$10,300 EPT High Roller Day 1 | 2023 PokerStars EPT Cyprus

$10,300 EPT High Roller

Day 1 Completed

10-21-2023 00:15 UTC+2

Selahaddin Bedir Chipleader After Day 1 of the $10,300 EPT High Roller

Maxime Taldir

Level 10 : Blinds 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

If Day 4 of the $5,300 PokerStars European Poker Tour Cyprus Main Event was over shortly after the dinner break with 16 players remaining, players of Day 1 of the $10,300 EPT High Roller had to be more patient.

They needed to maintain their stacks until the end of ten 60-minute levels to reach the end of the day. And out of the 353 players who registered on Day 1, 151 players bagged their chips and qualified for Day 2.

Selahaddin Bedir secured the top position with an impressive 403,500 chips, making him the only player with more than 400,000 chips. Paulius Plausinaitis closely followed with 399,000 chips, while Kubanychbek Abakirov held 349,000 chips.

Day 1 Top Ten Chip Counts

Rank	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	Selahaddin Bedir	Turkey	403,500	269
2	Paulius Plausinaitis	Lithuania	399,000	266
3	Kubanychbek Abakirov	Kyrgyzstan	349,000	233
4	Milos Petakovic	Serbia	313,000	209
5	[Removed:452]	Montenegro	303,000	202
6	Floyd Rosner	Netherlands	285,000	190
7	Omar Del Pino	Spain	264,500	176
8	Ioannis Droushiotis	Cyprus	250,000	167
9	Maher Nouira	Tunisia	242,500	162
10	Masato Yokosawa	Japan	241,000	161

Maher Nouira, the winner of the $25,000 NL Hold'em IV, secured a spot in the Top 10 with his 242,500 chips. He's just one blind ahead of Japanese YouTuber Masato Yokosawa, who will return for Day 2 with 241,000 chips.

Following them, the 2010 EPT Monte-Carlo champion Nicolas Chouity ended the day with a stack twice the average (212,500), as did PokerStars Ambassador Benjamin Spragg (206,000), and the $50,000 Super High Roller winner Juan Pardo (198,000).

Players like Leon Sturm (188,500), Steve O'Dwyer (175,000), Fabrice Bigot (173,000), Pablo Silva (172,000) or Roberto Romanello (165,000) will also be back on Day 2 with big stacks.

Even after they were eliminated on Day 4 of the EPT Main Event in 29th, 20th, and 18th place, Dario Sammartino (134,000), Bart Lybaert (132,500), and Anton Wigg (100,000) still had time to build stacks larger than EPT champion Artur Martirosian (99,500) or Sam Greenwood (97,000), for example.

Dominik Nitsche (91,500), Dimitar Danchev (87,500), Niklas Astedt (86,000), Mikita Badziakouski (61,500), Benny Glaser (59,000) or Adrian Mateos (54,500) will have smaller stacks too, but they qualified for Day 2.

Day 2 will start tomorrow, Saturday, October 21, at 12:30 p.m. local time, on Level 11 (1,000/1,500/1,500). For the players who didn't qualify yet, late registrations will remain open until the beginning of Day 2. Only two entries are allowed during the tournament, so only players who didn't enter the tournament twice will be able to join. 15% of the field will be in the money. But so far, a big prize pool of $3,462,900 has already been generated.

Stay tuned as the PokerNews live reporting team is here on-site and will continue providing updates.

Tags: Anton Wigg Artur Martirosian Bart Lybaert Benjamin Spragg Dario Sammartino Fabrice Bigot Floyd Rosner Ioannis Droushiotis Juan Pardo Kubanychbek Abakirov Leon Sturm Maher Nouira Masato Yokosawa Milos Petakovic Nicolas Chouity Omar Del Pino Pablo Silva Paulius Plausinaitis Roberto Romanello Sam Greenwood Selahaddin Bedir Steve O'Dwyer

10-21-2023 00:11 UTC+2

Day 2 Seat Draw

Maxime Taldir

Level 10 : Blinds 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	1	Dmitrii Nazarov	Russia	107,500	72
1	2	Anton Wigg	Sweden	100,000	67
1	3	Mauricio Ferreira Pais	Germany	143,000	95
1	4	Anatoly Zlotnikov	Russia	105,500	70
1	6	Hwany Lee	South Korea	90,000	60
1	8	Tsai Ting-Yi	Thailand	96,500	64

2	1	Enrico Camosci	Italy	102,000	68
2	2	Ghassan Bitar	Lebanon	141,500	94
2	4	Tamer Kamel	United Kingdom	74,500	50
2	5	Toby Joyce	Ireland	144,500	96
2	6	Kazuomi Furuse	Japan	64,500	43
2	8	Milos Petakovic	Serbia	313,000	209

