$5,300 EPT Main Event Day 1b | 2023 PokerStars EPT Cyprus

10-17-2023 16:03 UTC+2

Cho Wins Small Pot With Rivered Straight

Matt Warburton

Level 5 : Blinds 200/500, 500 ante

Evagoras Evagorou raised to 1,800 from under the gun and Wooram Cho called in the big blind.

The flop came 6♦7♣4♣ and both players checked. The turn was the 8♣. Cho bet 1,500 and Evagorou called.

The river came the 9♦. Cho flicked a blue 5,000 chip in the middle and Evagorou called. Cho showed A♣10♦ for a rivered straight and Evagorou mucked his hand.

Player	Chips	Progress
Wooram Cho	52,000 12,000	12,000
Evagoras Evagorou	13,000 13,000	13,000

Tags: Wooram Cho Evagoras Evagorou

10-17-2023 15:59 UTC+2

Kopan Puts in the Check-Raise

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Jeremy Geist

Level 5 : Blinds 200/500, 500 ante

Metin Kopan raised to 1,000 from the cutoff before action made it to Sergei Petrushevskii on the button who flat called and Aykutalp Yilmaz came along from the big blind.

The Q♣5♠4♣ flop landed and action checked all the way to Petrushevskii on the button who bet out for 2,000. Yilmaz got out of the way but the original raiser, Kopan went into the tank.

After about a minute he put in a small check-raise to 5,000. That must have been enough as Petrushevskii quickly got out of the way and Kopan dragged the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Sergei Petrushevskii	31,000 31,000	31,000
Aykutalp Yilmaz	29,000 29,000	29,000
Metin Kopan	28,000 28,000	28,000

Tags: Metin Kopan Sergei Petrushevskii

10-17-2023 15:53 UTC+2

Tamasian Flops a Flush

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Calum Grant

Level 5 : Blinds 200/500, 500 ante

Garik Tamasian opened to 1,100 from under the gun. Marle Spragg and Sofianos Vergitsis called from the blind.

Action checked through on the 9♠7♠6♠ flop to the J♥ turn. Vergitsis led out for 2,200 and only Tamasian called.

On the Q♣ river, Vergitsis moved all in and Tamasian called off his last 10,300 instantaneously.

Vergitsis tabled for J♦9♣ for two pair but Tamasian had an ace-high flush with his A♠K♠.

Player	Chips	Progress
Marle Spragg	30,000

Garik Tamasian	29,000

Tags: Garik Tamasian Marle Spragg Sofianos Vergitsis

10-17-2023 15:52 UTC+2

Evstratiev Gets Four-Bet Through

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Matt Warburton

Level 5 : Blinds 200/500, 500 ante

Teodor Evstratiev raised to 1,100 from middle position, Amirreza Arami Roudsari called, then Sebastian Schulze three-bet to 4,500 from the button. Evstratiev four-bet to 11,000 and forced the rest of the table to fold as he scooped the pot preflop.

Player	Chips	Progress
Teodor Evstratiev	72,000 72,000	72,000
Sebastian Schulze	34,000 34,000	34,000
Amirreza Arami Roudsari	31,500

Tags: Amirreza Arami Roudsari Sebastian Schulze Teodor Evstratiev

Level: 5

Blinds: 200/500

Ante: 500

10-17-2023 15:32 UTC+2

Updated Big Stacks

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Josh Noy

Level 4 : Blinds 200/400, 400 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Ayrat Shakirov	122,300 56,300	56,300
Metin Yalciner	120,000 120,000	120,000
Tom Kunze	113,000 80,000	80,000
Josh Hopkins	110,500 110,500	110,500
Ihor Hula	106,000 106,000	106,000
Yuksel Savsa	98,600 98,600	98,600
Gary Miller	97,000 97,000	97,000

Tarmo Tammel	97,000 97,000	97,000
Raul Gallego	96,200 54,200	54,200
Samuel Mullur	96,000 96,000	96,000

Xuming Qi	92,500 92,500	92,500
Alexandre Reard	91,700 91,700	91,700
Niklas Astedt	87,500 21,000	21,000

10-17-2023 15:25 UTC+2

Jen Shahade is Ready for the Main Event

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Milko van Winden

Level 4 : Blinds 200/400, 400 ante

https://twitter.com/JenShahade/status/1714253618717573636?s=20

Tags: Jen Shahade

10-17-2023 15:19 UTC+2

Players Heading for 20-Minute Break

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Matt Warburton

Level 4 : Blinds 200/400, 400 ante

Players in the EPT Cyprus Main Event are heading for a 20-minute break. There are now 658 entries and the prize pool stands at $5,456,250.

Late registration remains open until the start of Day 2.

10-17-2023 15:18 UTC+2

Aydin Holds with Queens

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Josh Noy

Level 4 : Blinds 200/400, 400 ante

The action was three-ways on a flop showing 9♦3♦J♠ and a bet of 1,000 from Nick Van Bemmel on the button. Abulmuhsin Aydin raised to 2,000 in the small blind before Mitchell Johnson committed the rest of his short stack in the big blind.

Van Bemmel folded before Aydin tossed in the call, leaving Johnson at risk.

Mitchell Johnson: 5♦2♦
Abulmuhsin Aydin: Q♥Q♦

Aydin was well ahead, needing to dodge Mitchell's flush draw. The 6♠ brought Mitchell a straight draw, but the 6♣ river was no help to send his last chips to Aydin.

Player	Chips	Progress
Nick Van Bemmel	96,500 8,500	8,500
Abulmuhsin Aydin	23,000
Mitchell Johnson	Busted

Tags: Abulmuhsin Aydin Mitchell Johnson Nick Van Bemmel

10-17-2023 15:16 UTC+2

Zeng Takes Pot on River

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Matt Warburton

Level 4 : Blinds 200/400, 400 ante

Zhiping Zeng raised to 1,000 from late position, Joseph Sabe called on the button, Walid Bou Habib called in the small blind and the big blind came along.

The flop came Q♠5♥10♦. Action checked to Zeng, who made it 1,200 to go. Only Habib called.

The turn was the 6♥ and both players checked. The river came the K♠. Walid checked and Zeng made it 5,500, which was enough for Habib to find the fold and give Zeng the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Walid Bou Habib	39,000 39,000	39,000
Joseph Sabe	35,000 35,000	35,000
Zhiping Zeng	17,000 17,000	17,000

Tags: Walid Bou Habib Zhiping Zeng Joseph Sabe