€5,300 Main Event
Day 4 Completed
2014 PokerStars.com EPT Season 11 Prague
€5,300 Main Event
Day: 4
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2014 PokerStars.com EPT Season 11 Prague
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€5,535,000
Entries
1,107
Level
32
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
20,000
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Level 24
: 12,000/24,000, 3,000 ante
Germany's Fabio Sperling is the man to catch at the end of Day 4 here at the EPT 11 Prague Main Event. Sperling bagged up 4,357,000 after five levels of play to top the 22 players still in contention.
Stephen Graner from the USA is in second with 3,228,000 chips. Fellow American Vanessa Selbst will enter Tuesday fifth in chips, and likeable British pro Sam Grafton is in third. Grafton is from the U.K. but has recently made Prague his home. The popular “SquidPoker” spent the day talking up a storm and pouting his way to finish with 2,610,000.
Day 4 began with 61 players, and losing the first 30 happened very quickly. Team PokerStars Pro George Danzer finished in 53rd for €16,970 after losing a flip with fours against the ace-queen of Tamer Kamel. The eliminations slowed a little after the first flurry of exits, with the average stack then around 80 big blinds, but the field was gradually whittled down to the 22 by the time the day ended.
Sperling grabbed the chip lead from Graner when they got to the river of a board reading 
. Graner bet 215,000 and the faced a raise to 628,000 from Sperling. Graner asked him if he had flopped a set, and he would get his answer when he called and was shown Sperling’s 
for a full house.
This is Graner’s first EPT; his best live result is a sixth-place finish in the 2014 WSOP Millionaire Maker event for $273,854. His total live tournament winnings amount to $676,642.
Selbst is the last remaining Team PokerStars Pro in the tournament and she endured a few swings but stuck to her game plan on her way to a fifth place end-of-day finish securing 2,040,000 chips.
It was an impressive display of aggressive big bet poker from Selbst, who rarely gave up on a pot when there were chips to be won and she frequently put her opponents to the test on the river.
One player Selbst tangled with repeatedly was Panagiotis Papaisidorou. In one memorable hand Selbst called a 44,000 bet on a flop of 
from Papaisidorou and when the turn card brought the 
she raised a 180,000 bet to 370,000. Papaisidorou called that bet and checked the 
river only to face a bet of 190,000 from Selbst. He called and mucked when Selbst showed him 
.
David Kitai briefly held the chip lead and he finished in fourth place with 2,307,000, while Simon Mattsson, who started the day as chip leader, ended with 1,172,000. Nandor Solyom will return as the short stack with 182,000 after losing a flip to Francesco Grieco just before the day ended.
Online qualifier Brian Altman was the chip leader at the end of Day 2 but at one point today he was down to one big blind. A series of improbable double ups, including cracking aces with king-deuce all in preflop, saw him escape elimination several times before he finally bust in the very last hand of the night to finish 23rd for a €32,270 payday.
Play resumes on Tuesday at noon CET and the plan is to play down to the final six. The tournament is just two days away from crowning an eventual champion from this record breaking field in Prague and the winner will take home a huge €969,000 payday.
Day 5 Table and Seat Draw
| Table | Seat | Name | Country | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Artem Metalidi | Ukraine | 1,065,000 |
| 1 | 2 | Sergey Lebedev | Russia | 678,000 |
| 1 | 3 | Nandor Solyom | Romania | 182,000 |
| 1 | 4 | Jonathan Wong | UK | 1,216,000 |
| 1 | 6 | Vanessa Selbst | USA | 2,040,000 |
| 1 | 7 | Davidi Kitai | Belgium | 2,307,000 |
| 1 | 8 | Simon Mattsson | Sweden | 1,172,000 |
| 2 | 1 | Remi Castaignon | France | 1,385,000 |
| 2 | 2 | Andras Nemeth | Hungary | 1,813,000 |
| 2 | 4 | Francesco Grieco | Italy | 1,215,000 |
| 2 | 5 | Thomas Butzhammer | Germany | 320,000 |
| 2 | 6 | Pascal Pflock | Germany | 671,000 |
| 2 | 7 | Sam Grafton | UK | 2,610,000 |
| 2 | 8 | Stephen Graner | USA | 3,228,000 |
| 3 | 1 | Balazs Botond | Hungary | 1,248,000 |
| 3 | 2 | Jakub Slemr | Czech Republic | 1,278,000 |
| 3 | 3 | Roman Pavliuk | Ukraine | 608,000 |
| 3 | 4 | Anton Bertilsson | Sweden | 1,131,000 |
| 3 | 5 | Tamer Kamel | UK | 1,304,000 |
| 3 | 6 | Fabio Sperling | Germany | 4,357,000 |
| 3 | 7 | Bjorn Wiesler | Germany | 1,504,000 |
| 3 | 8 | Miltiadis Kyriakides | Greece | 1,900,000 |
Be sure to follow our coverage when play resumes on Tuesday! In the meantime, check out Remko Rinkema's interview Vanessa Selbst earlier in the day.
