Main Event
Day 2 Started
2010 PokerStars.net EPT Vienna
Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2010 PokerStars.net EPT Vienna
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€2,935,000
Entries
587
Level
32
Blinds
150,000 / 300,000
Ante
0
Welcome to Day 2 of EPT Vienna!
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Welcome back to Day 2 of EPT Vienna. Young UK player Laurence Houghton will begin the day as the chip leader with 190,300 but there are only 20,000 chips separating the top five players Szymon Pieszczoch, Sergii Baranov, Claudio Simaldoni and Giacomo Maisto. Then there are a plethora of stars with the ability to make deep runs in this tournament such as Team Pokerstars Pros Martin Hruby and Nacho Marbero and also Hendon Mobster Barny Boatman who also have chip stacks in excess of 100,000. So it should be an exciting day.
The blind structure changes slightly with an increase in length from 60 to 75 minutes. We will start the day with 278 players which incidentally is only slightly less than the 297 that played during the EPT’s last visit to Vienna back in Season 1.
We will be getting underway at 12pm local time (GMT+1). Make sure you are there to follow it every step of the way.
Level: 10
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 100
Go, Day 2 Horsies, Go!
Players are mostly at the tables and cards are in the air.
Good luck, all.
Chip Leader Severely Dented
Laurence Houghton started the day with more chips in his stack than two-thirds of his table combined. Now his status as chip leader has been removed by the power of 
as he got involved with the button from the cutoff in a raising war which ended up with Nima Ahary calling a six-bet shove for his whole 75,000 stack. Houghton tabled 
and with the board coming out 
he scythed off over a third of his chips and is down to 100k.
The Important Bit
We're not sure why it's taken quite so long to process, but the prize pool information has just become available.
587 players x €5,000 = €2,935,000 total prize pool.
The spot that everyone will be drooling over is the top one, which pays out a very-nice-thank-you-very-much €700,000. 80 places pay out in total, with a min-cash coming in at €8,000. For the rest of the payouts, please head directly to the Payouts tab.
Ruben Visser Eliminated
Team Pokerstars Pro Ruben Visser has been eliminated early on Day 2. He started the day with only 9,700 chips so it was always going to double up or nothing. He did get his chips all-in once prior to his elimination and it was greeted by a round of folds but in the end this is how his last hand went down.
The action folded around to Flavius Puica on the Button who raised to 2,500 and Visser shoved his remaining stack from the Blinds and it was heads up to the flop.
Puica: 
Visser: 
Board: 
End of the Cody
EPT Deauville Champion Jake Cody is no longer in the running here in Vienna as his short stack coming back (17,400 at TOS or 'time of shove') went to Kirill Telezhkin. He'd moved in preflop under the gun and Telezhkin isolated with 
. This wasn't good news for Cody's 
and a raggy disjointed board finished him off with a handshake and a quick march to the exit.
Since his sudden appearance on the live radar in 2009 he's been all over the live tournament circuit like a wet towel, winning the EPT and WPT in a super-quick bid for a triple crown, perhaps. Two short years and over €1,000,000 in prize money later and he's still apparently wearing the same hoody as in his database pic.
Losing Suharto
We caught the hand on the turn of the 
board, with Lubomir Kudlicka going all in for his last 26,000, around 90,000 already in the pot. Darus Suharto made the call and they were on their backs.
Kudlicka: 
Suharto: looking good on the flop but a little less good on the turn with
River: not a king nor a queen nor a diamond but the 
Kudlicka enjoyed a full double up to 140,000 or so. Meanwhile the usually affable 2008 WSOP Main Event finalist was rather quiet as he dropped back to 30,000, the Day 1 starting stack.
This Table Ain't Big Enough for the 9 of Us.
Stavros Kalfas has decided that he needs more leg room around his table. Kalfas who recently finished 3rd in a €2,000 NLHE side event at EPT San Remo for €90,000 has just eliminated two players and now has that much needed leg room.
The first person Kalfas eliminated was Franz Pejcl. Pejcl opened from the button to 2,500 and Kalfas threw in a raise from the blinds that included enough yellow 5,000 chips to cause Pejcl a problem. Pejcl shoved and Kalfas called.
Pejcl: 
Kalfas:
Board: 
The second person who wandered into the Kalfas radar was the Pokerstars Road to Vienna online winner Ondrej Vinklarek. Vinklarek opened from the button to 2,500 and Kalfas made the three-bet to 7,500. Vinklarek went into the tank before deciding to put his stack in the middle and Kalfas called.
Vinklarek: 
Kalfas: 
Board: 