€5,300 Main Event Day 1b | 2016 PokerStars.com EPT Season 13 Malta

10-25-2016 01:33 UTC+2

Andras Nemeth Tops Day 1b Survivors at 2016 PokerStars EPT Malta Main Event

DBLLpoker

Level 8 : 400/800, 100 ante

The second and last starting day of the 2016 PokerStars.com EPT13 Malta Main Event attracted 326 players. After eighth 75-minutes levels, it was Hungarian Andras Nemeth who came out on top of the 162 players that survived the day. Nemeth bagged up 192,400 in chips, slightly more than day 1a chip leader Dan Shak who'll bring 185,100 to Day 2. After two starting days the total number of runners adds up to 460 of which 223 will return to the Casino Portomaso tomorrow to continue play on day 2.

The story of the first level of day 1b was the bust out of Sai Wu as she made her departure after just 14 minutes of play. Wu had lost some of her chips before but still had more than two-thirds of the starting stack left when she shoved all in with ace-nine on an ace-ten-five-ten-seven board. Alexander Ivarsson was more than happy to call it down with ace-ten for a full house. Despite his good start, Ivarsson didn’t manage to survive the day.

Neither did Marcin Chmielewski, he was the second casualty of the day and hopped right into the €10,200 Single-Day High Roller, where he busted evenly fast. In the Main Event, it was Bastian Döhler who got his chips. Döhler also eliminated Lijo Lander but couldn’t hold on to his big stack for long, he ended the day with just 22,800 chips, slightly less than the 30,000 he started with.

One of the notables that got off to a good start was Eugene Katchalov. He scored a double knockout when he busted Jamie Staples and short stack Adel Kabbei. Katchalov had queens and was up against Kabbani’s ace-ten suited and Staples pocket jacks. None of them improved and they were sent tot the rail. While Katchalov found his way up, Staples was one of the notables that didn’t make it to the dinner break.

Besides Twitch-star Staples, Andres Hoivold, Jan Bendik, Jason Wheeler, Patrick Leonard, Alex DiFelice and defending champion Niall Farrell were all gone before dinner as well.

Meanwhile, William Kassouf entered the event. The Brit was the talk of the week here in the casino because of his appearance in the World Series of Poker broadcast. Here in Malta, he was talking loud and clear as always, annoying some of the players and railbirds, entertaining others. He gained some chips but didn’t make it to the top of the leaderboard; Kassouf survived the day with 50,500 in chips.

Chipleader Nemeth got things moving the right way half way through the day as he slowly chipped up and never looked back. By winning many pots without going to a showdown, he was able to build the biggest stack in the room and he'll come back as leader of the pack on Tuesday.

There are lots of notables in the top of the leaderboard, but there were many that didn’t survive. Most recent EPT champion Sebastian Malec was one of them as he busted in the second-to-last level of the day with eights against tens. Kitty Kuo, Antoine Saout and Miroslav Forman are some of the others that busted right before the end of play. Team PokerStars Pro Jake Cody even busted in the very last hand.

Some notables that did manage to make day 2 include: French pro Sarah Herzali (142,400), triple crown winner Davidi Kitai (128,000), Mikita Badziakouski (103,500), Ludovic Geilich (92,200), Dominik Panka (86,000), Dietrich Fast (80,700), Benny Spindler (70,300) and George Danzer (27,000).

Those are just some of the famous names that will return on Tuesday for day 2 of this EPT Main Event. The action will resume at 12 p.m. local time with six 75-minute levels on the schedule. The PokerNews live reporting team will bring you all the action, so be sure to tune in to get the latest updates.

