Quentin Guivarch Leads Field Heading Into Day 3 of €1,100 Eureka Main Event
After nine hours of play today, Day 2 of the €1,100 Eureka Main Event at the 2022 PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Prague has finished play inside the Hilton Prague venue.
The day started with 603 players in the field vying for a Day 3 spot, but only 85 made that happen with their chips in bags for their return. The remaining players will return on Sunday to play for their share of the €3,856,320 prize pool.
At the end of the day, it was Quentin Guivarch of France with the biggest stack, he amassed 4,335,000 to lead the field.
€1,100 Eureka Main Event Day 2 Top 10 Chip Counts
| RANK | PLAYER | COUNTRY | CHIP COUNT | BIG BLINDS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quentin Guivarch | France | 4,335,000 | 87 |
| 2 | Waldemar Starostin | Germany | 3,400,000 | 68 |
| 3 | Elias Suhonen | Finland | 3,300,000 | 66 |
| 4 | Eldiyar Janiev | Kyrgyzstan | 3,005,000 | 60 |
| 5 | Leonardo Romeo | Italy | 3,000,000 | 60 |
| 6 | Anton Suarez | Sweden | 2,930,000 | 59 |
| 7 | Martin Stoyanov | Bulgaria | 2,750,000 | 55 |
| 8 | Pieter Theelen | Austria | 2,700,000 | 54 |
| 9 | Risto Ailamo | Finland | 2,530,000 | 51 |
| 10 | Joshua Boulton | United Kingdom | 2,320,000 | 46 |
Action of the Day
PokerStars Ambassador Alejandro Lococo spent most of the day on top of the leaderboard, right where he started the day as the overall chip leader. With less than half an hour to play, though, he suffered a brutal cooler when he ran into the quad kings of Leonardo Romeo.
Chip leader Guivarch accumulated much of his chips when he made a big call with two pair to pick off a valiant river three-bet bluff attempt by Kyriakos Papadopoulos late in the day. He turned a pair into a bluff against a capped range, but Guivarch figured it out for the win.
Day 1d's chip leader didn't fare so well on Day 2 as Antoine Labat failed to find a bag. He couldn't get anything going today after losing a flip early in the action.
Among those who did find bags were Tobias Peters (1,315,000), Fedor Holz (1,090,000), and Georgios Kostakis (935,000).
Day 3 picks back up tomorrow at 12:00 p.m. local time going into blinds of 25,000/50,000/50,000 at Level 26.
PokerNews will provide coverage through the end of this event, so check back in tomorrow to see all of the Day 3 action.
. Lococo didn't continue, instead checking to his opponent. Romeo did the same to head to a turn. 
, Lococo decided to pick up the betting with a bet of 330,000. Romeo took his time before assembling a call and placing it into the middle. 
. Lococo eyed up his neighbor's stack, about 900,000, before announcing "all in." Romeo immediately slammed a stack of chips down into the pot. 
. Romeo showed why he couldn't get his chips in fast enough by revealing 
for quads. The ultimate cooler preflop turned into a nightmare for Lococo as he tumbled down the leaderboard. Meanwhile, Romeo moved into one of the top spots with only a few hands to play on the night.
runout. 
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, turning his pair into a bluff. Guivarch had that bested by showing his 
for a made two pair on the river to scoop the massive pot and put himself near the top of the leaderboard.
turn improved Guivarch to a set and sealed the checkmark following the 
. Rubbini bet slightly more than the last street with 150,000. Lococo went for the chip immediately before taking a second more. Then, he put them in. 
, but they were no good against the 
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for the nut flush. Holz lifted his cards to look at them disapprovingly, flashing the 
for the straight as he did so.
