€5,300 EPT Main Event Day 2 | 2018 PokerStars EPT Prague

€5,300 EPT Main Event

Day 2 Completed

12-14-2018 23:19 UTC+2

Natalie Teh Takes Chip Lead into Day 3 of the Main Event; Talbot, Bechrakis, Wigg, and Conan Bag Big Too

Shirley Ang

Level 15 : 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

Day 2 of the €5,300 EPT Main Event has come to an end after five levels of 90 minutes each with Malaysia’s Natalie Teh claiming the chip lead here in the Hilton Prague with 786,000 in chips. After the bubble burst in the last level of the night, 137 players managed to find a bag to seal for Day 3.

As most people are aware, a Platinum Pass will be given to the winner of this Main Event, but Teh already has one. She was awarded a Platinum Pass through the “Next Great Poker Brain” quiz that PokerStars Team Pros Igor Kurganov and Liv Boeree had set up. Teh started playing while she was in university but decided to quit her job at the end of last year and play professionally this year. And she’s doing pretty well as she has already racked up fifteen cashes this year.

Teh won a huge pot to jump into the chip lead when she rivered a set of queens against Michal Schuh who held pocket aces. Even though there were several people competing for that chip lead, Teh came out victorious in the end. Parker Talbot follows Teh with 773,500 in chips. The popular Twitch streamer from Canada is more known for his online achievements but is making himself more known in the live circuit too. With over $400,000 in live tournament results, he will be looking to add even more to that.

Closing the podium is Evangelos Bechrakis from Greece who bagged 730,000 tonight. Bechrakis finished in 3rd place in the €2,200 EPT National High Roller a mere two nights ago for €144,900 which was also his biggest live cash ever. Anton Wigg (708,500) and Arthur Conan are the only other players who have managed to collect more than 700,000 throughout the day.

The day started with 440 players as 25 players decided to reenter or buy in before the tournament clock kicked off for the first 90-minute level of the day. This meant that there were 1,174 entries in total for the Main Event, which includes 281 reentries. This created a total prize pool of €5,693,900 with 175 players getting paid at least €8,710. The winner on the final day will walk away with €1,020,000, the beautiful PokerStars trophy, and a Platinum Pass package worth $30,000!

By the time the first break started, almost ninety players busted already. Players like 2013 WSOP Main Event Champion Ryan Riess, Kenny Hallaert, Ari Engel, Joao Barbosa, Max Silver, Daniel Dvoress, Antoine Labat, and Michael Addamo. And the pace didn’t let up throughout the rest of the day as defending champion Kalidou Sow was eliminated. So were Niall Farrell, Sam Greenwood, Pavel Plesuv, Julian Thomas, Tom Hall, Bryan Paris, Thomas Boivin, Steven van Zadelhoff, Andras Nemeth, Florian Duta, Kacper Pyzara, Michal Mrakes, Andy Black, Marc-Andre Ladouceur, and Jan Bendik[/b].

PokerStars Team Pros Muskan Sethi and Fatima Moreira De Melo also couldn’t make it into the money. Sethi shoved her ace-queen into the ten-nine of Bechrakis who flopped two pair and Moreira De Melo’s pocket jacks couldn’t beat the ace-queen of her opponent as he hit a queen on the flop.

The bubble lasted about 40 minutes, Mateusz Wozniak first doubled up through Pavel Veksler with pocket kings against Veksler’s pocket queens and hit quads. A few hands later, Wozniak burst the bubble by dealing Veksler the final blow when it all went in on the river. Veksler’s two pair couldn’t beat the flush that Wozniak had rivered. When the tournament director announced that the bubble had burst, the applause could be heard from all players spread over the tables here in the poker room.

Bubble Pavel Veksler — Pavel Veksler Bubbles the Main Event

With an hour left to play, almost 40 players would bust during that hour, collecting their min-cash, either bitterly disappointed to not make Day 3, or extremely happy to have won money with their short stacks. The 137 surviving players will return at noon tomorrow, Friday, December 14, to continue to play Level 16 which features a small blind of 2,500, big blind of 5,000, and a big blind ante of 5,000.

The PokerNews live reporting team will be on the floor again to bring you all the action from the first card of the deck until the final chip has been bagged so make sure to keep following the updates!

