Here are the exact chip counts for the end of today's play. The final table of nine will return at 3:00PM tomorrow (Friday) local time (GMT+1)
The seating draw has already been made:
Mikael Norinder: 1,036,000 (Seat 5)
Arnaud Mattern: 980,000 (Seat 9)
Dag Palovic: 759,000 (Seat 7)
Kristian Kjondal: 740,000 (Seat 2)
Gino Alacqua 660,000 (Seat 3)
Juha Lauttamus: 567,000 (Seat 1)
Markus Golser: 352,000 (Seat 4)
Johannes Strassmann: 245,000 (Seat 8)
Nedzib Suman 216,000(Seat 6)
Tags:
Mikael Norinder.
Day 3 completed
Posted 12-13-2007 19:46 GMT+3
EPT Prague Main Event
Day 3 completed
The final-table bubble is Christer Johansson after he and Mikael Norinder got it all in pre-flop from the blinds. Mikael made the first raise to 125,000 from the small blind and Christer pushed for 235,000 total.
Mikael made the call with


and Christer showed


.
The flop left Christer needing the

to appear on the turn or river as it came



. The turn and river were the

and the

and play finishes for the night with Christer Johansson being eliminated in tenth place, winning €39,200.
Tags:
Christer Johansson, Mikael Norinder.
On a flop which read



:
Mattern, on the button, bet 18,000 which was called by Palovic.
Turn:

and both players checked.
River

and Palovic bets 120,000 into a 70,000 pot.
Mattern calls with


, a flush, but Palovic had already mucked his hand.
Tags:
Arnaud Mattern.
Since Sebastian Zink was eliminated in 11th place play has become a lot tighter. Most pots are being won by pre-flop raises. Until now it was rare that a raise got through without being called or re-raised.
Level 21 started
Posted 12-13-2007 19:08 GMT+3
- Level:
- 21
- Blinds:
- 6000/12000
- Ante:
- 1000
With ten players remaining level 20 has finished and the players have gone on a 15-minute break. One player needs to be eliminated before we reach our final nine players and play stops for the day.
Mikael Norinder, who in the previous hand took a big bite out of Markus Golser's ever-dwindling stack, has now taken out the Swede, Nikolas Liakos.
Liakos moved in on the short stack from the button and was called by Norinder in the small blind.


for Liakos


for Norinder
The board came





.
Tags:
Nikolas Liakos.
There are 12 players left in the EPT Prague main event. Play will continue until nine players remain. Usually EPT tournaments play a final table of eight but as there are no TV cameras here they will play a nine-handed final table.