€1,100 Eureka Main Event
Day 2 Started
€1,100 Eureka Main Event
Day 2 Started
Welcome to Day 2 of the €1,100 Eureka Main Event at EPT Prague. The European Poker Tour has returned to Prague for the first time since 2019, and the first multi-flight event drew 3,155 runners in four starting days. The remaining 469 players will return at 12 p.m. local time to try and punch their ticket to Wednesday's Day 3.
Maxime Costas bagged the largest stack in the largest opening flight, and the Day 1c chip leader is followed very closely by Adam Polek, Emmanuel Kahan, and Mathias Siljander.
Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count | Day 2 Big Blinds |
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1 | Maxime Costas | France | 736,000 | 123 |
2 | Adam Polek | Czech Republic | 735,000 | 123 |
3 | Emmanuel Kahan | France | 719,000 | 120 |
4 | Mathias Siljander | Finland | 706,000 | 118 |
5 | Tal Herzog | Israel | 693,000 | 116 |
6 | Tomas Pleticha | Czech Republic | 691,000 | 103 |
7 | Mark Metsla | Estonia | 661,000 | 110 |
8 | Akseli Paalanen | Finland | 636,000 | 106 |
9 | Meir Avigal | Israel | 632,000 | 105 |
10 | Mateusz Szymanski | Poland | 606,000 | 101 |
Other notable qualifiers include Patrick Leonard, Kenny Hallaert, Ismael Bojang, Masato Yokosawa, Jonas Lauck, Dara O'Kearney, and Kacper Pyzara.
Day 2 will continue in Level 17 with blinds at 3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante and 34 minutes left, and play will continue until the end of Level 24. Surviving players will return for Day 3 on Wednesday, and the Day 4 finale will be held on Thursday.
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The 469 players that have made it through to Day 2 have all locked up a min-cash of €1,700 but of course, all eyes will be on the €417,820 first place prize as well as the coveted PokerStars Spadie Trophy.
Place | Prize | Place | Prize | |
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1 | € 417,820 | 25-28 | € 10,270 | |
2 | € 249,000 | 29-32 | € 9,000 | |
3 | € 174,130 | 33-40 | € 7,910 | |
4 | € 131,900 | 41-72 | € 6,940 | |
5 | € 99,920 | 73-96 | € 5,300 | |
6 | € 75,690 | 97-144 | € 4,660 | |
7 | € 57,340 | 145-184 | € 3,570 | |
8 | € 43,430 | 185-224 | € 3,150 | |
9 | € 32,860 | 225-272 | € 2,790 | |
10-11 | € 24,930 | 226-272 | € 2,790 | |
12-13 | € 20,780 | 273-328 | € 2,450 | |
14-15 | € 17,320 | 329-384 | € 2,150 | |
16-17 | € 15,200 | 385-448 | € 1,910 | |
18-20 | € 13,330 | 449-469 | € 1,700 | |
21-24 | € 11,690 |
Level: 17
Blinds: 3,000/6,000
Ante: 6,000
Cards are now in the air for Day 2 of the €1,100 Eureka Main Event. There are 469 players returning for the second day will continue until the end of Level 24.
The board read with around 50,000 in the middle already.
Piotr Wiecek had bet first before Charilaos Oustampasidis decided to shove for around 65,000 for Wiecek to snap-call.
Charilaos Oustampasidis:
Piotr Wiecek:
Oustampasidis had flopped two pair and turned the full house but saw he was drawing dead as Wiecek had hit quads on the turn.
Before the river even completed the board, Oustampasidis got up from his chair to make his way to the payout desk.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Piotr Wiecek | 570,000 | 184,000 |
Charilaos Oustampasidis | Busted |
With a large pot growing in the middle and on the board, Kim Wittendorff bet 41,500 from middle position and Junhui Lee shoved 169,000 into the middle. Wittendorff was deep into the take before emerging with the call.
Lee turned over for the straight and Wittendorff flipped his with a disappointed look. The river was of no consequence and Lee found a big double early in Day 2.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Junhui Lee | 452,000 | 210,000 |
Kim Wittendorff | 112,000 | -231,000 |
Andrea Ricci raised to 17,000 from under the gun, chip leader Maxime Costas and Nikolai Tulin called in middle position, and Denis Kevric called in the big blind.
The four players saw a flop of and the action checked through.
The turn brought the and after Kevric checked, Ricci bet 22,000. Costas responded with a raise to 65,000, which received folds back to Ricci, who took a brief moment to think before also folding.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Maxime Costas
|
758,000 | 22,000 |
Andrea Ricci | 435,000 | 43,000 |
Meir Avigal alerted PokerNews to an early hand that has vaulted him toward the chip lead.
According to Avigal, he opened to 14,000 in the hijack with and received calls from the players in the blinds.
On a flop of , Avigal continued for 25,000, only receiving a call from Milan Aloric in the big blind.
A fell on the turn, giving Avigal his straight, and he bet 70,000. Aloric shoved over top for approximately 170,000, which Avigal snap-called.
Aloric turned over , and an inconsequential fell on the river to vault Avigal's stack over 800,000.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Meir Avigal | 816,000 | 184,000 |
Milan Aloric | Busted |
The flop read with around 40,000 in the middle.
Cedric Ghanassia checked his big blind but Jon Kyte made it 18,000 from under the gun for Ghanassia to make the call.
The turn was the and Ghanassia checked again. Kyte took a few seconds and then put in some chips for another bet. While Ghanassia considered it, Kyte divvied up the bet to show it was for 43,000. Ghanassia folded.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Jon Kyte | 590,000 | 53,000 |
Laurynas Levinskas | 367,000 | 213,000 |
Cedric Ghanassia | 315,000 | -6,000 |
Jonas Lauck | 296,000 | 12,000 |
Julien Sitbon | 223,000 | 81,000 |
Kacper Pyzara | 160,000 | -121,000 |