Tags: Andras Nemeth Andy Black Antoine Labat Anton Wigg Ari Engel Arthur Conan Bryan Paris Daniel Dvoress Evangelos Bechrakis Fatima Moreira De Melo Florian Duta Igor Kurganov Jan Bendik Joao Barbosa Julian Thomas Kacper Pyzara Kalidou Sow Kenny Hallaert Liv Boeree Marc Andre Ladouceur Mateusz Wozniak Max Silver Michael Addamo Michal Mrakes Michal Schuh Muskan Sethi Natalie Teh Niall Farrell Parker Talbot Pavel Plesuv Pavel Veksler Ryan Riess Sam Greenwood Steven van Zadelhoff Thomas Boivin Tom Hall

12-14-2018 23:00 UTC+2

Seat Draw Day 3

Shirley Ang

Level 15 : 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	1	Serhii Holodiuk	Ukraine	343,500	69
1	2	Ondrej Drozd	Czech Republic	133,500	27
1	3	Guenter Halak	Austria	108,000	22
1	4	Joao Lopes De Oliveira	Portugal	91,000	18
1	5	Raul Martinez	Spain	120,000	24
1	6	Amar Begovic	Bosnia and Herzegovina	114,300	23
1	7	Aku Joentausta	Finland	358,500	72
1	8	Frederic Delval	France	89,500	18

2	1	Markus Durnegger	Austria	258,500	52
2	2	Evangelos Bechrakis	Greece	730,000	146
2	3	Natalie Teh	Malaysia	786,000	157
2	4	Soren Warburg Nielsen	Denmark	51,000	10
2	5	Arthur Conan	France	705,000	141
2	6	Daniel Wilson	UK	220,000	44
2	7	Francisco Quintana Rubio	Spain	209,000	42
2	8	Serdar Demircan	Sweden	400,000	80

3	1	Rabah Ait Abdelmalek	France	190,000	38
3	3	Ondrej Vinklarek	Czech Republic	139,500	28
3	4	Miguel Iglesias	Spain	408,500	82
3	5	Vicent Bosca	Spain	370,000	74
3	6	Dejan Kaladurdevic	Montenegro	401,000	80
3	7	Diego Zeiter	Argentina	249,500	50
3	8	Hao Tian	China	319,000	64

4	1	Pim Gieles	Netherlands	110,500	22
4	2	Fazeel Munawar	Canada	463,000	93
4	3	Jan Subik	Czech Republic	54,000	11
4	4	Vlada Stojanovic	Serbia	264,000	53
4	5	Victor Ionut	Romania	100,000	20
4	6	Armin Mette	Austria	666,500	133
4	7	Grzegorz Reczko	Poland	70,000	14
4	8	Sergiu Covrig	Romania	230,000	46

5	1	Joris Ruijs	Netherlands	492,000	98
5	2	Artem Kobylynskyi	Ukraine	164,000	33
5	3	Jiayu Ruan	China	65,000	13
5	4	Adam Milewski	Poland	136,000	27
5	5	Alexandros Theologis	Greece	124,000	25
5	6	Tomas Macnamara	UK	271,000	54
5	7	Tom-Aksel Bedell	Norway	433,500	87
5	8	Teymur Valiyev	Azerbaijan	177,000	35

6	1	Karolis Sereika	Lithuania	573,000	115
6	2	Niklas Blomqvist	Sweden	282,500	57
6	3	Tobias Peters	Netherlands	169,000	34
6	4	Christophe Larquemin	France	219,000	44
6	6	Krasimir Yankov	Bulgaria	66,000	13
6	7	Grzegorz Grochulski	Poland	509,500	102
6	8	Maxime Chilaud	France	66,000	13

7	1	Timothy Adams	Canada	272,500	55
7	2	Bruno Volkmann	Brazil	427,500	86
7	3	Dorin Agavriloae	Romania	73,000	15
7	4	Mihai Manole	Romania	55,300	11
7	5	Andrea Ricci	Italy	412,000	82
7	6	Liviu Ignat	Romania	508,000	102
7	7	Vytautas Semaska	Lithuania	104,000	21
7	8	Gianluca Speranza	Austria	284,000	57

8	1	Tomas Jozonis	Lithuania	113,000	23
8	2	Kent Roed	Norway	233,000	47
8	3	Maksim Shornikau	Belarus	167,500	34
8	4	Jia Tang	China	148,500	30
8	5	Christopher Andler	Sweden	119,000	24
8	6	Souhayl Fjer	Morocco	102,000	20
8	7	Leonardo Patacconi	Italy	222,000	44
8	8	Anton Wigg	Sweden	708,500	142

