€5,300 Main Event Day 2 | 2015 PokerStars.com EPT Season 12 Malta

€5,300 Main Event

Day 2 Started

10-27-2015 09:23 UTC

Player	Chips	Progress
Carmelo Crucitti	163,000
Jaroslaw Sikora	153,700
Ludovic Riehl	150,000
Jens Lakemeier	138,000
Mikko Turtiainen	136,400
Przemyslaw Piotrowski	136,000
Noah Vaillancourt	125,800
Mikael Jean	123,200
Faraz Jaka	120,800
Ferdinand Le Pichon	117,500
Khorshid Sakhra	111,600
Koray Aldemir	110,000
Ari Engel	109,200
Peter Chien	109,200
Joona Linna	109,200
Bartosz Piesiewicz	105,700
Charalampos Tsaoussis	105,000
Gaspare Triolo	103,200
Patrick Jann	102,200	102,200
Tsugunari Toma	102,000
Boris Kolev	101,800
Brian Yoon	101,600
Alexander Reard	100,100
Salim Alibas	100,000
Apostolos Bechrakis	99,200

Table	Seat	Name	Country	Chips
1	1	Gianluca Escobar	Italy	25,700
1	3	Pierre Chevalier	France	50,000
1	4	Quentin Lecomte	France	28,000
1	5	Christopher Andler	Sweden	66,400
1	6	Alfie Adam	United Kingdom	78,500
1	7	Vicente Delgado	Spain	44,900
1	8	Erwann Pecheux	France	29,100
1	9	Joao Vieira	Portugal	69,300

2	1	Peter Charalambous	United Kingdom	28,800
2	2	Samuli Sipila	Finland	56,400
2	3	Vlado Banicevic	Montenegro	46,600
2	4	Laszlo Bujtas	Hungary	69,400
2	5	Marco D`Amico	Italy	18,900
2	6	Matas Cimbolas	Lithuania	10,300
2	7	Justin Bonomo	United States	40,700
2	8	Andrea Benelli	Italy	83,900
2	9	Ryad Belabdelouahab	France	20,000

3	1	Bernhard Haider	Austria	90,900
3	2	Jose Carlos Garcia	Poland	73,700
3	3	Peter Chien	Canada	109,200
3	4	Ilari Sahamies	Finland	65,200
3	5	Juha Helppi	Finland	46,600
3	6	Sina Alamzad	Iran	54,200
3	7	Arvin Golrang	Sweden	44,500
3	8	Thom Gerrits	Netherlands	39,200
3	9	Anton Bertilsson	Sweden	50,100

4	1	Niko Soininen	Finland	32,100
4	2	Kevin Killeen	Ireland	30,500
4	3	Alexander Zubov	Russia	17,500
4	4	Antonio Scalzi	Italy	71,700
4	5	Mike McDonald	Canada	88,900
4	6	Ismael Bojang	Austria	45,000
4	8	Kellyann Heffernan	United Kingdom	31,700
4	9	Orpen Kisacikoglu	Turkey	44,800

5	2	Kiryl Radzivonau	Belarus	15,100
5	3	Kevin MacPhee	United States	27,200
5	4	Giacomo Fundaro	Italy	64,300
5	5	Eoghan O'Dea	Ireland	46,400
5	6	Andrey Kotelnikov	Russia	43,500
5	7	Tony Baitson	Ireland	23,800
5	8	Tom Hall	United Kingdom	76,700
5	9	Antonio Chemi	Italy	40,900

6	1	Gaetano Dell'Aera	Belgium	76,500
6	2	Raymond Terzian	United Kingdom	18,900
6	3	Rafael Oria Vazquez	Spain	43,000
6	4	Miltiadis Kyriakides	Greece	72,200
6	5	Corey Hochman	United States	35,200
6	6	Antoine Vranken	Netherlands	18,400
6	7	Michael Ho	Canada	49,200
6	8	Ricardo Alvarado	United States	36,800
6	9	Koray Aldemir	Germany	110,000

