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EPT Prague €10k High Roller – Day 2 Report
Posted by: Randy Williams - Wed, 2013-12-18 11:07
The second day of the
EPT Prague’s Season 10 €10k High Roller saw 84 players return to the tables. Unlike the Main Event, which made incredible progress on its penultimate day, the high roller was more of a grind: it had a total of 10 levels go into its second day.
In the end, the objectives were reached nonetheless: 10 players remained standing, almost all of them top pros, so while the official final table was not reached, at least all the survivors could be seated at the same table.
The player who finished the day with the largest stack, was Russia’s Dmitry Yurasov, who had 1.4 million chips bagged. Yurasov has his work cut out for him for the 3rd day of the
poker tournament though: some of the other survivors were
PokerStars pro Vanessa Selbst, Mike McDonald, Jeff Rossiter, Andy Seth and Olivier Busquet.
With registration open till the beginning of the second day, 7 more players decided to take advantage of the re-buy option. This way, the total number of buy-ins in the pot reached the 176 mark.
27 players will end up being paid out of a prize-pool of €1.7 million and the eventual winner will take home a €382k prize.
As soon as the action kicked off, players began hitting the rail, and due to the high concentration of “name” players in the field, the majority of them were high-profile pros indeed.
Robin Ylitalo and Paul Volpe were among the early victims, together with Dan Shak, and PokerStars’ own Isaac Haxton.
The bubble boy of the event was Eugene Katchalov: he got his last chips into the middle on a pair of 7s and he got called by an opponent who had pocket Js. The board didn’t help him, and the money-bubble was history.
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