9	1	Joakim Bakke	Norway	282,500	57
9	2	Petr Targa	Czech Republic	81,000	16
9	3	Ludvig Sterner	Sweden	287,000	57
9	4	Alex Papazian	Romania	65,000	13
9	5	Aliaksei Ivanou	Belarus	207,000	41
9	6	Konstantin Maslak	Russia	69,500	14
9	7	Jasper Wetemans	Netherlands	523,500	105
9	8	Sergei Bagirov	Russia	195,000	39

10	1	Pierre Chiarelli	France	198,000	40
10	2	Harout Ghazarian	Canada	246,500	49
10	3	Scott Margereson	UK	263,000	53
10	4	Claudio Di Giacomo	Italy	183,000	37
10	5	Paul Michaelis	Germany	167,000	33
10	6	Ugo Faggioli	France	460,000	92
10	7	Ivan Zhechev	Bulgaria	77,000	15
10	8	Jussi Nevanlinna	Finland	211,500	42

11	1	Xia Lin	China	309,500	62
11	3	Mark Abinakle	Canada	92,000	18
11	4	Michal Janczarski	Poland	106,000	21
11	5	Dimitrios Michailidis	Greece	631,000	126
11	6	Levente Szabo	Hungary	305,000	61
11	7	Carlos Branco	Portugal	510,500	102
11	8	Walid Bou Habib	Lebanon	105,000	21

12	1	Michal Schuh	Czech Republic	220,000	44
12	2	Andriy Mertengren	Ukraine	249,500	50
12	3	Wael Sarkis	Lebanon	425,000	85
12	4	Parker Talbot	Canada	773,500	155
12	5	Fady Kamar	Lebanon	201,000	40
12	6	Amar Hadzic	Bosnia and Herzegovina	434,500	87
12	7	Gor Kazarian	Russia	143,000	29
12	8	Alexander Lukyanov	Russia	27,000	5

13	1	Patrik Antonius	Finland	349,000	70
13	2	Andrija Robovic	Serbia	177,500	36
13	3	Leonid Bilokur	Russia	162,000	32
13	4	Mykola Yarmola	Ukraine	181,000	36
13	6	Sadri Karl Mokni	Swaziland	65,000	13
13	7	Danilo Velasevic	Serbia	123,500	25
13	8	Jonathan Roy	Canada	468,000	94

14	1	Luc Greenwood	Canada	194,500	39
14	2	Maciej Rogacki	Poland	539,500	108
14	3	Xixiang Luo	China	521,000	104
14	4	Marcin Kreft	Poland	121,000	24
14	5	Henrik Hecklen	Denmark	152,000	30
14	6	Gary Hasson	Belgium	403,500	81
14	7	Sylvain Loosli	France	134,300	27
14	8	Guoliang Wei	China	453,000	91

15	1	Makram Saber	Lebanon	158,000	32
15	3	Uri Reichenstein	Germany	137,000	27
15	4	Juha Helppi	Finland	433,500	87
15	5	Mateusz Wozniak	Poland	174,000	35
15	6	Jani Vilmunen	Finland	333,000	67
15	7	Andreas Vlachos	Greece	65,000	13
15	8	Marius Conan	France	272,000	54

16	2	Eric Geraume	France	345,000	69
16	3	Mario Navarro Arrocha	Spain	393,000	79
16	4	Laurynas Levinskas	Lithuania	377,000	75
16	5	Duco Haven	Netherlands	100,000	20
16	6	Simeon Spasov	Bulgaria	86,000	17
16	7	Fabio Damaso	Portugal	206,000	41
16	8	Ivan Gabrieli	Italy	121,500	24

17	1	Jason Wheeler	USA	102,500	21
17	2	Simon Pedersen	Denmark	217,000	43
17	3	Jeremy Stahli	Switzerland	100,000	20
17	4	Antonin Duda	Czech Republic	175,000	35
17	5	Hiroyuki Noda	Japan	381,000	76
17	6	Emil Lukac	Slovakia	173,500	35
17	7	Andrey Pateychuk	Russia	532,000	106
17	8	Markku Koplimaa	Estonia	375,000	75

18	1	Konstantin Farber	Germany	415,000	83
18	3	Aleksandr Merzhvinskiy	Russia	152,500	31
18	4	Anton Siden	Sweden	216,500	43
18	5	Boris Kuzmanovic	Croatia	310,000	62
18	6	Rene van Krevelen	Netherlands	62,000	12
18	7	Ramzey Idriss	Lebanon	597,000	119
18	8	Marcin Wydrowski	Poland	110,000	22

12-14-2018 22:42 UTC+2

End-of-Day Chip Counts (full)

