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[philhux]

I am taking 33,900 chips into Day Two of EPT Prague on Wednesday (starting stack was 30,000). Blinds will be 400/800/100ante.

That is a 3/3 record making EPT Main event day twos! I should probably be out though. I was down to 3,000 in level three and grinded the shortstack all day. Most of my chips went to Scott Baumsteam who owned me quite hard in the second and third levels. Getting two good rivers making me the second best hand and getting him paid well. I'm surprised I didn't go broke. From then on I got to watch him try and wrestle the chips from this huge Russian laggro whale fish, but he never did get that many of them and the Russian finished as chipleader for the day. Baumstein had a nice stack too. He's a very good player. When I got chips again late on I tried to get into some pots with the Russian and flop something, but I didn't manage to get paid.

First picture is the Russian Vedzizhev Beslan.

http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/ept/2011/ ... 89078.html

He spoke no English and an Italian player also spoke no English. It was interesting when they were in a pot together! Steve O'Dwyer (who is really good) joined the table late and there was a competent English player but it was basically a weak table apart from Baumstein. Pity I never had enough chips to take advantage.

I had two all ins for my tournament life AA v AQ and KK vs Baumsteins A6, both all in pre

I also played the WPT last week and busted out right at the end of day one as the bags were coming out. I played really well I thought but it just wasn't my day.

There are so many tournaments going on in Prague right now it is completely crazy. Nice city too!

[Primitive]

Good luck m8.

May all your flops be monsters

[philhux]

Through to day three with 96.3k. There's 125 left and 104 pay.

Here's my day three table draw

Sergey Prochny Russia 7 1 140,700
Andrulis Kristijonas Lithuania 7 2 104,200
Ignat Liviu Romania* PokerStars qualifier 7 3 224,400
Ty Mullins Mexico* PokerStars qualifier 7 4 383,700
Mads Amot Norway 7 5 63,900
Fernando Rumeroso Spain 7 6 29,000
Phillip Huxley UK PokerStars player 7 7 96,300
Nikolay Tsanev Bulgaria 7 8 172,400

There's a hello of a lot of Eastern Europeans here at this tournament. This table doesn't look like there is too much to fear, though I expect Mullins the American is decent.

Today played with Johnny Lodden, Theo Jorgenson, Andy Frankenburger, Vitali Lunkin and a clueless Romanian who had position on me and completely confused me. Stayed out of trouble and was not all in for my tournament life. I almost feel like I am freerolling as I was down to 3k in level three.

[nsidestrate]

Mullins is probably pretty serious, since he moved from Florida to Mexico to keep grinding online.

Nicely done, Phil.

[leofric]

All fingers crossed - Go Phil!!

[Dogs]

Good luck, fella!

Why are you listed as PokerStars player, whereas others are PokerStars qualifier? Did you buy-in through the site? Or have I missed the thread where you became a sponsored pro?

[nsidestrate]

From PokerStars blog:

Garri Tevosov has chipped up to 295,000 after winning a large pot from Ty Mullins. We joined the action with Mullins putting out a 45,000 bet into the turn of a [8h][ks][5h][ah] board. Tevosov never looked like folding and looked like he had to stop himself from simply insta-calling. A large pile of red 1,000 and blue 5,000 chips now covered a large proportion of the table with what must have been over 150,000 in the pot.

The [kc] river paired the board and Mullins checked, which was followed by a quick check Tevosov.

Mullins: [ac][qc]
Tevosov: [qh][2h]

"You bet, I fold. Easy fold," said Tevosov as he raked in the pot giving what appeared to be an unintentional rubdown. Mullins is down to 140,000, which is still some way above average. Andrey Saenko is at the same table and has dropped a chunk of his stack but is still riding high with 305,000. Liv Boeree is also on close to 300,000.

Jason Wheeler was in pretty bad shape when his five-bet shove of 67,000 was called by Ty Mullins with [9h][th] up against [tc][td].

Mullins had opened from the cut-off and Wheeler had three-bet from the small blind to 7,100. Mullins came back over the top for 13,500 and Wheeler shipped it in. Mullins didn't snap call, he looked at the stack in the middle then at his own before calling. Wheeler nodded his head as if to say, 'Oh well, you did have it.' Plenty of red on the [8h][4d][kd][9d][ts] board but of the wrong suit for Wheeler. Mullins up to 210,000. -- RD

The second one suggests that Mullins is pretty active, or Wheeler is crazy.

[nsidestrate]

Blog claimed that Prochny was eliminated in level 8, which is a bit odd.

Kristijonas played in the EPT High Roller event in Madrid, FWIW.

Ignat Liviu has played and had decent runs in at least four EPT events.

Nikolay Tsanev has a couple of mentions online as well, including this cryptic one:

Hruby was just the beneficiary of a pot from the big blind, against the button and small blind.

With the board reading [kc][ad][6c][qh][qc] the button and small blind checked to Hruby who bet 3,225. The button folded but Nikolay Tsanev in the small blind tanked, eventually calling. Hruby turned over [qs][kd]. Tsanev flashed a grimace and a [jd].

Tsanev built a really huge stack on Day One of EPT San Remo but then burned up on Day 2. He also busted day 2 of the Eureka Poker Tour in Bulgaria in an apparently similar fashion.

None of the others get press from the PokerStars blog.

[philhux]

I've seen an almost unprecendented level of aggression from a lot of the eastern european players in this tournament (apart from Vitali Lunkin, he's a big rock!). Even the fish are aggro fish, I feel like I'm playing in a minefield. And everyone is 2.2xing these days, some people even just min raising. So many Russians, or maybe just at my table!

Wheeler is a good player, I believe WCOOP bracelet winner, I would hazard a guess he is very aggro. I'll look out for Mullins!

Dogs yes I haven't made it to team pro status yet! I sold action and bought in through the Stars client so they get to claim me as their player and I have to wear a patch if I make the final table, though I don't think this one is televised or streamed? It is a great tournament, huge and incredibly mixed field.

[Primitive]

Been a while since I played Mads but IIRC he was pretty damn good. Norwegian HU champ last year BTW.

High stakes cash player so he won't be scared at bubble.

[taz115]

Good luck today Phil!

[taz115]

Looks like 72 players left so into the money now. No mention of Phil busting yet, but there are a couple of 'TBD' listed in the payout schedule so as long as our man is not one of those guys he should be well into the money now, hoping for some good news.

[PauliF]

GO Phillip GO

[nsidestrate]

He was listed on the chip counts page until quite recently, now he isn't. I'm guessing this means an ITM bustout around the 10k payout level.

[taz115]

Looks like he is not in the active chip counts or in the updated Payout schedule. May have been a bubble exit unless the pokerstars blog has missed him somehow.