Blinds are €50/€100 to start and players in the game so far include Cates, Luke "FullFlush_1” Schwartz, Andy Moseley, Czech internet entrepreneur Jan Barta, American Scott Baumstein and German high-roller specialist Phillip Gruissem.
2011 WSOP November Niner Eoghan O’Dea also sat in for a while in the beginning but left the table after about an hour even in chips.
Gus Hansen and Tobias Renkemeier are expected to play later in the day and a Czech businessman named Leon Toukernik just sat in the game with €20,000.
RFID technology is being used to show the hole cards as they play and live commentary is being provided by well known poker media guru Jesse May and WPT winner Roberto Romanello.
Both Cates and Schwartz bought in €30,000 but Cates has already busted once in the biggest pot of the day so far.
Cates had aces against Andy Moseley’s kings and was in the lead until another king came on the river to fill Moseley up.
Cates quickly reloaded and is still headlining the game at the moment.
Action is set to run for a full 12 hours today from Prague, wrapping up around 10:30 pm EST.
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