Deep Turbo gets PPT Prague off to a flier

Wednesday night saw the curtain go up on the ParadisePoker Tour Prague event with the €80 NLHE Deep Turbo attracting 140 players in the Card Casino.

That field built a €11,000+ prize pool and top prize was eventually split by Otakar Člupek and Martin Zeman, as the pair cleaned up in rapid fashion on the final table.

The Czechs had dominated the event, with seven of the final nine players natives. They were joined by one Portuguese and one Russian entrant.

Člupek and Zeman seemingly knocked their rivals at will as they cleaned up in around 35 minutes. The pair were evenly stacked and decided to make a deal for €2550 each.

Side Event 1 - NLHE Deep Turbo Results
1st - Otakar Člupek - €2550
1st - Martin Zeman - €2550
3rd - Stelio Pagnotta - €1500
4th - Jan Medek - €1100
5th - Paul Heger - €850
6th - Michael Martinec - €625
7th - Joao Eduardo - €460
8th- Ondrej Šleis - €350
9th - Adalbert Toth - €250
10th - Jaroslav Vajgl - €180
11th - Peter Rouč - €180
12th - Vladimir Stejskal - €180
13th - Artem Borisov - €150
14th - Michael Schuh - €150
15th - Vladimir Vacha - €125

PPT Prague Schedule

Here's a quick reminder of this week's schedule at the Card Casino, Prague.

PPT Prague Schedule

Wednesday, March 2nd
€80+10 No Limit Hold'em - Deep Turbo (270 player cap)
Thursday, March 3rd
€200+20 Pot Limit Omaha (72 player cap)
Friday, March 4th
€500+50 No Limit Hold'em €125,000 GTD Main Event (300 player cap)
Saturday, March 5th
€200+20 No Limit Hold'em (150 player cap)
Sunday, March 6th
€100+10 No Limit Hold'em - 6 Max (120 player cap)

Fantasy Poker: Early Pickings

Another leg of the ParadisePoker Tour is drawing in and that means another chance to win a €1,100 prize package playing Fantasy Poker.

Our list of online qualifiers is all but complete and with over 100 to choose from, you can pick your team before a card if even dealt at the €125,000 Guaranteed Main Event on Friday evening.

Check out the list below and remember to post your players' real name, as well as your ParadisePoker username/alias as a comment here to enter.

Teodor Krustev - Bulgaria
Aleksandar Asenov - Bulgaria
Mihail Mihailov - Bulgaria
Kalin Iakimov - Bulgaria
Byulent Mustafa - Bulgaria
Yuliyan Krestev - Bulgaria
Veselin Vasilev - Bulgaria
Jan Vajgl - Czech Republic
Jiří Fabián - Czech Republic
Tomáš Straka - Czech Republic
Martin Musil - Czech Republic
Jaroslav Vajgl - Czech Republic
Aleš Grabmuller - Czech Republic
Martin Smeták - Czech Republic
Michal Lubenik - Czech Republic
Robert Král - Czech Republic
Ondřej Kubíček - Czech Republic
Čeněk Malý - Czech Republic
Johnny Jensen - Denmark
Berjar Rustom - Denmark
Thomas Jensen - Denmark
Gøkmen Cetin - Denmark
Thomas Merved - Denmark
Stefan Knudsen - Denmark
David Pedersen - Denmark
Ronnie Espensen - Denmark
Adam Azoulay Pedersen - Denmark
Nicolas Storm - Denmark
Jan Jensen - Denmark
Jørgen Fries - Denmark
Henning Dethlefsen - Denmark
Poul Andersen - Denmark
Thomas Pedersen - Denmark
Jacob Irsberg - Denmark
Peter Vang - Denmark
Nat Jarmonthavat - Denmark
Rasmus Vejbaek - Denmark
Thomas Arndt Friberg - Denmark
Mikkel Bergmann - Denmark
Toni Merivuori - Finland
Christian Schulz - Germany
Detlef Gladbach - Germany
Manuel Thelen - Germany
Srinivasan Tavarajah - Germany
Mounir Gharbi - Germany
Jürgen Bachmann - Germany
Richard Weiss - Germany
Tim Tepass - Germany
Rene Knapp - Germany
Julian Leßmann - Germany
Roger Pau - Germany
Marc Schröder - Germany
Bernd J. Wachter - Germany
Heiko Wendt - Germany
Jan Petermann - Germany
Bastian Bluem - Germany
Stefan Behring - Germany
Christos Xanthopoulos - Greece
Panagiotis Roumelis - Greece
Nikolastonu Nikolas - Greece
Dimitrios Tychalas - Greece
Thanasis Tiraneopoulos - Greece
Dimitris Makrakis - Greece
Zsolt Holló - Hungary
Gabor Bank - Hungary
István Szabó - Hungary
Tibor Boros - Hungary
Lajos Baranyi - Hungary
Mihaly Gengeliczki - Hungary
Andor Faragho - Hungary
Jozsef Kovacs - Hungary
Kamil Jamroż - Poland
Dawid Mróz - Poland
Kamil Chwaściński - Poland
Łukasz Jaworski - Poland
Bartłomiej Zabiełło - Poland
Bartosz Odor - Poland
Daniel Zakrzewski - Poland
Krzysztof Zapolski - Poland
Łukasz Gębica - Poland
Pawel Matloka - Poland
Krzysztof Kułak - Poland
Paweł Czartoryski - Poland
Radosław Malec - Poland
Adam Ziarkiewicz - Poland
Arkadiusz Kowalczyk - Poland
Daniel Korczak - Poland
Paweł Dec - Poland
Dawid Czatkowski - Poland
Mariusz Chruściel - Poland
Wiktor Szuster - Poland
Henrique Custodio - Portugal
Pedro Oliveira - Portugal
Miguel Rato - Portugal
Eduardo Terrível - Portugal
Luís Machado - Portugal
Carlos Oliveira - Portugal
Fernando Martin Blanco - Spain
Julio Díaz Claudio - Spain
Luis de los Reyes Rodrigo Calvet - Spain
Gustavo Orihuela Urrejol - Spain
Aitzol Bergareche Mendiguchia - Spain
Fabio Arranz Ecobar - Spain
Jose Luis Ruiz Cruz - Spain
Adrian Antequera Casado - Spain
Alejandro Rodrigo Gutierrez - Spain
Tommy Ahmedof - Sweden
Sven Karlson - Sweden
Peter Månsson - Sweden
Niklas Karlsson - Sweden
Michael Almstrand - Sweden
Andy Cooper - UK