7	1	Adrian Mateos	Spain	72,200
7	2	Kacper Pyzara	Poland	40,000
7	3	Filippo Lazzaretto	Italy	39,400
7	4	Paul Hoefer	Germany	36,100
7	5	Josep Maria Galindo	Spain	27,700
7	6	Dylan Linde	United States	57,700
7	7	Michael Descote	France	27,800
7	9	Sylvain Loosli	France	37,000

8	1	Liviu Ignat	Romania	78,500
8	2	Ozgur Arda	Turkey	29,500
8	3	Lauri Varonen	Finland	64,900
8	4	Francesco Delfoco	Italy	48,000
8	5	Christopher Kiefert	United Kingdom	30,400
8	6	Chris Hunichen	United States	87,300
8	7	Diego Zeiter	Switzerland	43,100
8	8	[Removed:17]	New Zealand	97,900
8	9	Natasha Barbour	United States	50,625

9	1	Erik Scheidt	Germany	73,400
9	2	Pierre Calamusa	France	59,300
9	3	Paul Corrigan	United Kingdom	69,900
9	4	Apostolos Bechrakis	Greece	99,200
9	5	Lee Markholt	United States	13,900
9	6	Giuseppe Polichetti	Italy	84,400
9	7	Danilo Ronci	Italy	50,300
9	8	Mohamed Almani	Libya	76,800
9	9	Charalampos Tsaoussis	Germany	105,000

10	1	Sven Andersson	Sweden	24,200
10	2	Andreas Chalkiadakis	Greece	24,200
10	3	Antonio Guimaraens	Spain	31,500
10	4	Aliaksei Boika	Belarus	20,900
10	5	Alberto Arbiol	Spain	75,800
10	7	Roberto Romanello	United Kingdom	31,900
10	8	Luca Moschitta	Italy	48,000
10	9	Diogo Cardoso	Portugal	54,000

11	1	Joao Ribeiro	Portugal	31,500
11	2	Thomas Denis	France	79,000
11	3	Valerii Lubenets	Ukraine	83,100
11	4	Bryn Kenney	United States	91,100
11	5	Wojciech Lozowski	Poland	22,800
11	6	Kent Lundmark	Sweden	62,300
11	7	Peter Eichhardt	Sweden	43,500
11	8	Andrew Chen	Canada	4,900
11	9	Akim Aouine	France	20,000

12	2	Daniel Pauly	France	60,800
12	3	Hannes Persson	Sweden	23,400
12	4	Carole Segoura	France	18,100
12	5	Gregory Zabawa	United States	48,900
12	6	Brian Roberts	United States	56,600
12	7	Manig Loeser	Germany	32,600
12	8	Dmitriy Prusov	Russia	20,700
12	9	Luigi Knoppers	Netherlands	9,500

13	1	Tobias Ziegler	Germany	38,300
13	2	Simon Appleby	United Kingdom	76,500
13	3	Driton Haxhiaj	United Kingdom	5,200
13	4	Felix Stephensen	Norway	66,100
13	5	Jean-Philippe Peyratoux	France	42,400
13	6	Serkan Kurnaz	Turkey	8,500
13	7	Ari Engel	United States	109,200
13	9	Remi Wyrzykiewicz	Poland	40,900

14	1	Andrea Dato	Italy	48,000
14	2	Ilan Suloman	Israel	48,400
14	3	Riku Koivurinne	Finland	79,600
14	4	Bartosz Piesiewicz	Poland	105,700
14	5	Antonio Mitrotta	Italy	83,200
14	6	Elliot Smith	Canada	85,500
14	7	Lasse Nielsen	Malta	27,400
14	8	Steven van Zadelhoff	Netherlands	56,400
14	9	Farid Jattin	United States	60,800

15	1	Steve O'Dwyer	Ireland	90,600
15	4	Walter Treccarichi	Italy	8,600
15	5	Nichan Khorchidian	Lebanon	68,100
15	6	Narutoshi Otsuka	Japan	58,900
15	7	Keven Stammen	United States	7,600
15	8	Louis Linard	France	11,300
15	9	Noah Vaillancourt	Canada	125,800

