The partypoker relaunch of our live events is off to a rocking start in Bratislava. The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and, of course, there has been plenty of exciting poker action the first two days of the partypoker Grand Prix Bratislava.

The partypoker Grand Prix teamed up with the Bratislava Poker Festival and the Irish Poker Tour for six thrilling days of poker action at one of the largest casinos in Europe at Card Casino Bratislava on July 18-23.

The crown jewel of the festival in the €500,000 guaranteed partypoker Grand Prix Bratislava €550 Main Event kicked off in style on Wednesday. Many of the 45 partypoker online qualifiers were among the 103 entries on Day 1a with others planning to hop into the action on Thursday’s Day 1b.

Local Slovakian Tabriz Pedram Sarayedarzadeh was the star of Day 1a after catapulting his 40,000 opening stack into a Day 1a chip leading stack of 428,000 for Saturday’s Day 2. Jovan Nikolic (356,000), Richard Laki (351,500), Edoardo Mancinelli (273,000), and Daniel Koloszar (261,000) joined Sarayedarzadeh in the top five on the Day 1a leaderboard.

The Main Event continues on Thursday with two more opening flights. The surviving players from all of the opening flights will combine into a single field on Saturday, July 22 for Day 2 with a winner scheduled to be crowned on Sunday, July 23.

Meanwhile, the €400 Mystery Bounty crushed its €50,000 guarantee with Wednesday’s Day 1b attracting another 189 entries to grow the field to 272 entries for a €95,472 prize pool. Expect plenty of excitement with the 56 Day 2 survivors earning a chance to snag an envelope containing a mystery bounty prize for each player they eliminate with two lucky players snagging the top €5,000 mystery bounty prize. Of course, there is also plenty to play for in the prize pool with a €13,200 top prize on the line for the trophy winner. Day 1b chip leader David Safrany began the final day with the largest stack of 440,000 followed by Day 1a chip leader Angelos Valiles with 422,000.

Additionally, the second trophy winner was crowned on Wednesday with the very affordable €150 NLH Freezeout ending in a five-way deal with Giorgi Barabadze officially winning the event for €1,505 with Barnabas Nagy, Michael Corcoran, Aleksey Baranovskiy, and Manfred Gonda each earning €1,450.

You can enjoy the partypoker Grand Prix Bratislava from across the globe as each day we will broadcast some of the biggest poker action at the partypokertv Twitch channel.

The stream began on Wednesday with an action-packed €5/€10 no-limit hold’em affair hosted by poker media guru Jason Glatzer. Yesterday’s guests included partypoker host Venice and Bulgarian bwin Twitch streamer Alex Georgiev.

Poker fans are in for a treat on Thursday with the stream featuring a massive €50/€50 pot-limit Omaha with an optional €100 straddle at 4:30 p.m. Glatzer will be joined by Omaha crusher George Sandford. Meanwhile, partypoker Ambassador Matt Staples, Irish Poker Tour founder Fintan Gavin, and poker baller Tomas “luckymo32” Geleziunas are among the scheduled guests later in the week, so you won’t want to miss out.

Check out the full streaming schedule in local time (CEST) below:

• July 19 (8:30 p.m.) – €5/€10 NLHE
• July 20 (4:30 p.m.) – €50/€50 (optional €100 straddle) PLO
• July 21 (6:00 p.m.) – €2,500 Euro Omaha Championship Final Table (optional cash game after)
• July 22 (8 p.m.) – €550 Grand Prix Day 2
• July 23 (2 p.m.) – €550 Grand Prix Final Day

If we didn’t already give you enough reasons to watch the stream, we have one more. We are celebrating the return of the partypoker LIVE tour with four amazing password-protected freerolls this week at partypoker for the partypoker MILLIONS Malta at the luxurious Portomaso Casino on Sept. 23 to Oct. 3. Each freeroll awards the top 120 players with the top two players snagging a ticket to one of the three Online Day 1s to the €1 million guaranteed partypoker Grand Prix €550 Main Event. Check out the prizes below:

Be sure to tune into the stream not only for the amazing action but also to participate in the lucrative freerolls with the passwords shared each day at the partypokertv Twitch channel.

Today, July 20, is the biggest day thus far of the partypoker Grand Prix and the Bratislava Poker Festival. We already mentioned the high-octane €50/€50 pot-limit Omaha cash game stream, the final day of the fun Mystery Bounty, and two more opening flights of the Grand Prix Bratislava Main Event.

What we haven’t talked about yet is one of the biggest Omaha tournaments ever hosted in Europe in the €100,000 guaranteed €2,500 Euro Omaha Championship which kicks off the first of its two days on Thursday. You’ll be able to watch the end of this event on Friday with the final table streamed from the beginning until a winner is crowned.

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