€5,300 Main Event | 2014 PokerStars.net EPT Vienna

03-29-2014 13:15 UTC+1

First Hand, First Big Pot For Neumann

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Level 26 : 20,000/40,000, 5,000 ante

Marko Neumann raised to 85,000 from the hijack with and Frei Dilling grabbed some chips from the button, putting in a three-bet to 210,000 with .

Both blinds quickly folded and the action was back on Neumann. The German pro made the call and the flop brought out .

Neumann checked right away and Dilling bet out 180,000 into his German opponent. Neumann, the shortest stack with 1.4 million behind, made the call after about 10 seconds.

The turn brought out the and Neumann checked it again to the Dane who pondered for a while before sliding out a bet worth 375,000. Neumann, hiding behind sunglasses for the first time all tournament, tanked for a long time while playing with his chips and he eventually made the call.

The river completed the board with the and Neumann checked and Dilling decided to check behind after about 30 seconds. Neumann showed his top pair top kicked and Dilling mucked his cards.

Player	Chips	Progress
Frei Dilling	3,500,000 -730,000	-730,000
Marko Neumann	2,400,000 715,000	715,000

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03-29-2014 13:13 UTC+1

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Level 26 : 20,000/40,000, 5,000 ante

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Level: 26

Blinds: 20,000/40,000

Ante: 5,000

03-29-2014 13:07 UTC+1

The Cards Are In The Air!

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The Final 8 players are now battling it out for the EPT Vienna title! Make sure to stay tuned throughout the day and night, because this will be a long final table! The average stack is more than 85 big blinds and that means there's a ton of play left!

03-29-2014 10:38 UTC+1

Final Table Coverage Will Start at 1PM Local Time

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At 12 pm local time the Final Table of the PokerStars.net European Poker Tour Vienna Main Event will commence. Eight players remain, all eying that first place prize of €816,000.

As the live stream will feature hole cards, there's a one hour delay. So you'll have to wait till 1pm local time for the live stream and blog coverage to start.

We're in for a long final table presumably as the average stack is worth 85 big blinds. Just like the PCA this year, Day 5 lasted only a couple of hours. Down from 17 till 8 took just 3 hours of play.

Gavin O'Rourke was the final table bubble as his queen-jack couldn't improve against Frei Dilling's pocket tens. Most of his chips he lost against Anthony Ghamrawi though. In a 5.5 million pot his red queens squared off against red kings and Ghamrawi cowboys held up to catapult him into the chip lead position.

This is the way the eight players will be seated

Seat	Player	Country	Chips	Position in Chips
1	Oleksii Khoroshenin	Ukraine	2,150,000	7
2	Anthony Ghamrawi	Austria	5,150,000	1
3	Marko Neumann	Germany	1,685,000	8
4	Simeon Naydenov	Bulgaria	3,550,000	5
5	Frei Dilling	Denmark	4,230,000	2
6	Rumen Nanev	Bulgaria	2,765,000	6
7	Pablo Gordillo	Spain	4,075,000	3
8	Timo Pfutzenreuter	Germany	3,740,000	4

Here's what's up for grabs:

Position	Prize
1	€816,000
2	€497,900
3	€349,100
4	€262,150
5	€203,900
6	€151,000
7	€108,100
8	€77,000

Check back at 1pm local time for delayed live coverage of the PokerStars.net European Poker Tour Vienna Main Event final table.

Player	Chips	Progress
Anthony Ghamrawi	5,150,000
Frei Dilling	4,230,000
Pablo Gordillo	4,075,000
Timo Pfutzenreuter	3,740,000
Simeon Naydenov	3,550,000
Rumen Nanev	2,765,000
Oleksii Khoroshenin	2,150,000

Marko Neumann	1,685,000

03-29-2014 10:37 UTC+1

Seat 1: Oleksii Khoroshenin, 27, Ukraine - 2,150,000

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Khoroshenin is an EPT regular who has been playing the tour since Season 8. This is his best live result to date. Prior to EPT Vienna his best cash came when he was runner-up to Joao Barbosa in the EPT Barcelona €5k six-handed turbo in September. He also finished 53rd at last season’s EPT Berlin Main Event for €15,000 and came close to making the final of the EPT Prague €10k High Roller in December, finishing tenth for €32,800. He is currently ranked 20th in the Ukraine all-time money list with $278,873 in live tournament winnings to date.

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03-29-2014 10:37 UTC+1

Seat 2: Anthony Ghamrawi, 27, Vienna, Austria - PokerStars qualifier - 5,150,000

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Playing in his home city of Vienna, Ghamrawi spent Day 5 wearing a baseball cap signed by Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu on the TV table. He got a bunch of chips on Day 4 by doubling up through British pro Stephen Chidwick and then busting former chip leader Sebastian Trisch with QQ. Ghamrawi’s best live result to date was defeating a 1,465 strong field in one of the Rio’s $235 Daily Deepstack tourneys in Vegas for $54,344. He also made the final of the WPT Vienna Main Event in 2012, finishing ninth for €19,660. However, making today’s final, where he’s guaranteed at least €77,000, is by far his biggest live result. He won his seat to EPT Vienna in a €320 NLHE Deep Hyper-Turbo qualifier in February and has live tournament winnings to date of more than $124,000.

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03-29-2014 10:37 UTC+1

Seat 3: Marko “BriDge2PaiN” Neumann, 27, Recklinghausen, Germany – PokerStars qualifier

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Neumann is an EPT regular and his best live result to date came on the EPT when he finished seventh in Berlin in Season 6 for €120,000. He has been playing poker for nine years, the last seven as pro and is a successful online Multi Table Tournament and Sit and Go player. Only two weeks ago, he took down the PokerStars Sunday 500 for $83,790. He qualified for EPT Vienna online in a €82+R satellite. He and his long-term girlfriend Aga had been planning to fly to Thailand on holiday yesterday but Neumann has wisely changed his flight to Sunday instead.

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03-29-2014 10:36 UTC+1

Seat 4: Simeon "IamBuddhaa" Naydenov, 26, Sofia, Bulgaria - 3,550,000

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Simeon Naydenov first hit the spotlight when he bubbled the final table at EPT Campione in Season 8 for €41,000. However, the major turning point in his poker career came last summer when he became the second ever Bulgarian to win a WSOP bracelet, taking down the $1,500 shootout for $326,440. Now aged 26, Naydenov graduated in Business and Economics before taking up poker with friends. Competing in casinos gave him the impetus to start playing professionally and his first major cash came in Varna in 2009, when he finished fourth in a €1k event for €18,600. Online achievements include second place in the PokerStars PLO WCOOP event in September 2010 for a $36,000 prize. As well as poker, Naydenov also runs a social media marketing company.

His live tournament winnings amount to more than $860,000. He has also represented Bulgaria in two World Cups of the strategy game “Age of Empires”.

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03-29-2014 10:36 UTC+1

Seat 5: Frei Dilling, 25, Copenhagen, Denmark - 4,230,000

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Dilling has played poker for the last seven years and went pro five years ago. He considers himself a cash game player and plays at stakes of 10-20 and up to 50-100 online. This is his second EPT cash and he also has a seventh place finish on the World Poker Tour. Dilling has got a lot of respect from his opponents during the last days and will be second in chips going into the final table tomorrow.

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