€5,300 EPT Main Event
Dia 2 Concluído
€5,300 EPT Main Event
Dia 2 Concluído
Day 2 of the €5,300 EPT Main Event has come to an end after five levels of 90 minutes each with Malaysia’s Natalie Teh claiming the chip lead here in the Hilton Prague with 786,000 in chips. After the bubble burst in the last level of the night, 137 players managed to find a bag to seal for Day 3.
As most people are aware, a Platinum Pass will be given to the winner of this Main Event, but Teh already has one. She was awarded a Platinum Pass through the “Next Great Poker Brain” quiz that PokerStars Team Pros Igor Kurganov and Liv Boeree had set up. Teh started playing while she was in university but decided to quit her job at the end of last year and play professionally this year. And she’s doing pretty well as she has already racked up fifteen cashes this year.
Teh won a huge pot to jump into the chip lead when she rivered a set of queens against Michal Schuh who held pocket aces. Even though there were several people competing for that chip lead, Teh came out victorious in the end. Parker Talbot follows Teh with 773,500 in chips. The popular Twitch streamer from Canada is more known for his online achievements but is making himself more known in the live circuit too. With over $400,000 in live tournament results, he will be looking to add even more to that.
Closing the podium is Evangelos Bechrakis from Greece who bagged 730,000 tonight. Bechrakis finished in 3rd place in the €2,200 EPT National High Roller a mere two nights ago for €144,900 which was also his biggest live cash ever. Anton Wigg (708,500) and Arthur Conan are the only other players who have managed to collect more than 700,000 throughout the day.
The day started with 440 players as 25 players decided to reenter or buy in before the tournament clock kicked off for the first 90-minute level of the day. This meant that there were 1,174 entries in total for the Main Event, which includes 281 reentries. This created a total prize pool of €5,693,900 with 175 players getting paid at least €8,710. The winner on the final day will walk away with €1,020,000, the beautiful PokerStars trophy, and a Platinum Pass package worth $30,000!
By the time the first break started, almost ninety players busted already. Players like 2013 WSOP Main Event Champion Ryan Riess, Kenny Hallaert, Ari Engel, Joao Barbosa, Max Silver, Daniel Dvoress, Antoine Labat, and Michael Addamo. And the pace didn’t let up throughout the rest of the day as defending champion Kalidou Sow was eliminated. So were Niall Farrell, Sam Greenwood, Pavel Plesuv, Julian Thomas, Tom Hall, Bryan Paris, Thomas Boivin, Steven van Zadelhoff, Andras Nemeth, Florian Duta, Kacper Pyzara, Michal Mrakes, Andy Black, Marc-Andre Ladouceur, and Jan Bendik[/b].
PokerStars Team Pros Muskan Sethi and Fatima Moreira De Melo also couldn’t make it into the money. Sethi shoved her ace-queen into the ten-nine of Bechrakis who flopped two pair and Moreira De Melo’s pocket jacks couldn’t beat the ace-queen of her opponent as he hit a queen on the flop.
The bubble lasted about 40 minutes, Mateusz Wozniak first doubled up through Pavel Veksler with pocket kings against Veksler’s pocket queens and hit quads. A few hands later, Wozniak burst the bubble by dealing Veksler the final blow when it all went in on the river. Veksler’s two pair couldn’t beat the flush that Wozniak had rivered. When the tournament director announced that the bubble had burst, the applause could be heard from all players spread over the tables here in the poker room.
With an hour left to play, almost 40 players would bust during that hour, collecting their min-cash, either bitterly disappointed to not make Day 3, or extremely happy to have won money with their short stacks. The 137 surviving players will return at noon tomorrow, Friday, December 14, to continue to play Level 16 which features a small blind of 2,500, big blind of 5,000, and a big blind ante of 5,000.
The PokerNews live reporting team will be on the floor again to bring you all the action from the first card of the deck until the final chip has been bagged so make sure to keep following the updates!
