€5,300 EPT Main Event Jour 3 | 2019 PokerStars EPT Prague

€5,300 EPT Main Event

Jour 3 a débuté

2019-12-14 10:35 UTC+1

Noon Restart For Day 3 of the 2019 EPT Prague Main Event

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Out of a field of 1,154 entries, only 141 hopefuls remain to battle for the lion's share of the €5,596,900 prize pool and will return to their seats at the Hilton Prague at noon local time for Day 3 of the 2019 PokerStars EPT Prague €5,300 European Poker Tour (EPT) Main Event. It is the third-biggest EPT Prague Main Event in the 13 years of history of the festival in the Czech capital and all those still in contention already have €9,850 locked up for their efforts.

The action will recommence with blinds of 2,000-5,000 and a big blind ante of 5,000, and five levels of 90 minutes each are scheduled to bring the field one step closer to crowning a champion in the days to come.

At the top of the leaderboard, Roman Herold (769,000) and Xiaqing Ji (768,000) are separated by a single chip only and the all-time highest-earning player Bryn Kenney follows in third place with 656,000. It would certainly be no surprise to see Kenney take another shot at a seven-figure score as a top prize of €1,005,600 is reserved for the eventual champion.

Other notables with more than half a million in chips at their disposal include 2019 EPT Open Sochi runner-up Giorgiy Skhulukhiya (634,000), Luke Marsh (626,000), Giuseppe Carbone (611,000), Pierre Calamusa (601,000), Teun Mulder (573,000), €1,100 EPT Prague National 13th place finisher Fidan Zahiti (543,000) and Akin Tuna (536,000).

Ten former EPT champions remain in contention to become the second two-time winner of the popular circuit and they are led by Dominik Panka (497,000), Ognyan Dimov (313,000) and Aliaksei Boika (220,000). Former Prague champions Hossein Ensan (180,000), Martin Finger (118,000), and PokerStars ambassador Kalidou Sow (70,000) will also be joined at the tables by Mikalai Pobal (162,000), Sebastian Sorensson (148,000), Steve O'Dwyer (101,000), and Davidi Kitai (93,000).

As of Day 3, a 30-second shot clock will be in play and all participants receive five 30-second time bank extensions, which will be replenished every day until the final table.

The live stream action of the feature table with hole cards displayed on a security delay of 30 minutes will be available on the PokerStars Twitch, YouTube and Facebook channels and the PokerNews team will be on the floor to provide all the action from start to finish.

2019 EPT Prague Main Event Day 3 Seat Draw

Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	1	Hiroki Nawa	Japan	66,000	13
1	2	Akin Tuna	Germany	536,000	107
1	3	Dan Serban Borlan	Romania	435,000	87
1	4	Lin Ruida	China	34,000	7
1	5	Francesco Delfoco	Italy	172,000	34
1	6	Pim Gieles	Netherlands	282,000	56
1	7	Gaby Livshitz	Israel	301,000	60
1	8	Valery Yantsevich	Belarus	74,000	15

2	1	Felix Kurmayr	Austria	218,000	44
2	2	Freek Scholten	Netherlands	197,000	39
2	3	Raphael Wimmer	Austria	207,000	41
2	4	Tomasz Cybulski	Poland	268,000	54
2	5	Laurent Michot	France	550,000	110
2	6	Nazim Shala	Sweden	127,000	25
2	7	Bryn Kenney	USA	656,000	131
2	8	Petr Hlavacek	Czech Republic	118,000	24

3	1	Hady El Asmar	Lebanon	282,000	56
3	3	Harry Ross	UK	139,000	28
3	4	Teun Mulder	Netherlands	573,000	115
3	5	Ognyan Dimov	Bulgaria	313,000	63
3	6	Mateusz Szymanski	Poland	217,000	43
3	7	Serhii Leonov	Ukraine	254,000	51
3	8	Vlastimil Pustina	Czech Republic	243,000	49

4	1	Roman Herold	Germany	769,000	154
4	2	Yehuda Cohen	Israel	209,000	42
4	3	Tomas Paiva	Portugal	237,000	47
4	4	Zinan Xu	China	35,000	7
4	5	Vasileios Tsaknis	Greece	228,000	46
4	6	Steve O'Dwyer	Ireland	101,000	20
4	7	Bryan Paris	USA	139,000	28
4	8	Nikita Lebedev	Russia	148,000	30

