€1,100 Eureka Main Event Day 1e | 2024 PokerStars EPT Prague

12-06-2024 19:12 UTC+1

Benakis Cracks Shapira's Cowboys

Kai Cocklin

Level 14 : Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

Francesco Bozza made it 6,000 to go from middle position and Ran Shapira three-bet the cutoff to 18,000. Pavlos Benakis was in the small blind and shoved for around 65,000, which got Bozza out of the way. Shapira, however, quickly called.

Pavlos Benakis: A♠K♥ All in
Ran Shapira: K♠K♣

Benakis was behind and needed to get some help from the board in order to stay alive. The flop of 9♥8♣J♦ didn't offer much assistance to Benakis, but the A♣ turn certainly did as he made top pair, which left Shapira with just one out. That miracle one-outer didn't appear on the 7♣ river, and Benakis doubled up.

Player	Chips	Progress
Pavlos Benakis	150,000 150,000	150,000
Francesco Bozza	100,000 70,000	70,000
Ran Shapira	30,000

Tags: Francesco Bozza Pavlos Benakis Ran Shapira

12-06-2024 19:12 UTC+1

Updated Chip Counts

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Maxime Taldir

Level 14 : Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Loic Debregeas	200,000
David Toth-Almasi	190,000
Thore Boedefeld	170,000
Michel Molenaar	135,000 135,000	135,000
Ilia Pavlov	120,000
Alex Romero	100,000 5,000	5,000

Kerryjane Craigie	78,000 1,000	1,000
Tamara Torsarkissian	45,000 35,000	35,000

12-06-2024 19:18 UTC+1

Shapira Busts After Runner-Runner

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Will Shillibier

Level 14 : Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

Muhibur Rahman had raised and after Liron Shapira three-bet, Rahman moved all in. Shapira thought before calling all in for around 65,000.

Liron Shapira: 9♥9♦ All in
Muhibur Rahman: A♠Q♠

Shapira was in good shape as the 10♣8♥5♥ flop came. The turn J♦ saw Rahman pick up a straight draw, and although the 9♣ gave Shapira a set, it completed his opponent's straight. He sat there in apparent shock for a moment before standing and exiting the tournament area.

Player	Chips	Progress
Muhibur Rahman	175,000 50,000	50,000
Liron Shapira	Busted

Tags: Liron Shapira Muhibur Rahman

12-06-2024 19:18 UTC+1

Should Doug Polk Be Banned from Playing His Own Tournament? | PokerNews Podcast #867

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Sandra Barbour

Level 14 : Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

In the 867th episode of the PokerNews Podcast, sponsored by the free-to-play WSOP App, Chad Holloway, Kyna England, and Mike Holtz are at Level 9 Studio to discuss the "controversy" of Doug Polk making the final table of his own poker tournament down at The Lodge in Austin, Texas. Should a poker operator be allowed to play in their own event? That seemed to be the question of the week in the poker world.

The crew then played "Race the Ace" to determine a winner in ourgiveaway for a seat into the ClubWPT Gold $5,000,000 Freeroll Invitational (the answer to how many engraved plates are on the WPT Mike Sexton Champion's Cup was 374)! From there, it is a look at Maria Ho winning the Celebrity Poker Tour (CPT) 2024 Championship and Chad got to meet Impractical Jokers Brian "Q" Quinn and Joe Gatto, Sketch, and Vegas Matt.

Speaking of fun events, find out who won the Global Poker Table Talk event during Formula 1 featuring Antonio Esfandiari, Michael Phelps, Carlos Sainz, and Charles Leclerc, and then get a behind-the-scenes look at the Big Deal for One Drop, which both Chad and Connor Richards attended. They caught up with Phil Hellmuth and even interviewed Jennifer Tilly.

Kyna then shares highlights from her trip to England for the PokerStars Women's Winter Festival. Then things wrap with a look at the upcoming Bar Poker Open taking place in Florida from Dec. 6-8 (Norman Chad will be there to do commentary)!

