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2012 PokerStars.net EPT Prague

Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info

2012 PokerStars.net EPT Prague

Final Results
Winner
Ramzi Jelassi
Winning Hand
aj
Prize
€835,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€4,190,400
Entries
864
Level Info
Level
33
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
30,000

Day 1a of the PokerStars.net EPT Prague Main Event Concludes With Beskrovnyy on Top

Level 8 : 300/600, 75 ante
Iosif Beskrovnyy - Chip Leader
Iosif Beskrovnyy - Chip Leader

With eight levels of play in the books, Day 1a of EPT Prague is finally complete. Leading the remaining 180 players is Iosif Beskrovnyy, who bagged 239,000 chips, but there are a handful of players biting at his heels, including Jose Alastuey, Mikhail Zabrovskiy, Jose Manuel Nadal Sordo, and Malte Monning.

Beskrovnyy shot up the charts during the last level of the evening, and appears to be the only player who crossed the 200,000-chip threshold.

Sordo��s day began with a bang. In Level 2, he had Antonin Duda, who recently finished seventh in the EPT Barcelona Main Event, all in and at risk. Duda was well ahead with {k-Hearts}{k-Spades} against Sodo��s {a-Hearts}{k-Clubs}, and remained ahead on the flop ({2-Clubs}{10-Hearts}{6-Clubs}), and the turn ({6-Diamonds}), but the {a-Clubs} spiked on the river. Duda hit the rail, while Sordo shot up to 70,000 chips. He crossed the century mark thereafter, and maintained one of the bigger stacks in the room throughout the rest of Day 1a, bagging 167,200 chips.

Kovalchuk, a two-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, started off slow, dipping to as low as 12,000 chips. He bolted up the counts during the last level of the evening, finishing with 137,400 chips, and will certainly be a force to reckon with in the coming days.

Monning won a massive pot off of Antonio Guerrero right after the dinner break. With the blinds at 250/500/25, Monning opened to 1,125, and Guerrero three-bet to 3,100. The action folded back to Monning, who four-bet to 7,625, and Guerrero five-bet to 21,100. Monning moved all in for 65,800, and Guerrero quickly called.

Monning: {q-Spades}{q-Diamonds}
Guerrero: {a-Clubs}{a-Diamonds}

The board ran out {4-Hearts}{5-Hearts}{k-Spades}{j-Spades}{q-Clubs}, giving Monning a set on the river, and he suddenly was sitting on a massive stack. He finished with 132,000 chips.

Other notable players who survived to make Day 2 include, Bertrand ��ElkY�� Grospellier, Richard Toth, Eugene Katchalov, Juha Helppi, Fabrice Soulier, Todd Terry, and Eoghan O��Dea.

Day 1a casualties included Liv Boeree, Jonathan Duhamel, John O��Shea, Nachman Berlin, Steve O��Dwyer, Ionel Anton, Alex Bilokur, Guillaume Darcourt, and Arnaud Mattern.

Mattern, who busted on the last hand of play, wasn��t the only former EPT Prague champion to bust on Day 1a. Jan Skampa, who won this event in Season 6, was also in contention, but he fell in the last level of play. He and Souheil Mansour took a flop of {a-Diamonds}{3-Diamonds}{10-Hearts}. Skampa led out for 4,500, Mansour raised to 17,000, and Skampa called. Skampa checked after the {4-Hearts} turned, and Mansour quickly fired 22,400. Skampa moved all in for around 35,000, Mansour called, and Skampa turned over {a-Hearts}{k-Diamonds}. He was in poor shape against Mansour��s {10-Spades}{10-Diamonds}, and was eliminated when the river brought the {5-Spades}.

Martin Finger, who is the defending champion, made it through.

Boeree bowed out in Level 4 when she took several beats. According to her Twitter account, she ran the nut flush into a full house. In another hand, she lost with {a-}{q-} against {j-}{j-} on a flop of {q-}{3-}{2-}. And in her final hand, she was all in preflop with {k-}{k-} and lost to {j-}{j-}.

��Very sad panda,�� she wrote.

William Davis, who appeared as a Loose Cannon on the PokerStars.net Big Game, was in the field today. With the blinds at 100/200/25, he opened to 425 from the hijack seat. Roman Korenev three-bet to 1,225 from the small blind, and Ismail Erkenov cold-called from the big blind. Davis called as well, and the flop came {4-Diamonds}{4-Clubs}{q-Clubs}. Korenev led for 2,000, and only Davis called. The turn was the {5-Clubs}, Korenev checked, and Davis fired 3,000. Korenev folded, and Davis picked up the pot en route to bagging 66,600 chips.

