Nicolas Chouity Leads After Day 2 of EPT13 Prague; Chases Second Title After Bubble Bursts

The last ever Main Event of the PokerStars European Poker Tour saw 593 players return to the tables of the Hilton Hotel in Prague and another 13 hopefuls ponied up €5,300 to boost the overall attendance to 1,192. This set a new record for the festival in the Czech capital and the massive prize pool of €5,781,200 will be shared among the top 231 spots, with a first-place payout of €774,600.

After six levels of 75 minutes each, the field had been cut down to the last 232 and the clock was stopped to set up hand-for-hand play. It would take another 45 minutes and several survived all ins to determine the bubble boy and it was Attila Valentai, who lost a flip with ace-king against the black pocket eights of Mike Brandau. Valentai spiked a pike on the flop, but Brandau caught one of the two remaining eights on the river to let the bubble burst and all survivors bag up. Niko Koop would have been forced all in two hands later and secured the min-cash of €7,560 with a mere 1,500 chips.

Once all was done and dusted, a familiar face appeared on top of the counts: EPT6 Grand Final champion Nicolas Chouity built his stack early on and always shined in the top ten, eventually claiming 644,000 to his name for the Day 2 lead. Other big stacks include Eduards Kudrjavcevs (547,000), Nandor Solyom (526,500), Matas Cimbolas (481,500), Pedro Lamarca (480,000), Apostolos Bechrakis (478,500), Ludovic Lacay (438,000), Thomas Muehloecker (430,000), Samuel Vousden (428,500), Artur Rudziankov (415,500) and Benjamin Pollak (407,500). Lamarca would have been the likely chip leader after running hot and busting opponent after opponent, but Anton Petrov's jack-eight for two pair beat the six-three of Lamarca on the money bubble for a huge pot.

Other notables returning tomorrow for Day 3 include Pablo Gordillo (313,000), David Peters (305,000), Fabrice Soulier (200,000), [Removed:197] (199,500), Juha Helppi (179,000), Ari Engel (106,500) and the Team PokerStars Pros Felipe Ramos (106,500) and Vanessa Selbst (69,000).

Among the plethora of eliminations throughout the day were the two Day 1 chip leaders Ronald Morandini and Henrik Hecklen , the Team PokerStars Pros Luca Pagano, Theo Jorgensen and Johnny Lodden, France's Team Online Gabriel Nassif, Sports Star Fatima Moreira de Melo, Ronny Kaiser, Roberto Romanello, EPT13 Barcelona champion Sebastian Malec and runner-up Uri Reichenstein, Dominik Panka and Charlie Carrel to name just a few.

Carrel was all in short with ace-four suited and failed to improve against ace-eight suited. The Brit then jumped into the newly added €25,500 Single-Day High Roller and reached yet another final table. Sergej Barbarez's move with ace-jack for second pair was no good against the ace-queen suited of Maxim Lykov and Tony Dunst ran with ace-ten into pocket kings on a ten-high board.

The last-ever EPT Main Event will recommence with one hour and 11 minutes left in level 15 at blinds of 2,000-4,000 with a running ante of 500 and another four levels of 90 minutes each will follow up on that. The PokerNews live reporting team will be there to cover all the action until a winner is crowned next Monday, so make sure to tune back in regularly.

EPT13 Prague Main Event Day 3 Seat Draw

Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count
1	1	Andy Black	Ireland	39,000
1	2	Anton Hrabchak	Ukraine	345,000
1	3	James Akenhead	UK	145,500
1	4	Demosthenes Kiriopoulos	Canada	327,000
1	5	Alain Goldberg	Switzerland	32,500
1	6	Walter Treccarichi	Italy	24,500
1	7	Oleg Vasylchenko	Ukraine	327,000
1	8	Joseph Sabe	France	225,000

2	1	Jozef Bartalos	Slovakia	17,500
2	2	Juha Helppi	Finland	208,000
2	3	Erik Tamm	Sweden	270,500
2	4	Yuriy Gapon	Ukraine	16,000
2	5	Isidoro Barrena	Spain	44,000
2	6	Aleksey Ponakov	Latvia	212,500
2	7	Darren Delahunty	UK	142,500
2	8	Anooj Saareen	UK	65,000

