€5,300 Main Event Day 2 | 2016 PokerStars.com EPT Season 13 Malta

€5,300 Main Event

Day 2 Completed

10-25-2016 19:46 UTC+1

Guillaume Diaz Leads 90 Survivors After Day 2 of the EPT13 Malta Main Event

Christian Zetzsche

Level 14 : 1,500/3,000, 500 ante

Day 2 of the 2016 PokerStars.com EPT13 Malta Main Event saw 233 players return to the tables of the Casino Portomaso and another eight hopefuls opted to buy in with a fresh stack of 30,000. Along with two no-shows, the field size of 468 entries created a total prize pool of €2,269,800. The top 87 spots were to be paid at least €8,070 for their efforts, whereas the winner will receive a payday of €355,700 this upcoming Saturday.

After six levels of 75 minutes, the money spots were narrowly missed, as 90 players bagged up chips with Guillaume Diaz in the lead. The Frenchman bagged up 583,500. He is followed by Gianfranco Visalli (518,000) and Peter Ockenden (469,500).

Other big stacks and notables include Xixiang Luo (390,000), Guillaume Valle (363,000), Sarah Herzali (362,000) Dmitry Yurasov (358,000), and Elie Saad (302,000) and Eugene Katchalov (284,000). Former EPT champions that made it through include Dominik Panka (365,000), Davidi Kitai (284,500), Frederik Jensen (191,500) and EPT11 Malta winner Jean Montury (85,000) and Roberto Romanello (82,000).

Day 2 started with a setup on the feature table, and William Kassouf endured a deja vu from the 2016 Main Event when he ran with kings into the aces of Brian Altman, Vladimir Troyanovskiy busted with deuces in the same hand as well. [Removed:17] got his short stack in good with ace-queen, but Roberto Romanello's connected with the board to bust the €25,750 Super High Roller champion. Jakub Michalak, who won the €10,300 Single-Day High Roller the previous night, sent his stack over to Guillaume Valle and the Frenchman took the lead into the first break of the day.

Georgios Zisimopoulos lost a flip against Guillaume Diaz and Charlie Carrel also joined the rail in the second level of Day 2. Other casualties included the sole remaining PokerStars Team Pro George Danzer, Koray Aldemir, Paul-Francois Tedeschi, Mikhail Petrov, Russell Thomas and IPT Malta High Roller champion Stefan Jedlicka.

It was all about Diaz in the next two levels, as he knocked out Pasi Sormunen and consequently built his stack to become the first player with half a million in chips. Start-of-the-day chip leader Andras Nemeth was sent to the rail after he first doubled Pawel Brzeski and then sent the remainder of his stack over to Eugene Katchalov. Sarah Herzali knocked out Asker Aloev and Bartolomiej Machon with a set of jacks and also cracked the top five at the end of level 12 with 111 remaining.

In the last two levels, another 21 players ran out of chips. Pierre Calamusa's bluff went horribly wrong, as Dmitry Yurasov snap-called with pocket kings. Gianfranco Visalli made a big call with pocket tens on a seven-high turn to eliminate Simon Amyot, the Canadian had pocket fours for the a smaller pair and the straight draw. Several other notables also missed out on the money as well: Ludovic Geilich, Alexandros Kolonias, Paul Newey, and Fabrice Soulier.

Malta's "poker mama" Jacqueline Cachia was also eliminated late on. Dan Shak had raised, then called the shoves of Daniele Colautti and Cachia with ace-king. Colautti had nines, Cachia queens - a king on the flop seemed to have sealed the double elimination, but Colautti spiked a nine on the river to double. The last five hands of the night then brought three double-ups and 90 players bagged up .

As a result, Day 3 will recommence at 12 p.m. local time pretty much on the direct money bubble with blinds of 2,000-4,000 and a running ante of 500. The PokerNews live reporting team will be back near the tables to provide all the action until a winner is crowned.

Day 3 Seat Draw

Table	Seat	Name	Country	Chip Count
1	1	Jerry Odeen	Sweden	69,000
1	2	Mikita Badziakouski	Belarus	190,000
1	3	Yury Gulyy	Russia	37,000
1	4	Sarah Herzali	France	362,000
1	6	Dmitry Yurasov	Russia	358,000
1	7	Alain Fluri	Switzerland	17,500
1	8	Armando Collado Lanuza	Nicaragua	50,000

2	1	Armin Mette	Austria	190,000
2	2	Yung Hwang	USA	182,500
2	4	Benjamin Philipps	UK	27,500
2	5	Tomas Macnamara	UK	219,500
2	6	Maria Ho	USA	40,500
2	7	Miguel Riera Suarez	Spain	95,000
2	8	Jeroen Soons	Netherlands	133,500

3	1	Gianfranco Visalli	Italy	518,500
3	2	Frederik Jensen	Denmark	191,500
3	3	Martin Staszko	Czech Republic	244,500
3	4	Xixiang Luo	China	390,000
3	5	Thomas Lentrodt	Germany	95,000
3	6	Felix Schlott	Germany	81,500
3	7	Andre DiFelice	Canada	43,000
3	8	Darya Hulyk	Ukraine	91,500

4	1	Tomasz Panek	Poland	79,000
4	2	Thibault Letort	France	114,000
4	3	Guillaume Diaz	France	583,500
4	4	Benjamin Pollak	France	224,000
4	5	Guillaume Valle	France	363,000
4	6	Bastian Dohler	Germany	209,500
4	7	[Removed:215]	Switzerland	119,000
4	8	Rafael Gancedo	Spain	86,500

5	1	Nicolino Di Carlo	Italy	76,500
5	2	Louis Cartarius	Germany	313,500
5	3	Stale Eggen	Norway	22,500
5	4	Piotr Franczak	Poland	103,500
5	6	Alexander Debus	Germany	73,000
5	7	Konstantin Kazaev	Russia	228,500
5	8	Aleksandar Spadijer	Montenegro	76,000

6	1	Victor Ilyukhin	Russia	151,000
6	2	Martin Nikolov	Bulgaria	199,000
6	3	Chi Zhang	UK	239,500
6	5	Bart Maes	Belgium	145,000
6	6	Daniele Colautti	Italy	165,000
6	7	Roberto Romanello	UK	82,000
6	8	Stefano Terziani	Italy	258,000

7	1	John Gulino	USA	113,500
7	2	Davidi Kitai	Belgium	284,500
7	3	Peter Ockenden	Netherlands	469,500
7	4	Sylvain Loosli	France	88,500
7	5	Mats Karlsson	Sweden	191,000
7	6	Dong Zhao	China	154,500
7	7	Zorlucan Er	Turkey	66,000
7	8	Kees van Brugge	Netherlands	52,500

8	1	Ole Schemion	Germany	86,000
8	2	Walter Treccarichi	Italy	231,000
8	3	Marco Bartolini	Italy	69,000
8	4	Peter Akery	UK	72,500
8	5	Stephen Chidwick	UK	100,500
8	6	Aliaksei Boika	Belarus	212,000
8	7	Alessandro Longobardi	Italy	101,000
8	8	Felipe Costa	Brazil	39,500

9	1	Marko Popovic	Bulgaria	64,000
9	2	Taran Parmar	Canada	94,500
9	3	Felix Bleiker	Switzerland	31,000
9	5	Oskar Szwed	Poland	173,000
9	6	Ismael Bojang	Austria	192,500
9	7	Marco D'Amico	Italy	45,000
9	8	Jacek Pustula	Poland	45,500

10	1	Konrad Abela	Malta	206,000
10	2	Alexandru Baron	Canada	50,000
10	3	Viatcheslav Ortynskiy	Russia	115,000
10	4	Brian Altman	USA	219,500
10	5	Dan Shak	USA	203,000
10	6	Sergey Sergeev	Russia	257,500
10	7	Zoltan Szabo	Hungary	132,500
10	8	Pawel Brzeski	Poland	140,500

11	1	Grzegorz Grochulski	Poland	142,500
11	2	Paul Gresel	Netherlands	52,000
11	3	Dominik Panka	Poland	385,000
11	4	Mark Anthony Vella	Malta	48,500
11	5	Dietrich Fast	Germany	50,500
11	7	Freek Scholten	Netherlands	225,000
11	8	Michael Kane	UK	59,500

