A full house!

There are so many PPT players in the Concord Card Casino today that the wi-fi internet connection has been overloaded!

It's a record-breaking field that not only hit the 300 cap, but had at least 40 players eagerly anticipating some early exits as they sit on the waiting list.

This has caused some technical issues but your PPT blogger is the determined type, however, so having managed to find the one laptop that will magically connect, we can bring you the remaining players from which to choose your fantasy poker team.

The clock starts ticking on entries now, with 19.00 CET the deadline to post your teams including full player names plus your ParadisePoker username.

Robert Dobai
Kalb Robert
Aigner Martin
Felix kohl
Sasa Budak
marinko plavsic
Roman Kadziela
Arpad Kovecses
Tamas Serfozo
Ingo Meyer
benjamin petek
sorin chiru
dumitru laurentiu
sebe razvan
Rado Gyorgy
tajta gabor
mark pinter
telegdy tibor
shandor levente
gerald karlic
adrian apmann
Balazs schatz
Robert Schatz
antonio karman
andras stumpf
baris bozkurt
alexander burkart
lubo balaz
Schuster Markus
Peter csecsetka
zoltan szabo
magyar telek laslo
scmidt attila
tamas pattzai
thomas soos
michael glidov
marius beranda
mister Q
raphael osseforth
Horvath Christian
schmalzbauer josef
lütjohan philip
nuno duarte
stvenovic boban
victor csakanyi
jordan mitev
rumen nanev
lakatos milan
horvarth pavol
roberth grimm
medesan alain
robas cosmin
Miroslav Benes
Spezzi
philipp hauk
zille diebrille
pavel chalukpa
david klein
farkas gabor
tarko attila
thomas dinesen
zoltan bogo
istvan micolas
miklos nemeth
christoph eske
gabor skrinyar
kristian kanyo
jan kraus
patric mago
matthias rauscher
attila varga
adam szalai
nagy tamas
kiss gabor
olah zoltan

Note: If you know a player who is playing but is not listed, you may pick him/her at your own risk!

Fantasy poker lands at Concord

So that's the final Concord flying/take-off/landing pun - for now at least - but there's nothing cliche about a little fantasy poker!

We had a great response to the game debut in London and we're hoping to get even bigger here in Austria, as word spreads that you can win a €1,100 prize package to Prague in March, without facing a single blind raise, three-bet or all-in!

All you have to do is pick three players from the field today and if they finish in the top 50, they score points towards your total. The blog reader with the highest score by the time our Vienna champion is crowned, will be our second fantasy poker winner.

In London is was keen follower Susanne Jensen who cheered her team to victory, as Ronnie Espensen and Angelo Lima both made deep runs to win her seat here in Austria. A delighted Susanne has already entered January's competition and explained her reasoning to the PPT blog.

Dvinyard Johnny (My Son) after 2 not so good paradise poker tours I think he will do an nobel comeback on this tour. He is beating hot  knap så gode tours på paradisepoker tror jeg på et comeback han er fræk i beatet

"My team this time around will be include my son [and Paradise Poker pro] Johnny Jensen, because after two events that haven't gone so well, I think he'll make a comeback in Vienna.

"I've also picked Ronnie Espensen again because he's a brilliant player who's had some great results already on Season Two of the ParadisePoker Tour. He needs to defend his lead at the top of the PPT League and if he avoids any early bad beats, I think he'll go deep this weekend.

"Finally I've picked a Polish player who could, and might, go all the way and win it. I know I should probably be part of my team but I've been running bad in tours these days, so I will have to leave myself out!"

Below is the list of qualifiers we have so far. There will be a full list published on the PPT blog later on and there will be at least one hour to pick your team from the complete list.

However, if you want to get in early, you can enter now! Just remember to include the full name of the players you wish to pick as well as your ParadisePoker username. Good luck!

