Andras Nemeth Tops Day 1b Survivors at 2016 PokerStars EPT Malta Main Event
The second and last starting day of the 2016 PokerStars.com EPT13 Malta Main Event attracted 326 players. After eighth 75-minutes levels, it was Hungarian Andras Nemeth who came out on top of the 162 players that survived the day. Nemeth bagged up 192,400 in chips, slightly more than day 1a chip leader Dan Shak who'll bring 185,100 to Day 2. After two starting days the total number of runners adds up to 460 of which 223 will return to the Casino Portomaso tomorrow to continue play on day 2.
The story of the first level of day 1b was the bust out of Sai Wu as she made her departure after just 14 minutes of play. Wu had lost some of her chips before but still had more than two-thirds of the starting stack left when she shoved all in with ace-nine on an ace-ten-five-ten-seven board. Alexander Ivarsson was more than happy to call it down with ace-ten for a full house. Despite his good start, Ivarsson didn’t manage to survive the day.
Neither did Marcin Chmielewski, he was the second casualty of the day and hopped right into the €10,200 Single-Day High Roller, where he busted evenly fast. In the Main Event, it was Bastian D?hler who got his chips. D?hler also eliminated Lijo Lander but couldn’t hold on to his big stack for long, he ended the day with just 22,800 chips, slightly less than the 30,000 he started with.
One of the notables that got off to a good start was Eugene Katchalov. He scored a double knockout when he busted Jamie Staples and short stack Adel Kabbei. Katchalov had queens and was up against Kabbani’s ace-ten suited and Staples pocket jacks. None of them improved and they were sent tot the rail. While Katchalov found his way up, Staples was one of the notables that didn’t make it to the dinner break.
Besides Twitch-star Staples, Andres Hoivold, Jan Bendik, Jason Wheeler, Patrick Leonard, Alex DiFelice and defending champion Niall Farrell were all gone before dinner as well.
Meanwhile, William Kassouf entered the event. The Brit was the talk of the week here in the casino because of his appearance in the World Series of Poker broadcast. Here in Malta, he was talking loud and clear as always, annoying some of the players and railbirds, entertaining others. He gained some chips but didn’t make it to the top of the leaderboard; Kassouf survived the day with 50,500 in chips.
Chipleader Nemeth got things moving the right way half way through the day as he slowly chipped up and never looked back. By winning many pots without going to a showdown, he was able to build the biggest stack in the room and he'll come back as leader of the pack on Tuesday.
There are lots of notables in the top of the leaderboard, but there were many that didn’t survive. Most recent EPT champion Sebastian Malec was one of them as he busted in the second-to-last level of the day with eights against tens. Kitty Kuo, Antoine Saout and Miroslav Forman are some of the others that busted right before the end of play. Team PokerStars Pro Jake Cody even busted in the very last hand.
Some notables that did manage to make day 2 include: French pro Sarah Herzali (142,400), triple crown winner Davidi Kitai (128,000), Mikita Badziakouski (103,500), Ludovic Geilich (92,200), Dominik Panka (86,000), Dietrich Fast (80,700), Benny Spindler (70,300) and George Danzer (27,000).
Those are just some of the famous names that will return on Tuesday for day 2 of this EPT Main Event. The action will resume at 12 p.m. local time with six 75-minute levels on the schedule. The PokerNews live reporting team will bring you all the action, so be sure to tune in to get the latest updates.
