£20,000 High Roller Event Day 1 | PokerStars.com EPT London £1m Showdown

10-05-2008 22:38 UTC+1

Going Down...

Praz Bansi, an early big stack, is down to around 30,000 and looking glum. "I must have raised 50 times, got nothing for it. They just won't let me win a hand."

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10-05-2008 22:54 UTC+1

Break Time

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Players are milling and will return shortly.

Level: 9

Blinds: 800/1,600

Ante: 200

10-05-2008 23:32 UTC+1

As craziness erupts just a few yards away where Michael Martin is winning the Main Event, his mother and girlfriend swooning with joy at the rail, we are down to just 29 players in the High Rollers event.

Doing Well

Dan Heimiller: 141,000 chip leader
Daniel Negreanu: 130,000 perennial enormo-stack
Alexander Roumeliotis: 121,000

Doing Less Well

Jason Mercier: 16,500
Isabelle Mercier (no relation): 17,000
Dennis Phillips: the onetime chip leader down to 20,000
Barry Greenstein: 23,000
Dave "Devilfish" Ulliott: 25,000

Average stack is 59,300.

10-06-2008 00:01 UTC+1

Devilfish Eliminated

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Dave "Devilfish" Ulliott open-shoved from the button and big blind Barry Greenstein called. "I've got a three with mine," said the Devilfish and flipped {A-Diamonds}

. Greenstein flipped... {A-Spades}

. The board rolled out entirely flush-free, and they chopped it.

The next hand he shoved again, and this time Steven Silverman called from the big blind. No luck of the Devil this time though.

Devilfish: {Q-Diamonds}

Silverman: {K-Hearts}

Board:

Tags: Barry Greenstein David Ulliott Devilfish Steven Silverman

10-06-2008 00:05 UTC+1

Timoshenko and Kostritsyn Eliminated

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Not sure what's going on here, just wanted to post it

Also now busto is Yevgeniy Timoshenko, and likewise onetime big stack Alexander Kostritsyn -- Scotty Nguyen seems to have gotten most of the latter's stack, and is on an extremely comfortable 114,000.

Tags: Alexander Kostritsyn Scotty Nguyen Yevgeniy Timoshenko

10-06-2008 00:09 UTC+1

26 Players Remain

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Here they are, in seating order:

Table 6

1 Steven Silverman
2 Jason Mercier
3 Andrew Feldman
4 Nenad Medic
5 Daniel Negreanu
6 Ghassan Bitar
7 Peter Jetten
8 Alexander Roumeliotis
9 Barry Greenstein

Table 7

1 Dennis Phillips
2 Joel Nordkvist
3 Sherkhan Farnood
4 Isabelle Mercier
5 Dan Heimiller
6 Michael Watson
7 Sami Kelopuro
8 John Juanda
9 David Benyamine

Table 9

1 Masaaki Kagawa
2 Ylon Schwartz
3 Isaac Haxton
4 Praz Bansi
5 Nathan Lee
6 Scotty Nguyen
7 Jani Sointula
8 Steve Zolotow

10-06-2008 00:12 UTC+1

Benyamine Leads the Field

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There's more action here than Snoopy gets in his very wildest dreams, as the chip leader changes almost every few minutes.

Dan Heimiller, on over 140,000 just a little while ago, is down to just 50,000. Some of his chips are now in the possession of David Benyamine. With a fair bit in the pot before they even got to the {4-Hearts}