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

12-15-2015 20:13 UTC+2

Ensan Climbs Towards 3MM

Matthew Pitt

Level 28 : 30,000/60,000, 10,000 ante

Hossein Ensan was in the hijack and he raised to 125,000. Ilkin Amirov, in the cutoff, called. The button and both blinds folded, meaning the hand was being contested heads-up.

Ensan checked the flop and Amirov checked behind. The turn was the and Ensan made it 330,000 to go, a bet that Amirov called. Ensan fired again, this a tower of green 25,000 chips worth 500,000. Amirov went into the tank for more than two minutes before letting his hand go.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ilkin Amirov	9,260,000	-585,000
Hossein Ensan	2,910,000	660,000

Tags: Hossein Ensan Ilkin Amirov

12-15-2015 20:01 UTC+2

Ensan Gives Up Ace-Queen

Chad Holloway

Level 28 : 30,000/60,000, 10,000 ante

Slaven Popov opened for 135,000 under the gun and was met by a three-bet to 325,000 by Hossein Ensan in the cutoff. The button and blinds all folded, and Popov responded by four-betting all in for 1.995 million. Ensan asked for a count, and then folded the face up.

Player	Chips	Progress
Slaven Popov	2,500,000	485,000
Hossein Ensan	2,250,000	-300,000

Tags: Slaven Popov Hossein Ensan

12-15-2015 19:51 UTC+2

Unofficial Final table Seat Draw

Matthew Pitt

Level 28 : 30,000/60,000, 10,000 ante

Seat	Player	Country	Chips
1	Hossein Ensan	Germany	2,245,000
2	Ilkin Amirov	Azerbaijan	9,845,000
3	Ivan Deyra	France	1,270,000
4	Onur Unsal	Turkey	3,120,000
5	Slaven Popov	Bulgaria	2,015,000
6	Vlado Banicevic	Montenegro	3,050,000
7	Thomas Butzhammer	Germany	1,270,000
8	Gleb Tremzin	Russia	6,015,000
9	Olivier Ferrero	France	2,315,000

Player	Chips	Progress
Ilkin Amirov	9,845,000	145,000
Gleb Tremzin	6,015,000	405,000
Onur Unsal	3,120,000	860,000
Vlado Banicevic	3,050,000	140,000
Olivier Ferrero	2,315,000	1,280,000
Hossein Ensan	2,245,000	-255,000
Slaven Popov	2,015,000	200,000
Ivan Deyra	1,270,000	-45,000
Thomas Butzhammer	1,270,000	-255,000

12-15-2015 19:51 UTC+2

Photos from the Historic Four-Way All In

Danny Maxwell

12-15-2015 19:43 UTC+2

Short Break

Chad Holloway

Level 28 : 30,000/60,000, 10,000 ante

The remaining nine players are now on a short break.

12-15-2015 19:36 UTC+2

Gavin O'Rourke Eliminated in 10th Place (€56,950)

Matthew Pitt

Level 28 : 30,000/60,000, 10,000 ante

The final table of the Season 12 European Poker Tour Prague Main Event is set after Gavin O'Rourke bust in 10th place.

O'Rourke found himself all-in with versus the of Onur Unsel and when the five community cars fell it was game over for the popular Irishman and game on for the nine finalists.

Player	Chips	Progress
Gavin O'Rourke	Busted

Tags: Gavin O'Rourke

12-15-2015 19:30 UTC+2

One of the Wildest Hands in EPT History That Results in Three-Player Elimination

Chad Holloway

Level 28 : 30,000/60,000, 10,000 ante

One of the wildest hands in EPT history just went down at the feature table of the EPT12 Prague Main Event. With 13 players remaining, Chris Walker open-shoved for 985,000 under the gun. The extremely short-stacked Marc Macdonnell, who began the day as the chip leader, must have liked the protection and opted to call off his last 165,000.

Chip leader Ilkin Amirov then called from the cutoff, and when action reached Javier Gomez, who won the World Poker Tour Prague Main Event last week, he moved all in over the top for 2.58 million in the big blind. Amazingly, Amirov snap-called to put all three players at risk, and as fate would have it he held the best hand.

Amirov:
Gomez:
Walker:
Macdonnell:

Understandably, the players, rail, and commentators on EPTLive were amazed at what they were seeing, a level of excitement that was ramped up when the flop gave Gomez a flush draw. Everyone was drawing live to the turn, which ended up being the useless .

That meant it all came down to the river. The dealer burned one last time and put out the , which missed everyone and allowed Amirov's kings to hold.

Macdonnel and Walker were eliminated in 13th and 12th place respectively, both for €50,990, while Gomez took 11th for €56,950.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ilkin Amirov	9,700,000	3,140,000
Javier Gomez	Busted
Chris Walker	Busted
Marc Macdonnell	Busted

Tags: Chris Walker Ilkin Amirov Javier Gomez Marc Macdonnell

12-15-2015 19:21 UTC+2

Samuel Vousden Eliminated in 14th Place (€45,930)

Chad Holloway

Level 28 : 30,000/60,000, 10,000 ante

It took just two big hands to see Samuel Vousden from sitting in decent shape to being out in 14th place.

In the first, Vousden opened for 135,000 from the button and was met by a three-bet to 315,000 by Onur Unsal in the small blind. Vousden responded by moving all in and Unsal snap-called off for 1.105 million.

Unsal:
Vousden:

"Good luck, big one," Vousden offered. It was a big pot, but this one would go to Unsal after the board ran out . Vousden was left with just 660,000 after the hand.

Two hands later, Vousden shoved all in for 640,000 from the hijack and Hossein Ensan called from the button.

Ensan:
Vousden:

The board ran out and that was all she wrote for Vousden.

Player	Chips	Progress
Hossein Ensan	2,500,000	895,000
Onur Unsal	2,260,000	1,340,000
Samuel Vousden	Busted

Tags: Samuel Vousden Hossein Ensan Onur Unsal

12-15-2015 19:10 UTC+2

Macdonnell Decimated

Matthew Pitt

Level 28 : 30,000/60,000, 10,000 ante

Marc Macdonnell is down to only 185,000 chips after a cool of a hand against Gleb Tremzin.

A raise and three-bet preflop saw bet on the flop, turn and river of the board, Macdonnell jamming on the river and Tremzin calling to create a 5,610,000 pot. Macdonnell turned over for a full house, but was crushed by the of Tremzin. Ouch.

Player	Chips	Progress
Gleb Tremzin	5,610,000	2,865,000
Marc Macdonnell	185,000	-2,815,000

Tags: Gleb Tremzin Marc MacDonnell

12-15-2015 19:05 UTC+2

Remko Report Episode #27: JC Alvarado Talks MMA Fight with Olivier Busquet and More

donpeters

Level 28 : 30,000/60,000, 10,000 ante

JC Alvarado has a big fight booked with Olivier Busquet. He and Remko Rinkema discuss the match, along with Alvarado's road to becoming a professional poker player, MMA, and more.