Malaysia’s Chin Wei Lim wins EPT Prague Single Day High Roller

The PokerStars LIVE European Poker Tour (EPT) is currently underway in Prague at Hilton Prague, studded with the best-known poker players around the world. Just two days ago, the on-going tournament crowned Stephen Chidwick the Super High Roller title boosting his POY points. And it was only yesterday that Malaysia’s Chin Wei Lim took down EPT Prague Single Day High Roller for a spectacular €378,160 in prize money!

The one-day tournament persuaded 50 hopefuls taking their seats for €25,000 buy-in, attracting the High Roller regulars including Timothy Adams and Matthias Eibinger. The money reached to the top 6 places with a min-cash of €63,020.

It was noon local time when the cards shuffled in the air and 2019 EPT Monte Carlo NLH winner Rainer Kempe followed by the 2019 BPO London PLO winner George Wolff, the 2018 EPT Prague Single Day Event #21 champ Thomas Boivin, 2019 WPT Korea Single Day High Roller winner Danny Tang, the 2019 WSOP Platinum High Roller winner Kahle Burns were among few competitors to walk out early in the tournament.

After a series of double-ups and elimination the tournament reached its final hand, Lim holding Ad Jh up against his opponent Jorryt van Hoof with 9h 9c who raised up 410k from the blind while former put his entire stack in the middle. Flop Js 2s 2h proved to be in favour of Lim and with an incredible addition to Kd Kc on turn and river, didn’t bring much change for Hoof who was ultimately railed out in the runner-up position. Lim claimed the title along with the enormous first-place prize money and is now boosting his total live earning from $8 million.

Top 7 final payouts:

Chin Wei Lim – €378,160 (~INR 2.98 Crores)
Jorryt van Hoof – €273,120
Matthias Eibinger – €174,070
Timothy Adams – €132,055
Jun Obara – €102,040
Pavel Plesuv – €78,035
Yang Wang – €63,020

€5,300 EPT Prague Main Event

The Hilton Prague is crammed with the top players in the circuit, and yesterday another leading figure Belgium’s Bart Lybaert topped Day 1B of the EPT Prague Main Event, amassing an impressive stack of 333,400. In the second-place rests Niklas Lehnert-Rappel with 267,300 chips and Alex Kulev in the third position bagging 266,800.

The second starting flight pulled out a huge number of 745 players but only 268 could survive through the day. Two days into the tournament brought in an incredible number of 1,136 players but only 395 will resume on Day 2 with the overall chip leader from Day 1A Pierre Calamusa who accumulated stunning 475,000 chips.

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Day 1B top 10 chip counts

Bart Lybaert – 333,400
Niklas Lehnert-Rappel – 267,300
Alex Kulev – 266,800
Jonathan Therme – 256,400
Jakub Krawinski – 236,600
Krasimir Yankov – 226,000
Gab Yong Kim – 220,800
Luigi Shehadeh – 203,300
Raphael Wimmer – 199,200
Yake Wu – 197,200

Other notable players to progress to Day 2 include world number 1 Bryn Kenney bagging 180,700 chips, the 2019 EPT Monte Carlo Freezeout Dario Sammartino with 168.000 chips, 2019 The PAPC Championship Event winner Patrik Antonius with 155,100 chips, the 2019 APPT Korea Super High Roller champ Michael Soyza with 97,900 chips and so on.

Day 2 of the Main Event is scheduled to commence today, 13^th December at 12 pm local time. For the latest updates on poker news and tournaments around the world, keep reading GutshotMagazine.com and stay tuned!

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