Day 2 Seat Draw
| Table | Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Alessandro Longobardi | Italy | 69,100 |
| 1 | 2 | Ole Schemion | Germany | 147,500 |
| 1 | 3 | Eros Nastasi | Italy | 45,800 |
| 1 | 4 | Johan Guilbert | France | 20,600 |
| 1 | 6 | Miguel Riera Suarez | Spain | 97,500 |
| 1 | 7 | Ran Azor | Israel | 58,800 |
| 1 | 8 | Andre DiFelice | Canada | 79,100 |
| 2 | 1 | Bartlomiej Machon | Poland | 35,800 |
| 2 | 2 | Stefano Terziani | Italy | 85,600 |
| 2 | 3 | Vicente Delgado | Spain | 133,300 |
| 2 | 4 | Charlie Carrel | UK | 87,300 |
| 2 | 5 | Asker Aloev | Russia | 120,000 |
| 2 | 6 | Lawrence Andreys | France | 16,100 |
| 2 | 7 | Michal Janczarski | Poland | 51,000 |
| 2 | 8 | Rafael Gancedo | Spain | 14,300 |
| 3 | 1 | Govert Metaal | Netherlands | 21,100 |
| 3 | 2 | Simon Amyot | Canada | 48,700 |
| 3 | 3 | Krzysztof Stuchlik | Poland | 34,000 |
| 3 | 4 | Russell Thomas | USA | 55,000 |
| 3 | 5 | Serdar Demiroglu | Turkey | 74,600 |
| 3 | 6 | Alain Fluri | Switzerland | 77,400 |
| 3 | 7 | Adrian Mateos | Spain | 27,800 |
| 3 | 8 | Daniele Colautti | Italy | 110,000 |
| 4 | 1 | Gheorghe Gradinaru | Romania | 24,100 |
| 4 | 2 | Alexander Debus | Germany | 51,800 |
| 4 | 3 | Petar Petrov | Bulgaria | 53,400 |
| 4 | 4 | Paul Gresel | Netherlands | 63,500 |
| 4 | 5 | George McDonald | UK | 32,400 |
| 4 | 6 | Aliaksei Boika | Belarus | 125,100 |
| 4 | 7 | Darya Hulyk | Ukraine | 89,300 |
| 4 | 8 | Marko Popovic | Bulgaria | 33,900 |
| 5 | 1 | Victor Ilyukhin | Russia | 43,100 |
| 5 | 2 | Stale Eggen | Norway | 92,300 |
| 5 | 4 | Viacheslav Buldygin | Russia | 79,400 |
| 5 | 5 | Mats Karlsson | Sweden | 150,200 |
| 5 | 6 | Thibault Letort | France | 33,300 |
| 5 | 7 | Oskar Szwed | Poland | 73,000 |
| 5 | 8 | Huy Pham | Vietnam | 63,300 |
| 6 | 1 | Jerry Odeen | Sweden | 110,800 |
| 6 | 2 | Zorlucan Er | Turkey | 83,500 |
| 6 | 3 | Bejjani Kamal | Lebanon | 77,800 |
| 6 | 4 | Taran Parmar | Canada | 58,100 |
| 6 | 5 | Sergio Benso | Italy | 56,400 |
| 6 | 6 | Doron Davidovitz | Israel | 13,100 |
| 6 | 7 | Elie Saad | Lebanon | 87,300 |
| 6 | 8 | Hani Bahna | Canada | 23,500 |
| 7 | 1 | Dong Zhao | China | 41,600 |
| 7 | 2 | Benny Spindler | Germany | 70,300 |
| 7 | 3 | Fabrice Soulier | France | 37,500 |
| 7 | 4 | Dara O'Kearney | Ireland | 51,100 |
| 7 | 5 | Mikita Badziakouski | Belarus | 103,500 |
| 7 | 6 | Stephen Chidwick | UK | 80,900 |
| 7 | 7 | Dawid Borkowski | Poland | 76,700 |
| 7 | 8 | Jeroen Soons | Netherlands | 31,100 |
| 8 | 1 | Roman Korenev | Russia | 109,200 |
| 8 | 2 | Marco Bartolini | Italy | 59,000 |
