2018 PokerStars EPT Prague

€5,300 EPT Main Event
Day: 5
Event Info

2018 PokerStars EPT Prague

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
jj
Prize
€840,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€5,300
Prize Pool
€5,693,900
Entries
1,174
Level Info
Level
35
Blinds
200,000 / 400,000
Ante
400,000

Who Will Make the Final Six of the EPT Main Event Here in Prague?

Paul Michaelis
Paul Michaelis

The penultimate day of the €5,300 EPT Main Event is here and set to start at noon local time. Paul Michaelis will be sitting down as the chip leader here in the Hilton Prague with 5,315,000 chips. Sixteen players will return today to contest each other to make it to the final six left for the final day and the amazing first-place prize of €1,020,000.

Michaelis has already surpassed his biggest EPT cash ever, which took place in 2015 when he finished in 3rd place here in Prague in the €1,100 Hyper-Turbo for €25,365, as everyone is guaranteed at least €44,920. But knowing Michaelis, he won’t be satisfied with that, he will have his eyes set on that final table and adding another title to his achievements.

Trailing Michaelis in the chip counts is high stakes cash games player Liviu Ignat with 4,550,000 which equals 114 big blinds. Ignat seems to only play EPTs when playing live tournaments as he has collected twelve cashes in total, all on the EPT circuit. Ignat’s biggest cash took place during the EPT in Malta in 2016 when he finished in 6th place in the €10,300 High Roller for €78,220.

Closing out the top three at the start of the day is Argentina’s Diego Zeiter. Zeiter will open a bag at noon containing 3,905,000 and is seated at the same table as Michaelis and Ignat. Also included on the table is the only former EPT champion left, Andrey Pateychuk. Table #2 also features Day 3 chip leader Konstantin Farber, Twitch phenomenon Parker Talbot, EPT Prague Cup winner from earlier this week Sergei Bagirov, and Evangelos Bechrakis who finished in 3rd place in the €2,200 National High Roller for €144,900 almost a week ago.

In comparison, Table #1 contains around 37% of the total amount of chips in play which could possibly cause for some friction, one way or the other. The 16 remaining players will return to finish the last five minutes of Level 25 which features a small blind of 20,000, big blind of 40,000, and a big blind ante of 40,000. They will then immediately continue with Level 26 with a small blind of 25,000, big blind of 50,000, and a big blind ante of 50,000. A 20-minute break will take place after every 90-minute level and play is expected to continue until there are six players left but this is subject to change.

The PokerNews live reporting team will be here, as usual, to bring you all the action from the floor!

Day 5 Seat Draw:

TableSeatPlayerCountryChipsBig Blinds
11Artem KobylynskiyUkraine1,005,00025
12Ivan ZhechevBulgaria1,235,00031
13Serhii HolodiukUkraine1,545,00039
14Carlos BrancoPortugal990,00025
15Fionn MacNamaraUnited Kingdom1,790,00045
16Ugo FaggioliFrance3,500,00088
17Alexandr MerzhvinskiiRussia1,365,00034
18Laurynas LevinskasLithuania1,900,00048
      
21Andrey PateychukRussia705,00018
22Liviu IgnatRomania4,550,000114
23Diego ZeiterArgentina3,905,00098
24Konstantin FarberGermany1,700,00043
25Paul MichaelisGermany5,315,000133
26Parker TalbotCanada3,250,00081
27Sergei BagirovRussia810,00020
28Evangelos BechrakisGreece2,170,00054

Tags: Andrey PateychukDiego ZeiterEvangelos BechrakisKonstantin FarberLiviu IgnatParker TalbotPaul MichaelisSergei Bagirov