Getting There
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Level 13
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
A quick head count finds us with less than 200 players remaining as we return for the fifth of six levels today.
2011 PokerStars.com EPT Prague
Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2011 PokerStars.com EPT Prague
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€3,501,700
Entries
722
Level
32
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
20,000
Level: 13
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 300
Break Time
Level 12
: 800/1,600, 200 ante
We'll be back in 15 minutes, and you should be, too.
Timex's Good Decision Goes Unrewarded
We missed the preflop action, but we walked up to a heads-up pot between Alexander Kuzmin (button) and Mike "Timex" McDonald (small blind). The dealer was rolling out a 
flop as we approached, and McDonald had fired out into the pot with 6,200. That leads us to believe he may have been a three-bettor preflop, but we can't say for sure. Either way, Kuzmin made a raise to 12,800, and McDonald carefully stared him down. After a couple minutes, he raised it back to 22,200, and now it was Kuzmin's turn in the tank.
During this series of action, there was a cocktail server standing behind Timex waiting to deliver a sandwich. McDonald broke his steely gaze to turn around and apologize to her for the wait, then returned to his eye-to-eye staredown with his neighbor. One deliberate blink every 5 seconds, staring directly at Kuzmin the whole time.
For his part, Kuzmin was cutting down the last ~35,000 chips he had left, and he rested his hand behind them for a while longer before shoving them in. McDonald didn't love it, but there wasn't much choice now. As it turned out, his call was very much the correct one.
Showdown
McDonald: 
Kuzmin: 
The 
on the turn brought a chop into play, and the river 
meant the players would have to share the pot. McDonald couldn't help but let out a bit of a frown, but he quickly gathered back his bet and exchanged some friendly small talk with Kuzmin.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
82,000
32,000
|
32,000 |
|
||
Saenko Gets Some Back
It looks like Andrey Saenko was the reason for the chip increase that Garri Tevosov experienced at the start of the level. But Saenko has gotten some of those chips back, at least.
The pot began with Johnny Lodden opening to 3,200 from the cutoff, and Tevosov called from the button. The small blind called, Saenko called from the big, and it was four-handed to the flop. It came 
, and Saenko was the first one to bet at the pot with 6,800. Lodden and the small blind folded away, but Tevesov called to see the turn.
It was the 
, and Saenko fired another 12,200. Tevesov called instantly this time, but he faced another bet of 23,400 after the 
river. He could not call the last bullet, surrendering and sending the pot over to Saenko. After the hand, the two men spent a minute discussing things in their native Russian, but we don't understand much Russian, unfortnuately.
As you can see, that recoups some of Saenko's losses, but he's still slightly down from his start-of-day count.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
380,000
-60,000
|
-60,000 |
|
180,000
-123,000
|
-123,000 |
Just Shoot Me
With thanks, as usual, to Neil Stoddart.
Goodbye, Lex
Action folded to Team PokerStars Pro Lex Veldhuis in the cutoff seat and he raised to 3,500. In the small blind was Marian Murcek and he reraised to 8,300. Number two on Poland's all-time money list Artur Wasek snap-called from the big blind before action fell back on Veldhuis.
The man who beat up "ElkY" tanked for a bit and then reraised all in for 62,300. Murcek quickly ducked out of the way, but Wasek didn't go away so easily. He tanked for a little bit and looked pained about his decision.
Wasek began the hand with around 120,000 in chips and Veldhuis made the comment, "It's only 10 more chips," to Wasek, hinting that the call would only cost Wasek just about 10 blue T5,000 chips. After Wasek heard that comment, another 30 seconds or so passed and he stuck in the call.
Veldhuis was in dominating shape with the 
to Wasek's 
. He kept his form on the 
flop along with the 
turn. The river, though, would be the death of him when the 
fell and gave Wasek a winning two pair. Wasek, who was standing during the all-in situation, pumped his hands in triumph before saying sorry to Veldhuis and reaching out his hand. Veldhuis gave him a big high five with a smile to take it as best as possible before heading out the door.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
190,000 | |
|
Busted | |
|
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Serock Pips Boeree
On a three-way flop, we picked up the action as Joe Serock -- the preflop raiser -- was leading out with 8,000 on a 
. Liv Boeree was in position, and she called. The big blind check-folded, and it was heads-up to the turn. Serock slowed down now with a check, and Boeree took her cue to bet 13,000 at the pot. Serock called.
The river came the 
, and now both players were content to check it down. Serock rolled his finger in the air asking to see Boeree's hand, and she revealed 
. She was out-kicked; Serock tabled , and the two shared a quick, friendly chat as Serock scooped the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
270,000
-20,000
|
-20,000 |
|
|
||
|
135,000
-3,000
|
-3,000 |
Tevesov Doing Work
We counted Garii Tevesov at just over 300,000 just a few minutes ago, but things have gone even better in the meantime. He's right at the bottom of the stairs from us, and walking back past him, we notice that he now has more like 440,000 -- the clear chip leader.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
440,000
132,000
|
132,000 |
At the Tippy Top
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
327,000
2,000
|
2,000 |
|
|
308,000
13,000
|
13,000 |
|
|
290,000
-9,000
|
-9,000 |
|
|
||
|
281,000
46,000
|
46,000 |
|
240,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
|
|
||
|
227,000
95,800
|
95,800 |
|
|
216,000
18,000
|
18,000 |
|
|
204,000
-4,000
|
-4,000 |
|
203,000 | |
|
199,000
-11,000
|
-11,000 |