EPT Prague Main Event
Day 2 Completed
2009 PokerStars.com EPT Prague
EPT Prague Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info
2009 PokerStars.com EPT Prague
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€2,842,100
Total Entries
586
Level
32
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
25,000
Players Left 1 / 586
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It was an up-and-down day for a number of notables. Jeff Sarwer started the day moving in the wrong direction, but he quickly righted the ship to find his stack moving towards the top once again. A failed three-barrel bluff and a few lost showdowns later though, and Sarwer had been relegated to the rail. This Day 2 exit marks his earliest elimination and first non-cashing performance in the last three EPT events.
While some of the Team PokerStars Pros were vaulting up the board, others were finding the going a little tougher. Katja Thater, Thierry van den Berg, Marcel Luske, and Alexander Kravchenko all failed to get much going today. Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier managed to get his stack moving early, but he would tumble down and eventually out in the last half of the day.
As players continued to drop out at the cyclic rate, a few players really started to assert themselves. Luca Pagano had a good day, and he moved his stack pretty consistently in the right direction. Arnaud Mattern sat patiently and waited for his spots, and he was rewarded with a late double up to boost his stack back into contention. Not surprisingly, Antony Lellouche is up there in the mix as well. The gregarious French pro has had no trouble amassing chips during the middle stages of EPT events, and he'll be looking to avoid another in a long line of late-stage blowups as this event progresses.
Pieter de Korver rode a late surge into the top five on the scoreboard, but he couldn't quite get himself into first place. That honor appears to belong to relative unknown Yann Brosolo and his stack of 574,100. We'll have to wait for the full chip counts before we can be absolutely certain, but we couldn't find a mightier stack than that.
So that's it for Day 2 then, and the first half of this event. We and the remaining players will be back in the house tomorrow at high noon to burst the bubble and play down to the final few tables. We'll see you then!
"Tens," said Bergeron finally, tabling
. Gork slapped his 
down on the felt with the ol' double fist pump, poised for a double up.The flop was about as bad as it gets for Bergeron, coming
. The 
on the turn was one of the better cards in the deck, though, as it gave the underpair three more outs to the chop. Looking for the ten of spades or a non-club six, Bergeron's slim draw would come through. The 
ripped off the deck, and Gork simply could not believe what he was seeing as he threw his arms up and stormed away from the table.No chips change hands, and it's on to the next shuffle.
Directly from that encounter, we walked over to the table of brother Luc to check on him, and he was tangled up in a pot as we arrived. On a flop of
, Luc had led out into the pot with a bet of 12,000. Arnaud Mattern was the man he was up against, and the French pro stuck in a raise to 29,400. After a long session in the tank, Greenwood then moved all in for 89,500, and Mattern couldn't have called any quicker.Showdown
Mattern:
Greenwood:
The news was not good at all for Greenwood. He and Mattern shared very similar stacks, but Greenwood would likely need to find another six to win this particular hand. It wouldn't come, though, as the board filled out with the
and the 
. With a clap of his hands and a big, "Yes!" Arnaud's two pair held up. When the two stacks were counted down, Luc was indeed covered by just a couple thousand chips. He wished the table luck and took one last long look at his buy-in being pushed across the felt as he headed out the door.Exeunt the brothers Greenwood after a fine, but cashless, performance this week.
Mr. Small Blind:
MacNamara:
Board:
MacNamara is up to around 200,000.
We're going to go ahead and post this video now, with apologies once again for the dramatic foreshadowing it creates. Glo caught up with the Greenwood brothers, Max and Luc, during the last break to talk about how their days have been going. (Spoiler: Both of their elimination hands to follow).
flop. It looked as though Pagano had checked; either way when we arrived there was a 21,500 bet in front of Skampa, which Pagano duly called.Pagano checked blind, but Skampa waited to see the
turn before betting 52,000. "How much you got?" asked Pagano threateningly - but after a few moments' consideration, he decided to fold.Skampa - 270,000
Pagano - 280,000
It came
, and Boeken checked. Darcourt continued out with a bet of 19,900, and the man next door raised to 49,000 straight. Boeken reluctantly folded, Darcourt moved all in for about 84,000, and his opponent quickly called.Showdown
Darcourt:
Man next door:
Darcourt was looking to hold his aces to survive, but he'd need to fade the diamonds in the deck as well as any potentially perilous runner-runner combinations. The
on the turn was safe for him, and the 
on the end was no danger either. That secures Darcourt's double up; he's sitting with just about 200,000 now after that big pot.(Boeken says he folded king-queen.)
"I knew I was forgetting something," she said as she whisked them off with her.
It seems that Rui Cao had just moved to the table, and he raised. ElkY reraised such a sum as to almost commit himself, Cao shoved, and ElkY called all in with
. Cao was holding aces ("Pocket rockkkkkkets," said Mattern, with obvious relish for some reason), and that was the end for the rhinestone cowboy.