Day 1a attracted a total of 336 players, and with a large field expected on Monday for Day 1b, Season 8��s record of 722 entrants for this event is in grave danger. Join the PokerNews Live Reporting Team at 12:00 CEST on Monday for continuing coverage of EPT Prague.

Until then, good night from the Hilton!

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Former Champion Is Done and Dusted

Jan Skampa
Jan Skampa

Jan Skampa won this event back in Season 6, but his hopes of capturing the title for a second time came to an end courtesy of Souheil Mansour.

In the hand, William Davis limped from early position only to have Skampa three-bet to 2,700 right behind. Mansour then called from the button, Davis folded, and it was heads-up action to the {A-Diamonds}{3-Diamonds}{10-Hearts} flop. Skampa was first to act and led out for 4,500, which inspired Mansour to raise to 17,000.

Skampa thought long and hard before gently placing in a call, and then he checked the {4-Hearts} turn. Mansour wasted little time in spiking out a bet of 22,400, and a few moments later Skampa moved all in for right around 35,000. Mansour, who barely had him covered, snap-called.

Showdown
Mansour: {10-Spades}{10-Diamonds}
Skampa: {A-Hearts}{K-Diamonds}

Skampa discovered the bad news��that he was drawing dead��and made a hasty exit from the tournament floor after the meaningless {5-Spades} was put out on the river.

Player Chips Progress
Souheil Mansour
Souheil Mansour
115,000
Jan Skampa cz
Jan Skampa
Busted
EPT 1X Winner

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Flashback to the EPT Prague Season 7 & a Roberto Romanello Win

Level 7 : 250/500, 50 ante
Roberto Romanello won the EPT7 Prague for €640,000.
Roberto Romanello won the EPT7 Prague for �640,000.

Two years ago, the UK's Roberto Romanello topped a field of 563 players to win the EPT Prague and the �640,000 first-place prize. It's always good to reflect, which is why we thought we'd reproduce the recap from that event as reported in our live blog back in 2010:

Roberto Romanello is the PokerStars.com EPT Prague Main Event Champion and a worthy one at that. Since Day 1b Romanello has been amongst the chipleaders and after defeating Emilliano Bono heads-up he now has the trophy, the title and �640,000 in his back pocket!

He came into the final table fifth from eight in chips but he played perfectly all the way through and thoroughly deserved to win each and every single one of the 16,890,000 chips in play.

Romanello has entertained his opponents and the media alike with his witty banter, his happy go lucky attitude and the fact that he is one of poker's true gentleman. Ask anybody in this industry to speak a bad word of him and you will not find a single soul who will do so.

After being overcome with emotion and having to leave the tournament area, Romanello composed himself and returned to rapturous applause from the spectators, staff, media and railbirds who had all gathered round to welcome the new champion.

After accepting the winner's trophy, Romanello asked if he could say a few words. After asking for a round of applause for the tournament dealers, who have been superb once again, Romanello had this to say to his supporters.

"The support was superb all week. I feel like everyone wanted me to win and it feels so good to actually do it."

This result is Romanello's biggest by a long shot, more than four times his previous largest cash, which stood at $200,000. However, you get the feeling from his reaction that the money, although extremely welcome, means less than being able to call himself EPT Prague Champion.

From everyone here at PokerNews.com, congratulations to Roberto Romanello, the 2010 PokerStars.com EPT Prague Main Event Champion!

EPT Prague Season 7 Final Table

Buy-inEntrantsPrize PoolNumber of PayoutsDate
�5,000 + �300563�2,730,55080December 13-18, 2010
PlacePlayerCountryPrize
1stRoberto RomanelloUnited Kingdom�640,000
2ndEmiliano BonoItaly�435,000
3rdMarcin HoreckiPoland�247,000
4thPeter SkripkaRussia�163,000
5thMarco LeonzioItaly�130,000
6thJan BendikSlovakia�100,000
7thManuel BevandFrance�71,000
8thRoberto NulliItaly�54,500

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Skampa Looking for Another Title

Jan Skampa of the Czech Republic won EPT6 Prague for €682,000.
Jan Skampa of the Czech Republic won EPT6 Prague for �682,000.

