Andre Klebanov from Belarus is Chipleader in the GCOP Grand Final Main Event after Day 1A. At the end of the day the third place finisher of EPT London bagged in 153.600 Chips is leading the field out of 25 remaining.  A total of 58 players signed up for the first starting day and two of them took advantage of the re-entry option   in the Grand Final of the German Championship of Poker, powered by Poker770.

Everyone started with 25.000 in Chips and 8 levels were played,  Karl Heinz Wesnigk  qualified online on Poker770 and was playing his first major live event. He finished the first starting day with 74,600 Chips and besides him Andreas Bremer survived the Day with 23.600 Chips . World Series Of Poker runner-up Martin Staszko bagged in an average stack of 40.400 Chips and will also be returning on Day 2, the second starting day kicks off at 15.00 local time in the Kings Casino Rozvadov and the Satellite for Day 1B saw 220 participants.

Team 770 Pro Julian Herold entered Day 1A late and had Staszko as well as Gregor Derkowski and Gerald Karlic. The first important hand saw him with 2-2 in the Big Blind and the Czech WSOP runner-up opened to 300, there is a caller from the Button and Julian wants to see a Flop as well. The first three community cards see him hitting bottom set on a 10-6-2 rainbow Flop and he checks to the preflop aggressor.

Staszko bets 600 and another Czech player calls, Julian reraises to 1,900 and only the second Czech player calls whereas Staszko throws his cards in the muck. On the Turn 7 the 770 Pro bets 3,000 and his opponent raises to 6,500, Julian decides to call and checks the Ace on the River. It is unlikely that the Czech player on the Button has a better set and many Ace combinations try to take away the pot here, so does his opponent with another 6,500 bet and the German calls to get shown 8-9 for a gutshot on the Flop and Straight on the Turn.

After losing 2-3 more small pots, the 770 Pro is down to 7,000 in Chips and picks up Queens in the Cutoff. He minraises to 400 at Blinds 100-200 and Robert Zipf reraises to 900 from the Button. A Czech opponent with 8k stack four-bets to 2,200 and the German goes all-in for his remaining 35 Big Blinds and gets called by A-K from Zipf and Pocket Tens. The Flop 2-4-7 is good for the 770 Pro, but an Ace on the Turn avoids the triple up back to starting stack and he was sent to the rail.

The Chip Counts at the end of Day 1A are as follows:

Andre Klebanov