We start with the Super High Roller Warm Up with a buy-in of €30,000, which brought 54 entries and a prizepool of €1,577,070. Cash prizes awaited the top 7 players here, with a mincash worth €82,800 and €512,370 awaiting the winner.
Names like Patrik Antonius, Justin Saliba, Boris Angelov and Jean-Noel Thorel were sitting at the final table. It was the latter who emerged as the winner of the tournament when he was not even matched by Justin Saliba in the final heads-up.
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jean-Noel Thorel | France | € 512,370 |
| 2 | Justin Saliba | USA | € 339,100 |
| 3 | Maher Nouira | Tunisia | € 228,700 |
| 4 | Brock Wilson | USA | € 173,500 |
| 5 | Ottomar Ladva | Estonia | € 134,100 |
| 6 | Patrik Antonius | Finland | € 106,500 |
| 7 | Boris Angelov | Bulgaria | € 82,800 |
Estrellas main event goes to Day 3
The second biggest tournament in EPT history was the €1,100 buy-in Estrellas Poker Tour Main Event, which attracted 7,138 entries and a prizepool of €6,852,480. There's €625,000 awaiting the winner here and 136 more players will battle for that prize in today's Day 3.
All of them have already pocketed at least €7,600 and starting as chipleader today will be Argentina's Alejandro Lococo, who has a stack of up to €5,190,000. Names like Ren Lin (3,650,000), Martin Zamani (3,400,000), Parker Talbot (3,250,000) and Biao Ding (875,000) are not missing from the list of advancers.
Estrellas Cup goes to Day 2
The Estrellas Cup kicked off yesterday with a €550 buy-in and will move to Day 2 today. In total, this tournament brought 2,175 entries and a prizepool of €1,044,000. 326 players have advanced to Day 2 and all of them have already pocketed at least €840. However, €155,480 awaits the winner.
The Day 2 chipleader is Edgar Ishida from Brazil, who bagged a stack of 888,000. Other advancers include Scott Margereson (393,000), Kenny Hallaert (283,000) and Christian Schneider (43,000).
Source - EPT, PSLive, Flickr, Pokernews