| 8 | 3 | Ibrahim Ghassan | Lebanon | 50,100 |
| 8 | 4 | Maximilian Seidel | Germany | 45,000 |
| 8 | 5 | Peter Eichhardt | Sweden | 12,800 |
| 8 | 6 | Martin Nikolov | Bulgaria | 112,600 |
| 8 | 7 | Armando Collado Lanuza | Nicaragua | 73,500 |
| 8 | 8 | Orpen Kisacikoglu | UK | 18,300 |
| 9 | 1 | Avihai Smadga | Israel | 33,200 |
| 9 | 2 | Natasha Amo | Canada | 23,600 |
| 9 | 3 | Harpreet Gill | Canada | 12,800 |
| 9 | 5 | Pietro Alerci | Italy | 39,600 |
| 9 | 6 | Stefan Jedlicka | Austria | 22,900 |
| 9 | 7 | Mark Anthony Vella | Malta | 30,300 |
| 9 | 8 | Dennis Berglin | Sweden | 27,900 |
| 10 | 1 | Felix Schlott | Germany | 62,400 |
| 10 | 2 | Kees van Brugge | Netherlands | 23,300 |
| 10 | 3 | Massimo Segatto | Italy | 52,800 |
| 10 | 4 | Jaime Kirk Man Galecio | Chile | 53,100 |
| 10 | 5 | Xixiang Luo | China | 139,000 |
| 10 | 6 | Michiel Broskij | Netherlands | 36,800 |
| 10 | 7 | Benny Glaser | UK | 26,100 |
| 10 | 8 | Marek Grzeska | Poland | 13,200 |
| 11 | 1 | Thi Nguyen | Vietman | 118,000 |
| 11 | 2 | Usman Siddique | UK | 20,000 |
| 11 | 3 | Grzegorz Grochulski | Poland | 111,300 |
| 11 | 4 | John Gulino | USA | 129,600 |
| 11 | 5 | Stanislav Kozlovskyi | Ukraine | 62,100 |
| 11 | 6 | Pratyush Buddiga | USA | 9,900 |
| 11 | 7 | Guillaume Diaz | France | 122,400 |
| 11 | 8 | Georgios Zisimopoulos | Greece | 31,100 |
| 12 | 1 | Paul McCartney | UK | 58,100 |
| 12 | 2 | Abdelhakim Zoufri | Netherlands | 25,100 |
| 12 | 3 | Vlado Banicevic | Montenegro | 41,000 |
| 12 | 4 | Mark Wagstaff | UK | 38,000 |
| 12 | 5 | Anton Bertilsson | Sweden | 155,200 |
| 12 | 6 | Maria Ho | USA | 32,800 |
| 12 | 7 | Jeffrey Blenkarn | USA | 36,500 |
| 12 | 8 | Sergey Sergeev | Russia | 70,800 |
| 13 | 1 | Andrey Andreev | Russia | 71,300 |
| 13 | 2 | Ivan Deyra | France | 9,000 |
| 13 | 3 | Senh Ung | UK | 19,200 |
| 13 | 4 | Paul Newey | UK | 41,500 |
| 13 | 5 | George Danzer | Germany | 27,000 |
| 13 | 7 | Angelo Mancini | Chile | 72,200 |
| 13 | 8 | Konstantin Kazaev | Russia | 43,200 |
| 14 | 1 | Anton Morgenstern | Germany | 96,500 |
| 14 | 2 | Jordi Urlings | Netherlands | 48,300 |
| 14 | 3 | Pierre Calamusa | France | 61,600 |
| 14 | 4 | Bastian Dohler | Germany | 22,800 |
| 14 | 5 | Alexander Prokudin | Russia | 26,300 |
| 14 | 6 | Dmitry Yurasov | Russia | 126,500 |
| 14 | 7 | Fiodor Martino | Italy | 41,400 |
| 14 | 8 | Kee Seow | Sweden | 54,900 |
| 15 | 1 | Vladimir Troyanovskiy | Russia | 9,000 |
| 15 | 2 | Benjamin Philipps | UK | 32,500 |
| 15 | 3 | Brian Altman | USA | 105,300 |
| 15 | 4 | Yaniv Peretz | Latvia | 83,200 |
