€5,300 Main Event Day 1b | 2015 PokerStars EPT Season 12 Prague

12-11-2015 23:04 UTC+2

Say Goodbye to...

Chad Holloway

Level 7 : 250/500, 50 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Zhao Wei	Busted
Michael Magalashvili	Busted
Marian Copilu	Busted
Robin Hegele	Busted
Stefan Jedlicka	Busted
Viktor Kavestam	Busted
Andrew Hulme	Busted
Nir Levy	Busted
Alexandru Lapusneanu	Busted
Kristo Klaaseen	Busted
Mikkel Lokkegaard Hansen	Busted
Ismael Bojang	Busted
Marco Caza	Busted
Andrei Grigoras	Busted
Shalev Halfa	Busted

12-11-2015 23:02 UTC+2

Selbst Gives It Up on the Turn

Chad Holloway

Level 7 : 250/500, 50 ante

Action folded to Darrell Goh in the cutoff and he raised to 1,100, which Rui Ferreira called from the button. Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst then three-bet to 3,800 from the small blind, Goh got out of the way, and Ferreira called to see the flop, which came down .

Selbst continued for 4,300, Ferreira called, and the dealer burned and turned the .

Selbst slowed down with a check, and Ferreira fired out 9,400. Selbst hit the tank for several minutes and ultimately released her hand.

Player	Chips	Progress
Vanessa Selbst	75,000	-5,000

Tags: Vanessa Selbst Rui Ferreira

12-11-2015 23:01 UTC+2

Akenhead Soaring

Matthew Pitt

Level 7 : 250/500, 50 ante

James Akenhead, former World Series of Poker Main Event and WSOP Europe Main Event finalist, is up past 100,000 chips and cruising along here in Prague.

Arne Kern opened to 1,100 from under the gun, two players folded, and BlazeJ Przygorzewski put in a raise of his own to 3,400. One player folded and James Akenhead four-bet to 7,900. The action passed to Kern and he folded. Przygorzewki asked the dealer to confirm Akenhead's bet size and once armed with the information, let his hand go.

Player	Chips	Progress
James Akenhead	103,000	73,000

Tags: Arne Kern BlazeJ Przygorzewski James Akenhead

12-11-2015 22:30 UTC+2

The Last of the Level 6 Eliminations

Chad Holloway

Level 7 : 250/500, 50 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Igor Devkin	Busted
Simeon Naydenov	Busted
Ognyan Dimov	Busted
Mads Smith Hansen	Busted
Martins Adeniya	Busted
Diogo Cardoso	Busted
David Valone	Busted
Denis Sapozhnikov	Busted
Alen Bilic	Busted
Maximilian Hester	Busted
Dmitry Shchepkin	Busted
Manuel Nunez	Busted
Payam Ansarian	Busted
Dmitriy Rumyantsev	Busted
Konrad Reyhe	Busted
Kiryl Radzivonau	Busted
Igor Pihela	Busted
Bartosz Ziolkowski	Busted
Dany Kreidieh	Busted
Friedrich Meyer	Busted
Serdar Demiroglu	Busted
Mariano Martiradonna	Busted
Boutros Naim	Busted
Igor Kotan	Busted

Level: 7

Blinds: 250/500

Ante: 50

12-11-2015 21:10 UTC+2

Let's Have Ourselves a Dinner Break

Chad Holloway

Level 6 : 200/400, 50 ante

Players are now on their 75-minute dinner break. When they return they'll play two more levels before bagging and tagging for the night.

While you wait, check out this video where Kitty Kuo talks about her new upcoming reality show:

12-11-2015 21:04 UTC+2

They Failed to Make the Dinner Break

Chad Holloway

Level 6 : 200/400, 50 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Brian Reinert	Busted
Yehor Moroz	Busted
Ryan McEathron	Busted
Marc-Olivier Carpentier-Perrault	Busted
Jason Wheeler	Busted
Martin Hanowski	Busted
Denys Larin	Busted
Johny Jabra	Busted
Jean-Philippe Rohr	Busted
Steven Worr	Busted
Paul Theobald	Busted
Celil Lyidogan	Busted
Stefan Vagner	Busted
Michael Tureniec	Busted
Marcin Pawel Chmielewski	Busted
Martin Guth	Busted
Jan Rudzik	Busted
Markus Durnegger	Busted
Eelis Jaako Parssinen	Busted
Jorgen Schjetne	Busted
Konstantin Maslak	Busted
Pierre-Henri Ligier	Busted
Joe Mouawad	Busted
Peter Haugnaess	Busted
Vladimir Velikov	Busted

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12-11-2015 20:58 UTC+2

ElkY Enters, Joins a Tough Table

Matthew Pitt

Level 6 : 200/400, 50 ante

Team PokerStars Pro Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier has entered the Prague Main Event and is seated with Martin Staszko and Dara O'Kearney among others.

Staszko opened to 950 and was called by Guy Bachar in the cutoff. ElkY called in the big blind and it was three-handed to the flop. ElkY checked, Staszko bet 1,500 and everyone else folded. Not the greatest of poker hands ever, but it allows us to update the chip counts of these three stars.

Also, on ou way back to the media room, we caught a glimpse of poker media guru Marc Convey who is sat with 10,500 chips.

Player	Chips	Progress
Dara O'Kearney	62,000	-5,500
Martin Staszko	40,000	11,000
Bertrand Grospellier	22,400
Marc Convey	10,500	-4,500

Tags: Bertrand Grospellier Dara O'Kearney Martin Staszko Marc Convey

12-11-2015 20:57 UTC+2

The Defending Champ Has Been Eliminated

Chad Holloway

Level 6 : 200/400, 50 ante

Last year, the USA's Stephen Graner, who was playing in his first European Poker Tour event, defeated a record field of 1,107 players in the 2014 PokerStars.com EPT Season 11 Prague Main Event to capture a €969,000 first-place prize. Graner was in action today looking to defend his title, but any hope of that happening was cut short.

It happened when Jochum Weenink opened for 900 from middle position and Mustafa Biz, who was to his direct left, made the call. When action reached a short-stacked Graner in the cutoff, he three-bet to 3,000, leaving himself just 2,175 behind. Action folded back around to Weenink, who four-bet to 5,400, and then Biz came in with a five-bet to 12,500. Graner didn't seem thrilled, but called off nonetheless.

Weenink put in the additional chips to create a side pot, and the two active players saw a flop. Weenink checked, Biz bet 10,500, and Weenink got out of the way.

Graner:
Biz:

Graner had flopped top pair, but he was behind the pocket rockets. The turn left Graner drawing dead, and he wish the table luck before the river made his elimination official.

Player	Chips	Progress
Stephen Graner	Busted

Tags: Jochum Weenink Mustafa Biz Stephen Graner

12-11-2015 20:39 UTC+2

Life Through a Lens

Matthew Pitt