2009 PokerStars.net EPT Kyiv

€5,000 EPT Kyiv Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info

2009 PokerStars.net EPT Kyiv

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
49
Prize
€330,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€4,700
Prize Pool
€1,391,200
Entries
296
Level Info
Level
28
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
5,000

Family Pot

Shaun Deeb
Shaun Deeb
Shaun Deeb opened with a raise to 3,700 from early position. Jonas Kronwitter, sitting to Deeb's left, removed his headphones and asked Deeb how much he had left. "Fifteen yellows," said Deeb, pointing to his chips. Deeb had a few reds, blacks, and purples there, too -- about 100,000 altogether.

Kronwitter called, then Lika Gerasimova called, too, as did two more players (the cutoff and small blind). The flop then came {K-Diamonds}{A-Clubs}{8-Diamonds}. The SB checked, and Deeb continued for 11,700. Kronwitter and Gerasimova folded, then the player in the cutoff raised to 25,000. The small blind folded, and Deeb thought a little while before pushing all in. His lone remaining opponent considered a bit, then let it go.

"Why'd you have to start that?" cracked Deeb to Kronwitter. "Turned out to be a huge pot," he added.

Deeb trips back up to 135,000 with that one. Meanwhile, Kronwitter still is our chip leader with about 255,000. Gerasimova has a healthy stack, too, with 139,000.

Tags: Jonas KronwitterLika GerasimovaShaun Deeb

Busto or Robusto

Busto
Stuart Rutter
Alexander Morozov
Mark Dalimore
John Carsten
Alexander Dzianisau
Jason Kudron

Robusto
Jonas Kronwitter - 280,000
Anatoly Zharnitsky - 224,000
Andrew Malott - 210,000
Ruslan Prydryk - 185,000
Jeffrey Sarwer - 175,000

98 Players Remain

Less than half of those who came back for today's Day 2 are still with chips. There are 98 players still out there right now, gathered around 13 tables.

Sarwer In Action

Jeffrey Sarwer
Jeffrey Sarwer
Reports of Menno Mulder's demise were premature -- he's here! He was just now in dire straits, though, all in before the flop with {K-Hearts}{Q-Hearts} against one of the chip leaders, Jeffrey Sarwer, who held {Q-Diamonds}{Q-Spades}. But the board ran out {K-Spades}{A-Diamonds}{8-Clubs}{A-Spades}{6-Diamonds}, and Mulder survived. He has about 95,000 at the moment.

Sarwer was active again right away, raising the next hand to 3,000 and getting one caller in Ruslan Prydryk. The flop came {5-Spades}{Q-Spades}{10-Hearts}. Sarwer checked, Prydryk bet 4,000, Sarwer check-raised to 14,000, and Prydryk called. The turn was the {8-Clubs}, and both players checked.

The river brought the {4-Clubs}. Sarwer checked, Prydryk swiftly bet 15,000, and Sarwer waited about a minute before letting it go.

Prydryk is up to 185,000 now, while Sarwer has 175,000.

Tags: Jeffrey SarwerMenno MulderRuslan Prydryk

Dragan Galic Interview

Dragan Galic had a rough last level, dropping a little more than half of his stack during the course of the 75 minutes. But Gloria had a chance to talk to the Croatian native in more plentiful times during the previous break. Check out what he had to say about the fast start to his day, and his choice to play here in Kyiv:

If you've got some time to kill, head over to PokerNews TV to check out all of our videos from the EPT Kyiv.

Tags: Dragan Galic

Level: 11

Blinds: 800/1,600

Ante: 200

Chip Chat

"English only please," said the dealer to players over on Table 11. That's the case here at EPT Kyiv. As was mentioned in the subsequent discussion, some EPT events allow for other languages to be spoken. But here in Kyiv it is supposed to be English only when hands are in play.

Soon after, Russian Sergei Pevzner -- one of those whom the dealer was addressing -- raised from middle position, and it folded around to Miami John Cernuto in the big blind. Cernuto flashed his hand to Pevzner -- a couple of baby cards -- before folding.

"Good?" asked Cernuto. "No," said Pevzner with a smile. "He knows English now," laughed Cernuto. "This guy knows every language," chimed in another player, referring to Pezner. "A little bit of English, a little Japanese, African languages... he's legend!"

As far as the language of chips goes, Cernuto has 115,000 now with which to communicate, while Pezner has 72,000.

Minus One Dutchy

Ton Kleijnen - Eliminated
Ton Kleijnen - Eliminated
The last time past Ton Kleijnen's table, he gave us a shrug and a bit of a sarcastic smirk as his stack had been whittled down to a dangerously short 13,000. A few moments later, he looked down at {A-?} {Q-?}, and that was plenty good enough for the all-in move. Unfortunately for him though, the player to his left made the call and showed down the dominating {A-?} {K-?}, putting Kleijnen one foot out the door. When the board ran out blanks, the Dutchman wished his table luck and headed for the door.

Tags: Ton Kleijnen