€50,000 Single-Day Super High Roller
Day 1 Started
2016 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final
€50,000 Single-Day Super High Roller
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2016 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final
Buy-in
€49,000
Prize Pool
€3,395,700
Entries
70
Level
28
Blinds
200,000 / 400,000
Ante
50,000
Ready For Another Single-Day Super High Roller?
In December 2014, during the EPT Prague stop, high roller Bryn Kenney proposed the idea of a single-day high roller to PokerStars Head of Live Poker Operations Neil Johnson.
During the EPT Grand Final that season, the €50,000 Single-Day Super High Roller was there, and it was a succes! 54 poker pro's and rich poker aficionado's came flocking the America's Room of the Monte-Carlo® Casino to battle it out. 12 players reentered to generate a first place prize of almost €1 million. After 14 hours of play it was Mustapha Kanit, they Italian player that finished runner up in last nights €100,000 Super High Roller, to take down the inaugural Single-Day Super High Roller for €936,500.
The tournament has been a fixture on the schedule ever since, with changing buy ins but the same structure; half an hour levels, the possibility to re enter once during the first 8 levels (till around 5pm local time), and the goal to finish it all in one day. Players will start out with 200,000 in chips, with the first two levels being 500/1,000 with a 100 ante.
Today's €50,000 Single-Day Super High Roller starts at 12:30pm local time, and PokerNews.com will be on site the entire day to bring you coverage of the fastest paced high roller in the world!
EPT Single-Day High Roller History
Early Entrants
Dong Zhao, Andrew Pantling, Michael Bonzon, Hady El Asmar, Charlie Carrel and Max Silver have all shown up in time before the start and drawn their tables and seats. The tournament is getting underway soon with more players heading to the America's Room at the Monte Carlo Bay Resort.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
200,000 | |
|
200,000 | |
|
200,000 | |
|
200,000 | |
|
200,000 | |
|
200,000 |
More Super High Rollers
The button has been drawn to seat six and Daniel Dvoress, Paul Newey, Sergey Lebedev, Vladimir Troyanovskiy as well as Timothy Adams are now all seated as well.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
200,000 | |
|
200,000 | |
|
200,000 | |
|
200,000 | |
|
200,000 |
Level: 1
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 100
More Usual Suspects
Level 1
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
Luc Greenwood, Erik Seidel, Steve O'Dwyer and Dan Smith have also entered the competition to bump up the field to 18 entries. There will be a dinner break after the end of level 15 around 8.45 p.m. local time and the tournament will likely finish way past midnight.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
200,000 | |
|
200,000 | |
|
200,000 | |
|
200,000 |
Up to 29 Entries
Level 1
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
200,000 | |
|
200,000 | |
|
200,000 | |
|
200,000 | |
|
200,000 | |
|
200,000 | |
|
200,000 |
River Raise by O'Dwyer
Level 1
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
Under the gun, Erik Seidel made it 2,500 to go. His neighbor Steve O'Dwyer three bet to 8,000 from the button and both blinds released. Seidel made the call and both players checked the flop of 
.
The 
hit the turn and Seidel checked again. O'Dwyer made a bet of 7,000 and Seidel contemplated what to do for a bit, before check min raising to 14,000. O'Dwyer called.
The 
fell on the turn and Seidel fired a single green 25,000-chip. O'Dwyer raised to 72,000 and Seidel called. O'Dwyer showed 
for top set, Seidel mucked.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
295,900 | 95,900 |
|
|
106,000 | -94,000 |
El Asmar Scoops Early Pot
Level 1
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
Hady El Asmar, who was one of seven players to win a ticket for the event through a Satellite two days ago, just faced a raise to 2,500 by Dan Smith and Michael Bonzon in the big blind also came along. On the 
flop, El Asmar check-called a bet worth 3,500 by Bonzon and Smith folded. On the 
turn both players checked and El Asmar's bet worth 10,000 on the 
turn scooped the pot without showdown.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
210,000 | 10,000 |
|
|
190,000 | -10,000 |
Zhao Takes from Adams
Level 1
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
On the 
river, Timothy Adams checked and Dong Zhao bet 6,500 from one seat over to receive a call by the Canadian. Zhao flipped over 
for a pair of eights and that won the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
210,000 | 10,000 |
|
|
190,000 | -10,000 |