€5,300 Main Event Dia 1b | 2016 PokerStars EPT Season 13 Prague

€5,300 Main Event

Dia 1b Começado

2016-12-14 11:36 UTC+2

Welcome to Day 1b of the EPT13 Prague Main Event

Jaxon

Welcome to Day 1b of the 2016 PokerStars EPT Prague Main Event at the Hilton Hotel Prague. Today represents the final opening day in the 13-year EPT Main Event history with all future PokerStars branded tournaments to fall under the umbrella of the PokerStars Championship and PokerStars Festival.

Yesterday's Day 1a attracted a field of 246 players, just shy of last year's total of 254. Less than half of yesterday's field with 117 players survived to tomorrow's Day 2 to join those making it out of today's final opening day field.

Denmark's Henrik Hecklen ended yesterday on top of the board with 221,800 chips, followed by China's Gang Wang (second - 152,800), Austria's Thomas Muehloecker (third - 151,500), Latvia's Eduards Kudrjavcevs (fourth - 146,100) and Spain's Pedro Lamarca (140,100).

Other notable players to bag chips at the end of yesterday included Tony Dunst (129,500) and Pascal Lefrancois (114,900). Anthony Zinno (64,300), Dario Sammartino (61,000), Daniel Dvoress (58,700), Sergio Aido (55,500), Juha Helppi (48,900) and €50,000 EPT 13 Prague Super High Roller runner-up Charlie Carrel (37,800).

As is usually the case in EPT Main Events, the field size on the final starting flight is expected to be much larger compared to yesterday's first opening flight. The record attendance for an EPT Prague Main Event took place two years ago in season 11 when Stephen Graner finished on top of a field of 1,107 players to win €969,000. Last year in Prague, Hossein Ensan navigated through a slightly smaller field of 1,044 entrants to capture the tournament's top prize of €754,510.

Past EPT Prague Main Event Winners

Season	Buy-in	Entrants	Prize pool	Champion	Prize
4	€4,700+€300	555	€2,530,240	Arnaud Mattern	€708,400
5	€5,000+€250	570	€2,764,500	Salvatore Bonavena	€774,000
6	€5,000+€250	586	€2,842,100	Jan Skampa	€682,000
7	€5,000+€300	563	€2,730,550	Roberto Romanello	€640,000
8	€5,000+€300	722	€3,501,700	Martin Finger	€720,000
9	€5,000+€300	864	€4,190,400	Ramzi Jelassi	€835,000
10	€5,000+€300	1,007	€4,883,950	Julian Track	€725,700
11	€5,000+€300	1,107	€5,368,950	Stephen Graner	€969,000
12	€5,000+€300	1,044	€5,063,400	Hossein Ensan	€754,510

Our coverage begins at noon CET and continues until the players bag up their chips at around midnight after the completion of eight levels of 75-minutes each. A 20-minute break is scheduled after every second level, with a 75-minute dinner break at the end of the sixth level. After today is in the books, Days 2 to 6 take place from Dec. 13 to 19 until the last EPT Main Event winner in history is crowned.

Also taking place today is the final table of the €2,200 Eureka High Roller as well as the €25,500 Single-Day High Roller, the latter of which PokerNews will be on hand today for live coverage in the addition to the EPT Prague Main Event.

With the final EPT Main Event winner to claim the champion's trophy in less than a week, PokerNews recapped the 13-year history of the tour. Part One of the retrospective focused on the early years in Seasons 1 through 5, Part Two focused on the Berlin robbery, the effects of Black Friday and the "mega-schedule" and Part Three will focus on the later years in Seasons 9 through 13 when the number of venues was reduced with each offering more events, along with some general stats about the venues and EPT winners.

Tags: Anthony Zinno Charlie Carrel Dario Sammartino Eduards Kudrjavcevs Gang Wang Henrik Hecklen Juha Helppi Pascal LeFrancois Pedro Lamarca Sergio Aido Tony Dunst

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2016-12-14 13:10 UTC+2

Shuffle Up and Deal

Jaxon

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The first hand of Day 1b is being dealt at any table with at least three players. Currently today's field is at 579 players and quickly climbing.

2016-12-14 13:16 UTC+2

Update Your Own Chip Count Using the PokerNews MyStack App!

Jaxon

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PokerNews has activated the MyStack App for this event, allowing you to directly adjust your chip counts in our live reporting blog using your iPhone or Android phone.

You can download the app for iPhone or Android now to get started. Then, create a new PokerNews account or update your current one to start updating your status immediately. Your followers can see all the live action that you're involved in.

Click here to download the My Stack app for iPhone, or click here to download the My Stack app for Android.

2016-12-14 13:24 UTC+2

Last Year's Winner Hossein Ensan & Other Familiar Faces in the Field

Jaxon

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Among the players registered for Day 1b of the 2016 EPT Prague Main Event include Hossein Ensan, who last year shipped the tournament's top prize of €754,510.

Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Gabriel Nassif	30,000
Luca Pagano	30,000
Vanessa Selbst	30,000
Anton Wigg	30,000
Zoltan Gal	30,000
Alex Fitzgerald	30,000
Bruno Lopes	30,000
Ian Simpson	30,000
Hossein Ensan	30,000
William Kassouf	30,000
Eugene Katchalov	30,000
Max Silver	30,000

Tags: Hossein Ensan

2016-12-14 13:37 UTC+2

More Notables

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Jogador	Fichas	Progresso
Adam Owen	30,000	30,000
Sebastian Pauli	30,000	30,000
Dermot Blain	30,000	30,000
Andrey Zaichenko	30,000	30,000
Konstantin Puchkov	30,000	30,000
Antoine Saout	30,000	30,000
Shyam Srinivasan	30,000	30,000
Dong Kim	30,000	30,000
Georgios Sotiropoulos	30,000	30,000

2016-12-14 13:53 UTC+2

How Big Will Day 1b Grow?

Jaxon

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The tournament room is full with players with the field size for Day 1b already at 661 players. Combined with the 246 players from yesterday, the tournament already has reached 907 players.

The field size should continue to grow, and we will keep an eye to see if (or when) the field-size reaches four-digits or even establishes a new EPT Prague Main Event record that was set in 2014 when 1,107 players competed for the title.

Late registration is open the entire day, and again tomorrow before the first cards are dealt for Day 2.

2016-12-14 14:03 UTC+2

Sekiya Raises the River

mnuwwarah

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A player bet 2,000 from middle position into Yosuke Sekiya on an board, and Sekiya made it 6,075 to go. His opponent didn't think long before calling, and nothing he could hold was going to beat the shown down by the Japanese player.