€5,300 Main Event Day 2 | 2014 PokerStars.net EPT Vienna

€5,300 Main Event

Day 2 Completed

03-26-2014 00:47 UTC+2

Sebastian Trisch Leads at End of Day 2; Blom & Hansen Advance

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The 10th season of the European Poker Tour continued on Tuesday with Day 2 action from Vienna. Registration closed before the start of play, and with a few late registrants the final total of entrants reached 910 players, which means the prize pool is a juicy €4,413,500. The winner is set to receive €816,000, a beautiful trophy and a luxurious Swiss SLYDE watch, with 135 players getting paid a minimum of €8,700.

The man best positioned to make a run at the top prize is Germany's Sebastian Trisch, who completed the day in the lead over the estimated 189 advancing players with a commanding stack of 568,500 in chips. He started the day as one of the big stacks with 146,200 and never really looked back. He was followed by Artur Koren in second place with 463,000 in chips, while Marko Neumann rounded out the top three with 421,100.

One of the first players to be eliminated at the start of the day was the winner of the last EPT Vienna, Michael Eiler. The defending champ fell in Level 9 (400/800/100) when Christian Stallinger opened for 1,600 and Eiler put in the last of his 5,500. Stallinger made the call with the and Eiler was racing for his tournament life with the . The cards fell and Eiler made his way to the exit, which assured a new EPT champion would emerge in Vienna.

As previously mentioned, it was still possible to buy into the event at the start of Day 2, and one of three players who took that option was Daniel “Jungleman” Cates. He would last less than an hour, though, when he called a preflop raise with kings and saw the flop come . He called a bet on the flop and all the money went in on the turn. His opponent had top set with and the case king failed to appear for Cates.

Some other notable players who failed to make it through the night include Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree, who ran queens into aces, and Maxim Lykov, who exited when he five-bet shoved the and was eventually called by the of Antoine Granath. The chip leader at the start of the day, Mads Smith Hansen, also failed to advance.

Team PokerStars Pro Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier did make it through, ending with 61,300. He will be joined by Full Tilt Poker Professional Viktor “Isildur1” Blom, who made a rare live tournament appearance here in Austria. Blom bagged up 93,400 in chips and was kind enough to give Pokernews an exclusive interview at one of the breaks.

Gus Hansen, the other Full Tilt Poker Professional, also made it through to Day 3 with 221,000 in chips. He was helped on his way by one of his trademark "less-than-stellar" hands that ended up cracking the aces of Marko Neumann.

Meanwhile, Sam Trickett finished up with 290,000, continuing to run “pure,” as he put it. Just before the end of play, he eliminated Vitaly Lunkin when the two got the money in before the flop with Trickett holding the against the of Lunkin. A final board of gave Trickett a flush on the river and Lunkin’s stack.

Day 3 will kick off at 12 p.m. local time on Wednesday, and it shouldn't take long for the money to be reached. Be sure to join the Pokernews Live Reporting team for up-to-the-minute coverage of the EPT Vienna Main Event sponsored by PokerStars.net. You can also follow the action at the feature table via the live stream at PokerStars.tv with James Hartigan and Joe Stapleton providing commentary and analysis.

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03-26-2014 00:47 UTC+2

Seat Draw Day 3

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Frank Op de Woerd

Level 14 : 1,200/2,400, 300 ante

Table	Seat	Name	Country	Chips
1	1	Halil Baybars	Austria	124,900
1	2	Adrian Bussman	Sweden	271,500
1	3	Daniel Melten	Germany	225,100
1	4	Wilfried Sigmund Harig	Germany	330,600
1	5	Viktor Blom	Sweden	93,400
1	6	Stefan Raschbauer	Austria	55,300
1	7	Jean-Philippe Rohr	France	56,600
1	8	Fabio Sperling	Germany	119,500

2	1	Jozsef Olah	Hungary	206,100
2	2	Cailin Jin	Austria	145,600
2	3	Alexander Moiseev	Russia	76,000
2	4	Dan Murariu	Romania	158,200
2	5	Michael Tureniec	Sweden	111,400
2	6	[Removed:172]	Germany	141,900
2	7	David Dolak	Czech Republic	53,100
2	8	Jude Ainsworth	Ireland	222,600

