€5,300 EPT Main Event
Day 1a Started
2024 PokerStars EPT Prague
€5,300 EPT Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info
2024 PokerStars EPT Prague
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 1a
Buy-in
€5,300
Prize Pool
€7,071,300
Entries
1,458
Level
36
Blinds
250,000 / 500,000
Ante
500,000
Entries
466
Players Left
146
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After a record-breaking Eureka Main Event, which comes to an end today, it’s now time for the big one: the 2024 PokerStars European Poker Tour Prague €5,300 EPT Main Event.
At the Hilton Prague, players from around the world are hoping for at least as much action as last year, when Padraig O’Neill became an EPT champion, winning €1,030,000 after a five-hour heads-up battle against Jon Kyte. The 2023 EPT Prague Main Event recorded 1,285 entries. Could this year surpass that number?
2023 EPT Prague €5,300 Main Event Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize (EUR) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Padraig O'Neill | Ireland | €1,030,000 |
| 2 | Jon Kyte | Norway | €643,000 |
| 3 | Umberto Ruggeri | Italy | €459,240 |
| 4 | Cheng Zhao | China | €353,240 |
| 5 | Adam Wagner | Czechia | €271,660 |
| 6 | Grigorii Rodin | Russian Federation | €209,000 |
| 7 | Govert Metaal | Netherlands | €160,750 |
| 8 | Marle Spragg | United States | €123,600 |
| 9 | Vincent Meli | France | €95,000 |
The 2024 EPT Prague winner will join a long and prestigious list of EPT Prague champions, which includes Jordan Saccucci (2022), the second two-time EPT Champion Mikalai Pobal (2019) and Hossein Ensan (2015).
This Main Event also marks the conclusion of the 2024 EPT season, which featured Barny Boatman returning to the spotlight in Paris, Derk van Luijk lifting the EPT Monte Carlo trophy, Stephen Song triumphing in the fourth-largest EPT ever in Barcelona, and Oliver Weis adding a new title to his record.
Recent EPT Prague Main Event History
| Year | Prize Pool | Entries | First Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | €6,101,300 | 1,285 | €1,030,000 |
| 2022 | €6,144,950 | 1,267 | €913,250 |
| 2021 | €5,771,500 | 1,190 | €692,252 |
| 2019 | €5,596,900 | 1,154 | €1,005,600 |
| 2018 | €5,693,900 | 1,174 | €840,000 |
| 2017 | €4,146,750 | 855 | €675,000 |
| 2016 | €5,781,200 | 1,192 | €699,300 |
Play is set to kick off at 12 p.m. local time. Players will begin with 30,000 in chips with blinds starting at 100/100 with a 100 big blind ante. Levels will last 60 minutes, and players will be sent on 20-minute breaks after every two levels. An extended 75-minute dinner break will be held after Level 6.
Players are allowed a maximum of two entries combined for flights 1a and 1b as well as Day 2. Play will end for the day after Level 10, and all remaining entrants from both flights will reconvene on Wednesday, December 11 at noon for Day 2.
Be sure to stick with PokerNews as we continue to bring you all the action from the tournament floor leading to the next EPT Main Event champion!
Level: 1
Blinds: 100/100
Ante: 100
Level 1
: Blinds 100/100, 100 ante
Cards are in the air for Day 1a of the EPT Main Event here in Prague.
Level 1
: Blinds 100/100, 100 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
Level 1
: Blinds 100/100, 100 ante
There were around 1,300 chips in the pot on a Q♣10♦2♦ flop when the action checked to Jean Michel Ploch in the cutoff, who fired out 600. Robert Schram called in the big blind, and Felix Schneiders came along from the hijack.
On the K♠ turn, all three checked to the 4♣ river where Schram led out for 2,000. Schneiders quickly folded, and after some deliberation, Ploch called.
Schram then showed he had turned a straight with J♥9♠, and Ploch mucked.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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34,000 | |
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29,000
1,000
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1,000 |
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26,000 |
Level 1
: Blinds 100/100, 100 ante
Three-way on a flop of 8♦4♦5♦, Barny Boatman in the cutoff bet 800. He was called by Aleksey Cherkasov in the small blind, but Oleg Vayman in the big blind check-folded.
The A♠ came on the turn and Boatman fired a second barrel of 1,000. It only took a few seconds for Cherkasov to fold.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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33,000
3,000
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3,000 |
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30,000
30,000
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30,000 |
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29,000
29,000
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29,000 |
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28,000
28,000
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28,000 |
Level 1
: Blinds 100/100, 100 ante
The action was picked up on a board of A♦9♦J♠J♦2♦ with roughly 3,000 in the pot. Kai Herold bet 3,000 from the button, and Yasuhiro Kubota in the big blind went into the tank.
Kubota eventually made the call, but couldn't do much against Herold's full house with 9♠9♣. Kubota revealed the J♣ for trips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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35,000
35,000
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35,000 |
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30,000
30,000
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30,000 |
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27,000
27,000
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27,000 |
Level 1
: Blinds 100/100, 100 ante
A 5♣Q♣A♠ flop was laying on the table when Christou Christos checked from the small blind and Dominic Cullen bet 300 from the cutoff. Gerard Rubiralta called on the button, and Christos folded.
On the 8♥ turn, Cullen slowed down and checked, then Rubiralta fired a big bet of 1,700. Cullen called.
The 5♠ river was quickly checked through and Cullen's A♦7♠ was good for the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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32,500 | |
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28,000 |
Level 1
: Blinds 100/100, 100 ante
In a blind versus blind situation, Leonidas Kostagiolas in the small blind checked then called after Alec Torelli in the big blind bet 200 on Q♥10♦7♣.
Torelli bet 200 again on the 9♠ turn, and Kostagiolas check-called once again.
Kostagiolas checked a third time on the 8♣ river. Torelli checked back and Kostagiolas flipped over A♠J♦ for a straight. Torelli's cards went into the muck.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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35,000 | |
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18,000 | |
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