2014 PokerStars.net EPT Vienna

€5,300 Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info

2014 PokerStars.net EPT Vienna

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
k3
Prize
€578,392
Event Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€4,413,500
Entries
910
Level Info
Level
32
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
20,000

Chip Counts

Level 5 : 150/300, 25 ante
Player Chips Progress
Kevin Vandersmissen be
Kevin Vandersmissen
70,000 23,000
Eoghan O'Dea ie
Eoghan O'Dea
68,000 38,000
Dan Murariu ro
Dan Murariu
67,000 7,000
Lasell King
Lasell King
67,000
Dominik Nitsche de
Dominik Nitsche
55,000 21,000
Olof Haglund se
Olof Haglund
55,000
Dimitar Danchev bg
Dimitar Danchev
EPT Main Event Champion
EPT 1X Winner
51,000
Benny Spindler de
Benny Spindler
39,000 5,000
Ignat Liviu ro
Ignat Liviu
37,000 5,000
Max Silver gb
Max Silver
36,000 -5,000
Antoine Saout fr
Antoine Saout
35,000
Vitaly Lunkin ru
Vitaly Lunkin
33,000 3,500
Michael Piper
Michael Piper
32,000 -13,000
Marc-Andre Ladouceur ca
Marc-Andre Ladouceur
30,000 -17,000
Steve O'Dwyer ie
Steve O'Dwyer
EPT 1X Winner
22,000 -9,000
Noah Boeken nl
Noah Boeken
EPT 1X Winner
19,000 -3,000
Dimitri Holdeew de
Dimitri Holdeew
17,000
Steve Watts gb
Steve Watts
16,000 -26,000
Raoul Refos nl
Raoul Refos
14,000 -1,500
Michael Keiner de
Michael Keiner
7,200 -11,800

More than 10 Million in Chips in Play

Level 5 : 150/300, 25 ante

The tournament clock makes mention of 340 entries so far today. That makes for 10,200,000 of chips in play at the moment. The average amount for the 302 players who still have chips in front of them is a little under 34,000.

Four-Bet From Soulier

Level 5 : 150/300, 25 ante

Fabrice Soulier raised to 700 and a player in position called. A third player got involved and he three-bet to 2,025. The action was folded back to Soulier who went into the tank for quite a bit before four-betting to 6,400.

Both Soulier's opponents gave it some serious thought before eventually letting go of their hand. Soulier's up to 44,000 and looking good.

Player Chips Progress
Fabrice Soulier fr
Fabrice Soulier
44,000 12,000

Tags: Fabrice Soulier

Busquet Doubles

Level 5 : 150/300, 25 ante
Olivier Busquet
Olivier Busquet

We're not entirely sure what just happened, but Ilia Iliaguev sure didn't look happy.

His frustration came from a hand where he doubled Olivier Busquet. When we arrived all the cards were already out on the table and Iliaguev's set of nines on {3-Diamonds}{9-Diamonds}{10-Spades}{J-Spades}{A-Diamonds} was being mucked by the dealer, that hand wasn't good enough.

Busquet had {4-Diamonds}{5-Diamonds} in front of him and he doubled up to just under 19,000. When all the chips went to the middle is unclear at this point.

Player Chips Progress
Olivier Busquet us
Olivier Busquet
18,700 -5,300

Tags: Ilia IliaguevOlivier Busquet

Pro Vs Pro and Karlsson Busts

Level 5 : 150/300, 25 ante

The board read {7-Hearts}{k-Hearts}{2-Clubs}{k-Clubs}{3-Diamonds} and Hannes Speiser, a PokerStars player from Austraia had bet big, big enough to put his opponent all in. Jakob Karlsson, a fellow PokerStars player from Sweden stared his opponent down. His tournament life was on the line and they both knew it. Level upon level. Karlsson eventually made the call and was dismayed to see Speiser turn over {a-Diamonds}{k-Spades}. Karlsson’s cards hit the muck despite a requirement to turn them over on all-in situations so we don’t know what he made the call with. Whatever it was it was behind and he exited the tournament.

Player Chips Progress
Jakob Karlsson
Jakob Karlsson
Busted

Diaz Plays it Cool

Level 5 : 150/300, 25 ante

A player raised to 600 and Adrian Diaz called in position after which Raoul Refos three-bet to 1,900. The action folded back to Diaz who tanked for a bit before making the call.

The flop brought {Q-Hearts}{9-Diamonds}{6-Spades} and Diaz check-called 1,500. The turn brought the {2-Clubs} and this time Refos bet 2,375 after Diaz had checked.

The river completed the board with the {7-Diamonds} and this time Refos opted to check behind. Diaz quickly tabled {J-Spades}{J-Clubs} and that was enough to take down the pot.

Player Chips Progress
Adrian Mateos es
Adrian Mateos
EPT Main Event Champion
EPT 1X Winner
Winamax
41,000 -17,000
Raoul Refos nl
Raoul Refos
15,500

Tags: Adrian DiazRaoul Refos

Stack Size Question

Level 5 : 150/300, 25 ante

Benjamin Jones, a PokerStars player from the UK had three-bet to 2,800 from the big blind and got two callers including Boutros Naim, a qualifier from Lebanon. They saw a flop of {j-Spades}{10-Spades}{a-Spades} which was checked by Jones and the other player. Naim bet 3,100, Jones made the call and they went to the turn heads up. The dealer put out {2-Spades} and again Jones made the check and was faced by a bet of 5,100 from Naim. Jones asked to see his opponent’s stack which was about 22,000 and made the check-raise to 13,500. Naim now asked to see Jones’s stack and saw that he hadn’t left himself a whole lot behind. Naim continued to chew his gum and from behind his dark glasses decided to check his hole cards. There was a lot of spades on that board. Naim chewed some more and slid his cards to the dealer.

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Level 5 : 150/300, 25 ante

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