€50,000 Super High Roller
Day 1 Started
2014 PokerStars.com EPT Season 11 Prague
€50,000 Super High Roller
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2014 PokerStars.com EPT Season 11 Prague
Buy-in
€48,500
Prize Pool
€2,448,765
Entries
51
Level
25
Blinds
120,000 / 240,000
Ante
30,000
Super High Rollers Assemble!
Prague in December; you still have the iconic clock, now with a cosy Christmas market in front of it, glühwein, and a nice Christmas tree. Oh, and there's a bunch of poker tournaments. The Eureka Poker Tour is one of them, with a record 1,738 players ponying up the buy-in the past two days. But there's something for everyone here, and today's there's something for the Super High Rollers.
At 12:15 local time the €50,000 Super High Roller will commence. Expect de crème de la crème of poker players battling it out for the coveted hardware.
One of them is WSOP Main Event champion Martin Jacobson, a man worth at least $10 million since past November. That one guy who snatched away a bigger prize this last WSOP by winning The Big One for One Drop will be there as well, Daniel Colman will try to win another High Roller. WCOOP winner Fedor Holz has already signed up, Ole Schemion, Tobias Reinkemeier and Igor Kurganov are sure to play, and four players won their tickets in the satellite late last night (Bryn Kenney, Igor Pihela, Juha Helppi, Mustapha Kanit).
Players will start with a 250,000 stack; 250 big blinds with the first level being 500/1,000 with a 100 ante. A total of 8 levels will be played today, ending the day with 2,500/5,000 and 500 ante at about 9:15 PM. Registration is open till the start of Day 2.
Expect coverage from start to finish, starting in a little over 90 minuten. So sit tight and just wait till the biggest tournament in Prague starts!
A Little Delay
The tournament hasn't started yet, but there are a lot of players in the room already. Any minute now.
Level: 1
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 100
Early Sign Ups
Level 1
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
250,000 | 250,000 |
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250,000 | 250,000 |
|
250,000 | 250,000 |
|
250,000 | 250,000 |
|
250,000 | 250,000 |
|
250,000 | 250,000 |
|
250,000 | |
|
250,000 | 250,000 |
|
250,000 | 250,000 |
|
250,000 | 250,000 |
|
250,000 | 250,000 |
|
250,000 | 250,000 |
|
250,000 | 250,000 |
|
250,000 | 250,000 |
|
250,000 | 250,000 |
|
250,000 | 250,000 |
|
250,000 | 250,000 |
|
250,000 | 250,000 |
|
250,000 | 250,000 |
|
250,000 | 250,000 |
|
250,000 | 250,000 |
|
250,000 | 250,000 |
|
250,000 | 250,000 |
|
250,000 | 250,000 |
Some Additional Names
Level 1
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
The tournament started a little late, but the "Shuffle up and deal" has sounded and the players have started putting there chips to work. Some more players we saw taking their seats:
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
250,000 | 250,000 |
|
250,000 | |
|
250,000 | 250,000 |
|
250,000 | 250,000 |
|
250,000 | 250,000 |
|
250,000 | 250,000 |
Drinan Takes from Holz
Level 1
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
Fedor Holz defended his small blind against the button-raise of Connor Drinan and then check-called a bet of 3,500 on the 
flop. The WCOOP Main Event champion of this year check-called another 9,000 on the 
turn and also checked the 
on the river. Drinan bet 25,000 and the German gave it some thought before tossing in four blue T-5,000 chips.
Drinan turned over 
for a full house and Holz mucked.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
291,000 | 41,000 |
|
|
210,000 | -40,000 |
Vieira Gets Called
Level 1
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
The hand started with Joao Vieira raising to 3,000 from the hijack and getting called by Juha Helppi on the big blind.
The flop came down 
and Helppi check called a continuation bet of 4,100. The 
fell on the turn and another bet of 8,100 was check called by Helppi before the 
completed the board.
Facing a third check, Vieira led out for 18,600 and was snap called. He tabled his 
for top two pair and won the pot when Helppi threw his cards into the muck.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
289,000 | |
|
|
211,000 | -39,000 |
Adams Takes One Down
Level 1
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
Steve O’Dwyer opened to 3,000 from under the gun and was called by Timothy Adams to his left. The action landed on Mike Watson in the small blind and he bumped it up to 13,500. O’Dwyer got out of the way and Adams called.
The dealer spread out the 
flop before Watson threw out a continuation bet of 12,500 which was called.
Both players checked the on the turn as the dropped on the river. Watson checked before Adams slid out a bet of 12,700. It was enough to take down the pot as Watson mucked his hand.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
275,000 | 25,000 |
|
|
225,000 | -25,000 |
The Art of Min Betting
Level 1
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
Ole Schemion raised to 3,000 from the button and Andrew Chen called out of the big blind to see the flop of 
. Both players checked and Schemion then bet 1,000 on the 
turn. Chen check-called and there was no further action on the 
river. Chen turned over 
and that won the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
256,000 | 6,000 |
|
|
245,000 | -5,000 |