Shirley Ang

Level 15 : 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Natalie Teh	786,000
Parker Talbot	773,500
Evangelos Bechrakis	730,000
Anton Wigg	708,500
Arthur Conan	705,000
Armin Mette	666,500	-19,500
Dimitrios Michailidis	631,000	22,000
Ramzey Idriss	597,000	107,000
Karolis Sereika	573,000	-2,500
Maciej Rogacki	539,500	280,100
Andrey Pateychuk	532,000
Jasper Wetemans	523,500
Xixiang Luo	521,000	-84,000
Carlos Branco	510,500	118,000
Grzegorz Grochulski	509,500	442,000
Liviu Ignat	508,000	-2,000
Joris Ruijs	492,000
Jonathan Roy	468,000	-82,000
Fazeel Munawar	463,000	386,300
Ugo Faggioli	460,000	380,000
Guoliang Wei	453,000	330,000
Amar Hadzic	434,500	304,500
Juha Helppi	433,500
Tom-Aksel Bedell	433,500	211,500
Bruno Volkmann	427,500	229,600

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12-14-2018 22:18 UTC+2

Assorted End-of-Day Chip Counts

Webjoker

Level 15 : 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

The official end-of-day chip counts and a Day 3 seat draw is to follow later tonight.

Player	Chips	Progress
Natalie Teh	786,000	82,000
Parker Talbot	773,500	123,500
Evangelos Bechrakis	730,000	375,000
Anton Wigg	708,500	-17,500
Arthur Conan	705,000	115,000
Karolis Sereika	575,500	429,900
Andrey Pateychuk	532,000	182,000
Jasper Wetemans	523,500	-1,500
Joris Ruijs	492,000	202,000
Juha Helppi	433,500	-46,500
Patrik Antonius	349,000	-31,000
Luc Greenwood	194,500	124,500
Sylvain Loosli	134,500	-5,500

12-14-2018 22:15 UTC+2

Play Ended

Shirley Ang

Level 15 : 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

There are 137 remaining players showing on the clock. Full chip counts and a recap of today's action is to follow.

12-14-2018 22:02 UTC+2

Five More Hands

Webjoker

Level 15 : 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

The floor just announced there are five more hands to be played for the day. Check back soon for assorted end-of-day chip counts and an extensive recap of today's action.

12-14-2018 22:01 UTC+2

The Perfect Spot for Ignat

Webjoker

Level 15 : 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

Seated under the gun, Phachara Wongwichit shoved all in for 37,000. His neighbor, famed online player Liviu "0Human0" Ignat called. On the button, Ugo Faggioli called before big blind Valeriy Itsenko shoved for 88,000. Ignat ran his clock down to ten seconds before he made it 150,000. Faggioli folded.

Phachara Wongwichit:
Liviu Ignat:
Valeriy Itsenko:

The board ran out and Ignat eliminated two of his opponents.

Player	Chips	Progress
Liviu Ignat	510,000	250,000
Phachara Wongwichit	Busted
Valeriy Itsenko	Busted

Tags: Phachara Wongwichit Ugo Faggioli Liviu Ignat Valeriy Itsenko

12-14-2018 21:56 UTC+2

Michailidis Takes Vieira Out

Shirley Ang

Level 15 : 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

Dimitrios Michailidis raised to 9,000 from under the gun and was called by the player in mid-position. Joao Vieira shoved for 35,000 in the cutoff and Michailidis called. The initial caller quickly got out of their way.

Joao Vieira:
Dimitrios Michailidis:

The board ran out for Michailidis to hit a pair of fives on the flop, Vieira then picked up the flush draw on the river but bricked the river to be sent to the rail.

Player	Chips	Progress
Dimitrios Michailidis	609,000	-71,000
Joao Vieira	Busted

Tags: Dimitrios Michailidis Joao Vieira

12-14-2018 21:51 UTC+2

Chip Counts

Shirley Ang

Level 15 : 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Anton Wigg	726,000	-27,000
Armin Mette	686,000	116,000
Xixiang Luo	605,000	405,000
Arthur Conan	590,000	72,000
Gary Hasson	498,000	188,000
Patrik Antonius	380,000	20,000
Simon Pedersen	309,000	9,000
Krasimir Yankov	299,000	-21,000
Marius Conan	224,000	89,000
Tobias Peters	190,000	-50,000
Alexandr Merzhvinskii	169,000	97,800
Jason Wheeler	126,000	-16,000
Alex Papazian	72,000	-28,000
Raul Martinez Requena	68,000	-50,000
Paul Michaelis	54,000	-46,000