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

03-14-2022 22:16 UTC+1

Pirault Folds Out Adams

Calum Grant

Level 8 : 400/800, 800 ante

Timothy Adams opened to 1,700 from the cutoff with Francois Pirault and Christophe Malaurie calling from the button and big blind respectively.

The flop checked through to the turn. Adams bet 1,600 before Pirault clicked it to 5,000. Malaurie quickly folded and Adams eyed up his opponent before returning his cards to the dealer.

Player	Chips	Progress
Timothy Adams	165,000 10,000	10,000
Francois Pirault	110,000 11,000	11,000

03-14-2022 22:17 UTC+1

Break Time

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Mike Patrick

Level 8 : 400/800, 800 ante

The players have been sent on their final 15-minute break of the day.

Upon return, they will play two more 60-minute levels before bagging for the night.

Level: 9

Blinds: 500/1,000

Ante: 1,000

03-14-2022 22:38 UTC+1

Brewer Building a Big Stack

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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.

After using two time bank cards, he decided to fold after being tested by the American.

Player	Chips	Progress
Chris Brewer	220,000 43,000	43,000
Georgi Sandev	40,000 40,000	40,000

03-14-2022 22:52 UTC+1

Karmatckii Gets Huge Double in Cooler

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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	215,000

Belarmino De Souza	4,000 4,000	4,000

03-14-2022 22:55 UTC+1

Yokosawa Climbing Back From Crumbs

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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	61,000
Masato Yokosawa	24,000 6,000	6,000

Tags: Henrik Hecklen Masato Yokosawa

03-14-2022 23:14 UTC+1

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

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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	63,500
William Kassouf	Busted

Tags: Harpreet Gill William Kassouf

03-14-2022 23:21 UTC+1

Another Round of Chip Counts

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Calum Grant

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

Player	Chips	Progress
Kenny Hallaert	255,000 98,000	98,000

Tibor Nagygyorgy	245,000 199,000	199,000
Saar Wilf	225,000 40,000	40,000
Santeri Piiroinen	210,000
Robert Cowen	195,000
Adrian Mateos	190,000 30,000	30,000

Andrea Ricci	175,000 65,000	65,000
Nikolaos Iliakis	165,000
Stephen Chidwick	130,000 17,000	17,000
Jimmy Guerrero	130,000
Alexander Glogar	127,000 46,000	46,000
Bruno Lopes	127,000
Daniel Dvoress	110,000 7,000	7,000

Parker Talbot	75,000 45,000	45,000

Patrick Leonard	70,000 12,000	12,000

Dominik Nitsche	65,000 50,000	50,000