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- Updated: December 14, 2016
The highest of high rollers in the world of poker faced a tough decision this week: Either go to Prague to play the last European Poker Tour (including its high rollers), or go to Las Vegas to play the World Poker Tour Five Diamond and the $100,000 Super High Roller that followed it.
A total of 38 players choose the latter Dec. 11 and ponied up the $100,000 buy-in for event 23, among them, a small battalion of German speaking players. One of them, Jan Schwippert from Austria, came out on top after striking a deal with Tom Marchese.
The tournament started with 24 players but soon more players entered. Justin Bonomo, coming fresh from a fifth place in the Main Event for $345,272, hopped in just after the third level. Jake Schindler, having finished the Main Event in third for $736,579, joined him not much later.
By the time the first day of play concluded, just 15 players remained. German high roller Christian Christner lead with Dan Coleman and David Peters close on his heels. Surviving the day with the shortest stacks were Ankush Mandavia, Bryn Kenney and Ben Tollerene.
Kenney (deuces versus the ace-king of Erik Seidel) and Tollerene (ace-deuce against the ace-seven of Talal …
