€10,300 High Roller
Day 2 Started
2016 PokerStars.com EPT Season 13 Malta
€10,300 High Roller
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2016 PokerStars.com EPT Season 13 Malta
Buy-in
€10,000
Prize Pool
€1,396,800
Entries
144
Level
28
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
10,000
Start-of-the-Day Chip Counts (full)
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| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
379,100 | |
|
258,300 | |
|
251,700 | |
|
220,000 | |
|
216,000 | |
|
214,700 | |
|
213,200 | |
|
207,300 | |
|
189,500 | |
|
171,300 | |
|
169,600 | |
|
166,900 | |
|
161,800 | |
|
146,300 | |
|
143,400 | |
|
142,700 | |
|
133,600 | |
|
117,000 | |
|
115,000 | |
|
109,600 | |
|
109,000 | |
|
100,300 | |
|
96,600 | |
|
95,000 | |
|
94,700 |
Welcome to Day 2 of the PokerStars.com EPT13 Malta €10,300 High Roller
Even though this PokerStars.com EPT Season 13 festival is hastily coming to a close, the high rollers still haven't left the Mediterranean island of Malta. That has become evident after the last highlight of this series - the €10,300 High Roller - yesterday succeeded in attracting no less than 109 unique entries during the first day of play, and with 28 players making use of the one-time reentry the total tally now stands at 137 entries. Furthermore late registration is still open until 15 minutes before kickoff, so even more players might decide to join in on the fun at Portomaso Casino.
Leading the field of survivors is Swedish poker pro Alexander Ivarsson, who managed to turn his starting stack of 50,000 chips into 379,100, but many notable names will be gunning for the title of chipleader during the course of today’s play. The closest contender at this point in time with 258,300 is the former professional soccer player from Nicaragua, Armando Collado, but also still in the field are tons of notables like Stephen Chidwick (207,300), Theo Jorgensen (189,500), Stefan Jedlicka (146,300), Steve O'Dwyer (95,000), Charlie Carrel (92,100), Philipp Gruissem (75,700) and Pratyush Buddiga (70,100).
The action recommences with level 11 and blinds of 1,000-2,000 with a running ante of 300, Today’s menu for the remaining players consists of 10 levels of 60 minutes each or until a final table has been reached – whatever comes first. Thus there should be at least 12 hours of poker ahead of us today.
The cards will be back in the air at 12.30 p.m. CEST, and the PokerNews live reporting team will make sure to bring you all the action from the tables. Stay tuned!
Level: 11
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 300
Seven New Entries for Day 2
Level 11
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
Benjamin Pollak and Ole Schemion busted the Main Event early on and jumped into the High Roller right away. They are joined by five further players and the registration is now officially closed. The final numbers and prize pool are yet to be officially confirmed.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
50,000 | |
|
50,000 | |
|
50,000 | |
|
50,000 | 50,000 |
|
50,000 | |
|
50,000 | |
|
50,000 |
Day 2 Seat Draw
Level 11
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
| Table | Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | Iliodoros Kamatakis | Greece | 51,000 |
| 1 | 3 | Simon Mattsson | Sweden | 171,300 |
| 1 | 4 | Paul Newey | UK | 46,700 |
| 1 | 6 | Armando Collado | Nicaragua | 258,300 |
| 1 | 7 | Govert Metaal | Netherlands | 169,600 |
| 1 | 8 | Liviu Ignat | Romania | 62,200 |
| 2 | 1 | Caitlin Hall | USA | 166,900 |
| 2 | 3 | Martin Kozlov | Australia | 74,800 |
| 2 | 4 | Steve O'Dwyer | Ireland | 95,000 |
| 2 | 5 | Ole Schemion | Germany | 50,000 |
| 2 | 6 | Charlie Carrel | UK | 92,100 |
| 2 | 7 | Felix Stephensen | Norway | 82,600 |
| 2 | 8 | Pratyush Buddiga | USA | 70,100 |
| 3 | 1 | Theo Jorgensen | Denmark | 189,500 |
| 3 | 2 | Sebastian Veghinas | Romania | 68,900 |
| 3 | 3 | Hari Bercovici | Israel | 35,600 |
| 3 | 4 | Eugene Katchalov | Ukraine | 50,000 |
| 3 | 5 | Kacper Pyzara | Poland | 77,900 |
| 3 | 6 | Senh Ung | UK | 31,600 |
| 3 | 7 | Ramin Hajiyev | Azerbaijan | 58,300 |
| 3 | 8 | [Removed:172] | Germany | 220,000 |
| 4 | 1 | Michael Kane | UK | 78,000 |
| 4 | 2 | Alexander Zayonts | Russia | 27,600 |
| 4 | 3 | Tomasz Panek | Poland | 69,100 |
| 4 | 5 | Dong Zhao | China | 115,000 |
| 4 | 6 | Christophe Larquemin | France | 213,200 |
| 4 | 7 | Rasmus Agerskov | Denmark | 50,000 |
| 4 | 8 | Philipp Gruissem | Germany | 75,700 |
| 5 | 1 | Alexander Ivarsson | Sweden | 379,100 |
| 5 | 2 | Aymon Hata | UK | 47,200 |
| 5 | 3 | Ben Heath | UK | 142,700 |
| 5 | 4 | Frederik Jensen | Denmark | 19,600 |
| 5 | 5 | Davidi Kitai | Belgium | 35,000 |
| 5 | 6 | Oleg Titov | Russia | 93,000 |
| 5 | 8 | Anthony Zinno | USA | 46,600 |
| 6 | 1 | Cristian Egues | Spain | 72,700 |
| 6 | 2 | Preben Stokkan | Norway | 117,000 |
| 6 | 3 | Joris Ruijs | Netherlands | 63,700 |
| 6 | 4 | Pasquale Grimaldi | Romania | 83,400 |
| 6 | 5 | Benjamin Pollak | France | 50,000 |
| 6 | 6 | Bartlomiej Machon | Poland | 94,500 |
| 6 | 7 | Adrian Mateos | Spain | 23,300 |
| 6 | 8 | Georgios Zisimopoulos | Greece | 161,800 |
| 7 | 1 | Freek Scholten | Netherlands | 109,600 |
| 7 | 2 | Alexander Lakhov | Russia | 50,000 |
| 7 | 3 | Viacheslav Buldygin | Russia | 48,300 |
| 7 | 4 | Jordi Urlings | Netherlands | 49,400 |
| 7 | 5 | Max Silver | UK | 87,600 |
| 7 | 6 | Vlado Banicevic | Montenegro | 80,200 |
| 7 | 7 | Koray Aldemir | Austria | 22,000 |
| 7 | 8 | Grzegorz Grochulski | Poland | 94,700 |
| 8 | 1 | Sam Greenwood | Canada | 65,800 |
| 8 | 2 | Nick Petrangelo | USA | 15,000 |
| 8 | 3 | Stephen Chidwick | UK | 207,300 |
| 8 | 3 | Jussi Nevanlinna | Finland | 50,000 |
| 8 | 5 | Alexandros Kolonias | Greece | 94,200 |
| 8 | 6 | Pierre Neuville | Belgium | 143,400 |
| 8 | 7 | Jyri Merivirta | Finland | 50,000 |
| 8 | 8 | Gleb Tremzin | Russia | 109,000 |
| 9 | 1 | Mikalai Vaskaboinikau | Belarus | 63,600 |
| 9 | 2 | [Removed:17] | New Zealand | 51,200 |
| 9 | 4 | Marc Macdonnell | Ireland | 96,600 |
| 9 | 5 | Marcin Chmielewski | Poland | 67,900 |
| 9 | 6 | Farid Jattin | Colombia | 214,700 |
| 9 | 7 | James Akenhead | UK | 80,100 |
| 9 | 8 | Yang Zhang | China | 47,800 |
| 10 | 1 | Morten Mortensen | Denmark | 55,300 |
| 10 | 2 | Diego Zeiter | Switzerland | 251,700 |
| 10 | 3 | Martin Finger | Germany | 216,000 |
| 10 | 4 | Connor Drinan | USA | 74,000 |
| 10 | 6 | Przemyslaw Piotrowski | Poland | 38,800 |
| 10 | 7 | Mikita Badziakouski | Belarus | 64,200 |
| 10 | 8 | Roman Korenev | Russia | 100,300 |
| 11 | 1 | Gaetano Brignone | Italy | 59,400 |
