EPT Online 01: $1,050 NLHE [Arena Championship] Day 1 | 2020 PokerStars EPT Online

11-08-2020 20:36 UTC

"JDoes" Takes Four-Way Pot

Lyle Bateman

Level 5 : 1,000/2,000, 250 ante

"JDoes" raised to 4K under the gun, and got called by "winiels" in the hijack, "Driekus888" in cutoff, and "drovosek63" in the big blind. Action checked through the full board, and "JDoes" took it down with .

Player	Chips	Progress
JDoes	806,234 283,342	283,342
Driekus888	284,921
winiels	238,132 101,183	101,183
drovosek63	167,820

11-08-2020 20:46 UTC

"JDoes" Adds to Stack

Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Lyle Bateman

Level 5 : 1,000/2,000, 250 ante

"JDoes" raised the hijack to 4K and both Gavin "gavz101" Cochrane and "winiels" called from the blinds. It checked to "JDoes" on the flop, and only Cochrane called their bet of 7K. Cochrane then check-folded to a bet of 22K on the turn.

Player	Chips	Progress
JDoes	791,384 14,850	14,850
Gavin "gavz101" Cochrane	255,438 1,689	1,689
winiels	232,482 5,650	5,650

Level: 6

Blinds: 1,250/2,500

Ante: 325

11-08-2020 20:56 UTC

Stack Updates Going to Break

Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Lyle Bateman

Level 6 : 1,250/2,500, 325 ante

They are just shy of the guarantee now with 1,476 entries in the field, and 1,275 players still in action.

Player	Chips	Progress
Narcis "Narcisus90" Nedelcu	1,171,751 402,610	402,610
Alexandru "JustPray" Marcu	793,993 42,230	42,230
zufo16	772,336 23,178	23,178
JDoes	744,077 47,307	47,307
%frusru%	706,792 191,164	191,164
Dinesh "NastyMinder" Alt	697,181 21,660	21,660
Jamie "Ship It 2010" O'Connor	625,560 155,156	155,156
Patrick "Egption" Tardif	588,492 72,030	72,030
Badih "LEB_BEL" Bounahra	529,941 22,118	22,118
kryrobi	507,322 124,039	124,039
Norweg1anB4nk	470,980 30,345	30,345
MrBenasP	396,053 209,186	209,186
reikr	355,731 31,510	31,510
Antoine "A.Saout" Saout	352,193 44,829	44,829
Hendurr	346,394 26,786	26,786
Dietrich "2pacnrw16" Fast	315,750 208,598	208,598
Lex "L. Veldhuis" Veldhuis	311,639 5,927	5,927
Driekus888	288,381 3,460	3,460
Gavin "gavz101" Cochrane	265,113 9,675	9,675
A.Wesker999	255,986 14,637	14,637
bayaraa1002	241,106 21,470	21,470
Mark "AceSpades11" Radoja	226,446 11,344	11,344
Hannes "SuchADegen" Speiser	208,959 144,537	144,537
winiels	208,462 24,020	24,020
Ben "Spraggy" Spragg	204,050 17,837	17,837

Read full

11-08-2020 20:59 UTC

A Few More Big Stacks

Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Lyle Bateman

Level 6 : 1,250/2,500, 325 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Mikolaj "T3G3S" Zawadzki	1,113,896
nafnaf_funny	1,000,448
Fahredin "FeriBo" Mustafov	993,750
dabanda69	988,814

11-08-2020 21:08 UTC

Guarantee Cracked

Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Lyle Bateman

Level 6 : 1,250/2,500, 325 ante

There are now 1,504 entries on the board, which means the $1.5 million guarantee has been cracked already. Players can register as late as they start of Day 2 play, so the prize pool on this one could be huge.

11-08-2020 21:28 UTC

"Old brock" Chips Up

Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Lyle Bateman

Level 6 : 1,250/2,500, 325 ante

After a middle open to 5K, Lex "L. Veldhuis" Veldhuis raised to 16.5K from the hijack. "JDoes" called the button before big blind "Old brock" raised it up again to 45K. "JDoes" was the only caller to flop and "Old brock" check-called for their stack after a bet of 152,500.

"Old brock":
"JDoes":

Board:

"JDoes" flopped best, but "Old brock" got there on the river.

Player	Chips	Progress
JDoes	579,424 164,653	164,653
Old brock	365,582
Lex "L. Veldhuis" Veldhuis	283,529 28,110	28,110

Level: 7

Blinds: 1,500/3,000

Ante: 375

11-08-2020 21:36 UTC

"JDoes" Shoves River

Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Lyle Bateman

Level 7 : 1,500/3,000, 375 ante

"JDoes" raised the middle to 5K, then called after Andrey "FivebetGAMER" Vedomtsev reraised the hijack to 13,750. The flop came and both players checked to the turn. "JDoes" bet 25K and got the call, but got the fold after shoving the river for much more than the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
JDoes	601,199 21,775	21,775
Andrey "FivebetGAMER" Vedomtsev	126,717

11-08-2020 21:44 UTC

Marcu Flushes

Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Lyle Bateman

Level 7 : 1,500/3,000, 375 ante

Andrey "kot_spartac" Kotelnikov opened to 6K from the hijack, and Alexandru "JustPray" Marcu called from the big blind to see on the flop. Marcu check-called for 5,610 to see on the turn. They both checked to the river where Marcu bet 13,860 and got the call. Kotelnikov mucked when Marcu rolled over for the runner-runner flush.

Player	Chips	Progress
Alexandru "JustPray" Marcu	740,058 53,935	53,935
Andrey "kot_spartac" Kotelnikov	507,257