Oleh Okhotskyi opened to 3,000 from under the gun. Adrian State called in early position. Espen Oeye called on the button before Grzegorz Kozieja moved all in from the big blind for 48,500.
State was the sole caller and the players showed down.
Grzegorz Kozieja: A♥10♥
Adrian State: 10♣10♦
State's tens held across the J♣2♦7♣9♥9♣ runout to secure Kozieja's stack.
The final event of a hugely successful 2024 PokerStars European Poker Tour Prague is well and truly underway, with 93 players progressing yesterday from 255 entries to Day 2 of the €10,300 EPT High Roller.
Those figures generated a current prize pool of €2,473,500, but with late registration open until the start of Day 2 at 12:30 p.m. today, December 14, at the Hilton Prague, the final tallies will increase further.
Conor Bergin of Ireland, seeking his first live major title, starts the day in second place (385,000), chasing Dutchman David Boyaciyan (538,500), who streaked away from the rest of the field and holds a 100 big blind lead.
David Boyaciyan
Michael Sklenicka (348,500) completes the podium places, and the Czech player would surely love to get his hands on the trophy on home soil.
Bergin will be hoping to smash his biggest recorded live score of $17,500 with a deep run here. Boyaciyan's biggest live cash amongst $2.5 million in recorded winnings is a €535,000 score for second in the EPT Prague Main Event in 2011, and he is looking to go one better for his first EPT title. Sklenicka has over $2.6 million in winnings and is also aiming for his first piece of EPT silverware.
Start of Day 2 Top Ten Chip Counts
Rang
Player
Country
Chip count
Big blinds
1
David Boyaciyan
Netherlands
538,500
359
2
Conor Bergin
Ireland
385,000
257
3
Michael Sklenicka
Czech Republic
348,500
232
4
Joris Ruijs
Netherlands
309,500
206
5
Julien Sitbon
France
299,500
200
6
Armin Rezaei
Austria
288,500
192
7
Maksim Vaskresenski
Belarus
273,500
182
8
Elias Suhonen
Finland
266,000
177
9
Mykhailo Demydenko
Ukraine
256,500
171
10
Christian Pedersen
Denmark
255,000
170
There are plenty of other top-quality players in the field, including Leo Worthington-Leese (160,500), Irish Open champion Tero Laurila (88,500) and Thomas Santerne (57,000), aiming for an unbelievable fourth trophy of the festival - his three victories thus far amounting to €691,975.
Thomas Santerne
Parker Talbot (24,000) is the only PokerStars Ambassador currently in the mix, but no doubt he will be joined by some of his fellow spadies at late registration.
Players will return to Level 11, with blinds of 1,000/1,500, with a 1,500 big blind ante. Levels will be 50 minutes each, with twelve levels scheduled for today's play. Players who take advantage of Day 2 registration will sit down with a 50,000 starting stack.
Stay tuned to PokerNews for an exciting day of poker as we moved towards the bubble and see who progresses to the final day.
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