3	1	Sebastian Trisch	Germany	568,000
3	2	Jorma Nuutinen	Finland	46,300
3	3	Sergii Baranov	Ukraine	144,000
3	4	Richard Milne Snr,	UK	251,200
3	5	Vladimir Bozinovic	Serbia	78,800
3	6	Torsten Pischl	Germany	360,600
3	7	Michel Dattani	Portugal	271,900
3	8	Lasell Marvio King	Germany	286,700

4	1	Matas Cimbolas	Lithuania	46,900
4	2	Antoine Saout	France	61,800
4	3	Mateusz Moolhuizen	Netherlands	109,500
4	4	Arne Edberg	Sweden	167,100
4	5	Aram Sargsyan	Armenia	75,500
4	6	Simeon Naydenov	Bulgaria	318,700
4	7	Rumen Nanev	Bulgaria	230,300
4	8	Jan Bendik	Slovakia	227,600

5	1	Markus Kivipuro	Finland	49,000
5	2	Hannu Peltola	Finland	188,000
5	3	Jeffrey Rossiter	Australia	53,600
5	4	Bartolomeo-Fulvio Tato	Italy	127,000
5	5	Armin Mette	Austria	169,700
5	6	Andras Kovacs	Hungary	129,100
5	7	Jonathan Roy	Canada	337,900
5	8	Roman Korenev	Russia	291,700

6	1	Alex Bilokur	Russia	132,500
6	2	Markus Stranzinger	Austria	155,900
6	3	Johnny Lodden	Norway	125,000
6	4	Szabolcs Mayer	Hungary	142,800
6	5	Marc-Andre Ladouceur	Canada	128,700
6	6	Igin Viacheslav	Russia	185,500
6	7	Dmitry Morozov	Russia	194,000
6	8	Patrick Sacrispeyre	France	84,200

7	1	Joni Jouhkimainen	Finland	60,300
7	2	Gavin O'Rourke	Ireland	292,000
7	3	Dragan Kostic	Spain	81,000
7	4	Artur Koren	Germany	463,000
7	5	paraskevas tsotsonos	Germany	91,100
7	6	[Removed:254]	Germany	451,800
7	7	Timothy Davie	UK	314,700
7	8	Jesper Hoog	Sweden	134,600

8	1	Joep van den Bijgaart	Netherlands	128,900
8	2	Luuk Gieles	Netherlands	120,800
8	3	Michael Tabarelli	Italy	283,400
8	4	Lukas Fritz	Austria	127,600
8	5	Ernst Stoller	Switzerland	19,400
8	6	Giacomo Fundaro	Italy	101,500
8	7	Matthias Kurschner	Germany	103,200
8	8	Gergely Rona	Hungary	77,200

9	1	Stefan Zollinger	Switzerland	240,300
9	2	Edouard Mignot	France	75,000
9	3	Preben Stokkan	Norway	227,700
9	4	Ben Warrington	UK	69,100
9	5	Stephen Chidwick	UK	200,900
9	6	Vadzim Markushevski	Belarus	73,100
9	7	Lauri Pesonen	Finland	121,800
9	8	Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier	France	61,300

10	1	Michael Bech Lundsgaard	Denmark	84,700
10	2	Victor Terente	Latvia	36,300
10	3	Marco van Opzeeland	Netherlands	157,200
10	4	Tam Truong	Austria	106,900
10	5	Alexander Maximov	Russia	81,700
10	6	Yulius Sepman	Russia	152,700
10	7	Sergey Baburin	Russia	85,500
10	8	Kevin Stani	Norway	212,300

11	1	Patrick Fasching	Austria	157,400
11	2	Gregory Lane	Austria	249,000
11	3	Steven Lewzey	UK	161,800
11	4	Csaba Varadi	Hungary	40,700
11	5	Antoine Zeziola Granath	Sweden	135,200
11	6	Vit Blachut	Czech Republic	123,100
11	7	Dennis Bejedal	Sweden	162,300
11	8	Rino Mathis	Switzerland	110,400

