€25,000 High Roller
Day 1 completed
Day 1 completed
€25,000 High Roller
Day 1 Over; Badecker Leads
Day 1 of the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final €25,000 High Roller is in the books after the players trudged through the first 10 levels of play. Plopping down the big buy-in were 117 players. Add another 16 re-entries to that and there were a total of 133 entries in this event.
At the end of the day, under 50 players remained with Andrew Badecker on top holding 350,000 in chips. He's trailed closely by Vincent van der Fluit with 341,200 and then Sami Kelopuro comes in third with 310,000.
Also remaining are notables Phil Ivey, Chris Moorman, Patrik Antonius and Bryn Kenney. All four of them bagged up a good portion of chips and will be above average coming into Day 2. Some of those eliminated on the day included JP Kelly, Eugene Katchalov, Yevgeniy Timoshenko, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier and Jason Mercier.
Day 2 will commence tomorrow at 12:00 PM local time and PokerNews will be on hand for all of the coverage straight from the get go. We hope you're here to join us then.
Bagging and Tagging (full)
The players are done for the night and bagging up their chips. We'll have a wrap post coming shortly, but in the mean time, check out the end-of-day chip stacks.
| Andrew Badecker |  |
350,000 | -15,000 | ||
| Vincent van der Fluit |  |
341,200 | 136,200 | ||
| Sami Kelopuro |  |
310,000 | 168,000 | ||
| Patrik Antonius | |
307,500 | 117,500 | ||
| Igor Kurganov |  |
279,900 | 23,900 | ||
| Phil Ivey | |
271,500 | 51,500 | ||
| Alexander Uskov | |
261,900 | |||
| Chris Moorman |  |
261,700 | -13,300 | ||
| Bryn Kenney | |
261,300 | 2,300 | ||
| Noah Schwartz | |
230,200 | 115,200 | ||
| Artem Litvinov | |
227,400 | -42,600 | ||
| Mike "Timex" McDonald | 213,500 | 43,500 | |||
| Justin Bonomo | |
204,200 | 4,200 | ||
| Martin Finger |  |
203,700 | 122,700 | ||
| William Reynolds | |
203,700 | 88,700 | ||
| Roman Romanovsky | 201,100 | -138,900 | |||
| Philipp Gruissem | |
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170,800 | 25,800 | |
| Alex Bilokur | |
141,400 | -18,600 | ||
| David "Doc" Sands | |
139,300 | 9,300 | ||
| Haralabos Voulgaris |  |
125,500 | 500 | ||
| Richard Lyndaker | |
124,700 | 48,700 | ||
| Joseph Elpayaa | |
121,200 | -68,800 | ||
| Sorel Mizzi | |
120,200 | -44,800 | ||
| Liv Boeree | |
112,600 | -17,400 | ||
| Michael Telker | |
112,400 |
Big Stacks
| Andrew Badecker | |
365,000 | 100,000 | ||
| Roman Romanovsky | 340,000 | 85,000 | |||
| Chris Moorman | |
275,000 | 31,000 | ||
| Artem Litvinov | |
270,000 | 66,000 | ||
| Igor Kurganov | |
256,000 | -4,000 |
Kelopuro Can't Squeeze This One
Bryn Kenney raised from the hijack seat and Team PokerStars Pro David Williams flatted from the cutoff before action moved over to Sami Kelopuro in the small blind. Kelopuro reraised to 12,800. Play moved back to Kenney and he four-bet to 29,000. Williams gave it some thought and then folded. Kelopuro also thought it over, but folded as well and Kenney won the pot.
| Bryn Kenney | |
259,000 | 7,000 | ||
| Sami Kelopuro | |
142,000 | -18,000 | ||
| David Williams | |
115,000 | 25,000 |
Eliminated Players
| Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier |  |
Busted | |||
| Alex Gomes | Busted | ||||
| Christophe Benzimra | |
Busted | |||
| Erik Seidel | |
Busted | |||
| Mike Watson | |
Busted | |||
| Sam Chartier | |
Busted | |||
| Eui Woong Kim | Busted | ||||
| Tobias Reinkemeier | |
Busted | |||
| Dan Smith | |
Busted | |||
| Martin Kabrhel |  |
Busted | |||
| Micah Raskin | |
Busted | |||
| Jean-Noel Thorel | |
Busted | |||
| Ivan Kudriavtckv | Busted | ||||
| Andrey Zaichenko | |
Busted | |||
| Steve O'Dwyer |  |
Busted | |||
| Isaac Haxton | |
Busted |
The Final Level
Level 10 has just begun and this will be the last level of the day.
- Level:
- 10
- Blinds:
- 800/1,600
- Ante:
- 200
Last Break of the Day
The players are on their last 15-minute break of the day. Only one more level to go after this break.
Timex Five-Bets Badecker
From the hijack seat, Phil Ivey raised to 3,000. Mike "Timex" McDonald reraised to 9,000 from the cutoff seat and then action fell on Andrew Badecker on the button. He four-bet and made it 19,400 to go. Play folded back to Ivey and he folded. McDonald five-bet to 37,700 and Badecker mucked.
| Andrew Badecker | |
265,000 | -20,000 | ||
| Mike "Timex" McDonald | 170,000 | 25,000 |