€5,300 Main Event
Day 6 Started
2016 PokerStars EPT Season 12 Dublin
€5,300 Main Event
Day: 6
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2016 PokerStars EPT Season 12 Dublin
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€3,025,000
Entries
605
Level
32
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
20,000
Seat 6: Rhys "floppinhell" Jones, 25, Portsmouth, UK, PokerStars qualifier
Rhys Jones is a professional poker player from Portsmouth in the UK who splits his time between playing live tournaments and online MTTs, with much success in both fields.
Jones’ biggest cash in the live field to date was for $85,131, for a third place finish at the 2014 WSOP in Vegas. Since 2011, he has made 10 $20k+ cashes in live tournaments and is no doubt a feared player online as well. His largest online score came in 2014, coincidentally just two months after his largest live win. Jones beat a field of 76 players in a $2,100 FTOPS event on Full Tilt, earning himself over $93k in the process. Jones has a whopping 84 tournament wins documented online, with over $3,500,000 in earnings.
Jones, who got engaged to girlfriend Kristy a month ago, is currently ranked 148th on the all England all-time money list with $618,390 in live winnings to date. He won his seat for EPT Dublin on PokerStars in a €215 NL satellite last month.
Fun fact: Jones was once a competitor on The Weakest Link, a popular TV game show in the UK.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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740,000 |
Seat 5: Ilios "ILIOS72" Kamatakis, 43, Preveza, Greece, PokerStars qualifier
The oldest player on the EPT Dublin final table is Ilios Kamatakis who hails from Preveza, northwest Greek town located at the mouth of the Ambracian Gulf. The 43-year-old is known as "ILIOS72" on PokerStars, and also on Twitch, where he's streaming his poker sessions.
At EPT12 Prague, Kamatakis earned his career's biggest prize when he finished fifth in the €10k High Roller, taking €180,890. With $626k in live tournament winnings, he's currently ranked #8 in the Greece's all-time money list.
Before he arrived here in Dublin, he had four EPT Main Event cashes to his name, the best result being 19th at EPT7 Prague. Kamatakis's online accolades include fourth in the Sunday Million for $69,624 (March 2009), fourth in the Super Tuesday for $40k (December 2015) and he also made the final table of the 2016 TCOOP $2k High Roller, finishing eighth for $35,581.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,965,000 |
Seat 4: Kully Sidhu, 33, Walsall, UK
Kully Sidhu is a professional poker player who’s already experienced the EPT limelight when he made the final at EPT10 London, Season 10. He was the first to depart on that occasion, winning £60,640 for eighth place. However, Main Event finals aside, it was at EPT12 Barcelona where the 33-year-old from Walsall banked by far his biggest cash. Sidhu took part in a three-way deal in the €10k High Roller along with Mustapha Kanit and Nick Petrangelo and was awarded second place.
The €640,000 prize accounts for the better part of his $1.3 million in live tournament winnings to date and he’s currently ranked 74th in the England's all-time money list. Three months ago, he took down the €10k High Roller at Master Classics of Poker in Amsterdam for €161,172.
Sidhu also has a plethora of achievements on local tours in the UK, having won the GUKPT Manchester in 2010. In April last year, he was up against Patrick Clarke on the final table of UKIPT5 Nottingham and the two Brits will face each other again here in Dublin.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
3,260,000 |
Seat 3: Patrick "clickii10" Clarke, 27, Ardee, Ireland
Patrick Clarke is the last Irishman standing and bears the Emerald Isle's hopes on his shoulders. While home soil might be considered an advantage for the 27-year-old from Ardee, there hasn't been an EPT champion winning at home for the last twenty stops (the last was Daniel Pidun at EPT9 Berlin).
Clarke has already tasted success here in Dublin - he won the Irish Poker Open in April 2014, for a lifetime best cash of €200,000. A year later, Clarke made the final of UKIPT5 Nottingham, finishing fourth for £58,100.
Prior to the EPT12 Dublin Poker Festival, Clarke was 47th on Ireland's alltime money list with $396k in live tournament winnings. So far, Ireland has one former EPT champion: Steve O'Dwyer, who took down the EPT9 Grand Final Main Event.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
4,300,000 |
Seat 2: Dzmitry "Colisea" Urbanovich, 20, Poland, PokerStars qualifier
If you’d been asked to describe Dzmitry Urbanovich results a year ago, his bio would have looked very different to the one we see today. Up until February last year, Urbanovich had won just over €200k in live events; since then he’s added a further €3.6 million!
