€25,500 Single-Day High Roller I
Day 1 Started
€25,500 Single-Day High Roller I
Day 1 Started
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.
2016 EPT Prague Single-Day High Roller Events
Buy In | Entries | Prize Pool | Champion | Prize |
---|---|---|---|---|
€25,500 | 83 | €2,033,500 | Isaac Haxton | €559,200 |
€25,500 | 25 | €612,500 | Sam Greenwood | €226,600 |
€25,500 | 24 | €588,000 | Sergi Reixach | €217,750 |
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.
Year | PSC Stop | Buy In | Entries | Prize Pool | Champion | Prize |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2017 | Bahamas | $50,000 | 69 | $3,313,035 | Bryn Kenney | $969,075 |
2017 | Panama | $25,500 | 44 | $1,078,000 | Stephen Chidwick | $366,500 |
2017 | Macau | HK$206,000 | 62 | HKD12,152,000 | Quan Zhou | $469,090 |
2017 | Macau | HK$206,000 | 47 | HKD9,212,000 | Oliver Weis | $402,860 |
2017 | Monte-Carlo | €50,000 | 64 | €3,104,000 | Adrian Mateos | €908,000 |
2017 | Monte-Carlo | €25,500 | 85 | €2,082,500 | Philipp Gruissem | €485,135 |
2017 | Barcelona | €25,500 | 112 | €2,744,000 | Stephen Chidwick | €690,400 |
2017 | Barcelona | €25,500 | 66 | €1,617,000 | Pavel Plesuv | €406,300 |
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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As usual the Single-Day High Roller kicks off with a slight delay and some of the usual familiar faces have already showed up, waiting for the event to kick off. Manual seating will commence shortly and below are those that are ready to rumble.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Orpen Kisacikoglu |
100,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
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Daniel Dvoress |
100,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
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Timothy Adams |
100,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
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Ali Reza Fatehi |
100,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
Sam Greenwood |
100,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
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Quan Zhou |
100,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
Adrian Mateos |
100,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
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Nick Petrangelo |
100,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
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Level: 1
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 100
PokerStars Team Pro Igor Kurganov showed up with a ticket in the hand just before the cards went in the air and he was joined quickly after by Koray Aldemir, Stephen Chidwick and Jean-Noel Thorel.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Koray Aldemir |
100,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
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Igor Kurganov |
100,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
Stephen Chidwick |
100,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
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Jean-Noel Thorel |
100,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
Jean-Noel signed up and got Seat 2 on his ticket. Because his vision isn't as strong as it used to be, he asked if it was ok for him to move over to Seat 1. The tournament organization and other players agreed. Effectively, nothing has changed as all players moved a seat to their left, so the same position is still in order as it used to be. Now, though, Thorel can easily see the shot clock and the cards in the middle of the table. Everyone is happy.
Thorel shares the table with Quan Zhou, Daniel Dvoress, and Ali Reza Fatehi.
In a limped pot in a battle of the blinds, Quan Zhou and Jean-Noel Thorel both checked the flop of and the fell on the turn. Zhou bet 2,500 and Thorel called before the fell on the river. Zhou now bet 3,800 and Thorel called to see Zhou turn over . Thorel had that beat with for a flush and claimed the pot.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Jean-Noel Thorel |
108,000
8,000
|
8,000 |
Quan Zhou |
92,000
-8,000
|
-8,000 |
Igor Kurganov gave up an early pot against Adrian Mateos when the latter bet the turn for 14,200. Soon after it was Nick Petrangelo that opened the action on the button with a raise to 2,500 and Kurganov in the small blind three-bet to 11,000, Petrangelo called.
Both checked the flop before Kurganov bet the turn for 11,000, Petrangelo called. After the river, Kurganov's bet of 24,000 found no call and the PokerStars Team Pro raked in the pot without showdown.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Igor Kurganov |
116,000
16,000
|
16,000 |
Adrian Mateos |
106,000
6,000
|
6,000 |
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Nick Petrangelo |
80,000
-20,000
|
-20,000 |
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Among the next High Rollers to arrive with a ticket in the hand were Dietrich Fast, Sergio Aido, Xiaoyang Luo and Stefan Schillhabel. Action continues on three tables and further ones are prepared to accommodate additional late entries.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Dietrich Fast | 100,000 | |
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Sergio Aido | 100,000 | |
David Peters | 100,000 | |
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Xiaoyang Luo | 100,000 | |
Stefan Schillhabel | 100,000 | |
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Ali Reza Fatehi opened the cutoff on the shorthanded table for 2,300 and big blind Daniel Dvoress called. Dvoress checked on and Fatehi bet 2,500. Dvoress check-raised to 7,000 and Fatehi was quick to three-bet to 17,000. Dvoress called.
Dvoress checked on the turn and called as Fatehi bet 11,000.
The completed the board and Dvoress checked again. Fatehi bet 24,500 and Dvoress went deep into the tank. He used a time bank card and eventually, with just a few seconds to spare, reluctantly tossed in a chip to indicate he was calling.
Fatehi showed and Dvoress mucked.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Ali Reza Fatehi |
153,000
53,000
|
53,000 |
Daniel Dvoress |
44,000
-56,000
|
-56,000 |
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