Day 1 of the €10,300 EPT Prague High Roller Starts Today
Day 1 of the €10,300 EPT Prague High Roller begins at 12:30 p.m. local time here at the PokerStars European Poker Tour Prague in the opulent Hilton Prague.
Thailand's Kannapong Thanarattrakul took down this event in Prague last year, claiming a first prize of €543,750 for the victory. He beat Marius Kudzmanas who won €339,830 for his second-place finish. The event drew a field of 274 entries, creating a prize pool of €2,454,100 and those numbers could be challenged this year.
Recent EPT €10,300 High Roller Champions
| Event | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 EPT Cyprus | Ilia Pavlov | Russian Federation | $787,400 |
| 2023 EPT Barcelona | Ka Kwan Lau | United Kingdom | €910,400 |
| 2023 EPT Paris | Diogo Coelho | Portugal | €810,500 |
| 2022 EPT Prague | Kannapong Thanarattrakul | Thailand | €543,750 |
This multi-day tournament features 60-minute levels, however, players will only be allowed a single reentry. Play will start at 12:30 p.m. local time and players will have a starting stack of 50,000. Ten 60-minute levels will be played on Day 1 and late registration will remain open until the start of Day 2.
Players will receive four time bank cards at the time of taking their seat and each are worth 30 seconds. Players who are seated at the first hand of every odd level number (3, 5, 7, 9, etc), will receive one extra time bank card. Eliminated players who reenter can claim the number of time bank cards they had at elimination at the moment they take their seat and not later.
Blinds start at 100/200 with a 200 big blind ante. Breaks of 20 minutes are scheduled after every two hours of play, with a 75-minute dinner break after Level 6 at approximately 7:10 p.m. local time.
Stay tuned to PokerNews to follow coverage of all three days of action, along with the final day of the €3,000 Mystery Bounty and Day 4 of the €5,300 EPT Main Event.