Although live results tally goes back to July 2013, it was at EPT11 Malta last year when he stunned the European poker community by taking down a record four events in one festival, including the €25k High Roller. Suddenly, Urbanovich was the brightest star on the tour and many poker aficionados were eager to see what he'd achieve next. They didn’t have to wait long. At the EPT11 Grand Final, he was second (to Erik Seidel) in the €100k Super High Roller for a €1,446,000 payday, which remains his biggest single cash to date.
Still only 19 years old at the time, this massive win was instrumental in his being awarded the EPT11 Player of the Year title at the end of the festival. A superstar was born, and Urbanovich joined the likes of Ole Schemion and Steve O'Dwyer who relentlessly crush tourneys on the EPT circuit.
Urbanovich is already #1 in Poland's all-time money list with most of his $4.2 million winnings earned in the past twelve months. Here in Dublin, he's made it to his first EPT Main Event final table and this summer, he will become eligible to play the World Series for the first time, after turning 21 in May. Confident about his abilities, the youngster has already made a bet with Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst that he'll bring three bracelets back home.
He won his seat for EPT Dublin on PokerStars in a €530 NL satellite last month.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
5,125,000 |
Seat 1: Gilles Bernies, 27, Bretten/Düsseldorf, Germany, PokerStars qualifier
Born in Bretten, Gilles Bernies is currently living in Düsseldorf where he’s studies international Management at university.
As an EPT first-timer, the 27-year-old German has already achieved something many regs on the tour can only dream about. He was the overall Day 1 chip leader and his run hasn't stopped since, as he marched towards the final table.
Although still only playing poker for fun, Bernies already has two significant results under his belt. They both came last year in the Dutch city of Breda. In October, Bernies won the Breda Poker Series for €23,571 and two months later, topped that prize with a runner-up finish in the Dutch Open Poker Series for €29,688.
At the end of Day 4, Bernies described his run as "weird", pointing out that he's an amateur among some very well-respected pros. He’s now guaranteed to take back home at least €119,450 but making the EPT final table hasn’t changed his poker ambitions - he has no immediate plans to turn pro. Bernies is also a keen musician, creating electronic music.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
2,735,000 |
Who's Going to be Crowned the Next EPT Main Event Champion?
At 1 pm local time (in about an hour time), the Main Event of the 2016 PokerStars European Poker Tour Dublin will commence. The live stream and our coverage here on PokerNews.com, will start at 2 pm (in about 2 hours time), with hole cards face up.
The tournament started with 605 players, and the final 6 are already guaranteed a pay day of €119,450. All are eyeing that first place prize of €561,900 though, so there's still a lot to play for. Only 6 players are still in contention, with Polish poker prodigy Dzmitry Urbanovich in the lead with 103 big blinds. Rhys Jones is the short stack coming in with just 15 big blinds.
| Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gilles Bernies | Germany | 2,735,000 | 55 |
| 2 | Dzmitry Urbanovich | Poland | 5,125,000 | 103 |
| 3 | Patrick Clarke | Ireland | 4,300,000 | 86 |
| 4 | Kully Sidhu | United Kingdom | 3,260,000 | 65 |
| 5 | Ilios Kamatakis | Greece | 1,965,000 | 39 |
| 6 | Rhys Jones | United Kingdom | 740,000 | 15 |
While you wait, check out our coverage of the final day of the €10,000 High Roller that starts at 12:30 pm (in half an hour).
The profiles underneath are courtesy of PokerStars.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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5,125,000 | |
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4,300,000 | |
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3,260,000 | |
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2,735,000 | |
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1,965,000 | |
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740,000 |
Level: 27
Blinds: 25,000/50,000
Ante: 5,000
Hands #1-3: Raise and Take It
Level 27
: 25,000/50,000, 5,000 ante
Hand #1: On the button, Gilles Bernies made it 115,000 with 
and he took down the blinds and antes.
Hand #2: From first position, Ilios Kamatakis made it 115,000 holding 
. In the big blind, Kully Sidhu flatted with 
. The flop came 
and Sidhu check folded to Kamatakis' 145,000 continuation bet.
Hand #3: Another raise and take it in the third hand. Dzmitry Urbanovich in the cutoff, made it 125,000 holding 
and took down the blinds and antes.