€5,300 Main Event Day 2 | 2015 PokerStars EPT Season 12 Prague

12-12-2015 17:25 UTC+2

Muto has The Clock Called On Him

Matthew Pitt

Level 11 : 600/1,200, 200 ante

Everyone folded around to Eduards Kudrjancevs and the Latvian raised to 2,600 in the cutoff. Japan's Katsuhiro Muto three-bet to 7,200, folding out the blinds. Kudrjancevs four-bet to 19,900, which sent Muto into the tank for almost three minutes. Eventually, Natan Chauskin had waited long enough and called the clock on Muto.

The floorman informed Muto he had one minute in which to make his decision. At the 30 second warning, Muto folded and Kudrjancevs won the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Eduards Kudrjavcevs	69,000 15,100	15,100
Katsuhiro Muto	55,000 -5,100	-5,100

Tags: Katsuhiro Muto Eduards Kudrjancevs

12-12-2015 17:25 UTC+2

Chartier Faces Karlic

Happy_Freaked

Level 11 : 600/1,200, 200 ante

Sam Chartier, who's still the current tournament chip leader, has just a few chips but we just saw him win a little blind battle against Austrian pro Gerald Karlic.

Karlic raised to 3,200 from the small blind and Chartier called, creating heads up action on the flop. Chartier called 3,800 and on the turn he picked up the pot by putting out a bet of 6,100 after Karlic had checked.

Chartier's table does not have a lot of big stacks on it, and with direct position on Karlic, he'll be a good spot for the remainder of the day so it seems.

Player	Chips	Progress
Sam Chartier	334,000 -16,000	-16,000
Gerald Karlic	52,000 -2,000	-2,000

Tags: Gerald Karlic Sam Chartier

Level: 12

Blinds: 800/1,600

Ante: 200

12-12-2015 17:28 UTC+2

Yin Loses Lots, Doubles

Webjoker

Level 12 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

Belgian Poker Challenge Spa champion Cheng-Wei Yin just told us about a hand where he lost 100,000. He got it in with against and didn't improve in the 200,000 pot.

Not much later he limped under the gun. His neighbor isolated to 4,000 and Kacper Pyzara called. When the action had folded back around to Yin he shoved all in for 29,400. The player that had isolated folded, but Pyzara tanked for a bit.

Yin, known for his chatter at the table, goofed around a little bit and at one point even threw his all in triangle to the spot in front of Pyzara. Pyzara eventually decided to call and they opened their cards.

Kacper Pyzara:
Cheng-Wei Yin:

The board ran out and Yin doubled up.

Player	Chips	Progress
Cheng-Wei Yin	66,800 -17,600	-17,600

Tags: Cheng-Wei Yin

12-12-2015 17:32 UTC+2

Leftover Level 11 Busts

Chad Holloway

Level 12 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Augustin Viziru	Busted
Michel Sterk	Busted
Antoine Dodivers	Busted
Soren Hansen	Busted
Paul Newey	Busted
Chady El Ojeil	Busted
Carmelo Crucitti	Busted
Nihat Karyagdi	Busted
Quentin Lecomte	Busted
Mike Neuens	Busted
Paul Hoefer	Busted
Nandor Solyom	Busted
Filippo Russo	Busted
Alexander Zayonts	Busted
Vadim Shlez	Busted
Dan Oren	Busted
Lukasz Golczyk	Busted
Martin Hruby	Busted

Pascal Vos	Busted
Yew Kan	Busted
Armando Collado Lanuza	Busted
Anthony Zinno	Busted

Mikalai Vaskaboinikau	Busted
Jaroslav Peter	Busted
Benjamin Garcia Rivera	Busted

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12-12-2015 17:36 UTC+2

High Rollers Mateos and Hajiyev Are Looking Good

Happy_Freaked

Level 12 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

It was late last night when Jean-Noel Thorel and Rainer Kempe battled it out heads up in the €25,500 Single-Day High Roller, but it wasn't much earlier for the third and fourth place finishers, Adrian Mateos and Ramin Hajiyev. The two high rollers however are having a good day so far, with stacks far above the current average.

