Day 2 of the €2,200 EPT National High Roller Starts at 12 P.M.
There are 143 players remaining in the €2,200 EPT National High Roller at the PokerStars European Poker Tour Prague, held in the amazing Hilton Prague. The tournament got 954 entries in total and smashed last year's number of 627. All players that made Day 2 are already in the money.
Ben Jones is the man in charge with 680,000, but he is closely followed by Artem Kobylinskiy with 679,000. Kobylinksiy won a big pot against Andrea Ricci near the end of the night to climb to the top of the leaderboard. Other players that made it through include Ryan Riess, Ludovic Geilich, Anton Wigg, and PokerStars Team Pro Fatima Moreira de Melo.
Chip leader Ben Jones was the one who burst the bubble last night. He managed to hit a queen while holding queen-four against pocket fours. He managed to burst the bubble in the 13th hand of hand-for-hand play. It took almost two hours for them to lose two players as they started the hand-for-hand play at 145 left with 143 in the money.
The winner of the tournament will take home no less than €340,700 while they are already all guaranteed to take home at least €3,440.
The plan on Day 2 is to play down to a winner. They will start the day in level 18 (4,000-8,000, big blind ante 8,000). PokerNews will be on the floor to provide updates throughout the entire event until a winner is crowned.
Day 2 seat draw
| Table | Seat | Name | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Rosen Angelov | 24000 |
| 1 | 2 | Sergi Reixach | 412000 |
| 1 | 3 | Hannu Peltola | 25000 |
| 1 | 4 | Andrea Ricci | 314000 |
| 1 | 5 | Perry Hermony | 127000 |
| 1 | 6 | Phachara Wongwichit | 149000 |
| 1 | 7 | Vadzim Lipauka | 104000 |
| 1 | 8 | Pascal Hartmann | 638000 |
| 2 | 1 | Mykhailo Gutyi | 130000 |
| 2 | 2 | Vladislav Donchev | 20000 |
| 2 | 3 | Ryan Riess | 516000 |
| 2 | 4 | Davidi Jacob Kitai | 443000 |
| 2 | 5 | Efstathios Kavoukis | 281000 |
| 2 | 6 | Jeffrey Hakim | 40000 |
| 2 | 7 | Kevin Killeen | 80000 |
| 2 | 8 | Marc Klausen | 131000 |
| 3 | 1 | Morten Mathiesen | 152000 |
| 3 | 2 | Wlodzimierz Tadeus Laczkowski | 55000 |
| 3 | 3 | Dimitri Huley | 350000 |
| 3 | 4 | Pedro Ventura | 400000 |
| 3 | 5 | Haoxiang Wang | 140000 |
| 3 | 6 | Valeriano Toledano Moreno | 99000 |
| 3 | 7 | Marcin Adrian Leśniewski | 85000 |
| 3 | 8 | Masatoshi Tanaka | 320000 |
| 4 | 1 | Ludovic Geilich | 113000 |
| 4 | 2 | Sergej Barbarez | 188000 |
| 4 | 3 | Jose Ignacio Aguilera Uguet De Resayre | 557000 |
| 4 | 4 | Tobby Drimer | 247000 |
| 4 | 5 | Atanas Kodinov | 201000 |
| 4 | 6 | Sergiu Covrig | 90000 |
| 4 | 7 | Albert Mykhaylyuta | 45000 |
| 4 | 8 | Martin Olali | 503000 |
| 5 | 1 | Thorben Vellrath | 677000 |
| 5 | 2 | Touko Berndtson | 123000 |
| 5 | 3 | Jose Astima | 44000 |
| 5 | 4 | Anton Wigg | 256000 |
| 5 | 5 | Darren Pearce | 103000 |
| 5 | 6 | Rui Nogueira Da Silva E Sousa | 109000 |
| 5 | 7 | Zoltan Szabo | 63000 |
| 5 | 8 | Milan Szabo | 105000 |
| 6 | 1 | Peter Traply | 322000 |
| 6 | 2 | Fatima Moreira De Melo | 419000 |
| 6 | 3 | Benjamin Saada | 90000 |
| 6 | 4 | Simon Ravnsbaek | 62000 |
| 6 | 5 | Pasquale Grimaldi | 78000 |
| 6 | 6 | Vladimir Demenkov | 65000 |
| 6 | 7 | Michał Ozimek | 158000 |
| 6 | 8 | Arthur Conan | 100000 |
| 7 | 1 | Karim Souaid | 228000 |
| 7 | 2 | Gregory Guagnini | 18000 |
| 7 | 3 | Francois Billard | 97000 |
| 7 | 4 | Aleksander Pakhomov | 133000 |
| 7 | 5 | Isabelle Pellegrino | 135000 |
| 7 | 6 | Valentin-Marius Cristea | 448000 |
| 7 | 7 | Martynas Vitkauskas | 332000 |
| 7 | 8 | Michel Dattani | 78000 |
| 8 | 1 | Lars Tungel | 190000 |
| 8 | 2 | Mario Llapi | 381000 |
| 8 | 3 | Gergely Bartos | 344000 |
| 8 | 4 | Luis Pinho De Faria | 234000 |
| 8 | 5 | Tobias Matuschek | 66000 |
| 8 | 6 | Juan Carlos Vecino Dueñas | 147000 |
| 8 | 7 | Serdar Demircan | 170000 |
| 8 | 8 | David Elyashar | 134000 |
| 9 | 1 | Stefan Egermann | 248000 |
