€5,300 EPT Prague Main Event Day 1b | 2022 PokerStars EPT Prague

12-13-2022 16:47 UTC+1

Baranyi Binks a River Double

Christian Zetzsche

Level 5 : Blinds 200/500, 500 ante

One of the last hands to complete before the last break saw a preflop contest between Guillaume Diaz and Vincze Baranyi. The latter was all-in for a mere 5,400 and the following showdown emerged.

Vincze Baranyi:
Guillaume Diaz:

The flop gave Diaz the lead but the turn and river improved Baranyi to a straight.

Player	Chips	Progress
Guillaume Diaz	19,000 19,000	19,000
Vincze Baranyi	13,000 13,000	13,000

Tags: Guillaume Diaz Vincze Baranyi

Level: 5

Blinds: 200/500

Ante: 500

12-13-2022 16:26 UTC+1

Break Time

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Daniel Williams

Level 4 : Blinds 200/400, 400 ante

Players are heading on a 20-minute break, the second one of the day. Registration on the day is up to 674 players with 557 remaining with six levels left in the day.

12-13-2022 16:24 UTC+1

Panetti Eliminated by Szetei

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 4 : Blinds 200/400, 400 ante

Christophe Panetti three-bet jammed on the button and the initial raiser Pavol Szetei asked for a count. "I think it is 10,300," Panetti instantly replied and that amount was deemed to be spot on, after which Szetei called.

Christophe Panetti:
Pavol Szetei:

Things got worse on each street of the board for Panetti as Szetei ended up scoring the knockout with the ace-high flush.

Player	Chips	Progress
Pavol Szetei	58,000
Imed Ben Mahmoud	45,000
Marton Czuczor	34,000
Christophe Panetti	Busted

Tags: Christophe Panetti Pavol Szetei

12-13-2022 16:20 UTC+1

Things Don't Get Messy for Cessy

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 4 : Blinds 200/400, 400 ante

Laurent Cessy raised to 800 and was called by Derek Ip in the hijack and Hirokazu Kobayashi on the button. Elentherios Kavoukis three-bet to 3,500 and Cessy was the only caller.

After the flop, Kavoukis bet 4,500 and then called all-in when Cessy pushed with the superior stack.

Elentherios Kavoukis:
Laurent Cessy:

The turn and river were blanks as the straight draw of Kavoukis bricked.

Player	Chips	Progress
Laurent Cessy	72,000 72,000	72,000
Derek Ip	40,000 5,000	5,000
Elentherios Kavoukis	Busted

Tags: Derek Ip Elentherios Kavoukis Hirokazu Kobayashi Laurent Cessy

12-13-2022 16:18 UTC+1

Counts from Around the Room

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Daniel Williams

Level 4 : Blinds 200/400, 400 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Erwann Pecheux	79,000 32,000	32,000
Ana Marquez	77,000 37,000	37,000
Jonathon Genovese Darling	74,000
Bruno Fitoussi	51,000 8,000	8,000
Andrew Hulme	31,000 31,000	31,000
Bhavin Khatri	27,000 27,000	27,000
Tibor Szenasi	26,000 26,000	26,000
Dietrich Fast	24,000 7,000	7,000
Jessica Pilkington	21,000 8,000	8,000
Dermot Blain	18,500 14,500	14,500
Yucel Eminoglu	17,000 17,000	17,000

12-13-2022 16:11 UTC+1

Kassouf Applies the Pressure

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Daniel Williams

Level 4 : Blinds 200/400, 400 ante

William Kassouf opened from early position to 800 and action folded around to Csaba Miklos who called from the cutoff. Jeffrey William, on the button, elected to raise to 1,800 and after the blinds folded both Kassouf and Miklos made the call.

On a flop of Kassouf and Miklos both checked and William continued his aggression with a bet of 2,000. Kassouf check-raised to 7,100 and Miklos got out of the way. William took his time before finding the fold and Kassouf added the chips to his stack.

Player	Chips	Progress
William Kassouf	36,000 9,000	9,000
Jeffrey William	31,000
Csaba Miklos	27,000

Tags: William Kassouf Jeffrey William Csaba Miklos

12-13-2022 16:09 UTC+1

Can Seiji Do the Double?

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Will Shillibier

Level 4 : Blinds 200/400, 400 ante

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12-13-2022 16:08 UTC+1

Baumann Chips Up Further

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 4 : Blinds 200/400, 400 ante

Gaelle Baumann leaped above two times the average after she won a big pot against Franz Bracher. More than 40,000 were in the middle when they had gotten chips in after the turn. Bracher checked behind the river and mucked to the of Baumann.

Plenty of other counts can be found below.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ermanno Di Nicola	110,000 110,000	110,000
Gaelle Baumann	65,000 23,000	23,000
Tomas Jozonis	65,000 35,000	35,000
Marek Blasko	57,000 57,000	57,000
Ramon Miquel Munoz	55,000 55,000	55,000
Peter Jaksland	55,000 7,000	7,000
Frederic Delval	55,000 23,000	23,000
Niko Soininen	50,000 50,000	50,000
Jussi Mattila	50,000 50,000	50,000
Vojtech Skalak	48,000 48,000	48,000
Kully Sidhu	45,000 13,000	13,000
Marcin Horecki	44,000 26,000	26,000
David Boyaciyan	40,000 40,000	40,000
Fahredin Mustafov	39,000 9,500	9,500
Christophe Larquemin	35,000 5,000	5,000
Jeremy Palvini	35,000 35,000	35,000
Ranno Sootla	28,000 28,000	28,000
Bhavin Khatri	28,000 28,000	28,000
Ognyan Dimov	18,000 18,000	18,000

Giuliano Bendinelli	10,000 10,000	10,000

Danut Chisu	Busted

Tags: Franz Bracher Gaelle Baumann

12-13-2022 16:02 UTC+1

Ylitalo Binks a Double

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 4 : Blinds 200/400, 400 ante

Robin Ylitalo was the player at risk in a preflop contest against David Dahan, who had the far bigger stack. The former EPT Main Event champion was down to a mere 11,800 but had the best of it this time.

Robin Ylitalo:
David Dahan:

The board was no threat for the Swede as he stuck around.

Player	Chips	Progress
David Dahan	90,000 2,000	2,000
Robin Ylitalo	26,000 10,000	10,000

Tags: David Dahan Robin Ylitalo