£10,300 High Roller
Day 2 Started
£10,300 High Roller
Day 2 Started
Day 2 of the EPT London High Roller sponsored by PokerStars.com gets underway shortly. The £10,000 + £300 single re-entry event attracted 165 entrants yesterday with 78 players remaining at the close and it is still possible to buy in before the start of the day.
Yann Dion currently holds the lead with 363,300 but despite his big stack he will do well to hang on to that position with an incredibly tough field to negotiate and the all-important seat draw to be announced just before the start of play.
The prize pool will be announced shortly after final numbers have been confirmed, but with numbers up from last year the eventual winner is sure to walk away with more than last year’s first place prize of £357,700.
Other big names in a stellar filed include Team PokerStars Pros Johnny Lodden (109,300), Bertrand Grospellier (78,500), Victoria Coren Mitchell (64,000) and Jason Mercier (42,400) and PokerStars Team Online Pro Isaac Haxton (109,300). German superstar Ole Schemion is well placed with 218,400, and still in but with work to do are Full Tilt Poker Pro Viktor Blom (47,700) and Big One for One Drop winner Daniel Colman (77,300).
The notional plan for today is to play down to a final table, but with such a large field it is likely that the full ten one-hour levels will be played before the action closes at around midnight. Stay tuned as the PokerNews Live Reporting Team brings you all the latest from the felt as battle resumes at Noon
We've just received the full list of chip counts from last night. There's expected to be a few new entries/re-entries, we'll bring you that news as soon as we have it.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Yann Dion | 363,300 | |
Adrian Mateos | 276,000 | |
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David Vamplew | 236,400 | |
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Andrew Chen | 230,300 | |
Ole Schemion | 218,400 | |
Anatoly Filatov | 216,700 | |
Max Silver | 200,800 | |
Simon Higgins | 200,500 | |
Dominik Nitsche | 184,100 | |
Craig McCorkell |
176,300
40,300
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40,300 |
Jorryt van Hoof |
175,800
87,800
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87,800 |
Stephen Chidwick | 170,900 | |
Abi Khaitan |
168,800
118,800
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118,800 |
Paul Klann |
162,800
112,800
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112,800 |
Alexander Roumeliotis |
159,800
-27,200
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-27,200 |
Philippe D'Auteuil |
159,500
-20,500
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-20,500 |
Yuri Nasedkin
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157,000
157,000
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157,000 |
Niall Farrell | 155,500 | |
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David Peters | 140,700 | |
Nicolas Chouity |
138,600
138,600
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138,600 |
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Joel Nordkvist |
133,000
35,000
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35,000 |
Nicholas Galtos |
130,700
-49,300
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-49,300 |
Sergio Aido |
129,400
-40,600
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-40,600 |
Jose Quintas |
125,300
75,300
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75,300 |
Martin Finger | 125,200 | |
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Level: 11
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 300
Here's a list of those who bought in at the last minute, there were no new entries and eight re-entries.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Talal Shakerchi |
50,000
50,000
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50,000 |
Dov Malnik
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50,000
50,000
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50,000 |
Jason Wheeler |
50,000
50,000
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50,000 |
Fady Kamar |
50,000
50,000
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50,000 |
Paul Byrne |
50,000
50,000
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50,000 |
Senh Ung |
50,000
50,000
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50,000 |
Jonas Kronwitter |
50,000
50,000
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50,000 |
Leslie Arthur Packer
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50,000
50,000
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50,000 |
On a flop, Philipp Gruissem had moved all in and Marc Daubach was tanking.
Gruissem sighed, "One hand... 45-minute drive..."
Finally Daubach called with and Gruissem showed . The offered some chop possibilities and the came on river to knock out the German.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Marc Daubach |
120,000
30,300
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30,300 |
Philipp Gruissem | Busted |
PokerStars Team Online Pro Isaac Haxton opened the action for 4,500 and called a 10,500 three-bet from Dori Yacoub. The blinds folded and it went heads up to a flop of .
Haxton check-called a bet of 11,000 and the turn and river were checked down. Haxton turned over to win with top pair against the of Yacoub.
“That was dirty. You deserve a rebate.” Haxton joked as Yacoub shrugged it off.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Isaac Haxton |
125,000
15,700
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15,700 |
Dori Yacoub |
75,000
-16,500
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-16,500 |
There has been a lot of three-betting so far today, looks like they means business in what promises to be an action packed first few levels.
David Vamplew opened the action for 4,500 and Full Tilt Poker Professional Viktor Blom Three-bet to 11,000 from the cut-off. Vamplew made the call and they went to a flop of .
A check from Vamplew saw Blom bet 12,000 and win the pot.
Blom is where he started the day having folded to a a couple of shoves from Talal Shakerchi who re-bought at the start of the day.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Talal Shakerchi |
53,000
3,000
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3,000 |
"You're good at these," said someone to Niall Farrell.
The Scot had former EPT Barcelona winner Frederik Jensen all in preflop but the Dane was the one with the dominating hand.
Farrell:
Jensen:
The board came and Jensen's kicker played to ensure his double up.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Frederik Jensen |
128,000
98,300
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98,300 |
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Niall Farrell |
90,000
-65,500
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-65,500 |
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Player | Chips | Progress |
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Mustapha Kanit | Busted | |
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Ivan Soshnikov | Busted | |
Mukul Pahuja | Busted | |
Jason Wheeler | Busted | |
Martin Jacobson | Busted | |
Maxim Panyak | Busted | |
Kristoffer Edberg | Busted | |
Bryn Kenney | Busted | |
Jose Quintas | Busted | |
Leslie Arthur Packer
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Busted |