Lyubovetskiy Leads Final 23 Into Day 3 of €10,300 EPT High Roller
The PokerStars European Poker Tour Prague wraps up Wednesday with among other closing events and final tables, Day 3 of the €10,300 EPT High Roller, which sees 23 returning hopefuls chasing the €527,070 first prize.
2021 WSOP bracelet winner Andriy Lyubovetskiy leads the field with 1,272,000 chips. He'll be trying to surpass his largest-ever live score of €518,430 which he received for his bracelet win last fall.
Some of poker’s biggest names are not far behind him though, closest of which is Spanish superstar Adrian Mateos who enters the day with 1,265,000 in chips.
Among the other 22 runners in the chase for EPT glory are Conor Beresford (958,000) and Mike Watson (883,000) who made strong charges on Day 2 to vault themselves into the top five of the chip counts. Niall Farrell finds himself in the middle of the pack with 512,000 chips after dragging some key pots late on Tuesday.
Top 10 Chip Counts
| Position | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
| 1 | Andriy Lyubovetskiy | Ukraine | 1,272,000 | 80 |
| 2 | Adrian Mateos | Spain | 1,265,000 | 79 |
| 3 | Conor Beresford | United Kingdom | 958,000 | 60 |
| 4 | Mike Watson | Canada | 883,000 | 55 |
| 5 | Renan Bruschi | Brazil | 742,000 | 46 |
| 6 | Ferhat Duran | Austria | 740,000 | 46 |
| 7 | Simon Lofberg | Sweden | 681,000 | 43 |
| 8 | Christopher Puetz | Germany | 633,000 | 40 |
| 9 | Tamas Adamszki | Hungary | 544,000 | 34 |
| 10 | Ognyan Dimov | Bulgaria | 520,000 | 33 |
Kenny Hallaert (333,000), Andrea Ricci (312,000) and Day 2 Chip Leader Robert Cowen (166,000) will be among the shortest stacks in the room to start the day.
Play will resume at 12:30 CET with blinds of 8,000 / 16,000 with a 16,000 big blind ante.
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, Beresford bet 35,000 on the river and Mateos called.
for a winning straight.
turn, and this time Mateos jacked up his bet to 178,000. After some deliberation, Beresford folded.
, Kenny Hallaert checked his big blind to Andriy Lubovetskiy in the hijack, who bet 60,000. 
fall on the river. Again he checked, and this time Lubovetskiy put forward a stack of black T-100,000 chips to potentially put Hallaert all-in for his last 251,000.
for rivered trips to defeat Hallaert's 
, which had been the best hand until the river.
. But the turn was the 
to end the day for Ivarsson.
put Czuczor firmly in control of the hand, but the 
on the turn gave Dimov some hope with a flush draw.
solidifying Berggren's lead in the hand, but Schwaederle picked up a flush draw, which came in immediately on the 
, Akin Tuna check-called a bet of 70,000 from Marton Czuczor in the cutoff.
on the turn which double-paired the board.
to spell the end for the Greek player and the final two tables were redrawn.