3	1	Danut Chisu	Romania	119,500	80
3	2	Dominik Nitsche	Germany	91,500	61
3	4	Marius Kudzmanas	Lithuania	50,000	33
3	6	Boris Kolev	Bulgaria	105,000	70
3	7	Robert-Andrei Burlacu	Romania	48,500	32
3	8	Martin Diaz	Argentina	165,500	110

4	1	Danilo Velasevic	Croatia	91,000	61
4	2	Adrian Mateos	Spain	54,500	36
4	3	Eros Calderone	Italy	57,500	38
4	5	Artur Martirosian	Russia	99,500	66
4	7	Tomas Jozonis	Lithuania	50,000	33
4	8	Deividas Daubaris	Lithuania	158,500	106

5	1	Jelle Moene	Netherlands	12,000	8
5	2	Juan Pardo	Spain	198,000	132
5	3	Nariman Yaghmai	Iran	172,500	115
5	4	Aliaksei Boika	Belarus	44,500	30
5	5	Pablo Brito	Brazil	172,000	115
5	6	Ehsan Amiri	Australia	25,000	17

6	2	Giovani Torre	Portugal	82,500	55
6	3	Iurii Suvorov	Russia	94,000	63
6	5	Satish Sanan	USA	50,000	33
6	6	Bogdan-Andrei Munteanu	Romania	54,500	36
6	7	Johan Schultz	Denmark	97,500	65
6	8	Lyudmil Ivanov	Bulgaria	105,000	70

7	1	Lewis Spencer	United Kingdom	162,500	108
7	2	Natan Chauskin	Belarus	213,500	142
7	5	Maher Nouira	Tunisia	242,500	162
7	6	Karolis Sereika	Lithuania	84,000	56
7	7	Silius Moll	Norway	19,000	13
7	8	Andrii Pinchuk	Ukraine	85,500	57

8	1	Liviu Ignat	Romania	108,000	72
8	3	Nikolai Mamut	Russia	45,000	30
8	5	Leon Sturm	Germany	188,500	126
8	6	Manuel Bueno Fernandez	Spain	48,500	32
8	7	Artsiom Lasouski	Belarus	57,500	38
8	8	Danil Rafikov	Russia	52,000	35

9	1	Vlada Stojanovic	Croatia	67,000	45
9	2	Karen Nazarian	Russia	105,000	70
9	3	Omar Del Pino	Spain	264,500	176
9	4	Ihar Soika	Belarus	32,000	21
9	5	Atanas Kodinov	Bulgaria	133,000	89
9	8	Mihai Niste	Romania	95,000	63

10	1	Raoul Refos	Netherlands	23,500	16
10	3	Kanan Taherkani	Turkey	172,000	115
10	4	Pascal Hartmann	Germany	51,000	34
10	5	Elias Gutierrez	Switzerland	140,000	93
10	7	Jack Sinclair	United Kingdom	78,000	52
10	8	Boris Angelov	Bulgaria	135,000	90

11	2	Fabian Gumz	Germany	81,500	54
11	3	Leantzis Christos	Cyprus	36,000	24
11	4	Masato Yokosawa	Japan	241,000	161
11	5	[Removed:452]	Montenegro	303,000	202
11	6	Niklas Astedt	Sweden	86,000	57
11	7	Michael Rocco	USA	14,500	10

12	1	Sam Greenwood	Canada	97,000	65
12	2	Joao Vieira	Portugal	76,000	51
12	3	Jon Vallinas	Spain	196,000	131
12	4	Nenad Dukic	Croatia	106,500	71
12	6	Ahmed Karrim	South Africa	185,000	123
12	8	Rui Bouquet	Portugal	34,000	23

13	1	Johan Guilbert	France	109,500	73
13	3	Andras Matrai	Hungary	44,000	29
13	4	Biao Ding	China	113,500	76
13	5	Sergi Reixach	Spain	224,500	150
13	6	Jeremie Zouari	France	78,000	52
13	7	Simone Andrian	Italy	98,000	65

14	2	Samuel Ju	Germany	37,000	25
14	3	Aleksandr Kirichenko	Russia	63,000	42
14	4	Christian Rudolph	Germany	38,500	26
14	5	Stoyan Obreshkov	Bulgaria	54,500	36
14	7	Roelof Pepping	Netherlands	23,000	15
14	8	Carlos Aoun	Lebanon	74,500	50

15	1	Samuel Mullur	Austria	55,500	37
15	2	Ivan Deyra	France	43,000	29
15	4	Ignas Jasinevicius	Lithuania	164,000	109
15	5	Koray Korkmaz	Turkey	61,500	41
15	6	Alex Keating	USA	167,000	111
15	8	Daniil Kiselev	Russia	223,500	149

