High Roller
Day 2 Started
High Roller
Day 2 Started
Welcome back to PokerNews' coverage of the 2015 World Poker Tour High Roller where at 1:00pm UK time, the 23 players who survived the antics on Monday's Day 1 return to their seats at Dusk Till Dawn for Day 2 of the £250,000 guaranteed Main Event.
Those 23 could be joined by more big names as it is possible to buy into (and reenter) until the end of the first level of the day, which should be around 1:40pm, so if you have a spare £5,250 down the back o your sofa why not come down and rub shoulders with some of the best poker players on the planet?
Steven Warburton is the man to catch at the start of play, his 149,000 stack containing a mere 900 more chips than second placed Simon Deadman. Terry Jordon was the only other player to break through the 100,000 chip barrier on Day 1, but with the likes of Jason Wheeler, Sam Trickett and Adrian Mateos still in contention, holding a bi stack at the start of the day will not guarantee success.
Join the PokerNews Live Reporting team from 1:00pm until the tournament's conclusion.
Level: 10
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 100
Day 2 of the £5,250 buy-in High Roller is under way and we have a number of new players in the field.
Sergio Aido and Tamer Kamel have reentered, while Andy Bacon, Asif Raja, Waheed "Wadey" Ashraf, Vasile Stancu, Simon Higgins and Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi have all chosen to buy in for the first time on Day 2.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Andy Bacon
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50,000 | |
Sergio Aido |
50,000
50,000
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50,000 |
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Tamer Kamel |
50,000
50,000
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50,000 |
Asif Raja | 50,000 | |
Waheed Ashraf | 50,000 | |
Vasile Stancu | 50,000 | |
Simon Higgins | 50,000 | |
Michael Mizrachi | 50,000 | |
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A flurry of players have taken advantage of the late registration period in the High Roller taken the total attendance so far to 45. There's still another 15 or so minutes to get involved in the £250,000 guaranteed tournament.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Ramsey Ajram
|
50,000 | |
Richard Berridge
|
50,000 | |
Joel Ettedgi | 50,000 | |
James Mitchell | 50,000 | |
Phillip Mighall | 50,000 | |
Nick Hicks | 50,000 | |
Daniel Barriocanal | 50,000 | |
Matas Cimbolas | 50,000 | |
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James Akenhead | 50,000 |
Artan Dedusha raised first in from the hijack, making it 3,500 to play and Tom Hall defended his big blind with a call.
Hall then check-called a 4,000 bet on an all-diamond flop before both players checked the turn and river. Hall showed but Dedusha took the pot with his .
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Artan Dedusha |
67,000
13,300
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13,300 |
Tom Hall |
35,000
-10,700
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-10,700 |
David Lopez has doubled through Daniel McAulay after a battle of the blinds.
Lopez open-shoved from the small blind with what turned out to be and McAulay made the call with . Those sevens remained best on the flop, but fell behind on the turn. The river changed nothing and Lopez's double was complete.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Daniel McAulay |
63,000
-12,200
|
-12,200 |
David Lopez |
35,000
17,500
|
17,500 |
Level: 11
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 200
Ben Vinson, who bust on Day 1, has reentered the High Roller while Martyn Frey and Chris Sly have both bought in for the first time.
Registration is now closed with 48 players registered.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Ben Vinson |
50,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
Martyn Frey | 50,000 | |
Chris Sly | 50,000 |
There's an empty chair where Craig McCorkell once sat, the felt in front of it void of chips, so it is safe to assume the WSOP bracelet winner has bust and will now almost certainly try his luck in the Main Event.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Craig McCorkell | Busted |