EPT Prague qualifiers underway
The European Poker Tour has released the schedule for the forthcoming EPT10 Prague Poker Festival in December and announced that Main Event qualifiers are now underway. Last year, almost 400 players...
View ArticleEureka3 Prague, Day 1B: Looking ahead to Season 4
Today has been the biggest ever day in Eureka Poker Tour history but no sooner had the team behind the tour celebrated that success then they were already looking forward to 2014. During the last break...
View ArticleEureka3 Prague, Day 1B: How go Team Pro?
There were an impressive number of Team PokerStars Pros and Team PokerStars Online players in the field today. Some, like Martin Hruby and Richard Toth took early baths but most made the dinner break....
View ArticleEureka3 Prague: Erik Soderholm leads biggest ever Eureka Poker Tour Main Event
Huge! Massive! Gargantuan! Out of this world! Whatever you want to call it Day 1b was by far the single biggest day ever on the Eureka Poker Tour. A humongous 949 players entered Day 1b, to put that in...
View ArticleEureka3 Prague, Day 2: All under one roof
With 949 players showing up yesterday to add to the 366 from Day 1a, I didn't expect the combined field for Day 2 to weigh in at less than the 366 runners from Day 1a. But it was close and I imagine...
View ArticleEureka3 Prague, Day 2: Seat open
Tournament rule no 673: No matter how many levels you play on Day 1a there will always be a mass of exits during the first level of Day 2. Anyone who's ever played a multi-day live tournament will know...
View ArticleEureka3 Prague, Day 2: An orbit with Marcin Horecki and Christophe De Meulder
Two PokerStars Pros at the same table you say? More than enough of an excuse to spend an entire orbit at Table 2 watching proceedings then. The blinds during this orbit were 1,200/2,400 ante 300 and...
View ArticleEureka3 Prague: Day 2 level 14-18 updates (4,000/8,000 ante 1,000)
10.01pm: Break That's the end of level 18, you'll find level 18 updates in a new post. 10pm: How MacPhee grabbed the lead Getting a big hand is hard, getting it to hold even harder. But that's how...
View ArticleEureka3 Prague: Day 2 level 19-20 updates (6,000/12,000 ante 2,000)
12.30am: Done for the day That's it, Day 2 is in the books and 396 players have been reduced to just 43. A wrap of the days play is on the way. Day 3 starts at noon local time. 12.10am: Last five hands...
View ArticleEureka3 Prague: Stephen 'Stevie444' Chidwick leads final 43 in the Main Event
When the 396 players who had made it to Day 2 reconvened at noon local time we were told that 191 of them would make the money. We fully expected to burst the bubble but I don't think anyone would've...
View ArticleEureka3 Prague: Day 3, level 21-24 updates (15,000/30,000 ante 4,000)
4.30pm: 19 players left at the end of level 24 That's the end of level 24, you'll find level 25 updates in a new post shortly. Just 19 players remain as Billy Demirtas is out in 22nd, Georgii Bandura...
View ArticleEureka3 Prague: Day 3, level 25-27 updates (30,000/60,000 ante 10,000)
9.30pm: Sergey Baranov eliminated in ninth place (€16,800) Day 3 has come to an end and it's Sergey Baranov who's bubbled the official final table. There was a raise to 150,000 from Jaroslav Peter,...
View ArticleEureka3 Prague: PokerStars qualifier Ami Barer leads Main Event final table
When the penultimate day of the Eureka3 Prague Main Event got underway at noon local time there were 43 bums on seats. Amongst those posteriors were EPT Main Event champions, Team PokerStars Pros, high...
View ArticleEureka3 Prague: Final table, level 27-31 updates (80,000/160,000, ante 20,000)
6pm: New post Please head to a new post for continued coverage of three-handed play - and the race to a winner. 5.10pm: Break time The players are now on a 20 minute break. 5.05pm: Jaroslav Peter...
View ArticleEureka3 Prague: Final table, level 32-34 updates (150,000/300,000, ante 40,000)
9pm: Dmitri Holdeew wins Eureka3 Prague (€226,400); Ami Barer second (€131,400) It's all over here in Prague and wouldn't you know it another German poker player has won a massive poker tournament as...
View ArticleEureka3 Prague: Dimitri Holdeew wins Eureka Prague Main Event and €226,400
If anyone ever tries to tell you that having a big stack going to the final table can be a curse as much as a blessing then refer them to this final table. The top three stacks entering the final table...
View ArticleEureka3 Prague, Day 1B: How go Team Pro?
There were an impressive number of Team PokerStars Pros and Team PokerStars Online players in the field today. Some, like Martin Hruby and Richard Toth took early baths but most made the dinner break....
View ArticleEureka3 Prague: Erik Soderholm leads biggest ever Eureka Poker Tour Main Event
Huge! Massive! Gargantuan! Out of this world! Whatever you want to call it Day 1b was by far the single biggest day ever on the Eureka Poker Tour. A humongous 949 players entered Day 1b, to put that in...
View ArticleEureka3 Prague, Day 2: All under one roof
With 949 players showing up yesterday to add to the 366 from Day 1a, I didn't expect the combined field for Day 2 to weigh in at less than the 366 runners from Day 1a. But it was close and I imagine...
View ArticleEureka3 Prague, Day 2: Seat open
Tournament rule no 673: No matter how many levels you play on Day 1a there will always be a mass of exits during the first level of Day 2. Anyone who's ever played a multi-day live tournament will know...
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