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€5,300 EPT Prague Main Event

Day 1b Completed

12-14-2022 01:26 UTC+1

Robert Cowen Near the Top on Day 1b as 2022 EPT Prague Main Event Sets New Attendance Record

Christian Zetzsche

Level 10 : Blinds 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

After record fields in the Eureka €1,100 Main Event and €2,200 High Roller, the 2022 PokerStars European Poker Tour stop in capital of the Czech Republic has continued the path success in the crown jewel of the schedule as well. Even before the end of the late registration period, a new record attendance has already been confirmed for the 2022 EPT Prague €5,300 Main Event.

The second starting flight used every single table in the grand ballroom at Hilton Hotel Prague at some point and was bursting with poker action. Ultimately, a massive field of 825 entries emerged to boost the overall attendance to more than 1,200 entries.

With the registration still open until the cards go back in the air at noon local time, 11 players have already signed up and more are likely to follow. At least 1,238 confirmed entries, the total prize pool has surpassed €6 million and some 405 players will return to their seats in pursuit of glory.

A trio of players was able to increase the starting stack of 30,000 more than ten-fold and Pot-Limit Omaha specialist Ka Kwan Lau (322,000) edged ahead of fellow four-card aficionado Robert Cowen (321,500) by a single chip. Arjel Daci from Albania follows in third place with 302,000) and there is already a gap to Ismail Kalkan (242,500) and [Removed:431] (238,000).

Top 10 Chip Counts After Day 1b

Place	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds Day 2
1	Ka Kwan Lau	Spain	322,000	215
2	Robert Cowen	United Kingdom	321,500	214
3	Arjel Daci	Albania	302,000	201
4	Ismail Kalkan	Germany	242,500	162
5	[Removed:431]	Germany	238,500	159
6	Michael Pinto	Netherlands	220,500	147
7	Kai Uwe Lach	Germany	219,500	146
8	Petr Svoboda	Czech Republic	219,000	146
9	Nikolay Ivanov	Bulgaria	216,000	144
10	Nazar Buhaiov	Ukraine	209,500	140

Cowen has had an excellent past 12 months on the live poker circuit and took down the €10,300 EPT High Roller during the rescheduled Prague festival in March 2022 for €475,410. During the 2022 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, the Englishman reached three final tables and won his second gold bracelet in the $50,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller alongside a top prize of $1,393,816. He spent the last two months away in Brazil to relax away from the poker tables and instantly hit the ground running on the return.

Other notables with big stacks include Petr Svoboda (219,000), Ami Barer (209,000), former PokerStars ambassador Marcin Horecki (192,000), Bleron Maliqi (172,500), Lander Lijo (168,000), Erwann Pecheux (161,500), and Alexandre Reard (151,000) to name all but a few of those who made it through.

Three PokerStars ambassadors advanced in Parker Talbot (131,500), Alejandro Lococo (108,500), and Sam Grafton (64,500), while Jen Shahade was among the hundreds of casualties throughout the ten 60-minute levels. Lococo had even more reason to celebrate in the late stages of Day 1b as his home country of Argentina advanced to the finals of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022.

The list of casualties on Day 1b included familiar faces such as Niko Koop, Jorryt van Hoof, Jack Sinclair, Symeon Alexandridis, Teun Mulder, Julien Martini, Kully Sidhu, Manuel Ruivo, Fedor Holz, David Boyaciyan, Gab Yong Kim, Rainer Kempe, Ana Marquez, and Maria Lampropulos, among others.

Several EPT Main Event champions were aiming to add a second title to their resume but that bid came up short for Robin Ylitalo, Sebastian Sorensson, Uri Gilboa, and Hossein Ensan. Aliaksei Boika advanced with 97,500 and Dominik Panka made it through with 91,500 as both are flirting with the average for Day 2. Both are joined by Davidi Kitai (50,500), Jan Bendik (43,500), and Ognyan Dimov (38,000) while the EPT stalwarts Juha Helppi (25,500) and Vladimir Troyanovskiy (23,000) carried over fewer chips than they started with.

All Day 1 survivors will return to their seats at noon local time on Wednesday, December 14, 2022. As of then, all levels will last 90 minutes long and the race to the money bubble and beyond begins. Late entrants before the cards go in the air start their journey with 20 big blinds at 1,000-1,500 and a big blind ante of 1,500.

