€50,000 Super High Roller
Dia 2 Começado
2015 PokerStars.com EPT Season 12 Barcelona
€50,000 Super High Roller
Dias: 2
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
Start of Day Chip Counts
Registration is open till start of play today, so new players might sign up and players that unfortunately busted out on Day 1 may decide to give it another €50,000 shot. A table draw will not be released till start of day to not give new entering players the advantage of knowing what their starting table might look like.
| Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
|---|---|---|
|
1,062,000 | |
|
1,002,500 | |
|
855,000 | |
|
775,000 | |
|
745,000 | |
|
671,500 | |
|
640,500 | |
|
640,000 | |
|
627,000 | |
|
608,500 | |
|
598,000 | |
|
586,000 | |
|
584,000 | |
|
580,000 | |
|
573,500 | |
|
565,500 | |
|
560,500 | |
|
555,000 | |
|
513,000 | |
|
497,000 | |
|
475,500 | |
|
474,500 | |
|
467,000 | |
|
448,500 | |
|
442,500 |
Day 2 of the €50,000 Super High Roller Awaits
The music kept on skipping yesterday, as records were constantly broken on Day 1 of the €50,000 Super High Roller. A staggering 93 entries were generated from 81 unique players and 12 reentries, shattering last year's total of 77. After the first eight one-hour levels of play, 66 remained with one of UK's finest, Stephen Chidwick, leading the charge with over 1 million in chips from the 250,000-chip starting stack.
While familiar faces like Daniel Negreanu, Vanessa Selbst, and Scott Seiver were missing, as well as last year's champion Olivier Busquet and runner-up Daniel Colman, a lot of players that never played a €50,000 event before showed up. For example, there was Ben "Ben86" Tollerene, Luuk "pokerkluka" Gieles, Philippe "takechip" D'Auteuil, and Scott "Aggro Santos" Margereson in the field, and all of them made it through to Day 2.
Registration will remain open till start of play today, which will be at 12:30 p.m. local time, so new players might sign up and old ones might reenter. After Day 1 finished yesterday, there was a "reverse freeroll" held that gave players the chance to win their €50,000 buy-in back if they were still in, or qualify for another bullet if they weren't. A total of five seats were handed out in that one, though we're unsure who the lucky players were at this time.
The plan for today is to play 10 levels or down to a final table of eight, whichever comes first. Buying in now gives you a fresh stack of 250,000, and that's good for just over 41 big blinds with the first level of play at 3,000/6,000 with a 1,000 ante.
Here's the structure for today:
| Level | Small Blind | Big Blind | Ante |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 3,000 | 6,000 | 1,000 |
| 10 | 4,000 | 8,000 | 1,000 |
| -- | Break | 20 minutes | -- |
| 11 | 5,000 | 10,000 | 1,000 |
| 12 | 6,000 | 12,000 | 2,000 |
| -- | Break | 20 minutes | -- |
| 13 | 8,000 | 16,000 | 2,000 |
| 14 | 10,000 | 20,000 | 3,000 |
| -- | Break | 75 minutes | -- |
| 15 | 12,000 | 24,000 | 3,000 |
| 16 | 15,000 | 30,000 | 4,000 |
| -- | Break | 20 minutes | -- |
| 17 | 20,000 | 40,000 | 5,000 |
| 18 | 25,000 | 50,000 | 5,000 |
The table draw will be released as soon as registration closes, as to not give newcomers the advantage of knowing what table they might end up, and when it is available we'll post it. The prize pool will also be confirmed at that time.
While you wait, check out Sarah Herring's interview with Fedor Holz:
PokerNews.com will be on site from start to finish, reporting on the first flop till the last river, so be sure to stay glued to these pages.
We Welcome Some New Players
Registration is open for just a few more minutes, but we can already confirm some new players.
Yesterday's late-night satellite generated five tickets. Andrey Andreev, Andrew Chen, and November Niner Ofer Zvi Stern qualified and will start Day 2 with 250,000. David Peters and Connor Drinan also won tickets, but they already had stacks in the event from Day 1 (497,000 for Peters, 474,500 for Drinan), so they received €50,000 in prize money.
On top of that, JC Alvarado and Martin Kabrhel have reentered after busting yesterday, and Vladimir Troyanovskiy also joined right before registration closed.
| Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
|---|---|---|
|
250,000 | 250,000 |
|
250,000 | 250,000 |
|
250,000 | 250,000 |
|
250,000 | |
|
250,000 | 250,000 |
|
250,000 | 250,000 |
Nível: 9
Blinds: 3,000/6,000
Ante: 1,000
Shuffle Up and Deal!
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Nível 9
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
The cards are in the air for Day 2.
PokerNews Podcast Episode #328: EPT Barcelona Kickoff
Nível 9
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
Remko Rinkema and Donnie Peters are in Spain for the start of Season 12 of the European Poker Tour, and discuss the already record-breaking EPT Barcelona.
And don't forgot, fans can call in and leave a voicemail for the crew at 774-77-PNPOD.
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Crucial Bluff Fails for Mercier
Nível 9
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
Jason Mercier min-raised the cutoff seat to 12,000, and Hassan Fares made the call in the big blind. The flop came 
, and Fares check-called Mercier's continuation bet of 13,000.
The 
on the turn prompted both players to check, then a fourth heart popped up on the river with the 
. Fares checked again, then tanked for a bit after Mercier first a 37,000-chip river bet. Fares eventually called, and Mercier had to table the 
for not much of anything. Fares showed the 
and took it down.
| Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
|---|---|---|
|
55,000 | -29,000 |
Tollerene Frustrated Over Missing Chips
Nível 9
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
"What do you think is more likely, that I miscounted five times last night, or that something went wrong today?" Ben Tollerene frustratedly said to the tournament staff.
When we arrived on the scene, a dispute was going on involving the high-stakes poker player and the tournament staff. Tollerene claimed he counted his chips at 647,000 before play started. Last night, according to Tollerene's chip bag, the professional wrote that he bagged up 671,500 in chips, and that created a difference of 24,500 chips.
Before play resumed, tournament dealers and staff put the bags in the correct seats after doing the table draw. Then, a few minutes before play began, every bag was to be opened. Players that arrived on time had the chance to open their own bag, but Tollerene was just a few minutes late. The dealer who was present had opened Tollerene's bag, after which she performed a chip race to get rid of the T500 denomination chips.
After the chip race, the chips collected were placed in the well and were still present when Tollerene arrived at the table. The tournament staff explained to Tollerene numerous times that there was nothing they could do, as no chips had left the table after the bags were opened.
Tollerene kept shaking his head in a bit of frustration, believing he had counted his stack correctly the night before. Martin Kabrhel and Patrik Antonius continuously emphasized that the clock was ticking and action must start. With that, play began at the table and Tollerene started out with less than he thought.
| Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
|---|---|---|
|
|
647,000 | -24,500 |
Antonius Ousted
Nível 9
: 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante
Patrik Antonius started the day out with very few chips, and he was soon all in for his last 37,500. Antonius' shove was called by Jeff Rossiter.
Antonius: 
Rossiter: 
The board ran out 
, and Antonius exited the tournament area.
| Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
|---|---|---|
|
|
520,000 | 44,500 |
|
Eliminado |