| 15 | 5 | William Kassouf | UK | 50,500 |
| 15 | 6 | Jerwin Pasco | Singapore | 27,400 |
| 15 | 7 | Simon Trumper | UK | 54,700 |
| 15 | 8 | Jaroslaw Kowalski | Poland | 43,000 |
| 16 | 1 | Ricardo Cuerda Cuartero | Spain | 35,000 |
| 16 | 2 | Jean Montury | France | 20,000 |
| 16 | 3 | Nicolino Di Carlo | Italy | 41,400 |
| 16 | 4 | Alexandru Baron | Canada | 40,700 |
| 16 | 5 | Koray Aldemir | Austria | 58,700 |
| 16 | 6 | Roger Artur Szarek | Poland | 101,600 |
| 16 | 7 | Tibor Nagygyorgy | Hungary | 62,200 |
| 16 | 8 | Michael Kane | UK | 81,900 |
| 17 | 1 | Dan Shak | USA | 185,100 |
| 17 | 2 | Dominique Terzian | France | 45,000 |
| 17 | 3 | Ismael Bojang | Austria | 128,400 |
| 17 | 4 | Ludovic Geilich | UK | 92,200 |
| 17 | 6 | Felipe Costa | Brazil | 40,400 |
| 17 | 7 | Ivan Banic | Croatia | 48,700 |
| 17 | 8 | Nariman Yaghmai | Iran | 29,900 |
| 18 | 1 | Roberto Perez Gomez | Spain | 77,700 |
| 18 | 2 | Damien Luis | France | 50,100 |
| 18 | 3 | Alexandros Kolonias | Greece | 23,700 |
| 18 | 4 | Andras Nemeth | Hungary | 192,700 |
| 18 | 5 | Erwann Pecheux | France | 46,200 |
| 18 | 6 | Morten Halvorsen | Norway | 17,800 |
| 18 | 7 | Hady El Asmar | Lebanon | 101,900 |
| 18 | 8 | Marco D'Amico | Italy | 46,400 |
| 19 | 1 | Mikhail Petrov | Russia | 83,400 |
| 19 | 2 | Jean-Louis Cyr | Canada | 85,500 |
| 19 | 3 | Aykutalp Yilmaz | Turkey | 74,200 |
| 19 | 4 | Luis Rodriguez Cruz | Spain | 24,900 |
| 19 | 6 | Laszlo Bujtas | Hungary | 26,200 |
| 19 | 7 | Benjamin Pollak | France | 26,500 |
| 19 | 8 | Yung Hwang | USA | 57,600 |
| 20 | 1 | [Removed:215] | Switzerland | 59,200 |
| 20 | 2 | Jakub Michalak | Poland | 98,200 |
| 20 | 3 | Thomas Lentrodt | Germany | 83,900 |
| 20 | 4 | Gianfranco Visalli | Italy | 81,600 |
| 20 | 5 | Piotr Franczak | Poland | 108,600 |
| 20 | 6 | Guillaume Valle | France | 143,200 |
| 20 | 7 | Rick Trigg | UK | 49,500 |
| 20 | 8 | Viatcheslav Ortynskiy | Russia | 60,400 |
| 21 | 1 | Danny Van Zijp | Netherlands | 102,900 |
| 21 | 2 | Jussi Nevanlinna | Finland | 36,100 |
| 21 | 3 | Anatoly Korochenskiy | Russia | 55,700 |
| 21 | 4 | Chi Zhang | UK | 54,300 |
| 21 | 5 | Eugene Katchalov | Ukraine | 143,900 |
| 21 | 6 | Pasi Sormunen | Finland | 183,600 |
| 21 | 7 | Dominik Panka | Poland | 86,000 |
| 21 | 8 | David Cabrera | Chile | 75,700 |
| 22 | 1 | Louis Cartarius | Germany | 77,800 |
| 22 | 2 | Simen Birkelund | Norway | 57,000 |
| 22 | 3 | Mikolaj Zawadzki | Poland | 18,000 |
| 22 | 4 | Lior Shabtay | Israel | 58,900 |
| 22 | 5 | Felix Bleiker | Switzerland | 77,000 |