3	1	Martin Kabrhel	Czech Republic	126,000
3	2	Philipp Gruissem	Germany	46,000
3	3	Zvi Stern	Israel	29,500
3	4	Marius Enebakk	Norway	163,500
3	5	Ari Engel	USA	106,500
3	6	Beka Iordanishvili	Ukraine	27,000
3	7	Friedrich Meyer	Germany	123,000
3	8	Krzysztof Stuchlik	Poland	107,000

4	1	Artur Rudziankov	Belarus	415,000
4	2	Janos Kurtosi	Hungary	402,500
4	3	Martin Bartos	Slovakia	95,000
4	4	Kent Roed	Norway	194,000
4	5	Aram Sargsyan	Armenia	96,000
4	6	Khabat Jahany	Switzerland	115,500
4	7	Eduards Kudrjavcevs	Latvia	547,000
4	8	Marius Gierse	Germany	317,500

5	1	Robert Gill	Germany	94,000
5	2	Anatolii Ozhenilok	Russia	159,500
5	3	Ryan McEathron	Canada	255,500
5	5	Stefan Fabian	Romania	214,500
5	6	Andrea Rocci	Italy	215,500
5	7	Sergey Lebedev	Russia	78,000
5	8	Kitty Kuo	Taiwan	65,300

6	1	Patrick Leonard	UK	170,000
6	2	Fabrice Soulier	France	200,000
6	3	Hulya Pehlivanlar	Turkey	110,000
6	4	Renjun Yang	China	39,000
6	5	Oleksii Kovalchuk	Ukraine	67,000
6	6	Anton Wigg	Sweden	25,500
6	7	Arne Kern	Germany	147,500
6	8	Tsugunari Toma	Japan	77,500

7	1	Ramin Hajiyev	Azerbaijan	160,000
7	2	Thomas Taubenschuss	Austria	50,000
7	3	Yves Hallague	Israel	55,500
7	4	Sergei Petrushevskii	Russia	143,500
7	5	Nino Ullmann	Germany	243,500
7	6	Dermot Blain	Ireland	265,500
7	7	Michael Ho	Canada	23,000
7	8	Bobby Zhang	Australia	59,500

8	1	Nicolas Chouity	Lebanon	644,000
8	2	Dmitrii Deviatov	Russia	75,500
8	3	Simon Charette	Canada	213,000
8	4	Seyed Homayoun Ghavam	Iran	146,500
8	5	Grigorii Rodin	Russia	25,500
8	6	Niko Koop	Germany	1,500
8	7	Dong Zhao	China	133,000
8	8	Jasper Meijer Van Putten	Netherlands	111,000

9	1	Qinnan Wei	China	49,000
9	2	Thomas Lefort	Canada	260,000
9	3	Mihai Manole	Romania	78,000
9	4	Tobias Laubert	Germany	106,500
9	5	Dejan Pustoslemsek	Slovenia	223,000
9	6	David Sierra Merino	Spain	88,000
9	7	Cristinel Dumitru	Romania	42,500
9	8	Vojtech Cervinka	Czech Republic	31,500

10	1	Krzysztof Dulowski	Poland	154,000
10	2	Vanessa Selbst	USA	69,000
10	3	Benjamin Philipps	UK	216,500
10	4	Jonathan Abdellatif	Belgium	173,000
10	5	Pablo Gordillo	Spain	313,500
10	6	Gergely Bartos	Hungary	64,000
10	7	Pascal Lefrancois	Canada	11,500
10	8	Clement Genon-Catalot	France	177,000

11	1	Piotr Franczak	Poland	32,000
11	2	Johan Guilbert	France	159,000
11	3	Georges Chehade	Lebanon	81,500
11	4	Richard Toth	Hungary	192,500
11	5	Martin Nikolov	Bulgaria	82,500
11	6	Doron Davidovitz	Israel	77,000
11	7	Vojtech Horut	Czech Republic	149,500
11	8	Mitch Johnson	UK	121,500

