2017 PokerStars Championship Prague

Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info

2017 PokerStars Championship Prague

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
1010
Prize
€675,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€5,300
Prize Pool
€4,146,750
Entries
855
Level Info
Level
31
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
20,000

Money Bubble Looms at Close of PokerStars Championship Prague Main Event Day 2

Level 14 : 1,500/3,000, 500 ante
Paul Michaelis
Paul Michaelis

All of the players who still had chips in PokerStars Championship Prague Main Event gathered in one room for the first time, with survivors of two starting days and last-minute registrants creating a field of 855 entries. At the close of six levels of play, that number has been reduced to only 140 hopefuls, just a few eliminations from the money bubble that will take place when 128 remain.

The top 127 will get chunks of a prize pool finalized during the opening hour of play, totaling over €4.1 million and paying out €775,000 to the winner.

The players who have best positioned themselves to claim that windfall after 14 levels include Paul Michaelis (630,500), Omid Mojaverian (597,500) and Erik Walfridsson (536,500).

Michaelis, who won a bracelet in 2015 in one of the last pot-limit hold'em events ever at the WSOP, will try to continue the modern poker tradition of Germans sweeping up all of the money out there. In a big hand late in Day 2, he got three streets of all-in value with a turned set of tens in a three-bet pot against a player who had paired on the flop with ace-king. Just before the day came to an end, Michaelis flopped another set and ultimately sent Romain Lewis to the rail to claim the top spot.

Day 1 chip leader and local Czech standout Michal Mrakes also followed up his big Day 1 with a solid Day 2. While his nearly $1 million in cashes speaks to his overall success, Mrakes seems to do especially well here in his home country, with cashes of €200,000 and €46,594 already this year.

While Mrakes couldn't hold his overall lead on the field, he still increased his stack from 202,700 to 333,000, good enough for almost two times the average.

Team PokerStars also performed well, with Fatima Moreira de Melo, Igor Kurganov, Jake Cody, Maria Konnikova and Marcin Horecki all still carrying the banner heading into Day 3.

Fatima Moreira De Melo
Fatima Moreira De Melo

Players who weren't so fortunate and found themselves hitting the rail on Day 2 included Timothy Adams, Koray Aldemir, Davidi Kitai, John Juanda and Adrian Mateos.

Jasper Meijer van Putten, the Dutchman who won the final EPT Prague here last year, also busted. He got his chips in way behind with top pair against a set held by Boris Kolev, and though a sweat arrived when Meijer van Putten turned trips, he was felted when the river bricked off.

Day 3 play picks up Friday at noon at Level 15 (2,000/4,000/500) and will see a switch to 90-minute levels. Come back to PokerNews then to continue following the development of one of the last big tournaments of 2017.

Official top Chip Counts 10 After Day 2

PlacePlayerCountryChip Count
1Paul MichaelisGermany630,500
2Omid MojaverianIran597,500
3Erik WalfridssonSweden536,500
4Boris KolevBulgaria510,500
5Daniel BarriocanalSpain504,000
6Dimitrios KalaroutisGreece417,000
7Paraschos StavridisGreece414,000
8Fatima Moreira de MeloNetherlands406,000
9Kalidou SowFrance405,000
10Robert HeidornGermany394,500

Main Event Day 3 Seat Draw

TableSeatNameCountryChipsBig Blinds
11Mikita BadziakouskiBelarus151,50038
12John MooneyUK182,00046
13Louis SalterIreland195,00049
14Daniel BarriocanalSpain504,000126
15Omid MojaverianIran597,500149
16Arsenii KarmatckiiRussia232,00058
17Alexis FleurFrance212,50053
18Georgios ZisimopoulosGreece88,00022
      
21Dominik PankaPoland320,50080
23Cathal ShineIreland135,00034
24Martin StaszkoCzech Republic78,00020
25Fatima Moreira De MeloNetherlands406,000102
26Michael KoranSwitzerland101,00025
27Ihar SoikaBelarus44,00011
28Aleksandr MordvinovRussia296,50074
      
31Gabriele LeporeItaly339,50085
32Yury KanunnikovRussia182,00046
33Yorane KerignardFrance44,00011
34Paraschos StavridisGreece414,000104
35Justas VaiciulionisLithuania56,00014
36Marco RegonaschiItaly65,00016
37Matas CimbolasLithuania271,00068
38Quentin LecomteFrance63,50016
      
41Ondrej PulecCzech Republic107,00027
42Xixiang LuoChina377,50094
43Petr SvobodaCzech Republic92,50023
44Jonathan ProudfootUK58,50015
45Boris KolevBulgaria510,500128
46Jacek PustulaPoland140,00035
47Valon BudimaAlbania33,0008
48Vitaliy LiRussia55,50014
      
51Igor KurganovRussia160,00040
52Boris KuzmanovicCroatia208,50052
53Paul MichaelisGermany630,500158
54Marcin HoreckiPoland132,00033
55Ji ZhangGermany296,00074
56Asi MosheIsrael192,50048
57Alex FoxenUSA133,00033
58Sebastian KappenbergGermany52,00013
      
61Gavin O'RourkeIreland146,00037
62Jake CodyUK252,50063
63Carlo SavinelliItaly130,00033
64Jakutis PovilasLithuania131,00033
65Charles La BoissonniereCanada68,50017
66Walter OaquimBrazil199,00050
67Harry LodgeUK235,50059
68Josip SimunicAustria200,00050
      
71Jean MonturyFrance166,00042
72Milos LalovicSerbia47,00012
73Michal MrakesCzech Republic333,00083
74Daniel BelovEstonia227,00057
75Robert HeidornGermany394,50099
76Vlad DarieRomania81,50020
77Aleksandr MerzhvinskiyRussia146,00037
78Shabtai KorenIsrael142,50036
      
81Thomas MercierBelgium222,50056
82Yang ZhangChina71,50018
84Daniel JuncadellaSpain75,50019
85Pierre CalamusaFrance219,00055
86Yuliyan KolevBulgaria94,50024
87Kamil DoboszPoland89,50022
88Maria KonnikovaUSA29,5007
      
91Liwei SunItaly117,50029
92Rui Neves FerreiraPortugal167,00042
93Jan BednarCzech Republic215,00054
94Serhii PopovychUkraine156,50039
95Yuki KoKorea65,50016
96Anton YakubaRussia134,00034
97Ivan SoshnikovRussia298,00075
98Ghassan YaredLebanon234,50059
      
101Gianluca SperanzaItaly202,00051
102Stefanita FecheteRomania140,00035
103Dimitrios KalaroutisGreece417,000104
104Alex BilokurRussia103,50026
105Tuukka MeklinFinland62,50016
106Anatolii ZyrinRussia242,50061
107Dermot BlainIreland194,00049
108Norbert SzecsiHungary147,00037
      
111Edgaras KancaitisLithuania74,50019
112Diego ZeiterSwitzerland330,00083
113Marti Roca De TorresSpain225,50056
115James MitchellUK236,00059
116Nir LevyIsrael383,00096
117Michel DattaniPortugal95,00024
118Viliyan PetleshkovBulgaria123,00031
      
121Cesar GarciaSpain155,00039
122Kalidou SowFrance405,000101
123Jean-Jacques ZeitounFrance163,00041
124Lawrence BayleyUK89,50022
125Fiodor MartinoItaly152,50038
126Colin RobinsonUSA333,00083
127Ali Reza FatehiIran132,00033
128Assaf Ben YosefIsrael174,00044
      
131Valery YantsevichBelarus150,00038
132Maksim PaddubniakBelarus88,00022
133Valentyn ShabelnykUkraine258,50065
134Nick MaimoneUSA109,50027
135Fabian WahlersGermany72,00018
136Amjad Nader MustafaSaudi Arabia111,50028
137Rasmus VogtDenmark87,50022
138Fidan ZahitiSweden194,50049
      
141Viacheslav GoryachevRussia33,5008
142Guillaume Pau DavyFrance59,00015
143Jason WheelerUSA221,00055
144Alexandr ReskoCzech Republic146,00037
145Xia LinChina62,50016
146Samy OuellaniFrance110,00028
147James AkenheadUK257,50064
148Antonio PalmaPortugal170,00043
      
151Dmitry PonomarevRussia258,50065
152Yordan DimitrovBulgaria51,00013
153Sonny FrancoFrance174,50044
154Jukka PaloniemiFinland198,50050
156Andrzej SiemieniakPoland242,50061
157Konstantin FarberGermany270,00068
158Christopher AndlerSweden201,00050
      
161Francois TosquesFrance224,50056
162Markus DurneggerAustria195,00049
163Thomas LentrodtGermany161,00040
164Alessio IsaiaItaly249,00062
165Hon Cheong LeeHong Kong241,50060
166Ivan KiselevRussia110,00028
167Liviu IgnatRomania79,00020
168Petar KalevBulgaria141,00035
      
171Oleg VasylchenkoUkraine39,00010
172Bartosz StasiewiczPoland96,00024
173Erik WalfridssonSweden536,500134
174Jack SinclairUK92,50023
175Oleksandr TrokhymenkoUkraine92,50023
176Aleksandr OrlovRussia206,50052
177Wagner Da Gloria FelicioPortugal40,50010
178Hari BercoviciIsrael285,00071
      
181Petr TargaCzech Republic102,00026
182Navot GolanIsrael305,00076
183Mikhail KorotkikhRussia173,50043
184Mattia BaccassinoItaly224,00056
185Mihai ManoleRomania44,50011
186Mathew FranklandUK69,00017
187Nikolaos IliakisGreece228,00057
188Arnaud EnselmeFrance281,00070

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