Day 2 of the EPT London High Roller sponsored by PokerStars.com gets underway shortly. The £10,000 + £300 single re-entry event attracted 165 entrants yesterday with 78 players remaining at the close and it is still possible to buy in before the start of the day.
Yann Dion currently holds the lead with 363,300 but despite his big stack he will do well to hang on to that position with an incredibly tough field to negotiate and the all-important seat draw to be announced just before the start of play.
The prize pool will be announced shortly after final numbers have been confirmed, but with numbers up from last year the eventual winner is sure to walk away with more than last year’s first place prize of £357,700.
Other big names in a stellar filed include Team PokerStars Pros Johnny Lodden (109,300), Bertrand Grospellier (78,500), Victoria Coren Mitchell (64,000) and Jason Mercier (42,400) and PokerStars Team Online Pro Isaac Haxton (109,300). German superstar Ole Schemion is well placed with 218,400, and still in but with work to do are Full Tilt Poker Pro Viktor Blom (47,700) and Big One for One Drop winner Daniel Colman (77,300).
The notional plan for today is to play down to a final table, but with such a large field it is likely that the full ten one-hour levels will be played before the action closes at around midnight. Stay tuned as the PokerNews Live Reporting Team brings you all the latest from the felt as battle resumes at Noon
Thomas Muhlocker is out after calling all in on the river of a board against Niall Farrell. The Scottish player showed and Muchlocker mucked (despite being meant to table his hand as it was an all-in showdown). Farrell is the chip leader with just over 50 players left.
On the last hand of the level, Team PokerStars Pro Online Isaac Haxton fired bets of 18,000 and 45,000 on the turn and river of a board against Joel Nordkvist. The latter made the call and Haxton tabled a missed , Nordkvist showed and took the pot leaving Haxton with less than ten big blinds when they return.
Joel Nordkvist has just played a huge pot with Sergio Aido. On the turn of a board reading Nordkvist check-called a bet of over 100,000 and saw the river fall the .
Nordkvist made his last check and Aido moved all in for just over 270,000. Decision time for Nordkvist who if he called and got it wrong would be all but felted. It took a minute of thinking but in the end he did made the call. There seemed to be a moment of confusion as to who had won the hand, even between the players themselves.
It looked as though Aido thought that if he was called he had lost as he tapped the table and showed . Nordkvist turned over his nut flush . Aido though had a full house, albeit the worst possible one. Nordkvist exhaled in stunned disbelief as his chips slid over to Aido.
In what appeared to be a six-bet shove preflop from Sergio Aido, he got it all in and clashed with fellow big stack Leonid Markin who instantly called the bet.
Aido held but his face fell when he found out that Markin held
Players gathered around to witness the carnage as the cards ran out to drop Aido to one of the short stacks and deliver Markin a huge coup.
A really brutal last couple of hours for Steve O'Dwyer, losing with ace-king to ace-jack crippled the Irishman and he had been waiting for a spot to put his remaining chips in the middle. It went in with against Team PokerStars Pro Johnny Lodden's but the board came .
There's now a redraw for three tables and the tournament is officially on the bubble. Nothing for the next person out, £19,650 for everyone else.
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board against Niall Farrell. The Scottish player showed 
and Muchlocker mucked (despite being meant to table his hand as it was an all-in showdown). Farrell is the chip leader with just over 50 players left.
, Nordkvist showed 
and took the pot leaving Haxton with less than ten big blinds when they return.
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. Nordkvist turned over his nut flush 
to drop Aido to one of the short stacks and deliver Markin a huge coup.
against Team PokerStars Pro Johnny Lodden's 
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but got a call from Ole Schemion holding 
and got the call from Fady Kamar with 
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and Niall Farrell reshoved in the small blind holding 
was, “Massive.”
