€5,300 Main Event
Day 1a Started
€5,300 Main Event
Day 1a Started
Welcome to the PokerNews live coverage of the EPT12 Dublin Main Event! After a long hiatus, the stop is back in the calendar, with players looking to convert the €5,300 buy-in into a potentially even bigger payday.
It’s been eight years since the stop last appeared in an EPT schedule, but it’s been welcomed back by all involved, as we have already enjoyed several days’ worth of exciting poker action in the UKIPT Main Event as well as the €25k High Roller, both of which reach their conclusions today at the Royal Dublin Society.
There have been four previous winners of EPT Main Events:
Season | Winner | Entrants | Prize |
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1 | Ram Vaswani | 163 | €93,000 |
2 | Mats Gavatin | 248 | €317,000 |
3 | Roland De Wolfe | 389 | €554,300 |
4 | Reuben Peters | 221 | €532,620 |
With two day ones to choose from, we will have to wait and see just who enters, and aims to add their name to the list of winners. Many big names are in town for the UKIPT and EPT festival, and we will keep you right up to date with which of them are playing day 1a of the Main Event right here on PokerNews.com
Level: 1
Blinds: 50/100
Ante: 0
The action has started with around 70 players and among those to be seated right from the bat included Rasmus Agerskov, Barny Boatman, Kevin MacPhee, Kai Herold and Artem Litvinov.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Rasmus Agerskov |
30,000
30,000
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30,000 |
Kevin MacPhee |
30,000
30,000
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30,000 |
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Barny Boatman |
30,000
30,000
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30,000 |
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Artem Litvinov |
30,000
30,000
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30,000 |
Kai Herold |
30,000
30,000
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30,000 |
Picking up the action on the flop with around 2,000 in the pot, Kyle Frey bet 1,000 from the small blind and his opponent on the button called. The turn was checked through before Frey bet the river for 1,500. His opponent raised to 4,000 and Frey called to muck when shown for two pair.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Kyle Frey |
22,500
22,500
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22,500 |
Albert Sapiano, Thomas Finneran, Jeremy Nock and Georgios Zisimopoulos have all been spotted in the field as well. Nock and Zisimopoulos are on the same table in the very corner of the room with the Greek raising it up early on. Nock called the raise to 250 and they checked the flop and the on the turn.
After the river, Nock folded to a bet of 200 and faced a raise to 300 shortly after to make the call. On the flop , Zisimoulos fired a continuation bet and Nock folded to let the Greek grin. "Oh come on," he said and flashed pocket deuces for bottom set.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Georgios Zisimopoulos | 31,000 | |
Thomas Finneran
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30,000 | |
Albert Sapiano | 30,000 | |
Jeremy Nock | 29,500 |
Adrian Mateos took his seat over on table one with Jeremy Nock and Georgios Zisimopoulos whereas Balazs Botond and Fernando Brito just walked into the tournament area. And then there is also former World Series of Poker Main Event champion Ryan Riess in today's field as well to bring in some international flair.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Ryan Riess | 30,000 | |
Balazs Botond | 30,000 | |
Fernando Brito | 30,000 | |
Adrian Mateos | 30,000 | |
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Joining the action on the turn, Christopher Kruk bet 2,250 and Andreas Leledakis called to see the on the river. Kruk bet 5,300 and the Greek squeezed to 12,000 with the Canadian eventually calling. Leledakis flipped over for a full house and Kruk sighed before mucking his cards.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Andreas Leledakis
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45,000
45,000
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45,000 |
Christopher Kruk |
16,000
16,000
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16,000 |
On a board of John Daly bet 5,200 into a pot of 8,000 and his opponent Nicholas Howard made the call.
Both players checked the river of the and Daly tabled . Howard mucked and Daly scooped a sizeable pot early on day 1a
Player | Chips | Progress |
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John Daly
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39,000 | |
Nicholas Howard | 21,500 |
Joao Vieira, Andrew Hulme and EPT10 Prague Main Event runner up Georgios Sotiropoulos have been added to the field. The Greek also won the LAPT Bahamas Main Event at the PCA earlier this year to boost his live scores to almost $2 million.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Georgios Sotiropoulos | 30,000 | |
Andrew Hulme | 30,000 | |
Joao Vieira | 30,000 | |
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