€1,100 EPT National Day 2 | 2018 PokerStars EPT Prague

€1,100 EPT National

Day 2 Completed

12-11-2018 00:26 UTC+1

Iliya Iliev Leads 30 Players to Day 3 of the €1,100 EPT National

Milko van Winden

Level 27 : 30,000/60,000, 60,000 ante

Day 3 of the €1,100 EPT National at the PokerStars European Poker Tour Prague held at the beautiful Hilton Prague is in the books. Iliya Iliev from Bulgaria has the chip lead with 8,820,000. He's closely followed by Preben Stokkan with 7,700,000 and Jean-Noel Thorel with 5,900,000. The day started with 373 players left out of the 2,486 that entered the tournament. After a little over nine one-hour levels of play, there were only 30 players left to advance to Day 3 to battle it out for the first-place prize of €382,750.

The day started at 12 p.m. local time with 373 players and plenty of eliminations. They played 16 minutes in level 17 (3,000-6,000, big blind ante 6,000) before advancing to level 18 (4,000/8,000, big blind ante 8,000). After only 1,5 hours of play, there were already over 150 players that exited the tournament. A couple of the first players to exit the tournament in the first level include Boubekeur Benhalima (339th - €1,720), Antoine Labat (323rd - €1,820), Kees van Brugge (300th - €1,820), and Ari Engel (232nd - €2,040). The tournament didn't seem to slow down at any point and the eliminations kept on coming. Parker Talbot (214th - €2,300) was one of the next players to exit the tournament. Talbot lost a big pot and he was left with just six big blinds. He lost those with queen-ten against pocket aces after the board ran out ten-king-jack-deuce-seven.

Plenty of others didn't make it to the dinner break. Martin Kabrhel (175th - €2,570), Dimitar Danchev (172nd - €2,570), Vojtech Ruzicka (166th - €2,570), Sebastian Malec (134th - €2,900), Sofia Lovgren (115th - €3,480), Martin Finger (93rd, €4,090), Jan-Eric Schwippert (85th - €4,090), and Platinum Pass winner Mihai Manole (78th - €4,090) all busted out before the 75-minute dinner break after level 23.

The day was supposed to end after ten one-hour levels but the players were busting at an incredible rate. The tournament staff announced that they would play down to the end of level 27 or until there were 32 players left in the tournament. In what seemed like the last hand of the tournament it was Harpreet Padda who eliminated two players. He saw Andreas Vlachos move all in and then he saw Laurence Fleury rejam all in. Padda had pocket nines and he called. Vlachos was playing ace-eight and Fleury had pocket sevens. Padda was in an excellent position to send two players home and he did just that after a clean board was dealt. On another table, there was another elimination as Aleksander Da Silva Boski was eliminated. That means that Day 3 will start with just 30 players instead of 32.

Chip leader Iliev had a nice rush in the levels after the dinner break. ''I'm very tired'', said Iliev when asked about his day. ''For two days I didn't see a single pocket pair. Then today there were three big pots. I had aces in back-to-back hands and then in the next two hands queens - twice!''. Iliev will start in pole position on Day 3. Stokkan is in second place and he has been grinding steadily for the entire Day 2. Thorel closes the top 3 and he had a great last level of the day as well. They will battle it out for the first-place prize of €382,750 while they are all guaranteed to take home at least €8,930.

Day 3 will start at 12 p.m. local time on Tuesday, December 11. There are still 53 minutes and 24 seconds left in level 27 (30,000-60,000, big blind ante 60,000) when they kick off the tournament. PokerNews will be present from start to finish to provide live coverage.

Day 3 seat draw

Table	Seat	Name	Country	Chips
1	1	Peter Turmezey	Hungary	3085000
1	2	Nikita Staroverov	Lithuania	1355000
1	3	Joanna Skrukkerud	Norway	1025000
1	4	Walter Treccarichi	Italy	1495000
1	5	Stefan Vogt	Germany	1510000
1	6	Ut Tam Vo	France	2550000
1	7	Vadzim Lipauka	Belarus	585000
1	8	Alexander Shelukhin	Russia	1100000

2	1	Eli Fagundes	Brazil	3780000
2	2	Florian Duta	Romania	930000
2	3	Ali Al Saidy	Norway	2930000
2	4	Jean Noel Thorel	France	5900000
2	5	Vasileios Tsaknis	Greece	1955000
2	6	Bleron Maliqi	Switzerland	1260000
2	7	Lukas Zaskodny	Czech Republic	1845000
2	8	Boris Mondrus	Israel	4700000

3	1	Robert Gerthofer	Slovakia	1500000
3	2	Charbel Salloum	Lebanon	500000
3	3	Charlie Carrel	United Kingdom	1425000
3	4	Marc Goeschel	Germany	1395000
3	5	Iliya Iliev	Bulgaria	8820000
3	6	Alessandro Mazzilli	Italy	2855000
3	8	Danilo Velasevic	Serbia	1715000

4	1	Preben Stokkan	Norway	7700000
4	2	Mohamad El-rais	Switzerland	3555000
4	3	Bryan Paris	United States	2060000
4	5	Harpreet Padda	Canada	2960000
4	6	Ondrej Lon	Czech Republic	910000
4	7	Stefan Ivanov	Bulgaria	1130000
4	8	Georgios Kitsios	Greece	2965000

