With an enormous field in the €10,000 High Roller, there has been some talk in Barcelona this week about raising the buy-in of the Main Events from its current €5,000. PokerStars Blog and PokerStars.tv canvassed opinion in the tournament room — and also got the official line.
Maximilian Senft had all his chips at risk with and was up against the of Piotr Sowinski.
On a flop of things looked truly desperate for Senft. He would have to go runner runner to survive. So he did with a turn card and the river to give him Broadway and another life in the tournament.
Samuel Phillips and Hossein Ensan clashed in a big pot just now and it was the former that came out the winner.
Phillips fired a 155,000 bet on the flop and Ensan made the call to see the on the turn. Phillips bet 315,000 but Ensan raised to 775,0000. Phillips thought for a minute and then made the call.
Both players checked the river and Phillips turned over to win the pot.
Daniel Dvoress open shoved for 705,000. Action folded to Ji Zhang who queried the amount and took a while to get a call together with the help of the dealer. He did in the end make the call.
Dvoress wished him luck and turned over . Zhang saw the hand and turned over his . Dvoress said nothing but a few spectators called, “Slow roll. Seven for the slow roll.”
The cards ran out and Dvoress who never managed to get much going today was out.
Andrew and Nate skip the strategy this week to get right to a special hour-long interview with Olivier Busquet. Busquet discusses his win in the EPT Barcelona Super High Roller, the economical and personal value of playing in big buy-in tournaments, and, of course, the political t-shirt drama.
Sergei Popov moved all in from early position for a total of 765,000. It was passed to Samuel Phillips who made the call. Bram Haenraets tanked for about a minute and then moved all in. The action wen back around to Phillips who gave up his hand.
Popov:
Haenraets:
The dealer put out a board of and Haenraets increased his chip lead even furher.