Erik Bakker opened to 100,000 from early position, and received calls from Grzegorz Kozieja in the cutoff and Eros Calderone on the button, before Mats Ullereng three-bet jammed for 610,000 from the big blind.
Bakker folded, but Kozieja looked him up, with Calderone also getting out of the way.
Mats Ullereng: K?K?
Grzegorz Kozieja: A?J?
Ullereng was in great shape, but the K?6?2? flop had something for everyone, giving Ullereng top set and Kozieja a flush draw.
The 6? hit on the turn to fill Ullereng up to a boat and leave Kozieja drawing dead, the 8? river completing the board.
David Vinaya opened from the hijack to 80,000. Jonas Hagstrom called on the button. Abdelhakim Zoufri called in the small blind and Oleh Okhotskyi defended the big blind.
Both blinds checked the 4?J?Q? flop to Vinaya who bet 100,000. Hagstrom called before Zoufri raised to 355,000. Okohotskyi and Hagstrom folded and Vinaya made the call.
Zoufri then checked the 9? turn before Vinaya moved all in. Zoufri tanked for just shy of a minute before folding.
Eros Calderone opened to 100,000 under the gun and Grzegorz Kozieja defended the big blind.
On the 10?9?8? flop, Kozieja check-called a bet of 60,000 from Calderone.
The 8? turn was checked through. On the A? river, Calderone raised to 575,000 versus a lead of 75,000 from Kozieja. After some thought, Kozieja called.
Calderone tabled K?Q? for a pair of eights with a king kicker, but Kozieja had A?Q? for two pair, aces and eights.
After two days of intense poker action, the stage is set for the final day of the €3,000 Mystery Bounty at the PokerStars European Poker Tour Prague, with a field of 835 players whittled down to 16 - all of whom are set to return to the Hilton Prague today, December 13, at noon local time.
They are led by 2016 EPT Barcelona Main Event champion Sebastian Malec, who claimed three knockouts in the final stages of Day 2 to rise to the top of the standings on 3,395,000, good for almost 70 big blinds. He is closely followed by Swedish online crusher Jonas Hagstrom (2,925,000), seeking his maiden EPT title, and EPT regular, Italian Eros Calderone (2,695,000).
Jonas Hagstrom
There are plenty of other dangerous foes for Malec remaining in the field, including Klemens Roiter (2,580,000), Dean Hutchison (880,000) and Day 2 chip leader Mats Ullereng (830,000).
Start of Day 3 Top Ten Counts
Place
Player
Country
Chip Count
Big Blinds
1
Sebastian Malec
Poland
3,395,000
67
2
Jonas Hagstrom
Sweden
2,925,000
58
3
Eros Calderone
Italy
2,695,000
53
4
Grzegorz Kozieja
Poland
2,640,000
52
5
Klemens Roiter
Austria
2,580,000
51
6
David Vinaya
Norway
2,500,000
50
7
Erik Bakker
Netherlands
1,195,000
23
8
Ori Miller
Israel
1,160,000
23
9
Abdelhakim Zoufri
Netherlands
1,075,000
21
10
Dean Hutchison
United Kingdom
880,000
17
Below are the remaining cash payouts that are still in play from the €1,432,860 prize pool.
Place
Prize
Place
Prize
1
€265,560
8
€31,900
2
€165,700
9
€24,500
3
€118,300
10-11
€18,900
4
€91,000
12-13
€15,700
5
€70,000
14-15
€13,100
6
€53,800
16
€11,000
7
€41,400
The remaining players will be pleased to know there is still one top bounty of €75,000 left, along with two €10,000 envelopes.
Bounty Prize
Count
Remaining
€ 75,000
3
1
€ 40,000
2
0
€ 25,000
8
0
€ 10,000
9
2
€ 5,000
16
4
€ 2,000
3
1
€1,000
144
20
€1000 + Draw Again
10
2
Play will recommence at Level 27, with blinds of 25,000/50,000, with a 50,000 big blind ante, with 40-minute levels in play. Play will continue until a champion is crowned, so stay tuned to PokerNews for all your coverage of the action.
