On a 
board it was Cezar Oprea who was all in with 
. Oprea was already short and got looked up by Tapio Vihakas with 
. The 
didn't improve Oprea and neither did the 
on the river. Oprea out, Vihakas a little richer.
After a raise to 40,000 from Erwann Pecheux, Russian PokerStars Qualifier Nikita Nikolaev raised to 360,000 effectively putting him all in as he had just 447,000 total. Back of Pecheux he moved all in and Nikolaev called it off.
Nikolaev: 
Pecheux: 
The board came 
and Nikolaev's had held to double him to around 900,000 whilst Pecheux slips to 1,180,000.
| TABLE 3 | ||
| 1 | Andrew Chen | 1,190,000 |
| 2 | Romain Chauvassagne | 740,000 |
| 3 | Lars Anders Dahlin | 840,000 |
| 4 | Sotirios Koutoupas | 740,000 |
| 5 | Nikita Nikolaev | 440,000 |
| 6 | Georgios Sotiropoulos | 730,000 |
| 7 | Tamer Kamel | 400,000 |
| 8 | Erwann Pecheux | 1,500,000 |
| TABLE 7 | ||
| 1 | Radek Stockner | 1,200,000 |
| 2 | Yury Gulyy | 850,000 |
| 3 | Tiberu-Florian Georgescu | 690,000 |
| 4 | Dimitri Holdeew | 1,100,000 |
| 5 | Stephen Chidwick | 1,040,000 |
| 6 | Jonathan Roy | 650,000 |
| 7 | Sam Chartier | 325,000 |
| 8 | Sigurd Andreas Eskeland | 620,000 |
| TABLE 8 | ||
| 1 | Tomasz Kowalski | 490,000 |
| 2 | Tapio Vihakas | 580,000 |
| 3 | Artem Metalidi | 1,090,000 |
| 4 | Ka Kwan Lau | 1,650,000 |
| 5 | Piotr Robert Pietrzak | 440,000 |
| 6 | Rudi Johnsen | 420,000 |
| 7 | Cezar Oprea | 260,000 |
| 8 | Julian Track | 2,170,000 |
| FEATURE TABLE | ||
| 1 | Ole Schemion | 1,611,000 |
| 2 | Lasell King | 2,592,000 |
| 3 | Ori Hasson | 1,017,000 |
| 4 | Ihar Soika | 1,063,000 |
| 5 | Emmanuel Murgia | 778,000 |
| 6 | Zdravko Duvnjak | 865,000 |
| 7 | Jorma Nuutinen | 317,000 |
| 8 | Max Silver | 1,631,000 |
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 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.
Nível: 23
Blinds: 10,000/20,000
Ante: 3,000
We've still got 32 players left as the last two all in and calls went the way of the short stacks.
First Romain Chauvassagne four-bet all-in for 323,000 with 
and Sotirios Koutoupas, who had three-bet to 112,000, made the call.
Chauvassagne:
Koutoupas: 
The 
flop gave Chauvassagne an unbeatable flush and the 
and 
completed the board. He climbs to 660,000 and Koutoupas drops to 760,000.
One table across Radek Stockner raised to 32,000 there was a flat call and Dimitri Holdeew then three-bet to 89,000. Back on Stockner he four-bet to 233,000, Holdeew set Stockner all in for 552,000 total and Stockner called it off.
Holdeew: 
Stockner: 
The board ran 
and Stockner doubled to over a 1,100,000.
Another Twenty Minute Break has started.
It was a preflop all in: three bet, four bet all in, call. Silver had the best of it with his 
but Emmanuel Murgia was all but drawing dead with the .
The 
in the window wasn't all that important, the 
that accompanied it was. The , and 
made for the rest of the board and Silver had to stack of 452,000 to his Belgian opponent.
Silver is still doing fine with 1,373,000, Murgia is now nearing the million chip mark.
We caught the action on the turn as Tamer Kamal bet out 92,000 from the small blind. His opponent was EPT Prague 2012 runner up Sotirios Koutoupas who made the call.
on the river and Kamal wasn't backing down just yet. He made it 160,000 for Koutoupas to call. The Greek player had some issues with this bet, shaking his head a couple of times and thinking about it really hard.
After some time he tossed in two 10,000 chips to indicate the call. Kamel threw his on the table but knew that was nog good. Before even showing his hand, Koutoupas made a small fist pump celebrating his great call. He then showed 
and raked in the chips.
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