Christian ZetzscheIsaac Haxton - EPT Prague 2016 €25,500 Single-Day High Roller Winner
The next opportunity to shine awaits for the big names of the international poker circuit with the first of two Single-Day High Rollers of the 2017 PokerStars Championship Prague taking place at the stunning Hilton Hotel Prague. The tournament comes with a price tag of €25,500 and is the second most-expensive buy-in of the festival in "the City of a Hundred Spires."
Back in 2016 when the tour was still dubbed the PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT), not only one but three events took place at the Hilton Hotel in Prague upon Twitter request by Steve O'Dwyer and the Irish/American poker pro is expected to be among those to take to the felt this time around again after participating in the €50,000 Super High Roller and bagging up chips on Day 1a of the €5,300 Main Event.
The Single-Day High Roller has also been a fixture on the schedule of the PokerStars Championship and the last two festivals in Monte-Carlo and Barcelona hosted two each. In 2017, Stephen Chidwick has claimed the top spot and trophy twice while other champions include Bryn Kenney, the initial suggestor of this specific tournament format, as well as Quan Zhou, Oliver Weis, Spanish superstar Adrian Mateos, Philipp Gruissem and Pavel Plesuv.
Action will get underway at approximately 12.30 p.m. local time. All levels last 30 minutes each and a single re-entry is available during the registration period for the first eight levels, the participants receive 100,000 in chips. After the end of level 12, a 75-minute dinner break takes place before the tournament will then play down to a winner until the early morning hours. As usual, the PokerStars High Roller event also comes with a 30-second shot clock and all players receive three time banks at the start, one more after the end of the registration period and an additional time bank after reaching the nine-handed final table.
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Ole Schemion limped in from the small blind and Timothy Adams raised to 5,200 in the big blind. Schemion limp-raised to 17,200 and Adams moved all in for around 65,000, which Schemion called in a heart beat.
Timothy Adams:
Ole Schemion:
The board ran out and Adams ran out of chips in his first attempt, but may still re-enter once until the start of level nine.
Sam Greenwood opened under the gun plus one for 3,000 and small blind David Peters called. Big blind Ali Reza Fatehi squeezed to 12,500 and action was back on Greenwood. He four-bet to 33,000 and Peters was quick to fold. Fatehi shoved all in, Greenwood called for 100,900 total.
Sam Greenwood:
Ali Reza Fatehi:
The flop came , keeping Greenwood firm in the lead. While he improved on the turn, it also improved Fatehi since he picked up a flush draw. Yesterday, Greenwood busted the Main Event with jacks, this time he would win with the hand as the completed the board.
Albert Daher opened under the gun for 5,000 and got called in 2 spots: Ole Schemion on the button and Timothy Adams in the big blind.
The flop came and Adams checked. Daher bet 7,000 and Schemion raised to 15,200. Adams folded and Daher answered with a shove all in. Schemion called for about 46,000 or so.
Albert Daher:
Ole Schemion:
The on the turn paired up Daher to make him trips, the on the river was now insufficient to keep Schemion in the tournament.
Stephen Chidwick was eliminated while Nick Petrangelo re-entered and JC Alvarado, who had prevously boosted his stack, took on Ivan Luca in a raising war. Luca raised to 4,500 and Alvarado three-bet to 19,000 in the big blind. That prompted a reraise to 45,000 by Luca and he called the shove of Alvarado for the following coin flip:
Ivan Luca:
JC Alvarado:
The board came and Luca doubled for 137,700 in total, sending Alvarado back below the starting stack.
Igor Kurganov jammed for 30,400 and found Ivan Luca behind him reshoving. Kurganov had and beat Luca's as the board ran out .
That put Kurganov up back to well over 60,000 but he lost that not much later. The PokerStars Team Pro opened for 5,400 under the gun and Ivan Luca called right behind him. Christoph Vogelsang squeezed to 17,000 from the cutoff and Kurganov called, Luca folded.
Kurganov checked on and saw Vogelsang bet 13,000. Kurganov shoved for just under 50,000 and Vogelsang called.
Igor Kurganov:
Christoph Vogelsang:
The on the turn and on the river weren't cards Kurganov was looking for and he exited the tournament area.
Within two hands, the second bullet of Timothy Adams has seen his stack reduced to zero as Rocco Palumbo first doubled through him and soon after finished off the job he had started.
First Palumbo won a race for 120,000 with versus as the board came . Then, it was Palumbo that raised to 9,000 under the gun and Adrian Mateos called from one seat over. Adams moved all in or 45,500 from the small blind and Palumbo called, while Mateos folded.
Timothy Adams:
Rocco Palumbo:
The flop came and a queen was no option for Palumbo, but he got there with the turn. Adams needed a queen to avoid the elimination, but the river was a blank to see the Canadian on his way to the rail.
Thomas Muehloecker raised from the button and Dietrich Fast called out of the big blind to see both players check through a flop of . On the turn, Fast bet 55,000 and Muehloecker took one time bank extension before calling.
The appeared on the river and Fast took one time bank extension to check after one additional minute of consideration. Muehloecker moved all in for 175,000, which had Fast's 125,000 covered, and he took another two of his remaining three time bank extensions before calling it off.
Muehloecker showed for a set of sevens and Fast mucked for two pair before exiting the tournament area.
Ivan Luca's open-raise was followed by a three-bet of Adrian Mateos in the big blind and Luca four-bet all in, which Mateos called for 265,000.
Adrian Mateos:
Ivan Luca:
The board of left Luca with next to no chips, and he shoved the next hand for 14,000 from under the gun. Kitson Kho called out of the big blind for the second all in showdown in a row.
Ivan Luca:
Kitson Kho:
While Kho got there with the flop, the turn and river run out gave Luca the better hand.
It only took a few moments and the action accelerated once again. JC Alvarado opened the cutoff for 17,000 with about 150,000 or so behind. From the button, Mateos moved all in having everyone behind him and Alvarado easily covered. The blinds quickly folded, Alvarado called just as fast.
JC Alvarado:
Adrian Mateos:
The board ran out and just like that, with the wheel for Mateos, Alvarado hit the rail.
Rocco Palumbo raised to 35,000 and Sam Greenwood called out of the hijack. In the small blind, Ole Schemion three-bet all in for just under 300,000 and Palumbo glanced over before moving all in himself for more than 400,000. This forced out Greenwood and the cards were tabled.
Ole Schemion:
Rocco Palumbo:
"Oh no," Greenwood joked when he saw the ace-queen of Schemion. Palumbo asked "what's up with ace-queen, you guys all like it?"
The board came and the kicker played to eliminate Schemion soon after returning from the dinner break.
and Adams ran out of chips in his first attempt, but may still re-enter once until the start of level nine.
, keeping Greenwood firm in the lead. While he improved on the 
turn, it also improved Fatehi since he picked up a flush draw. Yesterday, 
completed the board.
on the river was now insufficient to keep Schemion in the tournament.
and Luca doubled for 137,700 in total, sending Alvarado back below the starting stack.
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on the turn and 
as the board came 
appeared on the river and Fast took one time bank extension to check after one additional minute of consideration. Muehloecker moved all in for 175,000, which had Fast's 125,000 covered, and he took another two of his remaining three time bank extensions before calling it off.
for a set of sevens and Fast mucked 
for two pair before exiting the tournament area.
and the kicker played to eliminate Schemion soon after returning from the dinner break.