€50,000 Super High Roller
Dia 3 Começado
2015 PokerStars.com EPT Season 12 Barcelona
€50,000 Super High Roller
Dias: 3
Event Info
Resultados Finais
Event Info
Informações do Nível
2015 PokerStars.com EPT Season 12 Barcelona
Buy-in
€48,500
Premiação
€4,753,485
Entries
99
Nível
26
Blinds
200,000 / 400,000
Ante
50,000
Seat 9: Michael Egan (5,410,000)
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Hailing all the way from Australia, Michael Egan is the chip leader heading into the third and final day of this event with 5.41 million in his stack. He's also the most unknown of the bunch, with just $173,932 in live tournament earnings over his career and a lack of information available.
What we can tell you is that Egan said yesterday that he doesn't play many live tournaments, or online for that matter, and rather focuses on cash games. Mainly playing online from his home country, Egan did record a nice live win back in 2010 when he won the 2010 Victorian Poker Championship Main Event for $144,223.
Already guaranteed €123,600 no matter what happens here today, Egan looks like he should go on to eclipse that figure pending a catastrophe of epic proportions.
With nearly 22% of the chips in play, a chip lead of over 600,000, and 90 big blinds to work with, we like Egan's chances here, despite not knowing too much about him.
Seat 8: Paul Newey (1,035,000)
Paul Newey is the resident "old guy" of this event's final nine, and the former businessman from England will be looking to turn things around as one of the shorter stacks in order to earn his first live poker victory.
Back in 2012, Newey first came onto the poker radar with an appearance in the first-ever World Series of Poker $1,000,000 Big One for One Drop. In fact, this was the first real poker tournament he ever played.
"It was my first proper tournament," Newey told PokerNews in a 2014 article. "It was a little bit silly to invest $1 million, but I wanted to be a piece of history. There was a charity element as well."
He failed to cash in that event, but returned in 2014 for another go. It was there that Newey finished in seventh place for over $1.4 million and recorded the largest score of his poker career. Later on that year, Newey competed in the European Poker Tour Prague €50,000 Super High Roller and took second for €557,090.
While Newey has certainly made his mark on the poker scene in recent years, especially in large buy-in events, he hasn't always been a poker player. That's certainly not where he made his fortune, either. In 1991, Newey founded the debt consolidation company Ocean Finance. He later sold that company for a reported £200 million in 2006, but stayed on as a chief executive before stepping down in 2009.
All told, Newey boasts over $2.25 million in live tournament earnings coming into this event.
Seat 7: Ivan Luca (2,580,000)
Ivan Luca is an up-and-coming star of the game, currently having his best year ever on the live felt with nearly $1.3 million in tournament earnings coming into this event and winning his first World Series of Poker gold bracelet his summer.
Luca is from Argentina, but his biggest results have come from elsewhere in the world. At the end of Season 11 of the European Poker Tour, Luca was in Monaco for the Grand Final. There he took eighth in the €50,000 Super High Roller event for €121,700. Right before that, at the EPT stop in Malta, Luca finished runner-up to David Peters in the €10,300 High Roller for €397,000.
He also finished fourth in the FPS Deauville €1,100 Main Event back in February for €68,500 and fifth in the EPT Deauville €10,300 High Roller for €90,960.
At the WSOP this summer, Luca topped a field of 2,150 entries to earn a $353,391 top prize in Event #30: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em. While that win proved the first bracelet of his career, he's someone we expect to win a couple more before he's all said and done.
Seat 6: Sylvain Loosli (1,200,000)
Frenchman Sylvain Loosli is best known for his appearance at the 2013 World Series of Poker Main Event final table. It was there that he recorded his second live tournament cash, and it was a big one worth just shy of $2.8 million after he finished in fourth place. Loosli currently sits sixth on the French all-time money list.
Since he final tabled poker's most prestigious event, Loosli has gone on to win over $500,000 in live tournaments from a handful of results. This result, whatever it may be, stands to be the second largest of his career and it continues an impressive 2015 for Loosli. Of note, he finished eighth in the EPT Malta €10,300 High Roller for €75,000 and second in a €5,300 side event at the EPT Grand Final for €99,800.
Loosely holds a Masters in Business and resides in London due to online gambling restrictions in France. His is a former roommate of fellow countryman Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier and generally focuses his skills in online cash games.
Seat 5: Byron Kaverman (495,000)
Byron Kaverman is the tournament short stack heading into Day 3, and the only player under 1 million in chips. With a stack of 495,000, Kaverman will enter the final nine with under 10 big blinds and have a lot of work cut out for him.