12	1	Carter Swidler	Canada	155,900
12	2	Antonio Buonanno	Italy	157,000
12	3	Jamil Kanji	Canada	88,600
12	4	Jack Salter	UK	229,200
12	5	Raed Mouawad	Lebanon	109,900
12	6	Mikalai Pobal	Belarus	92,300
12	7	Sven Reichardt	Germany	35,800
12	8	Alexey Makarov	Russia	246,500

13	1	Ryan Spittles	UK	260,300
13	2	Sam Trickett	UK	290,000
13	3	Robert Haigh	Germany	186,500
13	4	Julian Herold	Germany	355,000
13	5	Marko Neumann	Germany	421,900
13	6	David Vamplew	UK	84,400
13	7	Madis Muur	Estonia	194,200
13	8	Fabrice Soulier	France	116,300

14	1	[Removed:40]	Italy	158,500
14	2	Ronny Kaiser	Switzerland	299,600
14	3	David Amiryan	Russia	73,600
14	4	Pascal Hartmann	Germany	119,800
14	5	Sebastian Pauli	Germany	127,600
14	6	Tobias Rohe	Germany	77,200
14	7	Frei Dilling	Denmark	201,100
14	8	Artem Metalidi	Ukraine	139,900

15	1	Quentin Crutel	France	45,000
15	2	Joao Ribeiro	Portugal	31,700
15	3	Alex Kravchenko	Russia	165,600
15	4	Paul Delaney	Ireland	203,100
15	5	Marcel Luske	Netherlands	122,800
15	6	Mathias Rinnhofer	Austria	256,100
15	7	Anatoly Filatov	Russia	218,000
15	8	Anthony Ghamrawi	Austria	111,600

16	1	Marko Vukoja	Croatia	98,100
16	2	Tobias Peters	Netherlands	51,700
16	3	Virgil-Cristian Nicelescu	Romania	52,900
16	4	Konstantin Puchkov	Russia	120,500
16	5	Sebastian Panny	Austria	133,800
16	6	Ori Hasson	Israel	149,800
16	7	Patrice Brandt	Germany	127,500
16	8	Andreas Samuelsson	Sweden	125,200

17	1	Claas Segebrecht	Germany	39,300
17	2	Henrique Pinho	Portugal	216,600
17	3	Oleksii Khoroshenin	Ukraine	208,000
17	4	Miroslav Alilovic	France	125,400
17	5	Josip Simunic	Austria	59,000
17	6	Ziga Jamnikar	Slovenia	153,400
17	7	Robert Zipf	Germany	212,600
17	8	Gordillo Caballero	Spain	315,600

18	1	Ruben Visser	Netherlands	65,400
18	2	Dariusz Paszkiewicz	Poland	52,000
18	3	Gus Hansen	Denmark	221,000
18	4	Pavel Meshkov	Belarus	42,900
18	5	Oliver Price	UK	95,400
18	6	Joao Baumgarten	Brazil	65,100
18	7	Vladimir Geshkenbein	Switzerland	322,000
18	8	Mikko Turtiainen	Finland	77,700

19	1	Thomas Brauner	Austria	226,300
19	2	Jonas Lauck	Germany	152,500
19	3	Jasper Wetemans	Netherlands	150,000
19	4	Atanas Kavrakov	Bulgaria	108,400
19	5	Julian Thomas	Germany	44,400
19	6	Michel Abecassis	France	73,700
19	7	Mike Adamo	Turks & Caicos Islands	225,700
19	8	Marc Bebawi	USA	86,800

20	1	Marcus Balmert	Germany	66,300
20	2	Zoltan Szabo	Hungary	156,200
20	3	Kitty Kuo	China	38,100
20	4	Nikita Nikolaev	Russian Federation	134,700
20	5	Mikita Badziakouski	Belarus	144,000
20	6	Timo Pfutzenreuter	Germany	148,900
20	7	Ivan Neytchev	Bulgaria	377,100
20	8	Justas Vaiciulionis	Lithuania	357,000

