Ben Heath Leads 16 Players Advancing to Day 2 of £50,000 Super High Roller
Another day, another high-roller event at the PokerStars European Poker Tour London festival. Today, the £50,000 Super High Roller kicked off with a total of 30 entries being recorded through the opening eight levels of the tournament. At the end of the day, just 16 players bagged chips who will advance to Day 2, starting tomorrow at 12:30 pm local time.
It was an impressive display of cards from high-stakes regular Ben Heath who makes his home right here in the United Kingdom. Heath was on the right side of some coin flips, coolers, and an all-around clean slate of poker on Day 1. Scoring a couple of knockouts throughout the day, Heath managed to bag up a healthy stack of 918,000 chips, good enough for the Day 1 chip lead.
Heading into Day 2, he will be closely followed by Christoph Vogelsang who cruised throughout the day, winding up with 843,000. Some other big stacks advancing through include Philip Sternheimer (654,000), Steve O'Dwyer (609,000), Juan Pardo (600,000), Adrian Mateos (575,000), and Orpen Kisacikoglu (562,000).
The day began with just 13 players taking their seats and only having to pay half the amount of rake as everyone else. It took a while for the field to grow and the action was stale at times in the opening levels, but some big hands eventually led to chaos.
Timothy Adams was the first to hit the rail when his flopped set, rivered full house, was bested by Joao Vieira who flopped top set and made the nut full house. Adams was among many players who were forced to the registration desk to make use of the unlimited number of re-entries. Joining him throughout the day were Pedro Garagnani, Pardo, Daniel Dvoress, Laszlo Bujtas, Graeme Newman, and Mike Watson all fired a second bullet.
Late registration will continue to remain open until the start of Day 2 where the blinds will resume at 3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 big blind ante. The action will get underway at 12:30 pm local time and the scheduled plan is to play down to the final six players, although that is always up for discussion.
The PokerNews live reporting team will be back to bring you all of the live updates throughout the day as the field will be playing into the money in the highest buy-in event of the series.
and the pair of fives was not enough for Dvoress to overtake Mateos. The stacks were counted and Dvoress was the player at risk for 348,000 with Mateos having him covered by exactly 1,000.
and Heath made a set of eights on the flop to send Volkmann to the rail.
and Heath took command of the pot with a set of jacks. The 
on the turn improved him to a full house and Bujtas was left drawing dead to the 
and Grafton check-called a continuation bet of 5,000 from Adams.
and Grafton checked again. Adams fired another barrel of 17,000 and Grafton took some time before mucking his cards.
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and Mateos started with a check. Kisacikoglu tossed in a bet of 3,500 and Mateos check-raised to 14,000 which Kisacikoglu called.
completed the board. Mateos went for it all, shoving all in for 158,000 which Kisacikoglu promptly folded to.
on the board when Sam Greenwood checked from the small blind. Ben Heath checked from the button and the turn was 
dropped on the river. Greenwood fired 9,000 and Heath considered his options before he tossed it in the muck to give up the pot. 
