Oleg Vasylchenko Leads Final Table of Season XV partypoker WPT® Prague Main Event

  Just six players remain in the Season XV partypoker World Poker Tour® Prague €3,300 Main Event, and they will return on Tuesday at 2 p.m. local time to battle for the €132,200 top prize that includes a $15,000 entry into the season-ending WPT® Tournament of Champions. Leading the final six players after Monday’s action…

Matt Clark
Dec 5, 2016

 

Just six players remain in the Season XV partypoker World Poker Tour® Prague €3,300 Main Event, and they will return on Tuesday at 2 p.m. local time to battle for the €132,200 top prize that includes a $15,000 entry into the season-ending WPT® Tournament of Champions.

Leading the final six players after Monday’s action was the same man who began the day with the lead, Oleg Vasylchenko. He finished on  1.595 million and has a comfortable lead over Tonio Roder’s second-place stack of 1.15 million.

WPT Prague Final Table

Seat 1: Oleg Vasylchenko – 1,595,000
Seat 2: Preben Stokkan – 468,000
Seat 3: Romain Lewis – 668,000
Seat 4: Martin Kabrhel – 465,000
Seat 5: Tonio Roder – 1,150,000
Seat 6: Anton Petrov – 704,000

Of the 20 players that returned to Day 3 from the original starting field of 167 entries, Alexander Fitzgerald, Erik Cajelais, and Dimitry Gromov were among them. Gromov, the last remaining WPT Champions Club member, busted in 17th place and cleared the way for a brand new champion to be welcomed into the illustrious club. Cajelais busted in 10th place, and then Fitzgerald went out in eighth.

On Fitzgerald’s elimination, which occurred during Level 21 with the blinds at 6,000/12,000  with a 2,000 ante, his pocket tens went up against the Diamond QSpade J of Preben Stokkan. A jack flopped to put Stokkan in the lead, and he held from there.

It was then Eduards Kudrjavces busting in seventh place to officially set the WPT final table. Kudrjavces had the Heart ADiamond J against the pocket queens of Roder. One ace hit the flop, with a second ace hitting the turn, but Kudrjavces’ trips were outdone by the full house of Roder when a queen spiked on the river.

Let’s meet the final table.

Oleg Vasylchenko

 

Oleg Vasylchenko, from Ukraine, is the chip leader to start the final table, and he’s already locked up the largest live tournament score of his career. Going for much more, Vasylchenko is in pole position with a nice lead to start the Season XV partypoekr WPT Prague Main Event final table. With $67,630 in live tournament earnings entering this event, according to the Hendon Mob poker database, Vasylchenko could really put himself on the map if he can ride his big stack to victory for his first WPT title and €132,200 in first-place prize money.

Tonio Roder

 

Tonio Roder, a German player from Ruesselsheim, entered the Season XV partypoker WPT Prague Main Event with $168,448 in live tournament earnings, according to the Hendon Mob poker database. Of that, the largest score for Roder came in the partypoker WPT National Vienna event in 2014, where he took third for $43,797.

Anton Petrov

 

Anton Petrov hails from Russia, and his last live tournament cash, according to the Hendon Mob poker database, came in the WPT National WPT Spring Open Montenegro event. There he finished 12th. Now, Petrov has found himself at the Season XV partypoker WPT Prague Main Event final table going for the largest live score of his career, which he can do so with a fourth-place finish or better. Entering the WPT Prague Main Event, Petrov had $62,137 in live tournament earnings.

Romain Lewis

 

Romain Lewis, from France, boasted $317,572 in live tournament earnings entering the Season XV WPT Prague Main Event, according to the Hendon Mob poker database. Lewis is making the first WPT Main Tour cash of his career, but he previously finished in the money in two WPT National events. One of those finishes resulted in a final table and a fourth-place result worth $36,463. That score was in the WPT National Marrakech event in October 2015.

Preban Stokkan

 

Preben Stokkan is a Norwegian player with $215,218 in live tournament earnings, according to the Hendon Mob poker database. The Season XV WPT Prague Main Event marks the first World Poker Tour cash of Stokkan’s career, and a fourth-place finish or better would result in the largest live tournament Stokkan has ever earned.

Martin Kabrhel

 

Martin Kabrhel, from Prague, Czech Republic, came into the WPT Prague Main Event with $2,004,324 in live tournament earnings. At the time, that ranked Kabrhel third on Prague’s all-time money list for live poker tournaments. If Kabrhel were to win the Season XV WPT Prague Main Event, it would be one of the largest scores of his career.

The final table will take place on Tuesday starting at 2 p.m. local time from Hotel Grandior Prague. Be sure to return right here to WPT.com for coverage of the final table starting then.