Noon Restart For Day 3 of the 2019 EPT Prague Main Event
Out of a field of 1,154 entries, only 141 hopefuls remain to battle for the lion's share of the €5,596,900 prize pool and will return to their seats at the Hilton Prague at noon local time for Day 3 of the 2019 PokerStars EPT Prague €5,300 European Poker Tour (EPT) Main Event. It is the third-biggest EPT Prague Main Event in the 13 years of history of the festival in the Czech capital and all those still in contention already have €9,850 locked up for their efforts.
The action will recommence with blinds of 2,000-5,000 and a big blind ante of 5,000, and five levels of 90 minutes each are scheduled to bring the field one step closer to crowning a champion in the days to come.
At the top of the leaderboard, Roman Herold (769,000) and Xiaqing Ji (768,000) are separated by a single chip only and the all-time highest-earning player Bryn Kenney follows in third place with 656,000. It would certainly be no surprise to see Kenney take another shot at a seven-figure score as a top prize of €1,005,600 is reserved for the eventual champion.
Other notables with more than half a million in chips at their disposal include 2019 EPT Open Sochi runner-up Giorgiy Skhulukhiya (634,000), Luke Marsh (626,000), Giuseppe Carbone (611,000), Pierre Calamusa (601,000), Teun Mulder (573,000), €1,100 EPT Prague National 13th place finisher Fidan Zahiti (543,000) and Akin Tuna (536,000).
Ten former EPT champions remain in contention to become the second two-time winner of the popular circuit and they are led by Dominik Panka (497,000), Ognyan Dimov (313,000) and Aliaksei Boika (220,000). Former Prague champions Hossein Ensan (180,000), Martin Finger (118,000), and PokerStars ambassador Kalidou Sow (70,000) will also be joined at the tables by Mikalai Pobal (162,000), Sebastian Sorensson (148,000), Steve O'Dwyer (101,000), and Davidi Kitai (93,000).
As of Day 3, a 30-second shot clock will be in play and all participants receive five 30-second time bank extensions, which will be replenished every day until the final table.
The live stream action of the feature table with hole cards displayed on a security delay of 30 minutes will be available on the PokerStars Twitch, YouTube and Facebook channels and the PokerNews team will be on the floor to provide all the action from start to finish.
2019 EPT Prague Main Event Day 3 Seat Draw
| Table | Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Table | Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
| 1 | 1 | Hiroki Nawa | Japan | 66,000 | 13 |
| 1 | 2 | Akin Tuna | Germany | 536,000 | 107 |
| 1 | 3 | Dan Serban Borlan | Romania | 435,000 | 87 |
| 1 | 4 | Lin Ruida | China | 34,000 | 7 |
| 1 | 5 | Francesco Delfoco | Italy | 172,000 | 34 |
| 1 | 6 | Pim Gieles | Netherlands | 282,000 | 56 |
| 1 | 7 | Gaby Livshitz | Israel | 301,000 | 60 |
| 1 | 8 | Valery Yantsevich | Belarus | 74,000 | 15 |
| 2 | 1 | Felix Kurmayr | Austria | 218,000 | 44 |
| 2 | 2 | Freek Scholten | Netherlands | 197,000 | 39 |
| 2 | 3 | Raphael Wimmer | Austria | 207,000 | 41 |
| 2 | 4 | Tomasz Cybulski | Poland | 268,000 | 54 |
| 2 | 5 | Laurent Michot | France | 550,000 | 110 |
| 2 | 6 | Nazim Shala | Sweden | 127,000 | 25 |
| 2 | 7 | Bryn Kenney | USA | 656,000 | 131 |
