€5,000 EPT Kyiv Main Event
Day 2 Completed
2009 PokerStars.net EPT Kyiv
€5,000 EPT Kyiv Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info
2009 PokerStars.net EPT Kyiv
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
€4,700
Prize Pool
€1,391,200
Entries
296
Level
28
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
5,000
Players Left 1 / 296
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Vitaly Lunkin would become one of the early casualties when his pair and straight draw couldn't improve against the top pair of fellow-Russian Alekseu Tsessarsky. Team PokerStars Pros Katja Thater and Ivan Demidov would follow a short time later, both of whom struggled to develop any momentum in the early going. Alexander Rykov came into the day in seventh place overall, but he too would be eliminated during the grind of the second level, and Jason Kudron would soon meet his own demise after starting the day in third. Other victims of this Day 2 included Cristian Dragomir, Alexander Kostritsyn, Faraz Jaka, Shaun Deeb, and Nicolas Levi. Also along the way we lost our final Team PokerStars Pro when Alex Kravchenko hit the rail after running his
into an opponent's 
.On the flip side of things, it was the EPT's familiar face of Dragan Galic that took command of the early part of the day. With his selective aggression and a couple of big laydowns, Galic picked his way to the top of the board. His reign wouldn't last long though as he took a big tumble and had to ride a marginal stack the rest of the way.
After that, there were four or five players who traded the chip lead back and forth for the remainder of the evening. When play wrapped up, it was Max Lykov who stood atop the hill, stuffing his chip bag with an impressive 397,900 chips, good for almost 200 big blinds! Notables still in the mix include overnight chip leader Viktor Ivanov (235,000), Estonian Priit Turner (233,400), Andrew Malott (187,200), Lika Gerasimova (180,400), and Dutch online qualifier Menno Mulder (126,500). In total, just 68 players survived long enough to bag up their chips and return tomorrow.
Speaking of tomorrow, play will resume at high noon as we make the Day 3 run to the final four tables. The plan is to play down to 32 players, and that task is likely to take only a few levels. Thanks for following along with us today; join us right back here tomorrow for lots more action. Until then, goodnight from the Kyiv Sport Palace!
Fitzgerald tabled
, and he was pleased to see that he was drawing live versus the 
of Maslov. The flop brought another reason to be happy as it came 
to pull Fitzgerald into a big lead. The turn 
sealed the deal, giving him the unbeatable trip eights, and securing him a double up back over 100,000 for the first time in many hours.
, Raoul Refos checked and Michael Meyburg bet 8,500. Refos called. The turn was the . Refos checked again, and this time Meyburg bet 24,000. Refos thought about it, then let it go.Refos has 69,000, while Meyburg has built his stack up to 285,000 -- close to the chip lead.
On the turn, the board showed
, and Mattern made a bet of somewhere around 10,000, though the exact amount is unclear. Luca Falaschi thought it over for a quick minute before making the call, and the river brought the . Mattern took quite a while to eye up the size of the pot and figure out an appropriate bet, and he eventually settled on 12,400, sliding the chips into the middle of the felt in a long string. Falaschi took only a few seconds to plunk in the calling chips, and Mattern could only tap the felt and say, "You win."Falaschi flipped over the
, but Mattern made him show his other card, the , before returning his cards to the muck. That pot cost the French pro close to half his chip stack; he's dropped back to 31,000 now.
Online qualifier Menno Mulder has come from seemingly nowhere to amass a very healthy chip stack. He just dropped by to see Refos and relay a recent hand, and it ended with the two men bumping fists and congratulating each other's progress. Mulder has vaulted up to 210,000 which puts him comfortably in the top ten.
Oleksandr Ziv and Mikhail Mazunin are also among those eliminated. There are presently 74 players left.
The flop came
. Deeb checked, Kronwitter bet 17,000, and Deeb check-raised all in for about 80,000. Kronwitter made the call, turning over 
, well ahead of Deeb's 
.The turn was the
and the river was the , and Deeb hits the rail. Kronwitter pushes up close to 300,000, and is presently challenging Priit Turner for the chip leader.
. The BB checked, Prydryk bet 7,000, and his opponent called. The turn was the , and the same routine followed: check, bet of 7,000 from Prydryk, and a call.The river was the
. Again the BB checked, and this time Prydryk fired 35,000. After a long think, his opponent called, and Prydryk turned over the nuts -- 
. He's now up to 225,000.