16	1	Dariusz Marcinkowski	Poland	40,000
16	2	Chistoph Vogelsang	Germany	22,000
16	3	Francois Goulet	Canada	23,800
16	4	Mudasser Hussain	United Kingdom	43,900
16	5	Sanan Dovlatov	Azerbaijan	69,100
16	6	Carlo Citrone	United Kingdom	67,600
16	8	Przemyslaw Piotrowski	Poland	136,000
16	9	Gaelle Baumann	France	24,700

17	1	Robert Schiffbauer	United States	38,300
17	3	Sofia Lovgren	Sweden	43,300
17	4	Ibrahim ghassan	Lebanon	70,200
17	5	Stefan Vagner	Slovakia	97,600
17	6	Dietrich Fast	Germany	72,100
17	7	Andrey Romanov	Russia	77,300
17	8	Anthony Venturini	United States	53,000
17	9	Tomas Sayech	Sweden	91,800

18	1	Patryk Poterek	Poland	32,000
18	2	Pierre Husson	France	46,000
18	3	Johan Sirbaeck	Sweden	74,100
18	4	Patrick Jann	Switzerland	102,200
18	5	Adam Reynolds	United Kingdom	14,800
18	6	Robert Obrtlik	Slovakia	32,900
18	7	Jenya Gavrilovich	Belarus	61,700
18	8	Jorryt van Hoof	Netherlands	41,500
18	9	Lauri Pesonen	Finland	22,200

19	1	David Gomez Antelo	Spain	18,600
19	2	Robertas Zebrauskis	Lithuania	12,800
19	3	Pawel Brzeski	Poland	46,500
19	4	Ariel Celestino	Brazil	66,100
19	5	Nihat Karyagdi	Romania	25,200
19	6	Asher Conniff	United States	14,700
19	8	Leonid Sidelkovskiy	Russia	41,100
19	9	Manfred Sierke	Malta	10,100

20	1	Ken Eric Gilja	Norway	21,900
20	2	Felix Bleiker	Switzerland	70,400
20	3	Mamouni Smain	Canada	82,500
20	4	Natalie Hof	Germany	17,300
20	5	Ihar Soika	Belarus	7,200
20	6	Frederik Jensen	Denmark	28,700
20	7	Bartlomiej Swieboda	Poland	13,900
20	8	Jorma Nuutinen	Finland	63,800
20	9	Sam Greenwood	Canada	68,800

21	1	Giuseppe Zarbo	Italy	60,300
21	2	Mikael Jean	Lebanon	123,200
21	4	Volodymyr Yastreb	Ukraine	30,700
21	5	Massimo Mosele	Italy	35,900
21	6	Darie Vlad	Romania	74,500
21	7	Dominik Nitsche	Germany	98,000
21	8	Anton Kraus	Bulgaria	73,800
21	9	Jeremy Routier	France	34,600

22	1	Mario Puccini	Germany	10,400
22	2	Thiago Nishijima	Brazil	13,900
22	3	Guy Cicconi	United States	18,800
22	4	Scott Davies	United States	36,000
22	5	Luis Rodriguez	Spain	15,500
22	6	Bas de Laat	Netherlands	30,700
22	7	Tomasz Wrobel	Poland	57,600
22	8	Mukul Pahuja	United States	82,300
22	9	Max Silver	United Kingdom	43,100

23	1	Faraz Jaka	United States	120,800
23	2	Raoul Refos	Netherlands	49,300
23	3	Artan Dedusha	United Kingdom	60,200
23	4	Goran Mandic	Croatia	29,100
23	5	Pasquale Braco	Italy	34,800
23	7	Hani Bahna	Canada	75,100
23	8	Eelis Jaakko Parssinen	Finland	26,100
23	9	Timothee Marlin	France	44,200