| 9 | 2 | Fouad Zouiten | 76000 |
| 9 | 3 | Freek Cornelis Scholten | 313000 |
| 9 | 4 | Vojtěch Škalák | 85000 |
| 9 | 5 | Cyril Bremond | 31000 |
| 9 | 6 | Igor Apostoloski | 101000 |
| 9 | 7 | Erwann Pecheux | 85000 |
| 9 | 8 | Imed Ben Mahmoud | 275000 |
| 10 | 1 | Diego Dos Santos | 144000 |
| 10 | 2 | Severin Schleser | 174000 |
| 10 | 3 | Aleksandar Denishev | 217000 |
| 10 | 4 | Viacheslav Iatsyshen | 79000 |
| 10 | 5 | János Kürtösi | 140000 |
| 10 | 6 | Emmanouil Chrysovergis | 180000 |
| 10 | 7 | Zhong Chen | 43000 |
| 10 | 8 | Artem Kobylynskyi | 679000 |
| 11 | 1 | Giovanni Salvatore | 340000 |
| 11 | 2 | Rifat Palevic | 16000 |
| 11 | 3 | Jani Vilmunen | 57000 |
| 11 | 4 | Eugenio Peralta | 99000 |
| 11 | 5 | Ivan Skoblov | 172000 |
| 11 | 6 | Salomon Sebban | 244000 |
| 11 | 7 | Amar Begovic | 94000 |
| 11 | 8 | Kenny Hallaert | 355000 |
| 12 | 1 | Evangelos Bechrakis | 351000 |
| 12 | 2 | Tomas Jozonis | 156000 |
| 12 | 3 | Sinisa Bodrozic | 538000 |
| 12 | 4 | Julien Sitbon | 194000 |
| 12 | 5 | Konstantin Maslak | 109000 |
| 12 | 6 | Bryan Paris | 415000 |
| 12 | 7 | Jakub Michalak | 262000 |
| 12 | 8 | Manuel Soares Ruivo | 135000 |
| 13 | 1 | Milan Šimko | 187000 |
| 13 | 2 | Jorge Cantos | 85000 |
| 13 | 3 | Anders Bisgaard | 1000 |
| 13 | 4 | Vytautas Semaska | 59000 |
| 13 | 5 | Dean Hutchison | 643000 |
| 13 | 6 | Benjamin Jones | 680000 |
| 13 | 7 | Jouni Huovila | 83000 |
| 13 | 8 | Dong Guo | 531000 |
| 14 | 1 | Veli Pekka Antero Alakorva | 230000 |
| 14 | 2 | Mehmet Kacar | 228000 |
| 14 | 3 | Paul Michaelis | 40000 |
| 14 | 4 | Karim Rebei | 306000 |
| 14 | 5 | Abbas Moradi | 90000 |
| 14 | 6 | Denys Prydvor | 156000 |
| 14 | 7 | Miguel Seoane Iglesias | 73000 |
| 14 | 8 | Arnaud Enselme | 96000 |
| 15 | 1 | Denis Karakashi | 252000 |
| 15 | 2 | Iikka Tahkokallio | 464000 |
| 15 | 3 | Maxime Thien Canevet | 76000 |
| 15 | 4 | Colin Lovelock | 134000 |
| 15 | 5 | Pasi Sormunen | 507000 |
| 15 | 6 | Leonardo Mancuso | 185000 |
| 15 | 7 | Laszlo Molnar | 72000 |
| 15 | 8 | Alexandru Papazian | 106000 |
| 16 | 1 | Eduard Gabriel Norel | 439000 |
| 16 | 2 | Benjamin Dobson | 98000 |
| 16 | 3 | Fahredin Mustafov | 19000 |
| 16 | 4 | Sonny Marcel Jean Franco | 356000 |
| 16 | 5 | Jozef Bartalos | 29000 |
| 16 | 6 | Aki Virtanen | 223000 |
| 16 | 7 | Slavomir Byrtus | 292000 |
| 16 | 8 | Anton Kalinac | 85000 |
| 17 | 1 | Hao Tian | 44000 |
| 17 | 2 | Jonathan Ian Proudfoot | 157000 |
| 17 | 4 | Janos Luczo | 38000 |
| 17 | 5 | Luis Rodriguez Cruz | 231000 |
| 17 | 6 | Kevin Ossip | 95000 |
| 17 | 7 | Konstantinos Thomas Asgoudakis | 439000 |
| 17 | 8 | Damien Le Goff | 23000 |
| 18 | 1 | Frank Griese | 222000 |
| 18 | 2 | Adriaan Schaap | 230000 |
| 18 | 3 | Børge Sandsgaard | 74000 |
| 18 | 4 | Jonathan Therme | 65000 |
| 18 | 5 | Yaniv Peretz | 99000 |
| 18 | 6 | Daniel Heredi | 239000 |
| 18 | 7 | Francois Evard | 531000 |
| 18 | 8 | Alessandro Giordano | 83000 |
was pretty safe for Paris, but Bechrakis got a lot of extra outs on the 
turn. The river was the 
and Paris secured a double up to over 40 big blinds.
turn or 
for Bechrakis' pocket queens to hold to eliminate the three other players and provide the remaining players with a pay jump.
for Schaap to flop the flush immediately.
to give Schaap the six-card straight flush which didn't really matter anymore anyways and Schaap doubled up.
and Peretz took the pot down with a flush. Bartos is the first one to depart from the (unofficial) final table. He took home €25,280.
for Peretz to flop a pair of kings.
for Peretz to win the hand. The dealer counted out Guo's stack to be sure that Peretz had him covered and determined that Guo had 3,145,000 in total and was therefore eliminated in eighth place for €32,180.
to Peretz to pick up the flush draw.
on the turn. Franco now bet 800,000 and Bechrakis snap-called.
but that was no good. Franco showed 
and Peretz took down the pot with 
.