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Yesterday was a big day at EPT Prague, as both the €5,300 Main Event as well as the €10,300 High Roller played down to the winner. In the Main Event, nobody could stop Stephen Graner, who came into the day as chipleader and never released his spot, while Andrey Zaichenko won the €10,300 High Roller for €448,000.
On the final day of the EPT Prague €5,300 Main Event, seven players returned to compete for the €969,000 first prize, the chipleader was Stephen Graner. Play started with the following seating and chipstacks:
Seat 1. Anton Bertilsson - 7.740.000 (77,40 bb)
Seat 2. Simon Mattsson - 2.130.000 (21,30 bb)
Seat 3. Jonathan Wong - 1.900.000 (19,00 bb)
Seat 4. Stephen Graner - 12.405.000 (124,05 bb)
Seat 5. Bjorn Wiesler - 3.285.000 (32,85 bb)
Seat 6. Remi Castaignon - 1.030.000 (10,30 bb)
Seat 7. Fabio Sperling - 4.710.000 (47,10bb)
The tournament started on the 50,000/100,000-10,000 ante blind level, and it didn't take long for a player to bust. EPT Deauville champion Remi Castaignon shoved all-in with 7-6 suited from early position and 8 big blinds, Bertilsson called with A-T and held up on the J-T-6-4-2 board.
A couple of hands later Wiesler lost a big flip against Graner with 9-9, Graner's A-K hit a top pair to send Wiesler packing.
Graner was seemingly unstoppable after this, he won a big pot against Sperling on the 9-T-8-J-J board with Q-5, while Sperling had the bottom end of the straight holding K-7.
On Level 31 (60,000/120,000-20.000 ante) Mattson raised to 260,000 from UTG, Graner 3bet to 675,000 and snapcalled when Mattson shoved for 2.495 million.
Mattson showed A-J offsuit, while Graner had 7-7, and the board didn't help the young Swedish player and he was eliminated in fifth place.
Sperling finished in fourth place, he ran his J-J into Bertilsson's A-A, then Wong lost his stack with 3-3 against Graner's A-A.
Graner started the heads-up with a huge lead, he had 29 million chips while Bertilsson was playing just 4.3 million.
In Level 32 (80,000/160,000-20,000 ante) Graner shoved with 4-4 on the button, and Bertilsson called it off with K-5.
The board came J-6-3-Q-T and with that, Stephen Graner became the champion of the 2014 EPT Prague Main Event, collecting €969,000 in the process.
Final table results:
1. Stephen Graner - €969.000
2. Anton Bertilsson - €582.720
3. Jonathan Wong - €410.190
4. Fabio Sperling - €308.180
5. Simon Mattsson - €235.700
6. Bjorn Wiesler - €172.340
7. Remi Castaignon - €129.390
The €10,300 High Roller started with 23 players in the hunt for the title, with Oleksii Khoroshenin in the lead. There were plenty of big names still left in the field including Marvin Rettenmaier, Dan Shak, Ole Schemion and Andrey "Kroko-dill" Zaichenko.
Players reached the final table on Level 27 (40,000-80,000-10,000 ante) with the following stacks and seating order.
Seat 1. Laurynas Levinskas - 2.420.000
Seat 2. Viacheslav Goryachev - 1.045.000
Seat 3. Simon Deadman - 1.400.000
Seat 4. Andrey Zaichenko - 5.455.000
Seat 5. Ole Schemion - 785.000
Seat 6. Joao Vieira - 1.320.000
Seat 7. Francois Billard - 3.030.000
The first player to bust was Viera, then Ole Schemion lost a big flip with QQ against Simon Deadman's A-K. He was left with just 295,000 and busted soon after.
Goryachev finished in fifth, Deadman finished in fourth, and the remaining players decided to make a deal.
Andrey Zaichenko - €448.180
Laurynas Levinskas - €412.905
Francois Billard - €405.260
They left €39,000 for the winner.
The third place finisher was Billard, he lost a preflop all-in with A-T suited against Levinskas' K-Q after the latter hit a pair on the 2-J-7-Q-T board.
Zaichenko managed to double up at the start of the heads-up and then went on to win the tournament. In the final hand of the night the two players got the money in before the flop.
Zaichenko showed down 3-3 which was dominated by Levinskas' 9-9, but Zaichenko found a miracle three on the Q-Q-A-3-T board to win the tournament.
Final table results:
1. Andrey Zaichenko - €487.180*
2. Laurynas Levinskas - €412.910*
3. Francois Billard - €405.260*
4. Simon Deadman - €238.320
5. Viacheslav Goryachev - €186.840
6. Ole Schemion - €141.420
7. Joao Vieira - €103.870