24	1	Matthieu Rodriguez	France	42,200
24	2	Dominik Panka	Poland	81,400
24	3	Matias Jansson	Sweden	54,200
24	4	Abdelkarim El Haddouti	Spain	46,700
24	5	Andrew Taylor	United Kingdom	76,600
24	6	Jens Lakemeier	Germany	138,000
24	7	Enrico Camosci	Italy	62,000
24	8	Michael Tureniec	Sweden	29,800
24	9	Nedelcu Narcis Gabriel	Romania	22,700

25	1	Lucas Greenwood	Canada	39,700
25	3	Ioannis Angelou Konstas	Greece	16,700
25	4	Antal Roth	Hungary	41,100
25	5	Adam Jaguscik	Poland	15,600
25	6	Robert Zipf	Germany	5,400
25	7	Sergio Castelluccio	Italy	39,900
25	8	Nikolay Tsanev	Bulgaria	31,600
25	9	Kevin Price	United Kingdom	49,800

26	1	Carlos Chadha	Canada	48,100
26	2	Rocco Palumbo	Italy	43,200
26	3	Jennifer Shahade	United States	51,300
26	4	Puk Nabuurs	Malta	23,400
26	5	Salvatore Bonavena	Italy	35,100
26	6	Jake Cody	United Kingdom	8,600
26	8	Dan Smith	United States	21,600
26	9	Ludovic Heinry	France	56,300

27	1	Claudio Daffina	Italy	36,600
27	2	Giulio Spampinato	Italy	87,100
27	3	Antonio D'Alessandro	Italy	41,500
27	4	Thomas Alarcon	France	45,900
27	6	Ilkin Amirov	Azerbaijan	48,000
27	7	Alessio Casiraghi	Italy	10,600
27	8	Kuljinder Sidhu	United Kingdom	16,900
27	9	Umberto Ferrauto	Italy	71,700

28	1	Antonin Duda	Czech Republic	33,100
28	2	Dara O'Kearney	Ireland	42,100
28	4	Anton Zhuravlev	Russia	42,400
28	5	Mihails Morozovs	Latvia	51,500
28	6	Darrell Goh	Ireland	36,100
28	7	Mario Sanchez	Spain	32,800
28	8	Davide Suriano	Italy	98,600
28	9	Emin Aghayev	Azerbaijan	59,800

29	1	Ema Zajmovic	Canada	18,600
29	3	Ondrej Vinklarek	Czech Republic	20,500
29	4	Daniel Dvoress	Canada	60,600
29	5	Alex Lindop	United Kingdom	48,000
29	6	Ivan Luca	Argentina	49,000
29	7	Ben Dobson	United Kingdom	49,000
29	8	Rumen Nanev	Bulgaria	35,200
29	9	Atanas Kavrakov	Bulgaria	76,100

30	1	Tsugunari Toma	Japan	102,000
30	2	Maria Ho	United States	29,800
30	3	Alen Bilic	Bosnia and Herzegovina	70,800
30	4	Mikolaj Zawadzki	Poland	41,500
30	5	Nabil Mohamed Abdien Cardoso	Spain	52,100
30	6	Stefano Terziani	Italy	45,800
30	7	Byron Kaverman	United States	5,100
30	8	Bruno Lopes	France	6,200
30	9	Thomas Muehloecker	Austria	93,200

31	1	Ezequiel Kleinman	Argentina	46,400
31	2	Patrick Leonard	United Kingdom	92,200
31	3	Jeffrey Hakim	Lebanon	79,600
31	4	Jordan Mitev	Bulgaria	69,400
31	5	Pasquale Gregorio	Italy	66,100
31	6	Jacob Brundage	United States	53,600
31	7	Rasmus Agerskov	Denmark	21,600
31	8	Igor Kurganov	Russia	40,000
31	9	Khorshid Sakhra	Germany	111,600

32	1	Shaan Siddiqui	Canada	66,500
32	2	Christopher Brammer	United Kingdom	17,400
32	3	Govert Metaal	Netherlands	56,100
32	4	Younas Yousaf	Denmark	94,200
32	5	Salim Ghozali	United Kingdom	14,200
32	6	Alexander Rocha	United States	63,200
32	7	Billy Chattaway	United Kingdom	71,900
32	8	Jan Nakladal	Czech Republic	43,800
32	9	Roman Voronin	Russia	21,200