Day 2 Seat Draw

Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count
1	1	Alessandro Longobardi	Italy	69,100
1	2	Ole Schemion	Germany	147,500
1	3	Eros Nastasi	Italy	45,800
1	4	Johan Guilbert	France	20,600
1	6	Miguel Riera Suarez	Spain	97,500
1	7	Ran Azor	Israel	58,800
1	8	Andre DiFelice	Canada	79,100

2	1	Bartlomiej Machon	Poland	35,800
2	2	Stefano Terziani	Italy	85,600
2	3	Vicente Delgado	Spain	133,300
2	4	Charlie Carrel	UK	87,300
2	5	Asker Aloev	Russia	120,000
2	6	Lawrence Andreys	France	16,100
2	7	Michal Janczarski	Poland	51,000
2	8	Rafael Gancedo	Spain	14,300

3	1	Govert Metaal	Netherlands	21,100
3	2	Simon Amyot	Canada	48,700
3	3	Krzysztof Stuchlik	Poland	34,000
3	4	Russell Thomas	USA	55,000
3	5	Serdar Demiroglu	Turkey	74,600
3	6	Alain Fluri	Switzerland	77,400
3	7	Adrian Mateos	Spain	27,800
3	8	Daniele Colautti	Italy	110,000

4	1	Gheorghe Gradinaru	Romania	24,100
4	2	Alexander Debus	Germany	51,800
4	3	Petar Petrov	Bulgaria	53,400
4	4	Paul Gresel	Netherlands	63,500
4	5	George McDonald	UK	32,400
4	6	Aliaksei Boika	Belarus	125,100
4	7	Darya Hulyk	Ukraine	89,300
4	8	Marko Popovic	Bulgaria	33,900

5	1	Victor Ilyukhin	Russia	43,100
5	2	Stale Eggen	Norway	92,300
5	4	Viacheslav Buldygin	Russia	79,400
5	5	Mats Karlsson	Sweden	150,200
5	6	Thibault Letort	France	33,300
5	7	Oskar Szwed	Poland	73,000
5	8	Huy Pham	Vietnam	63,300

6	1	Jerry Odeen	Sweden	110,800
6	2	Zorlucan Er	Turkey	83,500
6	3	Bejjani Kamal	Lebanon	77,800
6	4	Taran Parmar	Canada	58,100
6	5	Sergio Benso	Italy	56,400
6	6	Doron Davidovitz	Israel	13,100
6	7	Elie Saad	Lebanon	87,300
6	8	Hani Bahna	Canada	23,500

7	1	Dong Zhao	China	41,600
7	2	Benny Spindler	Germany	70,300
7	3	Fabrice Soulier	France	37,500
7	4	Dara O'Kearney	Ireland	51,100
7	5	Mikita Badziakouski	Belarus	103,500
7	6	Stephen Chidwick	UK	80,900
7	7	Dawid Borkowski	Poland	76,700
7	8	Jeroen Soons	Netherlands	31,100

8	1	Roman Korenev	Russia	109,200
8	2	Marco Bartolini	Italy	59,000
8	3	Ibrahim Ghassan	Lebanon	50,100
8	4	Maximilian Seidel	Germany	45,000
8	5	Peter Eichhardt	Sweden	12,800
8	6	Martin Nikolov	Bulgaria	112,600
8	7	Armando Collado Lanuza	Nicaragua	73,500
8	8	Orpen Kisacikoglu	UK	18,300

9	1	Avihai Smadga	Israel	33,200
9	2	Natasha Amo	Canada	23,600
9	3	Harpreet Gill	Canada	12,800
9	5	Pietro Alerci	Italy	39,600
9	6	Stefan Jedlicka	Austria	22,900
9	7	Mark Anthony Vella	Malta	30,300
9	8	Dennis Berglin	Sweden	27,900

10	1	Felix Schlott	Germany	62,400
10	2	Kees van Brugge	Netherlands	23,300
10	3	Massimo Segatto	Italy	52,800
10	4	Jaime Kirk Man Galecio	Chile	53,100
10	5	Xixiang Luo	China	139,000
10	6	Michiel Broskij	Netherlands	36,800
10	7	Benny Glaser	UK	26,100
10	8	Marek Grzeska	Poland	13,200

11	1	Thi Nguyen	Vietman	118,000
11	2	Usman Siddique	UK	20,000
11	3	Grzegorz Grochulski	Poland	111,300
11	4	John Gulino	USA	129,600
11	5	Stanislav Kozlovskyi	Ukraine	62,100
11	6	Pratyush Buddiga	USA	9,900
11	7	Guillaume Diaz	France	122,400
11	8	Georgios Zisimopoulos	Greece	31,100

