127 Players Push Through to Day 3 With Ivan Banic In The Lead
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Day 2 of the 2016 PokerStars European Poker Tour Dublin Main Event came and went in a flash on the Emerald Isle on Tuesday.
A total of 341 survivors from the event's two starting days returned to the Royal Dublin Society with plans to battle it out through six 75-minute levels. Some 15 more entries were added to the mix before play started, and by the time the dust settled, 127 pushed through to Wednesday's Day 3.
With registration officially closed, prize pool information was released part way through the day. A grand total of 605 players meant a €2,934,250 prize pool was created that will pay 87 spots. A minumum cash is worth €9,100, the top six players will all earn six figures and Irish poker glory, and a €561,900 first-place prize awaits the winner.
The inside track on the title currently belongs to some pretty big names, as bosses like Anthony Zinno, Mike McDonald, and Dominik Panka all built big stacks heading into Day 3.
Team PokerStars Pros Luca Pagano, Liv Boeree, and PokerStars Team Online's Jaime Staples and Mickey Petersen also remain in contention, but the end-of-day chip leader was none other than Croatia's Ivan Banic, who amassed at least a part of his stack in a somewhat bizarre hand where he exposed his cards, flopped a set, but still managed to get paid off by an opponent with a flush draw.
Well-known heroes like Steve O'Dwyer, Chris Moorman, and Dzmitry Urbanovich are also still in with a shot headed to Day 3.
It wasn't all wine and roses for the entire field, however, as 2014 WSOP Main Event champ Martin Jacobson, Friend of PokerStars Felipe "Mojave" Ramos, serial EPT PokerStars qualifer and EPT Berlin champ Kevin MacPhee, EPT Dublin €10,200 Single-Day High Roller winner Charlie Carrel, EPT Dublin €25,750 High Roller champ Mustapha Kanit, and Team PokerStars Pros George Danzer, Theo Jorgensen, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, Jake Cody, and Jason Mercier were among those who did not survive the day.
Day 3 will kick off at 12 p.m. local time in Dublin on Wednesday with the money bubble clearly in sight and the PokerNews Live Reporting team will be on hand for all the action from start to finish.
Tune in then as PokerNews will feature exclusive live coverage of the EPT Dublin Main Event through the bubble and beyond.
| Table | Seat | Name | Country | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Francisco Oliveira | Portugal | 285,000 |
| 1 | 2 | Kevin Killeen | Ireland | 36,400 |
| 1 | 3 | Jakub Michalak | Poland | 169,400 |
| 1 | 4 | David Vamplew | United Kingdom | 91,000 |
| 1 | 5 | Dominik Panka | Poland | 203,700 |
| 1 | 6 | Fernando Brito | Portugal | 40,300 |
| 1 | 7 | Willliam Batista Arruda | Brazil | 170,700 |
| 1 | 8 | David Lappin | Ireland | 39,000 |
| 2 | 1 | Stefan Schillhabel | Germany | 142,000 |
| 2 | 2 | Edouard Mignot | France | 64,000 |
| 2 | 3 | Simen Birkelund | Norway | 153,000 |
| 2 | 4 | Patrick Clarke | Portugal | 51,600 |
| 2 | 5 | Miltiadis Kyriakides | Greece | 165,000 |
| 2 | 6 | Linus Loeliger | Switzerland | 95,500 |
| 2 | 7 | Marcin Wydrowski | Poland | 119,600 |
| 2 | 8 | Orpen Kisacikoglu | Turkey | 213,000 |
| 3 | 1 | Yang Zhang | China | 149,200 |
