€25,750 High Roller
Day 2 Completed
2017 PokerStars Championship presented by Monte-Carlo Casino®
€25,750 High Roller
Days: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2017 PokerStars Championship presented by Monte-Carlo Casino®
Buy-in
€25,750
Prize Pool
€4,581,500
Players
187
Level
26
Blinds
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
10,000
Muehloecker Leads €25,750 High Roller After Hours of Bubble Play on Day 2
Level 17
: 4,000-8,000, 1,000 ante
After more than eleven hours of play, Day 2 of the 2017 PokerStars Championship presented by Monte-Carlo Casino® €25,750 High Roller is in the books. 187 players created a total prize pool of €4,581,500 and 27 of them are still in the hunt for the astonishing first place prize of €1,015,000.
The second day was defined by a hand-for-hand phase that lasted three hours, including the stone bubble that took more than an hour to burst.
Thomas Muehloecker bagged the overnight chip lead with 887,000, closely followed by Ekrem Sanioglu (795,000) and Charlie Carrel (747,000).
All top stacks profited from the extremely long bubble phase and build their stacks by applying pressure. Among the survivors are Dario Sammartino (690,000), Adrian Mateos (562,000), John Juanda (510,000), the PokerStars Team Pros Igor Kurganov (279,000) and Felipe Ramos (239,000), Philipp Gruissem (201,000), Martin Jacobson (153,000) and Daniel Dvoress (108,000).
Steffen Sontheimer became the unfortunate bubble boy after losing the classic race with ace-king versus pocket queens.
| Table | Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Adrian Mateos | Spain | 562,000 |
| 1 | 3 | Thomas Muehloecker | Austria | 887,000 |
| 1 | 4 | Martin Jacobson | Sweden | 153,000 |
| 1 | 5 | Julian Thomas | Germany | 672,000 |
| 1 | 6 | Charlie Carrel | UK | 767,000 |
| 1 | 7 | Dario Sammartino | Italy | 690,000 |
| 1 | 8 | Dmitry Yurasov | Russia | 216,000 |
| 2 | 1 | Javier Gomez Zapatero | Spain | 125,000 |
| 2 | 2 | Maxi Lehmanski | Germany | 55,000 |
| 2 | 4 | Ekrem Sanioglu | France | 795,000 |
| 2 | 5 | Jimmy Guerrero | France | 117,000 |
| 2 | 6 | Aliaksei Boika | Belarus | 235,000 |
| 2 | 7 | Timothy Adams | Canada | 117,000 |
| 3 | 2 | Joao Simao | Brazil | 295,000 |
| 3 | 3 | Felipe Ramos | Brazil | 239,000 |
| 3 | 4 | Julian Stuer | Germany | 600,000 |
| 3 | 5 | Pavel Plesuv | Moldova | 152,000 |
| 3 | 6 | John Juanda | Indonesia | 510,000 |
| 3 | 7 | Murad Akhundov | Azerbaijan | 203,000 |
| 3 | 8 | Philipp Gruissem | Germany | 201,000 |
| 4 | 1 | Vlado Banicevic | Montenegro | 170,000 |
| 4 | 2 | Josip Simunic | Austria | 377,000 |
| 4 | 3 | Igor Kurganov | Russia | 279,000 |
| 4 | 4 | Sylvain Loosli | France | 220,000 |
| 4 | 5 | Daniel Dvoress | Canada | 108,000 |
| 4 | 6 | [Removed:17] | New Zealand | 291,000 |
| 4 | 7 | Emil Patel | Finland | 325,000 |
The day started with 95 Day 1 survivors out of 143 entries. Late registration was open for another three hours, giving players a late chance to jump in or fire an optional reentry if they so desired. After three levels, the total number of players got up to 187, and 27 of them were to share in the €4,581,500 prize pool.
Start-of-the-day chip leader Oleksii Khoroshenin had a brutal day and busted after clashing with Joao Simao in the third level of the day. Khoroshenin's trip kings lost in a massive pot against the Brazilian's full house. The EPT10 Vienna Main Event champion quickly bought himself back in again but failed to advance to Day 3.
Khoroshenin was soon joined on the rail by an all-star line-up of poker players. Christoph Vogelsang, David Peters, Sam Grafton, Ole Schemion, Govert Metaal, Dietrich Fast, Steve O'Dwyer. Justin Bonomo, Keven Stammen, Igor Yaroshevskyy, Isaac Haxton, Mustapha Kanit, Erik Seidel, Martin Finger, Rainer Kempe and Ryan Riess all finished empty-handed.
Team PokerStars Pro's Daniel Negreanu and Liv Boeree fell on Day 2 as well. Boeree busted with pocket threes to pocket eights while Negreanu four-bet shoved pocket jacks into pocket queens. The Red Spade is down to just two hopefuls as Ramos and birthday boy Kurganov moved onto Day 3.
