€25,000 High Roller Day 1 | The 2013 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final

05-11-2013 00:10 UTC+2

Schemion Chipping Up

Donnie Peters

Level 10 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

From the cutoff seat, Ole Schemion raised to 3,600. Antonio Esfandiari called on the button, and Ilya Bulychev called from the big blind.

The flop came down , and action checked over to Schemion. He bet 4,700, and both of his opponents folded.

Player	Chips	Progress
Antonio Esfandiari	253,000 32,000	32,000

Ole Schemion	90,000 43,000	43,000
Ilya Bulychev	83,000 52,000	52,000

Tags: Antonio Esfandiari Ole Schemion Ilya Bulychev

05-11-2013 00:07 UTC+2

No Back-to-Back for the Griff

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Level 10 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

EPT Berlin High Roller champion, Griffin Benger, has busted his second bullet. He Tweeted:

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Ach. Busto. JJ vs @Tim0theeAdams's AA for 38 BB 35 min left in the day. Need some €50k downer @miss_robles comfort. Taking tomorrow off.May 10 2013

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Player	Chips	Progress
Griffin Benger	Busted

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05-11-2013 00:04 UTC+2

Coren Canned

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Level 10 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

Vicky Coren found a good spot to get her stack in but ran into a dominating hand behind her.

Mike McDonald opened to 4,000 from the hijack before the Team PokerStars Pro shoved for 23,100 from the cut-off. Sternheimer was on the button and cold-called which enough to scare off McDonald.

Coren:
Sternheimer:

The board ran to eliminate Coren on kicker-based issued.

Player	Chips	Progress
Philip Sternheimer	95,000 95,000	95,000
Vicky Coren	Busted

Tags: Mike McDonald Philip Sternheimer Vicky Coren

05-10-2013 23:58 UTC+2

Somebody Try and Stop This Man!

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Level 10 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

It's going to take a brave and lucky man to stop Igor Kurganov retaining his title. News reached us that it was HE who eliminated Paul Volpe.

Volpe got his chips in good with ace-king versus the ace-queen of Kurganov. The former was ahead all the way until the river where Kurganov made the nuts with a Broadway straight.

Player	Chips	Progress
Igor Kurganov	565,000 200,000	200,000

Tags: Igor Kurganov Paul Volpe

05-10-2013 23:51 UTC+2

Ivey Eliminated for Good

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Donnie Peters

Level 10 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

With about 13,000 in chips alread in the middle on the flop, Phil Ivey led with a bet of 7,000. Antonio Esfandiari raised to 100,000, which was enough to put the third player in the hand, Chris Moore, all in along with Ivey. Moore tank-folded, then Ivey tank-called.

Ivey showed the for a combo draw, looking for a seven or a club. Esfandiari held the for top and bottom pair.

The turn was the , giving Ivey more outs with any jack now giving him a straight as well. The river was the , though, and Ivey had missed. He was eliminated while Esfandiari vaulted up to 285,000 in chips. Ivey had already used his single allotted re-entry, so he will not be able to play this event anymore.