The 2012 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final

€25,000 High Roller
Day: 1
Event Info

The 2012 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
k3
Prize
€1,080,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€25,000
Prize Pool
€3,325,000
Entries
133
Level Info
Level
26
Blinds
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
5,000

€25,000 High Roller

Day 1 Completed

Day 1 Over; Badecker Leads

Level 10 : 800/1,600, 200 ante
Phil Ivey one of the big guns with plenty of ammo after Day 1
Phil Ivey one of the big guns with plenty of ammo after Day 1

Day 1 of the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final €25,000 High Roller is in the books after the players trudged through the first 10 levels of play. Plopping down the big buy-in were 117 players. Add another 16 re-entries to that and there were a total of 133 entries in this event.

At the end of the day, under 50 players remained with Andrew Badecker on top holding 350,000 in chips. He's trailed closely by Vincent van der Fluit with 341,200 and then Sami Kelopuro comes in third with 310,000.

Also remaining are notables Phil Ivey, Chris Moorman, Patrik Antonius and Bryn Kenney. All four of them bagged up a good portion of chips and will be above average coming into Day 2. Some of those eliminated on the day included JP Kelly, Eugene Katchalov, Yevgeniy Timoshenko, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier and Jason Mercier.

Day 2 will commence tomorrow at 12:00 PM local time and PokerNews will be on hand for all of the coverage straight from the get go. We hope you're here to join us then.

Tags: Andrew Badecker

Bagging and Tagging (full)

The players are done for the night and bagging up their chips. We'll have a wrap post coming shortly, but in the mean time, check out the end-of-day chip stacks.

Player Chips Progress
Andrew Badecker us
Andrew Badecker
350,000 -15,000
Vincent van der Fluit nl
Vincent van der Fluit
341,200 136,200
Sami Kelopuro fi
Sami Kelopuro
310,000 168,000
Patrik Antonius fi
Patrik Antonius
EPT 1X Winner
307,500 117,500
Igor Kurganov ru
Igor Kurganov
279,900 23,900
Phil Ivey us
Phil Ivey
Poker Hall of Famer
271,500 51,500
Alexander Uskov ru
Alexander Uskov
261,900
Chris Moorman gb
Chris Moorman
261,700 -13,300
Bryn Kenney us
Bryn Kenney
261,300 2,300
Noah Schwartz us
Noah Schwartz
230,200 115,200
Artem Litvinov ru
Artem Litvinov
227,400 -42,600
Mike "Timex" McDonald
Mike "Timex" McDonald
213,500 43,500
Justin Bonomo us
Justin Bonomo
204,200 4,200
Martin Finger de
Martin Finger
EPT 1X Winner
203,700 122,700
William Reynolds us
William Reynolds
203,700 88,700
Roman Romanovsky
Roman Romanovsky
201,100 -138,900
Philipp Gruissem de
Philipp Gruissem
170,800 25,800
Alex Bilokur ru
Alex Bilokur
141,400 -18,600
David "Doc" Sands us
David "Doc" Sands
139,300 9,300
Haralabos Voulgaris ca
Haralabos Voulgaris
125,500 500
Richard Lyndaker us
Richard Lyndaker
124,700 48,700
Joseph Elpayaa us
Joseph Elpayaa
121,200 -68,800
Sorel Mizzi ca
Sorel Mizzi
120,200 -44,800
Liv Boeree gb
Liv Boeree
112,600 -17,400
Michael Telker us
Michael Telker
112,400

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Kelopuro Can't Squeeze This One

Bryn Kenney raised from the hijack seat and Team PokerStars Pro David Williams flatted from the cutoff before action moved over to Sami Kelopuro in the small blind. Kelopuro reraised to 12,800. Play moved back to Kenney and he four-bet to 29,000. Williams gave it some thought and then folded. Kelopuro also thought it over, but folded as well and Kenney won the pot.

Player Chips Progress
Bryn Kenney us
Bryn Kenney
259,000 7,000
Sami Kelopuro fi
Sami Kelopuro
142,000 -18,000
David Williams us
David Williams
115,000 25,000

Tags: Bryn KenneySami KelopuroDavid Williams

Level: 10

Blinds: 800/1,600

Ante: 200

Timex Five-Bets Badecker

From the hijack seat, Phil Ivey raised to 3,000. Mike "Timex" McDonald reraised to 9,000 from the cutoff seat and then action fell on Andrew Badecker on the button. He four-bet and made it 19,400 to go. Play folded back to Ivey and he folded. McDonald five-bet to 37,700 and Badecker mucked.

Player Chips Progress
Andrew Badecker us
Andrew Badecker
265,000 -20,000
Mike "Timex" McDonald
Mike "Timex" McDonald
170,000 25,000

Tags: Mike "Timex" McDonaldPhil IveyAndrew Badecker