EPT Praga: Explotó la burbuja con Chouity líder; 9 españoles pasaron el corte
El último Main Event del PokerStars European Poker Tour había citado a 591 jugadores para disputar el Día 2, pero a ellos se unieron 13 jugadoras más que pagaron los €5.300 de entrada para elevar el field hasta los 1.192. Eso establecía un nuevo récord de este circuito en la República Checa y elevaba el prize pool hasta los €5.781.200. Ese bote se repartirá entre los 230 que se mantienen con vida, aunque la más preciada de las recompensas será los €774.600 que se lleve el campeón.
Después de seis niveles de 75 minutos, el field se había reducido a 232 jugadores y el reloj se paraba para comenzar el juego mano a mano. Hicieron falta 45 minutos y varios all in y call para conocer la cara del que terminaría siendo el hombre burbuja de esta parada, Attila Valentai. Valentai perdía un flip con as-rey contra los ochos de Mike Brandau a pesar de ligar un rey en el flop. Brandau conseguía unos de sus dos outs en el river y dejaba al resto de participantes garantizandose un premio mínimo. Entre ellos estaba Niko Koop, que de haber durado la burbuja algo más se hubiese visto obligado a empujar sus 1.500 puntos, pero que terminó por lograr hacerse con los €7.560 de la mini-caja.
Una vez que todo llegaba a su fin, un gran número de caras conocidas aparecían entre los mejores stacks. Entre ellos está el campeón de la Gran Final del EPT6 Nicolas Chouity, que logró construir un stack para navegar siempre en el top 10, y que terminó por cerrar su bolsa con 644.000 puntos, lo que le otorgaba el liderato del torneo. Otro que fue protagonista durante mucho minutos fue Pedro Lamarca, que se cargó a una infinidad de rivales para colocarse en los puestos de cabeza con 480.000 puntos. El español, que fue líder en diferentes fases, retrocedió ligeramente tras perder una mano enorme en la burbuja con dobles contra dbles mayores.
En el bando de los stacks más grandes aparecen por el momento Eduards Kudrjavcevs (547.000), Nandor Solyom (526.500), Matas Cimbolas (481.500), Apostolos Bechrakis (478.500), Ludovic Lacay (438.000), Thomas Muehloecker (430.000), Samuel Vousden (428.500), Artur Rudziankov (415.500) o Benjamin Pollak (407.500).
Otros jugadores que volverán al juego a las 12 del viernes eran Pablo Gordillo (313.000), David Peters (305.000), Fabrice Soulier (200.000), [Removed:197] (199.500), Juha Helppi (179.000), Ari Engel (106.500) y los Team PokerStars Pros Felipe Ramos (106.500) and Vanessa Selbst (69.000).
Entre los que que caían eliminados encontrábamos a jugadores de la talla de Ronald Morandini o Henrik Hecklen, los Team PokerStars Pros Luca Pagano, Theo Jorgensen y Johnny Lodden, el francés miembro del Team PokerStars Pro Online Gabriel Nassif, la PokerStars Sports Star Fatima Moreira de Melo, Ronny Kaiser, Roberto Romanello, el campeón del Main Event del EPT Barcelona de este año Sebastian Malec, Uri Reichenstein, Dominik Panka o Charlie Carrel, entre muchos otros.
Carrel, que llegaba a este Main Event lanzado como una moto tras sus últimos resultados, se movía all in con as-cuatro y no podía mejorar contra el as-ocho de un rival. El británico saltaba entonces al €25.500 Single-Day High Roller improvisado para esta jornada, y conseguía alcanzar una nueva mesa final. Otros también sufrieron como él. Sergej Barbarez se movía all in con as-jota para segunda pareja, pero eso no era suficiente para superar al as-dama suited de Maxim Lykov, y el conocido Tony Dunst terminó por sucumbir con as-diez contra damas en un board con carta alta 10.
