We are an hour away from the start of Day 2 of the 2017 partypoker LIVE MILLION Germany €2,200 High Roller at 12 p.m. local time featuring a huge €200,000 guaranteed prize pool at King's Casino Rozvadov. A total of 65 entrants took part in yesterday's opening day with 48 advancing to today's final day. The field is expected to continue to grow during the beginning part of Day 2 with late registration and unlimited re-entries available until Level 11 begins or more than two hours into the day.
Partypoker Ambassador Anatoly Filatov begins today as the chip leader after he bagged 304,700 in chips yesterday. Also near the top of the field are Ukraine's Oleh Sushko (second - 272,800) and Germany's Hoa Bui Chi (third - 271,900).
Other notables to advance includes EPT Grand Final winner Jan Bendik (267,100) and WSOP bracelet holder Paul Michaelis (195,000), while Germany's Phillip Gruissem (111,500) made it through despite having a tough day at the felt.
Blinds begin today at 1,000/2,000 with an ante of 300 with blind levels increasing every 45 minutes. Players entering at the start of today will therefore still be deep stacks with their 100,000 in opening chips equating to 50 big blinds.
The PokerNews live reporting team will be on the floor to provide you with every bad beat, cooler and hero call until a winner in the High Roller has been crowned. Furthermore, there will be coverage of the €1,000,000 guaranteed partypoker LIVE Million Germany €1,100 Main Event starting 3 p.m., so don't forget to tune in for another great day of poker coverage.
Partypoker Ambassador Anatoly Filatov started yesterday on fire and it was no different for him on Day 2.
The action folded around Germany's Hoa Bui Chi in late position who opened with a bet of 4,000. Slovakia's 7ander called from the button and Filatov called from the big blind to make it three-handed to the flop.
Filatov and Chi both checked on the flop before 7andar bet 10,000. Filatov called and Chi folded.
Both players checked when the appeared on the turn before the completed the board on the river.
Filatov led out for 175,000 and 7andar went into the tank. He was mentioning combinations of cards that Filatov might have while his opponent stared straight out into space.
He eventually called his remaining stack of fewer than 50,000 chips and mucked his hand after Filatov turned over for two-pair.
After the hand, 7andar stayed at the table for a moment asking about the structure for the remaining of the day. After getting up from the table, he mentioned he would re-enter before late registration closed in about two hours.
Jan Mach made it 11,000 from early position, and "7andar" made it 27,500 to go from the cutoff. The button and blinds got out of the way before Mach came back over the top to 70,500, and "7andar" responded with yet another raise to 127,500 total. Mach six-bet it all in for a tad more than 300,000 and 7andrar, quickly committed his entire stack of 283,000 total.
Jan Mach:
7andar:
The was no help to Mach, and when the fell on the turn, the Czech was drawing dead. The river was a meaningless and 7andar scooped the massive pot.
In the very next hand, Mach got his few remaining big blinds in holding . They would not best the of Flowermann3, who even scored a double knock-out when Han Kuo Yong couldn't get there with as the board ran out .
Marek Tatar made it 14,000 to go from first position, and both Jan-Peter Jachtmann on the button and "je" in the big blind made the call. The measly looking flop got the fireworks going as Tatar continued for 35,000, Jachtmann made the call and je moved all-in for 112,500 total. Tatar came back over the top for 260,000 total, and that was enough for the partypoker Ambassador to throw in the towel.
Tatar confidently revealed but they were trailing the of je, and that didn't change as the dealer burned and turned the . Jachtmann jumped out of his seat as he would have made a set on the turn had he called, and that would have been enough for the win as the river came .
As it was je instead raked in the massive pot, but both Tatar and Jachtmann are doing just fine as well.
Jan-Peter Jachtmann made it 25,000 to go before Jurgen Kracht came into the pot with a raise to 65,000. Back on Jachtmann, he moved all-in for around 300,000 and Kracht wasted no time committing the chips with .
The partypoker Ambassador was in dire straits holding , and it was not to be for Jachtmann as the board ran out . The German WSOP bracelet holder hit the rail while countryman Kracht with that pot boosted his stack to almost a cool million chips.
Immediately after the bust-out of Jan-Peter Jachtmann Anatoly Filatov took the seat on the very right of Jurgen Kracht. Filatov had brought 935,000 chips to the table, and with Kracht at 950,000, it looked to be quite the race for the one million mark.
Filatov ended up winning that race quite handily, as he just raked in a massive pot against Kracht in a blind-versus-button showdown. The action was folded around to Kracht on the button and he min-raised to 20,000. Filatov cut out a raise to 65,000 and put it over the line, and Kracht made the call.
The flop was checked through before Filatov bet another 65,000 on the turn. Kracht called. The river saw Filatov fire 110,000 and Kracht instantly made the call, but his hand quickly hit the muck when Filatov showed down .
"Well, that's one way to get to a million chips. Aces," Kracht said and shot his tablemate an envious look while Filatov added another tower to his already booming castle of chips.
Anatoly Filatov raised to 125,000, and Aleksandar Tomovic made the call. Lukas Soucek in the big blind committed his entire stack of 119,000 and it was threeway to the flop.
The flop came down and Filatov continued for 100,000. Tomovic thought contemplated for a while before folding, and Soucek and Filatov revealed their hands.
Filatov:
Soucek:
Soucek needed help to dodge the dreaded title as bubble boy, but the was not it. Every remaining player in the tournament held their breath as the dealer burned and turned the on the river, and while Soucek was eliminated in 11th place the remaining 10 players in an instant became at least €4,000 richer.
Florian Bach was the first player eliminated at the nine-max final table.
Aleksandar Tomovic opened for 140,000 before Bach three-bet his remaining stack of 450,000. Tomovic quickly called with and was well ahead of Bach who held .
Tomovic remained ahead throughout the hand as the board ran out , while Bach hit the rails and collected the ninth place prize of €5,000.
The remaining eight players are guaranteed a payout of at least €7,000.
Polish player Prezes was down to the very last fumes of his stack and got remaining two big blinds in holding against the of Aleksandar Tomovic in the big blind.
The was safe for Prezes, so was the turn, but the river completed the straight for Tomovic, and the Serbian scored the knock-out.
One more elimination is due before play will conclude on the night. The remaining seven players are all guaranteed a payday of at least €9,000.
Josef Gulas came in for a raise to 125,000, and only Kasper Pyzara made the call leaving around half a million chips behind. The flop came down , and Pyzara checked his option, Gulas continued for 100,000 and Pyzara moved all-in. Gulas made the call with and needed to improve to beat the of Pyzara.
The gave Gulas additional outs, but the was a blank and Pyzara scored the double while Gulas was left with a mere 150,000.
They were at risk the very next hand. 50,000 were already forced in the middle thanks to Gulas being the big blind, and the rest went in after Filatov opened the action with a raise to 100,000. Filatov called and turned over , and Gulas' did not get there when the board ran out .
That concludes the play for today. Chip counts and an end-of-day recap will follow shortly.