€100,000 Super High Roller Dia 1 | 2015 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final

2015-04-30 13:12 UTC+2

More Familiar Faces

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Nível 1 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Vladimir Troyanovskiy	250,000
Max Altergott	250,000
Igor Kurganov	250,000
Andrew Chen	250,000
Jason Mo	250,000
Thomas Muehloecker	250,000
David Peters	250,000
Dan Smith	250,000
Carlos Chadha	250,000
Erik Seidel	250,000
JC Alvarado	250,000
Daniel Colman	250,000
Byron Kaverman	250,000
Mikita Badziakouski	250,000

2015-04-30 13:08 UTC+2

Silver and Danzer Off To Great Starts in First Super High Roller

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Nível 1 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

Max Silver and George Danzer are both in the field and diving into their first super high roller tournament. Previously, the two of them only invested one-quarter of today's buy-in in a poker tournament outside of the World Series of Poker. While that is an interesting commonality between the two players, they also share the fact that they've both jumped out to impressive starts.

Silver and Danzer began at the same table. Silver has since been relocated to a different table, but he won almost all of the opening hands dealt before moving. After his early work, Silver moved up to 275,000 and looked to be the early leader.

Not to be outdone, Danzer, the reigning WSOP Player of the Year, waited patiently before (and maybe before Silver moved tables) he took a big pot off Ole Schemion. to move to about 325,000.

Play folded to Schemion on the button, and he opened with a raise to 2,500. Danzer made the call out of the big blind, and the flop came down . Danzer checked, Schemion bet 3,000, and Danzer called to see the appear on the turn. Danzer checked, and Schemion bet 7,500. Again, Danzer called.

Following the river card, Danzer checked to the aggressor for the third time. Schemion, who never seems to give up a chance to fire, bet 18,500. Danzer took some time, then check-raised to 64,000. After a minute or two in the tank, Schemion tossed in the chips to make the call. Danzer rolled over the for the nut flush, and Schemion mucked.

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
George Danzer	325,000	75,000
Max Silver	275,000	25,000
Ole Schemion	175,000	-75,000

Tags: George Danzer Max Silver Ole Schemion

2015-04-30 12:47 UTC+2

Who's Here?

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Nível 1 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

Jogador	Fichas	Oscilação
Sam Greenwood	250,000
Leon Tsoukernik	250,000
Martin Kabrhel	250,000
Steve O'Dwyer	250,000
Philipp Gruissem	250,000
Nick Petrangelo	250,000
Isaac Haxton	250,000
Besim Hot	250,000
Connor Drinan	250,000
Mohsin Charania	250,000
Paul Newey	250,000
Justin Bonomo	250,000
George Danzer	250,000
Max Silver	250,000
Talal Shakerchi	250,000
Leonid Markin	250,000
Pratyush Buddiga	250,000
Mike McDonald	250,000
Phil Ivey	250,000
Dani Stern	250,000
Ole Schemion	250,000
Scott Seiver	250,000
Fedor Holz	250,000

Nível: 1

Blinds: 500/1,000

Ante: 100

2015-04-30 12:06 UTC+2

Get Ready for Some Mega High-Stakes Poker Action!

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Welcome to the big, bad kickoff to PokerNews' coverage of the 2015 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino European Poker Tour Grand Final!

Today marks Day 1 of the €100,000 Super High Roller, one of the largest buy-ins the yearly tournament circuit has to offer. As always in this marquee event, a highly elite field is expected, including the likes of Antonio Esfandiari, Dan Smith, Daniel Negreanu, Erik Seidel, Jason Mercier, Isaac Haxton, Max Altergott, Mike McDonald, Phil Ivey, Sam Trickett, and Talal Shakerchi.

Last year, Daniel Colman topped a field of 62 entries, and the field size has generated steady increase each year. The first installment in 2012 was won by Justin Bonomo after he topped 45 entries, then in 2013 it was Max Altergott topped a field of 50 entries. That's an 11-percent increase from 2012 to 2013 and a 24-percent increase from 2013 to 2014. If you average those increases out to 17.5 percent and project that onto 2015's field, you're looking at over 70 entries this year.

We mentioned a handful of notables expected to be in the field, but it's not one of those that we'd like to focus on for one of our main points of interest.

Anthony Zinno, winner of three World Poker Tour titles, will be popping his PokerStars super high roller cherry. To our knowledge, he's never played an event with a buy-in of $100,000 or greater, and it will be exciting to see the player hotter than anyone else right now lock horns with what is one of the toughest fields to overcome in poker.

Zinno's already having a career year with just shy of $1.6 million in live earnings, but the average talent gap in a WPT main event versus a PokerStars super high roller is very large. It comes of large interest to see if he can perform well against the type of elite competition he'll be going toe to toe with in Monaco.

Today's event kicks off at 12:30 p.m. local time, and players will begin with 250,000 in tournament chips. Sixty-minute levels are on the docket, Day 1 will consist of eight levels, and registration and unlimited reentries will be allowed until the start of Day 2. There will be a 20-minute break after the second and fourth levels, and a 30-minute break after the sixth level.

In the previous three installments of this event, the top five finishers have gone on to cash in the event 40% of the time. That means a solid Day 1 performance can prove to be very lucrative for a player, so you'll surely want to stay glued right here to follow along.

€100,000 Super High Roller

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