Mariusz Klosinski from Poland pushed all-in and was called by Walid Bou Habib. Suited connectors 
for Klosinski and the high card 
foir Habib. The flop 
gave the required sweat but turn 
river 
. Klosinski home with only memories and the small matter of €9,900.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
Eliminado |
Jonathan Little has been an almost permanent fixture in the upper echelons of the chip counts since Day 1 and he's up to 650,000 after winning a pot against Ana Marquez.
There was about 160,000 in the pot by the time they reached the turn of a 
board, Little (hijack) checked and Marquez (cut-off) did likewise. The 
fell on the river, Little checked again and Marquez followed suit, Little showed 
and it was good. Marquez is down to 340,000 which is right on average stack.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
650,000
70,000
|
70,000 |
|
340,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
Adrian Piasecki moved all in and was called by Vit Blachut. Piasecki was the player at risk and he turned over 
against the 
of Blachut. The cards ran out 
. Piasecki had stood up and seemed to be mentally ready to exit the tournament, until the last two cards gave him the diamond flush, but he sat back down with an apologetic shrug, stacked his chips and got ready to play again.
Joao Simao from Brazil opened for 11,000 and Simon Mattsson from Sweden raised to 32,500. The blinds folded and Simao asked him how much he was playing. Mattsson showed him his stack which was just under 120,000. He called and they saw a flop of 
. Simao checked and called a bet of 16,000 from Mattson. This took about a minute to complete. The turn card was the and after a few minutes we had ourselves a check / check. The river was the and now the action slowed down a bit. Simao had his scarf pressed against his neck; Mattson had his hoodie against his, as the minutes ticked by.
Some five minutes in he asked the dealer “How much does he have?” and perhaps in an effort to speed things along the dealer reached for Mattssons’, stack but another player spoke up to remind him that that wasn’t allowed. The dealer told him he could look as much as he wanted but no count was required. Another minute ticked by and Simoa announced “All-in.”
Mattsson went in the tank. His tournament life was on the line, Simao had taken an unorthodox line and he tried to put the pieces of the puzzle together. A few players got up and strolled around the table. Mattsson appeared tortured. Five minutes later he released his hand and the chips went the way of Simao. Tension released Simao intimated that he had it and wanted to know Mattsson’s hand. “I’ll tell you at the break.” he said.
The European Poker Tour Season 10 Player of the Year race is on, and as you know players will be able to accumulate points in all events throughout Season 10, regardless of the buy-in level. In addition, all of the Festival Events (Estrellas, UKIPT, Eureka, FPS, IPT) that combine with an EPT tour stop will be eligible for Player of the Year points. The winner of this season’s award will walk away with €50,000 in Main Event buy-ins, good for any PokerStars or Full Tilt sponsored event.
The Global Poker Index (GPI) points formula, which will be used to determine the EPT10 POY, is a bit complicated, but you can read about all the details here.
Thomas Muhlocker was in the lead entering Prague, and thanks to his 149th-place finish here in the Main Event, he'll be adding some more points to his total.
Here are the current top ten on the EPT10 POY Leaderboard (last updated October 16, 2013):
| Place | Player | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thomas Muhlocker | 350.68 pts |
| 2 | David Benefield | 321.18 pts |
| 3 | Ole Schemion | 311.62 pts |
| 4 | Jeff Rossiter | 258.92 pts |
| 5 | Joao Barbosa | 257.14 pts |
| 6 | Kenny Hallaert | 253.87 pts |
| 7 | Nicolau Pacheco Villa-Lobos | 251.08 pts |
| 8 | Jonathan Duhamel | 243.35 pts |
| 9 | Timothy Adams | 222.31 pts |
| 10 | Frederik Brink Jensen | 209.90 pts |
We'll be bringing you daily updates on the Player of the Year race, so be sure to keep an eye out for those.
A very interesting hand just played out and it involved Team PokerStars Pro Eugene Katchalov. The pot was opened to 11,000 by Martin Wiklund, Katchalov flat called, there was then a three-bet to 32,000 from Sergey Baburin and when it got back to Wiklund he four-bet to 65,000. Action was now on Katchalov and he announced that he was all-in, he had 218,000 in total. It was too much for both Baburing and Wiklund and they both folded.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
330,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
|
||
Back in October, a 19-year-old Spaniard by the name of Adrian Mateos defeated a stacked final table to win the 2013 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event for €1,000,000! Mateos did so by defeating accomplished pro Fabrice Soulier in heads-up play. Others Mateos outlasted were Dominik Nitsche (3rd - €400,000), Ravi Raghavan (5th - €176,000) and Benny Spindler (6th - €126,000).
Mateos was in action today and looking for another European title, but his hopes of that just came to an end courtesy of American Ari Engel.
After losing the majority of his chips, Mateos got his last 62,500 all in preflop and found himself in a race situation.
Mateos: 
Engel: 
The 
flop wasn't very exciting, though it did give Mateos a runner-runner flush draw to go with his overs. Mateos and his supporters on the rail watched intently as the dealer burned and turned the . It was the worst card in the deck as Engel filled up and Mateos was left drawing dead.
A crestfallen Mateos watched the meaningless put out on the river and then took the long walk to the front of the room on his way to the payout desk.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
240,000
60,000
|
60,000 |
|
Eliminado | |
|
||
As you can see, Table 12 has quite the interesting lineup with three — yes, that's right, three — Team PokerStars Pros. Unfortunately the table is the next to break so we likely won't get to see the company men bump heads.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
735,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
|
380,000
75,300
|
75,300 |
|
|
310,000
130,000
|
130,000 |
|
|
||
|
200,000
51,000
|
51,000 |
|
|
||
|
180,000
-105,000
|
-105,000 |
|
|
||
|
77,500
-14,900
|
-14,900 |
Simon Deadman's tournament has just come to an end and it was Nicolai Kramer who did the deed. He opened to 10,000 with , Deadman jammed for 95,000 with and went it folded back to Kramer he made the call. The board came 
to eliminate Deadman.
One table over Cezar Oprea was all-in for 179,500 with and up against Adrian Mateos's 
, they both hit on the 
board but Oprea hit harder and he doubled up.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
375,000
272,900
|
272,900 |
|
Eliminado |
Dutchman Micha Hoedemaker has had a good last couple of hands. First he shoved his 38,000 stack in from the hijack after an under the gun raise. Russian Mikhail Marchenko shoved all in over the top from the button and the initial raiser went out of the way. "This is not good" Micha said after Marchenko had shoved. He was right in that assesment as his 
was up against Marchenko's .
"Give me the ace of clubs on the turn" Micha asked the dealer politely. The dealer didn't bring the to the table but did give Hoedemaker the winning hand on the turn: 
. The 
on the river made Hoedemaker's straight into a flush and he doubled to about 85,000.
Not much later he again was lucky. He got it in with pocket tens against pocket jacks but spiked a ten on the turn.
Hoedemaker, who started the day extremely short, finally has a stack to do some damage with. Now it's up to him to prove he can handle a somewhat bigger stack as effective as he knew the short stack.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
170,000
120,000
|
120,000 |
