A total of 160 players registered for the €25,500 buy-in EPT Grand Final High Roller and with registration open until the start of Day 2, the event could break records. The chip leader after Day 1 is Steve O’Dwyer and the remaining field of 89 is stacked with stars aswell, including Tony Gregg, Max Altergott, Daniel Negreanu, Scott Seiver, €100,000 Super High Roller winner Erik Seidel, Mike "timex" McDonald, Dan Colman and Fabian Quoss just to name a few. Today players will play 10 blind levels or down to 8 players, whichever comes first.
Steve O’Dwyer has some nice memories from the Grand Final, having won the title in 2013 after defeating a finale that is often called "the greatest EPT final table ever".
O’Dwyer jumped into the chip lead in one of the final hands of the day, he check/raised all-in on a T-6-5 (two hearts) board with A-Q and was called by David Dayan’s J-J. O’Dwyer missed the turn but hit a Queen on the river to send Dayan packing.
There are plenty of big names still in the field, the plan for the day is to play down to the final 8 or to play 10 blind level, whichever comes first.
Top 10 stacks
Steve O’Dwyer – 330.200
Tony Gregg – 325.800
Max Altergott – 311.100
Pablo Melogno Cabrera – 290.000
Matthew Waxman – 248.500
Andrey Andreev – 246.800
Yingui Li – 222.200
Mayu Roca – 204.300
Daniel Negreanu – 182.000
Isaac Haxton – 181.700
Other noteables
Scott Seiver – 177.700
Dani Stern – 166.000
Sorel Mizzi – 154.500
Martin Finger – 153.200
Erik Seidel – 149.100
Igor Kurganov – 149.000
Davidi Kitai – 146.000
Byron Kaverman – 139.800
Dominik Nitsche – 134.800
Mike McDonald – 118.800
Rhys Jones – 117.300
Jason Koon – 116.100
Dario Sammartino – 110.700
JC Alvarado – 105.600
Faraz Jaka – 105.100
Dan Smith – 101.000
Pratyush Buddiga – 93.300
Govert Metaal – 91.700
Yevgeniy Timoshenko – 89.800
Sergio Aido – 88.300
Artur Koren – 87.000
Fabian Quoss – 83.300
Mike Watson – 81.800
Connor Drinan – 74.000
Jason Mercier – 71.900
Chistoph Vogelsang – 69.400
Sylvain Loosli – 68.000
Dzmitry Urbanovich – 66.500
Vladimir Troyanovskiy – 65.500
Jeremy Ausmus – 61.000
Dan Colman – 47.600
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier – 47.200
Patrick Leonard – 45.300
Stephen Chidwick – 37.400
Liv Boeree – 31.200
