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

10-06-2008 02:14 UTC+1

Daniel Negreanu Eliminated

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Daniel Negreanu and Alexander Roumeliotis saw an {A-?}

flop. Roumeliotis bet out, Negreanu pushed all in, and Roumeliotis called.

Negreanu: {A-?}

Roumeliotis: {A-?}

Turn: a blank.

River: a queen for good measure.

Tags: Alexander Roumeliotis Daniel Negreanu

10-06-2008 02:16 UTC+1

Tournament directors have a curious habit of changing their minds at the last minute, and indeed it has been decided that play will stop for the night at the end of Level 11, i.e. now.

Many things have happened in the past 15 minutes or so, though, so please stay tuned...

10-06-2008 02:26 UTC+1

Isabelle Mercier Doubles Through Roumeliotis

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Alexander Roumeliotis made it 8,000, Isabelle Mercier made it all in from the big blind for 45,700 total, and Roumeliotis called.

Mercier: {A-Hearts}

Roumeliotis: {A-Diamonds}

Board:

Mercier makes a lucky straight and doubles up to 90,000.

Tags: Alexander Roumeliotis Isabelle Mercier

10-06-2008 02:28 UTC+1

Sointula Down to One Big Blind

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Jani Sointula got his chips in preflop with {A-Hearts}

, and found himself up against John Juanda's {Q-Diamonds}

. Yikes.

Board: {Q-Clubs}

The chips were counted, and Sointula covered Juanda -- by 5,600. On the last hand of the night. Sointula will be coming back tomorrow with just over one big blind.

Tags: Jani Sointula John Juanda

10-06-2008 02:33 UTC+1

Sami Kelopuro Eliminated

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Meanwhile, on the other table, Sami Kelopuro was reduced to exactly no big blinds. Peter Jetten made a standard raise from the button and Kelopuro pushed all in from the big blind. Call.

Kelopuro: {Q-Hearts}

Jetten:

Board:

Kelopuro is busted, and we will be returning tomorrow with 14 players.

Tags: Peter Jetten Sami Kelopura

10-06-2008 02:42 UTC+1

Day 1 is Over; Benyamine Leads the Field

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After 11 full levels of play, we are down to just 14 players from the 85 we started with this morning.

The remaining players are:

David Benyamine - 295,900
Alexander Roumeliotis - 229,400
Jason Mercier - 161,200
Scotty Nguyen - 159,100
Masaaki Kagawa - 159,000
John Juanda - 138,900
Michael Watson - 118,000
Peter Jetten - 105,100
Isabelle Mercier - 99,200
Isaac Haxton - 83,200
Dennis Phillips - 73,200
Ghassan Bitar - 58,700
Andrew Feldman - 33,000
Jani Sointula - 6,500

Join us tomorrow from 1pm local time, when we will be playing first down to the delicious money, and then down to a single winner, who will be taking home £516,000.

£20,000 High Roller Event

Day 1 Completed