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One name that keeps popping up here at the EPT Prague is Skrill – which isn’t a player, but rather an online payment solutions company that aims to evolve “the way people pay and get paid globally.” Skrill is branded throughout the venue and also have a booth where players can sign up for their popular "Last Longer Competition."
The Skrill Last Longer competition will be held at each stop on this season’s EPT, of which they’re an official sponsor. The promotion is simple – players sign up for the promotion either online (preregistration is available) or at the Skrill booth (which will be present at each stop); don a Skrill patch; and then aim to be the last man or woman standing. The last player remaining will then receive their buy-in back via their Skrill account.
While Skrill is upping the ante for Season 10 with a bigger branding initiative, this isn’t their first appearance on the EPT; as a matter of fact, they were a sponsor of Season 8 and have held previous “Last Longer” promotions.
Here in Prague, 191 players (19% of the total field) signed up for the competition, though only 106 of them made it to Day 2 including Denys Drobyna (Ukraine), the winner of the Last Longer in the EPT Prague Season 8.
Here's the long list of 106 Skrillees still in contention at the start of Day 2.
| Gaetano Dell'aero | Mikhail Marchenko | Marcello Miniucchi | Jason Wheeler | Davide Suriano |
| Rui Sousa | Patrick Serda | Lauri Pesonen | Vishal Pundjabi | Massimo Dicicco |
| Ugnius Simelionis | Liutauras Armanavicius | Steven Van Zadelhoff | Rhys Jones | Tapio Vihakas |
| Scott Augustine | Oleh Okhotskyi | Ramin Hajiyev | Michael Bech Lundsgaard | Slaven Popov |
| Robert Schultz | Martin Stausholm | Toby Lewis | Andrew Hulme | Ben Martin |
| Adrian Piasecki | Jannick Wrang | Erik Scheidt | Sebastian Muller | Anton Bertilsson |
| Mariusz Keosinski | Marinko Skoric | Vazha Kometiani | Desislav Velikov | Dominik Panka |
| Andreas Vlachos | Przemysław Misztela | Thanh Hai Pham | Arsenii Karmatckii | Matej Marinovic |
| Viktor Makeev | Sergiy Seredyuk | Igor Yaroshevs'kyy | Iaroslav Boiko | Tom Hall |
| Marius Pospiech | Dominik Nitsche | Dany Parlares | Kamel Tamer | Manig Loeser |
| Aleksejs Ponakovs | Vicente Delgado | Joe Laming | Vitalijs Zavorotnijs | Milad Oghabianhangar |
| Aleksey Melesh | Dmitrijs Melesh | Edward Kudrjavcev | Slobodan Ruzicic | Ioannis Apostolidis |
| Marian Kubis | [Removed:244] | Karen Sarkisyan | Denys Drobyna | Timo Isotalo |
| Vlad Rosca | Martin Kabrhel | Jordi Riba Corrons | Stefan Ivanov | Lukas Hnizdo |
| Florian Krumpt | Valentino Konakchiev | Dylan Linde | Andrey Grenko | Vyacheslav Stoyanov |
| Maximilian Senft | Igor Izmaylov | Tomasz Chmiel | Andrey Volkov | Marat Begenov |
| Jan Sušický | Piotr Pietrzak | Franz-Josef Breuer | Martin Baláž | Gustavo Lopez Garcia |
| Paul Tedeschi | Bjorn Brost | Pawel Brzeski | Bryan Paris | Sven Krieger |
| Robert Zipf | Ryan Spittles | Simon Deadman | Franco Sonny | Dimitri Holdeew |
| Sotirios Koutoupas | Taylor Von Kriegenbergh | Mikhail Surin | Victor Sheerman | Nihat Karyagdi |
| Kevin MacPhee | Tobias Garp | Robin Ylitalo | Artem Pilkevich | Andrei lazarev |
| Gary Johnson |
The company’s website provides a bit more information on Skrill, which rebranded from Moneybookers back in 2010:
“Skrill has been moving money digitally since 2001. We offer online payment solutions for businesses and consumers, allowing them to pay and get paid globally. Over 36 million account holders already trust Skrill. Our customers can send and receive money worldwide in 200 countries and 40 currencies, securely and at low cost, without revealing their personal financial details. Your business will benefit from our worldwide payment network with over 100 payment options. Whether through a simple one-step integration or a fully-tailored payment solution. Whoever you are, however you like to pay or get paid, trust Skrill to make your online payments simpler, faster and safer.”
