Clearly on a heater and matching his well-earned confidence with no little skill, Kaverman will be tough to stop.
We may not have encountered the eventual 2015/2016 Season WPT Prague Main Event champion, as players still have until the start of Day 2 to register for forty big blinds. We’d imagine some pretty good players will be the ones taking up that option.
There are the 109 survivors from 173 entries here on Day 1b. In total, that makes 233 entries, creating a prize pool of a whopping €699,000.
WPT Prague - day 1A+1B
Buy-in: €3.300
Entries: 233
Remaining: 147
# | Jméno | Země | Chipcount |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Joshua Cranfield | GBR | 176.400 |
2 | Li Yingui | CHN | 116.000 |
3 | Byron Kaverman | USA | 108.800 |
4 | Pierre Chevalier | FRA | 105.000 |
5 | Remigiusz Wyrzykiewciz | POL | 101.500 |
6 | Igor Yardshevskyy | UKR | 98.300 |
7 | Mamouns Smain | FRA | 95.800 |
8 | Aleksei Boika | BEL | 95.500 |
9 | Vojtěch Růžička | CZE | 93.000 |
10 | Ranno Sootla | 92.000 | |
11 | Brian Senie | USA | 91.200 |
12 | Süleyman Erdar | GER | 87.200 |
13 | Guy Gorelik | ISR | 84.600 |
14 | Jan Tomasz | POL | 83.800 |
15 | Pierre Mothes | GER | 82.900 |
16 | Akimov Baurzman | KAZ | 81.500 |
17 | Alexander Ivarsson | SWE | 81.200 |
18 | Oliver Heidel | GER | 80.700 |
19 | Gaelle Baumann | FRA | 77.100 |
20 | Jonathan Dimming | USA | 76.500 |
21 | Javier Gomez | ESP | 74.600 |
22 | Ludovic Riehl | FRA | 74.500 |
23 | Yung Hwang | USA | 74.400 |
24 | Diego Vega | POR | 74.300 |
25 | Erwann Pecheux | FRA | 72.700 |
26 | Aleksandas Denichev | BUL | 71.000 |
27 | Matas Cimbolas | LIT | 70.900 |
28 | Joao Vieira | POR | 70.800 |
29 | Ben Baruch Maya | ISR | 70.500 |
30 | Artur Karamuca | ALB | 68.900 |
31 | Diego Cardoso | POR | 68.900 |
32 | Pablo Gordillo Caballero | GBR | 68.500 |
33 | Kevin MacPhee | USA | 67.500 |
34 | Imar Soika | BEL | 66.400 |
35 | Steve O'Dwyer | IRL | 65.700 |
36 | Martin Kabrhel | CZE | 65.200 |
37 | Rasmus Agersilow | DEN | 65.000 |
38 | Tom Hall | GBR | 64.300 |
39 | Rainer Kempe | GER | 62.100 |
40 | Bryan Paris | USA | 61.300 |
41 | Miguel Silva | POR | 60.600 |
42 | Oliver Price | GBR | 60.500 |
43 | David Abren | 60.400 | |
44 | Adam Tuk | CAN | 60.000 |
45 | Georgos Zisimopoulos | GRE | 59.700 |
46 | Martin Mulsow | GER | 59.100 |
46 | Gleb Tremzin | RUS | 58.700 |
48 | Rui Milhomens | POR | 58.400 |
49 | Ben Heath | USA | 58.300 |
50 | Pavel Savin | RUS | 56.200 |
51 | Pavel Veksler | POL | 53.100 |
52 | Jaroslav Sikora | POL | 52.700 |
53 | Michael Wang | USA | 52.200 |
54 | Aurelie Quelain | FRA | 51.300 |
55 | Anton Bartilsson | SWE | 51.300 |
56 | Valdemar Kwaysser | HUN | 51.000 |
57 | Jorane Kerignard | MLT | 50.600 |
58 | Scott Margereson | GBR | 50.500 |
59 | Anthony Zinno | USA | 50.500 |
60 | Alain Adnek | FRA | 50.300 |
61 | Timur Margolin | ISR | 48.900 |
62 | Ludovic Geilich | GBR | 48.700 |
63 | Ismael Bojang | GER | 48.300 |
64 | Vladimir bozinovic | SER | 47.800 |
65 | Emrak Cakmak | FRA | 47.500 |