| 22 | 6 | Joris Ruijs | Netherlands | 74,000 |
| 22 | 7 | Dmitry Ponomarev | Russia | 14,800 |
| 22 | 8 | Frederik Jensen | Denmark | 147,800 |
| 23 | 1 | [Removed:155] | Netherlands | 163,300 |
| 23 | 2 | [Removed:17] | New Zealand | 20,300 |
| 23 | 3 | Pawel Zawadowicz | Poland | 32,100 |
| 23 | 4 | Mateusz Borowski | Poland | 27,300 |
| 23 | 5 | Pierre Merlin | France | 63,800 |
| 23 | 6 | Roberto Romanello | UK | 148,300 |
| 23 | 7 | Davidi Kitai | Belgium | 128,000 |
| 23 | 8 | Mikalai Vaskaboinikau | Belarus | 62,600 |
| 24 | 1 | Dmitry Nikitin | Russia | 12,200 |
| 24 | 2 | Yury Gulyy | Russia | 120,900 |
| 24 | 3 | Marcello Gavazzeni | Italy | 55,200 |
| 24 | 4 | Tomas Jozonis | Lithuania | 9,400 |
| 24 | 6 | Sarah Herzali | France | 142,400 |
| 24 | 7 | Pawel Brzeski | Poland | 42,900 |
| 24 | 8 | Aleksander Spadijer | Montenegro | 54,700 |
| 25 | 1 | Roman Ermakov | Russia | 19,100 |
| 25 | 2 | Gaelle Baumann | France | 44,800 |
| 25 | 3 | Konrad Abela | Malta | 64,000 |
| 25 | 4 | Christophe Larquemin | France | 21,800 |
| 25 | 5 | Tomas Macnamara | UK | 54,300 |
| 25 | 6 | Alexey Losev | Russia | 22,600 |
| 25 | 7 | Dariusz Szoen | Poland | 61,100 |
| 25 | 8 | Karzan Hamarash | Iraq | 54,700 |
| 26 | 1 | Juha Helppi | Finland | 48,700 |
| 26 | 2 | James Akenhead | UK | 15,400 |
| 26 | 3 | Charalampos Tsivikos | Cyprus | 36,900 |
| 26 | 4 | Kamran Aliyev | Azerbaijan | 30,400 |
| 26 | 5 | Ugur Altun | Turkey | 12,900 |
| 26 | 6 | Sylvain Loosli | France | 15,400 |
| 26 | 7 | Olli Autio | Finland | 52,500 |
| 26 | 8 | Jacqueline Cachia | Malta | 16,900 |
| 27 | 1 | Bjorn Geissert | Germany | 49,700 |
| 27 | 2 | Konstantinos Tzinis | Greece | 17,200 |
| 27 | 3 | Raffaele Sorrentino | Italy | 27,200 |
| 27 | 4 | Thomas Mjeldheim | Norway | 139,700 |
| 27 | 5 | Walter Treccarichi | Italy | 85,600 |
| 27 | 6 | Jacek Pustula | Poland | 42,000 |
| 27 | 7 | Peter Akery | UK | 12,900 |
| 27 | 8 | Bart Maes | Belgium | 119,500 |
| 28 | 1 | Bartosz Jablonski | Poland | 16,200 |
| 28 | 2 | Paul-Francois Tedeschi | UK | 38,700 |
| 28 | 3 | Luke Marsh | UK | 85,000 |
| 28 | 5 | Dietrich Fast | Germany | 80,700 |
| 28 | 6 | Knut Karnapp | Germany | 68,300 |
| 28 | 7 | Peter Ockenden | UK | 87,800 |
| 28 | 8 | Armin Mette | Austria | 183,700 |
| 29 | 1 | Zoltan Szabo | Hungary | 43,700 |
| 29 | 2 | Aymon Hata | UK | 24,300 |
| 29 | 4 | Freek Cornelis Scholten | Netherlands | 52,000 |
| 29 | 5 | Tom Hall | UK | 33,600 |
| 29 | 6 | Martin Staszko | Czech Republic | 70,200 |
| 29 | 7 | Lucas Blanco | Spain | 61,800 |
| 29 | 8 | Song Hun Lee | Canada | 23,200 |