Name - Country
Patrick Donnerbauer - Austria
Michael Huber - Austria
Gerald Sochor - Austria
Marcos Kouis - Cyprus
Pavel Berka - Czech republic
Miloslav Hněvsa - Czech republic
Tomáš Straka - Czech republic
Ľudovít Fischer - Czech Republic
Aleš Zahradník - Czech republic
Paul Anderson - Denmark
Henning Dethlefsen - Denmark
Gykmen Cetin - Denmark
Ronnie Espensen - Denmark
Nat Jarmonthavat - Denmark
Bjarne Jensen - Denmark
Tommy Dender - Denmark
Rasmus Vejbaek - Denmark
gert løfgren - Denmark
Johnny Jensen - Denmark
Suzanne Jensen - Denmark
Rasmus Schmidt - Denmark
Kasper Espersne - Denmark
judith larsen - Denmark
Jesper Rostved - Denmark
Claus Weihrauch - Denmark
freddy kristensen - Denmark
jens eisner - Denmark
Thomas Pedersen - Denmark
Toni Merivuori - Finland
Jürgen Schettler - Germany
Frank Dinkelbach - Germany
Frank Sprinstein - Germany
Srinivasan Tavarajah - Germany
Alex Mühlbauer - Germany
Michael Pletl - Germany
Jürgen Bachmann - Germany
Andre Weber - Germany
Christoph Rauchegger - Germany
Christian Schulz - Germany
Rene Knapp - Germany
Jan Jachtmann - Germany
Daniel Dankelmann - Germany
Mario König - Germany
Krystian Baumgart - Germany
Heiko Kenning - Germany
Jorge Bauer Frie - Germany
Henrik Suttinge - Germany
Kristof Stanic - Germany
Frank Ewald - Germany
Philip Hämmerling - Germany
bastian bluem - Germany
Wolfgang Monschein - Germany
Andreas Mehrer - Germany
Jens Weigel - Germany
Tobias Matuschek - Germany
Lars Neujeffski - Germany
Hauke Heseding - Germany
Matthias Janssen - Germany
Dietmar Doering - Germany
Robert Haigh - Germany
David Pishvafar - Germany
lutz hoffmann - Germany
Heiko Wendt - Germany
Angelos Karopoulos - Greece
Xristos Xanthopoulos - Greece
georgios goumas - Greece
Dimitrious Flogeras - Greece
fotis tsipis - Greece
Vasileios Kontogiannis - Greece
vagelis tsichlis - Greece
Stylianos Karageiannidis - Greece
Geza Petheo - Hungary
Zoltán Béni - Hungary
Bujtas Laszlo - Hungary
Zsolt Dávid - Hungary
János Dudás - Hungary
Zoltán Baracskai - Hungary
tibor bebesi - Hungary
István Szabó - Hungary
Tibor Petró - Hungary
Erika Sarvari - Hungary
Márk Jakab - Hungary
György Zentai - Hungary
Zsolt Holló - Hungary
alan kilmartin - Ireland
Krzysztof Dziadczyk - Poland
Dawid Czatkowski - Poland
Arkadiusz Kowalczyk - Poland
Grzegorz Wyraz - Poland
Sławomir Wysmulski - Poland
Adam Stochaj - Poland
Michal Gaweda - Poland
Jarosław Sebastian Sikora - Poland
Piotr Kania - Poland
Maciej Walichnowski - Poland
Paweł Fiedor - Poland
Tomasz Horecki - Poland
Marcin Doliwa - Poland
Grzegorz Cieszyński - Poland
Artur Zmarzły - Poland
Leszek Matonóg - Poland
Krzysztof Uroda - Poland
Włodzmierz Cymbałko - Poland
Andrzej Sajdak - Poland
Przemysław Gwarek - Poland
Paweł Czartoryski - Poland
Kamil Paś - Poland
Joao Brito - Portugal
Hugo Almeida - Portugal
António Lemos - Portugal
Filipa Lemos - Portugal
José Cerqueira - Portugal
Luis Rodrigues - Portugal
Daniel Ferreira - Portugal
Paulo Calado - Portugal
miguel rato - Portugal
Luis Fipe Rato - Portugal
fernando costa - Portugal
Rustam Isaev - Russia
Matěj Závacký - Slovakia
Peter Holba - Slovakia
Zoltan Kovacs - Slovakia
martin bobak - Slovakia
Alejandro Martinez de Diego - Spain
cesar garcia del barrio - Spain
daniel fresneda jaro - Spain
Fernando Martin Blanco - Spain
Peter Månsson - Sweden
Sven Karlson - Sweden
stephen mccarthy - UK
manuel stan - UK
kenneth andrews - UK
Mia Dac Liu - UK
anthony mcgrath - UK
Jay Boyce - UK

PPT lifts off at Concord Card Casino

The €125,000 Main Event is looming but the ParadisePoker Tour is already underway at the Concord Card Casino, with good turnouts for both Wednesday’s Super Satellite and Thursday’s Side Event.

Over 160 runners took their seat in the €100 No Limit Hold’em MTT, making for a whopping €16,200 prize pool that will line a few pockets before the end of the evening.

Thirteen names have been also added to tomorrow’s showcase tournament on the back of the qualifying event held last night.

The infamous number may be unlucky for some, but that merry bunch are the last entrants to dodge the full €500+€50 buy-in! Nice work folks.

Friday sees the start of the Main Event at 5pm, but be sure to log on to the PPT blog in the build up to sample the atmosphere, pre-tournament banter and of course, fantasy poker.

PPT Vienna Schedule

It's now just seven days until the ParadisePoker Tour Main Event makes its debut in Vienna at the Concord Card Casino, but there are a host side events to pique your interest from the 12th-16th.

If you're yet to win your seat in the €125,000 Guaranteed big one, then be sure to get out to Austria early for Wednesday's Super Satellite with a minimum five buy-ins up for grabs.

