£50,000 Super High Roller
Dia 1 Concluído
2013 PokerStars.com EPT London
£50,000 Super High Roller
Dias: 1
Event Info
Resultado Final
Event Info
Informações sobre o nível
Informações sobre o torneio - Dia 1
2013 PokerStars.com EPT London
Buy-in
£48,500
Prize Pool
£2,736,866
Entradas
57
Nível
22
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
10,000
Johannes Strassmann Leads After Day 1 in The Super High Roller
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Nível 8
: 2,500/5,000, 500 ante
While UK & Ireland Poker Tour was already in full force in London, the second stop on Season 10 of the European Poker Tour officially kicked off on Friday with the £50,000 Super High Roller. A ton of big names showed up for this exhilarating event, but it was Johannes Strassmann who closed out Day 1 as the chip leader with a massive 1.53 million-chip stack. The German is a well-known fixture on the EPT, having final tabled three events in the past and bubbling two others. All told, Strassmann has nine top-50 finishes on the tour.
Just 32 players remained at the end of Day 1, but late and reentry registration will remain open until 15 minutes before the start of play on Saturday. In total there were 52 entries on Day 1, including 14 reentries.
At the beginning of the day, just eight players were present, one of whom was Team PokerStars Pro Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier. The Frenchman did not benefit from his decision to play from the start as he was knocked out early. Grospellier did not reenter into this event, but he might still do that before Day 2.
As the room filled up, the Germans made up a big portion of the field. All at once, Tobias Reinkemeier, Fabian Quoss, Max Altergott, and Philipp Gruissem showed up. Gruissem had a very tough day, as he was knocked out three times. He can still enter back tomorrow by doingso would become the reentry record holder in Super High Roller events. The other Germans all made it to the next day, as did their fellow countrymen Ole Schemion, Igor Kurganov, and Martin Finger.
John Juanda, runner-up last year at the €50,000 Majestic High Roller at the World Series of Poker Europe, grabbed an early lead when he took a big chunk of chips off Bill Perkins. Perkins busted out shortly afterwards, but he returned and crushed Haralabos Voulgaris’ first bullet.
Voulgaris and Perkins clashed in a huge pot with a set against a straight and flush draw. On a flop of 
, Voulgaris held the 
for middle set and Perkins had the 
for a combo draw. Thanks to a run out of the 
on the turn and 
on the river, Perkins boosted his stack up to 910,000 and remained in the driver seat the entire day before finishing on 760,000.
The youngest EPT winner ever, Mike "Timex" McDonald, made his presence known at the feature table, and he was the one who took Richard Yong’s first stack. McDonald ended the day with a decent pile of chips, and he’ll be looking to make back-to-back Super High Roller final tables after finishing fourth in Barcelona for €269,400.
Sorel Mizzi, Jason Mercier, Richard Yong, Haralabos Voulgaris, Jonathan Duhamel, and Talal Shakerchi all reentered on Day 1, and all managed to survive the day on their second bullet, but in order to win money in this tournament they will have to cash for more than £100,000!
While Perkins was chip leader for a large portion of the day, and Steve O’Dwyer (903,000) got really close, Strassmann finished on top.
There is plenty of poker left to be played in this event, starting with Day 2 on Saturday where the plan is to play down to the final table of eight. Tune back in with PokerNews at 12 p.m. UK time on Satruday as we will bring you all the hand histories, chip counts, photos, and other stories from the felt here in London.