"I couldn't sleep last night," Hajiyev told us when we went to check up on him, "I just had so much adrenaline from the final table."

Hajiyev finished third for €250,900, and today he came back to the Main Event with 55,000 chips.

"I got some presents today," Hajiyev said with a smile, "Christmas presents."

The man from Azerbaijan said, as he's currently sitting on 162,000 chips.

A few tables over we caught Mateos enjoying a massage, and the fourth-place finisher from last night's quietly building a stack as well, having 182,000 out in front of him.

Player	Chips	Progress
Adrian Mateos	182,000 37,000	37,000

Ramin Hajiyev	162,000 107,000	107,000

Tags: Adrian Mateos Ramin Hajiyev

12-12-2015 17:51 UTC+2

Moneymaker Wins Some Off Reard

Webjoker

Level 12 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

Alexander Reard made it 3,500 from the hijack and action folded to Chris Moneymaker in the big blind. The man, who according to Google was responsible for some sort of boom a couple of years ago, three bet to 10,500. Reard made the call in position.

The flop came and Moneymaker bet 9,000. Reard called and the two of them saw a turn: . Moneymaker checked, and called Reard's 17,700 bet. The river came the with both players having big stacks behind.

Moneymaker checked again. Reard thought about it for a bit, but decided to check behind eventually.

Moneymaker showed , Reard mucked quietly.

Player	Chips	Progress
Chris Moneymaker	190,000 35,000	35,000

Alexander Reard	170,000 -70,000	-70,000

Tags: Alexander Reard Chris Moneymaker

12-12-2015 18:04 UTC+2

Chartier Continues to Climb

Matthew Pitt

Level 12 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

Sam Chartier is rapidly approaching 400,000 chips and looks to be the tournament's chip leader.

Chartier raised to 3,600 from late position and everyone who was left to act folded. The next hand, Chartier raised the same amount, but this time Andreas Berggren called from the big blind. Berggren then check-folded to a 3,200 bet on the flop.

At the opposite side of the room, Gleb Tremzin has been busy adding to his stack and is now armed with 320,000 chips.

Player	Chips	Progress
Sam Chartier	360,000 26,000	26,000
Gleb Tremzin	320,000 151,300	151,300

Tags: Sam Chartier Gleb Tremzin

12-12-2015 18:06 UTC+2

Former PCA Champ Picks the Wrong Spot to Shove

Chad Holloway

Level 12 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

Action folded to 2013 PCA champ Dimitar Danchev, who sits in the top spot on the all-time Bulgaria money list, and he shoved all in from the small blind for 17,500. Zoltan Szabo, who didn't have much more than that, looked down at his cards in the big and must have liked what he saw as he made the call.

Danchev:
Szabo:

Danchev seemed upset with himself for shoving with such a weak hand and to find himself dominated. He paid the price for it too after the board ran out an unhelpful .

"Good luck guys," Danchev offered before heading for the door.

Player	Chips	Progress
Zoltan Szabo	45,000 25,000	25,000
Dimitar Danchev	Busted

Tags: Dimitar Danchev Zoltan Szabo

12-12-2015 18:11 UTC+2

Bartos' Day is Done

Chad Holloway

Level 12 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

Martin Bartos shoved all in for 11,300 from early position and picked up a caller in Frans Claesson in the cutoff. The button and blinds all folded and the cards were turned on their back.

Claesson:
Bartos:

Bartos was behind, but at least he was drawing to two live cards. The flop was dry, and the turn meant Bartos needed to find either a queen or a jack on the river to stay alive. That didn't happen though as the paired the board.

Player	Chips	Progress
Frans Claesson	200,000 73,900	73,900
Martin Bartos	Busted

Tags: Martin Bartos Frans Claesson