12	1	Karol Radomski	Poland	197,000
12	2	Jose Antonio Jaraiz Lopez	Spain	68,000
12	3	Marta Munoz	Spain	112,000
12	4	Michal Ozimek	Poland	160,500
12	5	Mikolaj Zawadzki	Poland	38,000
12	6	Benjamin Richardson	Australia	285,000
12	7	Michael Rocco	USA	119,000
12	8	Apostolos Bechrakis	Greece	478,500

13	1	Stoyan Obreshkov	Bulgaria	428,500
13	2	Mykhailo Gutyi	Ukraine	42,000
13	3	Jean Souprayenmestry	France	75,000
13	4	Mikhail Petrov	Russia	59,500
13	5	Alexandros Vlachakis	Greece	120,500
13	6	Konstantinos Meliopoulos	Greece	33,500
13	7	Michiel Broskij	Netherlands	324,500
13	8	Tim Cerkvenik	Slovenia	57,000

14	1	Kayhan Mokri Roshanfekr	Norway	241,500
14	2	Van Hiep Tran	Germany	170,500
14	3	Vage Melikyan	Russia	36,500
14	4	[Removed:17]	New Zealand	135,500
14	5	Juan Bastida Perez	Spain	265,000
14	6	Jukka Paloniemi	Finland	128,500
14	7	Oren Rosen	Israel	78,000
14	8	Aleksandr Nemtcov	Russia	300,000

15	1	Arnaud Peyroles	France	148,000
15	2	Hirokazu Kobayashi	Japan	311,500
15	3	Thomas Lentrodt	Germany	136,000
15	4	Alexandru Gavrilut	Romania	33,000
15	5	Dick Postel	Netherlands	169,000
15	6	Miha Travnik	Slovenia	25,500
15	7	Denis Pisarev	Russia	32,000
15	8	Anton Afanasyev	Russia	281,000

16	1	Aivaras Bardauskas	Lithuania	52,000
16	2	Salvatore Bonavena	Italy	68,000
16	3	Joao Vieira	Portugal	37,500
16	4	Romain Lewis	France	153,500
16	5	Maxim Lykov	Russia	323,000
16	6	Cornelis Van Gent	Netherlands	65,000
16	7	Elias Talvitie	Finland	89,000
16	8	Adriaan Schaap	Netherlands	6,000

17	1	Jason Wheeler	Mexico	126,000
17	2	Piotr Kuszczak	Poland	31,000
17	3	Mikhail Korotkikh	Russia	210,000
17	4	Matan Krakow	Israel	166,000
17	5	Ludovic Lacay	France	438,000
17	6	Lasse Aastad Kjos	Norway	11,000
17	7	Viteszlav Pesta	Czech Republic	353,000
17	8	Viacheslav Belyaev	Russia	153,000

18	1	Andrew Hulme	UK	148,500
18	2	Vebjorn Monstad	Norway	30,500
18	3	Robert Schulz	Germany	80,000
18	4	Xavier Detournel	France	22,000
18	5	Viktor Litovchenko	Russia	30,500
18	6	Felipe Ramos	Brazil	106,500
18	7	Laszlo Bujtas	Hungary	207,000
18	8	Daniel Wilson	Ireland	178,000

19	1	Josip Vidovic	Croatia	200,000
19	2	Koichi Nozaki	Japan	212,500
19	3	Samy Salah	France	165,000
19	4	Eoghan Odea	Ireland	49,500
19	5	Dmytro Samoilenko	Ukraine	176,000
19	6	Gang Wang	China	157,000
19	7	Francois Frejdles	Belgium	135,000
19	8	Klas Lofberg	Sweden	184,500

20	1	Paul-Francois Tedeschi	France	196,000
20	2	Tomas Kubaliak	Slovakia	200,000
20	3	Elvis Petcu	Romania	47,000
20	4	Maxi Lehmanski	Germany	211,500
20	5	Konstantin Puchkov	Russia	19,500
20	6	Yosuke Sekiya	Japan	32,500
20	7	[Removed:19]	Russia	149,500
20	8	Viacheslav Goryachev	Russia	49,000