5	1	Giuseppe Zarbo	Italy	429,000	86
5	2	Sorin Flutur	Romania	334,000	67
5	3	Kimmo Kurko	Finland	181,000	36
5	4	Nariman Yaghmai	Iran	156,000	31
5	5	Stefan Jedlicka	Austria	82,000	16
5	6	Niklas Lehnert-Rappel	Austria	51,000	10
5	7	Ouri Cohen	France	66,000	13
5	8	Sebastian Percy-Smith	Denmark	185,000	37

6	1	Michael Soyza	Malaysia	411,000	82
6	2	Gab Yong Kim	South Korea	365,000	73
6	3	Sven Krieger	Germany	123,000	25
6	4	Sylvain Loosli	France	171,000	34
6	5	Gereon Sowa	Germany	71,000	14
6	6	Gaelle Baumann	France	343,000	69
6	7	Henrik Hecklen	Denmark	385,000	77
6	8	Andrei Stoenescu	Romania	236,000	47

7	1	Michael O'Grady	Australia	226,000	45
7	2	Norbert Szecsi	Hungary	190,000	38
7	3	Yake Wu	China	100,000	20
7	4	Timothy Adams	Canada	332,000	66
7	5	Dominik Panka	Poland	497,000	99
7	6	Jukka Paloniemi	Finland	85,000	17
7	7	Glib Kovtunov	Ukraine	335,000	67
7	8	Sergei Koliakov	Russia	76,000	15

8	1	Ionut Voinea	Romania	132,000	26
8	2	Orpen Kisacikoglu	Turkey	438,000	88
8	3	Antonio Smeraglia	Italy	58,000	12
8	4	Xiaqing Ji	China	768,000	154
8	5	Hossein Ensan	Germany	180,000	36
8	7	Philipp Zukernik	Canada	215,000	43
8	8	Przemyslaw Glaner	Poland	254,000	51

9	1	Juan Pardo	Spain	84,000	17
9	2	Pieter Aerts	Belgium	370,000	74
9	3	Markus Durnegger	Austria	407,000	81
9	4	Stefan Egermann	Germany	287,000	57
9	5	Jakub Krawinski	Poland	54,000	11
9	6	Kalidou Sow	France	70,000	14
9	7	Vitaly Karayvan	Russia	57,000	11
9	8	Stanislav Koleno	Slovakia	357,000	71

10	1	Ricardo Da Rocha	Brazil	120,000	24
10	2	Fedor Kruse	Germany	324,000	65
10	3	Antonin Teisseire	France	57,000	11
10	4	Jean-Philippe Piquette	Canada	304,000	61
10	5	Oshri Lahmani	Israel	50,000	10
10	6	Thomas Boivin	Belgium	254,000	51
10	7	Raymond Hibert	Luxembourg	185,000	37
10	8	Pierre Calamusa	France	601,000	120

11	1	Mikalai Pobal	Belarus	162,000	32
11	2	Boris Kuzmanovic	Croatia	286,000	57
11	3	Ranno Sootla	Estonia	198,000	40
11	4	Andrew Hulme	UK	232,000	46
11	5	Victor Bogdanov	Russia	292,000	58
11	6	Andrea Dato	Italy	117,000	23
11	7	Dario Sammartino	Italy	364,000	73
11	8	Erwann Pecheux	France	184,000	37

12	1	Simon Mattsson	Sweden	98,000	20
12	2	Aleksandr Sheshukov	Russia	58,000	12
12	3	Sebastian Sorensson	Sweden	148,000	30
12	4	Roland Chassing	France	349,000	70
12	5	Erdal Gulseven	Turkey	383,000	77
12	6	Joe Mouawad	Lebanon	317,000	63
12	7	Paul Newey	UK	97,000	19
12	8	Waldemar Peter	Germany	56,000	11

13	1	Stephen Chidwick	UK	70,000	14
13	2	Luke Marsh	UK	625,000	125
13	3	Ibrahim Senoussi	France	28,000	6
13	4	Aleksandr Merzhvinskiy	Russia	169,000	34
13	5	Diego Zeiter	Switzerland	75,000	15
13	6	Erwan Louer	France	310,000	62
13	7	Joao Mestre Ferreira	Portugal	427,000	85
13	8	Alessio Di Cesare	Italy	237,000	47

14	1	Fulvio Sansanelli	Germany	102,000	20
14	2	Dinesh Alt	Switzerland	271,000	54
14	3	Kemal Aslan	Turkey	52,000	10
14	4	Mustafa Biz	Turkey	269,000	54
14	5	Wei Tso	Hong Kong	240,000	48
14	6	Dietrich Fast	Germany	177,000	35
14	7	Dominykas Mikolaitis	Lithuania	74,000	15
14	8	Renato Hysenbelli	Italy	219,000	44