Even if your Main Event dreams take a turn for the worse, there's plenty to play for all weekend in the cultural capital, with a pair of NL Hold'em side events, a €150+€20 Scalp (or bounty) tournament and Sunday's Omaha Hi comp all worth turning out for.

Check out the full schedule below:

PARADISEPOKER TOUR VIENNA SCHEDULE

Super Satellite
Event date: January 12th, 19:00 starting time
Game: NL Holdem Re-buy
Buy-in: €20 + €5
Cap: 300
Starting chips: 2,000 (4,000 Add-on)
Guaranteed seats: 5

Main Event
Date: January 14th - 16th, 17:00 starting time
Game: NL Holdem Freezeout
Buy-in: €500 + €50
Cap: 300
Starting chips: 10,000
Blind intervals: 60 min
Guaranteed Prize Pool: €125,000

Side event 1
Event date: January 13th, 17:00 starting time
Game: NL Holdem Freezeout
Buy-in: €100 + €15
Cap: 300
Starting chips: 8,000

Side event 2
Event date: January 15th, 17:00 starting time
Game: NL Hold'em Scalp
Buy-in: €150 + €50 + €20
Cap: 200
Starting chips: 10,000

Side event 3
Event date: January 16th, 12:00 starting time
Game: Omaha Hi
Buy-in: €100 + €15
Cap: 100
Starting chips: 6,000

Side event 4
Event date:January 16th, 17:00 starting time
Game: NL Hold'em
Buy-in: €200 + €20
Cap: 200
Starting chips: 8,000

Fantasy Poker... Hello Vienna!

Fantasy Poker will be back in Vienna after a successful debut in London, so if you can't be in Austria this January, make sure you follow all the action right here on the PPT blog.

For those of you who missed out in the UK - or just need a little reminder - here's the how to on the game that could see you win a €1,100 prize package to the PPT Prague event, simply by backing your fellow poker players.

How to Play

1. Sign up for a ParadisePoker account (if you haven’t already got one!)
2. Log on to the PPT blog in time for the Main Event, which starts on Friday, January 14th at 17.00 CET
3. Pick three players from the list of entrants to be published here and post their names as a comment, along with your ParadisePoker username, on the PPT blog
4. The top 50 finishers in the Main Event score Tour League points
5. And the highest scoring team wins the PPT Prague prize package!


Fantasy Poker T&Cs

1. To enter, blog readers must write their team as a comment on any Vienna event post. Changes to your team are not allowed.
2. Readers are allowed to enter one team only.
3. Entrants must quote both their ParadisePoker username plus the name of the three players they wish to select in order to enter.
4. Readers can submit teams any time before the given deadline, which will published here be on Day 1 of the Main Event. No entries will be accepted on Day 2.
5. The final entry deadline will be at least one hour after the full list of Main Event entrants is published on the blog and will be announced here on Day 1 of the Main Event. 6. A full list of fantasy poker entrants and their teams will be printed shortly after the deadline. This list is final.
7. If players tie for the first prize, a private tournament will be arranged on ParadisePoker.com where the winner will be decided by playing a NL Hold'Em tournament.

Ronnie (not Paulo!) at the peak

With two legs now behind us in Season Two of the ParadisePoker Tour, one man has edged ahead of the competition in the PPT League after making deep runs in both events.

Ronnie Espensen (pictured) cashed in both Vilamoura and London, finishing 17th down in the Algarve and again just missing the final table at the Fox Poker Club in November. His consolation prize however, has been over €3,700 in prize money and the points that have seen him take pole position in the race for the €10,000 cheque.

Portuguese player Paulo Calado had been previously reported as Tour League top dog, but it is with apologies that the PPT blog has to correct this.

Paulo is in fact second after following up his final table appearance in Vilamoura by narrowly missing out on Day Two in London, but his top 50 finish was enough to move him into second place.

The winner also secures entry into all Season Three events, while the rest of the top five finishers are also set to be rewarded in July. Check out the latest standings below:

Position - Name - Points
1. Ronnie Espensen - 71
2. Paulo Calado - 56
3. Sérgio Almeida - 50
3. Christos Xanthopoulous - 50
5. Hugo Almeida - 49
5. Luis Rodrigues - 49
7. Rene Knapp - 48
7. Peter Csecsetka - 48
9. Jim Reid - 47
10. Carlos Oliveira - 46

50% more from your PPT stack

Get ready for 50% more value from your ParadisePoker Tour starting stack, as the Vienna event is set to debut a 15,000 chip tower for every player that enters at the Concord Card Casino.

The Austrian capital is a great venue for poker and now with even more value in the €125,000 Main Event, it promises to be a fine addition to the PPT from January 12th-16th.

Satellites are still underway with buy-ins as low as €1+10c. Full details of PPT satellites are available on the ParadisePokerTour.com homepage.