With the standard structure of EPT high rollers – super or otherwise – allowing for entries up until the first deal of Day 2 the most interesting news at the start of Day 2 is not who’s out, but who’s in.
At the end of Day 1 we knew that 33 of the 50 players (42 unique entries and eight re-entries) who entered Day 1 would be back for more but how many others would join them? First to show his hand was Aleksandr Denisov. The Russian, who finished sixth in the $25,000 High Roller at the PCA in 2014, won his seat to this event last night in a €5,000 single re-buy Hyper Turbo satellite. He bested the likes of Zvi Stern, David Yan, Juha Helppi, Martin Finger, David Steicke and Roberto Romanello to get in on the cheap.
Five more players had to pay full price to pull up a chair on Day 2, some did so for the first time, whilst others re-entered in the hope that today would go better than yesterday. Dominik Nitsche, who made his EPT Super High Roller début at EPT12 Barcelona, was one of the new entries. “I got in to Prague yesterday but didn’t play. I don’t know why, I guess I wanted to see how the field turned out,” he told the PokerStars Blog. He obviously liked what he saw.
The other players who fancied a first spin at this tournament with 40 big blinds were Piotr Franczak and Dzmitry Urbanovich. It seems to be the way of Urbanovich to wait until the last possible moment to register. The reigning EPT Player of the Year often registers for the Main Event before the start of Day 2 and this isn’t the first time he’s used this tactic in a High Roller event. Interestingly Urbanovich is wearing a WSOP zip-up top. The Pole isn’t old enough to play in Vegas yet but may well have picked it up in Berlin in the Autumn. The 19-year-old is sat to the left of the overnight chip leader Luuk Gieles.
That takes the total number of runners left in to 39 and the total field to 56 (46 uniques and 10 re-entries). All told the players created a total prize pool of €2,688,840, the winner will collect €806,650 whilst eight players will get paid.
Place | Amount |
---|---|
1st | € 806,650 |
2nd | € 583,500 |
3rd | € 376,400 |
4th | € 285,000 |
5th | € 220,500 |
6th | € 172,100 |
7th | € 137,140 |
8th | € 107,550 |
The full start of day seat draw can be seen below:
Table | Seat | Name | Country | Chips |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 1 | Alexander Denisov | Russia | 250,000 |
1 | 2 | Alex Bilokur | Russia | 387,000 |
1 | 3 | Leonid Markin | Russia | 76,500 |
1 | 4 | John Juanda | Indonesia | 250,000 |
1 | 5 | Byron Kaverman | USA | 275,000 |
1 | 6 | David Peters | USA | 623,000 |
1 | 7 | Fedor Holz | Germany | 203,000 |
1 | 8 | Scott Margereson | UK | 38,000 |
2 | 1 | Joni Jouhkimainen | Finland | 102,000 |
2 | 2 | Mike McDonald | Canada | 338,000 |
2 | 3 | Ivan Luca | Argentina | 322,000 |
2 | 4 | Jean-Noel Thorel | France | 235,000 |
2 | 5 | Oleh Okhotskyi | Ukraine | 444,000 |
2 | 6 | Steve O’Dwyer | Ireland | 291,000 |
2 | 7 | Anthony Zinno | USA | 250,000 |
2 | 8 | Igor Kurganov | Russia | 666,000 |
3 | 1 | Luuk Gieles | Netherlands | 1,020,000 |
3 | 2 | Dzmitry Urbanovich | Poland | 250,000 |
3 | 3 | Jeffrey Rossiter | Australia | 180,000 |
3 | 4 | Mikita Badziakouski | Belarus | 160,000 |
3 | 5 | Daniel Dvoress | Canada | 390,000 |
3 | 6 | Thomas Muehloecker | Austria | 652,000 |
3 | 7 | Jason Mercier | USA | 94,000 |
3 | 8 | Sylvain Loosli | France | 725,000 |
4 | 1 | Vladimir Troyanovskiy | Russia | 509,000 |
4 | 2 | Tobias Reinkemeier | Germany | 432,000 |
4 | 3 | Dario Sammartino | Italy | 523,000 |
4 | 5 | Sam Greenwood | Canada | 424,000 |
4 | 6 | Mustapha Kanit | Italy | 593,000 |
4 | 7 | Dominik Nitsche | Germany | 250,000 |
4 | 8 | Ole Schemion | Germany | 752,000 |
5 | 1 | Chistoph Vogelsang | Germany | 431,000 |
5 | 2 | Andres Artinano Munoz | UK | 312,000 |
5 | 3 | Bryn Kenney | USA | 348,000 |
5 | 4 | Stephen Chidwick | UK | 296,000 |
5 | 5 | Anton Astapau | Belarus | 153,000 |
5 | 6 | Piotr Franczak | Poland | 250,000 |
5 | 7 | Paul Newey | UK | 384,000 |
5 | 8 | Timothy Adams | Canada | 141,000 |
Coverage of the Eureka Main Event is all handily organized on the Eureka Prague page.
You’ll find updates on the Super High Roller on this page throughout the day and all the schedule information is on the EPT App, which is available on both Android or IOS.
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