Only 61 players out of a record-breaking field of 1,107 entries advanced to Day 4 of the Season 11 PokerStars European Poker Tour Prague and each of the remaining participants in the €5,300 Main Event has at least €14,230 locked up for their efforts. Leading the field is Simon Mattsson with 1,790,000 in chips, the Swede edged out Stephen Graner in the last few hands of the day and the American follows with 1,713,000. EPT Berlin champion and three times World Series of Poker bracelet winner Davidi Kitai of Belgium is third with 1,364,000.
Local hero Petr Jelinek, a Supernova Elite on PokerStars, claimed 1,191,000 in chips and Vanessa Selbst ran pretty good on the live stream feature table to acquire a top 10 stack in 1,007,000. One further PokerStars Team Pro remains in George Danzer (156,000) and the German adds another deep run to an impressive year that saw him winning three golden bracelets and the title of the Player of the Year at the World Series of Poker.
Other notables include Tamer Kamel (893,000), Sam Grafton (859,000), Albert Daher (777,000), Artem Metalidi (742,000), 2014 Eureka Prague Main Event champion Balazs Botond (682,000), Tatiana Barausova (372,000), 2013 EPT Prague runner-up Georgios Sotiropoulos (324,000), Andras Nemeth (203,000) and Alexander Roumeliotis (189,000).
Day 4 is scheduled to play five levels of 90 minutes each to conclude around 20:45 CET and there will be a break of 20 minutes after each level. The action resumes at 12:00 CET with blinds at 5,000-10,000 / ante 1,000 and the PokerNews team will bring you all the crucial hands on the way to crown another EPT champion on Wednesday.
From the cutoff, George Danzer was all in for 108,000 with and Tamer Kamel called with out of the big blind. The board ran out and Danzer was sent to the rail in 53rd place. Nonetheless it has been an incredible year for the German with three bracelets at the World Series of Poker and the title of the Player of the Year.
Georgios Sotiropoulos three-bet shoved for his last 245,000 chips with and was called by initial raiser Sergey Lebedev with . The Russian flopped top pair on and neither the turn nor the river would save the 2013 runner-up anymore.
Peter Turmezey moved all in for 192,000 in a battle of the blinds and was called by Stephen Graner. The American was way ahead preflop with but Turmezey improved with on a board of .
Pascal Hartmann then raised to 22,000 from the cutoff and the player in the small blind called. Davidi Kitai in the big blind three-bet to 82,000 and Hartmann clicked it back to 153,000. The other player got out of the way and Kitai moved all in with the far bigger stack. Hartmann called off for what looked to be 460,000 chips and tabled .
Kitai flipped over and Hartmann already said "good game" to his table mates after the Belgian had hit a set on the flop. The on the turn gave Hartmann one out, but the river was a brick.
Miltiadis Kyriakides called a raise on the button and [Removed:413] also called out of the big blind. On the flop, the initial raiser made a continuation bet of 50,000 and Kyriakides called before Pautrot check-raised all in for 283,000. The initial raiser got out of the way and Kyriakides called with the words "if you are flushing, I got a problem."
Pautrot indeed had a flush draw with and Kyriakides was caught with for the lower flush draw and gutshot. The on the turn gave him the better hand and the river sent Pautrot to the rail.
Sergey Lebedev raised to 35,000 and then called the raise of Albert Daher in the cutoff for 87,000. On the flop, Lebedev check-called a bet of 93,000 by Daher and both players then checked the on the turn. Lebedev pushed all in for more than 1 million in chips on the river and had Daher well covered.
Daher took some time before committing his last 310,000 into the pot and then saw the bad news as Lebedev turned over . "Bad call," Daher said and revealed before heading to the rail.
Artem Metalidi raised to 35,000 and then called the three-bet of Petr Jelinek in the big blind for 106,000. Jelinek bet 100,000 on the flop and Metalidi moved all in with the superior stack. Jelinek called off with but his hand was only second best to the of Metalidi.
Both the on the turn and the river changed nothing whatsoever and the local hero was sent to the rail in 30th place.
Fabio Sperling raised to 45,000 and was called by both Stephen Graner and Anton Bertilsson to see the flop of . Sperling continued for 70,000 and both opponents called to see the on the turn, where another barrel worth 175,000 by the German was called by Graner and Bertilsson.
The river was checked through and Bertilsson showed for trips seven, Sperling claimed the pot with a pair of sixes for a full house.
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and Tamer Kamel called with 
out of the big blind. The board ran out 
and Danzer was sent to the rail in 53rd place. Nonetheless it has been an incredible year for the German with three bracelets at the World Series of Poker and the title of the Player of the Year.
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. The Russian flopped top pair on 
and neither the 
turn nor the 
river would save the 2013 runner-up anymore.
but Turmezey improved with 
on a board of 
and Hartmann already said "good game" to his table mates after the Belgian had hit a set on the 
flop. The 
river was a brick.
for the lower flush draw and gutshot. The 
on the turn gave him the better hand and the 
river sent Pautrot to the rail.
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saw Solyom check and Kitai announced he was all in.
flop, Lebedev check-called a bet of 93,000 by Daher and both players then checked the 
river and had Daher well covered.
for trips seven, Sperling claimed the pot with a pair of sixes for a full house.