End-of-Day Chip Counts (Completo)
Nível 8
: 2,500/5,000, 500 ante
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
1,530,000 | 80,000 |
|
903,000 | 103,000 |
|
760,000 | -160,000 |
|
659,000 | 148,000 |
|
607,000 | 83,500 |
|
607,000 | -14,000 |
|
591,000 | 66,000 |
|
523,000 | |
|
478,000 | 308,000 |
|
477,000 | 57,000 |
|
430,000 | -120,000 |
|
420,000 | -3,000 |
|
380,000 | 55,000 |
|
380,000 | -20,000 |
|
373,000 | -54,500 |
|
360,000 | 122,000 |
|
340,000 | -39,000 |
|
325,000 | 138,000 |
|
314,000 | -118,000 |
|
286,000 | 36,000 |
|
256,000 | 3,000 |
|
236,000 | -184,000 |
|
219,000 | 14,000 |
|
200,000 | -50,000 |
|
180,000 | -120,000 |
Gross Re-Enters and Scores Double Elimination
Nível 8
: 2,500/5,000, 500 ante
Jeff Gross opted to re-enter before the end of the night, and it proved a wise decision as he knocked out Winfred Yu and Martin Jacobson in the same hand to chip up to 523,000. It happened when Yu and Jacobson got both of their stacks all in preflop holding 
and Gross called with 
. The tens held and two players hit the rail right at the tail end of Day 1. They'll have to wait until tomorrow to re-enter if they wish to do so.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
|
523,000 | 523,000 |
Four More Hands
Nível 8
: 2,500/5,000, 500 ante
The remaining players will play four more hands before bagging and tagging for the night. We're off to catch any last minute action and compile some notable chip counts. Stay tuned for those and a full recap of the 2013 PokerStars.com EPT London £50,000 Super High Roller Day 1 action.
Gruissem Busts for a Third Time
Nível 8
: 2,500/5,000, 500 ante
Martin Finger opened for 11,000 from middle position only to have Johannes Strassmann three-bet to 32,000 from the hijack. Philipp Gruissem, who hasn't had much luck today, then four-bet to 53,000 from the cutoff, leaving himself around 100,00 behind.
The button and small blind folded, and then Shawn Buchanan came in with a five-bet to 80,000. Finger got out of the way, as did Strassmann, and Gruissem shoved all in. Buchanan snap-called and Gruissem was in dire straits.
Gruissem: 
Buchanan: 
Gruissem was dominated and received no reprieve as the board ran out 
. With that, Gruissem was sent to the rail for the third time.
It'll be interesting to see if Gruissem will fire a fourth bullet before the start of Day 2 tomorrow.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
|
525,000 | 195,000 |
|
Eliminado |
Late Double for Shak
Nível 8
: 2,500/5,000, 500 ante
Steve O'Dwyer opened for 11,000 from the cutoff only to have Dan Shak three-bet all in for 91,500 from the small blind. The big got out of the way and O'Dwyer shrugged before making the call.
Shak: 
O'Dwyer: 
It was a race, but not one O'Dwyer would win as the board ran out 
to give Shak two pair and the double.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
|
800,000 | -100,000 |
|
213,000 | 121,500 |
Bill Perkins, Mr Super High Roller
Nível 8
: 2,500/5,000, 500 ante
So it seems Bill Perkins (@bp22) is getting the hang of this poker game. His second £50k bullet has the chip lead. Check it out at the PokerStars Blog.
O'Dwyer Doubles Big Through Szabo & Then Eliminates Him
Nível 8
: 2,500/5,000, 500 ante
We didn't catch Steve O'Dwyer's double through Zsolt Szabo, but we do know he did so holding the nut flush with the 
while Szabo had a wheel. The hand left Szabo with a single pink T500 chip, which means he was automatically all in the next hand. O'Dywer ended up raising and isolated the remaining players.
Szabo: 
O'Dwyer: 
O'Dwyer was ahead, but Szabo was drawing to two live cards. The 
flop was dry for Szabo, and so was the {Qd| turn. Szabo needed either a three or seven on the river to stay alive, but it was not meant to be as the 
blanked.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
|
900,000 | 490,000 |
|
|
Eliminado |
Shakerchi & Gross Bounded
Nível 8
: 2,500/5,000, 500 ante
Talal Shakerchi has been nursing one of the shorter stacks all evening, and he finally found a hand he liked.
We're not sure of the preflop action, but we do know that Shakerchi got his last 165,000 all in holding the 
and was racing against the 
of Richard Yong.
"Fifty-fifty," Yong said. The 
flop made things interesting as Shakerchi picked up a flush draw to go along with his overs. Unfortunately for him, neither the turn nor river would prove helpful and Shakerchi was eliminated from the tournament.
Meanwhile, Jeff Gross was eliminated from the tournament, though he stated that he will re-enter here in the last level of the night. No word on whether or not Shakerchi will do the same.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
|
550,000 | 8,500 |
|
|
Eliminado | |
|
|
Eliminado |