€5,300 EPT Main Event Day 2 | 2019 PokerStars EPT Prague

€5,300 EPT Main Event

Day 2 Completed

12-13-2019 21:59 UTC+1

Herold and Ji Lead the Pack After Day 2; Kenney and Calamusa Among the Big Stacks

Christian Zetzsche

Level 15 : 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

Bryn Kenney is third in chips after Day 2

An exciting day of poker at the Hilton Prague has concluded as Day 2 of the 2019 PokerStars EPT Prague €5,300 EPT Main Event has come to an end after five levels of 90 minutes. Another 19 players entered with a fresh stack of 30,000 to boost the field size of the flagship event in the Czech capital to 1,154 entries, and the third-biggest EPT Prague Main Event in 13 years has subsequently created a prize pool of €5,596,900.

Before the cards got in the air, there was excitement in the tournament area as the PokerStars online qualifiers who made it to Day 2 took part in a Crazy Pineapple Flipout for a Platinum Pass. Russia's Evgenii Shibaldin, who has just one live cash for fewer than $2,000 to his name, was the fortunate winner but didn't fare as well in the Main Event after and busted well before the money.

Several hours later in the last level of the night, it was a different kind of excitement as the bubble burst and more than two dozen hopefuls headed to the payout desk while 141 survivors have made it one step closer to becoming the next EPT Main Event champion.

Roman Herold was a big stack throughout the day and bagged up 769,000 to his name, a single chip ahead of Xiaqing Ji (768,000) as the duo pulled ahead of Bryn Kenney (656,000) at the very end. Other notables with big stacks include 2019 EPT Open Sochi runner-up Giorgiy Skhulukhiya (634,000), Luke Marsh (626,000), Giuseppe Carbone (611,000), start-of-day chip leader Pierre Calamusa (601,000) and Teun Mulder (573,000).

Top 10 Stacks After Day 2

Place	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	Roman Herold	Germany	769000	154
2	Xiaqing Ji	China	768000	154
3	Bryn Kenney	United States	656000	131
4	Giorgiy Skhulukhiya	Russia	634000	127
5	Luke Marsh	United Kingdom	625000	125
6	Pierre Calamusa	France	601000	120
7	Teun Mulder	Netherlands	573000	115
8	Laurent Michot	France	550000	110
9	Fidan Zahiti	Sweden	543000	109
10	Akin Tuna	Germany	536000	107

Several former EPT champions had a strong showing on Day 2 such as Dominik Panka (497,000), Ognyan Dimov (313,000), Aliaksei Boika (220,000), Hossein Ensan (180,000), Mikalai Pobal (162,000), Sebastian Sorensson (148,000) Martin Finger (118,000), Steve O'Dwyer (101,000), Davidi Kitai (93,000), and PokerStars ambassador Kalidou Sow (70,000) kept their hopes of a second EPT Main Event title alive.

Among the big names that didn't make it through and bowed out before the money were former champions Jan Bendik, Arsenii Karmatckii, Sebastian Malec, Maria Lampropulos, Bertrand Grospellier, and former EPT finalists such as Parker Talbot, Per Linde, David Boyaciyan and Gleb Tremzin to name just a few.

The money bubble burst in the last level of the night and it was Sami Shokry that became the last player to leave empty-handed without anything to show for when he flopped top pair with jack-six suited in three-way action. Yehuda Cohen had the best of it with pocket aces and that secured all remaining 167 players a min-cash of €8,960.

Two former EPT champions were among those to settle for exactly that amount as Simon Brandstrom and Adrian Mateos were among the casualties before bagging and tagging. Mateos was primed for a double up with ace-king against the ace-queen suited of Tomas Paiva but a queen on the flop spelled the end for Spaniard, who had already won a High Roller event during the festival.

Ultimately, only 141 players bagged up for the night and will return to their seats at 12 p.m. noon local time for Day 3, which will recommence with blinds of 2,000-5,000 and a big blind ante of 5,000. Another five levels of 90 minutes each are expected to be played to whittle the field down further.

Stay tuned for all the action right here on PokerNews to find out who will lift the trophy on Tuesday, December 17th, 2019.

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: Adrian Mateos Aliaksei Boika Arsenii Karmatckii Bertrand Grospellier Bryn Kenney David Boyaciyan Davidi Kitai Dominik Panka Giorgiy Skhulukhiya Giuseppe Carbone Gleb Tremzin Hossein Ensan Jan Bendik Kalidou Sow Luke Marsh Maria Lampropulos Martin Finger Mikalai Pobal Ognyan Dimov Parker Talbot Per Linde Pierre Calamusa Roman Herold Sami Shokry Sebastian Malec Sebastian Sorensson Simon Brandstrom Steve O'Dwyer Teun Mulder Tomas Paiva Xiaqing Ji Yehuda Cohen

12-13-2019 21:30 UTC+1

End-of-Day 2 Chip Counts (full)

Christian Zetzsche

Level 15 : 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Roman Herold	769,000 114,000	114,000

Xiaqing Ji	768,000 248,000	248,000
Bryn Kenney	656,000 187,000	187,000
Giorgiy Skhulukhiya	634,000
Luke Marsh	625,000 305,000	305,000
Pierre Calamusa	601,000 55,000	55,000

Teun Mulder	573,000 53,000	53,000
Laurent Michot	550,000 380,000	380,000
Fidan Zahiti	543,000 68,000	68,000
Akin Tuna	536,000 296,000	296,000
Dominik Panka	497,000 72,000	72,000

Jakub Oliva	469,000 9,000	9,000
Mohamed Mokrani	444,000 291,000	291,000
Orpen Kisacikoglu	438,000 -22,000	-22,000
Dan Serban Borlan	435,000 -185,000	-185,000
Giuseppe Zarbo	429,000 259,000	259,000
Joao Mestre Ferreira	427,000 97,000	97,000
Wing Sang Lee	425,000 305,000	305,000
Francesco Candelari	421,000 11,000	11,000
Gianluca Speranza	417,000 287,000	287,000
Michael Soyza	411,000 379,000	379,000
Giuseppe Carbone	411,000 61,000	61,000
Markus Durnegger	407,000 17,000	17,000
Henrik Hecklen	385,000 132,000	132,000
Erdal Gulseven	383,000 351,000	351,000

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12-13-2019 21:28 UTC+1

Day 2 Completed

Christian Zetzsche

Level 15 : 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

There are 141 players remaining according to the screens and they are currently bagging and tagging their chips. Assorted counts and a recap of today's action are to follow.

12-13-2019 21:20 UTC+1

Lopes Loses His Stack To Ensan Before Play Ends

HillKerby

Level 15 : 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

All of the chips got into the middle with Bruno Lopes at risk in the cutoff against Hossein Ensan, who was on the button.

Bruno Lopes:
Hossein Ensan:

Lopes was unable to hit one of his six outs as the board ran out , resulting in the end of his night just a couple of hands before the end of everybody else's. He shook hands with Ensan and was on his way to the payout desk as Ensan stacked his newly-acquired chips for the last hand or two of the night.

Player	Chips	Progress
Hossein Ensan	180,000 -35,000	-35,000

Bruno Lopes	Busted

Tags: Bruno Lopes Hossein Ensan

12-13-2019 21:20 UTC+1

Sow Doubles in Last Hand

Christian Zetzsche

Level 15 : 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

In the very last hand of the night, Kalidou Sow was all in for 31,000 with the against the of Bart Lybaert and flopped a flush on the board.

Player	Chips	Progress
Bart Lybaert	296,000 -144,000	-144,000
Kalidou Sow	70,000 -13,500	-13,500

Tags: Bart Lybaert Kalidou Sow

12-13-2019 21:17 UTC+1

Skhulukhiya Finds River Help Before End of Night

HillKerby

Level 15 : 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

Action folded around to Yang Wang in the small blind and he raised to 10,000. Giorgiy Skhulukhiya three-bet to 47,000 in the big blind and Wang came over the top for around 300,000. Skhulukhiya called.

Yang Wang:
Giorgiy Skhulukhiya:

It looked as if Wang would find a double and a massive stack to leave Skhulukhiya with crumbs as the flop came and the turn came behind it. However, the river turned the tides, leaving Wang dry on chips as Skhulukhiya earned the massive pot and the knockout shortly before chips are set to go into bags for the night.

Player	Chips	Progress
Giorgiy Skhulukhiya	634,000 536,700	536,700
Yang Wang	Busted

Tags: Giorgiy Skhulukhiya Yang Wang

12-13-2019 21:17 UTC+1

Players Eliminated in 144th - 167th Place (€8,960)

Christian Zetzsche

Level 15 : 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

Among others, 2019 EPT Barcelona champion Simon Brandstrom had to settle for a min-cash and received €8,960 for his efforts.

Player	Chips	Progress
Bruno Lopes	Busted
Natalie Teh	Busted
Christian Alessi	Busted
Vladislav Solovev	Busted
Simon Burns	Busted
Simon Brandstrom	Busted

Fabian Gumz	Busted
Audrius Stakelis	Busted
Clement Genon-Catalot	Busted
Jakub Dorocinski	Busted
Ivan Deyra	Busted
Yang Wang	Busted
Adrian Mateos	Busted

Eugenio Peralta	Busted
Xia Lin	Busted
Jonathan Therme	Busted
Johan Storakers	Busted
Stefanita Fechete	Busted
Jan Bendik	Busted

Shakhabiddin Muradov	Busted
Jakob Madsen	Busted
Tiziano Di Romualdo	Busted
Antal Roth	Busted
Panagiotis Oikonomou	Busted

12-13-2019 21:14 UTC+1

Last Five Hands Announced; Tsaknis Doubles

Christian Zetzsche

Level 15 : 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

The last five hands were just announced when Vasileios Tsaknis ended up at risk for 94,000 against Sylvain Loosli.

Vasileios Tsaknis:
Sylvain Loosli:

The board came and Tsaknis doubled.

Player	Chips	Progress
Vasileios Tsaknis	200,000 45,000	45,000
Sylvain Loosli	195,000 -50,000	-50,000

Tags: Sylvain Loosli Vasileios Tsaknis

12-13-2019 21:06 UTC+1

Kruse Eliminates Burns

Milko van Winden

Level 15 : 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

The complete board was on the table and Fedor Kruse had checked under the gun to Simon Burns. Burns then bet 32,000 only for Burns to jam all in for effectively about 100,000.