November Niner Jerry Wong Leads Record-Shattering EPT Prague €10,300 High Roller

While it’s uncertain what the future of the Prague stop on the schedule will be next year when the European Poker Tour is rebranded and divided in PokerStars Championships and PokerStars Festivals, today made clear there’s a poker-loving community here with deep pockets. After two impromptu Single-Day High Roller, today it was time for the regular €10,300 High Roller event.

The field in this closing high roller event has grown over the years from 26 in the inaugural edition in 2010, to 315 last year when Kenny Smaron won the whole thing for €595,500. Well, like just about all the records this week, today’s version of the event crushed that number. While registration is open till the start of play on Day 2, upon closing of the day the clock showed 394 entries.

After 10 levels of play, 200 players remain. November Niner Jerry Wong leads with 402,900. Russian player Andrey “Kroko-dill” Zaichenko, who won this event back in 2014 for €487,180, is on his heels with 365,000. The top five is as followed:

Right from the start, the room was buzzing. It seemed that anyone that could spare €10,300, entered the event. And those who couldn’t walked around looking for investors. Even before the first level was done, predictions were made that the record would be broken. By the time the dinner break came by, those betting against it would need to hit the ATM as they were proven wrong.

Rocco Palumbo was one of the early leaders, busting Scott Margereson in a flip with jacks to ace-king. While he wouldn’t end with the lead, he did hold on to his chips the entire day, and slowly but steadily, the Italian added to his stack to end the day with 258,000.

One of the bigger pots early on was …

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