66 | Keith Johnson | GBR | 47.500 |
67 | Gregor Grochulsky | POL | 46.700 |
68 | Paul Francois Tedeschi | GBR | 46.600 |
69 | David Peters | USA | 46.100 |
70 | Frederik Brink Jesen | SWE | 46.000 |
71 | Giacomo Funparo | ITA | 45.500 |
72 | Mohamed Mamouny | ALG | 45.200 |
73 | Jerry Odeen | SWE | 44.800 |
74 | Simon Deadman | UK | 44.000 |
75 | Robert Heidorn | GER | 43.600 |
76 | Ben Dobson | GBR | 43.300 |
77 | Nicholas Palma | USA | 43.100 |
78 | Sebastian Pauli | GER | 42.600 |
79 | Dike Jefferson | GBR | 40.400 |
80 | Atanas Maunov | BUL | 40.000 |
81 | Arkrdius Olszovy | POL | 39.800 |
82 | Stephen Wookhead | GBR | 39.200 |
83 | Fabrice Halleux | BEL | 38.700 |
84 | Charlie Carrol | GBR | 38.100 |
85 | Aleksei Istomin | 37.800 | |
86 | Vitaly Lunkin | RUS | 37.800 |
87 | Josef Gulas | CZE | 37.700 |
88 | Johnny Mehl Hansen | DEN | 37.500 |
89 | Anton Astapau | RUS | 37.200 |
90 | Rai Sousa | POR | 36.900 |
91 | Manig Loeser | GER | 36.600 |
92 | Sean Beniot | CAN | 36.500 |
93 | Julian Thomas | GER | 36.100 |
93 | Jason Wheeler | USA | 36.000 |
95 | Sylvain Loosli | FRA | 35.200 |
96 | Fahredin Mustafov | BUL | 35.000 |
97 | Michael Abecassis | FRA | 33.300 |
98 | Pierre Neuville | BEL | 32.500 |
99 | Yann Dion | CAN | 32.500 |
100 | Eugene Katchalov | UKR | 32.400 |
101 | Chris Hunicher | USA | 31.400 |
102 | Dimitar Danchev | BUL | 31.300 |
103 | Anton Atanayev | RUS | 31.300 |
104 | Fedor Holz | GER | 30.300 |
105 | Ben Richardson | AUS | 30.200 |
106 | Pedro Marques | POR | 30.200 |
107 | Carlos Branco | POR | 29.900 |
108 | Konrad Abela | MLT | 29.600 |
109 | Chris Downling | IRL | 29.300 |
110 | Koray Aldemir | AUT | 27.600 |
111 | Marcin Wydrowski | POL | 27.100 |
112 | Roman Cieslik | DAN | 27.100 |
113 | Tony Dunst | USA | 26.900 |
114 | Yen Han Chen | TWN | 26.900 |
115 | Yordan Kanliev | BUL | 26.900 |
116 | Morten Mortensen | DEN | 26.600 |
117 | Alexsander Boleslov | RUS | 25.900 |
118 | Martin Staszko | CZE | 25.400 |
119 | Alex Lynskey | AUT | 24.000 |
120 | Ban Ward | GBR | 23.700 |
121 | Alex Papazian | ROM | 23.300 |
122 | Robert Leynar | USA | 23.200 |
123 | Yuliyan Kolev | BUL | 23.200 |
124 | Kan Raiden | 22.400 | |
125 | Artan Dedusha | UK | 22.300 |
126 | Ozgur Arda | TUR | 21.600 |
127 | Serhan Fuad | GBR | 21.200 |
128 | Vasili Firsau | BEL | 20.100 |
129 | Piira Helkki | FIN | 19.300 |
130 | Erik Scheid | GER | 18.700 |
131 | Saren Smith Hansen | 18.600 | |
132 | Dylan Linde | USA | 17.200 |
133 | Francois Goulet | CAN | 17.000 |
134 | Fabrice Soulier | FRA | 15.700 |
135 | Dara O' Kearney | IRL | 15.600 |
136 | Marc MacDonnell | IRL | 15.500 |
137 | Nicolay Gryzin | RUS | 15.000 |
138 | Alin Grasu | ROM | 14.900 |
139 | Marco Caza | Can | 14.600 |
140 | Dermont Blain | IRL | 14.300 |
141 | Luca Moschitta | ITA | 14.200 |
142 | Dietrich Fast | GER | 13.900 |
143 | Elliot Smith | CAN | 12.500 |
144 | Martin Finger | GER | 12.100 |
145 | Richard Milne | 10.600 | |
146 | Sergio Aido | ESP | 10.100 |
147 | Jakub Michalak | POL | 10.000 |