EPT Prague is in full swing and today we'll find out the champion of the record-breaking €1,100 buy-in, record 4,732 entries and €4,542,720 prizepool Eureka Main Event. The winner will receive €517,730.
137 players fought for it yesterday and Martin Kabrhel was the top player. 14 players made it to the final day and Martin Kabrhel is no longer among them. He had to settle for 36th place and a prize of €11,080.
Martin Tsvetanov from Bulgaria will enter the final table as chipleader with a stack of 28,650,000. Ricardo Caridade of Portugal is second (22,900,000), Austrian Gerald Karlic is third (19,425,000) and Jack Sinclair rounds out the top four with a stack of 13,900,000. All of them have already pocketed at least €25,850.
Rank | Name | Country | Stack | Big Blinds |
1 | Martin Tsvetanov | Bulgaria | 28,650,000 | 95 |
2 | Ricardo Caridade | Portgual | 22,900,000 | 76 |
3 | Gerald Karlic | Austria | 19,425,000 | 64 |
4 | Jack Sinclair | United Kingdom | 13,900,000 | 46 |
5 | Alexantr Spatharis | Greece | 9,400,000 | 31 |
6 | Mikkel Nielsen | Denmark | 8,050,000 | 26 |
7 | Konstantinos Nanos | Greece | 6,300,000 | 21 |
8 | Theodoros Ampelikiotis | Greece | 5,575,000 | 18 |
9 | Martijn Kiers | Netherlands | 5,555,000 | 18 |
10 | Magnus Persson | Sweden | 5,350,000 | 17 |
11 | Matthew Micallef | Malta | 5,250,000 | 17 |
12 | Andris Rasins | Latvia | 4,675,000 | 15 |
13 | Ryan Plant | United Kingdom | 4,300,000 | 14 |
14 | Manuel Roca | Andorra | 2,750,000 | 9 |
Super High Roller
The €50,000 buy-in Super High Roller has attracted 18 entries and late registration is open until the start of today's final day, where 11 players have already advanced. Leading the way is Russian player Nikita Kuznetsov with a stack of 889,000. However, Sam Grafton and Steve O'Dwyer are also in the mix.
Rank | Name | Country | Stack | Big Blinds |
1 | Nikita Kuznetsov | Russia | 889,000 | 148 |
2 | Markkos Ladev | Estonia | 763,000 | 127 |
3 | Teun Mulder | Netherlands | 572,000 | 95 |
4 | Sergey Lebedev | United Kingdom | 370,000 | 62 |
5 | Paulius Plausinaitis | Lithuania | 350,000 | 58 |
6 | Sam Grafton | United Kingdom | 347,000 | 58 |
7 | Maksim Vaskresenski | Poland | 344,000 | 57 |
8 | Steve O'Dwyer | Ireland | 343,000 | 57 |
9 | Viacheslav Buldygin | Russia | 308,000 | 51 |
10 | Ilya Nikiforov | Estonia | 207,000 | 35 |
11 | Igor Yaroshevskyy | Ukraine | 118,000 | 51 |
Eureka High Roller
The €2,200 buy-in Eureka High Roller has also kicked off and today it moves into its Day 2, where there were 1,652 entries and a prizepool worth €3,171,840. This surpassed last year's edition. How much the winner will take home will be announced at the start of Day 2.
248 players have advanced to Day 2 and the top player is Yehor Shumeiko from Ukraine with a stack of 757,000. The second largest stack is held by Italian player Claudio Di Giacomo (717,000) and the top three are rounded out by home player Michal Schuh with a stack of 697,000. Play will start at blinds of 4k/8k/8k and will run in 40-minute levels.
The Eureka Cup has crowned a champion
The final day of the Eureka Cup was also on the agenda yesterday with a buy-in of €550, an entry count of 2,716 and a prizepool of €1,303,680. A prize of €184,700 awaited the winner.
The top 9 players at the final table, including a pair of local players, were fighting for it. The first player to be eliminated was also a local player, Radek Částka, who took home €17,120. The second Czech player was Matěj Osvald, who took home €36,610 for 6th place. The winner after heads-up play was Endric Geci, who took home €165,240.
PLACE | NAME | COUNTRY | PRIZE | DEAL |
1 | Endric Geci | United Kingdom | €184,700 | €165,240 |
2 | Ignacio Sole Aparicio | Spain | €114,700 | €134,160 |
3 | Luis Rodriguez | Spain | €81,640 | |
4 | Ivan Banic | Croatia | €62,570 | |
5 | Mohammad Najdi | Denmark | €47,900 | |
6 | Matej Osvald | Czech Republic | €36,610 | |
7 | Valeriu Pelinschii | Moldova | €28,910 | |
8 | Paolo Calculli | Italy | €22,250 | |
9 | Radek Castka | Czech Republic | €17,120 |
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