| 11 | 2 | Piotr Franczak | Poland | 133,600 |
| 11 | 3 | Orpen Kisacikoglu | Turkey | 93,500 |
| 11 | 5 | Charalampos Tsivikos | Cyprus | 35,200 |
| 11 | 6 | Ilkin Amirov | Azerbaijan | 23,000 |
| 11 | 7 | Stefan Jedlicka | Austria | 146,300 |
| 11 | 8 | Xiaoyang Luo | UK | 71,100 |
Jensen Doubles in the Very First Hand
Level 11
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
Folded to Ben Heath on the button he opened the action for 4,000 before Frederik Jensen shoved all in from the small blind for his stack of 19,300. Kitai in the big blind got out of the way, and Heath made the call.
Ben Heath: 
Frederik Jensen: 
Heath went ahead on a 
flop, but the turn 
made the Dane a straight, and Heath was looking for queens and queens only.
River was the 
, and Frederik Jensens straight was enough to win the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
123,000 | -19,700 |
|
40,000 | 20,400 |
Gruissem Builds Stack Without Showdown
Level 11
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
Tomasz Panek raised to 4,500 from under the gun and received four callers including Christophe Larquemin, Philipp Gruissem on the button, as well as Michael Kane and Alexander Zayonts in the blinds.
On the 
flop, the action checked to Larquemin and he bet 5,800. Only Gruissem called and the 
on the turn went check, check. Larquemin also checked the 
river and folded to a bet of 30,000 by Gruissem.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
110,000 | 34,300 |
The First Six Casualties
Level 11
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
Five players have been eliminated early on with some details to follow.
Max Silver was spotted on the rail checking out possible flight connections, while Koray Aldemir also just left the tournament area. He flipped with a short stack and 
against the 
of Vlado Banicevic and the board ran out seven-high to eliminate the Austrian.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
155,000 | 74,800 |
|
Busted | |
|
Busted | |
|
Busted |
High Rollers Busting Out Left and Right
Level 11
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
It's only been 30 minutes since the tournament staff announced "Shuffle up and deal", but it's been 30 minutes of non-stop action. There is almost an avalanche of bust outs early of the day, and the avalanche have among others claimed Nick Petrangelo, Anthony Zinno and Ilkin Amirov.
First of Amirov got it in with 
against the of [Removed:17], and when the board ran out 
it was game over for Amirov.
A few seconds later "Seat open!" was announced once again. Petrangelo had got it in in a blind-battle with 
against the 
of Sam Greenwood's . A flop of 
put Petrangelo further behind, and when the turn and river came 
he headed for the rail.
Lastly Anthony Zinno faced an early exit. First off he lost all but 3,500 chips to Frederik Jensen, when the two faced a classic race situation.
Anthony Zinno: 
Frederik Jensen:
Nor the flop, turn or river brought the American any help, and Jensen doubled up for the second time today. Zinno parted ways with his last chips a few hands later, when Ben Heath's 
held up against Zinno's 
.
68 players remain.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
158,000 | 35,000 |
|
155,000 | 103,800 |
|
|
88,000 | 48,000 |
|
81,000 | 15,200 |
|
Busted | |
|
Busted | |
|
Busted |