£10,300 EPT High Roller
Day 1 Completed
£10,300 EPT High Roller
Day 1 Completed
A busy opening day of the £10,300 EPT High Roller has wrapped up at the PokerStars European Poker Tour London, with Mike Watson headlining a star-studded field after 10 levels of play.
Watson entered late in the day, and quickly built up a big stack to take control of his table. The biggest swing of his night came after flopping quads to eliminate Ehsan Amiri on the penultimate level.
In the end, Watson bagged 235 big blinds to pace the field heading into action tomorrow. Plenty of formidable opponents are close behind, including Alex Keating who ran hot for most of the day. Keating was the first player in the field to amass five starting stacks by passing the 250,000 chip mark. He was able to collect even more by the end of play, and returns on Day 2 with 186 big blinds.
Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Mike Watson | Canada | 353,500 | 235 |
2 | Daniel Aziz | Brazil | 281,000 | 187 |
3 | Alex Keating | United States | 279,000 | 186 |
4 | Renan Bruschi | Brazil | 275,000 | 183 |
5 | Leonard Maue | Germany | 239,500 | 160 |
6 | Leon Sturm | Germany | 216,000 | 144 |
7 | Joao Vieira | Portugal | 214,500 | 143 |
8 | Bruno Volkmann | Brazil | 203,000 | 135 |
9 | Sam Grafton | United Kingdom | 198,500 | 132 |
10 | Alex Kulev | Bulgaria | 176,500 | 118 |
PokerStars Ambassador Sam Grafton sits inside the top 10 chip counts, bringing 132 big blinds into action on Day 2. He'll be joined by fellow ambassadors Parker Talbot and Alejandro Lococo when play resumes at the Hilton Park Lane.
The day began with three tables and grew to 12 deep into the night before eliminations trimmed the field by the end of play. One of the late victims was Pedro Gois Neves, who was down to one big blind after a failed bluff against Daniel Dvoress. Neves battled back to reach the final level of the night before ultimately falling to Danny Pyke.
One of the loudest characters in the room was Imad Derwiche, who had a roller-coaster ride early on before cracking aces to climb the leaderboard. He too fell victim later in the night, busting both of his entries on Day 1.
Others to burn two bullets on the opening day included Timothy Adams, Ensan Hossein, Dario Sammartino and Ole Schemion. A total of 139 entries populated the Day 1 field, with 67 finding a bag.
Late registration remains open until the start of Day 2, which begins at 12:30 p.m. local time on Thursday. The final field and payouts will be set as play resumes on Level 11, with blinds of 1,000/1,500 and a 1,500 ante.
Stay tuned to PokerNews as we follow the action all the way to crowning a champion at EPT London.
Table | Seat | Name | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 1 | Florencio Campomanes | 54,000 | 36 |
1 | 3 | Stephen Song | 65,000 | 43 |
1 | 4 | Sita Divari | 87,500 | 58 |
1 | 5 | Dimitar Danchev | 83,000 | 55 |
1 | 7 | Arthur Conan | 108,000 | 72 |
1 | 8 | Bruno Volkmann | 203,000 | 135 |
2 | 2 | Moonho Seo | 80,500 | 53 |
2 | 3 | Philip Sternheimer | 164,000 | 109 |
2 | 4 | Alex Kulev | 176,500 | 117 |
2 | 5 | Sam Grafton | 198,500 | 132 |
2 | 6 | Henrik Hecklen | 116,500 | 77 |
2 | 7 | Wayne Heung | 44,500 | 29 |
3 | 1 | Rehman Kassam | 73,500 | 49 |
3 | 2 | Lars Kamphues | 172,500 | 115 |
3 | 4 | Igor D'Ursel | 12,000 | 8 |
3 | 6 | Adam Miller | 107,500 | 71 |
3 | 7 | Natalia Samsonova | 40,500 | 27 |
3 | 8 | Alex Peffly | 133,000 | 88 |
4 | 2 | Fabian Gumz | 71,000 | 47 |
4 | 4 | Daniel Marques | 281,000 | 187 |
4 | 5 | Johan Guilbert | 112,000 | 74 |
4 | 6 | Alejandro Lococo | 129,000 | 86 |
4 | 7 | Danny Tang | 97,500 | 65 |
4 | 8 | Steve O'Dwyer | 49,000 | 32 |
5 | 1 | Daniel Rezaei | 30,000 | 20 |
5 | 2 | Renan Bruschi | 275,000 | 183 |
5 | 4 | Paul Newey | 54,500 | 36 |
5 | 6 | Adrian Mateos | 35,500 | 23 |
5 | 7 | Daniel Dvoress | 89,000 | 59 |
5 | 8 | Victoria Livschitz | 49,500 | 33 |
6 | 1 | Mike Watson | 353,500 | 235 |
6 | 2 | Simon Higgins | 28,500 | 19 |
6 | 4 | Kuljinder Sidhu | 93,000 | 62 |
6 | 5 | Espen Joerstad | 163,000 | 108 |
6 | 7 | Leonard Maue | 239,500 | 159 |
