EPT Prague Main Event – 60 Players on Day 4

Day 4 of the European Poker Tour (EPT) Prague €5,300 Main Event kicked off today with 60 remaining participants. Let us recap what happened at the weekend.

EPT Sanremo 2012 winner Ludovic Lacay

The €5,300 Main Event of the Prague stop of the EPT Season 10 kicked off late last week and by the end of the registration on Day 2, a total of 1,007 players entered to accumulate a prize pool of €4,883,950, a record in the history of the series in the Czech capital. The Day saw 548 remaining players after Day 1A and 1B, led by November Nine member Amir Lehavot with 239,300 in chips, where the average stack size was 54,635.

On Day 2, nine more players entered the field, setting the final number of entrants and the prize pool. Eventually, 189 players survived the day with Walid Bou Habib in the chip lead (509,000) and the likes of Jonathan Little (471,000), Lehavot (427,000), Artem Romanov (399,700) Bertrand ‘ElkY’ Grospellier (230,200), Ole Schemion (112,600), Jonathan Duhamel (108,000), Eugene Katchalov (104,900), Dominik Nitsche (68,100) and Paul Volpe (61,300) in the field.

On Day 3, they reached the bubble of 151 in the money finishes and only 60 remained to return to the tables today. Notable players were eliminated along the way, including Volpe (143rd), Sylvain Loosli (140th), Nitsche (124th), ‘ElkY’ (106th), Lehavot (105th), Vitaly Lunkin (102nd), Katchalov (70th) and Duhamel (62nd).

The survivors are lead into the Day by EPT Sanremo 2012 champion Ludovic Lacay with 1,700,000 in chips. There are two more days to go: on 17 December, Day 5 starts at 12:00 local time and on 18 December, the final table will be played.

The top 10 stacks are the following at the beginning of Day 4:

Ludovic Lacay – 1,700,000
Julian Track – 1,187,000
Lasell King – 1,075,000
Ole Schemion – 1,030,000
Ihar Soika – 957,000
Ciaran Burke – 889,000
Ana Marquez – 870,000
Stephen Chidwick – 864,000
Georgios Sotiropoulos – 839,000
Vit Blachut – 826,000

Prizes:

1st: €889,000
2nd: €536,700
3rd: €378,000
4th: €283,800
5th: €218,300
6th: €160,200
7th: €118,200
8th: €84,600
9th: €66,050
10-11th: €54,900
12-13th: €49,200
14-15th: €44,300
16-17th: €39,400
18-20th: €34,500
21-23rd: €29,600
24-27th: €24,900
28-31st: €21,200
32-39th: €18,400
40-55th: €15,600
56-71st: €13,200
72-95th: €11,100
96-143rd: €9,000
144-151st: €8,600