The initial raise of Tomas Kubaliak was already pulled away, as Anton Petrov had shoved for 150,000 from the cutoff and Aleksey Ponakov called in the small blind to force a fold from Kubaliak.
Anton Petrov:
Aleksey Ponakov:
The board ran out and that was it for Petrov, who glanced over at his drink and said "unlucky Whiskey," triggering smiles all around from his former table mates.
Dick Postel, who earlier binked with against ace-king to survive, just got there again. This time, he got in 139,000 preflop from the button with tens only to see Arnaud Peyroles wake up with jacks. The board ran out though, giving Postel a straight and making Peyroles shake his head.
Four players have the chance to become the second two-time EPT champion in the last ever Main Event before the rebranding in 2017. Victoria Coren Mitchell will remain as the first to do so in San Remo two years ago and Nicolas Chouity, Ludovic Lacay, Maxim Lykov and Salvatore Bonavena are the candidates in the running with less than 100 hopefuls remaining.
Konstantin Uspenskiy shoved all in one hand then opened the next hand for 17,000 from middle position. David Peters made it 50,000 on the button and called when Uspenskiy shoved for 160,000.
Peters:
Uspenskiy:
Uspenskiy dodged any further sevens as hit the felt.
Over on the feature table, Philipp Gruissem open-shoved from the small blind into the big blind of Peter Jaksland and the latter called all in for his last 95,000.
Peter Jaksland:
Philipp Gruissem:
The board came and the jack on the flop saw Gruissem improve to eliminate Jaksland.
Pedro Lamarca raised to 20,000 from the cutoff and Benjamin Philipps moved all in from the small blind. A count was asked by Jonathan Abdellatif in the big blind and the shove of Philipps was for 287,000. Abdellatif then moved all in himself for little more and Lamarca folded.
Benjamin Philipps:
Jonathan Abdellatif:
The board came and the kicker played to eliminate Philipps.
Russian PokerStars qualifier Viacheslav Belyaev recently chipped up a little bit when he called from the big blind a mid-position raise from Stoyan Obreshkov to 18,000. Belyaev checked on the flop before raising to 42,000 after his opponent bet 18,000. Balyaev led out for a bet of 50,000 when the hit the turn and Obreshkov folded.
Obreshkov after the hand still had more than 1 million chips, while Belyaev chipped up to 675,000.
Belyaev might be one of the lesser known players left in the field with seven career cashes according to The Hendon Mob for $7,413. All of his career cashes took place in the Czech Republic and regardless of how he finishes in the EPT 13 Prague Main Event, he will be at least doubling his total. Belyaev is friendly with and sharing a place in Prague with Aleksandr Nemtcov, who is also in the final 100.
Even more remarkably, there is a third player from Russia staying with the duo in an apartment in Prague also in the final 100 in Sergei Petrushevskii, who has just one recorded cash according to The Hendon Mob for $167. Petrushevskii is currently doing the best of the three with a stack of 830,000.
Joe Mouawad opened and Kyosti Isberg as well as Maxim Lykov in the blinds called. On the flop, all three players checked. After the turn, Isberg checked and Lykov bet 25,000. Mouawad folded and Isberg then check-raised to 60,000, Lykov called.
The river paired the board for a second time and Isberg checked. Lykov bet 140,000 and flashed the after his opponent had folded.
Hand 2
One hand later, Mouawad open-shoved for 133,000 and Andrew Hulme called from one seat over.
Dmytro Samoilenko got his last 110,000 or so in and got called by Hirokazu Kobayashi. Samoilenko had against Kobayashi's , and though it wasn't clear whether the money went in preflop or on the flop, what is clear is that a pair of tens was all Samoilenko ended up with.