2014 PokerStars.com EPT Season 11 Prague

€5,300 Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info
2014 PokerStars.com EPT Season 11 Prague
Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
44
Prize
€969,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€5,535,000
Total Entries
1,107
Level Info
Level
32
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
20,000
Players Left 1 / 1,107
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Level: 7

Blinds: 250/500

Ante: 50

Tournament Essentials: How To Kill Time And Not Do Stupid Things

Level 6 : 200/400, 50 ante

What exactly is a player to do between hands? For instance, in the old days you would do as the expensive poker manual said you should do—pay rigorous attention to whatever it was others did at your table, and adjust your play accordingly, regardless of whether you could interpret their behaviour one way or another.

But these days, in an age of fractured attention spans and Ritalin, that’s a recipe for disaster. You’re more likely to get carried away, suddenly assume you know what you’re doing, and blow the lot. For that reason another solution must be found. Forget what the books say-- there’s no “you” in iPad--this is the tech generation, as the PokerStars Blog reports.

It was Suited

Level 6 : 200/400, 50 ante

After a raise to 1,000 and four callers, Jan Ramik tossed in the extra chips out of the big blind with {Q-Hearts} {2-Hearts} and found a flop of {Q-} {5-} {6-}. One of the opponents bet 4,000 and the Czech only had 7,850 chips left and got them in. The opponent called with pocket sevens but turn and river blanked.

Tags: Jan Ramik

Panyak Keeps Crushing

Level 6 : 200/400, 50 ante
Maxim Panyak
Maxim Panyak

On the turn of a {8-Diamonds} {10-Clubs} {5-Spades} {6-Spades} board, Maxim Panyak had an opponent all in and at risk for 16,000 with {K-Spades} {10-Spades} and needed to improve versus {A-Spades} {A-Diamonds}. Sure enough the {10-Diamonds} fell on the river and the Russian had more chips to stack.

Tags: Maxim Panyak

Chips for Jelinek

Level 6 : 200/400, 50 ante

Abou Saleh Elias raised to 900 and was called by Petr Jelinek on the button and Dylan Linde in the big blind. On the {A-Diamonds} {9-Spades} {10-Hearts} flop, Elias continued with a bet of 1,200 and Jelinek raised to 4,000. Linde folded and the Czech called the three-bet to 9,800.

On the †5c] turn, Elias bet another 10,000 and was called before the Lebanese then folded to the 28,000-all in of Jelinek after the {5-Diamonds} river.

Tags: Abou Saleh EliasDylan LindePetr Jelinek

One For Yann

Level 6 : 200/400, 50 ante

Yann Dion opened the betting for 800 and called a three-bet from big blind Ihar Soika to 2,100.

It was heads up to a flop of {4-Hearts}{k-Diamonds}{j-Clubs} and Dion check-called a bet of 2,100. The turn {k-Clubs} was checked and on the river {7-Diamonds} Dion bet out 5,800.

Soika seemed to be in a pickle and had another look at his cards. His decision in the end was to fold and a comment from another player saw a smile spread across Dions lips.

Tags: Yann Dion

Middleton Takes It On the RIver

Level 6 : 200/400, 50 ante

Tom Middleton had bet 4,400 into a pot of around 6,000 on the river of a board reading {7-Hearts}{3-Spades}{6-Hearts}{3-Clubs}{8-Clubs} and Pablo Fernandez was deciding what to do. He had 14,000 behind and that pot must have looked sorely tempting.

A couple of minutes passed before Fernandez folded his hand and it was Middleton who was stacking the chips in the middle.

Tags: Tom Middleton

Khoroshenin Busts Ensan

Level 6 : 200/400, 50 ante
Oleksii Khoroshenin with decent stack
Oleksii Khoroshenin with decent stack

Hannes Speiser raised from the cutoff and Hossein Ensan three-bet from the button to call a four-bet of EPT Vienna champion Oleksii Khoroshenin. On the {Q-} {9-} {8-} flop, Ensan called a continuation bet and then snap-called all in after a {2-} on the turn with {Q-Hearts} {10-Hearts}. Khoroshenin had pocket aces and the river paired the board with another {9-}.

Other big names also busted in Joni Jouhkimainen, Fabrice Soulier and Andrey Vlasenko.

Tags: Fabrice SoulierHannes SpeiserHossein EnsanJoni JouhkimainenOleksii Khoroshenin

Panyak Flushes Mathis

Level 6 : 200/400, 50 ante

The full action is unfortunately amiss, but Maxim Panyak doubled up through Marty Mathis after a raising war on the {10-Spades} {6-Spades} {A-Spades} flop that saw the Russian all in for 39,800 chips. Mathis had flopped two pair with {A-} {10-} and Panyak held {A-Diamonds} {K-Spades} for top pair and the nut flush draw.

The {J-Diamonds} on the turn was a brick, but the {Q-Spades} on the river gave Panyak the flush. Mathis had 750 chips left and those vanished the very next hand.

Tags: Marty MathisMaxim Panyak