El juego se reanudará con 11 minutos por jugarse del nivel 15 con ciegas 2.000/4.000/500 y a partir de ahí los niveles pasarán a ser de 90 minutos.
| Mesa | Asiento | Jugador | País | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Andy Black | Ireland | 39,000 |
| 1 | 2 | Anton Hrabchak | Ukraine | 345,000 |
| 1 | 3 | James Akenhead | UK | 145,500 |
| 1 | 4 | Demosthenes Kiriopoulos | Canada | 327,000 |
| 1 | 5 | Alain Goldberg | Switzerland | 32,500 |
| 1 | 6 | Walter Treccarichi | Italy | 24,500 |
| 1 | 7 | Oleg Vasylchenko | Ukraine | 327,000 |
| 1 | 8 | Joseph Sabe | France | 225,000 |
| 2 | 1 | Jozef Bartalos | Slovakia | 17,500 |
| 2 | 2 | Juha Helppi | Finland | 208,000 |
| 2 | 3 | Erik Tamm | Sweden | 270,500 |
| 2 | 4 | Yuriy Gapon | Ukraine | 16,000 |
| 2 | 5 | Isidoro Barrena | Spain | 44,000 |
| 2 | 6 | Aleksey Ponakov | Latvia | 212,500 |
| 2 | 7 | Darren Delahunty | UK | 142,500 |
| 2 | 8 | Anooj Saareen | UK | 65,000 |
| 3 | 1 | Martin Kabrhel | Czech Republic | 126,000 |
| 3 | 2 | Philipp Gruissem | Germany | 46,000 |
| 3 | 3 | Zvi Stern | Israel | 29,500 |
| 3 | 4 | Marius Enebakk | Norway | 163,500 |
| 3 | 5 | Ari Engel | USA | 106,500 |
| 3 | 6 | Beka Iordanishvili | Ukraine | 27,000 |
| 3 | 7 | Friedrich Meyer | Germany | 123,000 |
| 3 | 8 | Krzysztof Stuchlik | Poland | 107,000 |
| 4 | 1 | Artur Rudziankov | Belarus | 415,000 |
| 4 | 2 | Janos Kurtosi | Hungary | 402,500 |
| 4 | 3 | Martin Bartos | Slovakia | 95,000 |
| 4 | 4 | Kent Roed | Norway | 194,000 |
| 4 | 5 | Aram Sargsyan | Armenia | 96,000 |
| 4 | 6 | Khabat Jahany | Switzerland | 115,500 |
| 4 | 7 | Eduards Kudrjavcevs | Latvia | 547,000 |
| 4 | 8 | Marius Gierse | Germany | 317,500 |
| 5 | 1 | Robert Gill | Germany | 94,000 |
| 5 | 2 | Anatolii Ozhenilok | Russia | 159,500 |
| 5 | 3 | Ryan McEathron | Canada | 255,500 |
| 5 | 5 | Stefan Fabian | Romania | 214,500 |
| 5 | 6 | Andrea Rocci | Italy | 215,500 |
| 5 | 7 | Sergey Lebedev | Russia | 78,000 |
| 5 | 8 | Kitty Kuo | Taiwan | 65,300 |
| 6 | 1 | Patrick Leonard | UK | 170,000 |
| 6 | 2 | Fabrice Soulier | France | 200,000 |
| 6 | 3 | Hulya Pehlivanlar | Turkey | 110,000 |
| 6 | 4 | Renjun Yang | China | 39,000 |
| 6 | 5 | Oleksii Kovalchuk | Ukraine | 67,000 |
| 6 | 6 | Anton Wigg | Sweden | 25,500 |
| 6 | 7 | Arne Kern | Germany | 147,500 |
| 6 | 8 | Tsugunari Toma | Japan | 77,500 |
| 7 | 1 | Ramin Hajiyev | Azerbaijan | 160,000 |
| 7 | 2 | Thomas Taubenschuss | Austria | 50,000 |
| 7 | 3 | Yves Hallague | Israel | 55,500 |
| 7 | 4 | Sergei Petrushevskii | Russia | 143,500 |
| 7 | 5 | Nino Ullmann | Germany | 243,500 |
| 7 | 6 | Dermot Blain | Ireland | 265,500 |
| 7 | 7 | Michael Ho | Canada | 23,000 |
| 7 | 8 | Bobby Zhang | Australia | 59,500 |
| 8 | 1 | Nicolas Chouity | Lebanon | 644,000 |
