High roller final table set

10/02/2009

The final table of eight players has been decided in the PokerStars European Poker Tour High-Roller Event, with French Canadian pro and WSOPE bracelet winner Erik Cajelais holding the chip lead having bagged 893 000 in chips overnight.

The final table make-up looks like this:

Seat 1: Eugene Katchalov, USA, 530,000
Seat 2: Shane Reihill, Ireland, 236,000
Seat 3: Matt Glantz, USA, 647,500
Seat 4: Dennis Phillips, USA, 218,500
Seat 5: Ilari Sahamies, Finland, 311,000
Seat 6: Leo Fernandez, Argentina, 460,000
Seat 7: Adolfo Vaeza, Uruguay, 468,000
Seat 8: Erik Cajelais, Canada, 893,500

At stake is the GBP 542 000 main prize generated by the substantial buy-in of GBP 20 000 levied on each of the 75 original players (see previous InfoPowa reports).

Second day play ended relatively early in the evening as the 31 survivors were whittled down to the final 8 players.

Big name casualties include Alex Kravchenko, Humberto Brenes, Joe Hachem, William Thorson, Dario Minieri and Vicky Coren.