€1,100 Eureka Main Event
Dia 4 Iniciado
€1,100 Eureka Main Event
Dia 4 Iniciado
After four starting flights and three days of play in the €1,100 Eureka Main Event at EPT Prague, a once gargantuan field of 3,155 players has been whittled down to its final nine hopefuls. Each of them has already parlayed their initial investment of €1,100 into at least €32,860, but all eyes are on the €417,820 top prize and accompanying spadie trophy that awaits the winner at the end of the night.
Going into the final day, all eyes will be on PokerStars ambassador Alejandro "Papo MC" Lococo, who amassed a massive pile of 24,075,000 in chips on Day 3 — twice the size of his nearest challengers. Twitch streamer and rapper Lococo, a household name in Latin America with 2.7 million followers on Instagram and over 850,000 on Twitter, instantly gained worldwide poker fame by making the final table of the 2021 WSOP Main Event, ultimately finishing 7th for $1,225,000. Today, on the other side of the pond, he finds himself in a prime position to lift the trophy at the end of the night.
Norway's Jon Kyte (12,825,000) and France's Alexandre Reard (11,900,000) — who had earlier success in Prague and won a bracelet last year — round out the top three, while the rest of the final nine will have to work with 30 or fewer big blinds to try and snatch the title away from one of the big stacks.
Rank | Name | Country | Chip Count | Final Table Big Blinds |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Alejandro Lococo | Argentina | 24,075,000 | 60 |
2 | Jon Kyte | Norway | 12,825,000 | 32 |
3 | Alexandre Reard | France | 11,900,000 | 30 |
4 | Bartolomeo Tato | Italy | 10,300,000 | 26 |
5 | Ville Jantunen | Finland | 8,950,000 | 22 |
6 | Nicolas Cottin | Chile | 7,250,000 | 18 |
7 | Jakub Koleckar | Czech Republic | 6,775,000 | 17 |
8 | Merijn van Rooij | Netherlands | 6,450,000 | 16 |
9 | Yann Nasser | Luxembourg | 6,200,000 | 16 |
Players will return at 12:00 p.m. local time for the final day, picking up the action in Level 35 with blinds at 175,000/350,000 with a 350,000 ante. The biggest-ever Eureka Main Event has drawn 3,155 entries (1,553 unique players competed), with a total prize pool of €3,028,800 divided between the top 469 finishers.
Place | Prize |
---|---|
1 | € 417,820 |
2 | € 249,000 |
3 | € 174,130 |
4 | € 131,900 |
5 | € 99,920 |
6 | € 75,690 |
7 | € 57,340 |
8 | € 43,430 |
9 | € 32,860 |
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The button will be in seat 7.
Rank | Name | Country | Chip Count | Final Table Big Blinds |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Merijn van Rooij | Netherlands | 6,450,000 | 16 |
2 | Alejandro Lococo | Argentina | 24,075,000 | 60 |
3 | Alexandre Reard | France | 11,900,000 | 30 |
4 | Bartolomeo Tato | Italy | 10,300,000 | 26 |
5 | Yann Nasser | Luxembourg | 6,200,000 | 16 |
6 | Nicolas Cottin | Chile | 7,250,000 | 18 |
7 | Ville Jantunen | Finland | 8,950,000 | 22 |
8 | Jon Kyte | Norway | 12,825,000 | 32 |
9 | Jakub Koleckar | Czech Republic | 6,775,000 | 17 |
Nível: 35
Blinds: 200,000/400,000
Ante: 400,000
In the first hand of the day, Merijn van Rooij raised to 800,000 from under the gun and action folded to Yann Nasser in middle position. After two minutes of thought, he moved all in for 6,200,000 and everyone folded.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Yann Nasser | 7,200,000 | 1,000,000 |
Merijn van Rooij | 5,650,000 | -800,000 |
Earlier, Jon Kyte took a small pot with a continuation bet after raising preflop, before Merijn van Rooij won some chips bet with a successful three-bet.
In that last hand, it was Jakub Koleckar who made it 800,000 to go. Van Rooij, on a relatively shallow stack, three-bet to 1,900,000 and Koleckar folded.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Jon Kyte | 13,625,000 | 800,000 |
Merijn van Rooij | 7,050,000 | 1,400,000 |
Jakub Koleckar | 5,375,000 | -1,400,000 |
Merijn van Rooij has been the most active player in the early stages, but hasn't been able to build out his stack thus far. First, he raised under the gun to 800,000 and Jakub Koleckar defended the big blind. On an flop, Koleckar checked, Van Rooij bet 600,000, Koleckar casually flicked in a check-raise to 1,500,000 and the Dutchman folded.
A few hands later, Ville Jantunen raised to 800,000 in middle position, Van Rooij made it 1,700,000 on the button and Jantunen folded.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Merijn van Rooij | 7,800,000 | 750,000 |
Ville Jantunen | 7,050,000 | -1,900,000 |
Jakub Koleckar | 4,700,000 | -675,000 |
It's been a relatively quiet early phase with no big movements yet. Nicolas Cottin just became the second player today to go all in, moving his entire stack of over 6 million across the line from the small blind. Ville Jantunen gave up the big blind to hand Cottin the blinds and ante.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Nicolas Cottin | 7,250,000 | |
Ville Jantunen | 6,150,000 | -900,000 |
Folded to the small blind, Merijn van Rooij open-shoved for 7,750,000 and Alejandro Lococo called after about 90 seconds from the big blind.
Merijn van Rooij:
Alejandro Lococo:
Van Rooij was dominated but paired his inferior kicker on the flop. The turn, however, brought the to swing Lococo back into the lead.
The dealer burned and turned the river , giving both players a king-high straight to chop the pot. Lococo glanced over to his rail and shook his head in disappointment.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Alejandro Lococo
|
25,000,000 | 925,000 |
Merijn van Rooij | 7,950,000 | 150,000 |
Nível: 36
Blinds: 250,000/500,000
Ante: 500,000