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12-06-2024 19:20 UTC+1

Jin Hits His Gin Card to Double

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Patrick Cole

Level 14 : Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

Fotios Ntamaris opened from under the gun to 6,000. Bo Jin three-bet to 22,000 leaving 500 behind. Action folded around to Ntamaris who asked for the rest. Jin obliged and the players showed down.

Bo Jin: K♠J♣ All in
Fotios Ntamaris: K♣10♣

Ntamaris made second pair on the 10♦A♦2♥ flop but the Q♠ gave Jin Broadway. He faded the jacks for a chop and the 7♦ secured him the double up.

Player	Chips	Progress
Bo Jin	45,000 45,000	45,000
Fotios Ntamaris	35,000 35,000	35,000

Tags: Bo Jin Fotios Ntamaris

12-06-2024 19:20 UTC+1

Sharma Busts Suutari

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Richard Hayes

Level 14 : Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

Rubens Sellam opened to 6,500 under the gun, and received calls from Nakul Sharma in middle position and Juho Suutari in the big blind.

On the A♣6♠3♣ flop, Sellam continued with a bet of 8,000 and received a call from both of his opponents.

The 8♥ hit on the turn, and Suutari checked once more. Sellam fired out a bet of 17,000, and Sharma again called. Suutari then check-jammed for 38,000. Sellam called, but then folded to a three-bet jam from Sharma for 83,000.

Juho Suutari: A♥J♦ All in
Nakul Sharma: A♠8♠

Sharma had top two pair versus Suutari's pair of aces, and Suutari could not find the jack he required on the 3♠ river.

Player	Chips	Progress
Nakul Sharma	200,000 96,000	96,000
Rubens Sellam	95,000 10,000	10,000
Juho Suutari	Busted

Tags: Juho Suutari Rubens Sellam

12-06-2024 19:23 UTC+1

Break Time

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Patrick Cole

Level 14 : Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

The field have been sent on a 30-minute break.

12-06-2024 19:36 UTC+1

Life Outside Poker: Boston Rob Shares Story of Costa Rica Poker Raid w/ Daniel Negreanu & Cheryl Hines

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Sandra Barbour

Level 14 : Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

Life Outside Poker is a new podcast for PokerNews hosted by Connor Richards that seeks to pull back the curtain on poker players and allow viewers and listeners to get to know them on a personal level.

In the 21st episode, Connor speaks with Survivor legend Boston Rob, aka Rob Mariano, about growing up near Fenway Park, learning poker at the age of 6, studying psychology at Boston University, applying for Survivor and winning Season 22, his recent appearance on Deal or No Deal Island and filming an upcoming season of The Traitors.

Boston Rob also revealed a story about Costa Rican authorities raiding a mansion known to host high-stakes poker games during a 2006 filming that included Daniel Negreanu, Josh Arieh, David Williams, Michael Mizrachi and actress Cheryl Hines.

"(Gambling mogul) Calvin (Ayre) had a big party at the house, and they came in guns drawn," he said. "And we were fine, but we all had to stay at the party until they checked our passports and everything. I think it was a little bit of a shakedown. But we had a good weekend."

The Life Outside Poker podcast is available on major streaming platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, SoundCloud and iHeartRadio. You can also watch the interview with Boston Rob by heading to the PokerNews YouTube channel.

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Level: 15

Blinds: 2,000/4,000

Ante: 4,000

12-06-2024 19:50 UTC+1

Top Counts at the Break

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Kai Cocklin

Level 15 : Blinds 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Bhavin Khatri	385,000 385,000	385,000
Marius Stralek	380,000 380,000	380,000
Yannick Jobin	350,000 187,000	187,000
Apostolos Kofidis	331,000 4,000	4,000
Samuel Stranak	315,000 315,000	315,000
Marian Virlanuta	309,000 219,000	219,000
Ovidiu Chirieac	265,000 265,000	265,000
Jenya Gavrilovich	250,000 250,000	250,000
Michal Krzyminski	245,000
Nakul Sharma	245,000
Theodoros Ampelikiotis	242,000 7,000	7,000
Sebastian Einbeck	240,000 240,000	240,000
Tan Le	236,000 55,000	55,000
Christoph Hillinger	235,000 235,000	235,000