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The centerpiece of the current two week long Prague Poker Festival

a seven-day €5,300 Main Event from December 12-18, 2013.

Day1a begins Thursday noon

Chip counts, news etc on here


Also please post if you are there playing other events eg Eureka

A massive 1315 players played the Eureka Main Event

43 left going into day 3, headed by the UK's Stephen Chidwick

Eureka 3 Prague: Day 3 seat draw

(Table, Seat, Name, Country, Status, Chips)


54, 1, Ivan Skorospelkin, Russia, Live satellite qualifier, 747,000
54, 2, David Lappin, Ireland, PokerStars qualifier, 208,000
54, 3, Zoltan Gal, Hungary, PokerStars qualifier, 620,000
54, 4, Krzysztof Stuchlik, Poland, 299,000
54, 6, Mark Dalimore, UK, PokerStars player, 1,379,000
54, 7, Dmitri Holdeew, Germany, PokerStars player, 284,000
54, 8, Stephen Chidwick, UK, PokerStars player, 1,479,000


55, 1, Adi Alkalay, Israel, PokerStars player, 581,000
55, 3, Martin Mulsow, Germany, PokerStars qualifier, 841,000
55, 4, Aleksandr Kraizer, Russia, 898,000
55, 5, Alexander Beresnev, Russia, Live satellite qualifier, 351,000
55, 6, Igor Kasyanov, Russia, PokerStars qualifier, 678,000
55, 7, Chris Moorman, UK, PokerStars player, 317,000
55, 8, Mindaugas Simkus, Lithuania, PokerStars qualifier, 393,000


61, 1, Johannes Tiefenbrunner, Germany, 930,000
61, 2, Udo Erlei, Germany, 284,000
61, 3, Malte Monnig, Germany, PokerStars qualifier, 362,000
61, 4, Alexander Reard, France, 401,000
61, 5, Peter Jaroslav, Czech Republic, 323,000
61, 6, Georgii Bandura, Russia, 245,000
61, 7, Joshua Hunt, UK, 925,000
61, 8, Billy Chattaway, UK, 1,055,000


62, 2, Sergey Baranov, Russia, 976,000
62, 3, Matthias De Meulder, Belgium, Team PokerStars Pro, 486,000
62, 4, Florin Calin, Romania, 180,000
62, 5, Kevin MacPhee, USA, PokerStars qualifier, 769,000
62, 6, Lasell King, Germany, PokerStars qualifier, 261,000
62, 7, Ruben Gonzalez, Spain, PokerStars qualifier, 505,000
62, 8, Erik Soderholm, Sweden, PokerStars player, 301,000

65, 1, Jakub Michalak, Poland, PokerStars player, 283,000
65, 2, Ami Barer, Canada, PokerStars qualifier, 614,000
65, 3, Henri Kasper, Estonia, 327,000
65, 5, Milan Simko, Czech Republic, PokerStars qualifier, 1,040,000
65, 6, Mario Puccini, Germany, PokerStars qualifier, 1,147,000
65, 7, Marcin Horecki, Poland, Team PokerStars Pro, 853,000
65, 8, Houssein Zbib, Lebanon, 477,000


66, 1, Martin Dahle, Norway, 243,000
66, 2, Thomas Martin Layher, Germany, PokerStars qualifier, 976,000
66, 3, Idan Raviv, Israel , 842,000
66, 4, Billey Demirtas, Germany, 390,000
66, 5, Cemil Doganyilmaz, Turkey, 263,000
66, 6, Simon Bleckmann, Germany , PokerStars qualifier, 421,000
66, 8, Asaf Levi, Israel, 1,032,000

Wow that's a big field much bigger than previous years promising for the numbers in the ept

Final table chip counts for the Eureka

Ami Barer   Canada   PokerStars qualifier   7280000
Dmitri Holdeew   Germany   PokerStars player   4720000
Jaroslav Peter    Czech Republic      3955000
Johannes Tiefenbrunner   Germany      935000
Marcin Horecki   Poland   Team PokerStars Pro   1340000
Mark Dalimore   UK   PokerStars player   2170000
Milan Simko   Czech Republic   PokerStars qualifier   695000
Stephen Chidwick   UK   PokerStars player   4955000

1. €226,400
2. €131,400
3. €92,500
4. €68,800
5. €53,500
6. €39,800
7. €30,500
8. €21,700

and British cashers so far....

