€10,000 High Roller
Jour 1 a débuté
€10,000 High Roller
Jour 1 a débuté
The final High Roller of the 2017 PokerStars Championship Prague festival kicks off at 12.30 p.m. local time at the Hilton Hotel Prague with Day 1 of the €10,300 High Roller. One year ago, the EPT13 gathered a record field of 407 entries for this very event and created a prize pool of €3,947,900. Master of speech play William Kassouf claimed the trophy and €532,500 after cutting a deal with Patrick Serda, who walked away with a payday of €719,000.
It is also the last PokerStars Championship High Roller title up for grabs after PokerStars announced the return to the European Poker Tour brand as of 2018, and some of the biggest names in poker are expcted to battle it out over the next three days. Day 1 will feature a total of 10 levels of 60 minutes each and all participants receive 50,000 in chips. A single re-entry is available during the registration period, and players can join the action until the cards are back in the air for Day 2.
Day 1 Level Structure
Level | Duration | Small Blind | Big Blind | Ante |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 60 min | 100 | 200 | 25 |
2 | 60 min | 100 | 200 | 25 |
Break 20 min | ||||
3 | 60 min | 150 | 300 | 50 |
4 | 60 min | 200 | 400 | 50 |
Break 20 min | ||||
5 | 60 min | 250 | 500 | 75 |
6 | 60 min | 300 | 600 | 100 |
Dinner Break 75 min | ||||
7 | 60 min | 400 | 800 | 100 |
8 | 60 min | 500 | 1,000 | 100 |
Break 20 min | ||||
9 | 60 min | 600 | 1,200 | 200 |
10 | 60 min | 800 | 1,600 | 200 |
Previous PokerStars Championship High Roller winners in 2017 include Luc Greenwood, Irish / American poker icon Steve O'Dwyer, Sosia Jiang, Julian Stuer and Ronny Kaiser. Back in August, Kaiser emerged on top of a field of 557 entries after cutting a deal with Markus Durnegger and 2017 WSOP Main Event finalist Benjamin Pollak to take home €735,000 for his efforts.
PSC Stop | Buy In | Entries | Prize Pool | Champion | Prize | Prize (USD) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bahamas | $25,750 | 159 | $3,895,500 | Luc Greenwood | $779,268 | $779,268 |
Panama | $10,300 | 110 | $1,067,000 | Steve O'Dwyer | $240,451 | $240,451 |
Macau | HK103,000 | 180 | HK$17,460,000 | Sosia Jiang | HK$3,870,000 | $503,100 |
Monte-Carlo | €25,750 | 187 | €4,581,500 | Julian Stuer | €1,015,000 | $1,107,522 |
Barcelona | €10,300 | 557 | €5,402,900 | Ronny Kaiser | €735,000 | $867,297 |
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Niveau: 1
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 25
Level one has kicked off with around 40 players and manual seating, and below is a list of notables that already took their seats. Many more are expected to join the action and the tables are in the main tournament room near the Main Event feature table.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Quan Zhou | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Stephen Chidwick
|
50,000 | 50,000 |
Daniel Dvoress
|
50,000 | 50,000 |
Johan Guilbert | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Roman Emelyanov
|
50,000 | 50,000 |
Ali Reza Fatehi | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Adrian Mateos
|
50,000 | 50,000 |
Jonathan Bussieres | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Nick Petrangelo
|
50,000 | 50,000 |
Orpen Kisacikoglu
|
50,000 | 50,000 |
Koray Aldemir
|
50,000 | 50,000 |
Timothy Adams
|
50,000 | 50,000 |
On a flop, Johan Guilbert bet 1,200 and Orpen Kisacikoglu called in position. The turn brought the and in one swoop motion, Guilbert flung four T-1,000 chips forward. Kisacikoglu gave it some thought before committing another call.
On the river, Guilbert checked and folded to a 7,000 bet from Kisacikogl.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Orpen Kisacikoglu
|
58,500 | 8,500 |
Johan Guilbert | 42,000 | -8,000 |
Picking up the action on the flop, Nicola Grieco and Stephen Chidwick in the blinds both checked. Andrey Novak bet 1,150 and both opponents called. On the turn, once again the action checked to Novak, who bet 3,850. While Grieco quickly folded, Chidwick had other plans and check-raised to 15,000.
Novak used one time bank extension in level one already and called with five seconds left. The on the river was checked through and Novak claimed a big pot early on with the .
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Andrey Novak | 70,000 | |
Nicola Grieco | 48,000 | -2,000 |
Stephen Chidwick
|
33,000 | -17,000 |
More and more players are trickling in to get their manual seating and among them were former EPT €10,300 High Roller champion Josip Simunic, David Laka, Eureka Hamburg Main Event champion Dinesh Alt, two-time World Series of Poker Main Event finalist Antoine Saout and Luis Rodriguez Cruz.
Cruz recently finished 8th in the WSOP Europe Main Event for €97,344 and finished in the very same position in the last PokerStars Championship €10,300 High Roller back in August in Barcelona.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Luis Rodriguez Cruz
|
50,000 | |
Goran Mandic | 50,000 | |
Francois Evard | 50,000 | |
Dinesh Alt | 50,000 | |
Antoine Saout | 50,000 | |
Ben Heath
|
50,000 | |
David Laka | 50,000 | |
Tobias Peters
|
50,000 | |
Pascal Hartmann | 50,000 | |
Josip Simunic | 50,000 |
Markus Durnegger obliterated his previous live cashes with a second place in the 2017 PokerStars Championship Barcelona €10,300 High Roller and the Austrian is back in contention here in Prague. Durnegger entered the competition a few minutes late and will aim to go one spot better than his runner-up finish for €729,299 this time around.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Markus Durnegger | 50,000 |
David "MissOracle" Yan hasn't really been spotted during the festival at the Hilton Hotel Prague thus far, but the New Zealander was among the next batch of notables that took their seat half-way through the first level. Other big names that joined the field include Thomas Muehloecker, Jean-Noel Thorel, Sam Greenwood, Vojtech Ruzicka and Vladimir Troyanovskiy amongst others.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Alexandre Reard
|
50,000 | 50,000 |
Ihar Soika | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Vojtech Ruzicka | 50,000 | 50,000 |
[Removed:17] | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Thomas Muehloecker | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Jean-Noel Thorel | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Ran Azor | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Viacheslav Goryachev | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Sam Greenwood
|
50,000 | 50,000 |
Vladimir Troyanovskiy | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Sam Greenwood is coming off what is quite possibly the hottest month of his poker career. Greenwood won more than $1,5 million dollars in the past thirty days, including two final tables here in Prague. The Canadian finished 7th in the first €10,300 High Roller for €24,900, then final tabled the €50,000 Super High Roller where he finished 5th for €147,000.
Today, Greenwood is off to a rocky start as he lost about 30% of his starting stack to David Laka. On a board, Greenwood bet 3,500 and Laka called in position. The river brought the and Greenwood checked. Laka bet 8,500 and Greenwood called within seconds.
Laka turned over for a full house and Greenwood mucked.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
David Laka | 64,500 | 14,500 |
Sam Greenwood
|
36,000 | -14,000 |