€5,300 Main Event Day 1a | 2015 PokerStars.com EPT Season 11 Malta

03-22-2015 22:47 UTC+2

Player	Chips	Progress
Petr Jelinek	Busted
Riccardo D'Errico	Busted
Tolga Kesiner	Busted
Davor Lanini	Busted
Albert Daher	Busted
Felix Bleiker	Busted
Gad Morgenstern	Busted
Olov Jansson	Busted
Iliodoros Kamatakis	Busted
Nikolay Prokhorskiy	Busted
Marcin Wydrowski	Busted
Mateusz Żbikowski	Busted
Paul Hofer	Busted
Ratharam Sivagnanam	Busted
Ben Warrington	Busted
Tomas Samol	Busted
Sergio Braga	Busted
Rob Schiffbauer	Busted

Rossiter Gone

Christian Zetzsche

Level 7 : 250/500, 50 ante

Jeff Rossiter was all in for his last 11 big blinds with and an opponent improved with to score the knockout.

Christian Golob has also been losing chips after previously getting back up to 110,000. With the board being complete, the Austrian bet 6,500 out of the blinds and snap-folded once he got called.

Player	Chips	Progress
Christian Golob	93,000	18,000
Jeff Rossiter	Busted

Tags: Christian Golob Jeff Rossiter

03-22-2015 22:35 UTC+2

Updated Counts After Dinner

Christian Zetzsche

Level 7 : 250/500, 50 ante

Just before the dinner break, Fedor Holz lost 23,500 in chips with pocket aces against the of an opponent, when a king appeared on the flop and the river.

Player	Chips	Progress
John O'Shea	87,000
Joao Vieira	65,000
Simon Higgins	60,000
Ramin Hajiyev	59,000
Barny Boatman	55,000
Martin Staszko	52,000
Marius Pospiech	48,000
[Removed:2]	43,000
Juan Riera	42,000
Matas Cimbolas	28,000
Paul Newey	27,000
Fedor Holz	20,000
Martin Finger	16,000

Tags: Fedor Holz

Level: 7

Blinds: 250/500

Ante: 50

03-22-2015 21:15 UTC+2

Time for the Dinner Break

Chad Holloway

Level 6 : 200/400, 50 ante

Players are now on a 75-minute dinner break. When they return they'll play two more levels before bagging and tagging for the night.

03-22-2015 21:13 UTC+2

Daher and Frank Gone

Christian Zetzsche

Level 6 : 200/400, 50 ante

Fabrice Soulier was down to as low as 16,000 earlier today and then scored a crucial double up against Christopher Frank. That hand left the German on the short-stack and he bet a flop of for 1,400. Ariel Malnik raised all in with his own short stack and Frank called off with .

Malnik had and the turn left the German with only hearts remaining to stay alive. It wasn't meant to be, as the dealer burned and turned the as final community card.

Albert Daher was eliminated just before the end of the level as well.

Player	Chips	Progress
Fabrice Soulier	55,000	36,000
Albert Daher	Busted
Christopher Frank	Busted

Tags: Albert Daher Ariel Malnik Christopher Frank Fabrice Soulier

03-22-2015 21:11 UTC+2

Muehloecker Grinding

Christian Zetzsche

Level 6 : 200/400, 50 ante

Joining a flop of , Thomas Muehloecker called a bet of 1,200 and then checked down the turn and the river. His opponent mucked after he was shown the by the Austrian and Muehloecker is hovering around half the starting stack. He just got moved to table 2 not long ago and two other notables on said table include EPT 11 finalist Hossein Ensan as well as EPT 10 London runner-up Georgios Karakousis.

Player	Chips	Progress
Hossein Ensan	64,000	11,000
Georgios Karakousis	34,000	34,000
Thomas Muehloecker	16,000	-7,000

Tags: Georgios Karakousis Hossein Ensan Thomas Muehloecker

03-22-2015 21:09 UTC+2

The Team PokerStars Sports Star Takes Her Leave

Chad Holloway

Level 6 : 200/400, 50 ante

We missed the elimination of Fatima Moreira de Melo, but were told she fell after getting her last 17 big blinds all in preflop holding against Team PokerStars Pro Marcin Horecki's . The tens held and that was all she wrote for the Team PokerStars Sports Star.

Player	Chips	Progress
Marcin Horecki	37,000	7,000
Fatima Moreira De Melo	Busted

Tags: Marcin Horecki Fatima Moreira De Melo

03-22-2015 21:05 UTC+2

Jorgensen Catches Fire

Chad Holloway

Level 6 : 200/400, 50 ante

It seems Team PokerStars Pro Theo Jorgensen is on the up and up as of late.

In a recent hand, Jorgensen took to social media to explain he three-bet with only to get four-bet to 7,000. The player in the small blind called, as did Jorgensen, and three players saw a flop of .

"Only folding if it spikes an and maybe folding if it hits a , but don't think so," Jorgensen explains.

The four-bettor ended up moving all in, the small blind folded, and Jorgensen called off his last 15,000 with top set. With that, he shipped the double.

Player	Chips	Progress
Theo Jorgensen	50,000	25,000

Tags: Theo Jorgensen

03-22-2015 20:57 UTC+2

They Keep on Shoving

Christian Zetzsche

Level 6 : 200/400, 50 ante

[Removed:17] faced yet another all in of a short stack. This time it was Olof Haglund, who put his last 7,025 at risk on the turn. Yan put his glasses back on, studied the board for a few seconds and mucked his cards.