Gerard Pique and Sam Greenwood were both on their second bullet and Pique was moved to the table just a few minutes ago.
Pique's raise in the hijack was called by Greenwood on the button and the flop came . Pique bet 15,000 and Greenwood called before the appeared on the turn. Pique slowed down and checked, before calling a bet worth 10,000 by Greenwood.
On the river, Pique checked with just 27,500 behind and Greenwood bet 60,000. The shot clock ran down to just two seconds when Pique sighed and called all in. Greenwood showed and Pique briefly flashed before leaving the tournament area.
Daniel Dvoress won't continue his sucess in High Roller tournaments from before the World Series of Poker, at least not for now. as the Canadian was the first player to be eliminated twice from this event.
Julian Thomas was also sent to the rail, followed by Jean-Noel Thorel and Alexandru Papazian.
Thorel raised from early position and Jan Eric Schwippert called in the big blind. What followed was a check-raise by Schwippert on the flop and Thorel called before calling both bets on the turn and the river. Schwippert showed and Thorel mucked nines to run out of chips for the second time as well.
Only two minutes later, Papazian busted from the very same table after shoving from the button with . Antoine Saout had in the blinds and held up thanks to a board of .
Today, it's time for the first of 2 Single-Day High Rollers here at the PokerStars Championship Barcelona. In the main room, Day 1b of the Main Event will get underway. But the high rollers with €25,500 to spare, clutter up in a different room to battle it out for another PokerStars spade and the accompanying prize money.
Play gets underway at 12:30 local time (in about 90 minutes) and players start with 100,000 in chips. Levels are 30 minutes long and start with 500/1,000 with a 100-ante. A single reentry is allowed, handing over another €25,500 secures you another start stack if you bust within the first 8 levels.
The Single-Day High Roller is a fixture on the PokerStars Championship schedule and was so too on its predecessor the European Poker Tour. Last year, Pratyush Buddiga won the event for €690,275 while runner up [Removed:17] walked away with the most money (€704,755) after striking a deal 3-handed with Andrey Shatilov who also took home a hefty sum (€606,020). 165 entries were made lasting year, consisting of 131 unique players and 34 reentries.