16	1	Quan Zhou	Hong Kong	85,000	57
16	2	Diogo Coelho	Portugal	21,000	14
16	3	Jakub Michalak	Poland	71,000	47
16	4	Bart Lybaert	Belgium	132,500	88
16	5	Pedro Gois Neves	Portugal	122,500	82
16	7	Vadzim Haiduk	Belarus	150,000	100

17	1	Nicolas Chouity	Lebanon	212,500	142
17	2	Kubanychbek Abakirov	Kyrgyzstan	349,000	233
17	5	Vlado Banicevic	Montenegro	105,000	70
17	6	Jenya Gavrilovich	Belarus	33,500	22
17	7	Javad Sedigh	Australia	126,500	84
17	8	Vladas Tamasauskas	Lithuania	33,500	22

18	1	Nicolas Vayssieres	France	97,000	65
18	2	Fabrice Bigot	France	173,000	115
18	3	Gregoire Auzoux	France	65,000	43
18	4	Ioannis Droushiotis	Cyprus	250,000	167
18	6	Benjamin Lebor	United Kingdom	142,000	95
18	8	Alexandru Papazian	Romania	159,500	106

19	1	Alexandre Raymond	Canada	33,000	22
19	2	Dylan Destefano	USA	76,000	51
19	3	Benjamin Spragg	United Kingdom	206,000	137
19	4	Klemens Roiter	Austria	51,500	34
19	5	Viktor Ustimov	Russia	197,500	132
19	6	Paulius Plausinaitis	Lithuania	399,000	266

20	1	Floyd Rosner	Netherlands	285,000	190
20	2	Dimitar Danchev	Bulgaria	87,500	58
20	4	Aleksandr Pak	Uzbekistan	69,000	46
20	5	Shuang Luo	China	85,000	57
20	6	Markkos Ladev	Estonia	236,500	158
20	8	Daniel Smiljkovic	Germany	50,000	33

21	1	Nuri Hadioglu	Turkey	100,000	67
21	2	Wooram Cho	South Korea	197,000	131
21	3	Mikita Badziakouski	Ukraine	61,500	41
21	4	Benjamin Winsor	United Kingdom	96,000	64
21	7	Oleg Semionov	United Arab Emirates	160,500	107
21	8	Jovan Kenjic	Serbia	38,000	25

22	2	Julien Sitbon	France	42,500	28
22	3	Alex Peffly	United Kingdom	66,500	44
22	4	Victoria Livschitz	USA	65,500	44
22	5	Grigorii Rodin	Russia	183,500	122
22	6	Selahaddin Bedir	Turkey	403,500	269
22	7	Aleksejs Ponakovs	Latvia	76,500	51

23	1	Dmitry Yurasov	Russia	181,000	121
23	3	Armin Rezaei	Austria	89,500	60
23	5	Kuljinder Sidhu	United Kingdom	87,000	58
23	6	Ludovic Periaux	France	28,500	19
23	7	Ricardo Tannoury	USA	79,000	53
23	8	Benny Glaser	United Kingdom	59,000	39

24	1	Damir Zhugralin	Kazakhstan	193,000	129
24	4	Imad Derwiche	France	136,000	91
24	5	Dario Sammartino	Italy	134,000	89
24	6	Renat Bohdanov	Ukraine	38,500	26
24	7	Senol Ardic	France	236,500	158
24	8	Daniel Koloszar	Hungary	78,000	52

25	1	Cecile Ticherfatine	France	134,000	89
25	4	Tony Lin	USA	95,000	63
25	5	Vlad Darie	Romania	36,000	24
25	6	Valeriy Pak	Uzbekistan	144,000	96
25	7	Tamas Adamszki	Hungary	239,500	160
25	8	Roberto Romanello	United Kingdom	165,000	110

26	1	Viacheslav Goryachev	Russia	156,000	104
26	2	Aren Bezhanyan	Armenia	48,500	32
26	5	Edilson Rodrigues	Brazil	165,500	110
26	6	Steve O'Dwyer	Ireland	175,000	117
26	8	Jinho Hong	South Korea	196,000	131

10-21-2023 00:10 UTC+2

Day 1 Chip Counts (full)

Maxime Taldir

Level 10 : Blinds 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Selahaddin Bedir	403,500 63,500	63,500

