Day 1b of the €500,000 guaranteed €550 Main Event attracted 123 entries to bring the total up to 196 entries when taking into account the 73 entries that hopped into action on Tuesday's Day 1a.
Exactly one-third of the field bagged chips with Daniel Nagy leading the 41 survivors with 207,000 to push him ahead of the 190,000 that Day 1a chip leader Bo Alm advanced with. So far, 59 players have bagged and tagged chips with many more to come with four more opening flights to go.
Martin Mauthner, who won the very first The Festival Series Main Event when it all began in Bratislava back in 2021, managed to bag a shorter stack of 44,000. Meanwhile, defending The Festival Series Bratislava Main Event champion Michel Molenaar was at his table for quite some time and will also head into Day 2 in much better shape with 176,000 in chips.
This brings an end to our blog for the evening, although we will update some of the side events if they end at a reasonable time. If not, expect to learn about all of the results in the morning.
For those still looking for some late-night action, the €250 Texas Progressive Knockout is about to kick off in a few minutes.
In the meantime, check out the final Day 1b chip counts of the Main Event below:
| Place | Player | Country | Chips | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Daniel Nagy | Hungary | 207,000 | 69 |
| 2 | Steven Tool | Estonia | 188,000 | 63 |
| 3 | Jimmy Dewerdt | Estonia | 180,000 | 60 |
| 4 | Michel Molenaar | Netherlands | 176,000 | 59 |
| 5 | Dominik Ostrowski | Poland | 170,000 | 57 |
| 6 | Karl Sundin | Sweden | 153,000 | 51 |
| 7 | Polys Christou | Cyprus | 139,000 | 46 |
| 8 | Sandor Leitenroth | Germany | 139,000 | 46 |
| 9 | Kristian Holmgren | Denmark | 116,000 | 39 |
| 10 | Ernst Solem | Sweden | 112,000 | 37 |
| 11 | Richard Koppel | Estonia | 111,000 | 37 |
| 12 | Lukas Toth | Slovakia | 110,000 | 37 |
| 13 | Lukas Benkovic | Slovakia | 103,000 | 34 |
| 14 | Runar Borge | Norway | 102,000 | 34 |
| 15 | Andras Halasi | Hungary | 102,000 | 34 |
| 16 | Claes Lang | Sweden | 102,000 | 34 |
| 17 | Giorgio Basciano | Italy | 100,000 | 33 |
| 18 | Toni Sarkama | Finland | 98,000 | 33 |
| 19 | Christoph Hammerlitz | Austria | 96,000 | 32 |
| 20 | Vasilijus Piskunovas | Lithuania | 95,000 | 32 |
| 21 | Ronni Mindelund | Denmark | 88,000 | 29 |
| 22 | Jozef Cibicek | Slovakia | 86,000 | 29 |
| 23 | Joern Hvaal | Denmark | 73,000 | 24 |
| 24 | Erik Seffer | Slovakia | 65,000 | 22 |
| 25 | Carl Andersson | Sweden | 62,000 | 21 |
| 26 | Henri Piironen | Finland | 62,000 | 21 |
| 27 | Vitaliy Kryza | Ukraine | 56,000 | 19 |
| 28 | Simon Kleivdal | Norway | 55,000 | 18 |
| 29 | Kristoffer Skolem | Norway | 54,000 | 18 |
| 30 | Dmitri Dudakov | Estonia | 53,000 | 18 |
| 31 | Martin Szecsenyi | Austria | 53,000 | 18 |
| 32 | Jesse Liljegren | Finland | 51,000 | 17 |
| 33 | Serguei Palomera | Sweden | 48,000 | 16 |
| 34 | Fredric Lydersen | Norway | 46,000 | 15 |
| 35 | Martin Mauthner | Austria | 44,000 | 15 |
| 36 | Arne Alnes | Norway | 42,000 | 14 |
| 37 | John Bonds | Sweden | 42,000 | 14 |
| 38 | Ersin Sancak | Austria | 42,000 | 14 |
| 39 | Jonatan Wedde | Norway | 27,000 | 9 |
| 40 | Kristo Erala | Estonia | 25,000 | 8 |
| 41 | Anastasios Pagonakis | Greece | 19,000 | 6 |
