Shyam Srinivasan three-bet an open raise of Vladislav Donchev from 300 to 850 and the Bulgarian raised his eyebrows while asking "again?" Srinivasan showed him and the wholew table . One hand later the Canadian raised and Philippe Ktorza called only to fold the flop to a continuation bet of 500. "Enough," the Frenchman said.
Fast forward less than a minute and Srinivasan three-bet an open raise of Donchev from 400 to 1,000 and the Bulgarian mucked.
Imagine you get one or two Pros on the starting table of a major tournament and then you get Andreas Berggren, Martin Jacobson, Dennis Phillips, Jason Wheeler and Joey Weissman seated. Fortunately for them, table 73 will most likely be one of the first to break as soon as the bustouts keep coming in.
Within the first two levels there were 17 seat open and you can find the most notable names below along with some updated chip counts. Salvatore Bonavena got back up to more than starting stack after his river-bet of 3,200 was paid off on a board of . The Italian showed as winning hand.
Niels van Leeuwen has already won two side events at European Poker Tour events, winning a €1,000 event in Berlin in 2012 (€40,000) and a €1,000 FPS during Deauville at the beginning of the year (€175,000). He also won the first ever WPT-N in Valkenburg, The Netherlands not too long ago, and finished 4th in a €1,000 Master Classics of Poker event last month (€9,632).
He has $418,185 in live tournament earnings, but never cashed in an EPT Main Event. He's trying to change that here this week in Prague, and is doing so with a remarkable half beard. Yeah that's right, he has half a beard.
Tournament poker can be a fickle mistress. We’ve spotted a few well known players who have around half their starting stack after two levels of play.
One of them is Dennis Phillips, who finished 3rd in the 2008 WSOP Main Event, got a little back in a recent hand.
Phillips opened for 450 and picked up one caller in the big blind. The flop was and a 700 continuation bet from Phillips was called. The turn and river was checked and Phillips turned over his one pair not looking like he expected to win the pot, but win it he did.
Ari Engel however is going on the opposite direction having nearly doubled his starting stack.
With 342 entries yesterday and at least 670 entries today according to the screens, the record in terms of attendance has once again been set. The 2014 EPT Prague Main Event now has at least 1,012 entries, eclipsing the 1,007 of last year in the middle of level three on Day 1b.
. One hand later the Canadian raised and Philippe Ktorza called only to fold the 
flop to a continuation bet of 500. "Enough," the Frenchman said.
. The Italian showed 
as winning hand.
and river 
was checked and Phillips turned over his 
one pair not looking like he expected to win the pot, but win it he did.