| 2 | 8 | Petr Hlavacek | Czech Republic | 118,000 | 24 |
| 3 | 1 | Hady El Asmar | Lebanon | 282,000 | 56 |
| 3 | 3 | Harry Ross | UK | 139,000 | 28 |
| 3 | 4 | Teun Mulder | Netherlands | 573,000 | 115 |
| 3 | 5 | Ognyan Dimov | Bulgaria | 313,000 | 63 |
| 3 | 6 | Mateusz Szymanski | Poland | 217,000 | 43 |
| 3 | 7 | Serhii Leonov | Ukraine | 254,000 | 51 |
| 3 | 8 | Vlastimil Pustina | Czech Republic | 243,000 | 49 |
| 4 | 1 | Roman Herold | Germany | 769,000 | 154 |
| 4 | 2 | Yehuda Cohen | Israel | 209,000 | 42 |
| 4 | 3 | Tomas Paiva | Portugal | 237,000 | 47 |
| 4 | 4 | Zinan Xu | China | 35,000 | 7 |
| 4 | 5 | Vasileios Tsaknis | Greece | 228,000 | 46 |
| 4 | 6 | Steve O'Dwyer | Ireland | 101,000 | 20 |
| 4 | 7 | Bryan Paris | USA | 139,000 | 28 |
| 4 | 8 | Nikita Lebedev | Russia | 148,000 | 30 |
| 5 | 1 | Giuseppe Zarbo | Italy | 429,000 | 86 |
| 5 | 2 | Sorin Flutur | Romania | 334,000 | 67 |
| 5 | 3 | Kimmo Kurko | Finland | 181,000 | 36 |
| 5 | 4 | Nariman Yaghmai | Iran | 156,000 | 31 |
| 5 | 5 | Stefan Jedlicka | Austria | 82,000 | 16 |
| 5 | 6 | Niklas Lehnert-Rappel | Austria | 51,000 | 10 |
| 5 | 7 | Ouri Cohen | France | 66,000 | 13 |
| 5 | 8 | Sebastian Percy-Smith | Denmark | 185,000 | 37 |
| 6 | 1 | Michael Soyza | Malaysia | 411,000 | 82 |
| 6 | 2 | Gab Yong Kim | South Korea | 365,000 | 73 |
| 6 | 3 | Sven Krieger | Germany | 123,000 | 25 |
| 6 | 4 | Sylvain Loosli | France | 171,000 | 34 |
| 6 | 5 | Gereon Sowa | Germany | 71,000 | 14 |
| 6 | 6 | Gaelle Baumann | France | 343,000 | 69 |
| 6 | 7 | Henrik Hecklen | Denmark | 385,000 | 77 |
| 6 | 8 | Andrei Stoenescu | Romania | 236,000 | 47 |
| 7 | 1 | Michael O'Grady | Australia | 226,000 | 45 |
| 7 | 2 | Norbert Szecsi | Hungary | 190,000 | 38 |
| 7 | 3 | Yake Wu | China | 100,000 | 20 |
| 7 | 4 | Timothy Adams | Canada | 332,000 | 66 |
| 7 | 5 | Dominik Panka | Poland | 497,000 | 99 |
| 7 | 6 | Jukka Paloniemi | Finland | 85,000 | 17 |
| 7 | 7 | Glib Kovtunov | Ukraine | 335,000 | 67 |
| 7 | 8 | Sergei Koliakov | Russia | 76,000 | 15 |
| 8 | 1 | Ionut Voinea | Romania | 132,000 | 26 |
| 8 | 2 | Orpen Kisacikoglu | Turkey | 438,000 | 88 |
| 8 | 3 | Antonio Smeraglia | Italy | 58,000 | 12 |
| 8 | 4 | Xiaqing Ji | China | 768,000 | 154 |
| 8 | 5 | Hossein Ensan | Germany | 180,000 | 36 |
| 8 | 7 | Philipp Zukernik | Canada | 215,000 | 43 |
| 8 | 8 | Przemyslaw Glaner | Poland | 254,000 | 51 |
| 9 | 1 | Juan Pardo | Spain | 84,000 | 17 |
| 9 | 2 | Pieter Aerts | Belgium | 370,000 | 74 |
| 9 | 3 | Markus Durnegger | Austria | 407,000 | 81 |
| 9 | 4 | Stefan Egermann | Germany | 287,000 | 57 |
| 9 | 5 | Jakub Krawinski | Poland | 54,000 | 11 |
| 9 | 6 | Kalidou Sow | France | 70,000 | 14 |
| 9 | 7 | Vitaly Karayvan | Russia | 57,000 | 11 |
| 9 | 8 | Stanislav Koleno | Slovakia | 357,000 | 71 |
| 10 | 1 | Ricardo Da Rocha | Brazil | 120,000 | 24 |
| 10 | 2 | Fedor Kruse | Germany | 324,000 | 65 |
| 10 | 3 | Antonin Teisseire | France | 57,000 | 11 |
| 10 | 4 | Jean-Philippe Piquette | Canada | 304,000 | 61 |
| 10 | 5 | Oshri Lahmani | Israel | 50,000 | 10 |
| 10 | 6 | Thomas Boivin | Belgium | 254,000 | 51 |
| 10 | 7 | Raymond Hibert | Luxembourg | 185,000 | 37 |
| 10 | 8 | Pierre Calamusa | France | 601,000 | 120 |
| 11 | 1 | Mikalai Pobal | Belarus | 162,000 | 32 |
