€10,300 High Roller
Dia 1 Começado
€10,300 High Roller
Dia 1 Começado
In 90 minutes from now at 12.30 p.m. local time, the last highlight of the 2016 PokerStars.com EPT13 Malta festival gets underway with Day 1 of the €10,300 High Roller. Defending champion of the event is Byron Kaverman, who defeated a 210-entry strong field and overcame Mukul Pahuja in heads-up for a payday of €430,800 and the coveted trophy.
Neither Pahuja nor Kaverman have been spotted during the festival yet, but many other notables and familiar faces of the international poker circuit are expected to join the action. Today will see 10 levels of 60 minutes each scheduled and the eight-handed tournament provides a single re-entry option to all players who run out of chips until the start of Day 2. The registration remains open until 15 minutes prior to the start of Day 2 on Friday at approximately 12.15 p.m. as well.
All participants receive 50,000 in chips and there will be a break every two levels with an additional dinner break. Play will conclude after midnight and the PokerNews live reporting team will be on hand to bring you all the action from the tables.
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The screens currently show 30 entries and manual seating is taking place. The following players have already entered the competition.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Adrian Mateos
|
50,000 | 50,000 |
Andrey Andreev | 50,000 | |
Ben Heath | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Alexandros Kolonias | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Dietrich Fast | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Sebastian Veghinas | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Gaetano Brignone | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Paul Newey | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Orpen Kisacikoglu | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Charalampos Tsivikos | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Senh Ung | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Nível: 1
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 25
Max Silver finished 4th in the €25,750 Super High Roller and just signed up for the event. He was shortly after joined by Super High Roller champion [Removed:17] and EPT12 Malta Main Event champion Niall Farrell among others.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Charlie Carrel | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Cate Hall | 50,000 | |
Vladimir Troyanovskiy | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Sirzat Hissou | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Christophe Larquemin | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Vlado Banicevic | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Max Silver | 50,000 | 50,000 |
[Removed:17] | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Niall Farrell
|
50,000 | 50,000 |
In a reraised pot preflop between Adrian Mateos and Ben Heath the flop came . With already 3,400 in the middle, Mateos opted for a bet of 2,200 out of the small blind, and Heath followed suit from the button.
The turn was the and this time around the price was 5,700 from Mateos, Heath called again.
The river made a four card straight on board, but that didn't slow Mateos down. The Spaniard fired a third bullet of 8,300, and that won him the pot without showdown.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Adrian Mateos
|
59,000 | 9,000 |
On the turn, Vlado Banicevic bet 3,300 and Vladimir Troyanovskiy folded. Andrey Andreev joked "I want my cards back" and pulled his from the muck.
Soon after, Troyanovskiy and Banicevic met again. Troyanovskiy raised to 600 from the button and Banicevic defended the big blind. On the flop, Banicevic checked and folded to a bet worth 700.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Vlado Banicevic | 52,000 | 2,000 |
Vladimir Troyanovskiy | 48,000 | -2,000 |
Dietrich Fast raised to 500 from under the gun and immediately stared back at his iPad while the rest of the table was still to act. Paul Newey called in the big blind and Fast then glanced up to see a flop of . Both players checked and Newey bet the turn for 900, Fast called.
The on the river was checked down and Newey showed as winning hand.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Paul Newey | 51,500 | 1,500 |
Dietrich Fast | 48,500 | -1,500 |
The screens currently show 40 entries. Christian Thiry was among 10 players to win their entry through a live Satellite at the Casino Portomaso. Other recent additions to the field include Steve O'Dwer, Martin Finger, Roman Korenev and Nick Petrangelo.
Jogador | Fichas | Progresso |
---|---|---|
Armando Collado
|
50,000 | 50,000 |
Iliodoros Kamatakis | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Ilkin Amirov | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Nick Petrangelo | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Song Hun Lee
|
50,000 | 50,000 |
Christian Thiry | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Roman Korenev | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Martin Finger
|
50,000 | 50,000 |
Steve O'Dwyer
|
50,000 | 50,000 |