2015 PokerStars.com EPT Season 12 Malta

�5,300 Main Event
Day: 6
Event Info

2015 PokerStars.com EPT Season 12 Malta

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
56
Prize
€534,300
Event Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€3,157,350
Entries
651
Level Info
Level
30
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
10,000

Heads-Up Chip Counts

Level 29 : 40,000/80,000, 10,000 ante

The final two players are extremely deep. As such, they've opted to take a moment to talk numbers. Cards should be back in the air shortly.


Niall Farrell and Alen Bilic look at the numbers with tournament director Luca Vivaldi
Player Chips Progress
Niall Farrell gb
Niall Farrell
10,135,000
1,595,000
1,595,000
EPT Main Event Champion
EPT 1X Winner
Alen Bilic ba
Alen Bilic
9,370,000
90,000
90,000

Jaroslaw Sikora Eliminated in 3rd Place (�265,840)

Level 29 : 40,000/80,000, 10,000 ante
Jaroslaw Sikora - 3rd Place
Jaroslaw Sikora - 3rd Place

Hand #31: With the {q-Hearts}{5-Diamonds}, Alen Bilic raised from the small blind and won the pot.

Hand #32: Jaroslaw Sikora limped from the small blind with the {a-Spades}{10-Diamonds} and Niall Farrell exercised his option from the big with a raise to 240,000 with the {a-Diamonds}{j-Hearts}. Sikora immediately moved all in for 1.585 million, and Farrell snap-called.

Sikora had major kicker issues, and the {8-Diamonds}{q-Clubs}{6-Hearts} flop didn't do anything for him. The {4-Spades} turn was a blank, and the {8-Spades} river wound up being the last card Sikora would see in the EPT12 Malta Main Event.

Player Chips Progress
Jaroslaw Sikora pl
Jaroslaw Sikora
Busted

Tags: Jaroslaw SikoraNiall Farrell

Giulio Spampinato Eliminated in 4th Place (�203,640)

Level 29 : 40,000/80,000, 10,000 ante
Giulio Spampinato stands on the rail with friends
Giulio Spampinato stands on the rail with friends

Hand #30: Niall Farrell made it 175,000 from the button with {9-Spades}{5-Clubs} and action was on the shorty in the small blind. Giulio Spampinato found {A-Clubs}{8-Hearts} and shoved for 675,000. Alen Bilic in the big blind woke up with {10-Spades}{10-Diamonds} and called rather quickly. Farrell laughed and instantly folded his hand.

Giulio Spampinato, surrounded by his friends and family, wished for an ace, but it wouldn't come. The board came {5-Hearts}{6-Clubs}{6-Hearts}{8-Spades}{4-Diamonds} and Spampinato was out in 4th place. His biggest score to date was winning the Big 55 online for $17,000, he improved on that here by quite a large margin, picking up �203,640.

The remaining 3 players are now guaranteed �265,840.

Player Chips Progress
Alen Bilic ba
Alen Bilic
9,280,000
1,020,000
1,020,000
Niall Farrell gb
Niall Farrell
8,540,000
-165,000
-165,000
EPT Main Event Champion
EPT 1X Winner
Jaroslaw Sikora pl
Jaroslaw Sikora
1,685,000
-70,000
-70,000
Giulio Spampinato it
Giulio Spampinato
Busted

Tags: Alen BilicGiulio SpampinatoNiall Farrell

Level: 29

Blinds: 40,000/80,000

Ante: 10,000

Rainer Kempe Eliminated in 5th Place (�161,340)

Level 28 : 30,000/60,000, 10,000 ante
Rainer Kempe (R) - 5th Place
Rainer Kempe (R) - 5th Place

Hand #27: Farrell looked down at the {a-Spades}{a-Hearts} under the gun and raised to 130,000. Rainer Kempe then picked up the {q-Clubs}{q-Diamonds} in the cutoff and three-bet to 300,000. Action folded back to Farrell and he paused for a few beats before moving all in. Not surprisingly, Kempe snap-called off.

Kempe, who became just the eighth player to make back-to-back EPT Main Event final tables (he finished fifth in the EPT12 Barcelona for �320,400), was in desperate need of a queen, but it never came as the board ran out {5-Diamonds}{k-Clubs}{9-Spades}{4-Clubs}{6-Clubs}.

With that, Kempe finished fifth in back-to-back EPT Main Events, this time for �161,340.

Tags: Niall FarrellRainer Kempe

Hand #20-26: Bilic Wins Three in a Row

Level 28 : 30,000/60,000, 10,000 ante

Hand #20: Alen Bilic, with just the {A-Diamonds} displaying, made it 125,000 to go under the gun and he picked up the blinds and antes.

Hand #21: Alen Bilic received a walk in the big blind with {Q-Hearts}{7-Spades} so more blinds and antes for the man from Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Hand #22: Action folded to Bilic in the small blind and he raised to 155,000 with {J-Diamonds}{10-Spades}. Jaroslaw Sikora called from the big blind with {A-Diamonds}{8-Clubs}. The flop came {6-Clubs}{6-Diamonds}{5-Clubs} pairing no one. Bilic made a continuation bet of 175,000 and Sikora called. The {2-Hearts} on the turn was a blank and Bilic and Sikora both checked. The {Q-Hearts} completed the board and Bilic fired 350,000 into the 710,000 pot. Sikora folded rather quickly, the bluff worked for Bilic who moved over the 8 million mark with that pot.

Hand #23: Farrell received a walk with {J-Hearts}{9-Clubs} in the big blind. "My button is broke[n]" Sikora said with a smile.

Hand #24: {Q-Spades}{6-Diamonds} for Niall Farrell in the small blind and he raised to 180,000. Rainer Kempe folded {J-Diamonds}{4-Clubs} from the big blind.

Hand#25: Niall Farrell raised to 125,000 from the button with {a-Clubs}{k-Hearts} and took down the blinds.

Hand #26: Jaroslaw Sikora raised to 125,000 under the gun with the {a-Clubs}{k-Diamonds} and Alen Bilic defended from the big blind with the {10-Clubs}{7-Spades} to see a flop of {10-Spades}{9-Clubs}{8-Clubs}, which both players checked. When the {2-Diamonds} appeared on the turn, Bilic bet 155,000 and Sikora released.

Tags: Alen BilicJaroslaw SikoraNiall FarrellRainer Kempe