2015 PokerStars EPT Season 12 Prague

€25,500 Single-Day High Roller
Day: 1
Event Info

2015 PokerStars EPT Season 12 Prague

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
j10
Prize
€539,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€25,000
Prize Pool
€1,960,000
Entries
80
Level Info
Level
23
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
20,000

Two Hands With Zinno

Level 2 : 500/1,000, 100 ante
Anthony Zinno
Anthony Zinno

Anthony Zinno opened for 2,500 from the cutoff and Steve O'Dwyer on the button made the call. Zinno check called a bet on the {K-Spades}{Q-Diamonds}{10-Clubs} flop, and check called another 6,000 on the {2-Diamonds} turn and 16,000 on the {10-Spades} river. O'Dwyer showed {A-Clubs}{8-Spades} for not much of anything, Zinno tabled {9-Hearts}{J-Hearts} for the flopped straight and won the pot.

Two hands later Anthony Zinno opened for 2,200 from middle position. Ivan Luca on the button three bet to 6,000 and both blinds got out the way. Zinno made the call and checked on {10-Hearts}{A-Hearts}{3-Diamonds}. Luca checked behind and the {7-Spades} fell on the turn. Zinno checked again, and called the bet of 3,300 that Luca made. The river came the {2-Spades} and now Zinno lead out for 7,000 all of the sudden. Luca tossed in a single 5,000 chip to call, but soon had to add 2,000 as he couldn't beat Zinno's {J-Spades}{J-Hearts}.

Player Chips Progress
Anthony Zinno us
Anthony Zinno
140,000 40,000
Ivan Luca ar
Ivan Luca
98,499 -21,501
Steve O'Dwyer ie
Steve O'Dwyer
EPT 1X Winner
67,000 -33,000

Tags: Anthony ZinnoIvan LucaSteve O'Dwyer

Luca Gets One From Vieira

Level 2 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

The board showed {Q-Spades}{4-Spades}{5-Clubs} on which Joao Vieira checked to Ivan Luca who bet 3,100 and the Portuguese pro made the call. The turn brought the {10-Hearts} and and Vieira check-called another 10,100.

On the river the {9-Diamonds} hit and this time both players checked. Vieira showed {7-Clubs}{7-Diamonds} and Luca showed {J-Spades}{9-Hearts} for a rivered pair of nines that got him the win in this pot.

Player Chips Progress
Ivan Luca ar
Ivan Luca
120,000 20,000
Joao Vieira pt
Joao Vieira
Winamax
78,000 -22,000

Tags: Ivan LucaJoao Vieira

Small One for Kurganov

Level 2 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

Thomas Muehloecker raised to 2,500 from the button and Igor Kurganov called from the big blind. The flop brought out {4-Clubs}{6-Spades}{10-Diamonds} and Kurganov check-called 2,800 after which the {5-Spades} turn and the {6-Diamonds} river were checked down.

"Eights," Kurganov announced, tabling {8-Spades}{8-Clubs} to take down the pot.

Player Chips Progress
Igor Kurganov ru
Igor Kurganov
106,000
Thomas Muehloecker at
Thomas Muehloecker
94,000 -6,000

Tags: Thomas MuehloeckerIgor Kurganov

Level: 2

Blinds: 500/1,000

Ante: 100

Chidwick Takes an Early Hit

Level 1 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

With a 100-big blind starting stack things get interesting right away, and we just caught the end of a hand between Mikita Badziakouski and Stephen Chidwick.

The board showed {4-Clubs}{Q-Spades}{10-Clubs}{7-Diamonds} when Chidwick bet 13,000 out of position and the Belarusian pro called from this direct left.

The river was the {5-Hearts} and Chidwick fired out 32,200, which made Badziakouski think for a while. After a while he did call, and Chidwick showed {A-Spades}{Q-Diamonds}.

Badziakouski showed {Q-Hearts}{10-Hearts} and with two pair he took down the pot.

"Did you think about folding?" Jason Mercier joked.

"No," Badziakouski calmly replied, as he stacked up his newly won chips.

Player Chips Progress
Mikita Badziakouski by
Mikita Badziakouski
145,000 45,000
Stephen Chidwick gb
Stephen Chidwick
43,000 -57,000

Tags: Jason MercierStephen ChidwickMikita Badziakouski

Stover Wins EPT12 Prague "Right to Play" Charity Tournament

Level 1 : 500/1,000, 100 ante
Right To Play charity tourney winner Elena Stover and runner-up Miss Finland, Sara Chafak
Right To Play charity tourney winner Elena Stover and runner-up Miss Finland, Sara Chafak

Last night, PokerStars hosted their "Right to Play" Charity Tournament here inside the Hilton. This morning, they released the following on what turned out to be a fun and successful night...

One of the biggest highlights of this season's EPT Prague Poker Festival was the Charity Tournament which took place at the Hilton Prague raising funds for the EPT’s official charity partner Right To Play. The winner was American pro Elena Stover, who won €1,000 in live event tournament credits. Miss Finland Sara Chafak finished second and managed to get the exact prize she wanted - an iPhone® 6 Plus.

Following a special reception in the Hilton Prague, 43 players sat down to compete in the €150 buy-in event which was jointly hosted with EPT Travel. Others taking part included EPT Malta champion Niall Farrell and members of PokerStars' elite Team PokerStars Pros: Jake Cody, Chris Moneymaker, George Danzer and Theo Jorgensen.

Players were permitted unlimited €50 rebuys in the tournament, which generated a substantial prize pool with the full €8,150 going to Right to Play.

This was the first official EPT tournament in support of Right To Play and kicks off a season-long official partnership which will see similar events at all remaining stops in EPT Season 12.

Sue Hammet, Head of Corporate Giving at PokerStars, said: "Extending our partnership with Right To Play will provide an additional £300,000 through our Helping Hands programme to fund the training of another 2,500 volunteer coaches throughout the world. With this and our previous donations via our staff and players, for a total amount of £800,000 so far, we are enabling the charity to help transform the lives of over 400,000 children and young people across the world."

Right To Play uses the educational power of various sports, games and play to help children and young people to overcome the effects of poverty, disease and war.

Tum Kazunga, Head of Corporate Partnership for Right to Play, took part to the event too: "Playing is a universal language, and it is great to see how people can help and get involved in charity events doing what they like to do. Right To Play is currently helping one million children a week, and thanks to this kind of partnership we can aim to double this figure by 2018".

PokerStars players can also help support Right To Play by donating their FPPs through the PokerStars VIP store. For every 1,200 FPPs donated by a player, PokerStars will make a $20 donation to the charity.

Tags: Elena StoverRight to PlaySara Chafak

Okhotskiy Takes One From Newey

Level 1 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

Paul Newey raised under the gun to 2,100 and Oleh Okhotskiy called from the button after which Andre Akkari called from the big blind as well.

The flop brought out {6-Diamonds}{7-Spades}{2-Hearts} and Akkari checked to Newey who bet 3,500 and Okhoskiy raised it up to 7,500. Akkari folded and Newey made the call.

On the turn the {6-Spades} hit and Newey check-folded to a bet of 6,600.

Player Chips Progress
Oleh Okhotski ua
Oleh Okhotski
110,000 10,000
Paul Newey gb
Paul Newey
92,000 -8,000

Tags: Andre AkkariPaul Newey

Who's Here?

Level 1 : 500/1,000, 100 ante
Player Chips Progress
Kitson Kho ph
Kitson Kho
100,000
Stephen Chidwick gb
Stephen Chidwick
100,000
Christoph Vogelsang de
Christoph Vogelsang
100,000
Jean-Noel Thorel fr
Jean-Noel Thorel
100,000
Ihar Soika by
Ihar Soika
100,000
Kevin MacPhee us
Kevin MacPhee
EPT 1X Winner
100,000
Max Silver gb
Max Silver
100,000
Anthony Zinno us
Anthony Zinno
100,000
Martin Finger de
Martin Finger
EPT 1X Winner
100,000
Gleb Kovtunov ua
Gleb Kovtunov
100,000
Andrew Chen ca
Andrew Chen
100,000
Ivan Luca ar
Ivan Luca
100,000
Bryn Kenney us
Bryn Kenney
100,000
Thomas Muehloecker at
Thomas Muehloecker
100,000
Adrian Mateos es
Adrian Mateos
EPT Main Event Champion
EPT 1X Winner
100,000
Steve O'Dwyer ie
Steve O'Dwyer
EPT 1X Winner
100,000
Mike McDonald ca
Mike McDonald
EPT 1X Winner
100,000
Mike Watson ca
Mike Watson
EPT 2X Winner
100,000
Joao Vieira pt
Joao Vieira
Winamax
100,000
Timothy Adams ca
Timothy Adams
100,000
Jeff Rossiter au
Jeff Rossiter
100,000
David Peters us
David Peters
100,000
Oleh Okhotski ua
Oleh Okhotski
100,000 100,000
Vladimir Troyanovskiy ru
Vladimir Troyanovskiy
100,000
Sam Greenwood ca
Sam Greenwood
100,000

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