€10,300 High Roller Dia 2 | 2016 PokerStars EPT Season 13 Prague

2016-12-19 00:52 UTC+2

Addamo Finds Lucky Double, Leonard Suffers Unlucky Beat

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Nível 19 : 6,000/12,000, 2,000 ante

Acting out of middle position, Steven Thompson Vila raised to 28,000. In the cutoff, it was Patrick Leonard who three-bet to 79,000. Action folded to Michael Addamo in the big blind and he tanked for a bit before he shoved for 327,000. Vila folded right away, Leonard simply revealed his hand as his holding said enough.

Patrick Leonard:
Michael Addamo:

Addamo was in trouble but would get some help from the board. The flop came and Kassouf, never too tired to deliver a one-liner, said: "Never easy, never easy."

The on the turn was about as ugly a card as Leonard could see. He was drawing dead right there, the on the river was there just for good measures.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Steven Thompson Vila	900,000 -28,000	-28,000
Michael Addamo	704,000 334,000	334,000
Patrick Leonard	90,000 -480,000	-480,000

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2016-12-19 01:54 UTC+2

Cimbolas Coolers Addamo for Monster Pot

Nível 20 : 8,000/16,000, 2,000 ante

Matas Cimbolas bet 92,000 from the big blind, and Michael Addamo called with the board reading . Cimbolas moved all in for 346,000 effective on the river, and Addamo snapped it off only to see Cimbolas flick in for a boat.

"Really?" Addamo wondered, showing and pushing his chips in.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Matas Cimbolas	1,300,000 515,000	515,000
Michael Addamo	Eliminado

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2016-12-19 02:56 UTC+2

Ari Engel Busts in Biggest Hand of the Tournament

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Nível 21 : 10,000/20,000, 3,000 ante

As we arrived, the entire board was already out in a huge pot between Grzegorz Wyraz and Ari Engel. Wyraz told us afterward what had happened leading up to that point.

Action folded to Wyraz in the small blind and he raised it up. Engel called and called the continuation bet on as well. The hit the turn and Wyraz checked. Engel bet and Wyraz check-raised. Engel called again.

That's where we picked up the action as Wyraz shoved all in on the river. Engel, with roughly 740,000 behind we would estimate, went deep into the tank.

"Will you show me if I fold?" Engel asked. Wyraz did not reply.

"What's your name?" Engel asked jokingly. Wyraz did not reply.

"Can I see your slip?" Engel asked. Wyraz did not reply, or at least did not really seem to be sure what Engel meant.

After some more time in the tank, the clock was called on him by tablemate Farid Yachou. The floor came over and put the clock on Engel. With still some 20 seconds left to act, Engel called.

"Set" said Wyraz, as he showed his .

"F*ck!" said Engel as he slammed his on the table in defeat.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Grzegorz Wyraz	2,724,000 1,024,000	1,024,000
Ari Engel	Eliminado

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2016-12-19 04:50 UTC+2

Wyraz Builds Big Lead into Day 3 of High Roller; Kassouf Bags

Nível 21 : 10,000/20,000, 3,000 ante

The record-breaking €10,300 High Roller at PokerStars European Poker Tour Prague, which drew 407 entries, is down to just 22 after a marathon 11-level Day 2. Foremost among the remaining runners is Grzegorz Wyraz, a live satellite winner hailing from Poland who put 3,137,000 in the bag at night's end, well clear of his nearest competitor.

Wyraz typically grinds smaller tournaments, with most of his cashes being in events in the €500 range, but he could be putting together a classic poker satellite-to-riches story if he can bink the €765,900 earmarked for first.

Wyraz started his surge up the counts late in the day. He chipped up just before the bubble by busting Yang Zhang with ace-king against . Then, he picked up queens twice against short stacks Bartlomiej Machon and PokerStars Team Pro Liv Boeree.

The pot that really did it for him, though, came against Ari Engel with the clock winding down for the day at 10,000/20,000/3,000. Wyraz and Engel played a monster pot blind versus blind, with Wyraz opening preflop, betting a flop, and check-raising on a turn. Wyraz jammed the river to put Engel to the test for about 740,000, and the Aussie Millions champ called it off with a called clock ticking toward zero. He had only , no match for a set of sixes.

Other players rounding out the top five were Glib Kovtunov (1,878,000), Tue Ullerup Hansen (1,546,000), Jussi Nevanlinna (1,417,000), and Matas Cimbolas (1,156,000).

Another player who advanced was infamously talkative Brit William Kassouf, who will tote one of the shorter stacks into the final day of the tournament. He'll have just 336,000 with the big blind heading to 24,000. Kassouf was able to use his patented "speech play" to goad Liviu Ignat into doubling him up with a set of queens on a four-straight board when Kassouf had the straight.

The tournament reached the money on Day 2, though it didn't come without a prolonged bubble period. Numerous tables saw players stalling just before the bubble, so hand-for-hand play was a welcome sight for some. The money was eventually reached when Isaac Haxton, who shipped a €25,500 High Roller earlier in the week, bubbled out when he blinded off nearly all of his stack and then got tens in but couldn't hold against big stack Jens Lakemeier's eight-six.

Boeree, [Removed:17], Sergio Aido, Stephen Chidwick, Andrey Zaichenko, Sam Greenwood, and Niall Farrell were some of those falling in the paid places; Nick Petrangelo, Igor Kurganov, Max Silver, Anthony Zinno, Steve O'Dwyer, and start-of-day leader Jerry Wong were among the players busting in advance of the money.

Day 3 continues on Monday and will see the event come to a close, so come back to PokerNews to see who is crowned the final EPT high roller champ

Tags: Grzegorz Wyraz William Kassouf