Anthony Zinno opened for 13,000 from the cutoff only to have Philipp Gruissem three-bet all in for 53,000 from the small blind. Zinno made the call and the cards were turned up.
Zinno:
Gruissem:
Gruissem was ahead, but Zinno was drawing to two live cards. The flop paired the man known as "Philbort," but it also gave Zinno a flush draw. The turn gave Zinno even more outs, but fortunately for Gruissem the blanked on the river to give him the double.
Bryn Kenney opened for 13,000 from the hijack and Team PokerStars Pro Jason Mercier three-bet jammed for 141,000 from the small blind. Anthony Zinno, who was recently named the World Poker Tour Season XIII Player of the Year, then called from the big blind and Kenney got out of the way.
Mercier:
Zinno:
Mercier ran his pocket pair smack dab into a bigger one, and he paid the ultimate price after the board ran out .
Meanwhile, Andrew Chen was also eliminated from the tournament.
In the first hand of Day 2, China's Quan Zhou raised to 16,000 from the button only to have the UK's Stephen Chidwick three-bet all in from the small blind for roughly 100,000. Zhou made the call and it was off to the races.
Chidwick:
Zhou:
Chidwick was the one at risk and in need of some help, but he was left wanting as the board ran out a dry . With that, Chidwick became the first elimination of the day.
For the first time ever, a €10,100 qualifier for the €100,000 Super High Roller took place after Day 1 of the event was done last night. A total of 30 unique players registered, with four of them using the option to reenter. That made for a total of three seats to be given away, plus some cash for the fourth-place finisher.
Andrew Chen, Imad Derwiche, and Anton Astapau won a seat, while EPT Vienna champion Oleksii Khoroshenin finished fourth, and former EPT Grand Final runner-up Jack Salter bubbled the event in fifth place.
As Andrew Chen survived Day 1 with 157,000 in chips, he gets to keep the €100,000 prize. The other two winners, Derwiche and Astapau, will start in half an hour with a crisp 250,000-chip stack. Khoroshenin has the option to either add the needed money to enter or just pocket the cash.
In little over an hour's time, Day 2 of the 2015 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final €100,000 Super High Roller will commence. A minimum of 44 players will return at 12:30 p.m. local time to battle it out for a seat at the final table. With registration open till 12:15 p.m. today, that number can only increase. Because of registration still being open, no table draw or prize pool has been announced yet, but it will be available shortly after the field is set.
A total of 64 entries were made on Day 1, with 52 unique players and 12 reentries. Three players are already in for €300,000, as Leon Tsoukernik, Mike McDonald, and defending champion Dan Colman all busted their first two bullets and bought right back in.
Igor Kurganov is leading with exactly 1 million in chips (166 big blinds). The Russian pro finished third in this event here last year, receiving €1,128,300 after a three-way deal with Daniel Cates and Daniel Colman. Reigning EPT Player of the Year Ole Schemion is close on his heels with an amassed stack of 930,000 (155 big blinds), and Erik Seidel is currently sitting in third with 857,000 (142 big blinds).
All three days of the Super High Roller are being broadcast on EPTLive, with the final on May 2 to be shown with cards up (subject to a one-hour security delay). You can watch the live stream right here on PokerNews.
The plan for the day is to play either 10 one-hour levels or down to a final table of eight, whichever comes first. The levels are structured as followed, with a 75-minute dinner break after Level 14:
Level
Small Blind
Big Blind
Ante
9
3,000
6,000
1,000
10
4,000
8,000
1,000
20-minute break
11
5,000
10,000
1,000
12
6,000
12,000
2,000
20-minute break
13
8,000
16,000
2,000
14
10,000
20,000
3,000
75-minute break
(around 18:55)
15
12,000
24,000
3,000
16
15,000
30,000
4,000
20-minute break
17
20,000
40,000
5,000
18
25,000
50,000
5,000
This year's event has already broken the record set last year when a total of 62 entries were made. Who's going to succeed Bonomo, Altergott, and Colman? Or can one of the three go for a second title? All three of them entered yesterday, and just Altergott got eliminated, but he still has the chance to give it another try. Bonomo made it through with 683,000 (113 big blinds), and Colman bagged 248,000 (41 big blinds).
Who will succeed Bonomo, Altergott and Colman? Time to find out!
Check out the interview Remko Rinkema did with Tsoukernik about how he got his second bullet in the tournament for free. Spoiler alert: it involves a €100,000 heads-up match against Daniel Cates.
flop paired the man known as "Philbort," but it also gave Zinno a flush draw. The 
turn gave Zinno even more outs, but fortunately for Gruissem the 
blanked on the river to give him the double.
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. With that, Chidwick became the first elimination of the day.