21	1	Thomas Muehloecker	Austria	430,000
21	2	Padraig O'Neill	Ireland	153,500
21	3	Kliment Tarmakov	Denmark	85,000
21	4	Wael Sarkis	Lebanon	29,000
21	5	Joan Fabregas Capellas	Spain	45,500
21	6	Pedro Lamarca	Spain	448,000
21	7	Matas Cimbolas	Lithuania	481,500
21	8	Marton Czuczor	Hungary	258,000

22	1	Adrien Allain	France	304,000
22	2	Antti Halme	Finland	326,500
22	3	Alexey Romanov	Russia	186,500
22	4	Seref Dursun Anar	Turkey	77,500
22	5	Yang Zhang	China	92,500
22	6	Vlado Banicevic	Montenegro	109,000
22	7	Steven Thompson Vila	Costa Rica	30,000
22	8	Andreas Samuelsson	Sweden	231,500

23	1	Peter Jaksland	Denmark	36,500
23	2	Rumen Nanev	Bulgaria	64,000
23	3	Nandor Solyom	Romania	526,500
23	4	Illia Kainov	Ukraine	110,500
23	5	Roman Papacek	Czech Republic	28,500
23	6	Anton Petrov	Russia	335,000
23	7	Konstantin Bucherl	Germany	117,500
23	8	Julian Herold	Germany	114,000

24	1	Mike Brandau	Germany	209,500
24	2	Sebanien Garrosi	Switzerland	38,000
24	3	Kristof De Bruycker	Belgium	67,600
24	4	Marek Grzeska	Poland	128,500
24	5	Levente Szabo	Hungary	63,500
24	6	Roman Korenev	Russia	195,500
24	7	Danut Chisu	Romania	306,000
24	8	Dzmitry Urbanovich	Poland	83,500

25	1	Pierre Calamusa	France	210,000
25	2	Konstantin Uspenskiy	Russia	88,000
25	3	Josef Pavelka	Czech Republic	336,500
25	4	Aki Pyysing	Finland	46,500
25	5	David Peters	USA	305,000
25	6	Samuel Vousden	Finland	428,500
25	7	Vitezslav Cech	Czech Republic	24,500
25	8	Martin Staszko	Czech Republic	13,000

26	1	Caufman Talley	USA	187,500
26	2	Roman Pavliuk	Ukraine	379,500
26	3	Ivan Deyra	France	139,000
26	4	[Removed:197]	Germany	199,500
26	5	Sam Cohen	USA	211,500
26	6	Benjamin Pollak	France	407,500
26	7	Ugur Coskun	Turkey	142,000
26	8	Kiryl Radzivonau	Belarus	314,000

27	1	Kyosti Isberg	Finland	388,000
27	2	Netanel Amedi	Israel	70,000
27	3	Alexander Paygusov	Russia	178,000
27	4	Oleg Titov	Russia	251,500
27	5	Christian Christner	Germany	228,000
27	6	Arthur Conan	France	238,000
27	7	David Lopez Llacer	Spain	179,000
27	8	Thanh Ngo	Vietnam	57,500

28	1	Carlo Savinelli	Italy	99,500
28	2	David Urban	Slovakia	72,500
28	3	Scott Margereson	UK	221,000
28	4	Navot Golan	Israel	15,500
28	5	Borge Sandsgaard	Norway	282,000
28	6	Joe Mouawad	Lebanon	144,000
28	7	Jerry Wong	USA	313,000
28	8	Christopher Andler	Sweden	215,000

29	1	Jan Nakladal	Czech Republic	122,500
29	2	Andrii Nadieliaiev	Ukraine	66,000
29	3	Paul Hoefer	Germany	115,500
29	4	Dawid Borkowski	Poland	42,500
29	5	Charalampos Lappas	UK	40,000
29	6	Daniel Dvoress	Canada	117,000
29	7	Lucian Draghici	Canada	55,000
29	8	Aykutalp Yilmaz	Turkey	118,500