The €10,000 High Roller is under way with a fanfare inversely proportional to its buy in (follow updates from that event by clicking here). But even if these events tend to take place away from the brightest spotlight, there's one very good reason to stay in touch, namely: it's full of high rollers. PokerStars Blog takes a look.
Sarah talks to Ana Marquez about her day yesterday, her trip to South Africa and her plans for Christmas.
![[user265690]](/img/avatars/avatar.svg){kind=avatar}
An all in and call at the feature table and Emmanuel Murgia survived. He was all in for 222,000 with 
and a 44% shot against Zdravko Duvnjak's 
. The 
flop improved him to a 90% favorite and the 
turn made him a 100% lock even before the 
completed the board.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
628,000 | -212,000 |
|
465,000 | 36,000 |
Viewers of the live stream have no doubt witnessed the demise of Ludovic Lacay. Today wasn't his day at all and the one time chip leader is now off to the pay out registration desk. He's still in time to sign up for the high roller, but we're unsure if he's up for that at this time.
His last hand was against Israeli Ori Hasson. Hasson had 
and beat Lacay's 
on a 
board. Hasson is up to nearly a million while Lacay is probably shaking his head somewhere by now.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
996,000 | -7,000 |
|
Busted |
Stefan Kolossow was all in for his tournament life with 
. His shove got a call from Rudi Johnsen in the small blind who tabled 
. The board never got any higher than a nine with 
. Another player bites the dust!
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted |
Ari Engel has had a great 2013, but unfortunately his Main Event run has come to an end. PokerStars.tv’s Laura Cornelius caught up with Engel before he busted to talk through one of the trickier spots he’s had to play. Watch him break it down here.
I'm not sure exactly how it went in but Ana Marquez was all in for roughly 390,000 with a pair of sevens and in dire straits against Zdravko Duvnjak's 
.
The flop pretty much killed any hopes she had and the and 
completed the board.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted |
Georgios Sotiropoulos opened the hijack to an unknown amound and Frenchman Erwann Pecheux three bet to 76,000 from the cutoff. Lars Anders Dahlin from Sweden four bet to 107,000 from the big blind which made Sotiropoulos instantaneously muck his cards. Pecheux wasn't so easy to get ridd of though, he four bet all in for 586,000. Dahlin made the call and the cards went on their backs.
for Dahlin which was a dog against Pecheux' 
. The board didn't improve either player: 
and Pecheux went up to over a million.
Dimitri Holdeew opened to 34,000 from the hijack and Norwegian player Sigurd Andreas Eskeland shoved from the big blind for 352,000. Holdeew thought about it for some time before eventually calling. "Wow!" said Eskeland seeing Holdeew had tanked with 
. Eskeland himself had just but would get lucky: 
. The on the turn didn't bring Holdeew any help and neither did the 
on the river.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,540,000 | -330,000 |
|
720,000 | 261,000 |
Level: 22
Blinds: 8,000/16,000
Ante: 2,000
