2015 PokerStars EPT Season 12 Prague

€5,300 Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info
2015 PokerStars EPT Season 12 Prague
Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
aa
Prize
€754,510
Event Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€5,063,400
Total Entries
1,044
Level Info
Level
36
Blinds
250,000 / 500,000
Ante
50,000
Players Left 1 / 1,044
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Two Former EPT Champions Buy Into Day 1a

Level 2 : 75/150, 0 ante

The Day 1a waters have grown more shark-infested with the arrival of two former European Poker Tour champions.

Anton Wigg won the Season 6 edition of EPT Copenhagen while Martin Finger of Germany is a former EPT Prague Main Event champion, having emerged victorious in the Czech Republic during Season 8.

Rough First Level for Blumenfield

Level 2 : 75/150, 0 ante

Just before the level went up, with 6,800 already in the pot and a board reading {2-Hearts}{q-Clubs}{q-Diamonds}{j-Diamonds}, Portugal's Sergio Da Silva Veloso checked from the big blind and Neil Blumenfield did the same from the cutoff. When the {6-Clubs} completed the board on the river, Veloso led out for 2,450, and Blumenfield made a quick call only to muck when his opponent rolled over the {k-Clubs}{k-Diamonds} for two pair.

Tags: Sergio Da Silva VelosoNeil Blumenfield

Level: 2

Blinds: 75/150

Ante: 0

Two More Level 1 Eliminations

Level 1 : 50/100, 0 ante

Round 2 to Kitchen

Level 1 : 50/100, 0 ante

Anton Dmitriev got the better of John Kitchen earlier in Level 1, but the latter just got payback.

It happened when Kitchen raised to 250 from middle position and then called when Dmitriev three-bet to 550 from the button. The {2-Hearts}{q-Diamonds}{9-Spades} flop saw Kitchen check-call a bet of 600, and then check-call one of 1,000 on the {K-Diamonds} turn. When the {6-Hearts} completed the board on the river, Kitchen checked for a third time and Dmitriev bet 2,400.

Kitchen snap-called and waited for his opponent to show. However, Dmitriev opted to just muck, which meant Kitchen won the pot without having to show down.

Tags: John KitchenAnton Dmitriev

"You're Supposed to Have a Five"

Level 1 : 50/100, 0 ante

Neil Blumenfield raised to 275 from the cutoff and Yung Hwang called from the small blind to see a {7-Spades}{9-Hearts}{8-Spades} flop. Hwang check-called a bet of 500, and the led out for 1,000 on the {6-Clubs} turn. Blumenfield called and the {A-Clubs} completed the board on the river.

Hwang bet again, this time 2,700, and Blumenfield called with the {a-Hearts}{10-Hearts} for a straight. Hwang then tabled the {a-Diamonds}{10-Spades} for the same hand.

"You're supposed to have a five," Blumenfield joked.

Tags: Neil BlumenfieldYung Hwang

Carrel Ends McCorkell's Prague Dreams

Level 1 : 50/100, 0 ante
Charlie Carrel
Charlie Carrel

Craig McCorkell's quest to win a European Poker Tour Main Event has to wait until at least the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure because he's crashed out of the Prague Main Event at the hands of Charlie Carrel.

A preflop raising war between Carrel, McCorkell, and Avramidis Makarios, resulted in McCorkell jamming his stack into the middle, Makarios folding and Carrel snap-calling the all-in bet.

McCorkell: {K-Hearts}{k-Spades}
Carrel: {A-Hearts}{A-Clubs}

No help arrived for McCorkell's kings on the {6-Spades}{8-Clubs}{Q-Clubs}{2-Hearts}{9-Diamonds} board, McCorkell said his goodbyes and Carrel climbs to the top of the chip counts by some margin.

Tags: Charlie CarrelCraig McCorkell