The registration for Day 2 of the 2014 EPT Prague €50,000 Super High Roller at the Hilton Hotel remains open until 11:45 CET and cards will go back in the air at midday with Ivan Soshnikov leading the field of the 32 survivors. The Russian won the € 10,000 + 300 High Roller at the very same venue last year for a career-high score of € 382,050 and accumulated 905,000 chips after eight levels of play on Day 1.
There were a total of 41 unique players and 7 re-entries, of which Joseph Cheong and Fedor Holz fired two bullets without bagging up chips. They still have the option to re-enter before Day 2 commences though and the overall number of entries may exceed 50 still with the blinds kicking in at 3,000-6,000 / ante 1,000. All late registrants and re-entries receive the starting stack of 250,000 in chips and that leaves a lot of room to make some moves still.
Big stacks for the restart include Brian Roberts (857,000), Juha Helppi (662,000), Czech high stakes player Martin Kabrhel (623,000) and the ever-so dangerous High Roller expert Tobias Reinkemeier (618,000). The creme de la creme of poker also includes World Series of Poker Main Event champion Martin Jacobson and the Swede bagged up 337,000 chips in his first event after the victory in Las Vegas.
The plan for Day 2 is to either play 10 levels of 60 minutes each or until the official final table of the last eight players is reached, whatever of the two comes first. Once the registration is official closed, the payout will be announced as well and that should be the case within the first level on Day 2. The PokerNews team will be there to cover all crucial moments until the end of play, so tune back in regularly!
Mike McDonald opened under the gun for 14,000 and Micah Raskin, sat to his left, three-bet to 40,000.
The remaining players folded and McDonald announced all in. Raskin took a few seconds but made the call to put McDonald at risk.
McDonald:
Raskin:
The final board read .
McDonald had Raskin dominated preflop but the final card brought the flush and Raskin gave a little fist pump as he bust a tough player with no further chance of re-entry.
The action started with a raise to 18,000 by Vladimir Troyanovskiy in the cutoff seat and Mike Watson moved all in for 162,000 from the button. Connor Drinan checked his cards and then threw in one green T-100,000 and two red T-25,000 chips for the call. Bryn Kenney folded his big blind and Troyanovskiy gave it some thought before moving all in himself for 370,000. Drinan called off and the three players turned over their cards:
Watson:
Drinan:
Troyanovskiy:
Watson was all in and at risk with the worst hand and already stood up after the turn, the Canadian was drawing dead. The on the river was a brick and Troyanovskiy won the massive pot to take almost two third off the stack of Drinan and is now among the chip leaders.
After a big hand with Sorel Mizzi (where Mizzi had pocket fours if we're correct) Timothy Adams was down to 5,000. After having to pay the ante he had just 4,000 left. We stuck around to see what would happen, and got treated to a good ol' comeback story.
1) Action folded to Adams on the button who pushed for 4,000. Jacobson completed the small blind, Leonid Markin checked his big blind. Jacobson and Markin checked the entire board of and Markin won the side pot with for nine-high. Jacobson had and mucked. The main pot went to Adams with his unimproved .
2) Thorel opened to 16,000 under the gun and Martin Kabrhel made the call in the hijack. Adams shoved for 18,000 from the cutoff and Markin in the small blind made the call. Fedor Holz in the big blind pushed for 196,000 and Thorel, Kabrhel and Markin all folded. Adams was holding and was up against Holz' . The board ran out and Adams just about quintupled his stack.
3) Adams open shoved and next door neighbor Martin Jacobson made the call for 91,000. All other players folded and Adams showed his . Jacobson showed and they were off to the races again. The board improved no one and Adams was back at it.
4) Adams opened under the gun to 18,000 and Leonid Markin made the call in the hijack. On it was Adams who c-betted 25,000 and Markin folded.
Isaac Haxton raised to 20,000 from late position before Fedor Holz moved all in from the hijack for his remaining 133,000 in chips. Leonid Markin was next to act and made the call as the player on the button and blinds folded. Haxton also got out of the way before the two players tabled their cards.
Holz:
Markin:
Holz was behind and would find no help as the board ran out to see him hit the rail.
Bryn Kenney raised to 22,000 from under the gun plus one. Ivan Soshnikov was in the hijack and bumped it up to 47,000 as the decision fell back on Kenney. He opted to move all in for around 150,000 in chips and was snap called.
Kenney:
Soshnikov:
Kenney was in big trouble against the monster pair held by Soshnikov and would find no help as the board ran out to see him eliminated from the tournament.
We just witnessed Olivier Busquet moving all in on a flop and Ivan Soshnikov tanking. Just one table behind us Micah Raskin was dumbfounded and verbally let the table know he was. We quickly turned around and wrote down the board of a 1.4 million pot.
We later found out that Raskin had opened to 25,000 and Leonid Markin had made it 75,000. Raskin then four bet to 140,000 and Markin shoved for effectively just over 700,000. Raskin had called.
Raskin had pocket kings and Markin was holding pocket tens. You might have guessed by now what had happened; a ten on the flop: . The on the turn and on the river didn't help Raskin and after some counting it turned out Raskin was covered.
The hand started with Brian Roberts raising to 28,000 from the cut off. Pablo Fernandez opted to move all in for his last 132,000 from the big blind and was called almost instantly.
Roberts:
Fernandez:
It was looking like a certain double-up for Fernandez as the dealer spread out but it would be the on the river pairing up Roberts that would see the end to Fernandez’s title hopes.
The action folded to Tobias Reinkemeier in the small blind and he asked Martin Kabrhel in the big blind for his stack. "About 200 (thousand) and change," the Czech said. Reinkemeier then grabbed three green T-100,000 chips to put his opponent all in. Kabrhel, with a dead serious tone in the voice, asked the dealer "how much?" The opponents at the table started laughing and the Czech then added "that was a joke by the way."
Kabrhel needed another 30 seconds to make the call and then flipped over . Reinkemeier held and the Czech was drawing dead after the turn of a board. There will now be a short break to do the redraw of the last two tables.
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but ran into the 
of Brian Roberts.
.
.
turn, the Canadian was drawing dead. The 
on the river was a brick and Troyanovskiy won the massive pot to take almost two third off the stack of Drinan and is now among the chip leaders.
and Markin won the side pot with 
for nine-high. Jacobson had 
and mucked. The main pot went to Adams with his unimproved 
.
and was up against Holz' 
. Jacobson showed 
it was Adams who c-betted 25,000 and Markin folded.
on the turn and 