21	1	Ludovic Riehl	France	139,600
21	2	Hector Alvarez Rodriguez	Spain	94,100
21	3	Aku Joentausta	Finland	201,600
21	4	Kurt Guldvik	Norway	86,400
21	5	Christoph Szedlak	Switzerland	76,600
21	6	carl carlsson	Sweden	99,200
21	7	Sasa Lalos	Austria	58,600
21	8	Clement Thumy	France	76,500

22	1	Christian Nolte	Austria	265,900
22	2	Gergely Kulcsar	Hungary	39,900
22	3	Miltiadis Kyriakides	Greece	261,100
22	4	Martin Staszko	Czech Republic	84,500
22	5	Oleg Poluzhnikov	Russia	42,600
22	6	Christopher Ulsrud	Norway	169,300
22	7	Ben Thavisin	Germany	119,400
22	8	Iliodoros Kamatakis	Greece	244,000

03-26-2014 00:47 UTC+2

Day 2 Survivors (full)

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Frank Op de Woerd

Level 14 : 1,200/2,400, 300 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Sebastian Trisch	568,000 500	500
Artur Koren	463,000
[Removed:254]	451,800 451,349	451,349
Marko Neumann	421,900 800	800
Ivan Neytchev	377,100
Torsten Pischl	360,600 6,000	6,000
Justas Vaiciulionis	357,000 322,600	322,600

Julian Herold	355,000
Jonathan Roy	337,900 337,563	337,563
Wilfried Sigmund Harig	330,600
Vladimir Geshkenbein	322,000

Simeon Naydenov	318,700 18,700	18,700
Pablo Gordillo	315,600 125,600	125,600
Timothy Davie	314,700 223,100	223,100
Ronny Kaiser	299,600
Gavin O'Rourke	292,000 2,000	2,000
Roman Korenev	291,700 291,409	291,409
Sam Trickett	290,000
Lasell Marvio King	286,700 177,000	177,000
Michael Tabarelli	283,400 18,400	18,400
Michel Dattani	271,900

Adrian Bussman	271,500 201,700	201,700
Christian Nolte	265,900
Miltiadis Kyriakides	261,100 176,300	176,300
Ryan Spittles	260,300

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03-25-2014 21:27 UTC+2

Some Assorted Chip Counts at the End of Day 2

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Frank Op de Woerd

Level 14 : 1,200/2,400, 300 ante

The full list of Day 2 survivors and the Table Draw will follow later this evening:

Player	Chips	Progress
Sebastian Trisch	568,500 11,500	11,500
Artur Koren	463,000 43,000	43,000
Marko Neumann	421,100 146,100	146,100
Ivan Neytchev	377,100 57,100	57,100
Torsten Pischl	366,600 56,600	56,600
Julian Herold	355,000 310,900	310,900
Vladimir Geshkenbein	322,000 112,000	112,000

Ronny Kaiser	299,600 40,400	40,400
Gavin O'Rourke	290,000 239,400	239,400
Sam Trickett	290,000 10,000	10,000
Michel Dattani	271,900 210,700	210,700

Christian Nolte	265,900 225,700	225,700
Ryan Spittles	260,300 138,300	138,300
Richard Milne Snr	251,700 196,900	196,900
Gregory Lane	249,000 19,000	19,000
Iliodoros Kamatakis	244,000 56,000	56,000
Gus Hansen	221,000 41,000	41,000

Henrique Pinho	216,600 92,000	92,000

Kevin Stani	212,300 136,400	136,400

Aku Joentausta	201,600 71,600	71,600
Stephen Chidwick	200,900 161,500	161,500
Marco van Opzeeland	157,200 17,200	17,200
Joep van den Bijgaart	128,900 73,900	73,900
Marc-Andre Ladouceur	128,700 26,300	26,300

Marcel Luske	122,800 29,200	29,200

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03-25-2014 21:17 UTC+2

Late Night Eliminations

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Level 14 : 1,200/2,400, 300 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Luca Moschitta	Busted
Erwann Pecheux	Busted
Martin Stausholm	Busted
Frank Stumpf	Busted
Stefan Schillhabel	Busted
Rhys Jones	Busted
Kevin Iacofano	Busted
Simon Deadman	Busted
Maksim Semisoshenko	Busted
Dario Sammartino	Busted
Oliver Weis	Busted

