Dario Sammartino, a member of Italy's winning Global Poker Masters team, is leading the last eight players in the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino €100,000 Super High Roller final table.
Sammartino won his seat in a €10k live satellite and has already turned it into the biggest cash of his career. Although a regular player on the European Poker Tour with live tournament winnings close to $1.3 million so far, Sammartino is making his debut on the Super High Roller scene. In fact, his biggest payday to date (€95k for a second place in IPT5 Sanremo II) would not even be enough for the buy-in to the event he is currently leading here at the EPT11 Grand Final. The Italian, who has with 4,480,000 in chips, is now guaranteed at least €261,800 - as are the other seven players who will come back for tomorrow's finale to compete for the title, trophy and €2,015,000 first prize.
You can watch the even live with cards shown, starting at 13:30 CET, at this link: http://www.pokerstars.tv/en/tv/live/
EPT Player of the Year leader Dzmitry Urbanovich is also amongst tonight's survivors. The 19-year-old Pole is continuing his astonishing run after winning a record four side events at EPT Malta. He bought in to his first €100k SHR just before the start of Day 2. His late appearance paid off as he made it to the money, unlike his friend and fellow countryman Piotr Franczak who also bought in this morning. Franczak's pocket aces were cracke by Vladimir Troyanovskiy's pocket 33 and he departed on the bubble. The Russian's luck ran out shortly after when, in a very similar scenario, his aces couldn't hold against the KK of Igor Kurganov.
EPT11 Grand Final €100k Super High Roller final table:
Seat 1 - Dzmitry Urbanovich, Poland, 735,000
Seat 2 - Thomas Muehloecker, Austria, 2,290,000
Seat 3 - Erik Seidel, USA, 2,170,000
Seat 4 - Igor Kurganov, Russia, 3,745,000
Seat 5 - Max Altergott, Germany, 2,215,000
Seat 6 - Fedor Holz, Germany, WCCOP World Champion, 1,650,000
Seat 7 - Dario Sammartino, Italy, 4,480,000
Seat 8 - Scott Seiver, USA, 470,000
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