We've got a few details on the eliminations of Marcel Bjerkmann and Morten Erlandsen. They happend on the same hand, and the pot began with Dmitry Nemirovsky opening to 7,200 in early position, and Bjerkmann shoved all in for around 50,000 a couple seats over. Mortan Erlandsen reraiased all in himself, and Leonid Bilokur re-reshoved behind them both. That shook Nemirovsky out of the way, and Bilokur was looking for the double knockout as the cards were tabled.
Showdown
Bjerkmann:
Erlandsen:
Bilokur:
The flop was just what Erlandsen was looking for, jumping out to a big lead with two to come.
Turn: !
That's the money card for Bilokur, improving him to queens full and leaving Bjerkmann drawing dead. Erlandsen could still find a two-out king to stay alive, but the river was a blank.
The double KO goes to Bilokur, and he's up to about 250,000 thanks to that.
After Lubor Dedic opened to 6,300, Anton Wigg reraised to 14,800. Dedic was in the hijack seat and Wigg in the cutoff. Action folded back to Dedic and he, too, folded, allowing Wigg to chip up.
Rasmus Vogt fired 16,600 on the double-paired board into Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree. The former EPT San Remo champion made the call and the river was the . Both players checked.
We watched Andre Klebanov check a flop, and Ari Engel bet 6,100. Klebanov stuck in a check-raise, though, and Engel tanked and called the extra 11,200 on top. On the turn, Klebanov fired back out with 27,200, and Engel considered for a long while before matching the bet once more.
The river came the , and Klebanov wasn't slowing down now. He reduced his bet to 22,500, and Engel made the last call. At showdown, Klebanov revealed that his had found a flush, and Engel quietly slid his cards muckward.
We picked up the action on a flop as Mike McDonald was leading the betting. He was out of position in the small blind, and he put out 8,800. Milan Joksic paused for a while before making the call, and the landed on the turn. McDonald only needed two bullets; another bet of 16,600 on fourth street won him the pot outright.
Welcome back to Day 3 of the 2011 PokerStars.comEPT Prague Main Event. There are 136 players left from the original, record-setting starting field of 722 and Garri Tevosov leads the way big with 764,000 in chips.
Other notables Chris Moorman, Max Silver, Mike McDonald, David Peters, Nicolas Levi and former EPT Grand Final winner Nicolas Chouity are still in contention.
With the top 104 places being paid out, the bubble should come fairly early in the day. From there, the grind to reach the final 24 players will begin. Play kicks off at 12:00 CET, so be sure to follow along right here at PokerNews for all of the action.