The PokerNews live reporting team will be back on the floor to provide all the action on moving day. Furthermore, the live stream feature table action also commences with cards-up coverage and commentary on a security delay of 30 minutes on the PokerStars social media channels.

Tags: Alejandro Lococo Aliaksei Boika Ami Barer David Boyaciyan Davidi Kitai Dominik Panka Fedor Holz Hossein Ensan Ismail Kalkan Jack Sinclair Jen Shahade Juha Helppi Ka Kwan Lau Marcin Horecki Maria Lampropulos Nazar Buhaiov Ognyan Dimov Parker Talbot Robert Cowen Robin Ylitalo Sam Grafton Sebastian Sorensson Uri Gilboa Vladimir Troyanovskiy

12-14-2022 01:07 UTC+1

2022 EPT Prague €5,300 Main Event Day 2 Seat Draw Part II

Christian Zetzsche

Level 10 : Blinds 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chips	Big Blinds
31	1	Roland Rokita	Austria	77,500	52
31	3	David Hu	Netherlands	99,000	66
31	4	Rui Milhomens	Morocco	101,000	67
31	5	Piotr Wiecek	Poland	58,000	39
31	6	Robert Cowen	United Kingdom	321,500	214
31	7	Vladimir Troyanovskiy	Russia	23,000	15
31	8	Simeon Spasov	Bulgaria	65,500	44

32	1	Eldiyar Janiev	Kyrgyzstan	42,000	28
32	2	Georgi Sandev	Bulgaria	108,500	72
32	3	Sebastian Langrock	Germany	21,000	14
32	4	Daniel Marquis	Switzerland	193,500	129
32	6	Dawoon Jung	South Korea	72,000	48
32	7	Parker Talbot	Canada	131,500	88
32	8	Nuno Capucho	Brazil	11,000	7

33	1	Antoine Labat	France	32,500	22
33	2	Dawid Smolka	Poland	209,500	140
33	3	Carlo Savinelli	Italy	86,500	58
33	4	Ami Barer	Canada	209,000	139
33	5	Eitan Cohen	Israel	96,000	64
33	6	Nathan Tetart	France	65,000	43
33	8	Rex Hammond	USA	148,000	99

34	1	Alexander Tkatschew	Germany	135,000	90
34	2	Ben Heath	United Kingdom	3,000	2
34	3	Yannick Cardot	France	137,000	91
34	4	Matthias Auer	Austria	41,000	27
34	5	Paulius Vaitiekunas	Lithuania	113,500	76
34	6	Agatino Spitaleri	Italy	38,000	25
34	7	Yuto Machida	Japan	96,500	64

35	1	Stefano Puccilli	Italy	35,500	24
35	2	Manuel Bueno	Austria	118,000	79
35	4	Jacek Pustula	Poland	90,000	60
35	5	Francisco Caballo Pena	USA	169,000	113
35	6	Slobodan Ruzicic	Serbia	31,500	21
35	7	Manuel Soares	Brazil	49,000	33
35	8	Ludovic Geilich	United Kingdom	159,000	106

36	1	Pablo Brito	Brazil	30,000	20
36	2	Fabio Di Blasi	Switzerland	47,000	31
36	3	Florent Estegassy	France	51,500	34
36	4	Carl Strahl	Sweden	49,500	33
36	5	Andreas Chalkiadakis	Greece	122,500	82
36	7	Jakub Staniszewski	Poland	42,500	28
36	8	Zhong Chen	Netherlands	71,500	48

37	1	Onur Gur	Turkey	163,500	109
37	2	Dominik Panka	Poland	91,500	61
37	4	Julian Thomas	Germany	176,500	118
37	5	Vladas Tamasauskas	Lithuania	20,500	14
37	6	Miroslav Alilovic	France	54,500	36
37	7	Matias Arosuo	Finland	53,500	36
37	8	Alexander Norden	Sweden	84,500	56

38	1	Sergio Coutinho	Portugal	38,500	26
38	3	Alexandre Hocquaux	France	70,500	47
38	4	Nikolay Ivanov	Bulgaria	216,000	144
38	5	Tamazi Skhirtladze	Georgia	30,000	20
38	6	Michael Sahle	Germany	88,000	59
38	7	Yannick Schumacher	Germany	28,500	19
38	8	Alireza Keyvar	Germany	89,000	59

