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

Prokhorskiy Wins Big

Level 3 : 100/200, 0 ante

The action started with Abdurrahman Arslan limping in from under the gun. Wataru Kosugi then raised it up to 600 from middle position before Nikolay Prokhorskiy bumped it up to 1,700 from the small blind. Alexandre Gomes was on the big blind and raised it up once more to 4,200 which prompted Arslan to move all in for 5,875 in chips.

Kosugi mucked his hand before Prokhorskiy reached for his chips and made the quick call.

“Can I raise?” asked Gomes, who was wondering about his options. He was informed by the dealer that he could not, and completed the call.

The flop came {5-Clubs}{2-Spades}{q-Hearts} and both Prokhorskiy and Gomes checked. When the dealer revealed the {6-Diamonds} on the turn, Prokhorskiy led out for 4,000 and Gomes called.

The {6-Spades} completed the board and Prokhorskiy reached for his chips and threw out 6,500. Gomes then thought for a minute before raising it up to 16,300 which caught Prokhorskiy off guard. He made the call and was relieved when Gomes just mucked his hand.

Prokhorskiy then tabled his {5-Diamonds}{5-Spades} for a full house which was good enough to take down the pot. Arslan rolled over his {9-Diamonds}{9-Hearts} for two pair before exiting the tournament floor.

Player Chips Progress
Nikolay Prokhorskiy ru
Nikolay Prokhorskiy
65,000
Alex Gomes br
Alex Gomes
26,275
-29,025
-29,025
Abdurrahman Arslan se
Abdurrahman Arslan
Busted

Tags: Alexandre GomesNikolay Prokhorskiy

Even More Counts

Level 3 : 100/200, 0 ante
Player Chips Progress
Sabina Hiatullah it
Sabina Hiatullah
83,000
9,000
9,000
Mike Leah ca
Mike Leah
45,000
6,000
6,000
Nicolas Chouity lb
Nicolas Chouity
44,000
EPT 1X Winner
Sylvain Loosli fr
Sylvain Loosli
36,000
Brian Benhamou fr
Brian Benhamou
34,000
4,000
4,000
Nikolaus Teichert de
Nikolaus Teichert
32,000
Yaxi Zhu cn
Yaxi Zhu
30,500
Pierre Mothes de
Pierre Mothes
29,000
Gaelle Baumann fr
Gaelle Baumann
29,000
Winamax
Mario Puccini de
Mario Puccini
24,000
-6,000
-6,000
Manig Loeser de
Manig Loeser
23,000
EPT 1X Winner
Ben Warrington gb
Ben Warrington
18,000
-12,000
-12,000
Baden Logan au
Baden Logan
17,000
6,600
6,600
Roberto Romanello gb
Roberto Romanello
17,000
-13,000
-13,000
EPT 1X Winner
Artur Koren at
Artur Koren
14,000

Hi Kitai

Level 3 : 100/200, 0 ante

Davidi Kitai has joined the record breaking field and is sitting at Vanessa Selbst’s table. He was soon involved in a hand with her.

The flop was {6-Clubs}{j-Diamonds}{8-Hearts} and Selbst, in the big blind, checked it over to Kitai who bet 500. A check-raise to 3,200 from Selbst however saw Kitai let it go.

Player Chips Progress
Vanessa Selbst us
Vanessa Selbst
40,000
14,000
14,000
Davidi Kitai be
Davidi Kitai
28,000
EPT Main Event Champion
EPT 1X Winner
Winamax

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
$25K Fantasy
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
$25K Fantasy

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

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

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

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

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