Kisacikoglu and Krol Pull €100k Bounties; 18 Players Remain
Orpen Kisacikoglu and Pawel Krol will sleep easy tonight as they pulled the €100,000 mystery bounties in Day 2 of the €3,000 EPT Mystery Bounty here at the PokerStars European Poker Tour Prague at the beautiful Hilton Prague Hotel.
Krol among 17 others will return to battle for the €1,331,616 regular prizepool as well as the remaining mystery bounties. Among the 18 players who survived, it was Frenchman Mathieu Di Meglio who bagged the chip lead where he bagged 3,125,000. This means Di Meglio will return with over 78 big blinds.
Top 10 Chip Counts After Day 2 of EPT Mystery Bounty
| Place | Player | Country | Chip Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mathieu Di Meglio | France | 3,125,000 | |
| 2 | Nils Pudel | Germany | 2,390,000 | |
| 3 | Nenad Dukic | Serbia | 2,265,000 | |
| 4 | Niko Koop | Germany | 1,745,000 | |
| 5 | Humberto Lopes Galindo | Spain | 1,700,000 | |
| 6 | Yigit Aksoy | Turkey | 1,600,000 | |
| 7 | Gregoire Auzoux | France | 1,350,000 | |
| 8 | Andras Vaczo | Hungary | 1,335,000 | |
| 9 | Vlada Stojanovic | Serbia | 1,130,000 | |
| 10 | Pawel Krol | Poland | 1,115,000 |
Kisacikoglu and Krol Pull €100k Bounties
Day 2 started with 328 players with over 100 entries max lag registration to get into this event. This brought the total number of entries to 776 and was 305 entries more than the same event at EPT London in October. Players who took advantage of the Day 2 late registration included high rollers Steve O'Dwyer and Sam Greenwood but both left the tournament area as quick as they entered.
After a few levels of play the bounty prizepool opened which included €776,000 worth of prizes include two €100,000 mystery bounties as the top prize. It didn't take long for players to look over with envy as high roller Orpen Kisacikoglu pulled the first €100,000 bounty early in the day.
Next big bounty to go was pulled by Finn Toni Kaukua for €50,000.
The final €100,000 bounty lasted for a while until Pawel Krol pulled it. Unlike Kisacikoglu, Krol is not a high roller and only has $2,165 in recorded live tournament earnings according to Hendon Mob.
Remaining Bounties
| Bounty Prize | Available |
|---|---|
| €100,000 | 0 |
| €50,000 | 0 |
| €25,000 | 0 |
| €10,000 | 1 |
| €5,000 | 1 |
| €2,000 | 2 |
| €1,000 | 30 |
| €1,000 & Draw Again | 1 |
Day 2 Action
The day started with a flurry of elimination before the bubble took place. There were three all in and calls on the bubble but it turned out that Christophe Malaurie would be the bubble boy as Maluarie called off with third pair to be eliminated.
EPT Barcelona Mystery Bounty Champ Johannes van Bemmel was soon eliminated within the money as he was coolered when he got his pocket queens in against Selahaddin Bedir's pocket aces.
Adrian Mateos was the biggest name in the field deep in the tournament with him being seen to have a big stack for much of the day but he was eliminated a few levels before the end of the day. The Spanish all time money list leader decided to bluff the wrong character in Nikolaos Iliakis who snapped Mateos's river shove with top pair.
EPT London Main Event final tablist Roman Hrabec was enjoying another deep run but was eliminated late in the day when his ace jack couldn't hold against Yigit Aksoy's king jack.
With Mateos gone the biggest name was no doubt former WSOP Main Event champion Hossein Ensan. The German had been battling all day but was eliminated when he got his short stack in with ace five only to run into Niko Koop's ace queen to no avail.
The action ended with end of day chip leader Mathieu Di Meglio scoring a double knockout where his ace ten eliminated both Nikolaos Iliakis and Thomas Graupner in 21st and 20th place respectively.
Stay tuned to PokerNews to find out who will take home the trophy as well as the €243,186 prize. Action starts tomorrow at 12 p.m. local with the blinds starting at 20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 big blind ante with play ending only once a champion has been crowned.