Table | Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
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1 | 1 | Serhii Holodiuk | Ukraine | 343,500 | 69 |
1 | 2 | Ondrej Drozd | Czech Republic | 133,500 | 27 |
1 | 3 | Guenter Halak | Austria | 108,000 | 22 |
1 | 4 | Joao Lopes De Oliveira | Portugal | 91,000 | 18 |
1 | 5 | Raul Martinez | Spain | 120,000 | 24 |
1 | 6 | Amar Begovic | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 114,300 | 23 |
1 | 7 | Aku Joentausta | Finland | 358,500 | 72 |
1 | 8 | Frederic Delval | France | 89,500 | 18 |
2 | 1 | Markus Durnegger | Austria | 258,500 | 52 |
2 | 2 | Evangelos Bechrakis | Greece | 730,000 | 146 |
2 | 3 | Natalie Teh | Malaysia | 786,000 | 157 |
2 | 4 | Soren Warburg Nielsen | Denmark | 51,000 | 10 |
2 | 5 | Arthur Conan | France | 705,000 | 141 |
2 | 6 | Daniel Wilson | UK | 220,000 | 44 |
2 | 7 | Francisco Quintana Rubio | Spain | 209,000 | 42 |
2 | 8 | Serdar Demircan | Sweden | 400,000 | 80 |
3 | 1 | Rabah Ait Abdelmalek | France | 190,000 | 38 |
3 | 3 | Ondrej Vinklarek | Czech Republic | 139,500 | 28 |
3 | 4 | Miguel Iglesias | Spain | 408,500 | 82 |
3 | 5 | Vicent Bosca | Spain | 370,000 | 74 |
3 | 6 | Dejan Kaladurdevic | Montenegro | 401,000 | 80 |
3 | 7 | Diego Zeiter | Argentina | 249,500 | 50 |
3 | 8 | Hao Tian | China | 319,000 | 64 |
4 | 1 | Pim Gieles | Netherlands | 110,500 | 22 |
4 | 2 | Fazeel Munawar | Canada | 463,000 | 93 |
4 | 3 | Jan Subik | Czech Republic | 54,000 | 11 |
4 | 4 | Vlada Stojanovic | Serbia | 264,000 | 53 |
4 | 5 | Victor Ionut | Romania | 100,000 | 20 |
4 | 6 | Armin Mette | Austria | 666,500 | 133 |
4 | 7 | Grzegorz Reczko | Poland | 70,000 | 14 |
4 | 8 | Sergiu Covrig | Romania | 230,000 | 46 |
5 | 1 | Joris Ruijs | Netherlands | 492,000 | 98 |
5 | 2 | Artem Kobylynskyi | Ukraine | 164,000 | 33 |
5 | 3 | Jiayu Ruan | China | 65,000 | 13 |
5 | 4 | Adam Milewski | Poland | 136,000 | 27 |
5 | 5 | Alexandros Theologis | Greece | 124,000 | 25 |
5 | 6 | Tomas Macnamara | UK | 271,000 | 54 |
5 | 7 | Tom-Aksel Bedell | Norway | 433,500 | 87 |
5 | 8 | Teymur Valiyev | Azerbaijan | 177,000 | 35 |
6 | 1 | Karolis Sereika | Lithuania | 573,000 | 115 |
6 | 2 | Niklas Blomqvist | Sweden | 282,500 | 57 |
6 | 3 | Tobias Peters | Netherlands | 169,000 | 34 |
6 | 4 | Christophe Larquemin | France | 219,000 | 44 |
6 | 6 | Krasimir Yankov | Bulgaria | 66,000 | 13 |
6 | 7 | Grzegorz Grochulski | Poland | 509,500 | 102 |
6 | 8 | Maxime Chilaud | France | 66,000 | 13 |
7 | 1 | Timothy Adams | Canada | 272,500 | 55 |
7 | 2 | Bruno Volkmann | Brazil | 427,500 | 86 |
7 | 3 | Dorin Agavriloae | Romania | 73,000 | 15 |
7 | 4 | Mihai Manole | Romania | 55,300 | 11 |
7 | 5 | Andrea Ricci | Italy | 412,000 | 82 |
7 | 6 | Liviu Ignat | Romania | 508,000 | 102 |
7 | 7 | [Removed:464] | Lithuania | 104,000 | 21 |
7 | 8 | Gianluca Speranza | Austria | 284,000 | 57 |
8 | 1 | Tomas Jozonis | Lithuania | 113,000 | 23 |
