€5,300 Main Event
Day 1b Completed
2016 PokerStars EPT Season 12 Dublin
€5,300 Main Event
Day: 1b
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
Francisco Oliveira Leads Day 1b of the EPT Dublin Main Event
Level 8
: 300/600, 75 ante
The second and final starting day of the 2016 PokerStars European Poker Tour Dublin Main Event attracted a much larger field than the opening flight, with 442 players all buying into the €5,300 flagship tournament of the festival at the Royal Dublin Society. Once the eight 75-minute levels were complete, more than one-third of the contenders were sent to the rail. Leading the way was Francisco Oliveira with a stack of 175,100, and 262 players survived.
The Portuguese player was already a big stack late on in the day when he busted Daniel Dvoress in the Canadian's first hand following Dvoress' late registration. It was a classic aces-versus-kings setup, and Dvoress' cowboys went down guns blazing. De Oliveira had $173,000 in live earnings entering this event, with his biggest cash stemming from a $1,000 side-event win at this year's PokerStars Caribbean Adventure for $51,640.
Second in chips after Day 1b was Richard Dubini with 157,300. The Argentinian was responsible for the elimination of Team PokerStars Pro Johny Lodden. The Norwegian turned the second nut flush with king-four only to find himself drawing dead against Dubini's jack-ten for a full house.
Brazil's Bernardo Dias (137,600) edged out Jean-Philippe Goulet-Ratelle (137,500) by 100 chips to claim the last spot on the overnight podium, but they are all still trailing Day 1a's Gilles Bernies with 189,600.
Other big stacks and notables from Day 1b included Walter Treccarichi (129,800), Iliodoros Kamatakis (125,200), Pierre "LeVietF0u" Calamusa (124,500), 2015 World Series of Poker bracelet winner Michael Wang (106,500), Mikhail Petrov (105,700), Slaven Popov (100,100), online poker legend Chris Moorman (97,900), Kevin Killeen (97,100), and Jude Ainsworth (91,800).
PokerStars Team Online member Jaime Staples had a slow start, but bagged up 89,600. Other donning the red spade such as Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier (81,400), Liv Boeree (80,000), Team Online's Mickey Petersen (76,000), George Danzer (69,300), and Jake Cody (56,700) all advanced with above-average stacks as well. Friend of PokerStars Felipe "Mojave" Ramos (17,800) and Team PokerStars Pro member Theo Jorgensen (16,700) will return with less.
Former EPT champions still in include Ognyan Dimov (78,300), David Vamplew (60,100), Steve O'Dwyer (55,400), Dominik Panka (42,700), Anton Wigg (21,500), and Jannick Wrang (19,100).
Eugene Katchalov and Andre Akkari busted at the very end of the day. Among those joining them on the rail were PokerStars Mind Sports Ambassador Jennifer Shahade, Team Online members Katerina Malasidou and Lex Veldhuis, Chance Kornuth, former November Niner Jake Bazeley, Goran Mandic, EPT MaltaMain Event winner Niall Farrell and runner-up Alen Bilic, 2016 Aussie Millions champion Ari Engel, Tim Reilly, Ruben Visser, Sylvain Loosli, Dara O'Kearney, Craig McCorkell, Paul Michaelis, and Igor Kurganov.
Those that busted can now all focus on the plethora of remaining side events, but all eyes here will be on the at least 341 hopefuls in the Main Event who will be returning to the tables for Day 2 at 12 p.m. on Tuesday. So far, the field size stands at 589 entrants, but this number may increase with registration open until the first card is dealt.
A short day lays ahead with six 75-minute levels scheduled, and the PokerNews Live Reporting team will be back again to provide updates on all of the action.
In the meantime, have a look where you can grab some healthy eats in Dublin in this video below.
End-Of-Day Chip Counts (full)
Level 8
: 300/600, 75 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
175,100 | -4,900 |
|
157,300 | 17,300 |
|
137,600 | 78,600 |
|
137,500 | 28,500 |
|
136,100 | 6,100 |
|
129,800 | 36,800 |
|
125,200 | -4,800 |
|
124,500 | -5,500 |
|
122,300 | -17,700 |
|
112,100 | 112,100 |
|
108,300 | 108,300 |
|
106,500 | -3,500 |
|
106,400 | 106,400 |
|
106,400 | 106,400 |
|
106,000 | 24,000 |
|
105,700 | -9,300 |
|
105,000 | 105,000 |
|
100,100 | -47,900 |
|
98,900 | 98,900 |
|
98,500 | 8,500 |
|
97,900 | 7,900 |
|
97,700 | 62,700 |
|
97,100 | 7,100 |
|
|
96,300 | -13,700 |
|
95,300 | 10,300 |
Katchalov and Akkari Gone
Level 8
: 300/600, 75 ante
The two Pokerstars Team Pros Andre Akkari and Eugene Katchalov won't be bagging up for Day 2. Katchalov busted some time ago and Andre Akkari chopped a three-way all in earlier before then getting it in with 
. Roberto Rodriguez Carrera with the 
and Felix Lambertz with the 
got their stacks in behind him and the board bricked to bust Carrera and Akkari.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
85,000 | 85,000 |
|
Busted | |
|
Busted |
Akenhead gets Upset
Level 8
: 300/600, 75 ante
The day ended just like it started for James Akenhead, with a huge headache. In an already big pot of 27,000 chips to the 
river, Ivan Banic bet 28,000 and Akenhead reluctantly called to get shown 
for a rivered full house.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
38,000 | 2,000 |
Three More Hands
Level 8
: 300/600, 75 ante
The clock has been stopped and three more hands will be played.
The Urbanovich Show
Level 8
: 300/600, 75 ante
Every 15 minutes, Dzmitry Urbanovich seems to keep adding another 10,000 chips to his stack and at this rate the wonder kid from Poland may be a serious contender for the overnight chip lead. There weren't really any big showdowns that saw Urbanovich rising further.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
50,000 | 10,000 |
Dvoress Busts in Record Time
Level 8
: 300/600, 75 ante
Shortly after stone-bubbling the €10k Single Day Event, Daniel Dvoress took his seat in the EPT Dublin Main Event. After a player to his right opened to 1,300, Dvoress got right to it and three-bet to 3,500.
The player in the small blind called and Francisco Correia De Oliveira four-bet to 8,800 in the big blind. Action was back on Dvoress who thought before committing his entire stack into the pot in a five-bet jam first hand. The small blind folded and Oliveira made the call.
Oliveira: 
Dvoress: 
Dvoress had picked up a monster on his first hand, but even more unbelievably Oliveira had him crushed and looked set to increase his chip stack. The board ran out 
and Dvoress dejectedly headed for the exit.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
180,000 | |
|
Busted |
Big Stack Galore
Level 8
: 300/600, 75 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
140,000 | 55,000 |
|
|
140,000 | 140,000 |
|
|
130,000 | 40,000 |
|
|
130,000 | 20,000 |
|
|
110,000 | 110,000 |
|
97,000 | 37,000 |
|
|
90,000 | -30,000 |
|
80,000 | 34,000 |
|
78,000 | 78,000 |
|
70,000 | 70,000 |
|
60,000 | 30,000 |
Kurganov Down; Lauck Up
Level 8
: 300/600, 75 ante
Short stack Jonas Lauck flopped two pair with 
and Jake Cody's 
for a gutshot and flush draw failed to improve, a 
river gave the German a full house and urgently needed double up. Igor Kurganov tried the same with 
, but Chris Moorman's held up with ace-high.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
90,000 | 5,000 |
|
50,000 | 9,000 |
|
19,000 | 10,000 |
|
Busted |