2023 PokerStars EPT Cyprus

$5,300 EPT Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info
2023 PokerStars EPT Cyprus
Final Results
Winner
[Removed:553]
Winning Hand
k8
Prize
$1,042,000
Event Info
Buy-in
$5,300
Prize Pool
$6,402,000
Total Entries
1,320
Level Info
Level
36
Blinds
250,000 / 500,000
Ante
500,000
Players Info - Day 2
Entries
442
Players Left
155
Players Left 1 / 1,320

Machado Misses a Big Draw

Level 12 : Blinds 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

Aleksei Istomin bet 4,000 on a flop of 1099 from under the gun and Hugo Machado called in the small blind. Xuming Qi then raised to 16,500 in the big blind and Istomin called.

Machado responded by moving all in for around 50,000 and Qi got out of the way. Istomin, though, snap-called to put Machado at risk.

Hugo Machado: KQ
Aleksei Istomin: A9

Istomin had flopped trip nines, while Machado had both straight and flush draws and needed to hit to stay alive. Istomin took out his phone and began filming the action as the 5 fell on the turn, followed by the 8 river as Machado missed everything to hit the rail.

"I was thinking a worse nine. Jack-nine, queen-nine, something like that," Istomin explained to a tablemate after Machado had made his exit.

Patrick Tardif and Christopher Frank also recently busted on other tables.