Benjamin Pollak and Ole Schemion busted the Main Event early on and jumped into the High Roller right away. They are joined by five further players and the registration is now officially closed. The final numbers and prize pool are yet to be officially confirmed.
Even though this PokerStars.com EPT Season 13 festival is hastily coming to a close, the high rollers still haven't left the Mediterranean island of Malta. That has become evident after the last highlight of this series - the €10,300 High Roller - yesterday succeeded in attracting no less than 109 unique entries during the first day of play, and with 28 players making use of the one-time reentry the total tally now stands at 137 entries. Furthermore late registration is still open until 15 minutes before kickoff, so even more players might decide to join in on the fun at Portomaso Casino.
Leading the field of survivors is Swedish poker pro Alexander Ivarsson, who managed to turn his starting stack of 50,000 chips into 379,100, but many notable names will be gunning for the title of chipleader during the course of today’s play. The closest contender at this point in time with 258,300 is the former professional soccer player from Nicaragua, Armando Collado, but also still in the field are tons of notables like Stephen Chidwick (207,300), Theo Jorgensen (189,500), [Removed:551] (146,300), Steve O'Dwyer (95,000), Charlie Carrel (92,100), Philipp Gruissem (75,700) and Pratyush Buddiga (70,100).
The action recommences with level 11 and blinds of 1,000-2,000 with a running ante of 300, Today’s menu for the remaining players consists of 10 levels of 60 minutes each or until a final table has been reached – whatever comes first. Thus there should be at least 12 hours of poker ahead of us today.
The cards will be back in the air at 12.30 p.m. CEST, and the PokerNews live reporting team will make sure to bring you all the action from the tables. Stay tuned!