12	1	Paul McCartney	UK	58,100
12	2	Abdelhakim Zoufri	Netherlands	25,100
12	3	Vlado Banicevic	Montenegro	41,000
12	4	Mark Wagstaff	UK	38,000
12	5	Anton Bertilsson	Sweden	155,200
12	6	Maria Ho	USA	32,800
12	7	Jeffrey Blenkarn	USA	36,500
12	8	Sergey Sergeev	Russia	70,800

13	1	Andrey Andreev	Russia	71,300
13	2	Ivan Deyra	France	9,000
13	3	Senh Ung	UK	19,200
13	4	Paul Newey	UK	41,500
13	5	George Danzer	Germany	27,000
13	7	Angelo Mancini	Chile	72,200
13	8	Konstantin Kazaev	Russia	43,200

14	1	Anton Morgenstern	Germany	96,500
14	2	Jordi Urlings	Netherlands	48,300
14	3	Pierre Calamusa	France	61,600
14	4	Bastian Dohler	Germany	22,800
14	5	Alexander Prokudin	Russia	26,300
14	6	Dmitry Yurasov	Russia	126,500
14	7	Fiodor Martino	Italy	41,400
14	8	Kee Seow	Sweden	54,900

15	1	Vladimir Troyanovskiy	Russia	9,000
15	2	Benjamin Philipps	UK	32,500
15	3	Brian Altman	USA	105,300
15	4	Yaniv Peretz	Latvia	83,200
15	5	William Kassouf	UK	50,500
15	6	Jerwin Pasco	Singapore	27,400
15	7	Simon Trumper	UK	54,700
15	8	Jaroslaw Kowalski	Poland	43,000

16	1	Ricardo Cuerda Cuartero	Spain	35,000
16	2	Jean Montury	France	20,000
16	3	Nicolino Di Carlo	Italy	41,400
16	4	Alexandru Baron	Canada	40,700
16	5	Koray Aldemir	Austria	58,700
16	6	Roger Artur Szarek	Poland	101,600
16	7	Tibor Nagygyorgy	Hungary	62,200
16	8	Michael Kane	UK	81,900

17	1	Dan Shak	USA	185,100
17	2	Dominique Terzian	France	45,000
17	3	Ismael Bojang	Austria	128,400
17	4	Ludovic Geilich	UK	92,200
17	6	Felipe Costa	Brazil	40,400
17	7	Ivan Banic	Croatia	48,700
17	8	Nariman Yaghmai	Iran	29,900

18	1	Roberto Perez Gomez	Spain	77,700
18	2	Damien Luis	France	50,100
18	3	Alexandros Kolonias	Greece	23,700
18	4	Andras Nemeth	Hungary	192,700
18	5	Erwann Pecheux	France	46,200
18	6	Morten Halvorsen	Norway	17,800
18	7	Hady El Asmar	Lebanon	101,900
18	8	Marco D'Amico	Italy	46,400

19	1	Mikhail Petrov	Russia	83,400
19	2	Jean-Louis Cyr	Canada	85,500
19	3	Aykutalp Yilmaz	Turkey	74,200
19	4	Luis Rodriguez Cruz	Spain	24,900
19	6	Laszlo Bujtas	Hungary	26,200
19	7	Benjamin Pollak	France	26,500
19	8	Yung Hwang	USA	57,600

20	1	[Removed:215]	Switzerland	59,200
20	2	Jakub Michalak	Poland	98,200
20	3	Thomas Lentrodt	Germany	83,900
20	4	Gianfranco Visalli	Italy	81,600
20	5	Piotr Franczak	Poland	108,600
20	6	Guillaume Valle	France	143,200
20	7	Rick Trigg	UK	49,500
20	8	Viatcheslav Ortynskiy	Russia	60,400

21	1	Danny Van Zijp	Netherlands	102,900
21	2	Jussi Nevanlinna	Finland	36,100
21	3	Anatoly Korochenskiy	Russia	55,700
21	4	Chi Zhang	UK	54,300
21	5	Eugene Katchalov	Ukraine	143,900
21	6	Pasi Sormunen	Finland	183,600
21	7	Dominik Panka	Poland	86,000
21	8	David Cabrera	Chile	75,700

