Break
Level 12
: 2,500/5,000, 5,000 ante
The first break of Day 2 is bringing the end of registration for the High Roller. We will be back in 15 minutes.
2019 PokerNews Cup Casino Finix
€1,100 High Roller
Day: 2
Double Elimination for Halkiadakis
Level 12
: 2,500/5,000, 5,000 ante
Andreas Halkiadakis just sent two players in the rail, when he raised from early position to 16,000 and Christina Orfanidou was in the small blind and left with just 12,000, putting her last chips in the middle.
Emil Trenkov was in the big blind and three-bet to 37,000 with Halkiadakis flatting this bet. The flop came 
and Trenkov made a c-bet of 50,000 with Halkiadakis shoving for more than 140,000, covering his opponent and Trenkov called.
Kings for Halkiadakis, tens for Trenkov and jack-nine for Orfanidou, with the board keeping the advantage of kings until the river.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
420,000 | 262,500 |
|
Busted | |
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Busted |
The First Shove Wins
Level 12
: 2,500/5,000, 5,000 ante
In a situation of two aggressive players, the one that is first to shove is in most cases the one to win. Supposing, of course, that they had no plans to go to showdown and they both wanted to end the pot preflop.
This was the situation with Loukas Kioutsoukis and Andrey Gabrovski, where Kioutsoukis raised from under-the-gun to 11,000 and Gabrovski three-bet from the small blind to 50,000. Kioutsoukis didn't think long before shoving all in for more than 160,000 and Gabrovski snap-folded.
Kioutsoukis showed 
while he was collecting chips from the pot and Gabrovski said that he had five-six.
Meanwhile, we lost two more players, Georgios Efthimiadis and Pavel Pavlov.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted | |
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Busted |
Level: 12
Blinds: 2,500/5,000
Ante: 5,000
Double-Ups for S. Michailidis and Tsaknis
Level 11
: 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante
Spyridon Michailidis and Vasileios Tsaknis where at risk and they both managed to double-up.
Tsaknis shoved from the small blind for 87,000 with ace-king and Rosen Symeonov called from the big blind with ace-six. The board didn't change anything and Tsaknis doubled-up.
The same for Michailidis who was found all in with queens and 80,000 stack, versus Pavel Pavlov's ace-king. The pocket pair held when the board reached the river and we had another double-up in the field.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
175,000 | 125,000 |
|
165,000 | 69,500 |
|
|
27,000 | -158,500 |
Two Eliminations
Level 11
: 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante
Two players didn't last long during Day 2 of the High Roller. We saw the elimination of Anastasios Chatzianastasiou, who was all in on the turn with the board having 
and he was holding 
.
Unfortunately for him, David Reef who was his opponent opened 
with a flush and the Greek player was drawing only to one out, the 
that will give him a straight flush.
That didn't happen in the river and Chatzianastasiou, who had bought-in in the beginning of Day 2, lost his stack in about 20 minutes.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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Busted | |
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Busted |
Five New Players
Level 11
: 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
100,000 | 100,000 |
|
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100,000 | 100,000 |
|
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100,000 | 100,000 |
|
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100,000 | 100,000 |
|
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100,000 | 100,000 |
Level: 11
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 4,000
37 Players Return for Day 2 of the 2019 PokerNews Cup High Roller
All starting flights are over and the 2019 PokerNews Cup High Roller is about to get serious. After 80 entries from three Day 1's, 37 players remained in the field and they will take their seats at 3 p.m. to determine who is going to leave happy and who not.
For now there is a slight overlay, with €100,000 in the guaranteed prize pool and €80,000 collected from the event's entries, but there are going to be two more levels of registration.
Leading the field are two Bulgarians from the first two flights, Ivan Ivanov with 631,500 from Day 1a and Marcel Galustov with 614,500 from Day 1b. Two well-known Greek players will be in the field of Day 2, former EPT champ Sotirios Koutoupas and former EPT final table finalist Konstantinos Nanos.
Let's take a look at the total numbers:
| Day | Entries | Chip Leader | Country | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1A | 12/28 | Ivan Ivanov | Bulgaria | 631,500 |
| 1B | 8/21 | Marcel Galustov | Bulgaria | 614,500 |
| 1C | 17/31 | Momchil Vutev | Bulgaria | 547,000 |
Day 2 Seat Draw
| Player | Country | Table | Seat | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miroslav Panteleev | Bulgaria | 1 | 1 | 113,000 |
| Nikolaos Pouliezos | Greece | 1 | 4 | 273,000 |
| David Reef | Israel | 1 | 5 | 390,000 |
| Dimitrios Michailidis | Greece | 1 | 6 | 237,500 |
| Sotirios Koutoupas | Greece | 1 | 7 | 211,500 |
| Leonidas Mavidis | Greece | 1 | 8 | 219,000 |
| Konstantinos Hionidis | Greece | 2 | 1 | 75,000 |
| Michail Trizlintsev | Bulgaria | 2 | 2 | 59,500 |
| Christina Orfanidou | Greece | 2 | 3 | 63,000 |
| Marcel Galustov | Bulgaria | 2 | 5 | 614,500 |
| Andreas Halkiadakis | Greece | 2 | 7 | 157,500 |
| Cossack | Greece | 2 | 8 | 164,000 |
| J.S. | Greece | 3 | 2 | 90,500 |
| Savvas Dirchalidis | Greece | 3 | 3 | 151,000 |
| Dejan Stanev | Bulgaria | 3 | 4 | 225,000 |
| Momchil Vutev | Bulgaria | 3 | 5 | 547,000 |
| Ivaylo Yordanov | Bulgaria | 3 | 6 | 173,500 |
| Vasileios Tsaknis | Greece | 3 | 8 | 95,500 |
| Spyridon Michailidis | Greece | 4 | 1 | 50,000 |
| Damian Botsev | Bulgaria | 4 | 2 | 95,000 |
| Dimitrios Dimitros | Greece | 4 | 4 | 547,500 |
| Pavel Pavlov | Bulgaria | 4 | 5 | 185,500 |
| Polykarpos Stryvakis | Greece | 4 | 6 | 299,000 |
| Georgios Terzopoulos | Greece | 4 | 7 | 132,500 |
| Kyriakos Charalampidis | Greece | 5 | 1 | 104,000 |
| Dimitrios Mparmpathanasis | Greece | 5 | 3 | 370,500 |
| Andrey Gabrovski | Bulgaria | 5 | 4 | 323,000 |
| Blago Alexandrov | Bulgaria | 5 | 5 | 152,000 |
| Loukas Kioutsoukis | Greece | 5 | 6 | 226,000 |
| Georgios Efthymiadis | Greece | 5 | 7 | 115,500 |
| Konstantin Aykov | Bulgaria | 5 | 8 | 94,500 |
| Momchil Krastanov | Bulgaria | 6 | 2 | 159,500 |
| Konstantinos Nanos | Greece | 6 | 3 | 68,500 |
| Marios Tzakos | Greece | 6 | 4 | 346,000 |
| Achilleas Nomidis | Greece | 6 | 5 | 146,000 |
| Dimitar Blazhev | Bulgaria | 6 | 6 | 136,500 |
| Ivan Ivanov | Bulgaria | 6 | 8 | 631,500 |