| 3 | 2 | Anthony Zinno | United States | 279,800 |
| 3 | 3 | Przemyslaw Piotrowski | Poland | 56,300 |
| 3 | 4 | Stephen Malone | Ireland | 140,300 |
| 3 | 5 | Luca Pagano | Italy | 230,000 |
| 3 | 6 | Jussi Nevanlinna | Finland | 157,600 |
| 3 | 7 | Alessio Casiraghi | Italy | 25,800 |
| 3 | 8 | Ezequiel Lebed | Argentina | 120,000 |
| 4 | 1 | Adrian Mateos | Spain | 172,000 |
| 4 | 2 | Jarrod Rex | United Kingdom | 128,500 |
| 4 | 3 | Ismael Bojang | Austria | 109,100 |
| 4 | 4 | Tudor Purice | Romania | 323,700 |
| 4 | 5 | Mikhail Petrov | Russia | 322,600 |
| 4 | 6 | Or Hadad | Israel | 86,800 |
| 4 | 7 | Morten Jensen | Denmark | 38,400 |
| 4 | 8 | Richard Dubini | Argentina | 138,000 |
| 5 | 1 | Michael Wang | United States | 107,000 |
| 5 | 2 | Joao Baumgarten | Brazil | 99,300 |
| 5 | 3 | Alexandre Rivero | Brazil | 68,600 |
| 5 | 4 | Patrick Schopf | Austria | 108,100 |
| 5 | 5 | Rhys Jones | United Kingdom | 76,700 |
| 5 | 6 | Gaelle Baumann | France | 192,600 |
| 5 | 7 | Sven Magirius | Germany | 166,500 |
| 5 | 8 | Andrew Chen | Canada | 79,700 |
| 6 | 1 | Pierre Calamusa | France | 61,000 |
| 6 | 2 | Adrien Allain | France | 297,000 |
| 6 | 3 | Pratyush Buddiga | United States | 193,200 |
| 6 | 4 | Pierre Neuville | Belgium | 52,200 |
| 6 | 5 | Carlos Chadha | Canada | 148,500 |
| 6 | 6 | Felix Lambertz | Germany | 63,500 |
| 6 | 7 | Rodrigo Perez | Argentina | 96,600 |
| 6 | 8 | Mike McDonald | Canada | 291,000 |
| 7 | 1 | Michal Rudnik | Poland | 116,100 |
| 7 | 2 | Jean-Philippe Goulet-Ratelle | Canada | 106,700 |
| 7 | 3 | Ivan Banic | Croatia | 381,200 |
| 7 | 4 | Thiago Nishijima | Brazil | 42,600 |
| 7 | 5 | Bernardo Dias | Brazil | 70,500 |
| 7 | 6 | Ognyan Dimov | Bulgaria | 167,700 |
| 7 | 7 | Fabrice Halleux | Belgium | 78,600 |
| 7 | 8 | Christoph Vogelsang | Germany | 280,100 |
| 8 | 1 | Florian Decamps | France | 25,000 |
| 8 | 2 | Iliodoros Kamatakis | Greece | 183,200 |
| 8 | 3 | Thiago Crema | Brazil | 63,400 |
| 8 | 4 | Mazin Khoury | United Kingdom | 168,700 |
| 8 | 5 | Nikolay Tsanev | Bulgaria | 143,700 |
| 8 | 6 | Andrew Abernethy | United Kingdom | 30,800 |
| 8 | 7 | Kees van Brugge | Netherlands | 96,000 |
| 8 | 8 | Filipe Oliveira | Portugal | 55,500 |
| 9 | 1 | [Removed:4] | Germany | 191,200 |
| 9 | 2 | Jonathan Concepcion | Spain | 60,600 |
| 9 | 3 | Frank Williams | United Kingdom | 137,400 |
| 9 | 5 | Davide Marchi | Italy | 91,300 |
| 9 | 6 | Adrian Buckley | United States | 126,600 |
| 9 | 7 | Charles La Boissonnire | Canada | 197,700 |
| 9 | 8 | Liv Boeree | United Kingdom | 147,600 |
| 10 | 1 | Steve O'Dwyer | Ireland | 90,900 |
| 10 | 2 | Jude Ainsworth | Ireland | 184,400 |
| 10 | 3 | Alexander Goulder | United Kingdom | 127,900 |
| 10 | 4 | Ben Heath | United Kingdom | 125,500 |
| 10 | 5 | Dzmitry Urbanovich | Poland | 67,000 |
| 10 | 6 | Rodrigo Portaleoni | Italy | 92,300 |
| 10 | 7 | Vebjorn Monstad | Norway | 130,700 |
| 10 | 8 | Michail Karapanos | Greece | 57,800 |
| 11 | 1 | Artem Litvinov | Russia | 130,000 |
| 11 | 2 | Nick Abou Risk | Canada | 90,300 |
| 11 | 3 | Mikael Jean | Lebanon | 320,000 |
| 11 | 4 | Ivan Deyra | France | 297,100 |
| 11 | 5 | Timothy Adams | Canada | 154,200 |
| 11 | 6 | Alex Komaromi | Uruguay | 209,800 |