12	1	James Akenhead	UK	176,000
12	2	Dawid Borkowski	Poland	49,000
12	3	Elie Saad	Lebanon	302,000
12	4	Dariusz Szoen	Poland	110,000
12	5	Ollie Price	UK	88,500
12	6	Eugene Katchalov	Ukraine	284,000
12	7	Jean Montury	France	85,000
12	8	Usman Siddique	UK	152,000

Tags: Alexandros Kolonias Andras Nemeth Asker Aloev Brian Altman Charlie Carrel Dan Shak Daniele Colautti Dmitry Yurasov Dominik Panka Eugene Katchalov Fabrice Soulier Frederik Jensen George Danzer Georgios Zisimopoulos Gianfranco Visalli Guillaume Diaz Guillaume Valle Jacqueline Cachia Jakub Michalak Jean Montury Koray Aldemir Ludovic Geilich Mikhail Petrov Pasi Sormunen Paul Newey Paul Tedeschi Pawel Brzeski Peter Ockenden Pierre Calamusa Roberto Romanello Russell Thomas Sarah Herzali Simon Amyot Stefan Jedlicka Vladimir Troyanovskiy William Kassouf Xixiang Luo

10-25-2016 19:32 UTC+1

End-Of-Day Counts (full)

Webjoker

Level 14 : 1,500/3,000, 500 ante

An extensive recap of today's action is to follow.

Player	Chips	Progress
Guillaume Diaz	583,500 68,500	68,500
Gianfranco Visalli	518,500 -1,500	-1,500
Peter Ockenden	469,500 -40,500	-40,500
Xixiang Luo	390,000 137,000	137,000
Dominik Panka	385,000 10,000	10,000

Guillaume Valle	363,000 23,000	23,000
Sarah Herzali	362,000 22,000	22,000
Dmitry Yurasov	358,000 123,000	123,000
Louis Cartarius	313,500 -6,500	-6,500
Elie Saad	302,000 102,000	102,000
Davidi Kitai	284,500 -44,200	-44,200

Eugene Katchalov	284,000 84,000	84,000
Stefano Terziani	258,000 73,000	73,000
Sergey Sergeev	257,500 49,500	49,500
Martin Staszko	244,500 84,200	84,200
Chi Zhang	239,500 125,900	125,900
Walter Treccarichi	231,000 29,000	29,000
Konstantin Kazaev	228,500 68,500	68,500
Freek Scholten	225,000 -22,000	-22,000
Benjamin Pollak	224,000 -200	-200
Tomas Macnamara	219,500 99,500	99,500
Brian Altman	219,500 34,500	34,500
Aliaksei Boika	212,000 82,500	82,500

Bastian Dohler	209,500 -10,500	-10,500
Konrad Abela	206,000 81,000	81,000

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10-25-2016 19:21 UTC+1

Popovic Doubles Against Romanello

Christian Zetzsche

Level 14 : 1,500/3,000, 500 ante

Over on the feature table, Roberto Romanello raised from under the gun and Marko Popovic shoved for his last 27,200 on the button. Romanello called and they had to wait for all other tables to be finished.

Marko Popovic:
Roberto Romanello:

The board came and Popovic doubled, two hands remain

Player	Chips	Progress
Roberto Romanello	88,200 -25,300	-25,300

Marko Popovic	62,900 -49,600	-49,600

Tags: Marko Popovic Roberto Romanello

10-25-2016 19:20 UTC+1

Dietrich Fast Doubles During Hand-For-Hand

Yori Epskamp

Level 14 : 1,500/3,000, 500 ante

It's always a tense atmosphere in a hand-for-hand situation, and Dietrich Fast's all in was no different. The winner of the €10,300 High Roller earlier this week jammed 19,000 from the button and fellow countryman Louis Cartarius looked him up in the big blind.

It took minutes before the hands on all the other tables were finished, which gave the railbirds and camera's plenty of time to swamp the table. Eventually, the hand went to showdown.

Dietrich Fast:
Louis Cartarius:

The densely packed crowd gathered to watch the flop being dealt.

"You can all go now," laughed Fast.

Fast's remark obviously opened the door for a jinx, and sure enough did the on the turn give Cartarius some straight outs. The river wasn't the ten he was looking for, and Fast doubled up.

Player	Chips	Progress
Louis Cartarius	320,000 48,000	48,000
Dietrich Fast	47,000 -143,000	-143,000

Tags: Dietrich Fast Louis Cartarius

10-25-2016 19:12 UTC+1

Baron Doubles Through Philipps

Christian Zetzsche

Level 14 : 1,500/3,000, 500 ante

In the first hand, Benjamin Philipps shoved from the cutoff and Alexandru Baron called all in out of the small blind for 19,300. Once all other tables were finished, the cards were tabled.

Alexandru Baron:
Benjamin Philipps:

The board came and Baron doubled.

Player	Chips	Progress
Alexandru Baron	42,000 -73,000	-73,000
Benjamin Philipps	27,200 -35,800	-35,800

Tags: Alexandru Baron Benjamin Philipps

10-25-2016 19:05 UTC+1

Five More Hands

Yori Epskamp

Level 14 : 1,500/3,000, 500 ante

The clock has been stopped, five more hands will be played in hand-for-hand mode. Will the bubble burst today?

10-25-2016 19:04 UTC+1

Van Brugge Doubles Through Schlott

[user13328]

Level 14 : 1,500/3,000, 500 ante

Blind on blind, Felix Schlott and Kees van Brugge got it all in. From the big blind, Van Brugge was at risk with only 26,800 in chips.

He had and had to hold against Schlott's . The flop gave Schlott a five but Van Brugge paired his ace.

"Queen me", asked Schlott to the dealer. However, he did not hit on the turn and river. Van Brugge doubled up and is still in contention to earn a spot in the money.

Player	Chips	Progress
Felix Schlott	180,000 26,000	26,000
Kees van Brugge	55,000 10,000	10,000

Tags: Kees van Brugge Felix Schlott

10-25-2016 19:04 UTC+1

Ockenden Keeps Trending Up, Takes From Yurasov

Yori Epskamp

Level 14 : 1,500/3,000, 500 ante

Dmitry Yurasov opened to 7,000 in early position. Ole Schemion called from the cutoff, Peter Ockenden called on the button and Oliver Price defended his big blind. The flop was and Yurasov continued with 15,000. Schemion folded, Ockenden called, and Price folded.

On the turn, Yurasov showed no sign of slowing down with a bet of 42,000. Within mere seconds, Ockenden committed the calling chips. The on the river paired the board, and now Yurasov bet 66,000. Ockenden took a quick glance at the bet and rapidly called again.

Dmitry Yurasov:
Peter Ockenden:

Yurasov's top pair was no match for Ockenden's top two pair, and the online phenom had to ship a sizable portion of his stack over to the British expat living in Holland.

Player	Chips	Progress
Peter Ockenden	510,000 280,000	280,000
Dmitry Yurasov	235,000 -270,000	-270,000

Tags: Dmitry Yurasov Peter Ockenden

10-25-2016 18:56 UTC+1

Colautti Escapes Elimination; Cachia Busts

Christian Zetzsche

Level 14 : 1,500/3,000, 500 ante

Drama for the Maltese poker mama Jacqueline Cachia, as she narrowly missed out on the money.

Dan Shak raised to 8,500 and Gianfranco Visalli called. Daniele Colautti then moved all in from the cutoff and Cachia also called in for around 35,000 on the button. Shak went over the top and Visalli folded.

Jacqueline Cachia:
Daniele Colautti:
Dan Shak:

The flop improved Shak and he was about to eliminate two players just before the money. The turn was a blank, but the river provided the two-outer for Colautti, who doubled through Shak for 61,100 and sent Cachia to the rail.

Player	Chips	Progress
Dan Shak	172,000 27,000	27,000
Daniele Colautti	160,000 100,000	100,000
Jacqueline Cachia	Busted

Tags: Daniele Colautti Gianfranco Visalli Jacqueline Cachia Dan Shak