EPT 11 Grand Final - Steve O'Dwyer leads €25,500 High Roller

A total of 160 players registered for the €25,500 buy-in EPT Grand Final High Roller and with registration open until the start of Day 2, the event could break records. The chip leader after Day 1 is Steve O'Dwyer and the remaining field of 89 is stacked with stars aswell, including Tony Gregg, Max Altergott, Daniel Negreanu, Scott Seiver, €100,000 Super High Roller winner Erik Seidel, Mike "timex" McDonald, Dan Colman and Fabian Quoss just to name a few. Today players will play 10 blind levels or down to 8 players, whichever comes first.

Steve O'Dwyer has some nice memories from the Grand Final, having won the title in 2013 after defeating a finale that is often called "the greatest EPT final table ever". 

O'Dwyer jumped into the chip lead in one of the final hands of the day, he check/raised all-in on a T-6-5 (two hearts) board with A-Q and was called by David Dayan's J-J. O'Dwyer missed the turn but hit a Queen on the river to send Dayan packing.

There are plenty of big names still in the field, the plan for the day is to play down to the final 8 or to play 10 blind level, whichever comes first.

Top 10 stacks

Steve O’Dwyer - 330.200
Tony Gregg - 325.800
Max Altergott - 311.100
Pablo Melogno Cabrera - 290.000
Matthew Waxman - 248.500
Andrey Andreev - 246.800
Yingui Li - 222.200
Mayu Roca - 204.300
Daniel Negreanu - 182.000
Isaac Haxton - 181.700

Other noteables

Scott Seiver - 177.700

Dani Stern - 166.000
Sorel Mizzi - 154.500
Martin Finger - 153.200
Erik Seidel - 149.100
Igor Kurganov - 149.000
Davidi Kitai - 146.000
Byron Kaverman - 139.800
Dominik Nitsche - 134.800
Mike McDonald - 118.800
Rhys Jones - 117.300
Jason Koon - 116.100
Dario Sammartino - 110.700
JC Alvarado - 105.600
Faraz Jaka - 105.100
Dan Smith - 101.000
Pratyush Buddiga - 93.300
Govert Metaal - 91.700
Yevgeniy Timoshenko - 89.800
Sergio Aido - 88.300
Artur Koren - 87.000 
Fabian Quoss - 83.300
Mike Watson - 81.800
Connor Drinan - 74.000
Jason Mercier - 71.900
Chistoph Vogelsang - 69.400
Sylvain Loosli - 68.000
Dzmitry Urbanovich - 66.500
Vladimir Troyanovskiy - 65.500
Jeremy Ausmus - 61.000
Dan Colman - 47.600
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier - 47.200
Patrick Leonard - 45.300
Stephen Chidwick - 37.400
Liv Boeree - 31.200