Welcome to the €50,000 Single-Day High Roller II
Just three days after the last €50,000 Single-Day Higher Roller, another one kicks off here at the PokerStars and Barcelona©Casino European Poker Tour with the €50,000 Single-Day High Roller II.
Canadian Mike Watson took down the last €50,000 high roller, late on Saturday 13th August, where he defeated the 59 star studded entrant field to take the trophy and the grand prize of €872,940. Watson defeated Australian Kahle Burns in the heads up battle after making a straight flush to take the title and the biggest part of the €2,862,090 prizepool.
The best in the world will do battle to emulate Watson in the second opportunity to add a €50,000 higher roller title, at EPT Barcelona, to their resume.
Action will start at approximately 12:30 p.m. local time with each player receiving a starting stack of 100,000 chips. The blinds will begin at 500/1,000 with a big blind ante of 1,000 and the levels will be 30 minutes in length.
There will be a 15-minute break after the first four levels and then switch to 15-minute breaks after every three levels. The 75-minute dinner break is scheduled after 10 levels of play and late registration will remain open until the end of Level 10. As with all high rollers, players will receive eight time bank cards before play, seven cards on Level 1, six cards on Levels 2 & 3, five cards on Levels 4 & 5, and four cards on Level 6 & higher. There is unlimited reentry.
Stay tuned to PokerNews for all the updates from the €50,000 Single-Day Higher Roller II until another EPT Barcelona champion will be crowned.
. Action checked to Artur Martirosian on the button who bet 10,000. Only Kent Staahle called in the small blind. 
and Staahle check-called Martirosian's 26,000 bet. 
was the river and Staahle moved all in for 70,000. Martirosian snap called. Staahle showed 
for just a pair while Martirosian showed 
for a flopped straight to eliminate Staahle. Staahle said "That is enough for today guys" as he exited the tournament area after being in for two bullets.
. David Yan was in the cutoff against Seth Davies on the button. 
was the turn and Davies used a timebank card before he bet 40,000 when checked to. Yan again used a time bank card before calling. 
and action checked through. Yan flipped over 
for a set to take down the pot as Davies mucked.
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and Burns asked Kiscikoglu "How much do you have?" before moving all in for 61,500 effective. Kiscikoglu used two timebank cards before folding. 
. Jean-Noel Thorel bet 7,000 from middle position, Mikalai Vaskaboinikau called from the hijack. Laszlo Bujtas raised to 20,000 from the cutoff. Thorel three-bet to 45,000, Vaskaboinikau got out of the way and Bujtas called.
. Bujtas was not dead though as he had the 
and was drawing to the four of clubs to make the straight flush. 
and Bujtas was busted.
. Jean-Noel Thorel bet 30,000 from the cutoff. Michael Addamo moved all in from the button and Thorel immediately called.
. Thorel was momentarily confused that he was beaten before eventually realizing it and he got up to leave, his large stack gone in the span of a few hands.
to the table for the bluff.
and Martirosian continued for 10,000 when checked to. Only Tang called.
to eliminate him from the tournament.
against the 
to confirm his double.
