Confidence in poker can go an awful long way, and the abundance of that commodity in Maxim Lykov has made him the first ever champion of EPT Kyiv. "I'm already thinking of my second title," said Lykov in the moment after his dominant display in the first EPT event of season six. This was also the first EPT in a CIS country and Lykov's was the first victory by a Russian player in the five-year history of the tour. Maxim Lykov, EPT Kyiv champion Lykov's confidence is by no means misplaced. The 21-year-old was chip
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Day 5
PokerStars EPT Kyiv: Day 5 Level 28 updates
Live updates from day 5, level 28 of EPT Kyiv Sports Poker Championship brought to you by Stephen Bartley, Marc Convey, Howard Swains and Simon Young. Click refresh to see the latest updates below, while the latest selected chip counts can be found by clicking right here. You can also...more
PokerStars EPT Kyiv: Day 5 Level 27 updates
Live updates from day 5, level 27 of EPT Kyiv Sports Poker Championship brought to you by Stephen Bartley, Marc Convey, Howard Swains and Simon Young. Click refresh to see the latest updates below, while the latest selected chip counts can be found by clicking right here. You can also...more
PokerStars EPT Kyiv: Day 5 Level 26 updates
Live updates from day 5, level 26 of EPT Kyiv Sports Poker Championship brought to you by Stephen Bartley, Marc Convey, Howard Swains and Simon Young. Click refresh to see the latest updates below, while the latest selected chip counts can be found by clicking right here. You can also...more
Day 4
PokerStars EPT Kyiv: Day 4/5 level 23 updates (CONT)
Live updates from day 4, level 23 of EPT Kyiv Sports Poker Championship brought to you by Stephen Bartley, Marc Convey, Howard Swains and Simon Young. Click refresh to see the latest updates below, while the latest selected chip counts can be found by clicking right here. You can also...more
PokerStars EPT Kyiv: United Nations again on the European Poker Tour
Today's story is simple: the final table of EPT Kyiv will be one of the most cosmopolitan ever seen on the European Poker Tour -- a notable achievement on what is already the greatest celebration of the international appeal of this game. From a starting field of 296, eight players...more
PokerStars EPT Kyiv: Day 4 Level 21/22 updates
Live updates from day 4, level 22 of EPT Kyiv Sports Poker Championship brought to you by Stephen Bartley, Marc Convey, Howard Swains and Simon Young. Click refresh to see the latest updates below, while the latest selected chip counts can be found by clicking right here. You can also...more
Day 3
EPT Kyiv: Lykov lives day three to the Maxim
Boiled down and stripped of any flashiness, stress or emotion, today's objective for each of the 68 players was simple: survive into the money and then into day four. With the flashiness, stress and emotion stuck back on, that objective became a more complicated light-brigade charge into the unknown...more
PokerStars EPT Kyiv: Day 3 Level 17 updates
Live updates from day 3, level 17 of EPT Kyiv Sports Poker Championship brought to you by Stephen Bartley, Marc Convey, Howard Swains and Simon Young. Click refresh to see the latest updates below, while the latest selected chip counts can be found by clicking right here. Blinds 500-3,000-6,000. 6.45pm:...more
PokerStars EPT Kyiv: Day 3 Level 16 updates
Live updates from day 3, level 16 of EPT Kyiv Sports Poker Championship brought to you by Stephen Bartley, Marc Convey, Howard Swains and Simon Young. Click refresh to see the latest updates below, while the latest selected chip counts can be found by clicking right here. Blinds 500-2,500-5,000. 6.10pm:...more
Day 2
EPT Kyiv: Vitaly Tolokonnikov emerges highest from the rubble of day two
We began predicting chaos and Biblical fury; in the end it was just the regular whirlwind that howls through day two fields on the European Poker Tour. EPT Kyiv was seven levels old when 203 players returned to the Palace of Sports at noon on the second day. "We will...more
EPT Kyiv: Fitzgerald from the rail
My curiosity as to the progress of Alex Fitzgerald had inadvertently turned me into a stalker. I'd been hanging around his table for far too long, moving position every once in a while to keep the blood flowing in my feet and so not to draw attention to myself,...more
PokerStars EPT Kyiv: Day 2 Level 12 updates
Live updates from day 2, level 12 of EPT Kyiv Sports Poker Championship brought to you by Stephen Bartley, Marc Convey, Howard Swains and Simon Young. Click refresh to see the latest updates below, while the latest selected chip counts can be found by clicking right here. Blinds 200-1,000-2,000. 7.35:...more
Day 1B
EPT Kyiv: Viktor Ivanov leads after day one
How to sum a day like day 1b... 166 players arrived, a figure changed to 167 when Gus Hansen showed up in the nick of time to play, before deciding to return tomorrow instead. When he changed his mind again and took his seat he became part of the...more
PokerStars EPT Kyiv: Day 1B Level 7 updates
Live updates from day 1B, level 7 of EPT Kyiv Sports Poker Championship brought to you by Stephen Bartley, Marc Convey, Howard Swains and Simon Young. Click refresh to see the latest updates below, while the latest selected chip counts can be found by clicking right here. Blinds 50-300-600. 8.25pm:...more
EPT Kyiv: Enter the Dragan
Earlier this afternoon, there was no doubt where the fun table was, featuring Shaun Deeb, Andrew Malott and a clutch of other big online players, who all seemed to know one another from their time around the virtual tables. The conversation was typical. On the one hand it was self...more
Day 1A
EPT Kyiv: A profitable first day beyond the new frontier
No one knew what to expect of Ukraine. After five seasons on the EPT, we had a new starting location, a new country to visit, a new city to explore and a new poker experience to investigate. As has been well documented, we were supposed to have been in Moscow...more
PokerStars EPT Kyiv: Level 7 updates
Live updates from level 7 of EPT Kyiv Sports Poker Championship brought to you by Stephen Bartley, Marc Convey, Howard Swains and Simon Young. Click refresh to see the latest updates below, while the latest selected chip counts can be found by clicking right here. Blinds 50-300-600. 8.02pm: Two to...more
EPT Kyiv: Bække is bæck
The relatively small field here in Kyiv is good news for Allan Bække. Well, actually that's not completely true: Bække tends to like his fields even smaller, something in the region of two. Known online as Sifosis, Bække is one of the biggest winners of heads up sit and goes...more
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