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4.20pm:Break time
The players are on their first 15 minute break of the day.
4.10pm:Five not alive
So far today five players have been eliminated. They're Alexandru Ratu, Igor Jursic, Ivan Culjak, Hot Besim and Jaroslav Urban - he finished fifth at Eureka Prague.
The total number of entries today is 137 making 253 in total so far.
3.50pm: More chip counts
A sweep of the other half of the room unearthed the following chip counts: Radu Pitic (25,300), Michal Kadziela (17,500), Dragan Galic (11,600), Peter Poles (15,100), Luka Vidovic (13,050) and Dorde Jovanovic (15,100).
3.35pm: Chip counts
In the opening level of play here's how some of the notables have got on: Neil Rawnsley (14,000), Dan Williams (21,000), Jaroslav Urban (16,700), Milan Rakic (13,900), Hana Sojan (19,900), Damir Alidzanovic (15,600) and Alain Medesan (16,400).
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3.20pm: Approaching 250
The tournament board is saying that there are 133 players in the field so far today, add them to the Day 1A field of 116 and that's 249 in total. Might be a few people out there sweating under/over bets of 250 then.

3pm: One down, one almost down
The first exit of today was Alexandru Ratu, I didn't catch the hand but a look at his table suggests his chips went to Hüseyin Arkan.
Then I heard a loud bang over on table four and rushed over to see that Igor Jursic had lost a huge pot holding pocket fours to Damir Ovcina's [Ah][Qh] on a [8h][3h][Kh][4c][7s] board. A near double up for Ovcina and just a few chips left for Jursic.
2.43pm: Don't you know who I am?
There are a few Croatian and Slovenian celebrities in the field today. There's Peter Poles who is the presenter of the Slovenia's Got Talent, we have Luka Vidovic who's a famous illusionist in Croatia. There's also Damir Alidzanovic who was in a reality TV show called Dream Man, where he had to choose a suitor.
Ironically he's sat next to Hana Soljan, one of only three women in the field, she won the ladies event which took place last night.


Hana Soljan
2.30pm: Spotted
On my first lap of the room I spotted serial satellite qualifiers Neil Rawnsley, Dan Williams and Michael Kadziela. As well as the extremely tall Croatian pro Dragan Galic, he might find it a bit cramped at the tables they're using here.

2.20pm: Shuffle up and deal
Tournament director Thomas Lamatsch is just running the players through the rules and regulations, play is just about to start.
2.05pm: Slight delay
From my perch on media row I can still see a stream of players registering including Milan Rakic who was runner up at Eureka Bulgaria. Looks like we won't be starting just yet.

1.40pm: Day 1B set to start
Hello and welcome to Day 1B of Eureka Croatia, here in Zagreb. Yesterday 116 players started and 40 made it through to Day 2 including Team PokerStars Pro Chris Moneymaker.
We're expecting an increase on numbers for Day 1B and I've spotted Jaroslav Urban and Alain Medesan who'll both be taking to the felt today.
Nine levels of play will be the order of the day, it should get underway at 2pm.


The Antunovic Hotel, Zagreb
PokerStars Blog reporting team at Eureka Poker Tour Croatia: Nick Wright. Photos courtesy of Manuel Kovsca


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