Hand #3: Rono Lo raised it up to 80,000 under the gun with . He got three callers; Ole Schemion with in the hijack, Dan Cates on the button with and Olivier Busquet in the big blind with .
Lo bet out on the flop and his continuation bet scared all three opponents away.
Hand #4: Paul Phua in the hijack raised it up to 65,000 and took down the blinds and antes.
Hand #5: Paul phua raised it up under the gun plus two holding . Daniel Colman in the big blind with made the call.
Colman check called a 65,000 continuation bet on having flopped top pair. Both players checked the turn. The river came the and Colman bet out 160,000. Phua thought for about twenty seconds, and called. Colman might have thought he had the best hand, but the 617,000 pot went Phua's way.
Hand #2: Olivier Busquet looked down at the under the gun and opened for 60,000. His only taker was Richard Yong, who defended light from the big blind with the . The flop went check-check, and the turn put four to a straight on the board.
Yong checked, Busquet did the same, and the river put a straight on the board. Yong checked for a third time, and managed to get away from the hand when Busquet bet 100,000.
Hand #1: Ole Schemion had the button and Olivier Busquet opened under the gun plus one for 60,000 holding . Dan Cates in the big blind was the sole caller, but he had an ace up his sleeve. In fact, he had two: .
The flop came and Cates checked. Busquet, with nothing on that flop, bet out 75,000. Cates raised to 200,000. Busquet, with nothing, folded after some thinking.
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It’s not just about the tournaments at the EPT Grand Final. Sure, we’re going to be gripped to the €100,000 Super High Roller webcast, but if you want to find out more about the cash games taking place here then click on through to PokerStars Blog.
With literally a minute on the clock before the start of the Super High Roller final table, we asked Daniel Colman a quick couple of questions. How exited is he? How does one end up firing three bullets in a €100,000 tournament?
The best players in the world, no exception, came to Monaco for the 2014 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final €100,000 Super High Roller. The cash game guys that battle each other online for the highest stakes, and the players that won the most money in tournaments all over the world, everybody came to the sovereign city-state on the French Riviera.
Phil Ivey was talking to Patrik Antonius, Daniel Negreanu chatted it up with Jonathan Duhamel. Antonio Esfandiari squared off with Vanessa Selbst and Isaac Haxton went to battle with the German High Rollers Tobias Reinkemeier, Fabian Quoss and Philipp Gruissem.
All those guys didn't make it to the final table though. The 62 entries (50 unique, 12 reentries) made for a €6,015,240 prize pool and just eight players remain right now. They're in the money but not all are guaranteed to make a profit just yet. Though they take home a minimum of €241,000, that would still leave Daniel Colman €59,000 short as he bought back in twice after busting his first €100,000 bullet on Day 1.
The final table is dominated by the group of Asian business men who made their way to the Super High Roller on European soil for the first time. Paul Phua, Lo Shing Fung and Richard Yong proved they can play with the best here in the Principality of Monaco. Flanking the Asian business men are the Americans with Cates, Colman and Busquet all still in contention. To complete the final table there's short stack Igor Kurganov and of course Ole Schemion. We say 'of course' as he's in the form of his life and he might just be the best no-limit hold'em tournament player in the world at the moment. Schemion is on fire with huge cashes everywhere. He won the €10,000 High Roller in Sanremo just two weeks ago, and won the €10,000 satellite to this very €100,000 event to keep himself in form.
The seating is as followed:
Seat
Player
Country
Chips
1
Dan Cates
United States
2,341,000
2
Richard Yong
China
1,301,000
3
Olivier Busquet
United States
1,038,000
4
Rono Lo
China
4,558,000
5
Daniel Colman
United States
1,398,000
6
Igor Kurganov
Russia
261,000
7
Ole Schemion
Germany
2,818,000
9
Paul Phua
Malaysia
1,785,000
The eight finalists will start at 1 p.m. local time. The tournament coverage will be on a one-hour delay as the live stream will be cards up, and they will battle it out for the following prizes:
Place
Prize
1
€1,804,000
2
€1,305,000
3
€842,300
4
€637,600
5
€493,340
6
€385,000
7
€307,000
8
€241,000
Check back in 80 minutes as we'll cover every single hand this final table. The reporting will of course be accompanied by interviews from PokerNews hostess Jennifer Robles, and photos from PokerNews photographer Danny Maxwell.