Yesterday afternoon the last high buy-in event at the EPT Malta, the €10,300 High Roller kicked off with a huge field, there were 228 entries and 61 re-entries generating a prizepool of more than €2.8 million. Registration is open until 15 mintues before the start of Day 2, so the prizepool could get even bigger. By the end of the day there were 142 players left and it was Rui "RuiNF" Ferrera who claimed the chiplead.
Pretty much every big name in the poker world showed up for the EPT Malta €10,300 High Roller, GPI Player of the year Ole Schemion entered and busted twice, so did Bryn Kenney, but perhaps the most interesting elimination of the day happened to Patrick "pads1611" Leonard.
The British tournament crusher had his cards accidentally mucked by the dealer after Jesse Sylvia’s raise (3,000), Ivan Soshnikov’s 3bet (8,700) and Ludovic Geilich’s cold 4bet (17,800).
A floor manager was called to the table and retrieved Leonard’s cards from the muck after he told her his exact cards and where in the muck they ended up in.
After he got his cards back, Leonard 5bet shoved for 98,000.
Geilich thought for several minutes and the two players even chatted a little bit, Leonard told Geilich that "You gotta gamble." Geilich got the clock called on him and eventually called with J-J.
Leonard showed A-K and was eliminated after failing to improve on the J-3-4-9-6 board.
By the end of the day there were 142 players left, check out the Top 10 and some other notable stacks below:
Top 10
Rui Ferreira – 280.000
Max Silver – 277.200
Walid Bou Habib – 260.000
Piotr Franczak – 258.600
Adrian Mateos – 236.500
Ludovic Geilich – 234.300
Mike McDonald – 228.000
Joao Vieira – 227.200
Steve O`Dwyer – 218.600
Vladimir Dobrovolskii – 209.000
Notable players
Vladimir Troyanovskiy – 166.500
Artur Koren – 165.600
Simon Deadman – 163.500
Michael Tureniec – 160.700
Artem Litvinov – 155.900
Timothy Adams – 155.400
Marc Etienne McLaughlin – 152.900
George Danzer – 152.900
Dani Stern – 150.400
Connor Drinan – 131.000
Philipp Gruissem – 127.900
Mustapha Kanit – 126.400
Liv Boeree – 118.700
Sam Greenwood – 118.600
Dan Smith – 115.500
Dominik Nitsche – 113.500
Benny Spindler – 111.700
Marvin Rettenmaier – 110.900
Eugene Katchalov – 106.100
Sam Trickett – 101.400
Griffin Benger – 97.800
Vitaly Lunkin – 92.000
Stefan Jedlicka – 89.300
Olivier Busquet – 88.900
Németh András – 83.100
Davidi Kitai – 78.700
Sylvain Loosli – 75.700
Jorryt van Hoof – 75.400
Paul Newey – 73.500
Vanessa Selbst – 64.400
Patrick Leonard – 63.300
JC Alvarado – 62.600
Shannon Shorr – 60.100
Isaac Haxton – 59.900
Jonathan Duhamel – 57.400
Simon Ravnsbaek – 57.100
Martin Finger – 56.400
Stephen Chidwick – 54.900
Pratyush Buddiga – 50.300
Dzmitry Urbanovich – 50.000
Jonathan Little – 49.600
Fabian Quoss – 48.200
Martin Jacobson – 35.200
Jack Salter – 35.000
Dimitar Danchev – 27.300
Tobias Reinkemeier – 27.300
Jesse Sylvia – 22.300
Ami Barer – 12.400
