€10,300 EPT Prague High Roller Day 1 | 2022 PokerStars EPT Prague

€10,300 EPT Prague High Roller

Day 1 Completed

12-17-2022 01:41 UTC+1

Sam Grafton Leads the Way After Day 1 of the €10,300 EPT Prague High Roller

Matt Hansen

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

Day 1 of the €10,300 EPT Prague High Roller has come to an end and PokerStars Ambassador Sam Grafton sits atop the leaderboard after ten levels of play. The surviving field of 103 players will return tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. local time for Day 2 of this three-day event.

The tournament drew 253 entries on Day 1 to generate a prize pool of €2,454,100, and more are expected to jump in before registration closes at the start of Day 2.

Grafton holds the chip lead with the top stack of 389,000. Kannapong Thanarattrakul follows behind in second with 348,500 and Luis Faria finished up in third with 321,000. Kubanychbek Abakirov and Sam Greenwood round out the top five with 320,000 and 292,000, respectively.

€10,300 EPT Prague High Roller Day 1 Top Ten Chip Counts

Rank	Name	Country	Chip Count	Day 2 Big Blinds
1	Sam Grafton	United Kingdom	389,000	259
2	Kannapong Thanarattrakul	Thailand	348,500	232
3	Luis Pinho De Faria	Portugal	321,000	214
4	Kubanychbek Abakirov	Kyrgyzstan	320,000	213
5	Sam Greenwood	Canada	292,000	195
6	Marius Kudzmanas	Lithuania	263,000	175
7	Mehdi Chaoui	Morocco	231,500	154
8	Natan Chauskin	Belarus	213,500	142
9	[Removed:431]	Germany	213,000	142
10	Nuri Hadioglu	Turkey	213,000	142

Day 1 Action

The day got started with 32 players in their seats as the cards went in the air, and the field grew steadily throughout the afternoon. Some of the early runners included Ben Heath, Adrian Mateos, and Orpen Kisacikoglu. Heath and Kisacikoglu kept the run alive all day and they will return for Day 2, while Mateos bowed out before the end of the night.

Grafton chipped up early with a river bet against Norbert Szecsi, but the lion’s share of his stack came when his ace-king improved against the pocket tens of Mike Takayama to knock him out of the tournament and take the chip lead.

Other notable names stopped by, including past WSOP Main Event champions Hossein Ensan and Koray Aldemir. Ensan survived the day just outside the top 20 with 182,000, while Aldemir bowed out near the end of the night when he couldn’t improve against Besim Hot.

Additionally, players like PokerStars Ambassador Alejandro Lococo, Motoyoshi Okamura, Julien Martini, and Jack Sinclair will return for Day 2, along with Juha Helppi, Davidi Kitai, and Daniel Dvoress.

A few runners that took their shot but did not bag on Day 1 include Renat Bohdanov, Leonard Maue, Juan Pardo, Samuel Ju, and Giuliano Bendinelli, who was left with crumbs by Alex Kulev and knocked out by Teun Mulder just moments later. Kulev did not make it to Day 2, but Mulder will return with 165,500.

Play will continue on Day 2 at 12:30 p.m. local time in Level 11 with blinds at 1,000/1,500 with a 1,500 ante. The plan is to play another ten 60-minute levels before returning on Day 3 for the finale.

Be sure to keep it here with the PokerNews team on Saturday for live coverage of the €10,300 High Roller at EPT Prague.

Tags: Adrian Mateos Alex Kulev Ben Heath Besim Hot Daniel Dvoress Davidi Kitai Giuliano Bendinelli Hossein Ensan Jack Sinclair Juan Pardo Juha Helppi Julien Martini Kannapong Thanarattrakul Koray Aldemir Kubanychbek Abakirov Leonard Maue Luis Faria Marius Kudzmanas Mehdi Chaoui Mike Takayama Motoyoshi Okamura Natan Chauskin Norbert Szecsi Nuri Hadioglu Orpen Kisacikoglu Renat Bohdanov Sam Grafton Sam Greenwood Samuel Ju Teun Mulder

12-17-2022 01:35 UTC+1

Day 2 Seat Draw (By Table)

Matt Hansen

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

Table	Seat	Name	Country	Chips	Day 2 Big Blinds
1	2	Askar Bekbayev	Kazakhstan	129,000	86
1	3	Jamil Wakil	Canada	59,500	40
1	4	Jelle Moene	Netherlands	40,000	27
1	5	Alex Peffly	United Kingdom	102,000	68
1	6	Tomas Jozonis	Lithuania	35,500	24
1	7	Preben Stokkan	Norway	148,000	99
1	8	Pascal Lefrancois	Canada	57,000	38

2	1	Juha Helppi	Finland	144,000	96
2	2	Teun Mulder	Netherlands	165,500	110
2	3	Roland Rokita	Austria	31,000	21
2	5	Samy Dubonnet	France	91,000	61
2	6	Kyriakos Papadopoulos	Greece	85,000	57
2	7	Andrea Ricci	Italy	88,000	59
2	8	Ken Okada	Japan	205,000	137

3	1	Orpen Kisacikoglu	Turkey	122,000	81
3	2	Marton Czuczor	Hungary	132,000	88
3	3	Alejandro Lococo	Argentina	98,500	66
3	4	Dimitar Danchev	Bulgaria	104,500	70
3	5	Jan Spoddig	Germany	185,000	123
3	6	Sam Greenwood	Canada	292,000	195
3	8	[Removed:428]	Switzerland	200,500	134

4	1	Motoyoshi Okamura	Japan	189,500	126
4	2	Enrico Camosci	Italy	36,000	24
4	3	Tossapat Chunharas	Thailand	34,500	23
4	4	Kuljinder Sidhu	United Kingdom	51,000	34
4	6	Marius Kudzmanas	Lithuania	263,000	175
4	7	Ami Barer	Canada	96,000	64
4	8	Axel Hallay	France	15,000	10

5	1	Paul Newey	United Kingdom	49,000	33
5	2	Gregoire Auzoux	France	152,500	102
5	4	Benjamin Chalot	France	64,500	43
5	5	Danilo Velasevic	Croatia	179,500	120
5	6	Daniel Dvoress	Canada	58,000	39
5	7	Jans Arends	Netherlands	79,500	53
5	8	Gergely Kulcsar	Hungary	113,000	75

6	1	Andrew Hulme	United Kingdom	89,000	59
6	2	Julian Thomas	Germany	90,000	60
6	3	Vlada Stojanovic	Croatia	32,000	21
6	4	Toni Kaukua	Finland	115,000	77
6	5	[Removed:431]	Germany	213,000	142
6	6	Julien Sitbon	France	32,000	21
6	8	Yevgeneiy Golenko	Kazakhstan	55,000	37

7	1	Mike Watson	Canada	99,000	66
7	2	Francois Billard	Canada	139,500	93
7	3	Natan Chauskin	Belarus	213,500	142
7	4	Tibor Szenasi	Hungary	126,000	84
7	5	Fahredin Mustafov	Bulgaria	86,500	58
7	7	Steve O'Dwyer	Ireland	109,000	73
7	8	Johannes Straver	Netherlands	161,500	108

8	1	Phachara Wongwichit	Thailand	111,000	74
8	2	Elias Abussamra	Brazil	156,500	104
8	4	Nuri Hadioglu	Turkey	213,000	142
8	5	Saar Wilf	Israel	120,000	80
8	6	Andras Nemeth	Hungary	150,500	100
8	8	Tom Kunze	Germany	189,000	126

9	1	Ben Heath	United Kingdom	15,500	10
9	2	Duco Ten Haven	Netherlands	106,000	71
9	4	Walter Ripper	Brazil	145,500	97
9	5	Paulius Vaitiekunas	Lithuania	65,000	43
9	6	Jack Sinclair	United Kingdom	162,000	108
9	8	Nenad Dukic	Croatia	102,000	68

10	1	Bhavin Khatri	United Kingdom	111,500	74
10	2	Ka Kwan Lau	Spain	83,500	56
10	4	Liem Huynh	Sweden	36,500	24
10	5	Rui Bouquet	Portugal	50,000	33
10	6	Alexander Ivarsson	Sweden	147,500	98
10	7	Raoul Refos	Netherlands	38,500	26

11	1	Julien Martini	France	177,000	118
11	3	Daan Mulders	Austria	136,000	91
11	4	Kubanychbek Abakirov	Kyrgyzstan	320,000	213
11	5	Philip Sternheimer	United Kingdom	69,500	46
11	6	Iliodoros Kamatakis	Greece	91,000	61
11	8	Mehdi Chaoui	Morocco	231,500	154

12	1	Luis Faria	Portugal	321,000	214
12	2	Alexander Tkatschew	Germany	23,500	16
12	3	Stoyan Obreshkov	Bulgaria	155,500	104
12	4	Aliaksei Boika	Belarus	105,500	70
12	5	Jorryt van Hoof	Netherlands	141,000	94
12	8	Davidi Kitai	Belgium	87,500	58

13	2	Manuel Bueno Fernandez	Spain	69,000	46
13	3	Sam Grafton	United Kingdom	389,000	259
13	4	Yigit Aksoy	Turkey	66,000	44
13	5	Emil Bise	Switzerland	5,500	4
13	6	Haci Bayram	Germany	200,000	133
13	8	Seungyeol Kim	South Korea	25,500	17

14	1	Kannapong Thanarattrakul	Thailand	348,500	232
14	2	Martin Kabrhel	Czech Republic	52,500	35
14	3	Arthur Conan	France	101,000	67
14	4	Ludovic Geilich	United Kingdom	79,500	53
14	7	Nazar Buhaiov	Ukraine	199,500	133
14	8	Dawid Smolka	Poland	73,000	49

15	2	Juan Pardo	Spain	204,000	136
15	3	Peter Turmezey	Hungary	77,000	51
15	4	Jonathan Proudfoot	United Kingdom	35,000	23
15	5	Luke Marsh	United Kingdom	89,000	59
15	6	Milos Skrbic	Serbia	95,000	63
15	7	Nicanor Sula	Moldova	28,000	19

16	1	Hossein Ensan	Germany	182,000	121
16	2	Ihar Soika	Belarus	125,000	83
16	4	Rodrigo Sirichuk	Brazil	136,000	91
16	5	Sanjarbek Sabyrkulov	Kyrgyzstan	141,000	94
16	6	Junhyoung Ki	South Korea	205,000	137
16	7	Karim Maekelberg	Belgium	194,000	129

12-17-2022 01:14 UTC+1

End of Day 1 Chip Counts (full)

Matt Hansen

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

Player	Chips	Progress
Sam Grafton	389,000 -19,000	-19,000

Kannapong Thanarattrakul	348,500 38,500	38,500
Luis Faria	321,000 321,000	321,000
Kubanychbek Abakirov	320,000 201,700	201,700
Sam Greenwood	292,000 42,000	42,000

Marius Kudzmanas	263,000 46,000	46,000
Mehdi Chaoui	231,500 39,000	39,000
Natan Chauskin	213,500 38,000	38,000
[Removed:431]	213,000 213,000	213,000
Nuri Hadioglu	213,000 -47,000	-47,000
Ken Okada	205,000 -5,000	-5,000
Junhyoung Ki	205,000 83,000	83,000
Juan Pardo	204,000 204,000	204,000
[Removed:428]	200,500 95,500	95,500
Haci Bayram	200,000 -10,000	-10,000
Nazar Buhaiov	199,500 69,500	69,500
Karim Maekelberg	194,000 194,000	194,000
Motoyoshi Okamura	189,500 189,500	189,500
Tom Kunze	189,000 104,000	104,000
Carlos Spoddig	185,000 185,000	185,000
Hossein Ensan	182,000 77,000	77,000

Danilo Velasevic	179,500 169,100	169,100
Julien Martini	177,000 117,000	117,000
Teun Mulder	165,500 70,000	70,000
Jack Sinclair	162,000 72,000	72,000

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12-17-2022 00:50 UTC+1

End of Day 1

Matt Hansen

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

Day 1 has come to an end and approximately 103 players are bagging up their chips.

Stay tuned for a full recap, chip counts, and a seat draw from the PokerNews team.

12-17-2022 00:47 UTC+1

Chunharas Gets Value With Flush

Lewis Powell

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

Davidi Kitai raised to 2,500 from the hijack and was called by Tossapat Chunharas in the big blind.

The flop came and Kitai bet 1,500 when checked to. Chunharas called.

Action went check check on the turn.

The river was the and Chunharas bet 6,000. Kitai went into the tank and used one time bank card before calling. Chunharas turned over for a flush to take down the pot as Kitai mucked.

Player	Chips	Progress
Davidi Kitai	80,000 35,700	35,700

Tossapat Chunharas	34,800

Tags: Davidi Kitai Tossapat Chunharas

12-17-2022 00:44 UTC+1

Auzoux Wins One With Four-Bet

Matt Warburton

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

Stephen Patrick O'dwyer raises 2,100 and Nazar Buhaiov made a three-bet to 7,100.

Gregoire Auzoux then four-bet to 19,000, and both players folded. Auzoux scooped the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Gregoire Auzoux	150,000 14,000	14,000
Nazar Buhaiov	130,000 -10,000	-10,000
Steve O'Dwyer	126,000 58,500	58,500

Tags: Gregoire Auzoux Nazar Buhaiov Stephen Patrick O'dwyer

12-17-2022 00:34 UTC+1

Four More Hands

Lewis Powell

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

The tournament floor has announced that four more hands will be played before action concludes for the day.

12-17-2022 00:31 UTC+1

Auzoux Bests Ricci in Four-Bet Pot

Lewis Powell

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

Andrea Ricci raised to 2,400 from early position before Gregoire Auzoux three-bet to 8,500 from the cutoff. Action folded back to Ricci who quickly four-bet to 18,000. Auzoux called.

The flop came and Ricci continued for 13,000. Auzoux called.

Action went check check on the turn.

The river was the and Ricci checked. Auzoux bet 35,000 which frustrated Ricci who rechecked his cards before folding.

Player	Chips	Progress
Gregoire Auzoux	136,000 30,000	30,000
Andrea Ricci	73,000 -12,000	-12,000

Tags: Andrea Ricci Gregoire Auzoux

12-17-2022 00:24 UTC+1

Hammond's Aces Busted By Kings to End His Run

Matt Warburton

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

Mark Hammond raised to 2,400 from late position and Gergely Kulcsar three-bet to 6,800. It didn't take long for Hammond to make his decision, a reshove for all of his chips. Kulcsar snap called and flipped over and Hammond showed .