In one of the first hands of the day, Mikhail Petrov raised to 6,100 and was called two ways before the action reached Ismael Bojang in the big blind. He moved all in and all his three opponents tossed their cards into the muck. The German sighed with plenty of relief and then grinned "I am scared of myself."
Table neighbor Tubor Purice said "where do you get those guys from?", also laughing.
After 14 levels of 75 minutes each, the 605-entry strong field of the 2016 PokerStars EPT12 Dublin €5,300 Main Event has been whittled down to its last 127 hopefuls and they will return to the tables of the Royal Dublin Society in half an hour from now at 12 p.m. local time.
Only the top 87 will receive at least €9,100 for their efforts and best-positioned for the first-place payout of €561,900, is Ivan Banic from Croatia with 381,200 in chips. The online MTT player was up to more than half a million in chips already before losing a couple hands at the end of play and would have almost been caught by Alex Difelice (359,500).
The final spot on the podium belongs to Tudor Purice (323,700), closely followed by Jiachen Gong (323,200) and Mikhail Petrov (322,600). Day 1a chip leader Gilles Bernies (311,700) and Adrien Allain (297,000) also made it into the top 10 overall whereas PokerStars' red spade is represented by three players still: Team Online's Jaime Staples (289,600) as well as the Team Pros Luca Pagano (230,000) and Liv Boeree (147,600).
Other former EPT Main Event champions remaining include Mike McDonald (291,000), Dominik Panka (203,700), Adrian Mateos (172,000), Ognyan Dimov (167,700) and David Vamplew (91,000). Five 90-minute levels are scheduled for Day 3 and plenty of other talented names of the international poker circuit are still in, so make sure to follow the PokerNews live reporting and stay up to date.
