With Aleksejs Ponakovs the clear short stack, the pace of play has begun to plateau. Hands are mostly being won preflop with very few flops taking place.
Aleksejs Ponakovs opened to 70,000 from under the gun and Rodrigo Seiji three-bet to 200,000 a couple of seats over. The action folded back to Ponakovs who ripped all in for around 650,000. Seiji called and the cards were face up.
Aleksejs Ponakovs:
Rodrigo Seiji:
It turned out to be a classic flip and the flop of put Seiji in the lead with a pair of kings. The on the turn gave Ponakovs some additional outs but the on the river was not one of them. Ponakovs was eliminated on the money bubble and the remaining seven players will now bag their chips for the night.
Day 2 of the €50,000 EPT Super High Roller has wrapped up at the 2022 PokerStars European Poker Tour Prague with just seven players remaining. All seven players have locked up at least a min-cash of €140,070 but they will all have their sights set on the first-place prize of €867,120 when play resumes on Day 3.
Leading the way heading into the final day is Rodrigo Seiji who holds a narrow lead over the rest of his competition with 2,460,000 chips. Seiji was also responsible for bursting the money bubble when he won a classic flip against Aleksejs Ponakovs in the last hand of the night. Ponakovs got his last 20 big blinds in the middle with pocket queens but was flipped to the rail by the ace-king of Seiji to bring an abrupt end to Day 2.
It's been a great start to the 2022 festival being held at the Hilton Prague for Seiji as he already claimed one title in the early going. The Brazilian raised the trophy in the €10,200 Mystery Bounty event for a cumulative score of over €100,000 including the bounties. He holds the slightest of leads heading into the final day as Sam Grafton and Daniel Dvoress share second place with 2,420,000, just 40,000 chips off the lead. Pablo Brito Silva (2,165,000), Sergio Aido (1,895,000), Dimitar Danchev (1,355,000), and Orpen Kisacikoglu (1,035,000) round out the rest of the field.
Day 3 Seat Draw
Table
Seat
Name
Country
Chip Count
Big Blinds
1
1
Sergio Aido
Spain
1,895,000
63
1
2
Pablo Brito Silva
Brazil
2,165,000
72
1
3
Orpen Kisacikoglu
Turkey
1,035,000
35
1
4
Dimitar Danchev
Bulgaria
1,355,000
45
1
6
Sam Grafton
United Kingdom
2,420,000
81
1
7
Rodrigo Seiji
Brazil
2,460,000
82
1
8
Daniel Dvoress
Canada
2,420,000
81
Day 2 Action
There were 26 players who returned to their seats from Day 1 and they were joined by six players who registered just before the cards went in the air. As for the late entries, it turned out to be a bad idea as none of them were able to advance very far on Day 2. Gerard Pique was one of the notable late entries and while a valiant effort was made through the first two levels, the professional football player eventually bowed out after the first break of the day.
It was Grafton, the lone PokerStars ambassador in the field, who came into the day with a healthy chip lead and that carried through for the better part of Day 2 as he had his game in cruise control. Despite some ups and downs as the money bubble approached, Grafton still put himself in a great position heading into the final day.
Sam Grafton
The other big stack going into Day 3 is Dvoress who found himself on a rollercoaster ride over the last two levels of the day. Dvoress was in a prime position to take over a massive chip lead with pocket kings against the ace-king of Kisacikoglu. However, an ace on the turn left Dvoress scratching and clawing to stay alive. As the poker gods would have it, Dvoress managed to double up with kings twice and crack Teun Mulder's aces en route to bagging the second-largest stack.
The action will resume at 12:30 p.m. local time tomorrow with seven minutes remaining in Level 16 and the blinds at 15,000/30,000 and a 30,000 big blind ante. The levels will continue to be 60 minutes in length unless the tournament director decides to shorten the levels to 45 minutes with fewer than five players. While each player has locked up a min-cash, there is plenty of money up for grabs in the €2,668,050 prize pool.
The PokerNews live reporting team will be back to bring you all of the live updates of the final table en route to crowning an EPT Super High Roller champion.
put Seiji in the lead with a pair of kings. The 
on the turn gave Ponakovs some additional outs but the 
on the river was not one of them. Ponakovs was eliminated on the money bubble and the remaining seven players will now bag their chips for the night.
