Action was caught on the river with 550,000 in the middle on the board. Juha Helppi and Gregoire Auzoux were the players in the hand, with Auzoux the shorter stack.
Both players got all their chips into the middle on the river. Helppi had for a flopped full house but was bested by the of Auzoux who rivered top boat.
Yigit Aksoy opened to 50,000 from under the gun and Roman Hrabec three-bet jammed a stack of around 400,000 from middle position. Aksoy called with a bigger stack.
Roman Hrabec:
Yigit Aksoy:
Hrabec had his opponent dominated and was in great shape to double up until the flop landed to give Aksoy a big lead. Nothing changed on the runout and the EPT London Main Event fourth-place finisher was eliminated.
Yigit Aksoy opened to 50,000 from middle position and was called by Oleksii Ievchenko on his direct left. Emrah Yildiz jammed for 240,000 from the button which prompted Aksoy to jam over the top and Ievchenko folded.
Emrah Yildiz:
Yigit Aksoy:
Yildiz had one overcard and added two straight draw outs following the flop. The also added some counterfeit outs but the river confirmed his departure.
Oleksii Ievchenko open-jammed a stack of 240,000 from the button and Pawel Krol called in the big blind with a bigger stack.
Oleksii Ievchenko:
Pawel Krol:
It looked liked Ievchenko would be doubling up as the flop landed and the turn brought the meaningless . However, the dealer put down the on the river to give Krol the best hand for Ievchenko to go out in 22nd place for €8,260.
Mathieu Di Meglio opened to 60,000 from the cutoff and was called by Thomas Graupner from the small blind. Nikolaos Iliakis jammed for 360,000 from the big blind which prompted Di Meglio to move all in as the big stack.
"Triple up or nothing," said Graupner as he called off his remaining 430,000 chips.
Nikolaos Iliakis:
Thomas Graupner:
Mathieu Di Meglio:
With the stakes so high, the players stood up out of their chairs, however thee runout was anticlimactic as neither player connected on the runout meaning Di Meglio's ace-high remained best and he downed two opponents.
Nils Pudel opened the action with a raise from under the gun before calling the 785,000 all-in from Mike Takayama on his direct left.
Mike Takayama:
Nils Pudel:
The flop gave Takayama some backdoor draws but the turn left him drawing to the three remaining aces. The completed the board and confirmed Takayama's elimination.
Orpen Kisacikoglu and Pawel Krol will sleep easy tonight as they pulled the €100,000 mystery bounties in Day 2 of the €3,000 EPT Mystery Bounty here at the PokerStars European Poker Tour Prague at the beautiful Hilton Prague Hotel.
Krol among 17 others will return to battle for the €1,331,616 regular prizepool as well as the remaining mystery bounties. Among the 18 players who survived, it was Frenchman Mathieu Di Meglio who bagged the chip lead where he bagged 3,125,000. This means Di Meglio will return with over 78 big blinds.
Top 10 Chip Counts After Day 2 of EPT Mystery Bounty
Place
Player
Country
Chip Count
1
Mathieu Di Meglio
France
3,125,000
2
Nils Pudel
Germany
2,390,000
3
Nenad Dukic
Serbia
2,265,000
4
Niko Koop
Germany
1,745,000
5
Humberto Lopes Galindo
Spain
1,700,000
6
Yigit Aksoy
Turkey
1,600,000
7
Gregoire Auzoux
France
1,350,000
8
Andras Vaczo
Hungary
1,335,000
9
Vlada Stojanovic
Serbia
1,130,000
10
Pawel Krol
Poland
1,115,000
Kisacikoglu and Krol Pull €100k Bounties
Day 2 started with 328 players with over 100 entries max lag registration to get into this event. This brought the total number of entries to 776 and was 305 entries more than the same event at EPT London in October. Players who took advantage of the Day 2 late registration included high rollers Steve O'Dwyer and Sam Greenwood but both left the tournament area as quick as they entered.
After a few levels of play the bounty prizepool opened which included €776,000 worth of prizes include two €100,000 mystery bounties as the top prize. It didn't take long for players to look over with envy as high roller Orpen Kisacikoglu pulled the first €100,000 bounty early in the day.
Next big bounty to go was pulled by Finn Toni Kaukua for €50,000.
The final €100,000 bounty lasted for a while until Pawel Krol pulled it. Unlike Kisacikoglu, Krol is not a high roller and only has $2,165 in recorded live tournament earnings according to Hendon Mob.
Remaining Bounties
Bounty Prize
Available
€100,000
0
€50,000
0
€25,000
0
€10,000
1
€5,000
1
€2,000
2
€1,000
30
€1,000 & Draw Again
1
Day 2 Action
The day started with a flurry of elimination before the bubble took place. There were three all in and calls on the bubble but it turned out that Christophe Malaurie would be the bubble boy as Maluarie called off with third pair to be eliminated.
Adrian Mateoswas the biggest name in the field deep in the tournament with him being seen to have a big stack for much of the day but he was eliminated a few levels before the end of the day. The Spanish all time money list leader decided to bluff the wrong character in Nikolaos Iliakiswho snapped Mateos's river shove with top pair.
With Mateos gone the biggest name was no doubt former WSOP Main Event champion Hossein Ensan. The German had been battling all day but was eliminated when he got his short stack in with ace five only to run into Niko Koop's ace queen to no avail.
The action ended with end of day chip leader Mathieu Di Meglio scoring a double knockout where his ace ten eliminated both Nikolaos Iliakis and Thomas Graupner in 21st and 20th place respectively.
Stay tuned to PokerNews to find out who will take home the trophy as well as the €243,186 prize. Action starts tomorrow at 12 p.m. local with the blinds starting at 20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 big blind ante with play ending only once a champion has been crowned.