8 | 2 | Kent Roed | Norway | 233,000 | 47 |
8 | 3 | Maksim Shornikau | Belarus | 167,500 | 34 |
8 | 4 | Jia Tang | China | 148,500 | 30 |
8 | 5 | Christopher Andler | Sweden | 119,000 | 24 |
8 | 6 | Souhayl Fjer | Morocco | 102,000 | 20 |
8 | 7 | Leonardo Patacconi | Italy | 222,000 | 44 |
8 | 8 | Anton Wigg | Sweden | 708,500 | 142 |
9 | 1 | Joakim Bakke | Norway | 282,500 | 57 |
9 | 2 | Petr Targa | Czech Republic | 81,000 | 16 |
9 | 3 | Ludvig Sterner | Sweden | 287,000 | 57 |
9 | 4 | Alex Papazian | Romania | 65,000 | 13 |
9 | 5 | Aliaksei Ivanou | Belarus | 207,000 | 41 |
9 | 6 | Konstantin Maslak | Russia | 69,500 | 14 |
9 | 7 | Jasper Wetemans | Netherlands | 523,500 | 105 |
9 | 8 | Sergei Bagirov | Russia | 195,000 | 39 |
10 | 1 | Pierre Chiarelli | France | 198,000 | 40 |
10 | 2 | Harout Ghazarian | Canada | 246,500 | 49 |
10 | 3 | Scott Margereson | UK | 263,000 | 53 |
10 | 4 | Claudio Di Giacomo | Italy | 183,000 | 37 |
10 | 5 | Paul Michaelis | Germany | 167,000 | 33 |
10 | 6 | Ugo Faggioli | France | 460,000 | 92 |
10 | 7 | Ivan Zhechev | Bulgaria | 77,000 | 15 |
10 | 8 | Jussi Nevanlinna | Finland | 211,500 | 42 |
11 | 1 | Xia Lin | China | 309,500 | 62 |
11 | 3 | Mark Abinakle | Canada | 92,000 | 18 |
11 | 4 | Michal Janczarski | Poland | 106,000 | 21 |
11 | 5 | Dimitrios Michailidis | Greece | 631,000 | 126 |
11 | 6 | Levente Szabo | Hungary | 305,000 | 61 |
11 | 7 | Carlos Branco | Portugal | 510,500 | 102 |
11 | 8 | Walid Bou Habib | Lebanon | 105,000 | 21 |
12 | 1 | Michal Schuh | Czech Republic | 220,000 | 44 |
12 | 2 | Andriy Mertengren | Ukraine | 249,500 | 50 |
12 | 3 | Wael Sarkis | Lebanon | 425,000 | 85 |
12 | 4 | Parker Talbot | Canada | 773,500 | 155 |
12 | 5 | Fady Kamar | Lebanon | 201,000 | 40 |
12 | 6 | Amar Hadzic | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 434,500 | 87 |
12 | 7 | Gor Kazarian | Russia | 143,000 | 29 |
12 | 8 | Alexander Lukyanov | Russia | 27,000 | 5 |
13 | 1 | Patrik Antonius | Finland | 349,000 | 70 |
13 | 2 | Andrija Robovic | Serbia | 177,500 | 36 |
13 | 3 | Leonid Bilokur | Russia | 162,000 | 32 |
13 | 4 | Mykola Yarmola | Ukraine | 181,000 | 36 |
13 | 6 | Sadri Karl Mokni | Swaziland | 65,000 | 13 |
13 | 7 | Danilo Velasevic | Serbia | 123,500 | 25 |
13 | 8 | Jonathan Roy | Canada | 468,000 | 94 |
14 | 1 | Luc Greenwood | Canada | 194,500 | 39 |
14 | 2 | Maciej Rogacki | Poland | 539,500 | 108 |
14 | 3 | Xixiang Luo | China | 521,000 | 104 |
14 | 4 | Marcin Kreft | Poland | 121,000 | 24 |
14 | 5 | Henrik Hecklen | Denmark | 152,000 | 30 |
14 | 6 | Gary Hasson | Belgium | 403,500 | 81 |
14 | 7 | Sylvain Loosli | France | 134,300 | 27 |
14 | 8 | Guoliang Wei | China | 453,000 | 91 |
15 | 1 | Makram Saber | Lebanon | 158,000 | 32 |
15 | 3 | Uri Reichenstein | Germany | 137,000 | 27 |
15 | 4 | Juha Helppi | Finland | 433,500 | 87 |
15 | 5 | Mateusz Wozniak | Poland | 174,000 | 35 |
15 | 6 | Jani Vilmunen | Finland | 333,000 | 67 |