Tags: Aleksander Da Silva Boski Andreas Vlachos Antoine Labat Ari Engel Boubekeur Benhalima Dimitar Danchev Harpreet Padda Iliya Iliev Jan Eric Schwippert Kees van Brugge Laurence Fleury Martin Finger Martin Kabrhel Mihai Manole Parker Talbot Preben Stokkan Sebastian Malec Sofia Lovgren Vojtech Ruzicka

12-11-2018 00:04 UTC+1

End of Day 2 Chip Counts

Will Shillibier

Level 27 : 30,000/60,000, 60,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Iliya Iliev	8,820,000 820,000	820,000

Preben Stokkan	7,700,000 4,450,000	4,450,000
Jean-Noel Thorel	5,900,000 -200,000	-200,000
Boris Mondrus	4,700,000 -200,000	-200,000
Eli Fagundes	3,780,000 1,980,000	1,980,000
[Removed:354]	3,557,000 -43,000	-43,000
Peter Turmezey	3,085,000 1,045,000	1,045,000
Georgios Kitsios	2,965,000 -335,000	-335,000
Harpreet Padda	2,960,000 60,000	60,000

Ali Al Saidy	2,930,000 830,000	830,000
Alessandro Mazzilli	2,855,000 2,225,000	2,225,000
Ut Tam Vo	2,550,000 750,000	750,000
Bryan Paris	2,060,000 -140,000	-140,000
Vasileios Tsaknis	1,955,000 655,000	655,000
Lukas Zaskodny	1,845,000 625,000	625,000
Danilo Velasevic	1,715,000 560,000	560,000
Stefan Vogt	1,510,000 210,000	210,000
Robert Gerthofer	1,500,000 415,000	415,000
Walter Treccarichi	1,495,000 395,000	395,000
Charlie Carrel	1,425,000 -475,000	-475,000
Marc Goeschel	1,395,000 -1,065,000	-1,065,000
Nikita Staroverov	1,355,000 955,000	955,000
Bleron Maliqi	1,260,000 755,000	755,000
Stefan Ivanov	1,130,000 -190,000	-190,000
Alexander Shelukhin	1,100,000 -25,000	-25,000

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12-10-2018 23:53 UTC+1

Another Elimination

Milko van Winden

Level 27 : 30,000/60,000, 60,000 ante

Aleksander Da Silva Boski lost heaps when he called an all in with ace-king. He lost the pot against jack-ten suited and his opponent hit a flush.

Boski was eliminated in the next hand at the same time as the other two eliminations. This means that only 30 players will advance to Day 3.

Player	Chips	Progress
Aleksander Da Silva Boski	Busted

Tags: Aleksander Da Silva Boski

12-10-2018 23:51 UTC+1

Padda Eliminates Two to End the Day

Milko van Winden

Level 27 : 30,000/60,000, 60,000 ante

There were already two players all-in. Laurence Fleury had moved all in after she saw her neighbor Andreas Vlachos move all in. Harpreet Padda had both players covered and he called to put them both at risk.

Harpreet Padda:
Andreas Vlachos:
Laurence Fleury:

The board came down and that meant that Padda would eliminate both opponents in one hand.

Player	Chips	Progress
Harpreet Padda	2,900,000 50,000	50,000

Laurence Fleury	Busted
Andreas Vlachos	Busted

Tags: Andreas Vlachos Harpreet Padda Laurence Fleury

12-10-2018 23:43 UTC+1

Romera Out After Clash with Paris

Will Shillibier

Level 27 : 30,000/60,000, 60,000 ante

Ignacio Barcenas Romera three-bet jammed around a million chips with into the of Bryan Paris and came out second best. He then shoved his remaining chips in with but was called by the of Mohamad El-rais.

Again he was behind, and he failed to catch up and he was eliminated.

There is just one elimination separating players from Day 3.

Player	Chips	Progress
[Removed:354]	3,600,000 1,550,000	1,550,000
Bryan Paris	2,200,000 600,000	600,000
Ignacio Barcenas Romera	Busted

Tags: Bryan Paris Ignacio Barcenas

Level: 27

Blinds: 30,000/60,000

Ante: 60,000

12-10-2018 23:25 UTC+1

Carrel Talks His Way to Some Chips

Will Shillibier

Level 26 : 25,000/50,000, 50,000 ante

Charlie Carrel raised to 100,000 from under the gun and Nikita Staroverov defended his big blind.

The flop came .

"Did you see my hand?" Carrel suddenly asked.

Staroverov appeared surprised.

"Now I don't know if you are f*cking with me or not!" said Carrel. Staroverov checked and Carrel bet 100,000. "Did you see the ten?" Carrel said with a grin.

Staroverov called and the turn was the . This time Staroverov check-folded.

Carrel took the pot down.

"You had a ten or not?" asked Staroverov.

"I don't want to make you feel bad!" said Carrel.

Player	Chips	Progress
Charlie Carrel	1,900,000 1,100,000	1,100,000
Nikita Staroverov	400,000 -715,000	-715,000

Tags: Charlie Carrel Nikita Staroverov

12-10-2018 23:20 UTC+1

Lesniewski Eliminated After Long Tank

Milko van Winden

Level 26 : 25,000/50,000, 50,000 ante

The board read and there was already over a million in the pot. Boris Mondrus had checked from the hijack to Marcin Lesniewski in the cutoff and he had bet 550,000. Mondrus came over the top with an all-in bet of effectively 1,400,000, putting Lesniewski all in.

Lesniewski disappeared in the tank for multiple minutes before having the clock called on him. With about ten seconds left he called with , but he was drawing very thin against the of Mondrus.