2016 PokerStars.com EPT Season 13 Malta

€5,300 Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info

2016 PokerStars.com EPT Season 13 Malta

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
aj
Prize
€355,700
Event Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€2,269,800
Entries
468
Level Info
Level
28
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000

Ilyukhin Loses Flip to Nikolov

Level 16 : 2,500/5,000, 500 ante

Victor Ilyukhin opened the action with a raise to 11,000 and Martin Nikolov three-bet to 30,000 from one seat over. Ilkyukhin opted to shove for around 100,000 and Nikolov called.

Victor Ilkyukhin: {Q-Hearts}{Q-Clubs}
Martin Nikolov: {A-Spades}{K-Spades}

The flop of {K-Hearts}{8-Spades}{7-Spades} left Ilyukhin with very little hope, as one of his outs was already pretty much gone. A blank {4-Diamonds} on the turn left just the {Q-Diamonds}, but the river was a blank with the {6-Hearts}.

Player Chips Progress
Martin Nikolov bg
Martin Nikolov
410,000 110,000
Victor Ilyukhin gb
Victor Ilyukhin
Busted

Tags: Martin NikolovVictor Ilyukhin

Franczak Busts to Eggen

Level 16 : 2,500/5,000, 500 ante
Piotr Franczak
Piotr Franczak

Stale Eggen had just doubled up with pocket kings against pocket fours and then shoved the very next hand out of the small blind. Piotr Franczak called all in with less in the big blind.

Piotr Franczak: {K-Hearts}{10-Clubs}
Stale Eggen: {A-Diamonds}{J-Spades}

The board came {A-Spades}{K-Spades}{8-Diamonds}{5-Diamonds}{2-Hearts} and that sent Franczak to the rail.

Player Chips Progress
Stale Eggen no
Stale Eggen
80,000 37,000
Piotr Franczak pl
Piotr Franczak
Busted

Tags: Piotr FranczakStale Eggen

Bojang Sends Szwed to the Rail

Level 16 : 2,500/5,000, 500 ante

Usman Siddique made it 11,000 to go from middle position before PokerStars Qualifier Oskar Szwed put his remaining chips over the betting line from the very next seat. Ismael Bojang on the button seemed very interested, and didn't spend many seconds before he himself announced all in. The blinds and Siddique wasted no time getting out of the way, and with the {A-Spades}{K-Diamonds} of Szwed and the {Q-Diamonds}{Q-Clubs} of Bojang it was a classic coinflip.

The flop of {7-Clubs}{7-Diamonds}{J-Hearts} was no help to the player at risk, and neither the {5-Hearts} on the turn or the {2-Hearts} on the river changed that.

Szwed began his journey to the cashier, while Ismael Bojang is sitting on around 440,000.

Player Chips Progress
Ismael Bojang de
Ismael Bojang
440,000 127,000
Oskar Szwed pl
Oskar Szwed
Busted

Tags: Ismael BojangOskar Szwed

Seat Open

Level 16 : 2,500/5,000, 500 ante

After the long bubble phase, there are a lot of short stacks in the field. One of those stacks belonged to Jacek Pustula, who got it in for 25,000 holding {A-Clubs}{Q-Clubs}. Usman Siddique looked him up with {A-Diamonds}{Q-Diamonds} and flushed out Pustula on a {J-Spades}{J-Diamonds}{4-Diamonds}{3-Diamonds}{7-Clubs} board.

Felipe Costa and Peter Akery are also at the rail.

Player Chips Progress
Usman Siddique gb
Usman Siddique
180,000 35,000
Jacek Pustula pl
Jacek Pustula
Busted
Peter Akery gb
Peter Akery
Busted
Felipe Costa br
Felipe Costa
Busted

Tags: Jacek PustulaUsman Siddique

Philipps Bubbles EPT Malta Main Event

Level 16 : 2,500/5,000, 500 ante
Benjamin Philipps bubbles EPT 13 Malta 2016 €5,300 Main Event
Benjamin Philipps bubbles EPT 13 Malta 2016 €5,300 Main Event

After his earlier double up, Benjamin Philipps was blinded down to just 5,500 in chips.