15 | 7 | Andreas Vlachos | Greece | 65,000 | 13 |
15 | 8 | Marius Conan | France | 272,000 | 54 |
16 | 2 | Eric Geraume | France | 345,000 | 69 |
16 | 3 | Mario Navarro Arrocha | Spain | 393,000 | 79 |
16 | 4 | Laurynas Levinskas | Lithuania | 377,000 | 75 |
16 | 5 | Duco Haven | Netherlands | 100,000 | 20 |
16 | 6 | Simeon Spasov | Bulgaria | 86,000 | 17 |
16 | 7 | Fabio Damaso | Portugal | 206,000 | 41 |
16 | 8 | Ivan Gabrieli | Italy | 121,500 | 24 |
17 | 1 | Jason Wheeler | USA | 102,500 | 21 |
17 | 2 | Simon Pedersen | Denmark | 217,000 | 43 |
17 | 3 | Jeremy Stahli | Switzerland | 100,000 | 20 |
17 | 4 | Antonin Duda | Czech Republic | 175,000 | 35 |
17 | 5 | Hiroyuki Noda | Japan | 381,000 | 76 |
17 | 6 | Emil Lukac | Slovakia | 173,500 | 35 |
17 | 7 | Andrey Pateychuk | Russia | 532,000 | 106 |
17 | 8 | Markku Koplimaa | Estonia | 375,000 | 75 |
18 | 1 | Konstantin Farber | Germany | 415,000 | 83 |
18 | 3 | Aleksandr Merzhvinskiy | Russia | 152,500 | 31 |
18 | 4 | Anton Siden | Sweden | 216,500 | 43 |
18 | 5 | Boris Kuzmanovic | Croatia | 310,000 | 62 |
18 | 6 | Rene van Krevelen | Netherlands | 62,000 | 12 |
18 | 7 | Ramzey Idriss | Lebanon | 597,000 | 119 |
18 | 8 | Marcin Wydrowski | Poland | 110,000 | 22 |
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Natalie Teh | 786,000 | |
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Parker Talbot | 773,500 | |
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Evangelos Bechrakis | 730,000 | |
Anton Wigg | 708,500 | |
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Arthur Conan | 705,000 | |
Armin Mette |
666,500
-19,500
|
-19,500 |
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Dimitrios Michailidis |
631,000
22,000
|
22,000 |
Ramzey Idriss |
597,000
107,000
|
107,000 |
Karolis Sereika |
573,000
-2,500
|
-2,500 |
Maciej Rogacki |
539,500
280,100
|
280,100 |
Andrey Pateychuk | 532,000 | |
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Jasper Wetemans | 523,500 | |
Xixiang Luo |
521,000
-84,000
|
-84,000 |
Carlos Branco |
510,500
118,000
|
118,000 |
Grzegorz Grochulski |
509,500
442,000
|
442,000 |
Liviu Ignat |
508,000
-2,000
|
-2,000 |
Joris Ruijs | 492,000 | |
Jonathan Roy |
468,000
-82,000
|
-82,000 |
Fazeel Munawar |
463,000
386,300
|
386,300 |
Ugo Faggioli |
460,000
380,000
|
380,000 |
Guoliang Wei |
453,000
330,000
|
330,000 |
Amar Hadzic |
434,500
304,500
|
304,500 |
Juha Helppi | 433,500 | |
Tom-Aksel Bedell |
433,500
211,500
|
211,500 |
Bruno Volkmann |
427,500
229,600
|
229,600 |
The official end-of-day chip counts and a Day 3 seat draw is to follow later tonight.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Natalie Teh |
786,000
82,000
|
82,000 |
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Parker Talbot |
773,500
123,500
|
123,500 |
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Evangelos Bechrakis |
730,000
375,000
|
375,000 |
Anton Wigg |
708,500
-17,500
|
-17,500 |
|
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Arthur Conan |
705,000
115,000
|
115,000 |
Karolis Sereika |
575,500
429,900
|
429,900 |
Andrey Pateychuk |
532,000
182,000
|
182,000 |
|
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Jasper Wetemans |
523,500
-1,500
|
-1,500 |
Joris Ruijs |
492,000
202,000
|
202,000 |
Juha Helppi |
433,500
-46,500
|
-46,500 |
Patrik Antonius |
349,000
-31,000
|
-31,000 |
|
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Luc Greenwood |
194,500
124,500
|
124,500 |
Sylvain Loosli |
134,500
-5,500
|
-5,500 |
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There are 137 remaining players showing on the clock. Full chip counts and a recap of today's action is to follow.
The floor just announced there are five more hands to be played for the day. Check back soon for assorted end-of-day chip counts and an extensive recap of today's action.
Seated under the gun, Phachara Wongwichit shoved all in for 37,000. His neighbor, famed online player Liviu "0Human0" Ignat called. On the button, Ugo Faggioli called before big blind Valeriy Itsenko shoved for 88,000. Ignat ran his clock down to ten seconds before he made it 150,000. Faggioli folded.
Phachara Wongwichit:
Liviu Ignat:
Valeriy Itsenko:
The board ran out and Ignat eliminated two of his opponents.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Liviu Ignat |
510,000
250,000
|
250,000 |
Phachara Wongwichit | Eliminado | |
Valeriy Itsenko | Eliminado |
Dimitrios Michailidis raised to 9,000 from under the gun and was called by the player in mid-position. Joao Vieira shoved for 35,000 in the cutoff and Michailidis called. The initial caller quickly got out of their way.
Joao Vieira:
Dimitrios Michailidis:
The board ran out for Michailidis to hit a pair of fives on the flop, Vieira then picked up the flush draw on the river but bricked the river to be sent to the rail.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Dimitrios Michailidis |
609,000
-71,000
|
-71,000 |
Joao Vieira | Eliminado |
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Anton Wigg |
726,000
-27,000
|
-27,000 |
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Armin Mette |
686,000
116,000
|
116,000 |
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Xixiang Luo |
605,000
405,000
|
405,000 |
Arthur Conan |
590,000
72,000
|
72,000 |
Gary Hasson |
498,000
188,000
|
188,000 |
Patrik Antonius |
380,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
|
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Simon Pedersen |
309,000
9,000
|
9,000 |
Krasimir Yankov |
299,000
-21,000
|
-21,000 |
Marius Conan |
224,000
89,000
|
89,000 |
Tobias Peters |
190,000
-50,000
|
-50,000 |
Alexandr Merzhvinskii |
169,000
97,800
|
97,800 |
Jason Wheeler |
126,000
-16,000
|
-16,000 |
Alex Papazian |
72,000
-28,000
|
-28,000 |
Raul Martinez Requena |
68,000
-50,000
|
-50,000 |
Paul Michaelis |
54,000
-46,000
|
-46,000 |
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