| 11 | 2 | Boris Kuzmanovic | Croatia | 286,000 | 57 |
| 11 | 3 | Ranno Sootla | Estonia | 198,000 | 40 |
| 11 | 4 | Andrew Hulme | UK | 232,000 | 46 |
| 11 | 5 | Victor Bogdanov | Russia | 292,000 | 58 |
| 11 | 6 | Andrea Dato | Italy | 117,000 | 23 |
| 11 | 7 | Dario Sammartino | Italy | 364,000 | 73 |
| 11 | 8 | Erwann Pecheux | France | 184,000 | 37 |
| 12 | 1 | Simon Mattsson | Sweden | 98,000 | 20 |
| 12 | 2 | Aleksandr Sheshukov | Russia | 58,000 | 12 |
| 12 | 3 | Sebastian Sorensson | Sweden | 148,000 | 30 |
| 12 | 4 | Roland Chassing | France | 349,000 | 70 |
| 12 | 5 | Erdal Gulseven | Turkey | 383,000 | 77 |
| 12 | 6 | Joe Mouawad | Lebanon | 317,000 | 63 |
| 12 | 7 | Paul Newey | UK | 97,000 | 19 |
| 12 | 8 | Waldemar Peter | Germany | 56,000 | 11 |
| 13 | 1 | Stephen Chidwick | UK | 70,000 | 14 |
| 13 | 2 | Luke Marsh | UK | 625,000 | 125 |
| 13 | 3 | Ibrahim Senoussi | France | 28,000 | 6 |
| 13 | 4 | Aleksandr Merzhvinskiy | Russia | 169,000 | 34 |
| 13 | 5 | Diego Zeiter | Switzerland | 75,000 | 15 |
| 13 | 6 | Erwan Louer | France | 310,000 | 62 |
| 13 | 7 | Joao Mestre Ferreira | Portugal | 427,000 | 85 |
| 13 | 8 | Alessio Di Cesare | Italy | 237,000 | 47 |
| 14 | 1 | Fulvio Sansanelli | Germany | 102,000 | 20 |
| 14 | 2 | Dinesh Alt | Switzerland | 271,000 | 54 |
| 14 | 3 | Kemal Aslan | Turkey | 52,000 | 10 |
| 14 | 4 | Mustafa Biz | Turkey | 269,000 | 54 |
| 14 | 5 | Wei Tso | Hong Kong | 240,000 | 48 |
| 14 | 6 | Dietrich Fast | Germany | 177,000 | 35 |
| 14 | 7 | Dominykas Mikolaitis | Lithuania | 74,000 | 15 |
| 14 | 8 | Renato Hysenbelli | Italy | 219,000 | 44 |
| 15 | 1 | Johann Zeitoun | France | 243,000 | 49 |
| 15 | 2 | Hariton Tonchev | Bulgaria | 170,000 | 34 |
| 15 | 3 | Giorgiy Skhulukhiya | Russia | 634,000 | 127 |
| 15 | 5 | Gianluca Speranza | Austria | 417,000 | 83 |
| 15 | 6 | Luigi Shehadeh | Italy | 160,000 | 32 |
| 15 | 7 | Bart Lybaert | Belgium | 296,000 | 59 |
| 15 | 8 | Davidi Kitai | Belgium | 93,000 | 19 |
| 16 | 1 | Paul Hoefer | Germany | 120,000 | 24 |
| 16 | 2 | Andreas Boelling | Germany | 323,000 | 65 |
| 16 | 3 | Paul Hong | New Zealand | 197,000 | 39 |
| 16 | 4 | Paul Theobald | Germany | 221,000 | 44 |
| 16 | 5 | Giuseppe Carbone | Italy | 411,000 | 82 |
| 16 | 6 | Fidan Zahiti | Sweden | 543,000 | 109 |
| 16 | 7 | Martin Finger | Germany | 118,000 | 24 |
| 16 | 8 | Krasimir Yankov | Bulgaria | 317,000 | 63 |
| 17 | 1 | Francesco Candelari | Italy | 421,000 | 84 |
| 17 | 2 | Cristinel Sandu | Romania | 195,000 | 39 |
| 17 | 3 | Vojtech Ruzicka | Czech Republic | 63,000 | 13 |
| 17 | 4 | Tom Vogelsang | Netherlands | 139,000 | 28 |
| 17 | 5 | Fredrik Andersson | Sweden | 235,000 | 47 |
| 17 | 6 | Marius Gicovanu | Romania | 101,000 | 20 |
| 17 | 7 | Wing Sang Lee | Hong Kong | 425,000 | 85 |
| 17 | 8 | Denys Shafikov | Ukraine | 361,000 | 72 |
| 18 | 1 | Carl Shaw | UK | 213,000 | 43 |
| 18 | 2 | Morten Hvam | Denmark | 301,000 | 60 |
| 18 | 3 | Ran Azor | Israel | 90,000 | 18 |
| 18 | 4 | Mohamed Mokrani | France | 444,000 | 89 |
| 18 | 5 | Ngoc Minh Hoang | Czech Republic | 297,000 | 59 |
| 18 | 6 | Aliaksei Boika | Belarus | 220,000 | 44 |
| 18 | 7 | Claudio Di Giacomo | Italy | 310,000 | 62 |
| 18 | 8 | Jakub Oliva | Czech Republic | 469,000 | 94 |