2014 PokerStars.net EPT Vienna

€10,300 High Roller
Day: 2
Event Info

2014 PokerStars.net EPT Vienna

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a5
Prize
€392,900
Event Info
Buy-in
€10,000
Prize Pool
€1,773,800
Entries
181
Level Info
Level
26
Blinds
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
10,000

Kaiser Committed

Level 12 : 1,200/2,400, 300 ante

Jonathan Duhamel opened from early position for 2,400, Ronny Kaiser then made it 4,800 from the Hi-jack and waiting in the cut-off was Jens Lakemeier who cold four-bet to 10,500. The blinds folded and did Duhamel and the decision was back on Kaiser who thought for a while before making the call.

The flop was {10-Clubs}{j-Hearts}{8-Hearts} and both players checked. The turn card {3-Clubs} prompted a bet of 12,200 from Kaiser and now it was Lakemeier’s turn to just call. The river was the {3-Hearts} and Kaiser slid out a bet of 18,000 which was pretty much all of his stack. Lakemeier decided to make the fold and a decent pot was pushed to the Kaiser.

Player Chips Progress
Jens Lakemeier at
Jens Lakemeier
90,000
-51,900
-51,900
Ronny Kaiser ch
Ronny Kaiser
80,000
30,000
30,000

Tags: Jens LakemeierRonny KaiserJonathan Duhamel

Prize Pool & Payouts

Level 12 : 1,200/2,400, 300 ante

It's official! The EPT Vienna High Roller is the biggest of Season 10 with 181 entries, passing the EPT Barcelona by a single entry. That means a prize pool of €1,773,800 was generated, and that will be distributed to the top 27 players as follows:

PlacePrize
1st€392,900
2nd€265,200
3rd€182,500
4th€148,800
5th€118,650
6th€91,150
7th€66,350
8th€48,050
9th€39,800
10-11€33,700
12-13€29,250
14-15€26,600
16-17€23,950
18-20€21,300
21-23€19,500
24-27€17,750

Katchalov Meets Russian Resistance

Level 12 : 1,200/2,400, 300 ante

Viacheslav Goryachev opened the betting from late position for 5,100 and got four callers to a flop of {a-Hearts}{2-Hearts}{q-Hearts}. The small blind checked and Eugene Katchalov bet 6,200 from the big blind. Goryachev made the call and it was heads up to a turn card {a-Diamonds}. The second ace saw both players check.
The river {3-Clubs} saw Katchalov check and when Goryachev bet 10,000 he passed his cards to the dealer. Pot to Goryachev.

McDonald in the House

Level 12 : 1,200/2,400, 300 ante
Mike McDonald
Mike McDonald

Mike McDonald opened the betting for 5,500 and found a single caller, Konstantin Puchkov from Russia, on the button. “How much do you have?” asked McDonald before the flop and Puchkov showed him his stack of about 70,000.

Flop {3-Clubs}{8-Clubs}{7-Hearts} and McDonald bet 7,500 which Puchkov called. The turn card was the {8-Hearts} which both players opted to check. The {q-Clubs} on the river saw McDonald put out a neatly stacked bet of 20,000. Puchkov wanted to know how much it was so the dealer knocked it over so he could see.

Puchkov made the call and McDonald turned over his {7-Spades}{7-Diamonds}. “Full house.” The dealer declared. Puchkov couldn’t beat it and shook his head in disbelief as he counted what remained of his stack.

Player Chips Progress
Mike McDonald ca
Mike McDonald
155,000
105,300
105,300
EPT 1X Winner
Konstantin Puchkov ru
Konstantin Puchkov
36,000
-27,900
-27,900

Tags: Konstantin PuchkovMike McDonald

Two Eliminations Just Before the Break

Level 12 : 1,200/2,400, 300 ante
Dimitar Danchev
Dimitar Danchev

Two eliminations took place just before the break.