With 32 players left, five places before the money, the action slowed down to a crawl and hand-for-hand was implemented. Even with hand-for-hand and the shot clock in play, it took almost three (!) hours and multiple short stacks surviving before Sontheimer lost the classic race. With Sontheimer's exit, all remaining players were guaranteed at least €45,820 for their accomplishment.
After the bubble burst, play was instantly stopped for the day with 27 players bagging up their chips. At 12:30 p.m. local time on Friday, play will resume with the blinds at 5,000/10,000 and a running ante of 1,000. Due to the long bubble phase, a lot of players were left short and action should start off furiously right away. Follow all the excitement on PokerNews as we play down to the winner of the PokerStars Championship €25,750 High Roller.
End-of-Day Chip Counts (full)
Level 17
: 4,000-8,000, 1,000 ante
A recap of today's action will be available shortly.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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887,000 | |
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795,000 | 5,000 |
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747,000 | 122,000 |
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690,000 | 80,000 |
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672,000 | -108,000 |
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600,000 | 70,000 |
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562,000 | 167,000 |
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510,000 | -20,000 |
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377,000 | -53,000 |
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325,000 | -75,000 |
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295,000 | 3,000 |
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![[Removed:17]](/img/avatars/avatar.svg){kind=avatar}
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291,000 | -9,000 |
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279,000 | 19,000 |
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239,000 | -36,000 |
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235,000 | -65,000 |
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220,000 | 20,000 |
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216,000 | -58,000 |
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203,000 | 43,000 |
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201,000 | -39,000 |
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170,000 | -110,000 |
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153,000 | -22,000 |
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152,000 | -23,000 |
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125,000 | -75,000 |
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117,000 | -23,000 |
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117,000 | -23,000 |
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Team Pro
Steffen Sontheimer Bubbles the High Roller
Level 17
: 4,000-8,000, 1,000 ante
Dario Sammartino raised to 18,000 and Thomas Muehloecker three-bet to 56,000 in the cutoff. The action folded to Steffen Sontheimer in the big blind and he four-bet all in for 115,000. Sammartino folded and Muehloecker quickly announced then call. It was the last table with action still, and the cards were turned over.
Thomas Muehloecker: 
Steffen Sontheimer: 
The board ran out 
and Sontheimer bubbled the High Roller, all remaining 27 players are in the money and bagged up their chips right after.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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887,000 | 147,000 |
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Busted | |
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Bubble Burst!
Level 17
: 4,000-8,000, 1,000 ante
The bubble has finally burst! Steffen Sontheimer is the last player to go home empty handed. Play has been suspended for the day.
Yan Doubles Through Carrel
Level 17
: 4,000-8,000, 1,000 ante
[Removed:17] found a very welcome double-up at the expense of Charlie Carrel. On a 
board, Yan bet 45,000, Carrel shoved and Yan snap-called for 122,000 total.
Charlie Carrel: 
[Removed:17]: 
The setup left Carrel drawing dead against Yan's top set and "MissOracle" doubled up.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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625,000 | -175,000 |
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300,000 | 90,000 |
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Yan Three-Bet Jams
Level 17
: 4,000-8,000, 1,000 ante
[Removed:17] three-bet shoved into a raise by Josip Simunic and the latter was not willing to call off 163,000 in total.
The long bubble has seen several other players without any spot to play, and as a result, their stacks have taken a hit.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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210,000 | 10,000 |
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140,000 | -55,000 |
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135,000 | -35,000 |
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80,000 | -27,000 |
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Patel Takes from Sammartino
Level 17
: 4,000-8,000, 1,000 ante
Dario Sammartino raised from early position for 17,000 and Emil Patel called in the small blind. Patel check-called a bet on the 
flop and did so again for 72,000 on the turn. The 
river was checked through and Patel rolled over 
, which was good enough to win the pot.
Both players have profited from the long bubble thus far and built their stacks above average. The best one of them all is Charlie Carrel though, who has been picking up pot after pot on his table and is currently at 800,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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800,000 | 240,000 |
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610,000 | 120,000 |
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400,000 | 155,000 |
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Kurganov Doubles Through Gruissem
Level 17
: 4,000-8,000, 1,000 ante
Philipp Gruissem once again tried to burst the bubble, this time by taking on Igor Kurganov. A limp-shove of Kurganov saw his stack of 120,000 go into the middle of the table and Gruissem called.
Igor Kurganov:
Philipp Gruissem:
The bubble still didn't burst as Kurganov's aces held up on 
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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260,000 | 138,000 |
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240,000 | -105,000 |
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Adams Doubles on the Bubble
Level 17
: 4,000-8,000, 1,000 ante
Timothy Adams open-shoved his last 66,000 out of the small blind and Philipp Gruissem reluctantly called out of the big blind. Once all other tables were finished, the cards were turned over.
Timothy Adams:
Philipp Gruissem: 
The board ran out 
and Adams doubled.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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345,000 | -15,000 |
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140,000 | 59,000 |
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