22	1	Louis Cartarius	Germany	77,800
22	2	Simen Birkelund	Norway	57,000
22	3	Mikolaj Zawadzki	Poland	18,000
22	4	Lior Shabtay	Israel	58,900
22	5	Felix Bleiker	Switzerland	77,000
22	6	Joris Ruijs	Netherlands	74,000
22	7	Dmitry Ponomarev	Russia	14,800
22	8	Frederik Jensen	Denmark	147,800

23	1	[Removed:155]	Netherlands	163,300
23	2	[Removed:17]	New Zealand	20,300
23	3	Pawel Zawadowicz	Poland	32,100
23	4	Mateusz Borowski	Poland	27,300
23	5	Pierre Merlin	France	63,800
23	6	Roberto Romanello	UK	148,300
23	7	Davidi Kitai	Belgium	128,000
23	8	Mikalai Vaskaboinikau	Belarus	62,600

24	1	Dmitry Nikitin	Russia	12,200
24	2	Yury Gulyy	Russia	120,900
24	3	Marcello Gavazzeni	Italy	55,200
24	4	Tomas Jozonis	Lithuania	9,400
24	6	Sarah Herzali	France	142,400
24	7	Pawel Brzeski	Poland	42,900
24	8	Aleksander Spadijer	Montenegro	54,700

25	1	Roman Ermakov	Russia	19,100
25	2	Gaelle Baumann	France	44,800
25	3	Konrad Abela	Malta	64,000
25	4	Christophe Larquemin	France	21,800
25	5	Tomas Macnamara	UK	54,300
25	6	Alexey Losev	Russia	22,600
25	7	Dariusz Szoen	Poland	61,100
25	8	Karzan Hamarash	Iraq	54,700

26	1	Juha Helppi	Finland	48,700
26	2	James Akenhead	UK	15,400
26	3	Charalampos Tsivikos	Cyprus	36,900
26	4	Kamran Aliyev	Azerbaijan	30,400
26	5	Ugur Altun	Turkey	12,900
26	6	Sylvain Loosli	France	15,400
26	7	Olli Autio	Finland	52,500
26	8	Jacqueline Cachia	Malta	16,900

27	1	Bjorn Geissert	Germany	49,700
27	2	Konstantinos Tzinis	Greece	17,200
27	3	Raffaele Sorrentino	Italy	27,200
27	4	Thomas Mjeldheim	Norway	139,700
27	5	Walter Treccarichi	Italy	85,600
27	6	Jacek Pustula	Poland	42,000
27	7	Peter Akery	UK	12,900
27	8	Bart Maes	Belgium	119,500

28	1	Bartosz Jablonski	Poland	16,200
28	2	Paul-Francois Tedeschi	UK	38,700
28	3	Luke Marsh	UK	85,000
28	5	Dietrich Fast	Germany	80,700
28	6	Knut Karnapp	Germany	68,300
28	7	Peter Ockenden	UK	87,800
28	8	Armin Mette	Austria	183,700

29	1	Zoltan Szabo	Hungary	43,700
29	2	Aymon Hata	UK	24,300
29	4	Freek Cornelis Scholten	Netherlands	52,000
29	5	Tom Hall	UK	33,600
29	6	Martin Staszko	Czech Republic	70,200
29	7	Lucas Blanco	Spain	61,800
29	8	Song Hun Lee	Canada	23,200

Tags: Alexander Ivarsson Andras Nemeth Andre DiFelice Andreas Hoivold Antoine Saout Anton Bertilsson Armin Mette Benny Spindler Davidi Kitai Dietrich Fast Dominik Panka Eugene Katchalov George Danzer Jaime Staples Jake Cody Jan Bendik Jason Wheeler Kitty Kuo Ludovic Geilich Mikita Badziakouski Miroslav Forman Niall Farrell Roberto Romanello Sai Wu Sebastian Malec William Kassouf

10-24-2016 22:00 UTC+2

No Magic from Malec This Time

Christian Zetzsche

Level 7 : 300/600, 100 ante

Ricardo Cuerda Cuartero raised to 1,500 from middle position and Felipe Costa called in the cutoff. Sebastian Malec, who won EPT13 Barcelona back in August, shoved his short stack for 10,500 and Cuartero quickly called, Costa folded face up.