Milan Joksic	Busted
Hakan Inan	Busted
Harry Maurer	Busted
Peter Turmezey	Busted
Sandra Naujoks	Busted

Gintaras Simaitis	Busted
Andrey Elizarov	Busted

03-25-2014 21:11 UTC+2

Two Losers in One Hand

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Remko Rinkema

Level 14 : 1,200/2,400, 300 ante

Bulgarian pro Simeon Naydenov, last year winner of a WSOP bracelet, was very vocal during a hand in which two players ended up unhappy. One of the two won chips, while the other lost a lot more than he wanted to.

When the dust settled Naydenov recapped the action for us.

Matas Cimbolas raised from the cutoff and Carter Swidler called from the button, after which Naydenov called from the small blind. The flop brought out and Naydenov checked to Cimbolas who bet 10,000. Swidler called from the button and Naydenov folded his cards.

On the turn the hit and Cimbolas check-called 17,500, and the was put down on the river.

This is when it got really interesting as Cimbolas checked again and Swidler bet 36,000.

"He went in the tank for four minutes and the clock was called on him. At the very last second he put in a hand full of chips like this," Naydenov said, as he reenacted Cimbolas putting in a handful of blue 5,000 chips worth around 60,000.

"He put in too much, and he had to make the minimum raise," Naydenov said, but at that point Swidler had already turned over his .

"Everyone knew it was his intention to call, even the guy who won the pot, because he turned over his hand right away," Naydenov said, as he understood the ruling, but didn't agree with the way it was enforced in this clear cut situation where there was no intent of raising.

At first Swidler, with his hand tabled, was a bit confused but ultimately he understood Cimbolas had been forced to put in a full minraise and he made the call. Cimbolas lost a lot extra, while Swidler got a one-round penalty for exposing his hand with action pending.

Player	Chips	Progress
Simeon Naydenov	300,000 55,000	55,000
Carter Swidler	225,000 171,600	171,600
Matas Cimbolas	70,000 14,200	14,200

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03-25-2014 21:01 UTC+2

Five More Hands

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Chad Holloway

Level 14 : 1,200/2,400, 300 ante

The tournament staff has just announced that the remaining tables will play five more hands each before bagging and tagging for the night. We're headed upstairs to catch any last-minute action as well as to compile a list of chip counts.

Stay tuned for those as well as a full recap of the Day 2 action...

03-25-2014 21:01 UTC+2

No More Chips for Yu

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Chad Holloway

Level 14 : 1,200/2,400, 300 ante

We saw Ben Yu, who you may recall knocked out Olivier Busquet not too long ago, wandering the halls and he confirmed that he had been eliminated. According to Yu, he lost two big pots. In the first he bluffed but could not push his opponent off top pair.

In the other, he and his opponent got about 100,000 each in on a flop. Yu held for an open-ended straight draw, while his opponent had a set with . The straight didn't get there, and Yu was left with approximately eight big blinds.

He got them in a short time later with , but against that hand failed to win as his opponent's held firm.

Yu then informed us that he'll be bouncing around Europe until the EPT Sanremo rolls around, which of course will be followed by the Grand Final.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ben Yu	Busted

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03-25-2014 20:53 UTC+2

Kaiser The Emperor of the Table

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Frank Op de Woerd

Level 14 : 1,200/2,400, 300 ante

Ronny Kaiser is comfortably seated in seat one, receiving an hour or so long massage and grinding it out. He has amassed a nice stack today and he keeps adding new towers to his already rather large castle.

Just now we saw him call a raise to 5,000 from the big blind. Kaiser checked to the initial raiser on the button on a flop, and called the 6,000 bet his opponent made.

Both players continued to check the on the turn after which the dealer put the on the river. Kaiser bet out 10,000 and received a call. His competitor couldn't beat Kaiser's who thus again added chips.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ronny Kaiser	340,000 80,000	80,000

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