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:

Buy-inEntrantsPrize PoolNumber of PayoutsDate
�5,000 + �250586�2,930,00080December 1-6, 2009
PlacePlayerCountryPrize
1stJan SkampaCzech Republic�682,000
2ndEyal AvitanIsrael�454,000
3rdStefan MattssonSweden�255,000
4thAnthony RouxFrance�171,000
5thLarry RyanRepublic of Ireland�135,000
6thLuca PaganoItaly�100,000
7thGustav EkerotSweden�71,000
8thSven EichelbaumGermany�55,500
Player Chips Progress
Jan Skampa cz
Jan Skampa
34,000
EPT 1X Winner

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A Busy Day in Congress Hall

Level 2 : 75/150, 0 ante
The Tournament Room
The Tournament Room

The Congress Hall at the Hilton Prague Hotel is packed today as Day 1a of the �5,300 EPT Prague Main Event, the final of the �1,100 Eureka Prague Main Event, Day 2 of the Eureka PLO Championship, and the Women��s Event are all currently taking place. What's more, a �2,000 PLO Turbo tourney is slated to start at 4pm followed by two super satellites to the EPT Prague Main Event and the �10,000 Invitation EPT Season 8 Country of the Year freeroll for Lebanese players.

Needless to say it's a busy day here in Prague. Here's some more information courtesy of the EPT:

GUILLAUME RIVET LEADS EUREKA HIGH ROLLER

Canadian pro Guillaume Rivet, sixth in the WSOP Omaha Hi/Lo Championship last summer, is leading the Eureka High Roller event with 25 players left. By 3am last night, the event was still on the bubble �C 24 get paid. Also still in are EPT Berlin finalist Prayush Buddiga, French veterans Michel Abecassis and Philippe Ktorza, Dmitry Vitkind, EPT Vilamoura champion Toby Lewis, Craig McCorkell, Jan Bendik and two-time EPT runner-up Martin Jacobson. A record-breaking 195 players took part in the two-day �2,000 Eureka tourney creating a total prize pool of nearly �350,000 - with �89,200 going to the winner. The biggest Eureka HR prior to this was Latvia in October with 40 entries.

GERMAN BUSINESSMAN BERND VOGELHUBER LEADS EUREKA MAIN EVENT FINAL

Bernd Vogelhuber was chip leader at the start of today's �1,100 Eureka Prague Main Event final. The finalists, from eight different countries, include two PokerStars qualifiers and two PokerStars players. A record-breaking 652 players competed in Eureka Season 2 finale, creating a total prize pool of �632,440 and �140,000 first prize.

Welcome To EPT Prague Day 1a

Prague Castle
Prague Castle

Good morning, good afternoon or good evening! Whatever time it is where you are reading this from, welcome to the 2012 PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Prague Main Event!

Last night saw PokerStars throw a lavish party at The Duplex club where the champagne, beer and cocktails were flowing long into the cold winter night. Hopefully, those who were in attendance managed to get plenty of sleep because we have the not-so-small matter of a �5,300 buy-in EPT main event to get through over the course of the next week.

The EPT first visited Prague back in Season 4 (2007) and is safe to say it was an instant hit. A huge field of 555 took part in the inaugural Prague tournament, Arnaud Mattern outlasting all of them to leave the Czech Republic with �708,400 and the coveted EPT trophy.

Since Mattern��s win, Salvatore Bonavena, Jan Skampa, Roberto Romanello and Martin Finger have each tasted success here and won an EPT Prague Main Event; Finger��s victory coming in Season 8 where he had to best a star-studded field of 722 entrants.

EPT Prague Champions

SeasonEntrantsPrizepool (EUR)WinnerPrize (EUR)
4555�2,530,240Arnaud Mattern�708,400
5570�2,764,500Salvatore Bonavena�774,000
6586�2,842,100Jan Skampa�682,000
7563�2,730,550Roberto Romanello�640,000
8722�3,501,700Martin Finger�720,000

This season��s EPT Prague main event has the potential to be one of the biggest tournaments ever held in the Czech capital. The city is teeming with poker players, many of whom have been competing in the World Poker Tour Prague festival and the Eureka Poker Tour that have been taking place over the past few days �� the final tables of each of those events take place today �� and what better way to cap off a fantastic fortnight of poker by taking down one of the most prestigious titles in the game today?

Over the two starting flights we should see Team PokerStars Pros such as Liv Boeree, Jonathan Duhamel, Jason Mericer, Johnny Lodden, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier and a many others too.

Join the PokerNews team from 12:00CET for all of the action, as it happens, from the PokerStars EPT Prague Main Event.