Paulius Plausinaitis	399,000 84,000	84,000
Kubanychbek Abakirov	349,000 77,000	77,000
Milos Petakovic	313,000 124,500	124,500
[Removed:452]	303,000 103,000	103,000
Floyd Rosner	285,000 25,500	25,500
Omar Del Pino	264,500 156,500	156,500
Ioannis Droushiotis	250,000 -82,500	-82,500
Maher Nouira	242,500 242,500	242,500
Masato Yokosawa	241,000 16,000	16,000
Tamas Adamszki	239,500 109,500	109,500
Markkos Ladev	236,500 166,500	166,500
Senol Ardic	236,500 70,000	70,000
Sergi Reixach	224,500 150,500	150,500
Daniil Kiselev	223,500 223,500	223,500
Natan Chauskin	213,500 213,500	213,500
Nicolas Chouity	212,500 212,500	212,500

Benjamin Spragg	206,000 8,000	8,000

Juan Pardo	198,000 -11,600	-11,600
Viktor Ustimov	197,500 -12,500	-12,500
Wooram Cho	197,000 197,000	197,000
Jon Vallinas	196,000 196,000	196,000
Jinho Hong	196,000 141,000	141,000
Damir Zhugralin	193,000 52,700	52,700
Leon Sturm	188,500 124,500	124,500

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10-20-2023 23:56 UTC+2

End Of the Day

Maxime Taldir

Level 10 : Blinds 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

Players are filling their bags Day 1 is over, and they are qualified for Day 2.

10-20-2023 23:50 UTC+2

Peffly Doubles Up in The Last Hands

Maxime Taldir

Level 10 : Blinds 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

From the hijack Alex Peffly moved all in for 25,800 chips, three hands before the end of the day. In the cutoff, Enrico Camosci called, and all the other players folded.

Alex Peffly: J♦J♠
Enrico Camosci: 7♣7♥

On 5♦10♥6♣4♥K♣, Peffly's jacks held and he doubled up.

Player	Chips	Progress
Enrico Camosci	81,000
Alex Peffly	55,000

Tags: Alex Peffly Enrico Camosci

10-20-2023 23:44 UTC+2

Draw For Hands

Jeremy Geist

Level 10 : Blinds 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

The clock has stopped and the floor has announced that there will be five more hands and the players will bag for the night's end.

10-20-2023 23:40 UTC+2

Yokosawa Puts in the Four-Bet

Jeremy Geist

Level 10 : Blinds 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

Masato Yokosawa opened in early position to 2,700 before Viacheslav Goryachev called on the button and action was on Manuel Fischer in the small blind. He took a moment and then put in a three-bet to 10,000.

The action was back on Yokosawa who asked to get a count of Fischer's stack and then put in a four-bet to 22,700. Goryachev folded and action was back on Fischer who basically snap folded. Yokosawa smiled as he dragged the pot and was involved in the next hand.

Player	Chips	Progress
Masato Yokosawa	225,000 29,000	29,000
Viacheslav Goryachev	115,000 115,000	115,000
Manuel Fischer	29,000 -44,000	-44,000

Tags: Manuel Fischer Masato Yokosawa Viacheslav Goryachev

10-20-2023 23:23 UTC+2

Zouari And Niste Trap Each Other

Maxime Taldir

Level 10 : Blinds 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

2023 EPT Barcelona finalist Mihai Niste raised to 2,500 from under the gun, and he was called by Jeremie Zouari in the small blind, and Selahaddin Bedir in the big blind.

All three of them checked on the flop 6♦2♣8♥. Then on the turn 9♦, Bedir took the lead and bet 4,000. Niste called, but Zouari raised all in for 27,400 chips. Bedir quickly folded, but Niste snap-called.

Jeremie Zouari: A♦A♠
Mihai Niste: K♣K♦

Everybody laughed at the table when the cards went on their backs, because Zouari and Niste were trying to trap with their monsters.

But after the river 7♥, Zouari won and doubled up.

Player	Chips	Progress
Selahaddin Bedir	340,000 340,000	340,000

Mihai Niste	168,000 32,000	32,000
Jeremie Zouari	67,500 -55,500	-55,500

Tags: Jeremie Zouari Mihai Niste Selahaddin Bedir

10-20-2023 23:14 UTC+2

Luo Gets the Job Done

Jeremy Geist

Level 10 : Blinds 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

Shuang Luo opened under the gun to 2,500 and was only called by Seyed Sedigh in the big blind.

The 5♦4♣8♥ flop was checked to Luo who continued for 2,000. Sedigh snap check-raised to 6,100. Luo thought it over and then called.

The Q♣ landed on the turn and Sedigh bet 5,200. Luo sat in the tank for a moment and then put in her own raise to 18,500. Sedigh folded pretty quickly and Luo dragged the pot after sticking around and finding her spot to pounce.

Player	Chips	Progress
Shuang Luo	122,000 75,000	75,000
Seyed Sedigh	100,000 100,000	100,000

Tags: Job Done Seyed Sedigh Shuang Luo