2014 PokerStars.com EPT Season 11 London

£10,300 High Roller
Day: 1
Event Info

2014 PokerStars.com EPT Season 11 London

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
88
Prize
£394,200
Event Info
Buy-in
£10,000
Entries
173
Level Info
Level
27
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000

£10,300 High Roller

Day 1 Started

Welcome to the £10,300 High Roller Event

EPT 11
EPT 11

While it's Day 4 in the Main Event here in London, it's also time for the £10,300 High Roller which tends to feature the crème de la crème of the poker world. Last year, Canadian Jason Lavallee defeated Simon Higgins for the title and the £357,700 first place money.

Last year's event featured a field of 159 players with Sorel Mizzi, Dave 'Devilfish' Ulliott and Team PokerStars Pro Luca Pagano among those who also made the final table. Today, this event will be playing ten one-hour levels with registration open until the start of Day 2.

Like the main event, this tournament will get underway at 12pm sharp and we'll be following all the action for this exciting three-day tournament!

Level: 1

Blinds: 100/200

Ante: 25

Action Underway

Level 1 : 100/200, 25 ante

Cards are in the air here at the high roller with players drifting in to fill up the tables.

Here are a few of the names we have spotted so far.

Player Chips Progress
Stephen Chidwick gb
Stephen Chidwick
50,000
Max Silver gb
Max Silver
50,000
Steve O'Dwyer ie
Steve O'Dwyer
EPT 1X Winner
50,000
Adrian Mateos es
Adrian Mateos
EPT Main Event Champion
EPT 1X Winner
50,000
Isaac Haxton us
Isaac Haxton
50,000
Eugene Katchalov ua
Eugene Katchalov
50,000
Talal Shakerchi gb
Talal Shakerchi
50,000
Yann Dion ca
Yann Dion
50,000
Niall Farrell gb
Niall Farrell
EPT 1X Winner
50,000
Emil Patel us
Emil Patel
50,000

Newey's Big Bluff

Level 1 : 100/200, 25 ante
Daniel Dvoress - Paul Newey
Daniel Dvoress - Paul Newey

On a {10-Hearts}{7-Clubs}{J-Clubs} flop, Paul Newey's bet of 3,325 was raised to 8,325 by Daniel Dvoress. Newey called to see the {K-Clubs} on the turn where Dvoress bet 11,075. After about 30 seconds, Newey responded by moving all in.

Dvoress tanked for a long time, clearly a huge decision this early on in the tournament. Finally he folded {9-Clubs}{8-Clubs} face up, Newey flashed the {7-Hearts}.

Player Chips Progress
Paul Newey gb
Paul Newey
72,000 72,000
Daniel Dvoress ca
Daniel Dvoress
28,000 28,000

Suited Shakerchi

Level 1 : 100/200, 25 ante
Talal Shakerchi
Talal Shakerchi

Talal Shakerchi is off to a decent start and he seems intent on giving the player on his right, Abi Khaitan, a hard time today.

Shakerchi called an open of 550 from Khaitan and they went to a heads up flop of {8-Hearts}{q-Hearts}{2-Hearts}. Khaitan check called a bet of 1,000 and they saw the turn card fall the {9-Spades}. A bet of 2,200 this time from Shakerchi was called. The river was the {8-Diamonds} and a small 600 bet again got a call and Shakerchi flipped over his {5-Hearts}{4-Hearts} flopped flush to take the pot.

Player Chips Progress
Talal Shakerchi gb
Talal Shakerchi
64,000 14,000
Abi Khaitan gb
Abi Khaitan
42,000 42,000

Tags: Talal Shakerchi

Farrell Barrels

Level 1 : 100/200, 25 ante

Niall Farrell opened the action and picked up one caller in big blind Kristoffer Edberg from Sweden. Farrell continued for 750 on a flop of {10-Clubs}{j-Hearts}{8-Spades} and Edberg put out the call. A turn card {4-Hearts} saw another bet of 1,800 from Farrell called.

The river card was the {j-Diamonds} and a check from Edberg saw Farrel give it just over a minute’s thought before rolling his wrist and placing out a bet of 4,500. Edberg wanted none of it and pushed his cards away.

Player Chips Progress
Niall Farrell gb
Niall Farrell
EPT 1X Winner
54,000 4,000
Kristoffer Edberg se
Kristoffer Edberg
47,200

Tags: Niall FarrellKristoffer Edberg

Level: 2

Blinds: 100/200

Ante: 25