| 8 | 2 | Dmitrii Deviatov | Russia | 75,500 |
| 8 | 3 | Simon Charette | Canada | 213,000 |
| 8 | 4 | Seyed Homayoun Ghavam | Iran | 146,500 |
| 8 | 5 | Grigorii Rodin | Russia | 25,500 |
| 8 | 6 | Niko Koop | Germany | 1,500 |
| 8 | 7 | Dong Zhao | China | 133,000 |
| 8 | 8 | Jasper Meijer Van Putten | Netherlands | 111,000 |
| 9 | 1 | Qinnan Wei | China | 49,000 |
| 9 | 2 | Thomas Lefort | Canada | 260,000 |
| 9 | 3 | Mihai Manole | Romania | 78,000 |
| 9 | 4 | Tobias Laubert | Germany | 106,500 |
| 9 | 5 | Dejan Pustoslemsek | Slovenia | 223,000 |
| 9 | 6 | David Sierra Merino | Spain | 88,000 |
| 9 | 7 | Cristinel Dumitru | Romania | 42,500 |
| 9 | 8 | Vojtech Cervinka | Czech Republic | 31,500 |
| 10 | 1 | Krzysztof Dulowski | Poland | 154,000 |
| 10 | 2 | Vanessa Selbst | USA | 69,000 |
| 10 | 3 | Benjamin Philipps | UK | 216,500 |
| 10 | 4 | Jonathan Abdellatif | Belgium | 173,000 |
| 10 | 5 | Pablo Gordillo | Spain | 313,500 |
| 10 | 6 | Gergely Bartos | Hungary | 64,000 |
| 10 | 7 | Pascal Lefrancois | Canada | 11,500 |
| 10 | 8 | Clement Genon-Catalot | France | 177,000 |
| 11 | 1 | Piotr Franczak | Poland | 32,000 |
| 11 | 2 | Johan Guilbert | France | 159,000 |
| 11 | 3 | Georges Chehade | Lebanon | 81,500 |
| 11 | 4 | Richard Toth | Hungary | 192,500 |
| 11 | 5 | Martin Nikolov | Bulgaria | 82,500 |
| 11 | 6 | Doron Davidovitz | Israel | 77,000 |
| 11 | 7 | Vojtech Horut | Czech Republic | 149,500 |
| 11 | 8 | Mitch Johnson | UK | 121,500 |
| 12 | 1 | Karol Radomski | Poland | 197,000 |
| 12 | 2 | Jose Antonio Jaraiz Lopez | Spain | 68,000 |
| 12 | 3 | Marta Munoz | Spain | 112,000 |
| 12 | 4 | Michal Ozimek | Poland | 160,500 |
| 12 | 5 | Mikolaj Zawadzki | Poland | 38,000 |
| 12 | 6 | Benjamin Richardson | Australia | 285,000 |
| 12 | 7 | Michael Rocco | USA | 119,000 |
| 12 | 8 | Apostolos Bechrakis | Greece | 478,500 |
| 13 | 1 | Stoyan Obreshkov | Bulgaria | 428,500 |
| 13 | 2 | Mykhailo Gutyi | Ukraine | 42,000 |
| 13 | 3 | Jean Souprayenmestry | France | 75,000 |
| 13 | 4 | Mikhail Petrov | Russia | 59,500 |
| 13 | 5 | Alexandros Vlachakis | Greece | 120,500 |
| 13 | 6 | Konstantinos Meliopoulos | Greece | 33,500 |
| 13 | 7 | Michiel Broskij | Netherlands | 324,500 |
| 13 | 8 | Tim Cerkvenik | Slovenia | 57,000 |
| 14 | 1 | Kayhan Mokri Roshanfekr | Norway | 241,500 |
| 14 | 2 | Van Hiep Tran | Germany | 170,500 |
| 14 | 3 | Vage Melikyan | Russia | 36,500 |
| 14 | 4 | [Removed:17] | New Zealand | 135,500 |
| 14 | 5 | Juan Bastida Perez | Spain | 265,000 |
| 14 | 6 | Jukka Paloniemi | Finland | 128,500 |
| 14 | 7 | Oren Rosen | Israel | 78,000 |
| 14 | 8 | Aleksandr Nemtcov | Russia | 300,000 |
| 15 | 1 | Arnaud Peyroles | France | 148,000 |
| 15 | 2 | Hirokazu Kobayashi | Japan | 311,500 |
| 15 | 3 | Thomas Lentrodt | Germany | 136,000 |