Malec:
Cuartero:

The board came and the full house of the Spaniard sent Malec to the rail.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ricardo Cuerda Cuartero	54,000	9,000
Sebastian Malec	Busted

Tags: Ricardo Cuerda Cuartero Sebastian Malec

10-24-2016 20:00 UTC+2

Herzali Busts Lehmanski

Christian Zetzsche

Level 6 : 250/500, 75 ante

On the flop of , Sarah Herzali bet 2,500 and Max Lehmanski raised to 6,500, Herzali called. On the ]6d] turn, the board paired and brought a flush draw. Herzali checked, Lehmanski bet 8,500 and was called. After the river, Herzali checked again and Lehmanski shoved for his last 18,500.

Herzali tanked for a few minutes and then called. Lehmanski had the for a bluff and Herzali claimed the chips with .

Player	Chips	Progress
Sarah Herzali	90,000	44,000
Max Lehmanski	Busted

Tags: Maximilian Lehmanski Sarah Herzali

10-24-2016 19:53 UTC+2

An Orbit With William Kassouf

Christian Zetzsche

Level 6 : 250/500, 75 ante

Hand 1

After a raise to 1,100 in under the gun by Ivan Banic, William Kassouf called in the hijack and Nabil Cardoso moved all in for 6,550 from one seat over. Banic called and Kassouf folded. Cardoso had the and won the flip against Banic's on a board of . "Back in the game!" Kassouf said to Cardoso and smiled.

Hand 2

Guillaume Diaz raised and Arnaud Peyroles moved all in, Diaz folded.

Hand 3

Freek Scholten raised to 1,200 and Kassouf called, Diaz called in the big blind. On the flop, Diaz checked. Scholten bet 1,800 and Kassouf raised to 5,000. Diaz folded and Kassouf started some table talk. "Ace high is not good," he said among other things and he got the fold he wanted.

Hand 4

Diaz raised the small blind, Scholten called in the big blind and Diaz then check-folded the flop.

Hand 5

Kassouf raised to 1,200 from under the gun and Peyroles called. On the flop, Kassouf bet 2,000 and Peyroles moved all in. Kassouf called.

Peyroles:
Kassouf:

"Brick brick please," Kassouf said and the came on the turn. "Always a sweat, eh," the Brit added. The river was a blank and Kassouf said a brief "thank you" then raked in the pot.

Hand 6

Osman Aksu raised to 1,500 and Scholten called on the button, Kassouf in the big blind. The flop came and Aksu took down the pot with a bet of 6,500.

Hand 7

Banic raised to 1,100, Scholten clicked to 3,600 in the cutoff and Kassouf folded in the small blind. Banic called, and then check-folded the flop to a continuation bet.

Hand 8

Aksu limped, Diaz raised to 1,700 and Kassouf folded, Aksu called. On the flop, Aksu bet 2,000 and Diaz called. On the turn, Aksu bet 10,225 and Diaz shoved for 25,575 - Aksu folded. During the hand, Kassouf checked text messages on the phone, likely also looking for upcoming dinner options.

Hand 9

Diaz raised to 1,200 and Scholten called, Kassouf asked "how much" and calledalso. On the flop both players checked to Kassouf and he bet 2,150. Only Diaz called and Kassouf started small talk again. "I have the best hand at the moment. I am not on a draw. You got a small pair?" Diaz didn't say a single word.

The turn and river were checked. Diaz showed the and Kassouf mucked.

Result: One double, one big pot where Kassouf wasn't involved and the Brit busted an opponent to build his stack. Oh, and Aksu busted soon after.

Player	Chips	Progress
William Kassouf	62,000	5,000
Ivan Banic	58,000	58,000
Freek Scholten	45,000	45,000
Guillaume Diaz	44,000	22,000
Nabil Cardoso	12,500	-6,500
Arnaud Peyroles	Busted
Osman Aksu	Busted

Tags: Arnaud Peyroles Freek Scholten Guillaume Diaz Ivan Banic Nabil Cardoso Osman Aksu William Kassouf

10-24-2016 16:32 UTC+2

Katchalov Busts Staples and Kabbani

Christian Zetzsche

Level 4 : 150/300, 50 ante

The colleagues of the PokerStars blog ran into a pretty big hand that saw the departure of Jaime Staples and Adel Kabbani.

