Andrey Zaichenko, who won this event two years ago and started the day second in chips, opened from middle position for 7,000.
Josip Simunic in the hijack three-bet to 20,000 before Arthur Conan shoved from the cutoff for 71,000.
Zaichenko went deep into the tank and after some time it was Dmitry Yurasov who asked the clock. The floor came over and informed Zaichenko that he had one minute left to act on his hand.
"Clock? I think like one minute" Zaichenko said before being interrupted by half the table who all agreed it was way longer than that.
With about 20 seconds left to act, Zaichenko called. Simunic folded.
Andrey Zaichenko:
Arthur Conan:
The board ran out an uneventful and Conan left the tournament area. Zaichenko back at the stack he started the day with.
Liv Boeree had a massive stack of over 300,000 in front of her, and we asked her what had happened. She gave us the details of her double-up.
Boeree opened the button for 5,500 and big blind [Removed:17], who had been three-betting her all day already, three-bet to 22,000. Boeree, with , four-bet to 47,000 and Yan called.
The flop came rainbow and Yan checked. Boeree bet 29,000 and Yan called. Both checked the on the turn and an off suit completed the board. Yan shoved all in and Boeree called for 77,000. Yan showed and had to leave the pot to Boeree and her aces.
Aymon Hata raised under the gun and Kristen Bicknell shoved for about 15 big blinds. When action got to Pablo Gordillo in the big blind, he reshoved. Hata called all in to make it a three-way showdown.
Aymon Hata:
Kristen Bicknell:
Pablo Gordillo:
The flop came , favoriting Gordillo. The on the turn and on the river were blanks and Gordillo knocked out two opponents in one hand.
The PokerStars European Poker Tour is ending in style, as not only did the EPT Prague Main Event set an attendance record for the event in the Czech capital, but so did the €10,300 EPT High Roller with 393 entrants at the end of Day 1, As Day 2 is set to begin at 12:30 p.m. local time, the record number has the potential to continue to climb until the tournament gets going.
Of those 393 entrants so far, 195 have made their way through yesterday's 10 blind levels to survive to Day 2. November Niner Jerry Wong will kick off the day in the lead with 402,900, followed by Russian player Andrey "Kroko-dill" Zaichenko, who won this event back in 2014 for €487,180 with 365,000.
Rounding out the top five in chip counts are Poland's Sameer Khurana (279,900), Latvia's Aleksey Ponakov (269,000) and Sweden's Niklas Astedt (268,400).
Among those who entered Day and failed to bag chips included Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, who busted two bullets and tweeted he was happy the year was over.
The first level of Day 2 will be 1,000/2,000 with an ante of 300. Players can buy in till the start of play, getting 25 big blinds in return for €10,300. Similar to yesterday, 10 hour-long blind levels are scheduled with breaks after every two hours, including a 75 minute dinner break near the end of the day.
Stay tuned to PokerNews throughout the day for live updates to see how the final EPT €10,300 High Roller shakes out from the first flop to the last river.
and Conan left the tournament area. Zaichenko back at the stack he started the day with.
rainbow and Yan checked. Boeree bet 29,000 and Yan called. Both checked the 
completed the board. Yan shoved all in and Boeree called for 77,000. Yan showed 
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, favoriting Gordillo. The 
on the turn and 
