€10,300 High Roller
Dia 1 Concluído
2014 PokerStars.com EPT Season 11 Prague
€10,300 High Roller
Dias: 1
Event Info
Resultado Final
Event Info
Informações sobre o nível
2014 PokerStars.com EPT Season 11 Prague
Buy-in
€10,000
Prize Pool
€3,028,200
Entradas
309
Nível
32
Blinds
120,000 / 240,000
Ante
30,000
Igor Yaroshevskyy Leads After Day 1 of Record-Breaking EPT Prague High Roller
Nível 10
: 800/1,600, 200 ante
With a big €50,000 Super High Roller, a record-breaking Main Event, and a buzzing Hilton Prague Hotel for all side events during festival, people could only imagine how big the €10,300 High Roller would get. Would the record set last year with 137 players and 39 reentries be broken? Let's find out.
| Year | Champion | Entries | Trend | Top Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Nichlas Mattsson | 26 | -- | €127,000 |
| 2011 | John Andress | 50 | +24 | €176,400 |
| 2012 | Marvin Rettenmaier | 108 | +58 | €365,300 |
| 2013 | Ivan Soshnikov | 176 | +68 | €382,050 |
A resounding yes was the answer straight out of the gate. After the 10 one-hour levels were done for Day 1, the tournament clock showed a total of 294 entries, of which 63 players reentered. Registration will remain open till 11:45 a.m. local time Tuesday morning, and after that, and only after registration closes, a table draw will be released.
The amount of notables in an event like this is as long as you'll find anywhere. Every table had at least one player who had won a major event, the World Series of Poker Main Event champion Martin Jacobson and runner-up Felix Stephensen were present, there were tons of former European Poker Tour winners, and millions and millions of dollars in tournament earnings were represented.
Not only was the amount of notables long, but the list of remarkable hands witnessed was extensive as well. Let's take a look.
First, there was Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier's straight flush versus Govert Metaal's full house. Grospellier had opened before the flop, and Metaal made the call in position. Andrey Andreev called from the small blind, and then he checked to Grospellier on the 
flop. The French Team PokerStars Pro bet 2,500, Metaal made the call, and Andreev called.
All three men checked the 
on the turn and so the 
was seen without a charge. Andreev checked again, and Grospellier bet out 12,200. Metaal thought for a little bit and then just called. Andreev called as well. Grospellier proudly showed his 
for a straight flush. Metaal confidently turned over the 
, but then realized seconds later that he was beat. Andreev double checked his cards one last time, flashed an ace, and mucked to give Grospellier the pot.
Then there was the big exchange between Martin Kabrhel and Steve O'Dwyer, or should we say monologue? We dubbed it the "Kabrhel Cabaret."
In one of the last hands before the final break, Kabrhel opened to 2,000, and Dmitry Nemirovsky made the call in the cutoff seat. O'Dwyer came along from the big blind, and the flop came down 
. O'Dwyer checked, Kabrhel bet 3,000, Nemirovsky folded, and O'Dwyer called. O'Dwyer check-called another 8,000 on the 
turn, and the 
fell on the river. O'Dwyer bet out 22,000, which prompted the show to start.
While O'Dwyer gave Kabrhel his famous death stare, Kabrhel began talking.
"Flush?" he asked to a non-answering O'Dwyer. "Flush?"
Still no reply.
"Time, Table 18!" shouted the dealer. Not only was O'Dwyer not responding, but neither was the floor. "Time, Table 18!" the dealer shouted in repeat.
"It's OK, no worry," said Kabrhel with a kind of serious face.
"Yeah... time, Table 18!" repeated the dealer.
"So Steve, you want a call or not?" asked Kabrhel again.
"Time, Table 18!" the dealer kept shouting.
"Be a man, Steve," prodded Kabrhel. "Yes or no? Flush?"
In the meantime, a floor person had finally come over and given Kabrhel the one-minute countdown warning.
"One? Really?" said Kabhrel with a not too serious tone of voice as he had been given the notice many times before in his long poker career. "But I need advice from Steve! So yes or no?"
O'Dwyer was listening, but wasn't making a noise.
"You don't speak with me?" kept on Kabrhel. "No? Why not?"
With just a few seconds to go, Kabrhel made the call, and O'Dwyer immediately tabled the 
for a full house.
"I was asking you!" said Kabrhel with a smile.
"I know," said O'Dwyer, "but I just wanted to hear you talk."
"Nice call preflop," commented Kabrhel. "I like it. Nice call preflop. That was the only reason I called, because I thought you fold that s*** preflop."
O'Dwyer lost a huge hand not much later when he ran ace-king into Igor Yaroshevskyy's aces, which catapulted the latter into the chip lead. O'Dwyer was relegated to the role of short stack and busted not much later. Kabrhel did much better, finishing with 316,000 in chips — second to end the day.
O'Dwyer didn't reenter straight away, but he still has the option to give it one more try as long as he makes up his mind before 15 minutes prior to the start of Day 2. And why he may not have reentered, several others did.
Team PokerStars Pro Online's Isaac Haxton fired two bullets, but saw them both gone before the dinner break. Benny Spindler and several others tried twice, but they had no chips to bag at the end of day, either. EPT Prague €50,000 Super High Roller winner Leonid Markin was the first to bust, then reentered and didn't do much better on his second bullet.
Andrew Chen, Dermot Blain, Mukul Pahuja, and Jean-Noel Thorel also busted before the day's finish.
On the contrary, Dan Shak, Ole Schemion, Kevin MacPhee, Jonathan Little, Ankush Mandavia, and Mike Watson all bagged up very good stacks to take into Day 2.
There are 137 survivors after the first 10 levels of play, and the tournament will resume at 12 p.m. local time with the goal being to play down to 8 players, or 10 levels, whichever comes first. The first level will be 1,000/2,000 with a 300 ante and the levels will again be an hour long. Play should be done at about 11:45 p.m. at the latest on the penultimate day of play from Prague.
While you wait for Day 2 to begin, be sue to check out the following "My First EPT" video with voice of the tour, James Hartigan:
End-of-Day Chip Counts (Completo)
Nível 10
: 800/1,600, 200 ante
A seat draw won't be available until the start of Day 2 to not give late registrants any more insight into where they might end up if they buy in before the tournament starts.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
318,300 | -8,100 |
|
316,000 | 205,000 |
|
298,400 | 298,400 |
|
281,800 | 281,800 |
|
267,900 | |
|
266,300 | 112,300 |
|
244,700 | 104,700 |
|
244,300 | 81,000 |
|
243,600 | 243,600 |
|
241,000 | 31,000 |
|
237,800 | 107,800 |
|
237,000 | 237,000 |
|
231,700 | 170,300 |
|
223,500 | 158,500 |
|
219,400 | 219,400 |
|
|
216,000 | 216,000 |
|
215,600 | 165,600 |
|
212,000 | 180,000 |
|
196,000 | 134,000 |
|
194,400 | 194,400 |
|
187,600 | 127,600 |
|
180,000 | 90,000 |
|
179,000 | 179,000 |
|
178,600 | 108,600 |
|
177,500 | 177,500 |
6 Hands Remaining
Nível 10
: 800/1,600, 200 ante
The players in tonight's field have been advised that they will be playing 6 more hands before bagging and tagging their chips for the evening.
Muehlocker Doubles
Nível 10
: 800/1,600, 200 ante
We arrived at the table to find Thomas Muehlocker all in against his opponent after the two exchanged raises from the blinds pre flop.
Muehlocker: 
Opponent: 
The board ran out 
to see Muehlocker improve to trip aces as he doubled back up over 100,000 in chips.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
103,000 |
Mooney Gets Malinov
Nível 10
: 800/1,600, 200 ante
The action folded around to Geoffrey Mooney on the button who raised it up to 3,500. Atanas Malinov was on the small blind and made it 9,200 which forced a fold from the player on the big blind. Mooney made the quick call before both players watched the flop come down 
.
Malinov then reached for his chips and threw out 6,400 which was called before both players checked the 
on the turn.
The completed the board and Malinov checked. Mooney then splashed out a bet totalling 11,000 which was enough to force a fold from Malinov moments later.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
106,000 | |
|
29,100 | -23,900 |
"Now He Hates Me"
Nível 10
: 800/1,600, 200 ante
As we walked up to the table, Maxim Lykov had just checked from the big blind on 
. Sergio Aido under the gun bet 5,000 and the player in the cutoff folded. After some thinking Lykov shoved all in and Aido called it off for about 40,000 total (if we saw that correctly).
Aido showed 
for the open ended and Lykov tabled 
. The on the turn gave Lykov trips and the 
on the river didn't give Aido a straight either.
Aido left the table without saying much. "Now he hates me. I busted him in another high roller too" said Lykov to his neighbor as soon as Aido was out of range.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
127,000 | |
|
Eliminado |
Chen Eliminated By Shorr
Nível 10
: 800/1,600, 200 ante
The action started with Andrew Chen opening to 2,500 from under the gun and getting called by Shannon Shorr on the small blind as well as Saar Wilf on the big blind.
The flop came down 
and all three players checked. The on the turn saw Shorr lead out for 4,000 which only interested Chen as Wilf folded his hand.
After the 
completed the board, Shorr instantly threw out 20,000 in chips which is exactly what Chen had remaining in his stack.
Chen tanked for several minutes and agonised over his decision. He picked up his chips and motioned to call but pulled back on several occasions. Eventually he made the call and watched as Shorr tabled his for the nut flush. Chen opened up his 
for running two pair before exiting the tournament floor.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
114,000 | 75,000 |
|
Eliminado |
Nível: 10
Blinds: 800/1,600
Ante: 200
Steve O'Dwyer Eliminated
Nível 9
: 600/1,200, 100 ante
Apparently Steve O'Dwyer lost another pot as he had just about 4,000 left when we walked up to his table to see how he was doing. So wasn't doing too good, so much was clear.
He waited two more hands and then went all in for his last 3,500 under the gun. Sam Greenwood made the call in the cutoff and all other players folded.
"I have a real bad hand" said O'Dwyer. He wasn't lying: 
. Greenwood showed his 
and the board ran out 
to see O'Dwyer eliminated from the tournament.
| Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
|---|---|---|
|
78,000 | |
|
Eliminado |