33	1	David Peters	United States	27,000
33	2	Jukka Paloniemi	Finland	44,400
33	3	Antoine Saout	France	26,400
33	4	Petr Jelinek	Czech Republic	75,000
33	5	Paul Berende	Netherlands	44,700
33	6	Yucel Eminoglu	Turkey	29,800
33	7	Jonathan Currle	Germany	16,800
33	8	Luuk Gieles	Netherlands	46,000
33	9	Niall Farrell	United Kingdom	92,300

34	1	Eros Nastasi	Italy	36,500
34	2	Andrew Black	United Kingdom	39,700
34	3	Mikko Turtiainen	Finland	136,400
34	4	Igor Kanavin	Russia	20,700
34	5	Isaac Haxton	United States	23,500
34	6	Simon Trumper	United Kingdom	66,400
34	7	Benjamin Lebor	United Kingdom	69,700
34	8	Joni Jouhkimainen	Finland	89,200
34	9	John Andress	United States	9,800

35	1	Marc Macdonnell	Ireland	44,900
35	2	Hossein Ensan	Germany	95,100
35	3	Boris Kolev	Bulgaria	101,800
35	4	Jeffrey Rossiter	Australia	83,900
35	5	Anthony Zinno	United States	76,500
35	6	Mateusz Rypulak	Poland	59,100
35	7	Ayaz Manji	Portugal	23,000
35	8	Shannon Shorr	United States	52,000
35	9	Jesper Feddersen	Germany	46,500

36	1	Sergey Serafimov	Bulgaria	37,300
36	2	Theo Jorgensen	Denmark	83,100
36	3	Alexander Reard	France	100,100
36	4	Michail Karapanos	Greece	33,600
36	5	Marcin Horecki	Poland	76,500
36	6	David De Abreu	Portugal	43,200
36	7	Viatcheslav Ortynskiy	Russia	55,700
36	8	Michael Gathy	Belgium	40,000
36	9	Ping Lin	China	35,900

37	1	Laurent Cessy	France	30,000
37	2	Usman Siddique	United Kingdom	70,800
37	3	Jannik Bengtsen	Denmark	22,000
37	4	Tobias Peters	Netherlands	36,500
37	5	Rodger Reynolds	United Kingdom	69,800
37	6	Ferdinand Le Pichon	France	117,500
37	7	Ramin Hajiyev	Azerbaijan	30,100
37	8	Antoine Labat	France	25,600
37	9	Andre Moreira	Portugal	18,900

38	1	Charlie Carrel	United Kingdom	43,600
38	2	Bart Kuiper	Netherlands	73,800
38	3	Salim Alibas	Germany	100,000
38	4	Jakub Michalak	Poland	44,800
38	5	Mohsin Charania	United States	44,800
38	6	Daniel Matthias Hoenig	Germany	57,600
38	7	Cristiano Blanco	United Kingdom	24,400
38	8	Antonio Buonanno	Italy	34,200
38	9	Joona Linna	Finland	109,200

39	1	Kevin Lee Sharp	Canada	54,000
39	2	Ilan Boujenah	France	92,600
39	3	Ludovic Riehl	France	150,000
39	4	Russell Thomas	United States	17,000
39	5	Jaroslaw Sikora	Poland	153,700
39	6	Andrey Demidov	Russia	7,500
39	7	Agshin Rasulov	Azerbaijan	45,000
39	8	Bjorn Geissert	Germany	22,000
39	9	Fabrice Soulier	France	45,300

40	1	Leslie Arthur Packer	United Kingdom	29,300
40	2	Cameron Couch	Australia	28,100
40	3	Sonny Franco	France	49,200
40	4	Alexander Ivarsson	Sweden	77,300
40	5	Andreas Samuelsson	Sweden	26,600
40	6	Gaspare Triolo	Italy	103,200
40	7	Denis Timofeev	Russia	76,500
40	8	Bram Haenraets	Netherlands	24,000
40	9	Joshua Trott	Canada	18,100

