€10,300 EPT High Roller Day 1 | 2021 PokerStars EPT Prague

03-15-2022 00:41 UTC+2

Hallaert Swinging the Hammer

Mike Patrick

Level 10 : 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

Kenny Hallaert has built himself one of the biggest stacks in the room and is using it to his advantage.

In a recent pot, after Jans Arends limped under the gun and Wiktor Smolka raised big to 6,100 on his left, Hallaert was next to act and came right over top for 15,000. Action folded back to Avends, who folded his limp, and then Smolka folded as well to preserve his stack as well.

Player	Chips	Progress
Kenny Hallaert	261,000	6,000
Dawid Smolka	44,000	44,000
Jans Arends	31,500	31,500

Tags: Jans Arends Wiktor Smolka

03-15-2022 00:40 UTC+2

Aspas Chips Up Through Petrangelo

Calum Grant

Level 10 : 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

Nick Petrangelo opened to 2,800 fro early position and only Abel Aspas called from the big blind.

Aspas check-called a bet of 2,000 on the flop before action checked through on the turn.

Aspas led out for 4,000 on the turn and was snap-called. Aspas turned over the and Petrangelo nodded his head as he mucked his cards.

Player	Chips	Progress
Nick Petrangelo	111,000	5,000
Abel Aspas	105,000	105,000

Level: 10

Blinds: 600/1,200

Ante: 1,200

03-15-2022 00:21 UTC+2

Another Round of Chip Counts

Calum Grant

Level 9 : 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Kenny Hallaert	255,000	98,000
Tibor Nagygyorgy	245,000	199,000
Saar Wilf	225,000	40,000
Santeri Piiroinen	210,000
Robert Cowen	195,000
Adrian Mateos	190,000	30,000
Andrea Ricci	175,000	65,000
Nikolaos Iliakis	165,000
Stephen Chidwick	130,000	17,000
Jimmy Guerrero	130,000
Alexander Glogar	127,000	-46,000
Bruno Lopes	127,000
Daniel Dvoress	110,000	-7,000
Parker Talbot	75,000	45,000
Patrick Leonard	70,000	12,000
Dominik Nitsche	65,000	-50,000

03-15-2022 00:14 UTC+2

Kassouf's Opponent Starts With Nine-High, Finishes Like a Boss

Mike Patrick

Level 9 : 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

William Kassouf opened to 2,800 in middle position and was called in the cutoff by Harpreet Gill.

On the flop, Kassouf continued for 5,500 and was met with a raise to 13,000 by Gill. Kassouf made the call.

The turn brought the , and this time Kassouf checked. Gill fired for 16,000 and was check-raised all-in by Kassouf to about 37,000, which barely covered Gill. Gill called and was in bad shape.

Harpreet Gill:
William Kassouf:

Kassouf's top two pair had Gill's bottom two pair crushed. That is until the miracle river brought the to give Gill a full house.

The dealer counted down the chips and the boisterous Englishman was left with just two brown T-100 chips, which went in shortly after and never came back, sending Kassouf to the rail.

Player	Chips	Progress
Harpreet Gill	108,500	63,500
William Kassouf	Busted

Tags: Harpreet Gill William Kassouf

03-14-2022 23:55 UTC+2

Yokosawa Climbing Back From Crumbs

Mike Patrick

Level 9 : 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

2021 GPI Favorite Poker Personality Masato Yokosawa has been clawing back recently from a stack as small as 2,400 chips.

In a recent pot with table chip leader Henrik Hecklen, Yokosawa bet 3,800 into a pot of 5,500 on a river board of .

Hecklen folded to award the pot to Yokosawa who's added a zero to his chip total and now sits at 24,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Henrik Hecklen	181,000	61,000
Masato Yokosawa	24,000	-6,000

Tags: Henrik Hecklen Masato Yokosawa

03-14-2022 23:52 UTC+2

Karmatckii Gets Huge Double in Cooler

Calum Grant

Level 9 : 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

Belarmino De Souza opened to 2,200 from early position before Arsenii Karmatckii three-bet to 7,000 from middle position.

De Souza then raised to 17,500. After a few moments, Karmatckii put in more chips, five-betting to 43,000.

De Souza would use his 30-second allowance before moving all-in as the slightly superior stack and his opponent snap-called.

Arsenii Karmatckii:
Belarmino De Souza:

De Souza was in terrible shape while Karmatckii was in pole position to scoop one of the biggest pots of the day. He would do just that, as his kings held on the runout.

Player	Chips	Progress
Arsenii Karmatckii	215,000	215,000
Belarmino De Souza	4,000	4,000

03-14-2022 23:38 UTC+2

Brewer Building a Big Stack

Calum Grant

Level 9 : 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

It has been a good day on the felt for Chris Brewer who has been steadily adding to his starting stack throughout Day 1. He just raked in another sizeable pot against Georgi Sandev.

With the board displaying the , Brewer moved all-in from the big blind. Sandev would go onto count his chips, and it appeared that he had 40,000 behind.