He then had to post the big blind and was left with only a single 500-chip behind. From first position, Tomas Macnamara, who doubled him in the previous hand, raised to 10,000. It was folded to Philipps and he started waiting for all the other tables to finish their hand.

There were no other all-in-situations, so Philipps was at risk of becoming the bubble boy when he threw in his final chip. The camera crews rushed to the table and he showed his {Q-Diamonds}{2-Clubs}.

Macnamara was ahead with the {7-Hearts}{7-Clubs}.

The board ran out an uneventful {10-Clubs}{8-Diamonds}{5-Diamonds}{8-Spades}{J-Spades}.

In the end, it didn't really matter and Philipps was on his way out empty handed while all the others in the room secured a pay-day of at least €8,070.

Player Chips Progress
Tomas Macnamara gb
Tomas Macnamara
335,000 -15,000
Benjamin Philipps gb
Benjamin Philipps
Busted

Tags: Benjamin PhilippsTomas Macnamara

Valle Takes from Diaz

Level 16 : 2,500/5,000, 500 ante

Joining the action on the {A-Diamonds}{9-Clubs}{8-Clubs}{J-Spades} turn with plenty of chips in the middle, Guillaume Valle checked in the small blind and fellow Frenchman Guillaume Diaz bet 48,000 on the cutoff. Valle called and checked again the {4-Spades} river.

Diaz checked behind and then mucked when Valle showed the {A-Clubs}{K-Spades}.

Player Chips Progress
Guillaume Valle fr
Guillaume Valle
530,000 70,000
Guillaume Diaz fr
Guillaume Diaz
400,000 -70,000

Tags: Guillaume DiazGuillaume Valle

Chip Counts in the Break (full)

Level 16 : 2,500/5,000, 500 ante

Here are the full chip count of nearly all the remaining players.

Player Chips Progress
Dmitry Yurasov ru
Dmitry Yurasov
496,500 116,500
Davidi Kitai be
Davidi Kitai
EPT Main Event Champion
EPT 1X Winner
Winamax
476,000 191,500
Guillaume Diaz fr
Guillaume Diaz
470,000 -113,500
Guillaume Valle fr
Guillaume Valle
460,000 97,000
Elie Saad lb
Elie Saad
460,000 30,000
Louis Cartarius de
Louis Cartarius
455,000 160,000
Gianfranco Visalli it
Gianfranco Visalli
452,000 -90,500
Sarah Herzali fr
Sarah Herzali
431,500 11,500
Xixiang Luo cn
Xixiang Luo
382,000 32,000
Walter Treccarichi it
Walter Treccarichi
350,000 40,000
Tomas Macnamara gb
Tomas Macnamara
350,000 -5,000
Sergey Sergeev ru
Sergey Sergeev
319,000 61,500
Ismael Bojang de
Ismael Bojang
313,000 120,500
Chi Zhang gb
Chi Zhang
310,000 70,500
Martin Nikolov bg
Martin Nikolov
300,000 101,000
Peter Ockenden gb
Peter Ockenden
298,000 -171,500
Frederik Jensen dk
Frederik Jensen
EPT 1X Winner
291,500 100,000
Dominik Panka pl
Dominik Panka
EPT 1X Winner
290,000 -10,000
Armin Mette at
Armin Mette
281,500 71,500
Konrad Abela pl
Konrad Abela
245,500 39,500
Freek Cornelis Scholten nl
Freek Cornelis Scholten
240,000 240,000
Aliaksei Boika by
Aliaksei Boika
EPT Main Event Champion
EPT 1X Winner
232,000 20,000
Bastian Dohler de
Bastian Dohler
230,000 20,500
Eugene Katchalov ua
Eugene Katchalov
224,000 -11,000
Dan Shak us
Dan Shak
217,000 14,000

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Level: 16

Blinds: 2,500/5,000

Ante: 500