It may have only be a small pot that Melanie Weisner won, but they all add up when all is said and done.
Weisner opened to 500 from late position and picked up two callers; both of whom were seated in the blinds. The first to call was Roberto Masullo in the small blind and Rohid Omari felt he was priced in to call from the big blind.
The trio shared a flop, but neither blind wanted to get involved and they checked to Weisner, who continued with a 500 chip bet. Both blinds quickly folded in turn and Weisner helped herself to an easy pot.
Oleg Perepletchikov seems to be causing all sorts of problems at his table and helping himself to opponents' chips.
He's sat next to Liv Boeree and she looked up at us and shook her head when her neighbour was busy getting Jacques Zaicik to fold in a hand. Maybe (probably) he took her chips.
Zaicik folded on the river of a board to drop to 28,000. The Frenchman is in hot from right now after winning $178,569 for his 4th place finish at the recent Asian Championship of Poker in Macau.
Before the level changed, Laurent Polito opened to 450 from under the gun, Justas Vaiciulionis - who is currently grinding online via the PokerStars mobile app - called in middle position, and the player in the big blind three-bet to 18,500. Only Vaiciulionis called.
The flop came , and the player in the small blind led out four 1,700. Vaiciulionis called. The turn was the , the player in the small blind checked, and Vaiciulionis fired 6,000. His opponent tank-called.
The river was the , and the player checked again. Vaiciulionis tossed out 10,100, and his opponent thought for more than 30 seconds, then called.
Vaiciulionis triumphantly tabled for a flopped set of sevens, but his opponent showed for a set of aces.
Three players each put in 1,900 preflop and saw a flop of . Konstantin Puchkov checked from early position, as did Jiri Kulhanek from middle position, and Oleg Perepletchikov bet 2,200 from the hijack.
Puchkov got out of the way, Kulhanek moved all in for right around 11,000, and Perepletchikov quickly called.
Showdown
Perepletchikov:
Kulhanek:
According to the PokerNews Odds Calculator, Perepletchikov was a 91.31% favorite to win the hand with queens and three, which notched Kulhanek's tens and threes. The latter had a 8.69% chance of getting lucky, but that dropped to 4.55% on the turn.
When the completed the board on the river, Kulhanek rapped the table and took his leave from the Main Event; meanwhile, Perepletchikov chipped up to 70,000.
Alain Roy has added some chips to his stack after making a call with ace-high against German pro Marko Neumann.
We missed the actual action, but saw Neumann fire a 3,000 bet on the river of a board, a bet that Roy called. Neumann flipped over pocket fives and was playing the board, but Roy turned over and his ace-kicker took down the pot.
Former World Champion Jonathan Duhamel tried to shift Ismail Erkenov off a hand but the Russian was armoured and absorbed all the bullets the former had to fire.
The Russian was in the small blind and check-called bets on every street, the last two valued at 1,250 and 3,200. The final board read and the Team PokerStars Pro opened . It was no good against Erkenov's for two-pair though.
We recently spotted Jan Skampa in the field. You might recognize the name as he's the man who captured the EPT Prague title in Season 6; what's more, he became the first from the Czech Republic to do so on home soil. Skampa is looking to make it two titles in four years, but he's got a long way to go to make that happen. Rest assured we'll be keeping an eye on the former champion throughout the day.
Here's a look back at the EPT Prague Season 6 Final Table: