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

10-17-2023 15:32 UTC+2

Updated Big Stacks

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

Level: 5

Blinds: 200/500

Ante: 500

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

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 15:59 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 16:03 UTC+2

Cho Wins Small Pot With Rivered Straight

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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 16:05 UTC+2

Rodin Takes In Multiway Pot

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Calum Grant

Level 5 : Blinds 200/500, 500 ante

Grigorii Rodin opened to 1,000 from the hijack and was called by Ognyan Dimov from the button, Teodor Evstratiev and Alejandro Lococo also called from the blinds.

The 10♥9♣2♥ flop checked through to the 8♠ turn. Action checked to Rodin, who bet 3,000. Only Dimov called.

Dimov then folded to a bet of 7,600 on the K♠ river.

Player	Chips	Progress
Grigorii Rodin	40,000 40,000	40,000
Alejandro Lococo	24,000 24,000	24,000

Tags: Alejandro Lococo Grigorii Rodin Ognyan Dimov Teodor Evstratiev

10-17-2023 16:05 UTC+2

Keating Pays Off Batbold

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Josh Noy

Level 5 : Blinds 200/500, 500 ante

Zolbayar Batbold raised to 1,200 in the small blind only to be three-bet by Alex Keating in the big blind to 5,000. Batbold then slid in a four-bet of 13,200, which was called by Keating.

Batbold led out for 7,000 on the J♥10♥10♦ flop, with Keating calling to see the 3♠ turn. Another lead from Batbold was called, this time for 14,000.

The J♠ river saw Batbold commit the rest of his stack with a bet of 20,600. Keating took several minutes to arrive at a decision, ultimately making the call.

Batbold turned over K♣K♦ to take down a massive pot as Keating mucked.

That left Keating with a very short stack, which he promptly doubled with pocket queens a short time later.

Player	Chips	Progress
Zolbayar Batbold	112,000
Alex Keating	7,500 7,500	7,500

Tags: Alex Keating Zolbayar Batbold

10-17-2023 16:06 UTC+2

Black Doubles With River Shove

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Matt Warburton

Level 5 : Blinds 200/500, 500 ante

Action was on the river on a board of K♦7♥8♣Q♣2♦. Andy Black moved all in for his last 9,000 chips and Bakhos Joumaa made the call.

Joumaa showed K♠J♠ for a pair of kings and Black showed K♣8♥ for two pair, kings and eights, to win the pot and double his stack.

Player	Chips	Progress
Andy Black	36,000 3,000	3,000
Bakhos Joumaa	9,500 18,200	18,200

Tags: Andy Black Bakhos Joumaa

10-17-2023 16:08 UTC+2

Neves on a Short Stack

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Calum Grant

Level 5 : Blinds 200/500, 500 ante

2023 PCA Main Event runner-up Pedro Neves is towards the bottom of the chip counts but tried to change that after raising to 1,000 from the cutoff. Sergei Bortsov opted to defend his big blind.

Bortsov check-called for 700 and 1,400 on the flop and turn for the final board to read 7♦6♥6♣J♥J♦. Action checked through to showdown and Bortsov tabled A♣10♠ for just ace-high (with the two pair on board). Neves checked his cards and threw them in the muck to concede the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Pedro Neves	5,500 22,500	22,500

Tags: Pedro Neves Sergei Bortsov