€5,300 EPT Main Event
Jour 1b a débuté
€5,300 EPT Main Event
Jour 1b a débuté
The second starting flight which is Day 1b of the PokerStars European Poker Tour Prague Main Event start at noon local time here at the Hilton Prague. The 2018 edition attracted 1,174 entries and with 391 players flocking to Day 1a which surpassed last year’s Day 1a numbers, Day 1b is set to be a busier one.
Pierre Calamusa bagged his second chip lead of the festival in the Czech Republic as he collected 457,000 in chips on Day 1a, staying ahead of players like Stefan Egermann, Roland Chassing, Yehuda Cohen, and Steve O’Dwyer. Defending champion, Paul Michaelis busted on Day 1a but might be back if he hasn’t used his second bullet yet.
Kalidou Sow was the only PokerStars ambassador to survive the day so a bunch more are expected to jump into the field today. Players can enter or reenter right up to the start of Day 2 with a maximum of 2 bullets that can be fired.
Players start with 30,000 in chips. Day 1b has ten levels of 60 minutes each on the planning with a 20-minute break after every two levels and a 75-minute dinner break after Level 6. The PokerNews live reporting team will be on the floor and behind the laptops to bring you all the updates from the Main Event!
Day 1b Structure
Level | Duration | Small Blind | Big Blind | BB Ante |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 60 | 100 | 100 | |
2 | 60 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
Break | 20 | |||
3 | 60 | 100 | 200 | 200 |
4 | 60 | 100 | 300 | 300 |
Break | 20 | |||
5 | 60 | 200 | 400 | 400 |
6 | 60 | 200 | 500 | 500 |
Dinner Break | 75 | |||
7 | 60 | 300 | 600 | 600 |
8 | 60 | 400 | 800 | 800 |
Break | 20 | |||
9 | 60 | 500 | 1,000 | 1,000 |
10 | 60 | 600 | 1,200 | 1,200 |
Niveau: 1
Blinds: 100/100
Ante: 0
The players have been welcomed to the tables and the dealers have been instructed to shuffle up and deal with the button in Seat 7 if they have 3 or more players at their table.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Jesper Hansen |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Surinder Sunar |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Alexander Ivarsson |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Morten Mortensen |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Marco Regonaschi |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Majid Ejlal Noubarian |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Alisa Sibgatova |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Quan Zhou |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Wilhelm Isaak |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Carl Shaw |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Kevin Smiley |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Terry Jordon |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Valerii Lubenets |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Raphael Wimmer |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Stefan Fabian |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Andrey Bondar |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Tsugunari Toma |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Anton Siden |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Wei Zheng was seen leaving the tournament area and the dealer on Table 16 yelled: "Seat open!"
Jiayu Ruan was stacking up chips while the dealer wiped the board but he was kind enough to relay what had happened:
According to Ruan (small blind), he had raised with and Zheng (big blind) three-bet. Ruan four-bet, Zheng five-bet, Ruan six-bet-shoved and Zheng called with suited.
The board ran out .
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Jiayu Ruan |
60,000
60,000
|
60,000 |
Wei Zheng | Eliminé |
A pot of more than 11,000 emerged until the river in a battle Tomas Jozonis (cutoff) and Laurent Michot (button). Jozonis opted to check and Michot bet nearly the size of the pot for 11,000. Jozonis spent more than two minutes in the tank and folded.
"Bluff?" he inquired and Michot replied with a "sometimes" while raking in the pot.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Laurent Michot | 36,000 | |
Tomas Jozonis |
24,500
24,500
|
24,500 |
Among others, 2018 EPT Barcelona champion Piotr Nurzynski has been spotted in the field and a previous EPT runner-up is also in contention in Georgios Karakousis.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Vitaliy Li |
32,000
32,000
|
32,000 |
Mikolaj Zawadzki |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Viktor Katzenberger |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Michael Kane |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Jerry Odeen |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Omar Eljach |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Piotr Nurzynski |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
||
Paul Newey |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Masato Yokosawa |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Jean-René Fontaine |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Antoine Vranken |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Aristeidis Moschonas |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Alin Grasu |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Georgios Karakousis |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Henri Buhler and Julian Stuer both took part on Day 1a without being able to bag up chips and can now be found at the same table on Day 1b. Another familiar face of the German-speaking poker community is seated with them in Markus Durnegger and Stuer lost a first minor pot when his ended up second-best to in a checked down board of .
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Henri Buhler |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Markus Durnegger |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Julian Stuer |
29,500
29,500
|
29,500 |
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Piotr Wiecek | 30,000 | |
Jonathan Bussieres | 30,000 | |
Vlastimil Pustina | 30,000 | |
Georgios Vrakas |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Daniel Rezaei |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Marcin Lesniewski | 30,000 | |
Salim El Boustani | 30,000 | |
Gregory Armand | 30,000 | |
Johan Guilbert |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
||
Chris Da-Silva | 30,000 | |
Mihai Manole | 30,000 | |
Grzegorz Wyraz | 30,000 | |
Vlada Stojanovic | 30,000 | |
Andrey Andreev | 30,000 |