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EPT Prague Main Event – Day 1A Report
Posted by: James Carter. - Fri, 2014-12-12 11:55
342 players bought into the first Day 1 flight of the
EPT’s Prague Main Event. After 8 levels of action, 201 of them were left standing as the action was called. Dmitry Ponomarev was the one with the largest stack: he finished with 159.8k chips to his name. Ponomarev was followed by Oleksii Khoroshenin, who had some 150.5k chips in his stack when the action wrapped up. Brian Altman, the 3rd place finisher, had almost as much: he finished with 150.3k chips. Morten Christensen finished within the top 10 as well, together with Petr Jelinek and Simon Boss.
Although he didn’t make the top 10, PokerStars pro Johnny Lodden finished with a decent stack as well (117k chips). Other notables who survived the first day of action were Shannon Shorr (with a little over 100k chips), Sam Greenwood and Thomas Muhlocker.
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Ponomarev may not be among the best-known players out there, but the Russian is not a novice at all: his biggest cash came from the last edition of the PCA, where he won one of the $2.2k side events, taking down a $117.5k prize. His live tournament cashes total some $226.3k.
While scores of pros made it past the Day 1A hurdle, Lady Luck wasn’t kind to all of them. PokerStars’ Chris Moneymaker and Martin Hruby for instance were bounced from the event. For former
EPT champions, the going proved especially rough: Mike McDonald, David Vamplew, Antonio Buonanno and Zimnan Ziyard all fell, together with Tom Middleton.
Marvin Rettenmaier and Fabrice Soulier were on the list of casualties as well together with notables like Dominik Panka and Jonathan Little.
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