Welcome to the EPT12 Prague €50,000 Super High Roller
Hello and welcome to the Season 12 edition of the European Poker Tour Prague Super High Roller where at 12:30 pm local time dozens of the world's best poker players are set to exchange €48,500 +€1,500 for the chance to become a Super High Roller champion.
If last season's Prague Super High Roller is anything to base predictions on, you folks at home are in for a real treat. Forty-two players bought in on Season 11, and nine of those reentered, creating a prize pool of some €2,448,765.
The likes of Team PokerStars Online Isaac Haxton, Steve O'Dwyer, the then reigning WSOP Main Event champion Matin Jacobson, Olivier Busquets, Team PokerStars Pro Jason Mercier, and Canadian duo Mike Watson and Mike McDonald were among those who fell before the money places on Season 2.
Those who did reach the money places included American Brian Roberts, Finnish superstar Juha Helppi, British star Stephen Chidwick, and the eventual champion Leonid Markin who defeated Paul Newey heads-up to scoop the massive €771,360 first place prize.
Players in the Super High Roller sit down with 250,000 chips at eight-handed tables and play to 60-minute blinds starting at 500/1,000/100a. Stay tuned to PokerNews.com throughout the Super High Roller for all of the action, as it happens.