10th. Joshua Hunt, United Kingdom, €14,000
12th. Chris Moorman, United Kingdom, €12,550
32. Billy Chattaway, United Kingdom, €4,550
58. Vincent Andre Meli, United Kingdom, PokerStars player, €3,150
94. Sunny Chattha, United Kingdom, €2,650
96. Dean Clay, United Kingdom, PokerStars qualifier, €2,350
138. Colin Lovelock, United Kingdom, PokerStars qualifier, €2,050
149. Joe Laming, United Kingdom, €1,850
151. Mitchell Johnson, United Kingdom, PokerStars player, €1,850

I gather Scotty77, (Ryan), will be playing the EPT thing.

Good luck him.

Gl Scotty

Have been here six days so to add a bit more (full disclosure in a working capacity for PokerStars/PokerNews):

- Stevie444 finished third in Eureka Main Event, he has the best stare down bar none fwiw. Better than Timex I swear.
- He very nearly didn't make the tournament as his flight (last saturday) was delayed, he eventually got in as an alternate 92 on very little sleep.
- His hometown caused a liitle bit of a kerfuffle from non Brits - http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/ept/2013/ept10-prague-when-deal-means-deal-not-de-144278.html - Mods remove if not allowed
- Today - Friday 13th is the official wear your xmas jumper to work day. Jake Cody, Chris Brammer, Craig McCorkell etc were only in work today so wore them then. Craig made it through with 37,500, Toby has 44,900.
- It's probably going to break 1,000 runners

p.s good luck Scotty

Cheers Nick

the report of day 1a of the EPT Prague Main can be seen at

http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/ept/2013/ept10-prague-day-1a-xxxx-leads-144288.html

210 of 389 got through


Awards to Jake and Jeff Rossiter for jumper and ski mask of the day respectively

(http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/jake_cody_ept10_prague_day1a.jpg)

(http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/jeff_rossiter_ept10_prague_day1a.jpg)

Surely Jeff lost a prop bet?

Day 1b report

http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/ept/2013/ept10-prague-amir-lehavot-144337.html


551 of 1001 made it to day 2

seat draw at

http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/ept10-prague-day-2-seat-draw.html

207 of 1007 headed into day 3

overnight chip counts

http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/tournaments/ept/season-10/ept-prague/main-event-25/

today's seat draw

http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/ept10-prague-day-3-seat-draw.html

Payout

http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/tournaments/ept/season-10/ept-prague/main-event-25/


Brits left in are

2, 3, Simon Deadman, UK , PokerStars player, 190,200
8, 1, Sebastian Saffari, UK , PokerStars qualifier, 428,000
8, 8, Joe Laming, UK , 99,900
11, 1, Kevin Iacofano, UK , PokerStars qualifier, 380,600
12, 2, Thomas Hall, UK, PokerStars qualifier, 88,100
12, 7, Ben Martin, UK , PokerStars qualifier, 66,100
14, 7, Max Silver, UK , PokerStars player, 259,500
16, 2, Lucas Reeves, UK , PokerStars player, 307,400
19, 7, Scott Margereson, UK , PokerStars qualifier, 229,600
20, 8, Mateusz Zbikowski, UK, PokerStars qualifier, 201,100
21, 4, Stephen Chidwick, UK, PokerStars qualifier, 192,500
22, 4, Panicos Ellinas, UK , PokerStars qualifier, 118,400
23, 1, Tom Alner, UK , 171,700
24, 7, Tamer Kamel, UK, PokerStars qualifier, 35,500

Good luck pleno1 , about 63 left. He looks chipped up on eptlive

Plenty of Brits still left in the main

didnt get this.

Nor me.

I assumed he had confused you with another extremely small person.

Outrageous heightist.

Ludovic Lacay?


Look similar ish

maybe youre right crouchy

Pleno1

(http://static2.poker-actu.fr/var/docs/player/Ludovic_lacay.jpg)



Ludovic Lacay

(http://www.poker10.com/upload/Image/2012/04/patrick-leonard-winner-550x337.jpg)

Is that cheque normal size?

 rotflmfao

Yeah pinchop got it

On a day that saw the EPT's Main Event in Prague down to 22 players, Max Silver took the chip lead.

Silver won UKIPT Dublin in 2010 and is chip leader gonig into day 4 with 3.97m

(http://pnimg.net/lrep/1842/27/b3da7e0f5a8.jpg)

Also looking good for a place in Wednesday's final is Stephen Chidwick.

Just a few days after finishing third in this year's record-breaking Eureka Prague Main Event, Chidwick ended yesterday with 2,084,000 chips.

