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Yet again the High Roller field at an EPT has broken the 300 player barrier, there were 393 entries in Barcelona, 309 in Prague and a total of 304 here in Malta, consisting of 235 unique players and 69 re-entries.

When play ended yesterday there were only 288 entries, but eight players re-entered this morning and a further eight players entered for the first time today. That all meant that the prize pool swelled to €2,979,200 of which €597,000 is reserved for the winner. The full payout structure is as below:

1st. € 597,000
2nd. € 397,000
3rd. € 290,500
4th. € 234,500
5th. € 183,800
6th. € 139,000
7th. € 102,000
8th. € 75,000
9th. € 62,200
10th-11th. € 52,100
12th-13th. € 45,600
14th-15th. € 41,100
16th-17th. € 36,700
18th-20th. € 32,300
21st-23rd. € 29,300
24th-27th. € 26,300
28th-31st. € 23,300
32nd-39th. € 20,500

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Money, money, money!

When we left things last night Rui Ferreira was leading a top ten that looked like this:

Rui Ferreira 280,000
Max Silver 277,200
Walid Bou Habib 260,000
Piotr Franczak 258,600
Adrian Mateos 236,500
Ludovic Geilich 234,300
Mike McDonald 228,000
Joao Vieira 227,200
Steve O`Dwyer 218,600
Vladimir Dobrovolskii 209,000

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Rui Ferreira – Day 1 chip leader

He led a field that was 158 strong when cards got in the air at noon local time, they’re now into the third level of the day and much has changed. Andras Nemeth has forged his way to the top of the chip charts. The Hungarian player has more than quadrupled his start of day stack of 83,100 and leads with 360,000 (120 big blinds).

He’s overtaken Connor Drinan, who had earlier ascended to the top of the chip counts after knocking out Moritz Dietrich in a big pot where Drinan flopped a set and Deitrich a open ended straight draw. Diettrich picked a bad spot to semi-bluff the turn as it had given Drinan a full house and an unassailable lead. He’s sitting on a stack of 340,000 right now and looking set for another deep run in a high roller, having finished second in the €25,000 Special Added High Roller.

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Drinan is running up another stack in a high roller

Other stacks of note due to size or reputation are:

Philipp Gruissem – 325,000
Craig McCorkell – 277,300
Steve O’Dwyer – 235,000
Ivan Luca – 230,000
Jonathan Duhamel – 180,000
Olivier Busquet – 158,000
Dani Stern – 150,000
Ludovic Geilich – 150,000
Griffin Benger – 120,000
Anton Wigg – 82,000
Liv Boeree- 57,000

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Can O’Dwyer bag another EPT title?

The field has been shorn down to the final 100 and: Shannon Shorr, Martin Finger, Patrick Leonard, Vladimir Troyanovskiy, Joni Jouhkimainen, Sam Chartier, David Yan, Marvin Rettenmaier, Ihar Soika, Dzmitry Urbanovich, Pratyush Buddiga, Ike Haxton, Jack Salter, Stephen Chidwick, Benny Spindler, Sam Trickett, Tobias Reinkemeier and Dimitar Danchev are amongst those who’ve fallen on Day 2.

Follow coverage of the EPT Malta Main Event on the EPT Malta Main Event page. There are plenty of side events going on, and the €10,000 High Roller is under way. Keep abreast of everything via the EPT App, available on Android or IOS.

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