2014 PokerStars.com EPT Season 11 Prague

€5,300 Main Event
Day: 1b
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
Entries
1,107
Level Info
Level
32
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
20,000

Dubinskyy Crushes Auer

Level 4 : 100/200, 25 ante

First Robert Auer got his stack in after the {Q-Spades} {10-} {3-} flop against Igor Dubinskyy's {K-Spades} {J-Spades} and the German was slightly ahead with {A-} {Q-}. The {9-Spades} on the turn guaranteed the double up for the World Series of Poker bracelet winner from the Ukraine and the {10-Spades} on the river just rubbed it in even more to give Dubinskyy a straight flush.

Auer had 5,500 chips left and those vanished with pocket sevens against the very same opponent's {K-} {Q-} with a king on the turn.

Player Chips Progress
Igor Dubinskyy ua
Igor Dubinskyy
52,000
Robert Auer at
Robert Auer
Busted

Tags: Igor DubinskyyRobert Auer

Shak Busy; Phillips Has Time On His Hands

Level 3 : 100/200, 0 ante

Dan Shak is a busy man. He has a tablet on his lap and a laptop with some fiendishly complicated looking spreadsheets open on a table beside him. Not only that he was involved in a four-way three-bet pot preflop which each player putting on 1,025.

The flop was {2-Spades}{8-Spades}{5-Diamonds} and Shak folded to a bet of 2,025.

As he folded Dennis Phillips walked past on the way to the exit having failed to recover from his earlier setbacks and has bust.

Player Chips Progress
Dan Shak us
Dan Shak
24,000
-500
-500
Dennis Phillips us
Dennis Phillips
Busted

Tags: Dan ShakDennis Phillips

Nennum Rivers Demidov

Level 3 : 100/200, 0 ante

We arrived at the table with the board already spread out {q-Hearts}{9-Diamonds}{2-Hearts}{8-Hearts}.

Per Nennum checked from under the gun before Ivan Demidov bet out 4,000 in chips. Nennum then bumped it up to 9,000 which got Demidov thinking.

Over a minute passed before Demidov reluctantly moved all in and was called shortly after by Nennum who had less.

Demidov: {6-Hearts}{7-Hearts}
Nennum: {9-Clubs}{9-Hearts}

Demidov was in control with a turned flush against Nennum’s set of nines. That was until the dealer dropped the {8-Spades} on the river giving Nennum the full house and the winning hand.

Player Chips Progress
Per Nennum no
Per Nennum
36,000
Ivan Demidov ru
Ivan Demidov
9,500
-20,500
-20,500

Tags: Ivan DemidovPer Nennum

Geilich Must Bet

Level 3 : 100/200, 0 ante
Ludovic Geilich
Ludovic Geilich

Ludovic Geilich won a big pot early on, and if he has chips he is seemingly genetically programmed to use them to accumulate more whenever possible.

The pot was opened for 450 and there was one caller before Geilich called in position and the big blind put in the calling chips.

Four players saw a flop was {7-Clubs}{a-Hearts}{5-Spades} and it was checked to Geilich who’s primordial instinct kicked In. His hand went to his chips and a bet of 900 hit the felt. The other players released their cards and the pot was his.

Player Chips Progress
Ludovic Geilich gb
Ludovic Geilich
64,000
5,000
5,000

Tags: Ludovich Geilich

Not much you can do

Level 3 : 100/200, 0 ante

Ghassan Yared was all in after the river of a {4-Diamonds} {J-Clubs} {A-Clubs} {4-Clubs} {K-Spades} board for what looked like 10,000 chips and showed {A-Hearts} {K-Clubs} for top two pair and a nut flush draw after the turn that didn't complete. His opponent rolled over {4-Hearts} {4-Spades} for quads and Yared sighed "oh wow, nice hand," before leaving the tournament area.

Player Chips Progress
Ghassan Yared lb
Ghassan Yared
Busted

Tags: Ghassan Yared

The Kings versus Aces Story Again

Level 3 : 100/200, 0 ante

Alerted by a loud "yessss" in the tournament area, we headed over to table 65 and the {2-Spades} {K-Hearts} {8-Hearts} {J-Clubs} {7-Clubs} board was already complete. It turns out that the pocket aces of Sergey Serafimov were cracked by the {K-Diamonds} {K-Clubs} of Benito La Marca after a huge preflop all in and one opponent had even folded {A-} {K-} to leave both with one out only. The Italian doubled up for 28,800 and celebrated as if he had already won the tournament.

Player Chips Progress
Benito La Marca it
Benito La Marca
64,000
Sergey Serafimov ru
Sergey Serafimov
12,000

Tags: Sergey SerafimovBenito La Marca

Jovanovic Doomed; Others as well

Level 3 : 100/200, 0 ante

After a raise to 550 by Soren Hansen and a call by Zeljko Jovanovic, a third player in the hand raised to 1,875 and Hansen called that. Jovanovic moved all in for 8,400 and the third player in the hand folded whereas Hansen called. The Dane had {10-Diamonds} {10-Spades} and immediately spiked a set to dash all hopes of Jovanovic with {7-Spades} {7-Diamonds} on a board of {9-Spades} {3-Hearts} {10-Hearts} {6-Spades} {3-Clubs}.

Other big names were as fortunate and you can find their names in the bustouts below.

Player Chips Progress
Zeljko Jovanovic ba
Zeljko Jovanovic
Busted
Vasili Firsau by
Vasili Firsau
Busted
Glen Cymbaluk ca
Glen Cymbaluk
Busted
Igor Pihela Sr. ee
Igor Pihela Sr.
Busted
Pete Linton gb
Pete Linton
Busted

Tags: Soren HansenZeljko JovanovicVasili FirsauIgor Pihela Sr.Pete Linton

High Roller Chip Counts

Level 3 : 100/200, 0 ante

The EPT Main Event started yesterday, but before that the poker festival in Prague was home to the €50,000 Super High Roller. 42 players entered, with 9 re entries. We covered that tournament from start to finish, seeing Martin Jacobson bubble and Leonid Markin win it all.

Some of the players who entered that tournament, are giving it another try today in the Main Event. We tracked down a couple and got their chip counts:

Player Chips Progress
Mike Leah ca
Mike Leah
49,500
4,500
4,500
Vicente Delgado es
Vicente Delgado
44,000
14,000
14,000
Juha Helppi fi
Juha Helppi
37,200
7,200
7,200
Micah Raskin us
Micah Raskin
37,000
7,500
7,500
Dan Shak us
Dan Shak
24,500
-23,500
-23,500
Martin Jacobson se
Martin Jacobson
22,100
-5,900
-5,900
Paul Newey gb
Paul Newey
19,500
-10,500
-10,500
Vladimir Troyanovskiy ru
Vladimir Troyanovskiy
16,000
3,375
3,375
Steve O'Dwyer ie
Steve O'Dwyer
16,000
-3,000
-3,000
EPT 1X Winner
Stephen Chidwick gb
Stephen Chidwick
14,000
-16,000
-16,000