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- Updated: October 23, 2016
The third and final day of the PokerStars European Poker Tour €25,750 High Roller started with just 6 players, all eyeing a first place prize of €465,800.
It was an international slate of players, with six different flags in use at the final table. After just under 100 hands, the blue, red and white of the flag of New Zealand waved on top as David Yan was crowned the champion, defeating Ole Schemion, Mikita Badziakouski, Max Silver, Oleksii Khoroshenin and Ramin Hajiyev.
Ole Schemion started out as the shortest player of the 6 and was the first to go as well. He got off to a good start finding kings, but his four-bet shove found no customer in Ramin Hajiyev who folded his ace-queen suited preflop. Picking up those chips wouldn’t do Schemion any good, as he ran pocket jacks into the kings of David Yan minutes later. A board full of blanks resulted in Schemion getting eliminated from the €25,750 High Roller, and he hopped right into the Main Event.
Five-handed play lasted several hours as no player was eager to risk all of their chips. Mikita Badziakouski would eventually be the unlucky one, falling in 5th place after losing ace-king to Max Silver’s jack-ten preflop all in.
Max …