PPT Vienna on YouTube

If you were at the ParadisePoker Tour Vienna in January you might have spotted our cameras around, and if not, check out the resulting video to see what you missed!

For PPT novices, the footage gives a brief overview of what the medium stakes event is all about before reliving Gabor Skrinyar's victory in the Austrian captial's Concord Card Casino.

Click to take a peek at the ParadisePoker Tour Vienna video!

Card Casino counts down to PPT return

The ParadisePoker Tour is set to return to the Prague from March 2nd-6th for the fourth leg of Season Two and I hope you're as excited as we are!

February 2010 saw the then fledgling PPT follow up its debut in London by dragging in 252 players for the Main Event at the Card Casino, and it was native David Huspeka who emerged the victor.

This year’s festival, which takes place at the same venue, will seek to continue the upward curve on the back of record fields at both the London and Vienna legs.

As with all Season Two Main Events, the medium buy-in €500+50 competition has a guaranteed prize pool of €125,000. Four side events will then compliment the feature tournament, including Deep-Stack Turbo, Pot-Limit Omaha and 6-Max formats, so there is plenty of opportunity to win a share of the prizes in Prague!

Even those who can’t make it to the Czech capital can still take part courtesy of our Fantasy Poker promotion (see tab to left), which is offering to give away a €1,100 package to the next leg in Madrid.

PPT Prague Schedule

Wednesday, March 2nd
€80+10 No Limit Hold'em - Deep Turbo (270 player cap)
Thursday, March 3rd
€200+20 Pot Limit Omaha (72 player cap)
Friday, March 4th
€500+50 No Limit Hold'em €125,000 GTD Main Event (300 player cap)
Saturday, March 5th
€200+20 No Limit Hold'em (150 player cap)
Sunday, March 6th
€100+10 No Limit Hold'em - 6 Max (120 player cap)

PPT Madrid makes its move

The ParadisePoker Tour is bound for Madrid this springtime but due to circmustances beyond our control, the four-day event has been moved forward by two weeks.

The €125,000 Guaranteed Main Event will now be played from April 29th-May 1st, with side events and cash games running at the Casino Gran Madrid from the Thursday through until Sunday.

ParadisePoker offers its sincerest apologies for any inconvenience caused.

Cracked Aces end Paradise hopes at GPT

Stelios Amanatidis led the ParadisePoker charge at the Greek Poker Tour Main Event this weekend, but a classic bad beat ended his chances of taking home the €40,390 top prize.

As the only ParadisePoker qualifier to make Day Three of the €100,000 Guaranteed Event, the hopes were resting firmly on his shoulders as the final two tables shuffled up in the Concord Card Casino, Vienna.

There was no waiting around for Stelios, as his 285,000 remaining chips were shipped into the centre holding AA on the very first hand of the day.

Just as he looked set to join the chip leaders, however, Lady Luck intervened to send him to the rail, as his rival's JJ caught a set.

Things had looked bright for the ParadisePoker qualifiers early on, with eight amongst them negotiating the GPT record 327-strong field into Day Two, including Slovakian Matej Zavacky who was third in chips.

He was joined by fellow qualifiers Vasileios Kavvetas, Stylianos Pantelakis, Dimitris Georgiadis (all Greece), Zoltan Kapitany (Hungary), Christou Glafkos (Cyprus) and Pedro Murillo (Spain).

Congratulations to all the ParadisePoker qualifiers who cashed at the GPT, and hopefully we'll see you all in the PPT Prague in March!

Left to right:
Top row - Vasileios Kavvetas, Christou Glafkos. Bottom row - Matej Zavacky, Pedro Murillo.