Headquartered in London, Skrill is looking to make their presence known in the poker world with a commitment to customer satisfaction through innovation and service. Not only that, they’re looking to be more than just a company by becoming a trusted and respected member of the poker community.
For more information on Skrill, click here.
The PokerNews Live Reporting Team will be keeping an eye on the latest incarnation of the Skrill Last Longer throughout the duration of the EPT Prague Main Event.
On day one the trickle in from one direction, while on day two they flood out in another. The PokerStars Blog reports from the floor as play starts and the eliminations begin.
We joined the table as Elfad Mammadov faced an all-in river shove from Bela Toth on a board reading 
. It was over pot sized and would cost Mammadov the rest of his chips to call so no wonder he was taking a long time to think about it. “Do you have it?” Mammadov asked the stock still Toth. A couple of minutes ticked by and the clock was called. The floor gave him a minutes warning and Mammadov gave it one last hard stare. Before the minute was up Mammadov made the call. His opponent turned over the 
“Straight flush.” Said the dealer as a sick looking Mammadov turned over his 
and staggered from the table. He had it alright.
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The chip leader at the start of the day was Amir Lehavot and although he's increased his stack of 239,300 to 292,000 he's got little hope of catching Sebastian Saffari (440,000) right now. That's because Lehavot is on a table where everyone bar one other player has a below average stack.
The only stack that poses any danger to Lehavot belongs to Daniel Tighe and he can't event cut Lehavot in half, given that he has 130,000. Also at his table is Tobias Garp (24,000), Tomas Fucik (27,000), Ilan Suloman (85,000) and Sam Chartier. Whilst I was observing Lehavot two of the short stacks got involved in a hand.
From under-the-gun Fucik opened to 2,400 with pocket fives, Gustavo Lopez Garcia three-bet all-in for 6,300 with pocket jacks, Fucik called the extra and the knaves held on the 
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Team PokerStars Pro Eugene Katchalov had called a bet on the flop of 
from Victor Podofedenko, a PokerStars player from Russia who had position on him. They both checked a turn 
and when the 
came on the river Katchalov bombed a big pile of blue T5000 chips, enough to put Podofedenko all in. He instantly called and Katchalov’s face showed that he had misread the situation as his opponent turned over 
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In Holland there's a saying "A bit stupid", a sentence once said by then queen to be Máxima Zorreguieta about Prince Willem-Alexander der Nederlanden. It's pretty much as self explanatory as it can get, but is used in Holland when someone makes a big misstep.
Dutch poker player Thomas Brader described his own play in one hand as "A bit stupid" just now. Brader had squeezed from the button with 
suited and had received a call from the cutoff. Brader continued with a bet on 
and received a call once more. The turn brought another to the table and Brader fired one more bullet, a bet big enough to make it look like he was committed. His opponent snap shoved all in though and Brader had to fold.
Brader is set back to 20,000 because of that move, work to do for the Dutchman.
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EPT Berlin winner Kevin Macphee really has to hang on to his chips now, he's getting shorter and shorter. Just now he bet 3,800 from the big blind on 
after checks from all three players on the flop and turn. MacPhee's bet on the river made the cutoff fold but the small blind made the call. MacPhee mucked, indicating he had nothing of value. The small blind followed his lead and mucked too, but he did get the chips.
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Ioannis Fronimakis, a PokerStars qualifier from Greece, had been patient all day and saw his stack dwindling away. Under the Gun he had found a hand to make a stand and moved all-in for his last 23,100. David Williams made the call from his big stack and it was heads up as no one else wanted to tangle. Fronimakis tabled 
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of Williams and saw a very encouraging flop of 
, as good as he could wish for without hitting his set. The turn was 
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sent Fronimakis home.
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