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

05-10-2013 23:40 UTC+2

Player	Chips	Progress
Antonio Esfandiari	180,000 130,000	130,000

Faisal Alfalasi	170,000
Nadar Kakhmazov	168,000
Ilya Bulychev	135,000
Dominik Nitsche	130,000 86,000	86,000
MIke McDonald	88,000 69,600	69,600

Paul Volpe	83,000 33,000	33,000
Dan Smith	83,000 72,000	72,000

Tony Gregg	67,000 14,000	14,000
Ramin Hajiyev	66,000
Govert Metaal	54,000 14,000	14,000
Ole Schemion	47,000 21,000	21,000
Phil Ivey	42,000 59,000	59,000

Galen Hall	41,000 14,000	14,000

Oleksii Kovalchuk	35,000
Craig McCorkell	23,500 26,500	26,500
Salman Behbehani	15,300 9,200	9,200

Player	Chips	Progress
Benny Spindler	300,000 115,000	115,000
Steven Silverman	205,000 15,000	15,000
Sorel Mizzi	188,000 89,300	89,300
George Bogdan Ana	130,000 130,000	130,000
Martin Finger	113,000 27,000	27,000

Vladimir Troyanovskiy	110,000 900	900
Davidi Kitai	105,000 34,600	34,600

Griffin Benger	92,000 39,800	39,800
Vanessa Selbst	81,000 38,500	38,500

Gautam Sabharwal	77,000 28,000	28,000
Mario Puccini	76,000 37,000	37,000
Marc-Andre Ladouceur	69,000 1,000	1,000
JC Alvarado	60,000 8,300	8,300
Timothy Adams	60,000 29,000	29,000
Per Ummer	58,000 19,000	19,000
Ognjen Sekularac	57,000
Viktor Blom	50,000 50,000	50,000
Peter Jetten	46,000 4,000	4,000
Andrew Chen	43,000 7,000	7,000
Michel Abecassis	36,000 14,000	14,000
Victor Sbrissa	23,000 43,000	43,000
David Peters	Busted

Yarchever Gives Blom and Dani and Viktor a Stern Talking To

Level 9 : 600/1,200, 200 ante

Jeffrey Yarchever knocked out both Viktor Blom and Dani Stern in one hand. All the chips went in pre flop and the cards were flipped up.

Yarchever:
Stern:
Blom:

The board ran .

Player	Chips	Progress
Viktor Blom	Busted
Dani Stern	Busted

Tags: Viktor Blom Dani Stern Jeffrey Yarchever

05-10-2013 22:52 UTC+2

Horecki Wins, Silver Stakes And ‘River Prayer’ Breaks 5m VPPs!

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Level 9 : 600/1,200, 200 ante

Sharky staker Max Silver talks staking and High Rollers at the EPT Grand Final.

Marcin Horecki wins a small one (but not micro) at the EPT Grand Final.

Greg 'River Prayer' Byard celebrates 5,000,000 VPP milestone by winning a side event for €21,400.

05-10-2013 22:50 UTC+2

More for Igor

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Level 9 : 600/1,200, 200 ante

Igor Kurganov has added even more to his stack after getting Galen Hall to fold his hand on the river.

Kurganov raised the button and bet three streets of a board, with the last two bets being 11,000 and 18,500. The river bet was too much for Hall who passed.

Player	Chips	Progress
Igor Kurganov	365,000 50,000	50,000
Galen Hall	55,000 1,000	1,000

Tags: Galen Hall Igor Kurganov

Level: 9

Blinds: 600/1,200

Ante: 200

05-10-2013 22:35 UTC+2

Break

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Donnie Peters

Level 8 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

The players are now on a break.

05-10-2013 22:34 UTC+2

Stern Busts; Gruissem Over 100K

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Donnie Peters

Level 8 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

Dani Stern was all in preflop against Philipp Gruissem and Jan Heitman before the flop. There was about 25,000 in the middle on the flop for the main pot and 20,000 in the side pot for Gruissem and Heitmann to fight over.

After checking the flop, Gruissem and Heitmann also checked the turn and river. Gruissem showed the , which was good enough to beat Heitmann's for the side pot. It was also good enough to beat Stern's for the main pot and eliminate him.

Player	Chips	Progress
Philipp Gruissem	105,000 82,500	82,500
Jan Heitmann	53,500 26,500	26,500

Dani Stern	Busted

Tags: Philipp Gruissem Jan Heitmann

05-10-2013 22:20 UTC+2

Cheong Over 200K

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Donnie Peters

Level 8 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

Kyle Cheong made it 2,200 from under the gun, and Lorent Polito, winner of the EPT Barcelona €10,000 High Roller this season, called on the button. Fabian Quoss three-bet to 8,000 from the small blind, Cheong called, and Polito folded.

The flop came down , and Quoss bet 10,000. Cheong called, and the dealer added the on the turn. Quoss led again, this time for 23,000. Cheong took his time, then called.

On the river, Quoss checked. Cheong studied, then fired 35,500. Quoss gave it up, and Cheong won the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Kyle Cheong	206,000 66,000	66,000
Fabian Quoss	65,000 35,000	35,000

Tags: Kyle Cheong Fabian Quoss Laurent Polito

05-10-2013 22:10 UTC+2

Ivey Snap Doubles with Second Bullet

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Level 8 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

Phil Ivey is in no mood to hang around with his second bullet, just ask Govert Metaal.

The action folded to Ivey on the button and he raised to 2,500. Metaal was in the big blind and three-bet to 7,500. Ivey paused for a minute and moved all in for 54,000. Metaal snap called causing Ivey to smile.

Metaal:
Ivey:

The board ran to make Ivey a full house. The mood at his table instantly shifted down a notch or two.