Day 5 will see each player sit down with at least €29,600 locked up, however, for the final eight their quest will continue through until Wednesday when they will have the chance to claim a coveted EPT title and €889,000.



Updates and info from http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/tournaments/ept/season-10/ept-prague/main-event-25/

Gold

lol A+

Final table line up

Julian Track 7240000   
Max Silver   5935000      
Stephen Chidwick   4935000
Georgios Sotiropoulos   4320000
Ka Kwan Lau   3005000
Ole Schemion   2400000   
Zdravko Duvnjak   1225000   
Jorma Nuutinen   975000   

biogs of all the finalists at http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/ept/2013/ept10-prague-final-table-player-profiles-144481.html

1      889,000   
2      536,700   
3      378,000   
4      283,800   
5      218,300   
6      160,200   
7      118,200   
8      84,600

The final table streams live on psta.rs/EPTLive with Hartigan and Stapes at 1pm, I think

Max Silver, Steve Chidwick for the UK

Schemion who went deep at the ISPT and has just pipped Negraneau to the GPI POY as well

Hole cards on the stream

30 year old German Julian Track won EPT Prague after a 14 hour final table

(http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/assets_c/2013/12/Julian_Track_ept10pra_winner_ftw-thumb-450x300-214750.jpg)

report at http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/ept/2013/ept10-prague-sick-julian-track-wins-main-event-in-14-hour-thriller-144533.html

EPT10 Prague Main Event
Date: October 12-18, 2013
Buy-in: £5,300
Players: 1,007
Prize pool: €4,883,950

1 - Julian Track, Germany, PokerStars Qualifier, €725,700*
2 - Georgios Sotiropoulos, Greece, €700,000*
3 - Stephen Chidwick, United Kingdom, PokerStars Qualifier, €378,000
4 - Ka Kwan Lau, Spain, €283,800
5 - Ole Schemion, Germany, PokerStars Qualifier, €218,300
6 - Max Silver, United Kingdom, €160,200
7 - Zdravko Duvnjak, Croatia, €118,200
8 - Jorma Nuutinen, Finland, €84,600

* denotes two-way deal.

Not bad for someone who says he hates live poker maybe €725k might change his mind

Why, he's right, it's lolworthy.

I should probably expand on that so...

Firstly it's 3:15 and I'm on a break from playing so we know were I'm at  :P

But let's put it into perspective. I play 180 mans for a living and have done pretty reasonably at them for quite a while. I would expect my peers would say I was one of the better regs at these games. I've constantly studied, working on my game studying with other good regs as well as working on my own, between us we've done numerous sessions and found no leaks. Despite that I've managed to play 13,000 180 mans and I've broke even, now it's impossible to understand, or care, without experiencing it for yourself. But, if you believe I have went from being one of the best regs in a game who makes $2 per game (sigh gg 26k) to one of the worst I don't think that's possible. What's actually happened is variance has grabbed me by the scruff of the neck and said fukn take this.

So if that can happen in a game that most people, inc myself, regard as the easiest form of poker, why do we put so much value on one live tournament. It's pretty fukn stupid.

I don't want to undervalue peoples achievements btw, take Middy for instance, when I went to Vegas with them boys, when I discussed hands with Middy my reaction was wow, I will never be that good at poker, and I still don't think I'm even close. But it took a while before he had that big score, so many people who are really good will die at the game before that score comes. If Middy had've never binked I'd still have thought the same.

Tons of great players will go busto with no rep and die before they get a chance to prove themselves and a ton of absolutely woeful players will get the lot and think they're the dogs when really they're absolutely terrible. But who cares, I just hope those that get the lot are the good guys, but sadly that's not always the case.

Cliffs I love Middy :)

Ahmen to that. Watched this FT during a wednesday grind, all of it. Was quite demoralising watching the best players get knocked out one by one to leave two absolute hero's of the game to scrap it out having done a bizarre deal.

Apparently the German had really bad flu or some other sort of illness and was struggling so badly just being there he was fine with snap chopping uh despite being cl

Yeah he was really struggling was incredibly pale. He actually offered him even chop & the title but rules were, quite rightly, that they had to play it out to determine the winner Also I did icm numbers during the break they had for the heads up deal & despite his advantage the numbers were something like 730k & 690k. So not a shocking deal by any stretch.

 Surely this is more reason to hate online poker than live poker?!

Live poker is great, real chips, real cards, flirt with a waitress or two, have a beer hopefully you're not playing with complete dickheads so can even have a lil table chatters :)

Much more fun than being sat at home in the dark with my headphones on staring at my screen lol