€5,300 Main Event Day 2 | 2016 PokerStars.com EPT Season 13 Malta

10-25-2016 18:00 UTC+2

Player	Chips	Progress
Guillaume Diaz	427,000	-1,000
Dmitry Yurasov	360,000	45,000
Guillaume Valle	350,000	-30,000
Sarah Herzali	340,000	8,000
Piotr Franczak	330,300	-700
Davidi Kitai	328,700	-1,300
Louis Cartarius	272,000	-48,000
Xixiang Luo	253,000	23,000
Freek Cornelis Scholten	230,000	178,000
Simon Amyot	221,000	-29,000
Gianfranco Visalli	215,000	15,000
Walter Treccarichi	202,000	52,000
John Gulino	192,000	-18,000
Dietrich Fast	190,000	30,000
Usman Siddique	188,400	-41,600
Oliver Price	186,000	109,900
Benjamin Pollak	185,000	5,000
Stefano Terziani	185,000	67,000
Brian Altman	185,000	55,000
Zoltan Szabo	182,000	2,000
Eugene Katchalov	181,000	-14,000
Pawel Brzeski	180,000	-75,000
Anton Bertilsson	170,000	14,800
Michael Kane	167,600	42,600
Martin Staszko	160,300	-9,700

Diaz Keeps Pulling Away

Christian Zetzsche

Level 13 : 1,200/2,400, 400 ante

In the penultimate level of the day, Guillaume Diaz immediately won another pot without showdown and just put Damien Luis to the rest. Diaz raised to 5,000 on the button, Luis three-bet to 18,100 from the small blind and Diaz shoved to force a fold.

Diaz may be the first player to reach half a million in chips.

Player	Chips	Progress
Guillaume Diaz	465,000	37,000
Damien Luis	55,000	4,900

Tags: Damien Luis Guillaume Diaz

10-25-2016 17:54 UTC+2

Baron Finds Aces to Double

Christian Zetzsche

Level 13 : 1,200/2,400, 400 ante

Brian Altman raised to 5,200 from early position and Alexandru Baron three-bet all in for 24,900 on the button. Sergey Sergeev counted his stack carefully and eventually folded, later claimed in table chat he had pocket eights. Altman called and Baron was at risk.

Alexandru Baron:
Brian Altman:

The board ran out and Baron doubled.

Player	Chips	Progress
Brian Altman	170,000	40,000
Alexandru Baron	53,000	13,000

Tags: Alexandru Baron Brian Altman Sergey Sergeev

Level: 13

Blinds: 1,200/2,400

Ante: 400

10-25-2016 17:25 UTC+2

Second Break on Day 2, Diaz Leads

Webjoker

Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

The last 20-minute break for the players just commenced. When the remaining players return, just two more 75-minute levels are scheduled for the day.

After 12 levels of 75 minutes each, the 468-entry strong field of the 2016 PokerStars.com EPT13 Malta Main Event has been whittled down to just 111 hopefuls and 87 of them will take home at least €8,070. Leading the field thus far with more than 100 casualties after four levels of Day 2 is Guillaume Diaz with 428,000. The Frenchman knocked out Pasi Sormunen in a big pot and ran up his stack further after that, second in chips currently is fellow Frenchman Guillaume Valle with 380,000.

Start-of-the-day chip leader Andras Nemeth was also sent to the rail in level 12, first Pawel Brzeski doubled through him and then Nemeth sent the remainder of the stack over to Eugene Katchalov. Sarah Herzali's rise to the top came also from a double elimination and she ended the level with around 335,000, closely followed by Piotr Franczak (331,000), Davidi Kitai (330,000), Dominik Panka (330,000) , Louis Cartarius (320,000) and Yurasov with 315,000.

Among those to depart the last two levels were Dara O'Kearney, former EPT champion Benny Spindler, Erwann Pecheux, Anton Morgenstern, Johan Guilbert and Juha Helppi.