Staples raised to 700 from under the gun and four opponents called including Eugene Katchalov. Then, Adel Kabbai jammed his last 5,250 in the big blind and Staples just called. It folded to Katchalov, who eventually raised to 26,000 to give Staples only the choice to fold or go all in for little more. Staples decided for the latter after some consideration and committed his last 29,750 to createa three-way showdown.

Kabbani:
Staples:
Katchalov:

There was no help on the board and Katchalov knocked out both opponents to skyrocket his stack.

Player	Chips	Progress
Eugene Katchalov	85,000	48,000
Jaime Staples	Busted
Adel Kabbani	Busted

Tags: Eugene Katchalov Jaime Staples

10-24-2016 12:22 UTC+2

Seat Open After 14 Minutes

Christian Zetzsche

Level 1 : 50/100, 0 ante

There were some gasps on the table still after the dealer had announced seat open on table 23. Jimmy Guerrero couldn't really believe it either, but apparently Sai Wu had sent over her remaining stack entirely to Alexander Ivarsson. The first seat open after 14 minutes! This is not a record for the EPT though, but surely one of the fastest exits ever.

As per Ivarsson, this is what happened. Wu limped in, the cutoff raised to 375 and Ivarsson three-bet to 1,000 on the button, only Wu called. On the flop, Wu checked, Ivarsson bet 1,200 and then faced a raise to 2,700. Ivarsson reraised to 6,700 and Wu called. After the turn, Ivarsson bet 6,000 and received a call before checking the river. Wu shoved for 13,000 with and Ivarsson more than happily called with for the full house.

Player	Chips	Progress
Alexander Ivarsson	60,000	24,000
Sai Wu	Busted

Tags: Alexander Ivarsson Sai Wu

10-24-2016 12:14 UTC+2

Use the PokerNews My Stack App to Update Friends and Family

Webjoker

Level 1 : 50/100, 0 ante

The PokerNews MyStack App is available for players here at the PokerStars EPT Malta, allowing players to directly update their chip count on the PokerNews Live Reporting page for their friends and family to see.

You can download the app for iPhone or Android now to get started. Then, create a new PokerNews account or update your current one to start updating your status immediately. Your followers can see all the live action that you're involved in.

10-24-2016 10:10 UTC+2

Welcome to Day 1b of the PokerStars.com EPT13 Malta Main Event

Christian Zetzsche

Niall Farrell in the €25,750 Super High Roller

In two hours from now at 12 p.m. local time, the second starting day of the 2016 PokerStars.com EPT Season 13 Malta €5,300 Main Event gets underway at the Casino Portomaso. With plenty of sunshine outside and many of the online grinders returning to the felt after their Sunday sessions, a bigger field is expected than the 134 entries of yesterday's Day 1a, of which 61 bagged up chips last night.

The numbers to beat thus far for all hopefuls today are Dan Shak's 185,100 and Pasi Sormunen's 183,600, more than six times the starting stack over the course of eight 75-minute levels. All participants receive 30,000 in chips and there will be a break of 20 minutes every two levels and a 75-minute dinner break after level six, play will come to an end around midnight local time.

Last year, the EPT stopped twice on Malta. Jean Montury emerged victorious in the EPT11 Malta Main Event after outlasting a field of 895 players to claim a career-best payday of €687,400. And in October 2015, Niall Farrell defeated a 651-entry strong field in heads up against Alen Bilic to lift the trophy.

Many of the regular faces in the High Roller events took to the felt yesterday already with mixed success and as of 12.30 p.m. local time, the €10,300 Single-Day High Roller also kicks off as well. Who will make a big step towards history in the second-last EPT before the rebranding to the PokerStars Festivals next year? The PokerNews live reporting team will be on hand to cover the action for both tournaments, so stay tuned and check back regularly.

Tags: Alen Bilic Dan Shak Jean Montury Niall Farrell Pasi Sormunen