15	1	Johann Zeitoun	France	243,000	49
15	2	Hariton Tonchev	Bulgaria	170,000	34
15	3	Giorgiy Skhulukhiya	Russia	634,000	127
15	5	Gianluca Speranza	Austria	417,000	83
15	6	Luigi Shehadeh	Italy	160,000	32
15	7	Bart Lybaert	Belgium	296,000	59
15	8	Davidi Kitai	Belgium	93,000	19

16	1	Paul Hoefer	Germany	120,000	24
16	2	Andreas Boelling	Germany	323,000	65
16	3	Paul Hong	New Zealand	197,000	39
16	4	Paul Theobald	Germany	221,000	44
16	5	Giuseppe Carbone	Italy	411,000	82
16	6	Fidan Zahiti	Sweden	543,000	109
16	7	Martin Finger	Germany	118,000	24
16	8	Krasimir Yankov	Bulgaria	317,000	63

17	1	Francesco Candelari	Italy	421,000	84
17	2	Cristinel Sandu	Romania	195,000	39
17	3	Vojtech Ruzicka	Czech Republic	63,000	13
17	4	Tom Vogelsang	Netherlands	139,000	28
17	5	Fredrik Andersson	Sweden	235,000	47
17	6	Marius Gicovanu	Romania	101,000	20
17	7	Wing Sang Lee	Hong Kong	425,000	85
17	8	Denys Shafikov	Ukraine	361,000	72

18	1	Carl Shaw	UK	213,000	43
18	2	Morten Hvam	Denmark	301,000	60
18	3	Ran Azor	Israel	90,000	18
18	4	Mohamed Mokrani	France	444,000	89
18	5	Ngoc Minh Hoang	Czech Republic	297,000	59
18	6	Aliaksei Boika	Belarus	220,000	44
18	7	Claudio Di Giacomo	Italy	310,000	62
18	8	Jakub Oliva	Czech Republic	469,000	94

Tags: Akin Tuna Aliaksei Boika Bryn Kenney Davidi Kitai Dominik Panka Fidan Zahiti Giorgiy Skhulukhiya Hossein Ensan Kalidou Sow Luke Marsh Martin Finger Mikalai Pobal Ognyan Dimov Pierre Calamusa Roman Herold Sebastian Sorensson Steve O'Dwyer Xiaqing Ji

Niveau: 16

Blinds: 2,000/5,000

Ante: 5,000

2019-12-14 12:06 UTC+1

Shuffle Up and Deal

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Niveau 16 : 2,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

The players have been welcomed back to the tables and the dealers have been instructed to shuffle up and deal.

2019-12-14 12:07 UTC+1

Shot Clock Introduced

will_shill

Niveau 16 : 2,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

The shot clock has been introduced now the Main Event has reached Day 3.

Each player will receive five time banks at the start of each day, worth 30 second each.

If a player's 30-second shot clock reaches zero, they will automatically use a time bank unless they do not have any remaining. Then the dealer will announce a five-second countdown and, unless acted upon, their hand will be declared dead.

2019-12-14 12:09 UTC+1

Short Stack Senoussi Eliminated

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Niveau 16 : 2,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

Start-of-day short stack Ibrahim Senoussi was all in for his last 28,000 with and was ahead of the of Joao Mestre Ferreira.

However, a ten on the flop put Ferreira in the lead and the completed the board sending Senoussi to the rail.

Joueur	Jetons	Progression
Joao Mestre Ferreira	450,000	23,000

Ibrahim Senoussi	Eliminé

Tags: Ibrahim Senoussi Joao Mestre Ferreira

2019-12-14 12:09 UTC+1

Xu Among First Casualties

zedmaster84

Niveau 16 : 2,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

Zinan Xu had survived the previous day with a mere 35,000 and got this in right away once the cards were back in the air.

He even found a pocket pair in but Steve O'Dwyer had the better one in . The board came and that sent Xu to the payout desk.

Joueur	Jetons	Progression
Steve O'Dwyer	145,000	44,000

Zinan Xu	Eliminé

Tags: Steve O'Dwyer Zinan Xu

2019-12-14 12:11 UTC+1

Aces Early for Sheshukov

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Niveau 16 : 2,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

Simon Mattsson opened from the button and Aleksandr Sheshukov three-bet all in from the small blind for 58,000. The big blind folded and Mattsson called.

Simon Mattsson:
Aleksandr Sheshukov: