Yesterday’s 10 hours of play was nothing short of exciting. Antes were introduced from the moment the event started, making every pot significant. Add to that it was a single re-entry for every player meant that a second chance was always available if things didn’t work out. For 63, out of the 294 total entrants so far, one bullet wasn’t enough and they ponied up another €10,000 buy-in.
Igor Yarosherskyy will start Day 2 as the chip leader of remaining 137 players with 318,300 in chips. Not too far behind him is Martin Kahbrel (316,000), Amor Mozaffarian (298,400), Daniel Shak (267,900) and Ole Schemion (266,300).
Ivan Soshnikov (177,500) is another to make the second day, after the defending EPT Prague High Roller champion fired a second bullet to finish the day strong. Also returning are PokerStars Team Pro’s Eugene Katchalov (178,600) and Bertrand Grospellier (147,500) as well as 2014 World Series of Poker Main Event Champion Martin Jacobson (53,800).
Registration is still open until the start of play today so the total number of entrants and re-entrants is bound to increase. Blinds will be resuming at 1,000 / 2,000 with a 300 ante level 11. We will bring you the details of the pay-out structure and top prize as soon as it’s announced with first place sure to be an impressive amount of money.
The action gets underway at 12 p.m. CET, one hour earlier than yesterday. Your PokerNews Live Reporting Team will be following all the action and bringing you the latest developments as it happens throughout the day. Make sure you keep an eye on what promises to be an action packed day of High Roller Poker.
Mike Watson opened to 5,000 from the button and Ole Schemion in the big blind made the call.
Schemion checked on and waited for the 6,000 continuation bet from his Canadian opponent followed. Schemion then raised to 18,000 with a stone cold poker face and Watson called.
Schemion bet 33,500 on the turn and Watson made the call.
The completed the board and Schemion now cut out 3 stacks worth 25,000 each, placed them on top of each other, and slid them forward over the betting line. Watson thought for a bit before folding.
The poker face cracked, Schemion smiled, and grabbed the chips in the sizable pot. Like he does so often.
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Jack Salter opened the button for 6,400 with about 56,000 behind and Jonathan Little in the small blind pushed at least 150,000 forward, enough to put both Benjamin Pollak in the big blind and Jack Salter all in.
Pollak folded and the decision was on Salter. The EPT Grand Final and WSOP APAC runner up informed himself how much Pollak was playing. The Frenchman told Salter he had about 90,000 - so Little effectively risked 30 big blinds making his move.
Salter thought for just a bit more before calling. He got the bad news soon enough as Little showed while Salter had just .
After the on the flop Salter asked for a chop by yelling out that exact word. He did it again after the hit the turn, but to no avail; the on the river was a blank and Salter hit the rail.
Kevin MacPhee's registration slip was found in the bust out section, so we headed over to his former table to find out what had happened. He had a huge stack just minutes ago after all. While we could straight away tell that it was Martin Kabrhel who had MacPhee's former chips, we inquired with Ankush Mandavia as to what happend because Kabrhel was in a hand.
Mandavia told us that Kabrhel had opened under the gun and two players called before Oleksii Khoroshenin squeezed to 20,000. Right next to EPT Vienna's champion was EPT Berlin's champion (and EPT London's runner up) Kevin MacPhee who four bet to "forty something" according to Mandavia. Kabrhel then five bet to 79,500 and action folded to MacPhee who pushed. Kabrhel made the call.
MacPhee had pocket queens while Kabrhel showed kings. The five community cards were of no help to MacPhee who tweeted the following not much later:
The action started with Thomas Holm raising to 8,000 from middle position. Dan Shak then bumped it up to 23,000 from the hijack as the table folded back around to Holm. He thought for a moment before making the call before both players watched the flop come down .
Holm checked his option as Shak reached for his chips before sliding out 35,000. The bet was called and the dealer produced the on the turn. Once again Holm checked. Shak reached for his chips and bet out 75,000 before waiting on Holm to make his next move.
That would take almost five minutes! Holm sat back in his chair as he stared down Shak. Then put his hands on his hand and stared at the board. Eventually he moved all in for his remaining 178,000 in chips and was snap called.
Shak:
Holm:
Holm was in front with the two pair but would need to dodge a diamond or a king. Just like that the dealer peeled the on the river to give Shak the flush and award him the monster pot.
The break was well underway but a large crowd gathered around Ole Schemion's table as there was something big going on. With on the board Mike Watson in the hijack had a 100,000 bet in front of him. Schemion on the button requested the all in triangle and so put maximum pressure on his Canadian opponent.
Rocco Palumbo told us that it was a single raised pot and that Watson had check raised Schemion to 50,000 on the turn. Schemion had called that check raise in position, and now pushed over Watson's big river bet.
Watson tanked for a while and the crowd got bigger. "Ace-queen with the ace of clubs?" Watson asked at one point without expecting a reply. Schemion stayed silent as expected.
Eventually Watson folded whuile mumbling something we couldn't quite catch unfortunately. Schemion mucked silently. Because it was a break, and the 100's would be raced off, Schemion didn't stack his chips. With some 30 high stacks and lots of smaller stacks, we couldn't 100 percent get his chip count right. We do expect that he plays just over 600,000 now though.
As we walked over to see how Kabrhel was doing with his monster stack before the break, it turned out his stack wasn't as monstrous anymore. Ari Engel had a huge stack though and showed us a text message to explain what had happened.
Engel had opened with to 8,500 and Martin Kabrhel had made it 18,700 from the hijack. Engel called and check called another 20,100 on . Engel continued to check call 60,000 on the turn and check call all in for 126,000 on the river.
Engel's second pair with ten-seven proved good, Kabrhel showed and had to forfeit a lot of chips.
Joseph Cheong moved all in from the cut off for his remaining 63,500 in chips. The action folded to Vojtech Ruzicka on the big blind who looked down at his cards before snap calling.
Cheong:
Ruzicka:
The board ran out to see Ruzicka double up to 121,000 and leave Cheong with just 6,000 behind.
Two hands later, Cheong moved all in for his last 5,000-chip before Oliver Price bumped it up to 12,000 from the cut off. Ruzicka made the call from the button as the blinds folded their hands.
The flop came down and Price checked. Ruzicka reached for his chips and splashed out 15,500 which was enough to send Price out before the cards were tabled.
Ruzicka:
Cheong:
Cheong had flopped a jack to take the lead with a pair, but that wouldn’t last long as the dealer revealed the on the turn and on the river to see Ruzicka hit runner-runner to make a straight.
Things already weren't going to well for Martin Kabrhel, and it all turned really sour minutes ago.
On a flop of he got all of the chips in against Frenchman Patrick Uzan for a 355,000 pot. Kabrhel had a monster with but entirely in line with how things were going lately, he had just one direct out with that hand as Uzan tabled .
No runner runner split pot and no one-outer with the on the turn and on the river and Kabrhel handed over even more chips, leaving himself just six big blinds.
and waited for the 6,000 continuation bet from his Canadian opponent followed. Schemion then raised to 18,000 with a stone cold poker face and Watson called.
turn and Watson made the call.
completed the board and Schemion now cut out 3 stacks worth 25,000 each, placed them on top of each other, and slid them forward over the betting line. Watson thought for a bit before folding.
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on the flop Salter asked for a chop by yelling out that exact word. He did it again after the 
hit the turn, but to no avail; the 
on the river was a blank and Salter hit the rail.
on the turn. Once again Holm checked. Shak reached for his chips and bet out 75,000 before waiting on Holm to make his next move.
on the river to give Shak the flush and award him the monster pot.
on the board Mike Watson in the hijack had a 100,000 bet in front of him. Schemion on the button requested the all in triangle and so put maximum pressure on his Canadian opponent.
. Engel continued to check call 60,000 on the 
turn and check call all in for 126,000 on the 
river.
and Price checked. Ruzicka reached for his chips and splashed out 15,500 which was enough to send Price out before the cards were tabled.
on the river to see Ruzicka hit runner-runner to make a straight.
he got all of the chips in against Frenchman Patrick Uzan for a 355,000 pot. Kabrhel had a monster with 
on the river and Kabrhel handed over even more chips, leaving himself just six big blinds.