2014 PokerStars.com EPT Season 11 London

£10,300 High Roller
Day: 1
Event Info

2014 PokerStars.com EPT Season 11 London

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
88
Prize
£394,200
Event Info
Buy-in
£10,000
Entries
173
Level Info
Level
27
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000

Petersen And Shakerchi Fall At the Last

Level 10 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

All the money went in preflop with Mickey Petersen holding {A-Diamonds}{K-Spades} and Bryn Kenney holding {A-Spades}{10-Diamonds}. The cards ran out {5-Diamonds}{4-Spades}{5-Spades}{10-Hearts}{9-Clubs}‏ and Team PokerStars Pro Online Petersen was done for at the death.

‎We didn’t quite see when the money went in but David Vamplew with {A-Hearts}{A-Diamonds} eliminated Talal Shakerchi who had {8-Spades}{8-Clubs}. No eight for Shakerchi on the final board {2-Diamonds}{7-Spades}{2-Spades}{9-Hearts}{3-Clubs}‏.

Player Chips Progress
Profile photo of Talal Shakerchi gb
Talal Shakerchi
Busted
Profile photo of Mickey Petersen dk
Mickey Petersen
Busted

Tags: Bryn KenneyDavid VamplewMickey PetersenTalal Shakerchi

Big Stacks And Notables

Level 10 : 800/1,600, 200 ante
Player Chips Progress
Profile photo of Yann Dion ca
Yann Dion
363,300
Profile photo of David Vamplew gb
David Vamplew
236,400
EPT 1X Winner
Profile photo of Andrew Chen ca
Andrew Chen
230,300
Profile photo of Ole Schemion de
Ole Schemion
218,400
Profile photo of Anatoly Filatov ru
Anatoly Filatov
216,700
Profile photo of Max Silver gb
Max Silver
200,800
Profile photo of Simon Higgins gb
Simon Higgins
200,500
Profile photo of Dominik Nitsche de
Dominik Nitsche
184,100
Profile photo of Stephen Chidwick gb
Stephen Chidwick
170,900
Profile photo of Niall Farrell gb
Niall Farrell
155,500
EPT Main Event Champion
EPT 1X Winner
Profile photo of David Peters us
David Peters
140,700
Profile photo of Martin Finger de
Martin Finger
125,200
EPT 1X Winner
Profile photo of Isaac Haxton us
Isaac Haxton
109,300
Profile photo of Johnny Lodden no
Johnny Lodden
109,300
Profile photo of Bertrand Grospellier fr
Bertrand Grospellier
78,500
Profile photo of Daniel Colman us
Daniel Colman
77,300
Profile photo of Steve O'Dwyer ie
Steve O'Dwyer
74,700
EPT 1X Winner
Profile photo of Victoria Coren Mitchell gb
Victoria Coren Mitchell
64,000
Profile photo of Viktor Blom se
Viktor Blom
47,700
Full Tilt
Profile photo of Jason Mercier us
Jason Mercier
42,400
Profile photo of Paul Newey gb
Paul Newey
27,800

Yann Dion Leads the £10,300 High Roller Event at EPT London

Level 10 : 800/1,600, 200 ante
Yann Dion
Yann Dion

The £10,300 High Roller kicked off today in the glorious surroundings of the Grand Connaught Rooms here in the centre of London as the creme de la creme of the poker scene looked to take the title won last year by Jason Lavallee.

After ten one-hour levels, it is Yann Dion who'll go into Day 2 as the chip leader after finishing with 363,300. Dion lost his first bullet very early on but made a resolute comeback to finish with the chip lead in a commanding position. Former WSOPE Main Event winner Adrian Mateos had a great start and was over 200,000 early on, peaking at 375,000, but the Spaniard had a bad last couple of levels and eventually finished up with 276,000 – which is still good enough for 2nd place at this point. In third is former EPT winner David Vamplew. Vamplew busted Talal Shakerchi in the last hand of the day and finished with 236,400, just ahead of Andren Chen (230,300) in fourth.

With the tournament allowing a single entry the players were very divided on whether or not stump up £10,300 a second time. Some, like PokerStars sponsored player Dominik Panka only had a single buy-in. Elsewhere, Team PokerStars Pro Eugene Katchalov fired two bullets but came up short. Former EPT Barcelona winner Tom Middleton, Andrey Andreev, Vladimir Troyanovskiy and Igor Kurganov all had similar stories with nothing working out.

Jason Mercier lost his first bullet to the chip leader Dion but stuck around with his second one, finishing the day with 42,400. Fellow Team Pro Liv Boeree jumped into the High Roller straight after a 27th place finish in the Main Event but despite a good start, she was eliminated after the dinner break. Johnny Lodden (109,300), Bertrand Grospellier (78,500) and Victoria Coren Mitchell (64,000) all made it through, as did PokerStars Team Online's Isaac Haxton (109,300). However, Mickey Petersen was knocked out in one of the very last hands of the day when his {A-Diamonds}{K-Spades} was pipped by Bryn Kenney's {A-Spades}{10-Diamonds} on a {5-Diamonds}{4-Spades}{5-Spades}{10-Hearts}{9-Clubs} board.

Nosebleeders (in that they play nose-bleed stakes, not that they have nasal-based problems) Viktor Blom and Daniel Colman both turned up to play for the last couple of levels but neither could get anything going and both were eliminated within an hour, though both immediately rebought and are still in for Day 2. Elsewhere Patrick Leonard managed to get kings, aces and queens three hands in a row but lost both the first and third and was never able to get anything going after that, while former EPT Champion Nicolas Chouity and High Roller specialist Philipp Gruissem saw plenty of sparring throughout the day, attempting to one-up each other multiple times.

With entry still available until 11.45am tomorrow, there won't be a table draw or the completed prizepool until the tournament has restarted but even if no-one else enters, the tournament will still have had an increase on last year's 157 buy-ins.

The PokerNews Live Reporting Team will be back again tomorrow as the £10,300 High Roller event continues with Day 2 playing through the money and to the final table! With the restart at 12pm, we'll see you then!

Tags: Yann Dion

£10,300 High Roller

Day 1 Completed