€50,000 Super High Roller
Day 2 Completed
2017 PokerStars Championship Prague
€50,000 Super High Roller
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
2017 PokerStars Championship Prague
Buy-in
€50,000
Prize Pool
€1,632,510
Entries
34
Timothy Adams has raced out and taken over as the favorite with three players remaining in the PokerStars Championship Prague €50,000 Super High Roller. His only competition left is Adrian Mateos and Mikita Badziakouski. They'll be coming back for Day 3 to compete for the remaining prize money, and you can head over to the main PokerNews page to view a full recap of the day.
German hotshot Dietrich Fast is playing the PSC Prague 50k Super High Roller. He chats to Laura about his new diet, his work with bitB Staking and never having had a down swing!
When you think of old-time grinders in these high roller events, Erik Seidel and John Juanda are rightfully the first players to spring to mind. But, Juha Helppi has put together an incredible track record of consistency as well, with live cashes dating to 2001 and an online career dating to 1999.
Last year in Prague, the PokerStars European Poker Tour had its last-ever stop. While rumors have surfaced that PokerStars is bringing back the EPT branding for 2018, that has been anything but confirmed, so for now, the 2016 EPT Prague was the last stop of the illustrious poker tour. Dutchman Jasper Meijer van Putten took down the tournament, beating a massive field of 1,192 entrants to take home €699,300.
This week, under the monicker PokerStars Championship, PokerStars returned to the Czech capital. And so did Jasper Meijer van Putten. He strolled into the casino, planning to start his week of poker with the €1,100 National Championship. Instead, he jumped into the €10,000 High Roller and ended up taking down the event for €150,000. We caught up with Meijer van Putten after his win, the 2nd most significant score of his poker career. Read the interview on the PokerNews homepage.
Anteing slows down the game, while still necessary to keep the game itself moving. For years, anteing was seen as a necessary evil. It was just the way things were. That was until some bright minds started to think about it and came up with an alternative. In Aria's big buy-in live events, the big blind pays the ante for everyone at the table. In partypoker live events, the button now pays the ante for all the players at the table. This way, just a single player has to be paying attention, instead of a full table worth of players.
We asked around in the €50,000 Super High Roller and the €1,100 PokerStars National Championship to see what some of the players think about this issue. Read all about it, and share your thoughts, on the PokerNews homepage.
| Table | Seat | Name | Country | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | Christoph Vogelsang | Germany | 353,000 |
| 1 | 3 | Sam Greenwood | Canada | 349,000 |
| 1 | 4 | Timothy Adams | Canada | 389,000 |
| 1 | 5 | Igor Kurganov | Russia | 389,000 |
| 1 | 7 | Christopher Kruk | Canada | 133,000 |
| 1 | 8 | Jean Ferreira | Canada | 238,000 |
| 2 | 2 | Koray Aldemir | Germany | 812,000 |
| 2 | 4 | Stanley Choi | Hong Kong | 468,000 |
| 2 | 5 | Tsugunari Toma | Japan | 338,000 |
| 2 | 6 | Jean-Noel Thorel | France | 60,000 |
| 2 | 7 | Ole Schemion | Germany | 275,000 |
| 2 | 8 | Daniel Dvoress | Canada | 546,000 |
| 3 | 1 | Stephen Chidwick | UK | 228,000 |
| 3 | 2 | Julian Thomas | Germany | 181,000 |
| 3 | 3 | Erik Seidel | USA | 629,000 |
| 3 | 4 | Mikita Badziakouski | Belarus | 485,000 |
| 3 | 5 | Dietrich Fast | Germany | 106,000 |
| 3 | 7 | Ivan Luca | Argentina | 248,000 |
| 3 | 8 | Orpen Kisacikoglu | Turkey | 652,000 |
| Dominik Nitsche | Germany | 250,000 | ||
| Nick Petrangelo | USA | 250,000 | ||
| David Peters | USA | 250,000 | ||
| Steve O'Dwyer | Ireland | 250,000 | ||
| John Juanda | Indonesia | 250,000 | ||
| Adrian Mateos | Spain | 250,000 |
The preliminary round is over, and it's time for the PokerStars Championship Prague €50K Super High Roller to really start taking shape. Today, on Day 2, they play for keeps, as players who are eliminated can no longer reenter the event.
Last night, a relatively short Day 1 ended with Koray Aldemir in first place out of the 19 remaining players from a field of 28 entries. However, with registration still open until the first card is pitched for Day 2, and players still able to buy in for over 40 big blinds at 3,000/6,000/1,000, it's anyone's guess as to whether the winner of the tournament has even entered yet.
While players formidable players like Aldemir, Erik Seidel and Christoph Vogelsang have managed to get head starts, we have it on good authority that the likes of Adrian Mateos, for one, will be entering the event today. It's still anyone's game with the top chip count being barely over three starting stacks. Last year's champ, Leon Tsoukernik, has yet to show up as well.
Players are scheduled to battle through 10 levels lasting one hour apiece today, with play ending at 25,000/50,000/5,000. It's likely that the tournament will be far along indeed at that point, given that there's 7 million total in play right now.
| Level | Duration | Small Blind | Big Blind | Ante |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 60 minutes | 3,000 | 6,000 | 1,000 |
| 10 | 60 minutes | 4,000 | 8,000 | 1,000 |
| Break | 20 minutes | |||
| 11 | 60 minutes | 5,000 | 10,000 | 1,000 |
| 12 | 60 minutes | 6,000 | 12,000 | 2,000 |
| Break | 20 minutes | |||
| 13 | 60 minutes | 8,000 | 16,000 | 2,000 |
| 14 | 60 minutes | 10,000 | 20,000 | 3,000 |
| Break | 20 minutes | |||
| 15 | 60 minutes | 12,000 | 24,000 | 4,000 |
| 16 | 60 minutes | 15,000 | 30,000 | 5,000 |
| Break | 20 minutes | |||
| 17 | 60 minutes | 20,000 | 40,000 | 5,000 |
| 18 | 60 minutes | 25,000 | 50,000 | 5,000 |
Today as yesterday, the PokerNews blog will sport feature coverage from this tournament and other tournaments throughout Hilton Prague. Head on over to
As has been the case throughout the year, the PokerNews Live Reporting Team will be on hand to report the Main Event and other huge events as follows:
| Dates | Event | Live Updates? |
|---|---|---|
| Dec. 10-12 | €50,000 PokerStars Championship Super High Roller | No, feature style content |
| Dec. 12-18 | €5,300 PokerStars Championship Main Event | Yes |
| Dec. 13 | €25,500 PokerStars Championship Single-Day High Roller I | Yes |
| Dec. 14 | €25,500 PokerStars Championship Single-Day High Roller II | Yes |
| Dec. 16-18 | €10,300 PokerStars Championship High Roller | Yes |
€50,000 Super High Roller
Day 2 Started