€10,300 High Roller
Dia 1 Iniciado
2013 PokerStars.com EPT Barcelona
€10,300 High Roller
Dias: 1
Day 1 of High Roller Action Soon to Begin!
Welcome back to our coverage of season 10 of the European Poker Tour! Today marks the beginning of the €10,000 buy in High Roller event. Last year, France's Laurent Polito took down this event and pocketed €270,229 in first-place prize money along with the trophy and the ever-coveted Shamballa Jewels bracelet.
Last year this event turned out 111 entries where the top 12 cashed. Champion Polito bested Alex Bilokur during heads up play and a final table that included Tobias Reinkemeier, Jean-Noel Thorel, and Bertrand "ElkY' Grospellier. Players to make the money but miss out on the final table last year include Kristijonas Andrulis, Jonathan Duhamel and Andrew Lichtenberger.
We're likely to see faces of many recognizable players in the field today. As the Main Event is down to the final 79 of the 1,234 entrants, many players are in the area, out of the Main, and ready to be crowned the next high roller champion. We're certain we'll see the likes of pros like Jason Mercier, Daniel Negreanu, and many other regulars to the tournament circuit.
Play will kick off at 12:00 PM local time, so stay tuned right here to PokerNews for all of the live updates. In the meantime, be sure to check out this video by our very own Kristy Arnett where she interviews the pros about their most embarrassing drunk stories:
Nível: 1
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 25
Shuffle Up and Deal!
Nível 1
: 100/200, 25 ante
Cards are in the air for the €10,000 High Roller event!
Notables in the Field
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: 100/200, 25 ante
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
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50,000 | 50,000 |
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50,000 | 50,000 |
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50,000 | 50,000 |
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50,000 | 50,000 |
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50,000 | 50,000 |
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A Look Back at Last Year's Final Table
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: 100/200, 25 ante
Last year, the final 12 players were the only ones to return for the third and final day of play of the €10,000 High Roller event. While the field was peppered with household names, several of them fell quite quickly before the final table was even reached. Andrew "luckychewey" Lichtenberger, 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event champion Jonathan Duhamel, and Kristijonas Andrulis were just three of those to fall.
Eventual champion Laurent Polito began the day third in chips behind Tobias Reinkemeier and Alex Bilokur. That trio of players continued their domination of the table and ended up as the last three standing.
Reinkemeier was the first of the three to fall when he ran into the pocket jacks of Polito, and that vaulted the final two into heads up play.
As deals are allowed to be made on the European Poker Tour, the two quickly took to breaking down the remaining money and figuring out a deal. Bilokur held the chip lead at the time of the deal with 3.238 million to Polito's 2.318 million and the two opted to make a straight ICM deal based on those counts. Therefore, Bilokur was guaranteed to take home €295,451 while Polito would pocket €270,229. With all of the prize money chopped up, the two left just the title and the coveted Shamballa Jewels bracelet to play for.
Polito took a lead early and never gave it back, as the match came to a head very quickly. Bilokur was eliminated when his pocket nines failed to improve against Polito's pocket queens, and Polito was crowned the champion.
EPT9 Barcelona High Roller Final Table
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Laurent Polito | €270,229 |
| 2 | Alex Bilokur | €295,451 |
| 3 | Tobias Reinkemeier | €119,660 |
| 4 | Stanislav Labutkin | € 95,180 |
| 5 | Carlos Mora | €73.430 |
| 6 | Jean-Noel Thorel | €54,390 |
| 7 | Bertrand Grospellier | €43,150 |
| 8 | Joao Vieira | €32,630 |
More Names in the Field
Nível 1
: 100/200, 25 ante
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50,000 | 50,000 |
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Field Reaches 60 Players
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: 100/200, 25 ante
With these late entrants, the field size has now reached 60. Registration will remain open until the start of Day 2, and all players that bust are allowed a single re-entry to the tournament.
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Petersen Fires
Nível 1
: 100/200, 25 ante
We arrived at the table to find a completed board of 
. With around 12,000 already in the middle, PokerStars Team Online member Mickey Petersen cut out a bet of 6,500.
Petersen's lone opponent, Chino Rheem wiggled in his seat and began pondering his action. Eventually, Rheem opted to let his hand go and Petersen picked up the pot. Petersen dragged in this nice sized pot early and now sits around 60,000 in chips. Rheem, on the other hand, has dropped to about 43,000.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
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60,000 | 10,000 |
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43,000 | -7,000 |
Nível: 2
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 25