EPT Prague: Final table, level 28 updates

Updates from the final table, level 27 of EPT Prague, brought to you by Stephen Bartley, Marc "The Conv" Convey, Howard Swains and Simon Young.

Latest chip counts are on the chip count page. The EPT tournament structure can be found on the EPT tournament structure page. Full details of the payout structure and prizewinners so far are on the payout structure and prizewinners page.

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Previous coverage today: Level 28 | Level 26 | Level 27

Blinds:
Level 28: 40,000-80,000 (5,000 ante)

4.55pm: Four hands - and some action on the fourth
Things are slowing down a bit, folks. We're going through a spell of seeing no flops. Here are four hands in a row:

One - Stefan Mattsson bets 190,000 from the button, Jan Skampa and Eyal Avitan fold.
Two - Skampa makes it 190,000 from the button, the other two fold.
Three - Avitan folds his button and Mattsson folds from the small blind. A walk, then, for Skampa.
Four - Mattson makes it 190,000 from the button (standard) and this time Skampa calls. But Avitan seemingly wakes up with a hand from the big blind and makes it 780,000. That's enough to chase off the other two.

4.50pm: Mattsson suffering
Stefan Mattsson and Jan Skampa saw a limped [tc][9d][2c] flop from the blinds. Mattsson led out for 110,000 and was called by his big blind neigbour. Both checked the [3c] turn before Mattsson check-folded to a 150,000 from Skampa on the [8s] river. Mattson is looking really downbeat about his chip stack downswing at the moment.

4.45pm: The Jan Skampa show
Jan Skampa made it 200,000 to go from the button - no takers. Then the other way around - no takers, a walk to Skampa. Then Skampa made it 215,000 pre-flop - no takers. Then another 190,000 from the button - no takers.

4.40pm: Skampa wounds Mattsson again
Jan Skampa is continuing to damage Stefan Mattsson, who now appears to be below two million in chips. Mattsson made it 190,000 from the button, and Skampa called in the small blind. Avitan folded.

The flop came [7c][qc][10h] and both checked. But on the [8c] turn Skampa bet 315,000. Call. Now on the [jh] river Skampa made it a hefty 815,000 - called again by the Swede who got the bad news soon enough. Skampa had [kc][jc] for a turned flush.

4.35pm: Skampa grabs another
Jan Skampa makes it 240,000 from the button, and he gets a call from Stefan Mattsson in the big blind. The flop comes [4d][js][9s], Mattsson checks, and then mucks before we even had time to count how many chips Skampa was about to move over the line.
Next hand, Skampa gets a walk in the big blind.

4.30pm: Two in a row for Avitan
Stefan Mattsson raised from the button to 190,000 and was called by Eyal Avital in the big blind to see a [tc][5s][2h] flop. Avital check-called a 235,000 bet before they both checked the [7c] turn. Avital then bet out for 355,000 on the [7c] river prompting Mattsson to fold. He extends his chip lead a little further with that pot.

4.20pm: Avitan assumes lead
Eyal Avitan came back from the break and was on the button. He raised to 235,000 and after Stefan Mattsson got out the way, Jan Skampa re-raised to 580,000 total, or 345,000 more. Avitan called. The flop came [5h][qc][ac] and Skampa bet 550,000 at it, which Avitan also called. The turn was [7c] and after Skampa checked, Avitan bet 895,000, which was too much for Skampa, who yielded both this pot and the chip lead.

4.16pm: Chip counts with cards in the air

Jan Skampa, Czech Republic - 6,710,000
Eyal Avitan, Israel - 6,545,000
Stefan Mattsson, Sweden - 4,315,000

4.15pm: Play resumes on the final table
Three left in EPT Prague.

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