At 1 p.m. local time, the battle for a seat at the six-handed official final table of the Super High Roller Bowl Europe Main Event starts here at the amazing Merit Royal Hotel, Casino & Spa.
Thirty-five entries were collected on Day 1 with one of them (Bryn Kenney) not planning to sit down until the start of Day 2. As the seat draw took place last night, he got assigned a seat in between Phil Ivey and Linus Loeliger with Stephen Chidwick and Viacheslav Buldygin on the other side.
But as could be expected, every table has some of the biggest stars in poker seated at it.
Day 1 chip leader Chi Zhang finds himself placed at a table with Danny Tang, Jake Schindler, Shao Hua Zhan, David Stamm, and Richard Yong.
Artur Martirosian won $1,400,000 in Event #6 by defeating David Peters and they ended up on the same table again together with Mikita Badziakouski, Paul Phua, Ivan Leow, and Seth Davies.
And on the fourth table, the founder of Poker Central Cary Katz will be battling the likes of Viktor Kudinov, Wiktor Malinowski, Timothy Adams, Timofey Kuznetsov, and David Coleman.
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With registration still open until play resumes at 1 p.m. local time, more entries might come in. Once the dealers have been instructed to shuffle up and deal, the players will play Level 7 which features a small blind of 3,000, a big blind of 6,000, and a big blind ante of 6,000. The level duration will remain at 60 minutes each with a ten-minute break after each level. After the fourth or fifth level, a 90-minute dinner break will also take place.
The PokerGO stream is slated to bring you Day 2 action from 2 p.m. local time and any hands shown on the stream will be reported here on a similar delay. The PokerNews live reporting team will be on hand to bring you all the action so follow along to see who will be competing for the lion-share of the prize pool!
for Kudinov to hold with the rockets to eliminate Coleman as the first player of the day.
