Late last night, Steve O'Dwyer pitched the idea of running another €25,500 Single-Day High Roller. He wanted another version of the event he had just busted from (6th for €124,050), and people seemed up for it.
The tournament organization obliged and just announced the tournament for 2pm today (in about an hour).
A lot of the high rollers here in Prague, are still in the Main Event. We'll see if this event takes off. If it does, we'll stop by for coverage. If not, there's always the chance it runs tomorrow as the staff is very flexible. Check back in an hour to see who's giving it (another) go.
On a board of we saw Justin Bonomo bet 14,000 from first position. Paul Newey on the button, who's going for his fifth final table in a (Super) High Roller event in a row, raised to 38,000. Bonomo contemplated what to do for just a bit before he called.
The completed the board and Bonomo pushed all in. Instantly, Newey tossed his cards into the muck.
"Bad river?" Charlie Carrel asked.
"Terrible!" said Newey with a big smile and a huge laugh.
Rainer Kempe and Dominik Nitsche were seen hanging around the tournament room earlier but haven't entered. Sam Greenwood did just buy in, bringing the total of entries up to 13.
Action folded to Adrian Mateos on the button and he raised to 2,500. Both small blind Sam Greenwood as big blind Ali Reza Fatehi called before all of them checked the -flop.
The hit the turn and Greenwood bet out an unknown amount. Fatehi folded, Mateos called.
Both checked the on the river and Greenwood showed a winner with , Mateos mucked.
With Viacheslav Buldygin signing up, the tournament now has 16 players. Because they don't want a player to be certain which seat they get upon signing up, a redraw is being done so Buldygin gets a random seat assigned. A short break to facilitate the redraw is in progress now, the tournament continues right after the players have taken their new seat.