41	1	Nikolaus Teichert	Germany	47,500
41	2	Brian Tae-Hyun Yoon	United States	101,600
41	3	Patrik Persson	Sweden	13,000
41	4	Jonas Lauck	Germany	55,100
41	5	Liv Boeree	United Kingdom	16,900
41	6	Charles Chattha	United Kingdom	20,500
41	7	Johan Guilbert	France	39,500
41	8	Tatiana Nikitina	Russia	55,500
41	9	Yohann Nataf	France	64,900

42	1	Jason Mercier	United States	14,200
42	2	Ludovic Geilich	United Kingdom	27,100
42	3	Rainer Kempe	Germany	87,100
42	4	Florence Allera	France	32,500
42	5	JC Alvarado	Mexico	51,000
42	6	Slaven Popov	Bulgaria	59,800
42	7	Carmelo Crucitti	Italy	163,000
42	8	Sebastian Pauli	Germany	34,000
42	9	Adrian Tivadar	Romania	56,500

43	1	Ferhat Yilmaz	Turkey	91,900
43	2	Senh Ung	United Kingdom	24,000
43	3	Matthias De Meulder	Belgium	20,100
43	4	Marco Leonzio	Italy	48,200
43	5	Serdar Demiroglu	Turkey	14,800
43	6	Jonathan Little	United States	32,300
43	7	Artur Koren	Germany	17,100
43	8	Christophe Benzimra	France	20,500
43	9	Davidi Kitai	Belgium	43,100

44	1	Marcin Wydrowski	Poland	81,800
44	2	Georgios Zisimopoulos	Greece	75,100
44	3	Zoltan Szabo	Hungary	31,900
44	4	Aleksander Spadijer	Montenegro	33,000
44	5	Pascal Hartmann	Germany	21,700
44	6	Ben Heath	United Kingdom	39,700
44	7	Anton Wigg	Sweden	18,300
44	8	Andrew Atkinson	United Kingdom	31,900
44	9	Giada Fang	Italy	26,500

45	1	Kitty Kuo	China	71,800
45	2	Yuliyan Kolev	Bulgaria	44,000
45	3	Mickey Petersen	Denmark	43,700
45	4	Preben Stokkan	Norway	14,100
45	5	Ivan Skoblov	Russia	51,000
45	6	Adrian Veghinas	Romania	29,400
45	7	Illia Kainov	Ukraine	40,500
45	8	Johnny Lodden	Norway	87,200
45	9	Gerald Karlic	Austria	25,200

Day 2 Awaits, 6 Levels Scheduled

Webjoker

Who follows Jean Montury up as EPT Malta champ?

Day 2 of the 2015 PokerStars.com EPT Season 12 Malta €5,300 Main Event starts at 12, or in about 90 minutes. Another 6 75-minute levels are scheduled for today as the big separation will start. There will be no dinner break, play should be done around 20:15. The money stage of the tournament will not be reached, only thing players have to do today is stay alive.

On Day 1a a total of 184 players signed up. Yesterday's Day 1b was a lot busier with 460 entrants. That makes for a combined 644 players, but registration is open till start of play today so that number might just increase a little. Of the 644 that already paid their €5,300 entrance fee, 386 remain at this point.

Leading the charge is Day 1a chipleader Carmelo Crucitti with 163,000 in chips. Last nights chipleader Jaroslaw Sikora is right on his heels with 153,700. Frenchman Ludovic Riehl (150,000) and German Jens Lakemeier (138,000) are not too far behind. Byron Kaverman (5,100) and Andrew Chen (4,900) both cashed in the €25,000 High Roller here in Malta, but are the shortest stacks in the Main Event.

Some players might be a bit sleepy today, as there was late night action last night. Steve O'Dwyer won the €10,000 One-Day High Roller for €327,030 around 3:30 in the morning, but is expected again in the tournament room at 12 noon to spin his 90,600 Main Event chips up to another final table worth stack.