39	1	Nusret Atmaca	Netherlands	88,000	59
39	2	Adrian Garcia	Spain	120,000	80
39	4	Francesco Blasio	Italy	67,000	45
39	5	Jamil Wakil	Canada	88,500	59
39	6	Sonny Franco	France	30,000	20
39	7	Peter Turmezey	Hungary	46,500	31
39	8	Anthony Stumbo	Belgium	82,000	55

40	1	Catalin-Marcel Popa	Romania	60,000	40
40	2	Daniel Dvoress	Canada	26,000	17
40	4	Juha Helppi	Finland	25,500	17
40	5	Maksim Shornikau	Belarus	106,000	71
40	6	Roberto Begni	Switzerland	186,000	124
40	7	Milos Skrbic	Serbia	34,500	23
40	8	Oren Rosen	Israel	16,500	11

41	1	Sergio Aido	Spain	53,500	36
41	2	Georgios Berkis	Germany	110,500	74
41	3	Arthur Conan	France	71,500	48
41	4	Hannes Pflanzl	Germany	128,000	85
41	5	Claudio Di Giacomo	Italy	115,000	77
41	6	Peter Tschernigg	Austria	56,000	37
41	7	Loic Debregeas	France	70,000	47

42	1	Petr Svoboda	Czech Republic	219,000	146
42	2	Marcin Kreft	Poland	31,000	21
42	3	Said Chegdane	Italy	138,000	92
42	4	Giovani Gouveia	Brazil	60,500	40
42	6	Adi Rajkovic	Austria	172,000	115
42	7	Tomas Krebes	Czech Republic	189,000	126
42	8	Askar Bekbayev	Kazakhstan	71,000	47

43	1	Mathieu Gomez	France	59,500	40
43	2	Nazar Buhaiov	Ukraine	209,500	140
43	3	Paul Covaciu	Romania	159,000	106
43	5	Casper von Schantz	Finland	33,000	22
43	6	Ken Okada	Japan	50,500	34
43	7	Ghattas Kortas	Sweden	26,000	17
43	8	Patrik Zidek	Czech Republic	67,000	45

44	1	Leon Campbell	United Kingdom	31,500	21
44	2	Blaz Zerjav	Slovenia	79,000	53
44	3	Manuel Pope Almeida	Portugal	96,500	64
44	4	Nikolaos Iliakis	Greece	69,000	46
44	5	Luciano Cutri	Italy	110,000	73
44	6	Benjamin Chalot	France	77,500	52
44	8	Arnaud Enselme	France	30,000	20

45	1	Roman Hrabec	Czech Republic	62,000	41
45	3	Jun Obara	Japan	214,000	143
45	4	Grzegorz Glowny	Poland	100,500	67
45	5	Enrico Camosci	Italy	92,000	61
45	6	Jerry Odeen	Sweden	162,500	108
45	7	Fabian Rolli	Switzerland	47,500	32
45	8	Giuseppe Petti	Italy	105,000	70

46	1	Toshiya Ishikawa	Japan	12,000	8
46	2	Jakub Koleckar	Czech Republic	174,500	116
46	3	Majid Nadeem	United Kingdom	33,000	22
46	4	Jessica Pilkington	United Kingdom	55,000	37
46	5	Simon Mattsson	Sweden	85,000	57
46	6	Juan Pardo	Spain	127,000	85
46	7	Arjel Daci	Albania	302,000	201

47	2	Antonio Mallol	Spain	83,500	56
47	3	Erkan Soenmez	Turkey	101,500	68
47	4	Fredrik Andersson	Sweden	66,000	44
47	5	Ihor Kaliahin	Ukraine	92,000	61
47	6	Alice Sicconi	Italy	38,500	26
47	7	Juan Carlos Vecino	Spain	135,500	90
47	8	Marian Dumitrache	Romania	72,500	48

48	1	Eyal Maaravi	Israel	164,000	109
48	2	Maher Nouira	Tunisia	47,500	32
48	3	Viktor Wessman	Sweden	87,000	58
48	4	Phachara Wongwichit	Thailand	65,000	43
48	5	Nikolaos Ktenas	Greece	91,000	61
48	6	Lander Lijo	Spain	168,000	112
48	7	Yordan Dimitrov	Bulgaria	45,500	30

