€10,300 High Roller
Day 2 Started
€10,300 High Roller
Day 2 Started
In half an hour from now at 12.30 p.m. local time, the second and penultimate day of the 2016 PokerStars EPT12 Dublin €10,300 High Roller gets underway at the Royal Dublin Society.
So far, a field of 181 entries including 42 second bullets has been created and 80 players bagged up. However, new participants and those that busted on their first attempt can still enter the competition before the first card is dealt to take a shot at the juicy prize pool.
Leading the field thus far is Dominik Nitsche and the German has a more than solid track record during High Roller Events in this festival. He took down the €2,000 UKIPT High Roller for a payday of €156,160 in the morning and then jumped into the €10k Single-Day High Roller later on that day to finish second to Charlie Carrel for another €139,450. Carrel won't be any threat for him this time around, as the young Brit busted both bullets on Day 1. Same also applied for Andrew Chen, PokerStars Team Pro Andre Akkari and Ivan Luca as well.
Other big stacks include 10k Single-Day 4th place finisher Mark Radoja (280,000), Jerry Odeen (250,000), Sam Greenwood (248,300), Ben Heath (240,300), Felix Bleiker (212,000) and PokerStars Team Pro Jason Mercier (189,300).
Plenty of other big names of the international circuit are still in with a shot at glory on Irish soil and the action recommences with level 11 and blinds of 1,000-2,000 and a running ante of 300. New entrants will start with 25 big blinds and a maximum of ten 60-minute levels are scheduled or until the final table of the last eight is reached, whichever of the two comes first.
The PokerNews live reporting team will be on hand to cover the action until a winner is crowned on Saturday, so make sure to tune back in regularly.
Bryn Kenney, Rafael Moraes and Kevin Killeen reentered while Scott Margereson has bought in before the start of Day 2. The registration is not officially closed yet, though.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Bryn Kenney |
50,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
Rafael Moraes |
50,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
Kevin Killeen |
50,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
Scott Margereson |
50,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
Level: 11
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 300
Table | Seat | Name | Country | Chips |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 1 | Bernardo Dias | Brazil | 102100 |
1 | 3 | Jeff Gross | USA | 136600 |
1 | 4 | Sam Greenwood | Canada | 248300 |
1 | 5 | Romain Lewis | France | 106200 |
1 | 6 | Ludovic Geilich | UK | 62800 |
1 | 8 | Gustav Nordh | Sweden | 148000 |
2 | 2 | Mariano Martiradonna | Italy | 90900 |
2 | 3 | Ben Heath | UK | 240300 |
2 | 4 | Jerry Odeen | Sweden | 250000 |
2 | 5 | Vladas Tamasauskas | Lithuania | 198100 |
2 | 6 | Luuk Gieles | Netherlands | 185500 |
2 | 7 | Marco Leonzio | Italy | 83000 |
3 | 1 | Mike Watson | Canada | 71200 |
3 | 2 | Nick Petrangelo | USA | 35400 |
3 | 3 | Fernando Brito | Portugal | 84500 |
3 | 4 | Nicholas Palma | USA | 101100 |
3 | 5 | Jean Paul Zaffran | Israel | 95800 |
3 | 7 | Luis Rodriguez Cruz | Spain | 172800 |
3 | 8 | Ryan Riess | USA | 73400 |
4 | 2 | David Vamplew | UK | 54500 |
4 | 3 | Georgios Zisimopoulos | Greece | 108600 |
4 | 4 | Kyle Frey | USA | 52100 |
4 | 5 | Mark Radoja | Canada | 280000 |
4 | 6 | Antonio Ferreira | Portugal | 36700 |
4 | 7 | Felix Bleiker | Switzerland | 212000 |
4 | 8 | Pierre Neuville | Belgium | 15800 |
5 | 1 | Dominik Nitsche | Germany | 305600 |
5 | 3 | Luiz Duarte | USA | 100000 |
5 | 4 | Dietrich Fast | Germany | 60300 |
5 | 5 | Alexandre Rivero | Brazil | 102400 |
5 | 7 | Kelvin Kerber | Brazil | 39200 |
5 | 8 | Mohsin Charania | USA | 45900 |
6 | 1 | Zvi Stern | Israel | 134800 |
6 | 2 | Samuel Panzica | USA | 80800 |
6 | 3 | Ariel Celestino | Brazil | 168000 |
6 | 4 | Jason Mercier | USA | 189300 |
6 | 5 | Francois Billard | Canada | 160700 |
6 | 6 | Timothy Adams | Canada | 133200 |
6 | 7 | Joao Simao | Brazil | 45000 |
7 | 1 | Viacheslav Goryachev | Russia | 85600 |
7 | 2 | Akin Tuna | Germany | 163900 |
7 | 3 | Or Hadad | Israel | 149900 |
7 | 5 | Daniel Dvoress | Canada | 82500 |
7 | 6 | Sergey Lebedev | Russia | 155000 |
7 | 7 | Emil Ekvardt | Sweden | 46000 |
7 | 8 | Anthony Zinno | USA | 88100 |
8 | 1 | Sylvain Loosli | France | 128100 |
8 | 2 | Patrick Leonard | UK | 83200 |
8 | 3 | Mustapha Kanit | Italy | 134800 |
8 | 4 | Ibrahim Ghassan | Lebanon | 63300 |
8 | 5 | Steve O'Dwyer | Ireland | 134000 |
8 | 7 | Rocco Palumbo | Italy | 91900 |
8 | 8 | Shyam Srinivasan | Canada | 150000 |
9 | 2 | Connor Drinan | USA | 160000 |
9 | 3 | Jacob Bazeley | USA | 120800 |
9 | 4 | Rui Ferreira | Portugal | 124000 |
9 | 5 | Christoph Vogelsang | Germany | 40800 |
9 | 6 | Alex Difelice | Canada | 70000 |
9 | 7 | Igor Kurganov | Russia | 35000 |
9 | 8 | Andrew Lichtenberger | USA | 95300 |
10 | 1 | Marc MacDonnell | Ireland | 130100 |
10 | 2 | Emil Patel | Finland | 144100 |
10 | 4 | Diego Ventura | Peru | 122700 |
10 | 5 | Davidi Kitai | Belgium | 119700 |
10 | 6 | Jared Jaffee | USA | 75800 |
10 | 7 | William Arruda | Brazil | 62300 |
11 | 1 | Dario Sammartino | Italy | 106100 |
11 | 3 | Samuel Vousden | Finland | 64400 |
11 | 4 | Georgios Sotiropoulos | Austria | 77400 |
11 | 5 | Arne Coulier | Belgium | 130400 |
11 | 6 | Joao Vieira | Portugal | 90100 |
11 | 7 | Darie Vlad | Romania | 70000 |
11 | 8 | Paul Dando | UK | 65000 |
12 | 1 | Luc Greenwood | Canada | 126000 |
12 | 2 | Sam Chartier | Canada | 187400 |
12 | 3 | Kevin MacPhee | USA | 137000 |
12 | 4 | Fabrice Soulier | France | 50800 |
12 | 5 | Chance Kornuth | USA | 62400 |
12 | 6 | Darrell Goh | Ireland | 56500 |
12 | 7 | Pedro Padilha | Brazil | 148200 |
None | None | Bryn Kenney | USA | 50000 |
None | None | Rafael Moraes | Brazil | 50000 |
None | None | Kevin Killeen | Ireland | 50000 |
None | None | Scott Margereson | UK | 50000 |
In one of the first few hands of the day, Luis Rodriguez Cruz lost half his stack to Fernando Brito after being unable to beat the of the Portuguese on a board of .
Georgios Sotiropoulos and Arne Coulier went into a raising war with the Greek opening to 4,600 in the hijack and Coulier then squeezing to 11,600 from one seat over. Sotiropoulos made it 20,600 to go and that won the pot.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Fernando Brito |
175,000
90,500
|
90,500 |
Arne Coulier |
115,000
-15,400
|
-15,400 |
Georgios Sotiropoulos |
90,000
12,600
|
12,600 |
Luis Rodriguez Cruz |
80,000
-92,800
|
-92,800 |
Davidi Kitai raised, got three-bet by Marc MacDonnell to 16,000. Kitai four-bet to just over 35,000 and MacDonnell jammed. Kitai called and it was a big pot early on day 2.
MacDonnell:
Kitai:
MacDonnell was dominated and there was no help on the board as it came to leave him short with only ten big blinds. Shortly after we saw him exiting the tournament floor.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Davidi Kitai |
240,000
120,300
|
120,300 |
|
||
Marc MacDonnell | Busted |
"Igor, Igor, Igor..." said Connor Drinan as he counted out the chips to award his tablemate a full double up, "What do you think I'm raising with?"
Drinan had indeed raised pre-flop, and was shoved on by Kurganov. Drinan called and tabled , but was behind to the of Igor Kurganov.
That would remain the case as the board ran out and Kurganov moves up the chip counts
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Connor Drinan |
125,000
-35,000
|
-35,000 |
Igor Kurganov |
85,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
First casualty of the day is Mike Watson. After an open raise and the three-bet of Ryan Riess on the button, he got it in from the small blind and needed some help with . The initial raiser folded while Riess snap-called with the dominating .
There was some sweat with the board running out but ultimately the pocket kings of the former World Series of Poker Main Event champion held up.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Ryan Riess |
150,000
76,600
|
76,600 |
Mike Watson | Busted | |
|
Mariano Martiradonna raised to 5,000 from under the gun and Fabrice Soulier three-bet to 12,500 out of the big blind, Martiradonna called. On the flop , Soulier got his last 34,600 in with and Martiradonna called with the . Both the turn and river blanked and Soulier was relieved.
Bryn Kenney and Mohsin Charania also got their stacks in, but both held pocket kings and no four card flush miracle took place.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Fabrice Soulier |
97,000
46,200
|
46,200 |
Mariano Martiradonna |
44,000
-46,900
|
-46,900 |