Tags: Andras Nemeth Anton Morgenstern Benny Spindler Dara O'Kearney Davidi Kitai Dmitry Yurasov Dominik Panka Erwann Pecheux Eugene Katchalov Guillaume Diaz Guillaume Valle Johan Guilbert Juha Helppi Louis Cartarius Pasi Sormunen Pawel Brzeski Piotr Franczak Sarah Herzali

10-25-2016 17:24 UTC+2

Diaz Sends Korochenskiy to the Rail

Christian Zetzsche

Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

Guillaume Diaz raised from early position and short stack Anatoly Korochenskiy shoved for around 23,000 in the small blind. The Frenchman didn't even ask for a count and quickly called, sitting behind a big stack already.

Anatoly Korochenskiy:
Guillaume Diaz:

The flop immediately paired up Diaz, and the turn and river were both blanks.

Player	Chips	Progress
Guillaume Diaz	428,000	188,000
Anatoly Korochenskiy	Busted

Tags: Anatoly Korochenskiy Guillaume Diaz

10-25-2016 17:23 UTC+2

Herzali and Cartarius Among Big Stacks

Christian Zetzsche

Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

Sarah Herzali and Louis Cartarius are sitting next to each other and just got involved into a little pot. On the river, Herzali checked and Cartarius bet 20,000. Herzali called and then mucked when she was shown the by her table neighbor.

"Nice hand," Herzali said and mucked while Cartarius was relieved. "I thought you were gonna raise," the German added.

Below are some further chip counts of big stacks and notables.

Player	Chips	Progress
Sarah Herzali	332,000	-43,200
Piotr Franczak	331,000	6,000
Davidi Kitai	330,000	27,000
Louis Cartarius	320,000	160,000
Simon Amyot	250,000	90,000
Thomas Lentrodt	235,000	151,100
Gianfranco Visalli	200,000	118,400
Dietrich Fast	160,000	88,800
Brian Altman	130,000	6,000

Tags: Louis Cartarius Sarah Herzali

10-25-2016 17:21 UTC+2

Baumann Doubles; Dohler is Back

Christian Zetzsche

Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

Bastian Dohler more than doubled up before through Dmitry Yurasov, while the Russian continued to steam-roll through the table and amass a ton of chips. Another short stack would double against Yurasov, who opened to 4,500 and then called the shove of Gaelle Baumann in the small blind for 36,800.

Gaelle Baumann:
Dmitry Yurasov:

The board came and Baumann doubled, while Yurasov remains among the biggest stacks.

Player	Chips	Progress
Dmitry Yurasov	315,000	86,200
Bastian Dohler	150,000	105,000
Gaelle Baumann	77,000	29,000

Tags: Bastian Dohler Dmitry Yurasov Gaelle Baumann

10-25-2016 17:18 UTC+2

Big Double for Siddique

Christian Zetzsche

Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

Usman Siddique asked the short stack in the big blind for his stack size before any action had taken place and then raised from the cutoff for 4,300. Grzegorz Grochulski from one seat over three-bet to 11,600 and the blinds got out of the way. Siddique then four-bet to 26,800, Grochulski quickly moved all in and Siddique snap-called.

Usman Siddique:
Grzegorz Grochulski:

The board came and Siddique scored a big double for 111,700.

Player	Chips	Progress
Usman Siddique	230,000	80,000
Grzegorz Grochulski	35,000	-130,000

Tags: Grzegorz Grochulski Usman Siddique

10-25-2016 17:14 UTC+2

Nemeth Doubles Brzeski; Then Busts to Katchalov

DBLLpoker

Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

Start-of-the-day chip leader Andras Nemeth has just been eliminated from this EPT Main Event. First, he lost almost all of his stack to qualifier Pawel Brzeski. An orbit later his last chips went Eugene Katchalov's way.

In the first hand, it was Sergey Sergeev that opened with a raise to 4,000. Brzeski called on the button, before Nemeth raised to 18,000 from the small blind.

Sergeev folded but Brzeski four-bet to 42,000. Nemeth gave it some thought, then five-bet all in for 123,500 effectively. Brzeski call after a few seconds.

Andras Nemeth:
Pawel Brzeski: