Adrian Mateos on High Roller Players: "We're Not Robots, We're Just Really Good!"
Level 21
: 8,000/16,000, 16,000 ante
PokerNews sat down with former EPT Main Event champion and four-time WSOP bracelet-winner Adrian Mateos to discuss the return of EPT High Rollers.
Mateos says he missed his "favourite tour" during the pandemic, and is enjoying being back in the live scene.
"We've seen some new characters over the last two years," he said. "We've played a lot of online so there are definitely new players who have been big winners online coming into the live scene.
to give Watson a royal flush draw and eliminate one of the nines as an out for Oikonomou. The turn was the 
and the river came the 
to spell the end for the Greek player and the final two tables were redrawn.
giving Caridade a flopped set of nines to earn a huge pot and rocket toward the two million chip mark, while eliminating Czuczor in 17th place for €32,330.
, Akin Tuna check-called a bet of 70,000 from Marton Czuczor in the cutoff.
on the turn which double-paired the board.
solidifying Berggren's lead in the hand, but Schwaederle picked up a flush draw, which came in immediately on the 
turn. 
fell on the river and Berggren was sent to the rail in 19th place.
put Czuczor firmly in control of the hand, but the 
on the turn gave Dimov some hope with a flush draw.
on the river however ended things for Dimov who bows out in 20th place for €28,390.
. Tamas Adamszki jammed all in to put Alexander Ivarsson to the test for his tournament life with 141,000 behind. Ivarsson took up two time banks before eventually laying it down.
. But the turn was the 
to end the day for Ivarsson.
fall on the river. Again he checked, and this time Lubovetskiy put forward a stack of black T-100,000 chips to potentially put Hallaert all-in for his last 251,000.
