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€25,000 EPT High Roller
Day 1 Completed
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With about 30 minutes remaining in the last level of play for today, roughly 80 players remain in contention for a piece of the prize pool that has already topped €4,000,000.
Survivors will bag up their chips and return Saturday at noon to continue play. Registration remains open until 11:50 a.m., ten minutes before the start of Day 2, so players still have a chance to enter (or reenter, if they've already busted out once). Only two entries are allowed, so players who fired two bullets today will have to seek other entertainment for tomorrow.
Chip counts for the players advancing to Day 2 will be posted here when available.
High rollers have returned from their final break to blinds of 600/1,200/1,200. They will play two more 60-minute levels before bagging up for the night.
Here's an assortment of chip counts and departures as of the break.
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Orpen Kisacikoglu, who won the €50,000 Super High Roller Second Chance event a couple of days ago, has busted out for the second time, so he's done for this event. Ditto for Ole Schemion.
Daniel Dvoress busted out and has reentered with a fresh 50,000 stack. Same for Aleksejs Ponakovs, who collected more than €1,000,000 for his fourth-place finish in the €250,000 Super High Roller a few days ago.
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The high rollers have taken off for their 75-minute dinner break. They'll return to blinds of 500/1,000/1,000 at about 8:15 p.m.
Here's a sampling of the top ten stacks and some others.
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