€100,000 Super High Roller
Dia 1 Começado
2015 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final
€100,000 Super High Roller
Dias: 1
Event Info
Resultados Finais
Event Info
Informações do Nível
Informações do Jogador - Dia 1
2015 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final
Buy-in
€98,000
Premiação
€6,888,420
Entries
71
Nível
26
Blinds
150,000 / 300,000
Ante
50,000
Get Ready for Some Mega High-Stakes Poker Action!
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Welcome to the big, bad kickoff to PokerNews' coverage of the 2015 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino European Poker Tour Grand Final!
Today marks Day 1 of the €100,000 Super High Roller, one of the largest buy-ins the yearly tournament circuit has to offer. As always in this marquee event, a highly elite field is expected, including the likes of Antonio Esfandiari, Dan Smith, Daniel Negreanu, Erik Seidel, Jason Mercier, Isaac Haxton, Max Altergott, Mike McDonald, Phil Ivey, Sam Trickett, and Talal Shakerchi.
Last year, Daniel Colman topped a field of 62 entries, and the field size has generated steady increase each year. The first installment in 2012 was won by Justin Bonomo after he topped 45 entries, then in 2013 it was Max Altergott topped a field of 50 entries. That's an 11-percent increase from 2012 to 2013 and a 24-percent increase from 2013 to 2014. If you average those increases out to 17.5 percent and project that onto 2015's field, you're looking at over 70 entries this year.
We mentioned a handful of notables expected to be in the field, but it's not one of those that we'd like to focus on for one of our main points of interest.
Anthony Zinno, winner of three World Poker Tour titles, will be popping his PokerStars super high roller cherry. To our knowledge, he's never played an event with a buy-in of $100,000 or greater, and it will be exciting to see the player hotter than anyone else right now lock horns with what is one of the toughest fields to overcome in poker.
Zinno's already having a career year with just shy of $1.6 million in live earnings, but the average talent gap in a WPT main event versus a PokerStars super high roller is very large. It comes of large interest to see if he can perform well against the type of elite competition he'll be going toe to toe with in Monaco.
Today's event kicks off at 12:30 p.m. local time, and players will begin with 250,000 in tournament chips. Sixty-minute levels are on the docket, Day 1 will consist of eight levels, and registration and unlimited reentries will be allowed until the start of Day 2. There will be a 20-minute break after the second and fourth levels, and a 30-minute break after the sixth level.
In the previous three installments of this event, the top five finishers have gone on to cash in the event 40% of the time. That means a solid Day 1 performance can prove to be very lucrative for a player, so you'll surely want to stay glued right here to follow along.
Nível: 1
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 100
Who's Here?
Nível 1
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
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Silver and Danzer Off To Great Starts in First Super High Roller
Nível 1
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
Max Silver and George Danzer are both in the field and diving into their first super high roller tournament. Previously, the two of them only invested one-quarter of today's buy-in in a poker tournament outside of the World Series of Poker. While that is an interesting commonality between the two players, they also share the fact that they've both jumped out to impressive starts.
Silver and Danzer began at the same table. Silver has since been relocated to a different table, but he won almost all of the opening hands dealt before moving. After his early work, Silver moved up to 275,000 and looked to be the early leader.
Not to be outdone, Danzer, the reigning WSOP Player of the Year, waited patiently before (and maybe before Silver moved tables) he took a big pot off Ole Schemion. to move to about 325,000.
Play folded to Schemion on the button, and he opened with a raise to 2,500. Danzer made the call out of the big blind, and the flop came down 
. Danzer checked, Schemion bet 3,000, and Danzer called to see the 
appear on the turn. Danzer checked, and Schemion bet 7,500. Again, Danzer called.
Following the 
river card, Danzer checked to the aggressor for the third time. Schemion, who never seems to give up a chance to fire, bet 18,500. Danzer took some time, then check-raised to 64,000. After a minute or two in the tank, Schemion tossed in the chips to make the call. Danzer rolled over the 
for the nut flush, and Schemion mucked.
| Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
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325,000 | 75,000 |
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275,000 | 25,000 |
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175,000 | -75,000 |
More Familiar Faces
Nível 1
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
| Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
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Seiver Folds a Full House?
Nível 1
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
Pratyush Buddiga opened from middle position, and Scott Seiver made the call on the button. Mike McDonald squeezed in a raise from the big blind, and both Buddiga and Seiver called, Isaac Haxton told us after we arrived on the flop.
The flop came 
, and McDonald checked. Buddiga bet out 23,000, and Seiver called. McDonald folded after some tanking. Buddiga fired another 60,000 on the 
turn, and Seiver called.
The 
paired the board on the end, and Buddiga announced all in. An exact count wasn't made by the dealer, but we estimated it at 160,000 or so, just a little over what Seiver had.
Seiver seemed in doubt, mumbling he probably wasn't folding. "I do have deuces" Seiver said at one point, if we heard correctly.
After some more minutes of thinking, Seiver opted not to follow up his statement about not folding, sliding his cards silently into the muck. Buddiga didn't show, and collected the chips.
| Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
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355,000 | 105,000 |
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155,000 | -95,000 |
Lucky Number Seven
Nível 1
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
Stephen Chidwick opened under the gun to 3,000 and Fedor Holz, two positions down, made it 8,500. Action folded back to Chidwick, and he opted to call.
Chidwick check-called a bet of 8,800 on the flop, and check-called another bet of 17,500 on the 
turn. The 
on the river completed the board, and for a third time, Chidwick checked. Holz, sitting quite motionless for the entire hand, moved his head to see the river, and stared at it for a bit before checking behind.
Chidwick showed the 
, and Holz quietly mucked.
| Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
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287,000 | 287,000 |
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215,200 | -34,800 |
Smith Takes a Chunk from Kaverman
Nível 1
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
We arrived at the table with the final board reading 
and a hefty pot in the middle between Dan Smith and Byron Kaverman. Smith had 83,000 in front of him for a raise over the 33,000 that Kaverman had in front of him. Kaverman went deep into the tank. Eventually the clock was called on him, to which he took until about 15 seconds left to fold his hand and give Smith the pot.
| Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
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355,000 | 105,000 |
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180,000 | -70,000 |
Trips for Kaverman
Nível 1
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
Byron Kaverman checked the 
flop to his opponent, Martin Kabrhel. Kabrhel bet 3,200, and Kaverman called to see the 
land on the turn. Kaverman checked, Kabrhel bet 5,500, and Kaverman called.
After the 
paired the board on the river, Kaverman and Kabrhel both checked to the showdown. Kaverman showed the 
for trip tens, and Kabrhel mucked his hand.
| Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
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245,000 | -5,000 |
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190,000 | 10,000 |