Level 24
: 12,000/24,000, 3,000 ante
Today we also spoke to EPT Live commentator James Hartigan to talk about his first EPT, and the story might surprise you. Hartigan played in the first EPT he attended, and it also turned out to be the only even he would ever have chips in.
Level 24
: 12,000/24,000, 3,000 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
4,357,000
392,000
|
392,000 |
|
3,228,000
28,000
|
28,000 |
|
||
|
2,610,000
310,000
|
310,000 |
|
||
|
2,307,000
599,000
|
599,000 |
|
||
|
2,040,000
51,000
|
51,000 |
|
|
||
|
1,900,000
-412,000
|
-412,000 |
|
1,813,000
543,000
|
543,000 |
|
1,504,000
-5,000
|
-5,000 |
|
1,385,000
-215,000
|
-215,000 |
|
|
||
|
1,304,000
4,000
|
4,000 |
|
1,278,000
263,000
|
263,000 |
|
1,248,000
543,000
|
543,000 |
|
1,216,000
-284,000
|
-284,000 |
|
1,215,000
-35,000
|
-35,000 |
|
1,172,000
-278,000
|
-278,000 |
|
1,131,000
-19,000
|
-19,000 |
|
1,065,000
-291,000
|
-291,000 |
|
678,000
-913,000
|
-913,000 |
|
671,000
-184,000
|
-184,000 |
|
608,000
-179,000
|
-179,000 |
|
320,000
-123,000
|
-123,000 |
|
182,000
-3,000
|
-3,000 |
Level 24
: 12,000/24,000, 3,000 ante
In the very last hand of the day, Artem Metalidi raised to 50,000 and Balazs Botond called from one seat over. Brian Altman moved all in for 390,000 and the action was folded around to Botond. The 2014 Eureka Prague Main Event champion called with 
and Altman had a coin flip for his tournament life with 
.
The board ran out 
and that was it for Altman. All remaining 22 players now bag and tag their chips, the full counts will be available shortly.
At the beginning of the day it looked like Alterman wasn't going to make a deep run at all, but as we discussed in the following video he made a nice comeback. There won't be a Day 5 for Altman, but he can sure look back on a great run in this event.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted |
Level 24
: 12,000/24,000, 3,000 ante
In the second last hand of the day, Tamer Kamel raised to 48,000 from under the gun and was called by Davidi Kitai and Remi Castaignon in the blinds. The board was checked through until the 
river and Castaignon paid off a 95,000-bet by Kamel only to muck when shown 
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
1,300,000
280,000
|
280,000 |
Level 24
: 12,000/24,000, 3,000 ante
Francesco Grieco had been stealing some more blinds and then moved all in from the cutoff for 565,000 after Andras Nemeth had opened the action with a raise to 52,000. Miltiadis Kyriakides asked for a count and tanked for a while from the button before releasing his cards. Nandor Solyom moved all in for more from the big blind and Nemeth quickly got out of the way.
Grieco:
Solyom: 
The 
flop was still good for the Romanian and so was the 
on the turn. Grieco then jumped up and cheered in Italian to his rail after spotting the river that let him double up once again.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
1,250,000
750,000
|
750,000 |
|
|
185,000
-875,000
|
-875,000 |
Level 24
: 12,000/24,000, 3,000 ante
Davidi Kitai raised to 55,000 from under the gun, Artem Metalidi three-bet to 125,000 on the button and then called the four-bet of the Belgian to 275,000. On the 
flop, Metalidi folded to a barrel worth 350,000 by the Belgian.
Level 24
: 12,000/24,000, 3,000 ante
So often, getting your life in order away from the tables reaps dividends on them. It’s not just being able to put aside the tribulations of everyday life, it’s runs much deeper --a contentment that puts a game of cards into better perspective, so that win or lose you’re always thankful for what you’ve got.
For Tamer Kamel it means a new confidence in his game, one that in recent weeks has helped him reach final tables in both the WPT in Nottingham, and the GUKIPT Grand Final in London. In Prague that’s now become a deep run in the Main Event. Kamel has rarely been so focused, as the .
Level 24
: 12,000/24,000, 3,000 ante
Vanessa Selbst was on the button and three-bet an open from Bjorn Wiesler.
The flop was and Selbst flat called a bet from Wiesler. They both checked the turn 
and when Wiesler bet 200,000 on the river card 
Selbst moved all in.
Wiesler took a short time to make his mind up but his cards ended up in the muck.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
1,989,000
89,000
|
89,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
1,509,000
-5,000
|
-5,000 |