€25,000 High Roller Championship
Day 1 Completed
2009 PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final
€25,000 High Roller Championship
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2009 PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final
Buy-in
€25,000
Prize Pool
€1,975,000
Entries
79
Level
23
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000
Day 1 Concludes
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Only thirty seven remain out of the very respectable seventy-nine who coughed up the €25,000 entry fee. With such a large buy-in, the prize pool will be as juicy as bigger tournaments. Join us tomorrow as the final table will be approached and attained. Big stacks like Elky, Florian Langmann, Juha Helppi and Ilari Sahamies won't give up without an entertaining fight!
Quote of the Day
"I used to swear on my children's lives, but now I have a cupboard full of dead children."
Boeree-d 'Em and Weep
. It was bad timing though, as the raiser who shoved over had 
and promptly sent Boeree to the rail.She did, however, do something unique at the table while listening to her ipod - air guitar. Just subtly, like, "I reckon no one's watching, so I'm going to play air guitar." More original than chip riffling.
Alaei Caramba! Double Bustout
Timoshenko:
Alaei:
Demjan:
The board ran out
to give a big pot to Alaei, whose stack has gone nowhere but up all day.
Eastgate Shown the Door
Devilfish raised to 4,000 and Michael Binger made it 14,000 to go from the cutoff. Eastgate flatted on the button, Devilfish decided against the call, and they went heads up to the flop.
Flop:
Binger checked and Eastgate shoved -- and a snap-call from Binger spelled the end for the WSOP champ.
Eastgate:
Binger:
Turn:
River:
Romanello Gets the Better of Lichtenberger
Lichtenberger raised from the cutoff and Romanello called from the button, as did both blinds. They saw a
flop and Lichtenberger checked. Romanello bet 11,000 and the blinds got out of the way; back to Lichtenberger, and he called.Both players checked the
turn, and Lichtenberger checked the 
river as well, at which point Romanello bet 45,000. A puzzled look from Lichtenberger, closely followed by a fold, and Romanello is up to around 150,000.
Helppi Puts the Pressure On
, William Thorson bet out and picked up one caller. He then found Helppi calmly sliding a big stack of blue 5k chips over the line, enough to cover both of Helppi's shorter-stacked adversaries. It took some dwelling time, but both players decided to let that one go. Helppi, by the way, was as impassive to be as possible while still breathing, waiting for their decisions. His reflective aviators on, he sat totally still and I half expected him to pull out a picture of John Connor.
New Leader Challenges Kabbaj's Stereotypes
"I've never seen a German raise so many hands. You raise more hands in a tournament than most Germans do in a year."
Hero to Zero
After doubling up short stacks several times, the final chunk came out of his stack and went to a back-from -the-dead Peter Eastgate, whose
saw him double yet again through Demjan. Eastgate is now up to 90k!Now Demjan will have to perform the same magic trick as the WSOP champ to have any hope of coming back tomorrow.