Team PokerStars Pro Isaac Haxton had successfully shoved under-the-gun in the previous hand with his short stack of around 60,000. Now he had called a bet sitting in the big blind from Benjamin Pollak’s late position raise. The flop was . Haxton checked and when Pollak bet 22,000 Haxton moved all in and was snapped off by Pollak’s . Haxton needed help with his but it was not to be as the turn and river eliminated him from the high roller.
Vanessa Selbst opened for 10,000 and was called on the button by Georgios Karakousis. Benjamin Pollak in the small blind raised to 38,000 and Selbst asked to see how much he was playing. When she was satisfied she made the call as did Karakousis. The flop was and Pollak continued the aggression with a bet of 35,000. Selbst folded but Karakousis came along for the ride, Turn card and Pollack checked. Karakousis counted out some chips and bet 60,000 which elicited a deep sigh from Pollak who showed and folded followed by a fair bit of head shaking frustration from both Pollak and Selbst. Karakousis didn’t seem to notice and gathered in the pot.
On a flop both Eugene Katchalov's and Kent Lundmark's stack went into the middle. Katchalov was at risk but did have the best hand with . EPT Barcelona Season 7 winner Kent Lundmark tried to bust his strong opponent with but needed a club or runner runner to do that.
The on the turn was a blank and so was the on the river. Katchalov doubled, Lundmark will have to do with about 70,000 less in chips.
Alexander Dovzhenko opened in middle position and shoved all in when he saw Jonathan Little three bet him from the button. Little made the call instantaneously and just a couple of hands after the break had ended, the first showdown was there.
Little had , and with that Dovzhenko's completely dominated. Dovzhenko already got up from his seat and underwent the suffering from five bricks as community cards standing: . No luck for the experienced Dovzhenko who made his way to the exit.
Players are having a twenty minute break during which the black 100 chips will be raced off.
After the break Table 6 will be the feature table on the live stream featuring Martin Kabrhel from Czech Republic, and Team PokerStars Pros Eugene Katchalov and Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier.
Simon Higgins called a shove from Benjamin Pollak. Higgins had him covered and tabled dominating the of Pollak. The cards ran out a cruel and another pile of Higgin’s chips went to Pollak.
The official numbers are in. The EPT10 Prague €10,000 High Roller attracted 137 unique players that accounted for 39 reentires, which brings the total field up to 176. That has created a €1,724,800 prize pool that will be distributed to the top 24 players as follows: