EPT Prague Main Event
Day 4 Completed
2009 PokerStars.com EPT Prague
EPT Prague Main Event
Day: 4
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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And talking of history books, we have ourselves a couple of very notable achievements in this here final table line-up. Luca Pagano has now achieved his (lucky) 13th EPT cash, and this is his sixth EPT final table. He will no doubt be hoping to score his first ever win to obliterate any chance of anyone else topping the leader board this season. Meanwhile, Jan Skampa has become just the second player ever to make back-to-back EPT Main Event final tables after taking fourth place at Vilamoura last month.
But this looks like a pretty terrifying final table all round, and it is still anyone's game. Join us back here at noon C.E.T. tomorrow, when we will be playing right down to one glorious winner.
Seat 1: Anthony Roux (2,839,000)
Seat 2: Stefan Mattsson (3,553,000)
Seat 3: Laurence Ryan (1,338,000)
Seat 4: Gustav Ekerot (502,000)
Seat 5: Sven Eichelbaum (658,000)
Seat 6: Jan Skampa (3,985,000)
Seat 7: Eyal Avitan (2,627,000)
Seat 8: Luca Pagano (2,119,000)
"You're the one who got lucky with ace-queen, right?" he asked. Mattsson nodded in affirmation with a hint of a smirk crossing his lips. With that, de Mel carefully stacked out a raise to 218,000 and slid it across the line. Mattsson didn't waste much time making the call to put a big pot up for grabs heading to the flop.
It came
, and de Mel passed. Mattsson figured 201,000 was a good bet, and that's just what he made it. After just a quick five or ten seconds, de Mel announced an all in, and Mattsson beat him into the pot with a call and the covering stack.Showdown
Mattsson:
De Mel:
Mattsson had flopped his set of threes, but de Mel was drawing live. His overcards were dead, but any old heart would do for now. "I think you're going to win this one," said Mattsson with a shake of his head.
After a long delay to build the suspense, it was time for the turn card. The dealer knocked the table and very slowly peeled a red card off the deck. It was the
though, a blank that took one more out away from de Mel.He stood to await the final board card, clearly not feeling too optimistic. The river card wasn't much of a sweat as the black paint of the
was visible immediately. De Mel shook hands with the table and wished them luck tomorrow as he won't be a part of the final table festivities. He's been knocked off in 9th place, taking home more than €40,000 and setting the stage for the final eight for tomorrow.
The two went off to a flop of
, and the action check-checked. Fourth street came the 
with the same non-betting action, and the dropped on the river. After watching Ryan check twice, Pagano went ahead and led out with 130,000 chips. His opponent tapped the felt in front of him, removed the chip atop his cards, and used it to slide his cards back to the dealer.
and a check from the blind. Skampa stacked together a small continuation bet of 80,000, and small though it was, it was big enough to win him the pot quickly.
Possibly steaming, he open-shoved from the hijack next hand, but received no callers. He's back to around what he started nine-handed play with.
They proceeded to check the
flop, and when Skampa bet out 170,000 on the turn, the pot was his.Skampa took down the next pot too, with a simple raise from the small blind.
Seat 1: Priyan de Mel (1,181,000)
Seat 2: Anthony Roux (2,854,000)
Seat 3: Stefan Mattsson (2,429,000)
Seat 4: Laurence Ryan (1,383,000)
Seat 5: Gustav Ekerot (612,000)
Seat 6: Sven Eichelbaum (780,000)
Seat 7: Jan Skampa (3,571,000)
Seat 8: Eyal Avitan (2,550,000)
Seat 9: Luca Pagano (2,082,000)
The chip average is about 1.95 million as we begin nine-handed play.
Level: 25
Blinds: 20,000/40,000
Ante: 4,000