In the first, a player raised and Dimitar Danchev got the last of his chips all in on a flop of {4-Clubs}{k-Hearts}{5-Clubs} holding the {k-Clubs}{q-Clubs}, which was in bad shape against the {4-Diamonds}{4-Hearts} of Team PokerStars Pro Theo Jorgensen. The turn and river both blanked, and that was all she wrote for Jorgensen.

In another hand, Ronny Kaiser three-bet shoved for 70,000 or so from the small blind with {6-Hearts}{6-Clubs} and received a call from Oleh Okhotskyi, who held the {q-Diamonds}{q-Spades}. The board ran out {5-Hearts}{7-Spades}{9-Spades}{7-Clubs}{q-Clubs} and Kaiser was felled just shy of Level 13.

Player Chips Progress
Theo Jorgensen dk
Theo Jorgensen
405,000
55,000
55,000
PokerStars
Dimitar Danchev bg
Dimitar Danchev
Busted
EPT Main Event Champion
EPT 1X Winner
Ronny Kaiser ch
Ronny Kaiser
Busted

Tags: Dimitar DanchevOleh OkhotskyiRonny KaiserTheo Jorgensen

Level: 13

Blinds: 1,500/3,000

Ante: 400

Volatile Start Denies Lodden Third EPT Final

Level 13 : 1,500/3,000, 400 ante
Johnny Lodden
Johnny Lodden

Johnny Lodden was for most people, the only familiar face left in the Main Event field (he was also the only Team PokerStars Pro remaining). But then, some say that the penultimate table is typically a Lodden graveyard, the place where Lodden fans go to cry. Perhaps his departure wasn’t that surprising after all? The PokerStars blog reports here.

Tags: PokerStars Blog

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Level 13 : 1,500/3,000, 400 ante

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Updated Chip Counts from the Break (full)

Level 13 : 1,500/3,000, 400 ante
Player Chips Progress
Simon Ravnsbaek dk
Simon Ravnsbaek
528,000
212,900
212,900
Alex Bilokur ru
Alex Bilokur
435,000
170,000
170,000
Dmitry Yurasov ru
Dmitry Yurasov
431,000
163,000
163,000
Rasmus Agerskov dk
Rasmus Agerskov
430,000
325,600
325,600
Theo Jorgensen dk
Theo Jorgensen
410,000
5,000
5,000
PokerStars
Jonas Kronwitter at
Jonas Kronwitter
350,000
169,500
169,500
Benny Spindler de
Benny Spindler
340,000
130,000
130,000
Andrey Andreev ru
Andrey Andreev
251,100
-87,300
-87,300
Philipp Gruissem de
Philipp Gruissem
233,000
-17,300
-17,300
Alex Roumeliotis
Alex Roumeliotis
223,700
115,300
115,300
Lukas Berglund us
Lukas Berglund
210,000
130,000
130,000
Anatoly Filatov ru
Anatoly Filatov
192,800
106,800
106,800
Viacheslav Goryachev ru
Viacheslav Goryachev
190,000
92,200
92,200
Oleh Okhotskyi ua
Oleh Okhotskyi
185,000
13,000
13,000
Ami Barer ca
Ami Barer
181,000
-6,000
-6,000
Sam Trickett gb
Sam Trickett
180,000
46,000
46,000
Jens Lakemeier at
Jens Lakemeier
175,000
85,000
85,000
Zimnan Ziyard gb
Zimnan Ziyard
170,200
92,800
92,800
EPT 1X Winner
Alex Kravchenko ru
Alex Kravchenko
170,000
55,300
55,300
PokerStars
Jose Carlos Garcia pl
Jose Carlos Garcia
165,000
108,100
108,100
Joni Jouhkimainen fi
Joni Jouhkimainen
160,400
-19,600
-19,600
Mike McDonald ca
Mike McDonald
158,000
3,000
3,000
EPT 1X Winner
Mustapha Kanit it
Mustapha Kanit
152,500
-16,600
-16,600
Winamax
Griffin Benger ca
Griffin Benger
150,000
103,300
103,300
Pratyush Buddiga us
Pratyush Buddiga
150,000
11,700
11,700

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