High Roller
Day 1 Started
2015 partypoker World Poker Tour UK
High Roller
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2015 partypoker World Poker Tour UK
Buy-in
£5,000
Entries
48
Level
25
Blinds
15,000 / 30,000
Ante
5,000
Welcome to the 2015 WPT UK High Roller
Hello and welcome to PokerNews' live coverage of the 2015 World Poker Tour UK, coming at you from Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham.
Some of the best poker talent in the world is expected to make their way to Europe's premier card room to compete in the £5,250 High Roller event today, which features a substantial £250,000 guaranteed prize pool.
Anyone entering today's High Roller starts with a generous helping of 50,000 tournament chips and gets to play to 40-minute blind levels starting at 50/100. The plan is to play a total of nine levels on Day 1, with registration open until the start of Day 2 on Nov. 3. If you opt to buy in at this time, you'll still sit down with a healthy stack worth 50 big blinds, as the blinds and antes will be 500/1,000/100 at the start of Level 10.
Last year's High Roller came with a price tag of £6,000. The tournament attracted 50 entries, and it was the USA's Bryn Kenney who emerged victorious when he defeated the UK's Patrick Leonard in heads-up play. Kenney earned £100,000 for the win, and Leonard took home £62,000 for second place. Stuart Rutter also reached the final table and placed third for £43,000.
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Start Delayed Until 7 p.m. Local Time
Tournament director Christian Scalzi has announced that the start of the WPT UK £5,250 High Roller has been pushed back two hours to 7 p.m. local time due to some delays in the area.
6:00pm GMT is the new start time
We've been informed that the £5,250 High Roller is going to start at 6:00pm GMT and not 7:00pm as initially planned. Stay tuned because the orders to shuffle up and deal are about to be given.
Level: 1
Blinds: 50/100
Ante: 0
Shuffle Up and Deal
Level 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
The cards are in the are and the 16 entrants are about to enter a battle of wits for a share of £250,000.
Among those here in there seats are the deadly Spanish duo of Adrian Mateos, Sergio Aido, plus some of the cream of the British crop including Simon Deadman, Craig McCorkell and recent European Poker Tour Barcelona runner-up Steve Warburton.
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Start As You Mean To Go On
Level 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
Daniel McAulay has started as he means to go on by four-betting high roller regular, Paul Newey.
McAulay opened with a min-raise to 200 from the cutoff and Newey responded with a three-bet to 700 from the small blind. Richard Trigg folded from the big blind, but McAulay wasn't done with his hand and four-bet to 2,000. No sooner had his chips hit the felt, Newey's cards hit the muck.
King-High Good For Lee
Level 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
From under the gun, Waikat Lee min-raised to 200 and received one caller in the shape of Senh Ung in the big blind. Ung checked the arrival of the 
flop and then called when Lee continued with a 250 bet.
Ung checked again when the dealer placed the 
onto the felt and Lee checked behind. Both players then tapped the table and checked the 
river, Lee taking down the pot with his 
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If At First You Don't Succeed...
Level 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
The thought of parting with £5,250 would make most people cringe, but those in the High Roller could do so twice because a single re-entry is allowed up to the end of the first level on Day 2, giving them ample opportunity to take this tournament down.