Day 2 of €25,000 EPT High Roller Kicks Off at 12:30 p.m.
At 12:30 pm. local time, the €25,000 EPT High Roller kicks off Day 2 with late registration or reentry still possible until that moment. The 2023 PokerStars European Poker Tour presented by Monte-Carlo Casino®️ is coming to an end with two more days to play down but the action will be hot and heavy all day long. There were 183 entries collected on Day 1 and 95 of them made it nicely through to Day 2.
Argentina's Alejandro Lococo bagged one of the biggest stacks after the dust settled on Day 1 with an enormous stack of 361,500, good for 241 big blinds. Lococo will look to add to his already impressive poker resume with a deep run here.
Close on his tracks are high stakes regulars Juan Pardo (302,000), and Orpen Kisacikoglu (239,000) who finished in the top five.
Lithuania's Marius Kudzmanas bagged the chip lead with a stack of 364,000. Although Kudzmanas isn't a high roller regular, he will still be sure give the top name players a run for their money. Kudzmanas took down the EPT Monte Carlo €1,100 NLHE Freezeout for €42,590 in 2019 and finished runner-up in the €10,300 EPT Prague High Roller for €339,830 less than a year ago.
Top Ten Chip Counts from Day 1
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marius Kudzmanas | Lithuania | 364,000 | 243 |
| 2 | Alejandro Lococo | Argentina | 361,500 | 241 |
| 3 | Juan Pardo | Spain | 302,000 | 201 |
| 4 | Romain Lewis | France | 251,000 | 167 |
| 5 | Orpen Kisacikoglu | Turkey | 239,000 | 159 |
| 6 | Ben Heath | United Kingdom | 228,500 | 152 |
| 7 | Sam Grafton | United Kingdom | 223,000 | 149 |
| 8 | Felipe Fontoura | Brazil | 213,500 | 142 |
| 9 | Dominykas Mikolaitis | Lithuania | 212,500 | 142 |
| 10 | Marton Czuczor | Hungary | 206,000 | 137 |
Many of the top names in poker came out to the action on Day 1 and some who were fortunate enough to find a bag included PokerStars Ambassadors Sam Grafton (223,000), and Ramon Colillas (116,000), as well as high stakes regulars Isaac Haxton (94,500), Patrik Antonius (84,000), and this series' €1,100 FPS Main Event Champion Daisuke Ogita (67,500).
Action will resume in Sporting Monte Carlo, with another 10 levels of 60 minutes each scheduled to play. Level 11 will be the first level of the day which features a small blind of 1,000, a big blind of 1,500, and a big blind ante of 1,500.
The PokerNews live reporting team will be there from the first flop till the final bag has been sealed for Day 3 so make sure to follow along.