€5,300 Main Event
Day 5 Started
2014 PokerStars.com EPT Season 11 Barcelona
€5,300 Main Event
Day: 5
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It's the penultimate day of the Main Event here in Barcelona. There are 25 players remaining in the event led by Bram Haenraets (4,395,000), who is, incredibly, playing his first ever live tournament. A lot of poker is still to be played though and we're expecting that it will take six or seven levels for the final table to be reached today, meaning a very late finish.
Sadly there are no Team PokerStars Pros left after Jan Heitmann was eliminated late last night after losing aces to Mark Wagstaff's queens. There is one remaining former EPT Champion in Dominik Panka, the PokerStars sponsored player begins the day with 1,705,000 - which is around average. Everyone is guaranteed a minimum €33,300 but it'll be the first place prize of €1,261,000 that will be on most minds.
Play begins at midday.
| Table | Seat | Name | Country | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | Daniel Dvoress | Canada | 1,570,000 |
| 1 | 3 | Andrey Shatilov | Russia | 1,390,000 |
| 1 | 4 | Hossein Ensan | Germany | 3,075,000 |
| 1 | 5 | Maximilian Senft | Austria | 1,795,000 |
| 1 | 6 | Ji Zhang | Germany | 2,285,000 |
| 1 | 7 | Pawel Brzeski | Poland | 1,980,000 |
| 2 | 1 | Mark Wagstaff | UK | 990,000 |
| 2 | 3 | Mikhail Rudoy | Russia | 1,815,000 |
| 2 | 4 | Samuel Phillips | Mexico | 1,045,000 |
| 2 | 6 | John Andress | USA | 710,000 |
| 2 | 7 | Thomas Hueber | Austria | 945,000 |
| 2 | 8 | Sergei Popov | Russia | 1,255,000 |
| 3 | 1 | Gerald Karlic | Austria | 955,000 |
| 3 | 2 | Slaven Popov | Bulgaria | 2,695,000 |
| 3 | 3 | Mikkel Nielsen | Denmark | 3,135,000 |
| 3 | 4 | Andrea Dato | Italy | 2,290,000 |
| 3 | 5 | Mathieu Clavet | Canada | 575,000 |
| 3 | 6 | Dominik Panka | Poland | 1,705,000 |
| 3 | 8 | Andre Leattau | Germany | 1,535,000 |
| 4 | 2 | Piotr Sowinski | Poland | 4,335,000 |
| 4 | 3 | Benjamin Nicolas-[Removed:372] | France | 735,000 |
| 4 | 4 | Nick Rampone | USA | 520,000 |
| 4 | 6 | Kiryl Radzivonau | Belarus | 1,860,000 |
| 4 | 7 | Bram Haenraets | Netherlands | 4,395,000 |
| 4 | 8 | Robert Schulz | Germany | 1,240,000 |
Level: 26
Blinds: 20,000/40,000
Ante: 5,000
Level 26
: 20,000/40,000, 5,000 ante
Action from the off as Mathieu Clavet moved all in from the big blind over the top of Mikkel Nielsen's button raise. The Dane quickly made the call.
Clavet: 
Nielsen: 
The board came 
and Clavet went out in 25th place, a table is being broken now - there is no redraw.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
3,800,000
665,000
|
665,000 |
|
Busted |
Level 26
: 20,000/40,000, 5,000 ante
Samuel Phillips opened for 80,000 on the button and with the small blind folding John Andress in the big blind moved all in for 710,000. Phillips made the call.
Andress had the baby pair 
and was in a race with the 
of Phillips.
The cards ran out 
. Andress was out of his chair as the turn hit the felt and shook hands with his fellow players before heading to the pay-out desk.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,755,000
710,000
|
710,000 |
|
Busted | |
|
||
Level 26
: 20,000/40,000, 5,000 ante
Maximilian Senft limped in the cutoff, Ji Zhang called on the button and Pawel Brzeski also called in the small blind. Nick Rampone stared intently at Senft's stack then announced all in.
All three other players quickly folded.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
600,000
80,000
|
80,000 |
Level 26
: 20,000/40,000, 5,000 ante
On the river of a 
, Slaven Popov, who'd check-called the whole way, checked the river across to Mikkel Nielsen. The Dane fired a bullet worth 655,000 into a pot of over a million but Popov made the call.
Nielsen showed a missed 
and Popov picked up the huge pot with 
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
3,850,000
1,155,000
|
1,155,000 |
|
|
2,700,000
-1,100,000
|
-1,100,000 |
Level 26
: 20,000/40,000, 5,000 ante
![Benjamin Nicolas-[Removed:372]](https://s.pnimg.net/sGJ9mQuy9JnbnSeEGJq1Z71oapJwa0XIyKDFRdkjib4/pr:reporting-leading-desktop/aHR0cHM6Ly9wbmlt/Zy5uZXQvbHJlcC8x/ODY1LzUyL3gwNzk2/ZDc4YjVkLmpwZw.webp)
Dominik Panka opened under the gun and picked up three callers including Benjamin Nicolas-[Removed:372] and Mikkel Nielsen. On a flop of Panka didn’t continuation bet but a bet from Nielsen saw Nicolas-[Removed:372] check-raise all in for 555,000.
Nielsen said he couldn’t fold for the price he was getting and tabled 
and Nicolas-[Removed:372] showed 
.
The turn and river 
bricked out and sent Nicolas-[Removed:372] to the rail.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
2,985,000
285,000
|
285,000 |
|
Busted |
Level 26
: 20,000/40,000, 5,000 ante
Team PokerStars Pro Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier sat down with PokerNews.com to talk about his first ever EPT experience.
Back in 2005, the man known as ElkY, was mostly famous for excelling at Starcraft in South-Korea while trying out online poker on the side. Grospellier got lucky in a satellite for video gamers and all of a sudden he found himself playing EPT Deauville.