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EPT Prague – Day 1A Report
Posted by: James Carter. - Tue, 2012-12-11 05:42
The first day 1 flight of the
EPT’s Prague Main Event kicked off on Sunday with quite a bang. The end of the day found 180 players still in contention, with Josif Beskrovnyy leading the way behind a stack of 239k chips. There were quite a few “name” competitors in the starting field and one of them – Oleksii Kovalchuk – managed to make the top 10: he finished in 9th place, with 137.4k chips to his name.
As it’s often the case with provisional tournament leaders, Beskrovnyy clinched the top spot during the very last level of action. He was the only player who managed to shoot past the 200k chip threshold.
Kovalchuk’s day was quite a rollercoaster ride: he first dropped a bunch of chips, to fall as low as 12k chips at one point during the day. He struggled among the short-stacks for much of the day, before catching a few lucky breaks during the last level, which allowed him to chip up and break into the top 10 eventually.
Another player who did well in the
poker tournament was Malte Monning. Monning’s break came right after dinner, when he got all his chips into the middle before the flop, holding pocket Qs against Antonio Guerrero’s pocket rockets. The board fell a bunch of blanks with the exception of a Q on the river which gave Monning a backdoor set and the win.
Bertrand Grospellier played on Day 1A too, together with Richard Toth and Eugene Katchalov. They all managed to make it to day 2, albeit on smaller stacks. Eoghan O’Dea and Juha Helppi will be back for day 2 too.
Jonathan Duhamel and Liv Boeree weren’t that lucky though. They were joined on the rail by Steve O’Dwyer and Arnaud Mattern.