Check back here at PokerNews for all your updates from the EPT 12 Malta Main Event, starting at noon. In the meantime, check out Sarah Herring catching up with John Juanda and getting his initial reaction to the announcement that he is officially in the Poker Hall of Fame.

Day 2 Main Event structure

Level	Small Blind	Big Blind	Ante
9	400	800	100
10	500	1,000	100
20 minute break
11	600	1,200	200
12	800	1,600	200
20 minute break
13	1,000	2,000	300
14	1,200	2,400	300

10-27-2015 10:59 UTC

10 Minute Delay

Webjoker

Because of the big queue outside, the start of the Main Event has been delayed by 10 minutes. New starting time is 12:10.

10-27-2015 11:02 UTC

New Sign Ups Today

Webjoker

Player	Chips	Progress
Jason Wheeler	30,000
Ambrose Ng	30,000
Jussi Nevanlinna	30,000
Semin Topalovic	30,000

Level: 9

Blinds: 400/800

Ante: 100

10-27-2015 11:19 UTC

Unprecedented Fifth Spin & Go Millionaire Crown on PokerStars this Week

Chad Holloway

Level 9 : 400/800, 100 ante

While the live version of PokerStars' popular Spin & Go tournament made their debut here at the EPT12 Malta — yesterday saw the first €1,000 prize hit — the online version has been crowning millionaires. Most recently, Germany's "handbt1" became the fifth instant Spin & Go millionaire this week.

In the first year of Spin & Go’s at PokerStars, just five new millionaires were made, and in the last week alone there have been five more.

According to PokerStars officials, the $5 buy-in Spin & Go tournament (Tournament #1,360,472,695) started at 12.35 a.m. German Local Time on October 26 (7.34 p.m. US Eastern Time, 11.43 p.m. GMT on October 25) and concluded at 12.48 a.m., creating yet another poker millionaire from thirteen minutes of poker play.

The runner up was "egg1981" from the Channel Island of Guernsey, who won $100,000, while the third-place finisher was Ukraine's "Lyuda1975," who also won $100,000. The tournament was over in just 55 hands, with "handbt1" leading for the majority of the tournament. He won the match with the all in preflop against the of "egg1981." The flop paired "handbt1," and he held as the turn and river came respectively.

In addition to this tournament, there has been an unprecedented spate of instant millionaires made on Spin & Go tournaments this week:

On 26 October, ‘barrakuuda4’ from Estonia became a millionaire from a $100 Spin & Go tournament.
On 25 October, ’prophethicks’ from England became a millionaire from a $5 Spin & Go tournament.
On 22 October, ‘wrawras’ from Brazil became a millionaire from a $100 Spin & Go tournament.
On 21 October, ‘Samara Lúcio’ from Brazil became a millionaire from a $5 Spin & Go tournament.

Spin & Go's are fast-paced, 3-Max Hyper Turbo tournaments which feature 500 chip starting stacks. Each tournament has a randomly drawn prize pool that will award between two and 3,000 times your buy-in. PokerStars offer Spin & Go's at nine different buy-in levels: $0.50, $1, $3, $5, $7, $15, $30, $60 and $100.

Tags: Spin & Go "handbt1"

10-27-2015 11:19 UTC

Two More

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Level 9 : 400/800, 100 ante

We have confirmation at least two more players signed up for the Main Event before registration closed. There might be more, but at least the following two players are in the tournament right now:

Player	Chips	Progress
Dzmitry Urbanovich	30,000
Rufat Mahmudov	30,000

10-27-2015 11:20 UTC

Kaverman Triples, Chen Gone

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Level 9 : 400/800, 100 ante

Short stack Andrew Chen has been eliminated. His former table mate Bryn Kenney told us he pushed all in from under the gun plus one with pocket fives, and ran into pocket eights. Chen started out with just 4,900 and a dream, but both are gone now.

Byron Kaverman was a bit luckier. He got his stack in before the flop with and was called in two spots, a player with and his neighbor with . The board ran out and with the rivered flush Kaverman tripled.