Tobias Peters opened from middle position to see a flat from Quentin Guivarch in the cutoff. On the button, Fedor Holz put in a three-bet. Back on Peters, he clicked it to 242,000, forcing Guivarch to fold.
Action back on Holz, he moved all in for just over 1,000,000, and he had Peters slightly covered. Peters went well into the tank for about 4 minutes contemplating what would be a massive call. Eventually, he decided to lay it down.
"I almost called, it would have been crazy," said Peters.
"Crazy because you would have called with a bad hand?" replied Holz.
Jack Sinclair opened from under the gun before Sander Ostlyngen three-bet from the cutoff. Sinclair called and the two headed to a flop.
The dealer spread the . Sinclair checked in flow, and Ostlyngen continued for 35,000 into about 150,000. Sinclair put in the check-raise to 85,000. Ostlyngen called with about 180,000 behind.
The turn came the . Sinclair moved all in, his big stack well covering Sinclair. Sinclair double-checked his cards and made the call.
Sander Ostlyngen:
Jack Sinclair:
Sinclair had the combo draw against the overpair with Ostlyngen needing to hold to keep his tournament alive. The river fell the to bring Sinclair the flush. He now holds one of the biggest stacks in the room.
Vladas Burneikis has climbed up the chip counts after a memorable hand at Table 28 that saw him hitting runner-runner quads to eliminate Yves Hallague.
While Burneikis couldn't relay the full action to PokerNews, table mate Daniel Heredi said it was a multi-way pot where Hallague moved all in on the flop of and got two callers, including Burneikis.
The board proceeded to run out and Hallague likely thought his full house with would be good, but Burneikis showed him the bad news with to win the pot and bust the Frenchman in spectacular fashion.
Not more than five minutes later, another player at the table went on to hit quads with . But there won't be a third quad runout as the table broke shortly after.
Georgi Sandev opened on the button and Andras Matrai three-bet jammed a stack of 192,000 from the small blind. Sandev called after getting a count.
Andras Matrai:
Georgi Sandev:
Sandev had made the right call to have his opponent pipped. The flop landed to give him trips and Matrai couldn't make his gutshot as the board finished out to improve Sandev to a full house and mark Matrai's elimination.
A record-smashing field of 4,017 turned out for the €1,100 Eureka Main Event at 2022 PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Prague.
The opening event of the Prague series generated a prize pool of €3,856,320 and drew players from 73 different countries to eclipse the previous record set by the previous Eureka Main Event here at Hilton Prague, which attracted 3,155 entries from 65 countries. Germany leads the way with 218 players, while Italy and France sent 212 and 193 runners, respectively.
Israel (108 players), Czech Republic (90 players), Poland (84 players), Greece (80 players), Sweden (71 players), Switzerland (66 players), and Romania (61 players) rounded out the top ten.
The total entries includes 1,983 unique players, which is a 28% increase from the 1,553 that turned out in March.
A full breakdown of the field is on the table below.
The prize pool information has been released in the record-breaking €1,100 Eureka Main Event. With 4,017 entries and 603 players paid, a minimum cash will be worth €1,700 and the winner will earn the top prize of €496,760.
The full payout information for the €1,100 Eureka Main Event is available in the table below.
After four massive starting flights, the record-breaking field in the €1,100 Eureka Main Event at 2022 PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Prague is down to 603 players who will return today for Day 2 at noon local time.
That's just a fraction of the 4,018 players who entered the event at Hilton Prague to generate a prize pool of €3,856,320 and smash the €3,028,800 prize pool generated at the previous stop in March. That event was won by PokerStars ambassador Alejandro Lococo, who managed to bag the overall chip lead in the event's latest offering.
Heading into the Day 2 action, the Argentinian battle rapper sits ahead of other big stacks Antoine Labat (957,000), Anton Suarez (915,000), Bart Fergiatakis (908,000) and Damir Savio (849,000).
€1,100 Eureka Main Event Day 2 Top 10 Chip Counts
RANK
PLAYER
COUNTRY
CHIP COUNT
BIG BLINDS
1
Alejandro Lococo
Argentina
1,083,000
135
2
Antoine Labat
France
957,000
120
3
Anton Suarez
Sweden
915,000
114
4
Bart Fergiatakis
Netherlands
908,000
114
5
Damir Savio
Italy
849,000
106
6
Fabian Wolf
Germany
767,000
96
7
Jorge Garcia
Spain
723,000
90
8
Vladas Burneikis
Lithuania
704,000
88
9
Bleron Maliqui
Switzerland
700,000
88
10
Fabrice Bigot
France
692,000
87
Some other players who will be fighting in the Day 2 field include German prodigy Fedor Holz, Simon Lofberg, Antoine Vranken, Alexandre Reard, Matous Skorepa, and Jack Sinclair, who is fresh off a runner-up finish in October's EPT London £5,300 Main Event for £414,650.
Play on Day 2 will begin in Level 18 with the blinds at 4,000/8,000/8,000, with blind levels having increased to 60 minutes. Players will take 25-minute breaks after every two levels.
The four-day event will continue until the final day on Dec. 12 when a winner is crowned, who will earn the EPT Main Event trophy and the lion's share of the seven-figure prize pool.
Stay tuned as PokerNews is on-site here in Prague and ready to bring you all the tournament updates. Check out the EPT Prague event hub in the meantime.