Welcome to Day 1 of the £50,000 Super High Roller at EPT London
Welcome to Day 1 of the £50,000 Super High Roller at PokerStars European Poker Tour London. Cards go in the air at 12:30 p.m. local time at Hilton Park Lane for this prestigious high stakes event.
Mikita Badziakouski is the reigning Super High Roller champion after he took down the €100,000 event at the most recent EPT in Barcelona. That tournament drew 68 total entries and generated a prize pool of €6,597,360, from which Badziakouski won a top prize of €1,979,220.
Among the other notable players and EPT regulars, Byron Kaverman is expected to join the action after he won the £25,000 Single-Day High Roller on Thursday.
"See you guys tomorrow," Kaverman said when he took the top prize of £273,710 in a tournament that drew a total of 30 entries.
Orpen Kisacikoglu, Steve O’Dwyer, Ben Heath and reigning WSOP Main Event Champion Espen Jorstad also finished in the money of Thursday’s one-day high roller event.
Players will start with 250,000 in chips and blinds kick off at 500/1,000 with a 1,000 big blind ante. Levels will be 60 minutes long and Day 1 will conclude at the end of Level 8. Players can enter as many times as they wish and registration will remain open until the start of Day 2.
The tournament will be played with a 30-second shot clock, and players will start with eight time banks if they’re seated at the beginning of the day. Entrants will also receive a 50% discount on the fee for registering in advance and taking their seat before the start of play.
Be sure to keep it with the PokerNews team all day long for updates live from the floor of the PokerStars European Poker Tour London at the Hilton Park Lane hotel.
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and both players checked to the 
on the turn. Mateos checked again and Newey splashed in a bet of 36,500. Mateos called and the 
completed the board.
. Newey had that beat with 
and raked in a healthy pot in the opening level.
and Vieira continued with a bet of 3,500 which only Adams called.
and Vieira checked to Adams who bet 15,000. Vieira check-raised to 65,000 and Adams called to see the 
on the river.
for a smaller full house and was sent to the registration desk.
on the board when Sam Greenwood checked from the small blind. Ben Heath checked from the button and the turn was 
. Both players checked the turn and 
dropped on the river. Greenwood fired 9,000 and Heath considered his options before he tossed it in the muck to give up the pot. 
and Mateos started with a check. Kisacikoglu tossed in a bet of 3,500 and Mateos check-raised to 14,000 which Kisacikoglu called.
completed the board. Mateos went for it all, shoving all in for 158,000 which Kisacikoglu promptly folded to.
on the board when Orpen Kisacikoglu bet 10,000 from the big blind. Adrian Mateos called from the button and the turn was 
on the turn improved him to a full house and Bujtas was left drawing dead to the 
and the pair of fives was not enough for Dvoress to overtake Mateos. The stacks were counted and Dvoress was the player at risk for 348,000 with Mateos having him covered by exactly 1,000.