Yann Brosolo had a singularly unpleasant day at the felt here in Prague, dropping down to single figures (x 1,000, obviously) early in the day, and although he made a recovery he never got above his starting stack. This bad day has now come to a merciful end. Brosolo raised in the cutoff and then shoved to a reraise from the gent on the button. Bit of a roller coaster ride on the board, but ultimately the best hand won and the Frenchman will not be repeating last year's good run this time around.
Fernando Brito, the man who currently tops the EPT leaderboard, has picked up a much-needed double up to 22,000. The chips found their way into the pot on the flop.
Hanging on by his nails earlier, Pavel Prekop recently shored up his hold with a double of his 2,850 remaining stack. This went in preflop in early position, with what turned out to be , and button Mihai Manole made the call. Manole's were ahead until the flop where they abruptly became Great Danes, and on the river they were dead as a doornail. Prekop, however, survived into the second half of Level 6.
Nicolas Levi has just picked up some much needed chips to boost his dwindling stack to around the 10,000 mark.
The action folded around to the hijack who promptly opened with a raise to 1,025 and both the cutoff and the button decided to part company with the same amount. Levi, seated in the small blind, counted his chips and moved all in for a total of 7,225.
The hijack quickly folded, as did the cutoff as calling would have crippled him but the button, with a stack of 69,000 thought for at least a minute before mucking his hand.
Sorel Mizzi found himself wallowing around the 12-14,000 chip mark for a large percentage of today's play but he back to almost where he started, with 28,200 chips.
The action folded around to the small blind, who made a raise of 2.5x the big blind, or 1,000 to you and me. Mizzi made the call so it was heads up to the flop. The small blind checked and Mizzi checked behind him.
Turn: - The small blind made a bet of 1,200, a bet that the on-form Canadian quickly called.
River: - Being called on the turn seemed to slow down the small blind who went into checking mode again. Mizzi was having none of it though and made a bet that totalled 5,200, enough to buy him the pot
Once leading the field, Matt Widdoes now has to deal with a more modestly above average stack. The culprit: Richard Gryko. A pot peppered with yellow 5k chips (around 30-35k) had built around a board of . The table had started to gather a ring of spectators, and when the TD joined them to give Widdoes one minute to act, so did we...
Gryko had moved all in on the river for 17,675 and Widdoes was looking pained. Finally he said, "If you got it, you got it, good hand..." and threw in the chips. Gryko showed for 'it.'
"Good hand," he said again as his opponent stacked up c.70,000 and he dropped to 45,000.
We only caught the hand from the turn, but we suspect that that's when it got really fun anyway.
Three players were still in and the board read . Kevin MacPhee bet out 4,000 which got rid of one of his opponents. The other raised to 11,000, though, and MacPhee called.
Heads up to the river, and this time it was MacPhee's opponent who did the betting - a very hefty 18,500. MacPhee had barely 10,000 more than that in his stack but flat-called nevertheless, and was swiftly rewarded when his opponent showed , nowhere near the for trips in MacPhee's hand.
"Nice bluff catcher," said a tablemate in broken English, but the sentiment was clear. MacPhee is back up to around 80,000 now.
Anton Wigg continues to climb up the leaderboard after eliminating a plyer from his table, someone who seemed angry he made the call on the river for all of his chips and sped out of the poker room!
In the hand the said player raised to 850 from under the gun and Wigg called next to act. The small blind also came along, meaning the three of them saw the fall on the flop.
Everyone checked to Wigg, who made a bet of 1,475, with only the under the gun player staying in the hand.
Turn: - Both players slowed down and opted to check the turn
River: - This is where things got interesting. UTG quickly bets 7,225 chips only to see Mr Wigg immediately move a tower of chips past the betting line, enough to put his opponent all in. Wigg's opponent called off the rest of his 11,200 stack but instantly mucked as Wigg turned over for a straight.
Wigg now finds himself armed with around 59,000 chips
A drop earlier in the day gave Anton Wigg an uphill struggle to return to his starting stack, but he's just achieved it with the help of a pair of preflop Aces. The final bump in chips came from Pentek Szolt, who ran his short stack (it looked like less than 10k) into said Aces and promptly busted out. We only caught the dealer sweeping Szolt's hand into the muck, but the glimpse of paint says 'big pair' or 'ace-king' if we had to guess.
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, and button Mihai Manole made the call. Manole's 
were ahead until the 
flop where they abruptly became Great Danes, and on the 
river they were dead as a doornail. Prekop, however, survived into the second half of Level 6.
flop. The small blind checked and Mizzi checked behind him.
- The small blind made a bet of 1,200, a bet that the on-form Canadian quickly called.
- Being called on the turn seemed to slow down the small blind who went into checking mode again. Mizzi was having none of it though and made a bet that totalled 5,200, enough to buy him the pot
. The table had started to gather a ring of spectators, and when the TD joined them to give Widdoes one minute to act, so did we...
, nowhere near the 
- This is where things got interesting. UTG quickly bets 7,225 chips only to see Mr Wigg immediately move a tower of chips past the betting line, enough to put his opponent all in. Wigg's opponent called off the rest of his 11,200 stack but instantly mucked as Wigg turned over 