| 11 | 7 | David Boyaciyan | Netherlands | 224,500 |
| 11 | 8 | Nick Petrangelo | United States | 252,500 |
| 12 | 1 | Jean-Noel Thorel | France | 250,000 |
| 12 | 2 | Scott Margereson | United Kingdom | 191,600 |
| 12 | 3 | Niko Koop | Germany | 43,500 |
| 12 | 4 | Koray Aldemir | Germany | 174,000 |
| 12 | 5 | Brian Ganon | Argentina | 158,900 |
| 12 | 6 | Alex Difelice | Canada | 359,500 |
| 12 | 7 | Bart Lybaert | Belgium | 142,500 |
| 12 | 8 | Zvi Stern | Israel | 140,800 |
| 13 | 1 | Tomas MacNamara | United Kingdom | 166,500 |
| 13 | 2 | Fergal Cawley | Ireland | 212,400 |
| 13 | 3 | Brian Reinert | United States | 61,500 |
| 13 | 4 | Cathal Shine | Ireland | 91,900 |
| 13 | 5 | Yew Kan | China | 165,400 |
| 13 | 6 | Benjamin Winsor | United Kingdom | 137,900 |
| 13 | 7 | Yiannis Liperis | United Kingdom | 69,900 |
| 13 | 8 | Fabrice Soulier | France | 69,000 |
| 14 | 1 | Diego Ventura | Peru | 56,600 |
| 14 | 2 | Ivica Pezelj | Germany | 27,400 |
| 14 | 3 | Gilles Bernies | Germany | 311,700 |
| 14 | 4 | Matias Ruzzi | Argentina | 42,200 |
| 14 | 5 | Andras Koroknai | Hungary | 134,200 |
| 14 | 6 | Nikolaus Teichert | Germany | 112,300 |
| 14 | 7 | Maria Lampropulos | United Kingdom | 192,900 |
| 14 | 8 | Kuljinder Sidhu | United Kingdom | 262,000 |
| 15 | 1 | Guy Goossens | Belgium | 65,000 |
| 15 | 2 | Thomas Lentrodt | Germany | 235,400 |
| 15 | 3 | Alexandre Meylan | Switzerland | 77,700 |
| 15 | 4 | Lucas Reeves | United Kingdom | 207,800 |
| 15 | 5 | Gergely Bartos | Hungary | 38,800 |
| 15 | 6 | Namir Mohamed | Ireland | 157,200 |
| 15 | 7 | Jiachen Gong | Canada | 323,200 |
| 15 | 8 | Christopher Kruk | Canada | 303,400 |
| 16 | 1 | Antoine Saout | France | 97,900 |
| 16 | 2 | James Akenhead | United Kingdom | 150,800 |
| 16 | 3 | Julien Martini | France | 48,600 |
| 16 | 4 | Jaime Staples | Canada | 289,600 |
| 16 | 5 | Sadan Turker | United Kingdom | 249,500 |
| 16 | 6 | Chris Moorman | United Kingdom | 78,800 |
| 16 | 7 | Anton Wigg | Sweden | 45,500 |
| 16 | 8 | Ian Hunter | United Kingdom | 103,100 |
saw Kan improve to a set and he held up with 
turn and 
river as final two community cards.
flop and Calamusa check-called a bet of 5,000 by the Italian, Litvinov also came along as well. They checked the 
turn before Calamusa bet the 
river for 15,000.
. Treccarichi showed 
. Nevanlinna then raised enough to put Mercier all-in, and after much thought Mercier made the call.
for the nut flush and Mercier sighed, stood to leave the table and threw his hands towards the muck. As he left Nevanlinna asked the dealer to see Mercier's cards, but the dealer had already pulled them partially into the muck. Nevanlinna felt as it was an all-in and call that he was entitled to see Mercier's cards.
, and with a nod Nevanlinna started stacking his chips as players went on a twenty minute break
dealt. Coenen put out a continuation bet of 5,000 and Mercier called. 
and had turned a higher straight. The river was the 
, and the 
on the turn didn't do Adams any good either. 
on the river made all that unnecessary. 
flop with Corey Hochman betting 5,000 and Antoine Saout calling from one seat over. 25k High Roller champion Mustapha Kanit then moved all in and Hochman reshoved to isolate. Saout however called and the three of them tabled their cards.
