€5,300 Main Event Dia 2 | 2013 PokerStars.com EPT Prague

2013-12-14 17:12 UTC+2

The Daily EPT10 Player of the Year Update for 12-14-13

Nível 11 : 600/1,200, 200 ante

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.

Here are the current top ten on the EPT10 POY Leaderboard:

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.

Tags: EPT Player of the Year EPT POY Global Poker Index GPI

2013-12-14 17:13 UTC+2

Vamplew Chipping Up

Nível 11 : 600/1,200, 200 ante

Marvin Rettenmaier, about an hour into a relaxing table massage, opened from early position for 2,600 and was called by Michael Friedrich and Georgii Bandura. David Vamplew was in the small blind and raised it up to 9,600. The big blind folded as did Rettenmaier after a pause and Friedrich. Bandura decided to see a flop in position and called. They saw a flop of and both checked. A on the turn and Vamplew bet 10,000. Bandura checked his cards again. There sure were a lot of spades out there. He folded and Vamplew chipped up a bit more.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
David Vamplew	52,500 34,500	34,500

Tags: David Vamplew Georgii Bandura Marvin Rettenmaier

2013-12-14 17:14 UTC+2

Team PokerStars Pro And Team PokerStars Online Chip Counts

Nível 11 : 600/1,200, 200 ante

Although Daniel Negreanu and Dag Palovic have been eliminated recently there are still plenty of Team Pros and Team Online players alive in the Main Event.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier	200,000 40,000	40,000

David Williams	190,000 33,000	33,000

Henrique Pinho	130,000 82,000	82,000

Marc-Andre Ladouceur	72,000 32,000	32,000

Jonathan Duhamel	38,000 1,000	1,000

Mickey Petersen	19,000 -5,000	-5,000

Alex Kravchenko	18,400 -1,600	-1,600

Tags: PokerStars Team Pros and Team Online Chip Counts

2013-12-14 17:14 UTC+2

Volpe Loses With Set Over Set

Nível 11 : 600/1,200, 200 ante

An absolute cooler of a hand to tell you about between Paul Volpe and Anaras Alekberovas which also involved Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier. It was the Frenchman who got the action started, raising to 2,500 under-the-gun, next to act Alekberovas made it 6,300 to go, Volpe called from the hijack and when it got back to him ElkY made the call.

So three-way to a flop and it'd be three-way to the turn as Alekberovas bet 6,600 on the flop and both players called. On the turn ElkY checked, Alekberovas bet 17,400, Volpe raised it to 40,000, ElkY folded, Alekberovas moved all-in for a total of 41,400 and Volpe called the extra.

Volpe: - set of eights
Alekberovas: - set of jacks

The completed the board and Volpe shipped the chips to Alekberovas, he's dropped to 76,000 as a result, Alekberovas doubled to 132,000.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Paul Volpe	76,000 -4,000	-4,000

Nível: 12

Blinds: 800/1,600

Ante: 200

2013-12-14 17:39 UTC+2

Dag Palovic Pens a Novel

Nível 12 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

Sarah talks to Team PokerStars Pro Dag Palovic about his Novel, The Crimson Two Dollar Bill which sounds like it has it all!

Tags: Dag Palovic ept prague Sarah grant

2013-12-14 17:42 UTC+2

Big Stacks

Nível 12 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Sebastian Saffari	520,000 80,000	80,000
Ciaran Burke	315,000 315,000	315,000
Nicolai Kramer	315,000 315,000	315,000
Valentino Konakchiev	305,000 156,000	156,000

Tags: Ludovic Lacay Sebastian Saffari

2013-12-14 17:44 UTC+2

"Just the Hearts Then" - Lacay Busts Rettenmaier

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Nível 12 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

EPT San Remo winner Ludovic Lacay opened under-the-gun to 3,500 and got met by a reraise to 8,300 from multiple WPT winner Marvin Rettenmaier. David Williams in the cutoff and the players on the button, small blind and big blind quickly folded but Lacay had other plans in mind. He made it 21,000 and Rettenmaier made the call.

on the flop and Lacay bet out 20,000. That bet didn't faze Rettenmaier though, who didn't need much time before calling. The turn brought the into play and Lacay checked. Rettenmaier bet out 33,200 and Lacay thought about it for awhile before announcing to be all in. Rettenmaier looked a tiny bit concerned but called almost immediately anyway. Lacay showed his and was in bad shape against Rettenmaier's flopped set with .

"Just the hearts then", Lacay said with a smirk on his face like he already knew what the river was going to be. The dealer wasted no time and burned a card before letting the hit the felt. The dealer began counting Lacay's stack but it was clear from the get go to the players involved that Lacay (130,000) had more than Rettenmaier (110,000).

Rettenmaier gently made effort to shove all his chips to the Frenchman and shook hands with the players at the table. No EPT title for the guitar playing German wonder boy in 2013. He surely will try to add one to his already impressive palmarès in 2014.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Ludovic Lacay	322,000 182,000	182,000

Marvin Rettenmaier	Eliminado

Tags: Ludovic Lacay Marvin Rettenmaier

2013-12-14 17:48 UTC+2

More Chip Counts from Around the Room

Nível 12 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Jonathan Little	350,000 62,000	62,000
Amir Lehavot	334,000 42,000	42,000
Adrian Mateos	240,000 140,000	140,000

Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier	190,000 -10,000	-10,000

David Williams	185,000 -5,000	-5,000

Ana Marquez	140,000 102,000	102,000
Thomas Muhlocker	130,000 55,000	55,000
Jonathan Roy	80,000 -45,000	-45,000
Steve O'Dwyer	65,000 4,800	4,800

Olivier Busquet	60,000 24,500	24,500
Marc-Andre Ladouceur	60,000 -12,000	-12,000

Andrew Chen	50,000 -41,400	-41,400
Sam Cohen	45,000
Vitaly Lunkin	45,000
David Vamplew	45,000 -7,500	-7,500

Aku Joentausta	30,000 -20,700	-20,700
Alex Kravchenko	23,000 4,600	4,600

Eugene Katchalov	15,000 -4,000	-4,000

2013-12-14 17:51 UTC+2

Big Pot Goes To Showdown But There Is No Showdown

Nível 12 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

A big pot just played out on Table 22, it reached showdown but there was no showdown. There was already around 40,000 in the pot by the time the flop was deposited on the felt by the dealer. Action was three-way, there was one check to Simon Cuq, he bet 21,000 an in position Akin Tuna smooth called and Jan-Eric Schwippert folded.

The turn and river were both checked through and at showdown Cuq simply mucked meaning Tuna won the pot without having to show his hand. He's up to 245,000 whilst Cuq is down to 140,000

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Akin Tuna	245,000 245,000	245,000

Tags: Akin Tuna Simon Cuq