€2,200 Eureka High Roller Day 1a | 2023 PokerStars EPT Prague

12-10-2023 16:20 UTC+1

Farkas Snap-Calls Saout Out of the Tournament

Ollie Garland

Level 6 : Blinds 400/800, 800 ante

The pot stood at 6,000 in a blind versus blind confrontation with the board reading J♠K♠4♦4♠.

Antoine Saout, in the small blind, checked the action to Peter Farkas, in the big blind. Farkas bet out 3,500 and Saout check-raised to 10,600. Farkas made the call.

The river landed the 9♦ and Saout emptied the clip, moving all in for 19,500. Farkas snap-called.

Antoine Saout: A♠Q♥
Peter Farkas: Q♠4♣

Farkas' turned trips and sent Saout to the rail.

Player	Chips	Progress
Peter Farkas	60,100 17,900	17,900
Antoine Saout	Busted

Tags: Antoine Saout Peter Farkas

12-10-2023 16:24 UTC+1

Drake Left on Fumes After Doubling Markakis

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Frank Visser

Level 6 : Blinds 400/800, 800 ante

Konstantinos Markakis opened for 1,700 chips from early position and David Drahan called from the cutoff. Ian Drake then jammed 16,100 from the button and Markakis called for 12,700 total.

Dahan quickly got out of the way and the players' cards were revealed.

Konstantinos Markakis: J♦J♣
Ian Drake: A♣9♥

Drake flopped a wheel draw on 4♠3♥5♣, but he would not hit any of his outs on the 7♥7♣ runout. He was left with just four big blinds to try and spin up on his second bullet.

Player	Chips	Progress
David Dahan	65,000
Konstantinos Markakis	29,100
Ian Drake	3,400 26,600	26,600

Tags: David Drahan Ian Drake Konstantinos Markakis

12-10-2023 16:27 UTC+1

Break Time

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Ollie Garland

Level 6 : Blinds 400/800, 800 ante

The players have been sent on another 25-minute break.

12-10-2023 16:39 UTC+1

The Most Memorable & Unexpected Moments from PokerStars EPT Prague

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Kaelaine Minton

Level 6 : Blinds 400/800, 800 ante

2007 was the first year that the PokerStars European Poker Tour visited Prague, and the Czech capital city has since woven a rich tapestry of poker history.

There have been a plethora of memorable and unexpected moments over the last 16 years, and as PokerStars gears up for the 2023 edition of EPT Prague, PokerNews thought it'd be fun to look back at some of the epic tales that have taken place at the stop.

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Level: 7

Blinds: 500/1,000

Ante: 1,000

12-10-2023 16:58 UTC+1

More Large Stacks Emerging

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Frank Visser

Level 7 : Blinds 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Luigi D'Alterio	220,000 220,000	220,000
Bjorn Kozenkai	155,000 44,000	44,000
Tomas Kolarik	149,000 89,000	89,000
Lyudmil Ivanov	137,000 137,000	137,000
Timothy Friese	135,000 106,500	106,500
Mats Ullereng	133,400 133,400	133,400
Jerome Rufenacht	131,200 131,200	131,200
Salvatore Caruso	130,000 130,000	130,000
George Chiriac	127,000 29,000	29,000
Oleksii Natoptanyi	126,000 126,000	126,000
Domenico Cancro	125,000 125,000	125,000
Tamer Kamel	123,000 123,000	123,000
Jean Autran	119,000 51,500	51,500
Volodymyr Drokin	113,000 113,000	113,000
Attila Zab	110,000 75,000	75,000
Maksym Filipovskyi	108,400 108,400	108,400
Youcef Benzerfa	108,300 88,300	88,300
Martin Kury	108,000 108,000	108,000
Davis Mihelsons	108,000 108,000	108,000
Anton Kalinac	107,000 7,300	7,300
Mehdi Senhaji	105,000 105,000	105,000
Antoine Labat	104,500 29,500	29,500
Mario Trattou	103,000 68,000	68,000
Simon Brandstrom	102,000 102,000	102,000

Franz Bracher	101,300 101,300	101,300

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12-10-2023 17:00 UTC+1

Rose Shoves Short and Makes Full House

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Matt Warburton

Level 7 : Blinds 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

Mario Trattou raised from early position and Lukas Rose moved all in with a short stack of 12,400. The rest of the table folded and Trattou made the call with the much bigger stack. Players turned their cards.

Lukas Rose: K♣J♣
Mario Trattou: A♥8♥

The board ran out J♥6♠J♠6♣4♦. Rose hit trip jacks on the flop and made a full house on the turn. He won the pot and doubled up his stack.

Player	Chips	Progress
Mario Trattou	96,000 7,000	7,000
Lukas Rose	25,000 25,000	25,000

Tags: Lukas Rose Mario Trattou

12-10-2023 17:07 UTC+1

Rufenacht Is Good at Showdown

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Ollie Garland

Level 7 : Blinds 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

The pot stood at 8,100 with two players looking at a board that read 5♠3♥3♣A♣.

Mircea Ionut, in the big blind, checked the action to Jerome Rufenacht, in early position. Rufenacht bet out 2,000 and Ionut made the call.

The 2♠ river checked to a showdown. Ionut tabled 10♦2♦ for a missed gutshot, while Rufenacht claimed this pot with A♥2♥ for two pair.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jerome Rufenacht	128,000 3,200	3,200
Mircea Ionut	25,000 25,000	25,000

Tags: Jerome Rufenacht Mircea Ionut

12-10-2023 17:14 UTC+1

Meisser Cracks Asgoudakis' Aces

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Matt Warburton

Level 7 : Blinds 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

Following an open raise to 2,100, Emmanouil Asgoudakis called and then Marco Meisser three-bet to 6,500. The original raiser folded and Asgoudakis called.

The flop came 9♠K♦3♦. Asgoudakis checked, Meisser bet 3,100, and Asgoudakis check-raised to 9,000. Meisser shoved all in and Asgoudakis called with the shorter stack of 19,700.

Asgoudakis flipped over K♥Q♣ for a pair of kings, but Meisser showed A♣A♠ for pocket aces.

The turn, however, fell the Q♠ to give Asgoudakis two pair. The river was a blank, the 6♣. Meisser held to win the pot and double up his stack.

Player	Chips	Progress
Emmanouil Asgoudakis	55,000 55,000	55,000
Marco Meisser	42,000 42,000	42,000

Tags: Emmanouil Asgoudakis Marco Meisser

12-10-2023 17:15 UTC+1

Aces Spell the End for Khamidov

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Frank Visser

Level 7 : Blinds 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

With 28,000 chips in the pot, Till Siegrist put Komil Khamidov all-in for his final 15,000 on a completed board of 7♥J♦2♠8♣6♦. Khamidov thought it over for several minutes before putting in a call.

Siegrist showed 10♠9♠ for the nuts, leaving Khamidov's A♠A♥ cracked on the table as he left the tournament area.