Back in August, Alen Bilic finished 69th in the inaugural EPT Malta Main Event for €18,320. Earlier this season, in October's EPT12 Main Event, he did even better finishing runner-up to Niall Farrell for a career best €440,000. Bilic, who currently sits second on Bosnia & Herzegovina All Time Money List, is in action here in the High Roller and looking for even more EPT success.
In a recent hand, Bilic raised to 600 from the cutoff and Croatia's Ivan Banic called from the big blind to see a flop, which they both checked. The turn saw Banic check-call a bet of 700 from Bilic, and then both players returned to checking on the river. Banic turned over the for a paid of eights, and it was good as Bilic mucked.
In the very next hand, Bilic raised to 600 from the hijack and took down the blinds and antes.
Paul Newey raised to 500 from the cutoff and called when Finland's Jani Sointula three-bet to 1,600 from the big blind. Both players checked the flop, then Sointula checked the . Newey bet 2,700 and Sointula folded.
Four more sharks have jumped into the waters, namely Team PokerStars Pro Eugene Katchalov, Maxim Panyak, former PCA champion Dimitar Danchev, and Max Silver.
Viacheslav Goryachev opened for 500 under the gun and only Paul Newey, who was in the big blind, called to see a flop. Both players checked, the appeared on the turn, and Newey quickly bet 1,100.
Goryachev called and then called a bet of 2,000 on the river only to muck when Newey rolled over the for nines and fours.
The field is becoming more star-studded with every addition to the entrants count. Also in their seats are the UK's Keith Johnson, Craig McCorkell, and Alex Goulder, Andrey Pateychuk, and Sergio Aido.
Both Pateychuk and Goulder have good records in Prague with them having won World Poker Tour events in recent years.
Matthew PittAndrey Zaichenko EPT Prague High Roller Winner 2014
One of the most popular tournaments on the European Poker Tour commences at 12:30 pm CET today when the €10,000+€300 buy-in no limit Hold'em High Roller Single Re-Entry 8-Handed event takes place.
The Season 11 edition of this exciting tournament saw 233 unique entries and 76 rebuys, pushing the prize pool north of €3,000,000. As you'd expect from such a high buy-in event, some of the world's best poker players turned out for the event including the likes of Dario Sammartino, Nicolas Chouity, and Martin Finger.
Russia's Andrey Zaichenkno is the reigning champion having finished on top after a three-way deal that locked up a cool €487,190. Also part of that deal were second place finisher Laurynas Levinskas (€412,910), and Francois Billard of Canada (€405,260).
Anyone buying into this season's event receives 50,000 tournament chips for their investment and gets to play to hour-long blinds that start at 100/200 with a running ante of 25. Day 1 sees 10 such levels played, with Tuesday's Day 2 also playing 10 levels unless the field is reduced to only eight players before then.
PokerNews' live reporting team will be with you every step of the way so make sure you stay tuned to these very pages as we bring you all of the action, as it happens, from the EPT12 Prague €10,300 High Roller Single Re-Entry 8-Handed spectacular.
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flop, which they both checked. The 
turn saw Banic check-call a bet of 700 from Bilic, and then both players returned to checking on the 
river. Banic turned over the 
for a paid of eights, and it was good as Bilic mucked.
flop, then Sointula checked the 
. Newey bet 2,700 and Sointula folded.
flop. Both players checked, the 
appeared on the turn, and Newey quickly bet 1,100. 
river only to muck when Newey rolled over the 
for nines and fours.
when Deadman checked and Luc Greenwood bet 17,000 from the button.