49	1	Andriy Mertengren	Ukraine	72,000	48
49	2	Waldemar Starostin	Germany	47,500	32
49	4	Daniele D'Angelo	Italy	120,000	80
49	5	Emil Bise	Switzerland	115,000	77
49	6	Stephane Gabarre	France	71,500	48
49	7	Nugzar Glonti	Georgia	63,500	42
49	8	Christian Dalder	Germany	52,500	35

50	1	Eric Bensimhon	France	42,500	28
50	3	Andreas Samuelsson	Sweden	35,500	24
50	4	David Cabrera	Spain	143,000	95
50	5	Omar Eljach	Sweden	95,000	63
50	6	Alejandro Lococo	Argentina	108,500	72
50	7	Niccolo Messeri	Italy	98,500	66
50	8	Fabrice Bigot	France	88,500	59

51	1	Fahredin Mustafov	Bulgaria	115,000	77
51	2	Fabrizio Benvenuto	Italy	132,000	88
51	3	Ramon Colillas	Spain	312,000	208
51	4	Yosuke Nakazawa	Japan	81,500	54
51	5	Ibrahim Ghassan	Lebanon	96,500	64
51	6	Conor Beresford	United Kingdom	189,500	126
51	8	Gerard Carbo	Spain	24,000	16

52	1	John Mooney	United Kingdom	45,000	30
52	2	Martin Kabrhel	Czech Republic	30,000	20
52	3	Henok Tekle Mariam	Netherlands	171,000	114
52	4	Youssafi Khalil	Germany	95,000	63
52	5	Espen Oeye	Norway	62,000	41
52	7	Lars Koerts	Netherlands	36,000	24
52	8	Radek Jantos	Czech Republic	94,500	63

53	1	Pavlos Xanthopoulos	Greece	147,500	98
53	2	Omur Pehlivan	Germany	165,500	110
53	3	Paraskevas Tsokaridis	Greece	21,000	14
53	4	Yoshihito Shijima	Japan	30,000	20
53	5	Jerwin Pasco	Philippines	30,000	20
53	7	Amir Mozaffarian	Germany	128,500	86
53	8	Pierre De Almeida	France	99,000	66

54	1	Jordan Saccucci	Canada	96,000	64
54	3	Simone Maglianella	Italy	166,000	111
54	4	Ross Atkinson	United Kingdom	98,000	65
54	5	Jelle Moene	Netherlands	123,000	82
54	6	Ka Kwan Lau	Spain	322,000	215
54	7	Anton Suarez	Sweden	133,000	89
54	8	Laurent Cessy	France	163,500	109

55	1	Benjamin Souriau	France	82,000	55
55	3	Andrea Rocci	Italy	97,000	65
55	4	Edouard Mignot	France	55,000	37
55	5	Ognyan Dimov	Bulgaria	38,000	25
55	6	Santhosh Suvarna	India	95,500	64
55	7	Ruslan Volkov	Ukraine	88,500	59
55	8	Yesset Aimukhanov	Kazakhstan	52,500	35

56	1	Guy Goossens	Belgium	50,000	33
56	2	Simone Demasi	Italy	52,000	35
56	3	Steven Warburton	United Kingdom	76,500	51
56	4	Simon Lofberg	Sweden	188,500	126
56	5	Oddvar Brendo	Norway	94,500	63
56	7	Motoyoshi Okamura	Japan	135,000	90
56	8	Auez Yelyubayev	Kazakhstan	94,500	63

57	1	Kannapong Thanarattrakul	Thailand	37,000	25
57	3	Soenke Jahn	Germany	76,000	51
57	4	Pascal Frezza	France	87,500	58
57	5	Claas Segebrecht	Germany	89,000	59
57	6	Daniel Menger	Germany	162,500	108
57	7	Benjamin Winsor	United Kingdom	113,500	76
57	8	Henri Juutilainen	Finland	152,000	101

58	3	Vojtech Cervinka	Czech Republic	70,500	47
58	4	Nino Ullmann	Germany	96,000	64
58	5	Thivakaran Sundaralingam	Switzerland	103,500	69
58	6	Max Neugebauer	Austria	139,500	93
58	7	Emika Senda	Japan	120,500	80
58	8	Frank Stumpf	Germany	138,500	92

12-14-2022 01:05 UTC+1

2022 EPT Prague €5,300 Main Event Day 2 Seat Draw Part I

Christian Zetzsche

Level 10 : Blinds 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chips	Big Blinds
1	1	Ivan Banic	Croatia	120,500	80
1	2	Jan Nader Zadeh	United Kingdom	57,500	38
1	3	Kalybek Nurkozhoev	Kyrgyzstan	82,000	55
1	4	Jorge Ufano	Spain	137,000	91
1	5	Guillermo Sanchez	Spain	54,500	36
1	6	Jakob Madsen	Denmark	26,000	17
1	7	Thomas Lilamand	France	41,000	27

2	1	Damien Pilkington-Lewis	United Kingdom	43,000	29
2	2	Julien Sitbon	France	232,000	155
2	3	Ermanno Di Nicola	Italy	103,000	69
2	4	Christian Rudolph	Germany	73,500	49
2	6	Stefan Heizmann	Germany	104,500	70
2	7	Baki Fazliu	Sweden	125,000	83
2	8	Timothy Adams	Canada	138,500	92

3	2	Jeff Sarwer	Canada	74,500	50
3	3	Do Tran	Vietnam	130,000	87
3	4	Alexandros Kolonias	Greece	30,000	20
3	5	Leonard Maue	Germany	94,500	63
3	6	Ismail Kalkan	Germany	242,500	162
3	7	Chubak Asanov	Kazakhstan	126,000	84
3	8	Christian Durschlag	Germany	169,000	113

4	1	Simon Higgins	United Kingdom	158,000	105
4	2	Luigi D'Alterio	Italy	110,500	74
4	3	Jans Arends	Netherlands	69,000	46
4	4	Laurynas Levinskas	Lithuania	26,500	18
4	6	Osman Aksu	Turkey	81,000	54
4	7	Vlado Banicevic	Montenegro	86,000	57
4	8	Oleksii Kovalchuk	Ukraine	55,000	37

5	1	Michel Dattani	Portugal	36,000	24
5	2	Alberto Stegeman	Netherlands	90,000	60
5	3	Hiroaki No	Japan	72,000	48
5	5	Stoyan Obreshkov	Bulgaria	42,500	28
5	6	Imed Mahmoud	Tunisia	110,000	73
5	7	David Dahan	Israel	62,000	41
5	8	Mercedes Osti	France	87,000	58

6	1	Derek Ip	Hong Kong	75,000	50
6	2	Mario Navarro	Spain	47,000	31
6	3	Karol Bogusz	Poland	162,000	108
6	4	Christophe Malaurie	France	30,000	20
6	6	Jason Wheeler	USA	56,000	37
6	7	Aziz Efe	Turkey	74,500	50
6	8	Milan Simko	Czech Republic	83,500	56

7	2	Diego Montone	Italy	126,000	84
7	3	Victor Prior Fernandez	Spain	113,500	76
7	4	Vlada Stojanovic	Croatia	57,000	38
7	5	Saar Wilf	Israel	59,000	39
7	6	Gaelle Baumann	France	94,000	63
7	7	Luis Faria	Portugal	130,000	87
7	8	Andrea Bottaro	Italy	39,000	26

8	1	Peter Dorogi	Hungary	95,500	64
8	2	Andreas Eller	Germany	29,000	19
8	3	Nils Pudel	Germany	71,000	47
8	4	Alberto Martinez	Spain	54,000	36
8	5	In Ho Song	South Korea	101,000	67
8	6	Ettore Esposito	Italy	75,500	50
8	7	Guido Pieraccini	Italy	66,000	44

9	1	Kai Uwe Lach	Germany	219,500	146
9	2	Christophe Pommier	France	26,500	18
9	3	Eldos Davlet	Kazakhstan	53,500	36
9	5	Dominik Desset	Slovakia	67,500	45
9	6	Frederik Reusch	Germany	33,500	22
9	7	Marc Foggin	United Kingdom	44,500	30
9	8	Zanas Legkauskas	Lithuania	11,000	7

10	1	[Removed:431]	Germany	238,500	159
10	2	Tamon Nakamura	Japan	65,500	44
10	3	Johannes Straver	Netherlands	45,500	30
10	5	Seamus Cahill	Ireland	45,500	30
10	6	Jean Gianotti	France	18,000	12
10	7	Anton Kraus	Bulgaria	82,000	55
10	8	Marcin Horecki	Poland	192,000	128

