2016 PokerStars.com EPT Season 13 Malta

€25,750 High Roller
Day: 1
Event Info

2016 PokerStars.com EPT Season 13 Malta

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
q10
Prize
€465,800
Event Info
Buy-in
€25,000
Prize Pool
€1,592,500
Entries
65
Level Info
Level
22
Blinds
12,000 / 24,000
Ante
4,000

Chip Counts After Level 8 (full)

Level 8 : 500/1,000, 100 ante
Player Chips Progress
[Removed:17] nz
[Removed:17]
163,500 -21,500
Adrian Mateos es
Adrian Mateos
EPT Main Event Champion
EPT 1X Winner
158,000 8,000
Andras Nemeth hu
Andras Nemeth
150,000 40,000
Patrick Leonard gb
Patrick Leonard
143,000 -5,000
Frederik Jensen dk
Frederik Jensen
EPT 1X Winner
132,800 27,800
Charlie Carrel gb
Charlie Carrel
132,000 34,500
Dario Sammartino it
Dario Sammartino
125,000 56,000
Scott Seiver us
Scott Seiver
123,400 -6,600
Oleksii Khoroshenin ua
Oleksii Khoroshenin
EPT 1X Winner
120,300 25,800
Davidi Kitai be
Davidi Kitai
EPT Main Event Champion
EPT 1X Winner
Winamax
120,000 -20,000
Alexandros Kolonias gr
Alexandros Kolonias
112,000 7,000
Ramin Hajiyev az
Ramin Hajiyev
88,100 6,100
Max Silver gb
Max Silver
82,400 -37,600
Martin Finger de
Martin Finger
EPT 1X Winner
80,000 15,000
Ole Schemion de
Ole Schemion
79,500 24,500
Viacheslav Buldygin ru
Viacheslav Buldygin
79,000 39,000
Connor Drinan us
Connor Drinan
77,300 27,300
Behzad Ahadpour ir
Behzad Ahadpour
71,000 3,200
Nick Petrangelo us
Nick Petrangelo
70,000 -10,600
Morten Mortensen dk
Morten Mortensen
67,700 -4,300
Vladimir Troyanovskiy ru
Vladimir Troyanovskiy
64,000 -9,000
Sam Greenwood ca
Sam Greenwood
60,000 -300
Mikita Badziakouski by
Mikita Badziakouski
56,900 900
Orpen Kisacikoglu tr
Orpen Kisacikoglu
51,000 4,500
Dan Shak us
Dan Shak
50,000 -42,000

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Buldygin Doubles

Level 8 : 500/1,000, 100 ante
Viacheslav Buldygin
Viacheslav Buldygin

Viacheslav Buldygin, who finished runner-up to Dietrich Fast for €126,300 in the opening €10,000 High Roller, has just doubled up before the break.

He open raised to 2,200 from the cutoff and Philipp Gruissem three-bet to 6,400 from the big blind. Buldygin called and called the 6,000-continuation bet on {A-Clubs}{9-Clubs}{3-Diamonds} as well.

The {3-Hearts} hit the turn and Gruissem moved all in. Buldygin called instantly for his last 23,100 with {9-Spades}{9-Diamonds} and had Gruissem with the {K-Clubs}{Q-Clubs} drawing dead. The {2-Hearts} on the river was a blank and Buldygin went into the break with twice as big a stack.

Player Chips Progress
Viacheslav Buldygin ru
Viacheslav Buldygin
72,300 32,300
Philipp Gruissem de
Philipp Gruissem
38,000 -47,000

Tags: Philipp GruissemViacheslav Buldygin

Last Break of the Day

Level 8 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

The High Roller players contested each other for eight levels already, so it's time for the final break of the day.

In twenty minutes they will continue to play for another two levels.

Greenwood Builds Stack

Level 8 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

Towards the end of the level, Sam Greenwood scooped two pots without showdown to slowly build his stack again.

In the first hand, he checked on the {K-Spades}{J-Hearts}{2-Diamonds}{2-Diamonds}{3-Diamonds} turn and then faced a bet of 8,000 by Juha Helppi in under the gun. Greenwood shoved for 33,600 out of the big blind and that forced a fold from Helppi.

Soon after it was the Canadian again with the pressure. The board was reading {A-Spades}{8-Clubs}{3-Spades}{7-Hearts}{J-Diamonds} and Paul Newey checked in the big blind with around 25,000 behind. Greenwood slid forward blue T-5,000 chips to cover that and Newey folded.

Player Chips Progress
Sam Greenwood ca
Sam Greenwood
60,300 20,500
Paul Newey gb
Paul Newey
25,000 -8,000

Tags: Juha HelppiPaul NeweySam Greenwood

Buddiga Eliminated by Badziakouski

Level 8 : 500/1,000, 100 ante
Pratyush Buddiga
Pratyush Buddiga

Mikita Badziakouski opened for 2,200 from the hijack and his neighbor Pratyush Buddiga pushed from the cutoff for 9,200. Action folded back to Badziakouski and he called.

Pratyush Buddiga: {K-Diamonds}{Q-Clubs}
Mikita Badziakouski: {8-Diamonds}{8-Clubs}

The board ran out {2-Diamonds}{6-Spades}{7-Clubs}{10-Clubs}{8-Spades} and Buddiga hit the rail minutes before the last break of the day.

Player Chips Progress
Mikita Badziakouski by
Mikita Badziakouski
56,000 27,000
Pratyush Buddiga us
Pratyush Buddiga
Busted

Tags: Mikita BadziakouskiPratyush Buddiga

Farrell Eliminated by Mateos

Level 8 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

We missed the hand, but EPT champion Adrian Mateos told us how he had just eliminated EPT Malta winner Niall Farrell.

Mateos raised under the gun and Behzad Ahadpour called in position. Farrel, short stacked and in the big blind, called as well. Farrel front pushed on {K-}{9-}{5-} rainbow and Mateos raised to 15,000. Ahadpour folded and Farrell showed {6-}{7-}. Mateos had {Q-}{9-} and Farrell failed to improve.

Player Chips Progress
Adrian Mateos es
Adrian Mateos
EPT Main Event Champion
EPT 1X Winner
150,000 47,000
Niall Farrell gb
Niall Farrell
EPT 1X Winner
Busted

Tags: Adrian MateosBehzad AhadpourNiall Farrell

Drinan Out Of Turn, Out Of Tourney

Level 8 : 500/1,000, 100 ante
Connor Drinan
Connor Drinan

The hand started off rather inconspicuously, with Connor Drinan opening the action from middle position and [Removed:17] defending his big blind.

Then, before any subsequent action took place, Drinan checked.

The floor got called over, and it took Drinan some time to convince the brush he was just goofing around. Nevertheless, if Yan didn't bet, the action would stand. As it was, the flop came {Q-Clubs}{10-Clubs}{6-Diamonds}, Yan checked and Drinan had to check behind.

On the {A-Hearts} turn, Yan checked and Drinan bet 5,000. Yan flicked in the call.

"All In," Drinan suddenly said.

It was before the river card was even dealt, and the dealer instantly called over the floor again. Drinan might have been goofing around before, but with the previous ruling made, it was clear what would happen: if Yan didn't change the action, Drinan's verbal all in declaration would be binding.

Yan elected to check the {5-Diamonds} that appeared on the river. Drinan had to move all in, as per the ruling, which was for his tournament life. Yan had to call a bet of 21,700, and gave it thirty seconds of thought before calling.

Connor Drinan: {7-Clubs}{6-Clubs}
[Removed:17]: {Q-Spades}{9-Hearts}

"Nice call," Drinan quipped.

Yan's pair of queens was enough to send the EPT Barcelona €10,000 High Roller packing in rather unusual fashion. Drinan elected to re-enter right away, giving him a fresh stack of 50,000 to play with.

Player Chips Progress
[Removed:17] nz
[Removed:17]
185,000 35,000
Connor Drinan us
Connor Drinan
50,000 15,000

Tags: Connor Drinan

Big Double Up for Kolonias

Level 8 : 500/1,000, 100 ante
Alexandros Kolonias
Alexandros Kolonias

It was three-way to the turn, with Charlie Carrel from the big blind, Ali Reza Fatehi from middle position and Alexandros Kolonias on the button.

The board was reading {K-Clubs}{Q-Hearts}{8-Spades}{6-Spades} with 12,000 chips in the middle. It was checked to Kolonias who fired out a bet of 7,000. Both, Carrel and Fatehi called and the {9-Diamonds} landed on the river.

Carrel and Fatehi checked again and Kolonias thought for about a minute, before shoving all-in for 36,000. Carrel called and Fatehi got out of the way.

The Greek tabled {J-Spades}{10-Spades} for the rivered straight and that was enought against Carrel's {K-}{10-}. Kolonias more than doubled his second bullet stack and breaks the 100,000 mark.

Player Chips Progress
Alexandros Kolonias gr
Alexandros Kolonias
105,000 55,000
Charlie Carrel gb
Charlie Carrel
97,500 -47,500
Ali Reza Fatehi ir
Ali Reza Fatehi
57,000 14,000

Tags: Alexandros KoloniasAli Reza FatehiCharlie Carrel

Hyper Satellite for Day 2 Underway

Level 8 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

A Hyper Satellite with single re-entry is underway with some 13 players. The eventual winner(s) will start on Day 2 with the initial stack of 50,000, which equals out to 25 big blinds upon restart. Among those to take part are Kamran Aliyev, Theo Jorgensen, Georgios Karakousis, Iliodoros Kamatakis and Alex Difelice.

Gruissem Takes from Buldygin

Level 8 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

Viacheslav Buldygin opened to 2,500 and Philipp Gruissem on the button as well as Davidi Kitai in the small blind came along to head three-way to the flop of {4-Hearts}{3-Diamonds}{2-Spades}. Kitai checked, Buldygin bet 6,000 and Gruissem stared at his opponent before raising to 16,000.

Kitai quickly got out of the way, but Buldygin needed some more time to release his cards into the muck as well.

Player Chips Progress
Philipp Gruissem de
Philipp Gruissem
85,000
Viacheslav Buldygin ru
Viacheslav Buldygin
40,000

Tags: Davidi KitaiPhilipp GruissemViacheslav Buldygin