After really igniting a spark in his poker career in 2014 with more than $1.4 million in live tournament earnings, Kaverman has already one-upped himself with more than $2.4 million in winnings this year — and that's before this event. Coming into this tournament, Kaverman has recorded six six-figure cashes this year.
One of those results was a huge one — the second largest of his career — and came at the World Series of Poker when he won the $10,000 Six-Max No-Limit Hold'em Championship for his first gold bracelet and $657,351. His other big paydays in 2015 were for $409,219, $332,593, $282,948, $282,435, and $243,240. Two of those scores were from back in March when Kaverman won back-to-back Aria $25,000 High Roller events in the span of one weekend.
Seat 4: JC Alvarado (2,485,000)
JC Alvarado is no stranger to this event, placing second to Dan Smith in the first-ever €50,000 Super High Roller held at the European Poker Tour Barcelona back in 2012.
Alvarado got his feet wet in poker after he graduated from high school. Through home games with friends, ones that actually began outside of the home at a local IHOP, Alvarado accumulated a small bankroll and built confidence in his game. From there, he took to the virtual felt.
As many who make the dive into online poker, Alvarado quickly lost his first deposit and was forced to reload. Soon, he learned the game and progressed through the ranks, but then disaster struck and Alvarado found himself broke. Nevertheless, the Mexican's drive and determination led him to get back into the game. With the support from his Mom, soon enough, his hard work paid off and Alvarado's bankroll was flush.
After building his bankroll and confidence back up online, Alvarado took to the live felt in 2006. Since then, he's racked up more than $2.3 million in live earnings entering this event and made his way to the top of the Mexican all-time poker money list.
Seat 3: Christoph Vogelsang (4,765,000)
Second in chips entering Day 3 is Germany's Christoph Vogelsang with 4.765 million. An impressive player with over $5.7 million in live tournament earnings, Vogelsang is as calm and collected of poker player as they come.
Almost all of Vogelsang's live tournament results have come in big buy-in competitions. Not counting this event, Vogelsang has six live cashes to his credit, and four of those have been in events garnering a price tag of more than €25,000. His best result to date was a third-place finish in the 2014 World Series of Poker $1,000,000 Big One for One Drop — the same event that another member of this final nine, Paul Newey, took seventh in. There Vogelsang earned $4.48 million for his finish.
Also of note, Vogelsang's first-ever live cash was in the 2013 European Poker Tour London £50,000 Super High Roller for £383,200. He also made the final table of the 2015 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $100,000 Super High Roller and took fifth for $512,160.
Seat 2: Steve O'Dwyer (2,450,000)
It feels as though Steve O'Dwyer makes a super high roller final table every other week, and this event is no different with O'Dwyer entering Day 3 with 2.45 million in his stack.
A former resident of the United States, O'Dwyer now resides overseas in Europe where he can actively play online poker without restriction.
In January of this year, O'Dwyer scored first place in the 2015 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $100,000 Super High Roller. He earned $1.872 million for that victory and propelled his live tournament winnings over $9 million at the time. That was the largest live event score for O'Dwyer, but he's got plenty of other big ones to go along with it.
In November 2014, O'Dwyer took first in the Asia-Pacific Poker Tour Asia Championship of Poker for over $1.8 million. He's also a champion of the European Poker Tour Grand Final Main Event in 2013. There he earned a top prize of €1.224 million.
Since his huge win that kicked off the year, O'Dwyer has won another $978,136 from live tournaments. That doesn't include what he's going to win here, either. He's earned three more six-figure cashes in between his PCA win and this event, including a €528,700 third-place result in the 2015 EPT Grand Final €25,500 High Roller.
All told, O'Dwyer now boasts over $10 million in live tournament earnings.
Seat 1: Dzmitry Urbanovich (4,325,000)
Poland's Dzmitry Urbanovich was all the rave in the first half of the year, and he's picked up right where he left off in the second half of the year.
Before the summer, Urbanovich cashed in and final tabled six events at the recent European Poker Tour Malta festival. Of those, he won four, including the €25,500 High Roller for €572,300.
He then traveled to the EPT Grand Final in Monaco and earned three more highly-impressive results. First, he took second to Erik Seidel in the €100,000 Super High Roller for €1.446 million after completely skipping Day 1 of the event. Then, he finish 40th out of 564 players in the €10,600 Main Event for €23,125. Finally, the young star took third in the €10,200 Six-Max No-Limit Hold'em Turbo for €101,600.
Now, he boasts nearly $2.775 million in live tournament earnings entering this event and sits first on Poland's all-time money list — all without even being 21 years old.