| 15 | 4 | Alexandru Gavrilut | Romania | 33,000 |
| 15 | 5 | Dick Postel | Netherlands | 169,000 |
| 15 | 6 | Miha Travnik | Slovenia | 25,500 |
| 15 | 7 | Denis Pisarev | Russia | 32,000 |
| 15 | 8 | Anton Afanasyev | Russia | 281,000 |
| 16 | 1 | Aivaras Bardauskas | Lithuania | 52,000 |
| 16 | 2 | Salvatore Bonavena | Italy | 68,000 |
| 16 | 3 | Joao Vieira | Portugal | 37,500 |
| 16 | 4 | Romain Lewis | France | 153,500 |
| 16 | 5 | Maxim Lykov | Russia | 323,000 |
| 16 | 6 | Cornelis Van Gent | Netherlands | 65,000 |
| 16 | 7 | Elias Talvitie | Finland | 89,000 |
| 16 | 8 | Adriaan Schaap | Netherlands | 6,000 |
| 17 | 1 | Jason Wheeler | Mexico | 126,000 |
| 17 | 2 | Piotr Kuszczak | Poland | 31,000 |
| 17 | 3 | Mikhail Korotkikh | Russia | 210,000 |
| 17 | 4 | Matan Krakow | Israel | 166,000 |
| 17 | 5 | Ludovic Lacay | France | 438,000 |
| 17 | 6 | Lasse Aastad Kjos | Norway | 11,000 |
| 17 | 7 | Viteszlav Pesta | Czech Republic | 353,000 |
| 17 | 8 | Viacheslav Belyaev | Russia | 153,000 |
| 18 | 1 | Andrew Hulme | UK | 148,500 |
| 18 | 2 | Vebjorn Monstad | Norway | 30,500 |
| 18 | 3 | Robert Schulz | Germany | 80,000 |
| 18 | 4 | Xavier Detournel | France | 22,000 |
| 18 | 5 | Viktor Litovchenko | Russia | 30,500 |
| 18 | 6 | Felipe Ramos | Brazil | 106,500 |
| 18 | 7 | Laszlo Bujtas | Hungary | 207,000 |
| 18 | 8 | Daniel Wilson | Ireland | 178,000 |
| 19 | 1 | Josip Vidovic | Croatia | 200,000 |
| 19 | 2 | Koichi Nozaki | Japan | 212,500 |
| 19 | 3 | Samy Salah | France | 165,000 |
| 19 | 4 | Eoghan Odea | Ireland | 49,500 |
| 19 | 5 | Dmytro Samoilenko | Ukraine | 176,000 |
| 19 | 6 | Gang Wang | China | 157,000 |
| 19 | 7 | Francois Frejdles | Belgium | 135,000 |
| 19 | 8 | Klas Lofberg | Sweden | 184,500 |
| 20 | 1 | Paul-Francois Tedeschi | France | 196,000 |
| 20 | 2 | Tomas Kubaliak | Slovakia | 200,000 |
| 20 | 3 | Elvis Petcu | Romania | 47,000 |
| 20 | 4 | Maxi Lehmanski | Germany | 211,500 |
| 20 | 5 | Konstantin Puchkov | Russia | 19,500 |
| 20 | 6 | Yosuke Sekiya | Japan | 32,500 |
| 20 | 7 | [Removed:19] | Russia | 149,500 |
| 20 | 8 | Viacheslav Goryachev | Russia | 49,000 |
| 21 | 1 | Thomas Muehloecker | Austria | 430,000 |
| 21 | 2 | Padraig O'Neill | Ireland | 153,500 |
| 21 | 3 | Kliment Tarmakov | Denmark | 85,000 |
| 21 | 4 | Wael Sarkis | Lebanon | 29,000 |
| 21 | 5 | Joan Fabregas Capellas | Spain | 45,500 |
| 21 | 6 | Pedro Lamarca | Spain | 448,000 |
| 21 | 7 | Matas Cimbolas | Lithuania | 481,500 |
| 21 | 8 | Marton Czuczor | Hungary | 258,000 |
| 22 | 1 | Adrien Allain | France | 304,000 |
| 22 | 2 | Antti Halme | Finland | 326,500 |
| 22 | 3 | Alexey Romanov | Russia | 186,500 |
| 22 | 4 | Seref Dursun Anar | Turkey | 77,500 |
| 22 | 5 | Yang Zhang | China | 92,500 |
| 22 | 6 | Vlado Banicevic | Montenegro | 109,000 |
| 22 | 7 | Steven Thompson Vila | Costa Rica | 30,000 |
| 22 | 8 | Andreas Samuelsson | Sweden | 231,500 |
| 23 | 1 | Peter Jaksland | Denmark | 36,500 |
| 23 | 2 | Rumen Nanev | Bulgaria | 64,000 |
| 23 | 3 | Nandor Solyom | Romania | 526,500 |
| 23 | 4 | Illia Kainov | Ukraine | 110,500 |
| 23 | 5 | Roman Papacek | Czech Republic | 28,500 |
| 23 | 6 | Anton Petrov | Russia | 335,000 |
| 23 | 7 | Konstantin Bucherl | Germany | 117,500 |
| 23 | 8 | Julian Herold | Germany | 114,000 |
| 24 | 1 | Mike Brandau | Germany | 209,500 |
| 24 | 2 | Sebanien Garrosi | Switzerland | 38,000 |
| 24 | 3 | Kristof De Bruycker | Belgium | 67,600 |
| 24 | 4 | Marek Grzeska | Poland | 128,500 |
| 24 | 5 | Levente Szabo | Hungary | 63,500 |
| 24 | 6 | Roman Korenev | Russia | 195,500 |
| 24 | 7 | Danut Chisu | Romania | 306,000 |
| 24 | 8 | Dzmitry Urbanovich | Poland | 83,500 |
| 25 | 1 | Pierre Calamusa | France | 210,000 |
| 25 | 2 | Konstantin Uspenskiy | Russia | 88,000 |
| 25 | 3 | Josef Pavelka | Czech Republic | 336,500 |
| 25 | 4 | Aki Pyysing | Finland | 46,500 |
| 25 | 5 | David Peters | USA | 305,000 |
| 25 | 6 | Samuel Vousden | Finland | 428,500 |
| 25 | 7 | Vitezslav Cech | Czech Republic | 24,500 |
| 25 | 8 | Martin Staszko | Czech Republic | 13,000 |
| 26 | 1 | Caufman Talley | USA | 187,500 |
| 26 | 2 | Roman Pavliuk | Ukraine | 379,500 |
| 26 | 3 | Ivan Deyra | France | 139,000 |
| 26 | 4 | [Removed:197] | Germany | 199,500 |
| 26 | 5 | Sam Cohen | USA | 211,500 |
| 26 | 6 | Benjamin Pollak | France | 407,500 |
| 26 | 7 | Ugur Coskun | Turkey | 142,000 |
| 26 | 8 | Kiryl Radzivonau | Belarus | 314,000 |
| 27 | 1 | Kyosti Isberg | Finland | 388,000 |
| 27 | 2 | Netanel Amedi | Israel | 70,000 |
| 27 | 3 | Alexander Paygusov | Russia | 178,000 |
| 27 | 4 | Oleg Titov | Russia | 251,500 |
| 27 | 5 | Christian Christner | Germany | 228,000 |
| 27 | 6 | Arthur Conan | France | 238,000 |
| 27 | 7 | David Lopez Llacer | Spain | 179,000 |
| 27 | 8 | Thanh Ngo | Vietnam | 57,500 |
| 28 | 1 | Carlo Savinelli | Italy | 99,500 |
| 28 | 2 | David Urban | Slovakia | 72,500 |
| 28 | 3 | Scott Margereson | UK | 221,000 |
| 28 | 4 | Navot Golan | Israel | 15,500 |
| 28 | 5 | Borge Sandsgaard | Norway | 282,000 |
| 28 | 6 | Joe Mouawad | Lebanon | 144,000 |
| 28 | 7 | Jerry Wong | USA | 313,000 |
| 28 | 8 | Christopher Andler | Sweden | 215,000 |
| 29 | 1 | Jan Nakladal | Czech Republic | 122,500 |
| 29 | 2 | Andrii Nadieliaiev | Ukraine | 66,000 |
| 29 | 3 | Paul Hoefer | Germany | 115,500 |
| 29 | 4 | Dawid Borkowski | Poland | 42,500 |
| 29 | 5 | Charalampos Lappas | UK | 40,000 |
| 29 | 6 | Daniel Dvoress | Canada | 117,000 |
| 29 | 7 | Lucian Draghici | Canada | 55,000 |
| 29 | 8 | Aykutalp Yilmaz | Turkey | 118,500 |