11	1	Antoine Saout	France	77,500	52
11	2	Lukasz Grossmann	Poland	45,000	30
11	3	Erdal Gulseven	Turkey	99,000	66
11	4	Florencio Campomanes	Philippines	41,000	27
11	5	Raoul Refos	Netherlands	93,000	62
11	6	Natan Chauskin	Belarus	147,500	98
11	7	Victor Vozian	Romania	105,000	70

12	1	Lyudmil Ivanov	Bulgaria	153,000	102
12	3	Nicolas Vayssieres	France	91,000	61
12	4	Isidoro Barrena	Spain	34,500	23
12	5	Wojciech Szczytkowski	Poland	105,500	70
12	6	Levente Szabo	Hungary	74,000	49
12	7	Pierre Calamusa	France	65,000	43
12	8	Arie Kliper	Israel	27,500	18

13	1	Nikolaos Vasileiou	Greece	62,000	41
13	2	Cagdas Ersoy	Turkey	34,500	23
13	3	Sam Greenwood	Canada	293,000	195
13	4	Reino Rasmussen	Denmark	68,000	45
13	5	Robert Heidorn	Germany	87,500	58
13	6	Michael Pinto	Netherlands	220,500	147
13	7	Ryhor Karapanau	Latvia	128,000	85

14	1	Ivan Kuziv	Ukraine	30,000	20
14	2	Hugues Mazerolle	France	30,000	20
14	3	Mikolaj Zawadzki	Poland	41,000	27
14	4	Zak Lawson	United Kingdom	135,000	90
14	6	Vahe Martirosyan	Armenia	106,000	71
14	7	Thore-Fabian Kunze	Germany	181,000	121
14	8	Alexandre Reard	France	151,000	101

15	1	Namhyung Kim	South Korea	150,000	100
15	2	Ian Drake	Ireland	98,000	65
15	4	Remigiusz Wyrzykiewicz	Poland	87,000	58
15	5	David Docherty	United Kingdom	30,000	20
15	6	Adrian Mateos	Spain	44,500	30
15	7	Nenad Dukic	Croatia	170,000	113
15	8	Dennis Kobbero	Denmark	15,000	10

16	1	Rodrigo Seiji	Brazil	30,000	20
16	2	Yulian Bogdanov	Bulgaria	147,500	98
16	3	Fabian Bernhauser	Austria	118,000	79
16	4	Halil Tasyurek	Turkey	23,500	16
16	5	Dietrich Fast	Germany	48,500	32
16	6	Zhi Yi Ning	Malaysia	51,500	34
16	8	Jaesung Lee	South Korea	154,000	103

17	1	Mads Underbjerg	Denmark	105,500	70
17	3	Mario Colavita	Italy	51,000	34
17	4	Peter Kvisthammar	Sweden	149,000	99
17	5	Dmitry Shchepkin	Russia	117,000	78
17	6	Erwann Pecheux	France	161,500	108
17	7	Birger Ohl	Germany	146,500	98
17	8	Slobodan Stanculovic	Austria	64,000	43

18	1	Alexandru Papazian	Romania	99,000	66
18	3	Ionut-Flavius Voinea	Romania	152,000	101
18	4	Veselin Karakitukov	Bulgaria	121,000	81
18	5	Alfonso Simone	Italy	31,500	21
18	6	Naum Barulia	Ukraine	73,000	49
18	7	Dermot Blain	Ireland	58,000	39
18	8	Samy Dubonnet	France	124,000	83

19	1	Yoan Asparuhov	Bulgaria	18,000	12
19	2	Nacer Hadj	France	166,000	111
19	3	Mikalai Vaskaboinikau	Belarus	60,500	40
19	5	Ion Tabacaru	Romania	61,500	41
19	6	Abel Aspas	Spain	109,500	73
19	7	Pedro Marques	Portugal	114,000	76
19	8	Bhavin Khatri	United Kingdom	118,000	79

20	1	Renat Boghdanov	Ukraine	74,500	50
20	2	Fabian Niederreiter	Germany	99,000	66
20	3	Francois Billard	Canada	21,000	14
20	4	Jussi Mattilla	Finland	67,500	45
20	5	Ioannis Kapnopoulos	Greece	88,000	59
20	7	Parham Ahoor	France	67,000	45
20	8	Nicola Grieco	Italy	289,500	193

21	1	Steven Mulder	Germany	170,500	114
21	2	Emin Mugulov	Russia	114,000	76
21	3	Jamal Laghzaoui	Italy	52,000	35
21	5	Bleron Maliqi	Switzerland	172,500	115
21	6	Johannes van Bemmel	Netherlands	33,500	22
21	7	Benjamin Spragg	United Kingdom	89,500	60
21	8	Cyril Monbrun-Massot	France	47,000	31

22	1	Richard Toth	Hungary	18,000	12
22	2	Preben Stokkan	Norway	33,500	22
22	3	Antonin Teisseire	France	24,000	16
22	4	Junya Kubo	Japan	27,000	18
22	6	Bruno Fitoussi	France	58,500	39
22	7	Petar Kalev	Bulgaria	108,000	72
22	8	Ludek Safranek	Czech Republic	90,000	60

23	1	Nick Fu	Germany	64,500	43
23	2	Konstantin Farber	Germany	145,000	97
23	3	Benjamin Lebor	United Kingdom	75,500	50
23	4	Michele Guerrini	Italy	59,000	39
23	5	Istvan Pilhofer	Hungary	68,000	45
23	6	Seungyeol Kim	South Korea	70,500	47
23	8	Aurelien Russo	France	103,500	69

24	1	Lars Garp	Sweden	34,500	23
24	2	Elie Saad	Lebanon	146,000	97
24	3	Anton Wigg	Sweden	62,000	41
24	4	Javier Gomez	Spain	341,000	227
24	5	Dorian Melchers	France	35,500	24
24	6	Tomas Jozonis	Lithuania	78,000	52
24	8	David Petkovic	Sweden	94,000	63

25	1	Elias Abussamra	Brazil	147,000	98
25	2	Giovanni Petroni	Italy	62,500	42
25	3	Mateusz Szymanski	Poland	47,000	31
25	5	Vitezslav Cech	Czech Republic	74,000	49
25	6	Andras Matrai	Hungary	112,500	75
25	7	Kassem Hammoud	Lebanon	27,500	18
25	8	Justin Steinbrenner	Germany	220,000	147

26	1	Jan Bendik	Slovakia	43,500	29
26	2	Sanjarbek Sabyrkulov	Kyrgyzstan	165,000	110
26	4	Andreas Berggren	Sweden	107,500	72
26	5	Davide Brancale	Italy	114,000	76
26	6	Yehouda Marciano	France	44,500	30
26	7	Audrius Stakelis	Lithuania	35,000	23
26	8	Felix Weis	Luxembourg	84,500	56

27	1	Tomoki Matsuda	Japan	162,500	108
27	2	Panagiotis Gavriilidis	Greece	118,000	79
27	3	Ondrej Drozd	Czech Republic	71,000	47
27	4	Igor Picone	Germany	140,000	93
27	5	Selahaddin Bedir	Turkey	100,500	67
27	6	Stefan Nemetz	Austria	96,000	64
27	7	Tibor Szenasi	Hungary	94,500	63

28	1	Peter Jaksland	Denmark	55,000	37
28	2	Miroslav Forman	Czech Republic	129,500	86
28	3	Peter Varga	Slovakia	20,000	13
28	4	Jonathon Genovese Darling	Italy	137,000	91
28	5	Mike Watson	Canada	17,000	11
28	6	Aliaksei Boika	Belarus	97,500	65
28	7	Andrew Hulme	United Kingdom	154,000	103

29	1	Kent Roed	Norway	17,000	11
29	2	Arthur Thiriat	France	123,000	82
29	3	David Winter	United Kingdom	17,000	11
29	4	Felix Grosmann	Germany	147,000	98
29	5	Nuri Hadioglu	Turkey	58,500	39
29	6	Jacek Medyk	Poland	196,500	131
29	7	Pavol Szetei	Slovakia	79,500	53

30	1	Hrayr Grigoryan	Armenia	77,500	52
30	2	Silvio Giuliano	Italy	55,000	37
30	3	Davidi Kitai	Belgium	50,500	34
30	4	Sam Grafton	United Kingdom	64,500	43
30	6	Kiryl Liudvikevich	Latvia	40,000	27
30	7	Sho Homma	Japan	98,500	66
30	8	Giorgio Bernasconi	Italy	73,500	49

12-14-2022 00:45 UTC+1

End-of-Day 1b Chip Counts (full)

Matt Hansen

Level 10 : Blinds 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Ka Kwan Lau	322,000 82,000	82,000

Robert Cowen	321,500 21,500	21,500
Arjel Daci	302,000 -13,000	-13,000
Ismail Kalkan	242,500 52,500	52,500
[Removed:431]	238,500 123,500	123,500
Michael Pinto	220,500 20,500	20,500
Kai Uwe Lach	219,500 219,500	219,500
Petr Svoboda	219,000 39,000	39,000
Nikolay Ivanov	216,000 216,000	216,000
Nazar Buhaiov	209,500 -55,500	-55,500
Ami Barer	209,000 -11,000	-11,000
Jacek Medyk	196,500 196,500	196,500
Daniel Marquis	193,500 193,500	193,500
Marcin Horecki	192,000 -48,000	-48,000
Tomas Krebes	189,000 27,000	27,000
Roberto Begni	186,000 144,000	144,000
Thore-Fabian Kunze	181,000 181,000	181,000
Julian Thomas	176,500 54,500	54,500
Jakub Koleckar	174,500 39,500	39,500
Bleron Maliqi	172,500 47,500	47,500
Steven Mulder	170,500 -9,500	-9,500
Nenad Dukic	170,000 -60,000	-60,000
Christian Durschlag	169,000 169,000	169,000
Lander Lijo	168,000 130,000	130,000
Samir Nacer	166,000 166,000	166,000

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12-14-2022 00:23 UTC+1

Day 1b Completed

Christian Zetzsche

Level 10 : Blinds 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

Out of 825 entries, some 270 players have bagged and tagged chips for the night. Full chip counts and a recap of today's action are to follow. The total prize pool has already surpassed more than €6 million and the total field size reached more than 1,200 entries.

12-14-2022 00:21 UTC+1

Grafton Lets it Go

Daniel Williams

Level 10 : Blinds 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

On a board of , Sam Grafton check-called the continuation bet of 5,000 from Jans Arends.

The turn came and Grafton checked again. Arends fired out 8,500 and Grafton elected to fold.

The players are now playing the final three hands of the day before bagging their chips ahead of day 2.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jans Arends	81,000 1,000	1,000
Sam Grafton	42,000 -33,000	-33,000

Tags: Jans Arends Sam Grafton

12-14-2022 00:20 UTC+1

Late Night Casualties

Christian Zetzsche

Level 10 : Blinds 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Pascal Vos	Busted
David Boyaciyan	Busted
Josef Gulas	Busted
Christian Dressler	Busted
Guillaume Diaz	Busted
Yucel Eminoglu	Busted
Rui Bouquet	Busted
Sebastian Gahl	Busted
Lukas Dimsa	Busted
Juha Helppi	Busted
Fabio Peluso	Busted
Johnny Nedved	Busted
Ghattas Kortas	Busted
Kully Sidhu	Busted
Rachid El Yaacoubi	Busted
Jon Kyte	Busted
Dan Wilson	Busted
Antoine Vranken	Busted
Janos Kurtosi	Busted
Gilles Simon	Busted

Alexander Norden	Busted
Mustafa Biz	Busted
Aleksandar Tomovic	Busted
Marek Blasko	Busted
Vivian Im	Busted

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12-14-2022 00:16 UTC+1

Three More Hands for Tonight

Christian Zetzsche

Level 10 : Blinds 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

According to the screens, a field of 825 entries has been whittled down to around 273 survivors and they will aim to finish the final three hands of the night prior to bagging and tagging.

12-14-2022 00:14 UTC+1

Diaz Gets a Move Through

Christian Zetzsche

Level 10 : Blinds 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

Three ways to the flop, the action checked to Nugzar Glonti and he bet for Guillaume Diaz in the big blind to call. Vahe Martirosyan then check-raised to 10,200 and both opponents called.

The trio checked the turn and Diaz bet the river for 25,800 with around 1,800 behind. Two folds later, the chips were sent over to Diaz and Parker Talbot joked "it would be really cool if you show a bluff".

Player	Chips	Progress
Elie Saad	180,000
Parker Talbot	150,000 -5,000	-5,000

Vahe Martirosyan	120,000 35,000	35,000
Guillaume Diaz	75,000 45,000	45,000
Karol Bogusz	55,000 -25,000	-25,000
Nugzar Glonti	40,000 40,000	40,000

Tags: Guillaume Diaz Nugzar Glonti Parker Talbot Vahe Martirosyan