6 | 8 | Kayhan Mokri | 113,500 | 75 |
7 | 2 | Mustapha Kanit | 78,000 | 52 |
7 | 3 | Santhosh Suvarna | 137,000 | 91 |
7 | 5 | Marcello Marigliano | 57,000 | 38 |
7 | 6 | Andy Park | 79,000 | 52 |
7 | 7 | Remi Deyra | 68,500 | 45 |
7 | 8 | Joao Vieira | 214,500 | 143 |
8 | 1 | Parker Talbot | 85,500 | 57 |
8 | 2 | Rafael Navas | 275,000 | 183 |
8 | 6 | Juan Pardo | 110,000 | 73 |
8 | 7 | Julien Sitbon | 134,500 | 89 |
8 | 8 | Viacheslav Goryachev | 135,000 | 90 |
9 | 1 | Christoph Vogelsang | 56,000 | 37 |
9 | 3 | Jonathan Proudfoot | 38,500 | 25 |
9 | 4 | Francisco Benitez | 29,000 | 19 |
9 | 5 | Leon Sturm | 216,000 | 144 |
9 | 6 | Alexander Keating | 279,000 | 186 |
10 | 2 | Stefan Schillhabel | 163,000 | 108 |
10 | 3 | Alexander Lynskey | 121,500 | 81 |
10 | 4 | Preben Stokkan | 32,500 | 21 |
10 | 5 | Rodrigo Sirichuk | 45,500 | 30 |
10 | 6 | Martin Olali | 17,500 | 11 |
11 | 1 | Jamil Wakil | 30,500 | 20 |
11 | 3 | Andras Nemeth | 34,500 | 23 |
11 | 4 | Timo Kamphues | 176,000 | 117 |
11 | 7 | Jeremy Routier | 37,500 | 25 |
11 | 8 | Danny Pyke | 92,000 | 61 |
12 | 1 | Conor Beresford | 38,500 | 25 |
12 | 4 | Roland Rokita | 44,000 | 29 |
12 | 6 | Davidi Kitai | 135,000 | 90 |
12 | 7 | Mario Navarro | 16,500 | 11 |
12 | 8 | Ramzi Karam | 32,000 | 21 |
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Mike Watson
|
353,500 | 31,500 |
Daniel Aziz | 281,000 | 281,000 |
Alex Keating | 279,000 | -9,000 |
Rafael Navas Robles | 275,000 | 255,500 |
Renan Bruschi | 275,000 | 198,000 |
Leonard Maue | 239,500 | 167,000 |
Leon Sturm | 216,000 | 125,000 |
Joao Vieira | 214,500 | 28,900 |
Bruno Volkmann | 203,000 | 62,000 |
Sam Grafton | 198,500 | 20,500 |
Alex Kulev | 176,500 | 11,500 |
Timo Kamphues | 176,000 | 6,000 |
Lars Kamphues | 172,500 | 22,500 |
Philip Sternheimer | 164,000 | 164,000 |
Stefan Schillhabel | 163,000 | -22,000 |
Espen Jorstad | 163,000 | 1,000 |
Santhosh Suvarna | 137,000 | 61,000 |
Davidi Kitai
|
135,000 | -25,000 |
Viacheslav Goryachev | 135,000 | 135,000 |
Julien Sitbon | 134,500 | 16,500 |
Alex Peffly | 133,000 | 133,000 |
Alejandro Lococo | 129,000 | 19,000 |
Alexander Lynskey | 121,500 | 39,500 |
Henrik Hecklen | 116,500 | 116,500 |
Kayhan Mokri | 113,500 | -12,500 |
Day 1 of the EPT £10,300 High Roller has closed with 67/139 players advancing to Day 2. Chip counts and recap to follow shortly.
Florencio Campomanes jammed for 19,900 from under the gun before Igor D'Ursel reshoved for 31,000. The rest of the table folded.
Florencio Campomanes:
Igor D'Ursel:
Campomanes paired up on the flop and held to double after the turn and river.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Florencio Campomanes | 42,000 | -6,000 |
Igor D'Ursel | 12,000 | -51,000 |
Victoria Livschitz opened from under the gun to 2,400 and was called by Alex Keating on the button. Sam Grafton then three-bet from the small blind to 12,000, and Livschitz got out of the way.
Keating called to see the flop, where Grafton led out for 3,500.
Keating took a moment before raising to 22,000, and Grafton didn't need much time to make the fold.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Alex Keating | 288,000 | |
Sam Grafton | 178,000 | |
Victoria Livschitz | 32,000 |
Just 68 players remain in Day 1 and the final three hands have been called. Anyone with chips at the end of the day will move forward to Day 2.
Day 2 will get underway on Thursday, October 27 at 12:30 p.m. BST, which is also when late registration closes.
Jonathan Proudfoot and Stephen O'Dwyer were heads up on the flop, after the rest of the table folded to a bet of 2,000 from O'Dwyer and a check-raise to 5,000 from Proudfoot.
The board showed before the was added on the turn, and Proudfoot led for 6,700 and O'Dwyer made the call. The river brought another bet from Proudfoot, this time announcing all in for just under 11,000.
O'Dwyer used a time bank before tossing in the call, and Proudfoot showed for top pair. O'Dwyer revealed as Proudfoot more than doubled his stack.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Jonathan Proudfoot | 58,000 | 12,000 |
Stephen O'Dwyer
|
44,000 | 44,000 |