Action folded to a short-stacked Nicholas Palma in the small blind and he open-shipped for just over 200K, which Luc Greenwood snap-called from the big blind.
Palma:
Greenwood:
"It's alright, a three is coming," Palma said optimistically.
Unfortunately for him, his prediction did not come true as the board ran out an unhelpful .
Rocco Palumbo was in the small blind and he check-called an 80,000 bet from Felix Bleiker on the button with the flop reading . Both players then checked the turn, before Palumbo led for 150,000 on the river. Bleiker was done with his hand and folded.
William Foxen opened for 55,000 from the cutoff only to have Iliodoros Kamatakis three-bet to 125,000 from the button. Both blinds folded, Foxen pushed back with a four-bet to 260,000, and Kamatakis five-bet all in. Foxen shook his head and then released his cards.
Kenneth Smaron has started well and improved his stack to almost 600,000.
Kevin MacPhee led for 120,000 on the river of the board, only to see Smaron raise all-in for 302,000 in total. MacPhee was considering his options for the best part of four minutes before Vanessa Selbst called time on him.
With 30 seconds remaining before his hand was declared dead, MacPhee folded.
Rocco Palumbo opened for 55,000 only to have a short-stacked Artem Metalidi three-bet jam from the button for around 160,000. The blinds both folded and Palumbo made the call.
Metalidi:
Palumbo:
Metalidi was pipped, and he failed to get lucky as the board ran out a clean .
Imagine winning €595,500 a few days before Christmas. It'd be amazing, right? Well, in a few hours one of the final 18 players in the EPT12 Prague €10,000 High Roller will have that amount credited to their bank account and will forever be known as the tournament's champion.
At the start of play is is American star Kevin MacPhee who is in pole position to win that massive sum of money having bagged up 1,576,000 chips at the end of Day 2. However, Switzerland's Felix Bleiker finished second in chips only a solitary 1,000 chip behind MacPhee.
Despite their big stacks, neither MacPhee or Bleiker are going to have things their own way because there are some extremely talented individuals still in the hunt for the title, and if they don't win it they will have a major influence over where that trophy calls home for the next year.
The likes of Rocco Palumbo, Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst, Davidi Kitai, and Daniel "Jungleman" Cates are still in the mix, making for what should be an exciting final day here in Prague.
Table
Seat
Name
Country
Chips
Big Blinds
1
1
Mikkel Lokkegaard Hansen
Denmark
293,000
12
1
2
William Foxen
United States
1,124,000
45
1
3
Iliodoros Kamatakis
Greece
1,230,000
51
1
5
Mihails Morozovs
Latvia
675,000
28
1
6
Jaroslaw Sikora
Poland
1,227,000
51
1
8
Daniel Cates
United States
997,000
41
2
2
Ihar Soika
Belarus
1,012,000
42
2
3
Davidi Kitai
Belgium
446,000
19
2
4
Vanessa Selbst
United States
1,190,000
50
2
5
Kevin MacPhee
United States
1,576,000
66
2
6
Kenneth Smaron
United States
415,000
17
2
7
Aleksandr Denisov
Russia
935,000
39
3
1
Rocco Palumbo
Italy
1,257,000
52
3
2
Bryan Paris
United States
252,000
11
3
4
Artem Metalidi
Ukraine
165,000
7
3
6
Nicholas Palma
United States
335,000
14
3
7
Luc Greenwood
Canada
1,065,000
44
3
8
Felix Bleiker
Switzerland
1,575,000
66
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. Both players then checked the 
turn, before Palumbo led for 150,000 on the 
river. Bleiker was done with his hand and folded.
board, only to see Smaron raise all-in for 302,000 in total. MacPhee was considering his options for the best part of four minutes before Vanessa Selbst called time on him.
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