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The third day of the massive 2020 PokerStars European Poker Tour Online series saw another champion crowned and bag a huge prize. Two other star-studded events progressed to their respective final tables, and what final tables they are.
With the High Heels Poker Tour, Lauren Fillia is giving women the chance to hone their skills and earn at the same time. Women's poker paved the way for the launching if the High Heels Poker Tour. It was conceived in June 2007 in Florida with a vision of giving women not only tournament experience but also the necessary exposure and tools so. The High Heels Poker Tour is ready to bring women’s poker to the next level. This past weekend HHPT, the first all women’s poker tour, launched on the East Coast.
One of the biggest names in world poker leads the $10,300 High Roller event where more than $250,000 awaits the winner. Let’s find out what went down on Day 3 of the EPT Online festival.
- High Heels Poker Tour is a huge fan of the The Women National Basketball Association, which has been managed by four female presidents since the inception of the league in 1997. They include: They include.
- $ 75 + 15 High Heels Poker Tour - No Limit Hold'em Louisiana Fall Poker Classic 2010, Lake Charles 1st $ 918 11-Jun-2010: United States $ 1,000 No Limit Hold'em - Ladies Championship 41st World Series of Poker - WSOP 2010, Las Vegas 18th $ 7,057 18-Feb-2010: United States.
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Matthias “iambest2” Eibinger Leads $10,300 High Roller Final Table
It appears Austria is the best country to live in if you want to sample success in High Roller tournaments. That’s because the three players who top the chip counts at the final table of the $10,300 High Roller event all call Austria home.
Matthias “iambest2” Eibinger is the man to catch when the final table gets underway on November 11. Eibinger is regarded as one of the best poker players of his generation and he’s now on course to add a cool $251,174 prize to his already impressive poker resume.
Eibinger returns to the action armed with 6,704,751 chips, slightly less than 1.1 million more than Christian “WATnlos” Rudolph in second-place. The chip leader got lucky when his ace-four cracked Alexandros “Pwndidi” Theologis’ kings but he never looked back after that.
There’s a near two million chip gap between Rudolph and Austria-based grinder Daniel “SmilleThHero” Smiljkovic who has Russian superstar “hello_totti” hot on his heels.
partypoker Ambassador Mikita “fish2013” Badziakouski has more than 2.5 million chips despite being in fifth-place at the restart. The aforementioned stars are joined by in-form Bert “girafganger7” Stevens, Mike “SirWatts” Watson, high roller crusher Timothy “Tim0thee” Adams, and short-stack Conor “1_conor_b_1” Beresford.
Everyone is guaranteed at least $33,034 for their efforts so far with the top four finishers banking six-figure prizes. The champion takes home $215,174 and bragging rights over their peers.
You can read up on the Day 1 action via our Live Reporting pages and discover how David “dpeters17” Peters burst the money bubble.
EPT Online 06: $10,300 NLHE [8-Max, High Roller], $1M Gtd Final Table Chip Counts
| Place | Player | Country | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Matthias “iambest2” Eibinger | Austria | 6,704,751 |
| 2 | Christian “WATnlos” Rudolph | Austria | 5,626,653 |
| 3 | Daniel “SmilleThHero” Smiljkovic | Austria | 3,793,541 |
| 4 | hello_totti | Russia | 3,739,093 |
| 5 | Mikita “fish2013” Badziakouski | Belarus | 2,540,686 |
| 6 | Bert “girafganger7” Stevens | United Kingdom | 1,729,524 |
| 7 | Mike “SirWatts” Watson | Canada | 1,321,374 |
| 8 | Timothy “Tim0thee” Adams | Canada | 1,197,681 |
| 9 | Conor “1_conor_b_1” Beresford | United Kingdom | 596,697 |
High Heels Poker Tournament
Sweden’s “Kihlström” Leads Race For $356K in Arena Championship
Seventy-one players returned to the PokerStars felt for the penultimate day’s action in the $1,050 Arena Championship and only nine of those hopefuls remain in contention for the $356,768 top prize.
Start-of-the-day chip leader Fabio Luiz “FLBonatto” Bonatto ultimately had to make do with the $10,335 prize awarded to the 20th place finisher. We’ll see Bonatto again soon, no doubt, as he’s a former Sunday Million and Platinum Pass winner. It just wasn’t meant to be in this particular event.
Sweden’s “Kihlström” claimed the overnight chip lead and has some serious distance between themselves and the chasing pack. Kihlström’s stack contains 170,012,665 chips, almost double the amount Norway’s “DON JOHAN” has in their arsenal (87,244,397).
While that lead is huge, there are some big names still in contention for the title so the Swede won’t have matter all their own way. Jeiko “JEIK0” Palma is nicely poised in third-place while Russia’s Andrey “drupa-lucker” Chernokoz is still in the hunt.
The final table shuffles up and deals at 19:05 GMT on November 11 under the watchful eyes of the PokerNews Live Reporting team.
EPT Online 01: $1,050 NLHE [8-Max, Arena Championship], $1.5M Gtd Final Table Chip Counts
| Place | Player | Country | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kihlström | Sweden | 170,012,665 |
| 2 | DON JOHAN | Norway | 87,244,397 |
| 3 | Jeiko “JEIK0” Palma | Paraguay | 74,096,435 |
| 4 | MachadinhaRS | Brazil | 71,347,493 |
| 5 | ImTheNuts1 | Poland | 59,889,077 |
| 6 | Guilherme 'Guizãoo_' Carmo | Brazil | 44,202,079 |
| 7 | Andrey “drupa-lucker” Chernokoz | Russia | 39,268,132 |
| 8 | Audrius “Stakelis24” Stakelis | Lithuania | 38,905,165 |
| 9 | smoothieg | Canada | 21,534,557 |
Daniel “SmilleThHero” Smiljkovic Wins $2,100 PKO For $113,490
Daniel “SmilleThHero” Smiljkovic took down the $2,100 NLHE 8-Max PKO event and padded his bankroll with a combined prize worth $113,490. Smiljkovic managed to take down this star-studded event while navigating his way to the final table of the $10,300 High Roller; what an absolute boss!
Seventy-seven players started the one-day event with high hopes and sharing the common goal of at least reaching the money places. Sam Greenwood’s quest to add another in-the-money finish ended prematurely when his queens lost to Joni “bustoville” Joukimainen’s king-seven. Greenwood popped the all-important money bubble while Jouhkimainen made it to the final table where he busted in seventh-place for a combined $17,445.
One of the biggest names at the final table, Estonia’s Aleksejs “APonakov” Ponakovs ran out of steam in fourth-place when his queen-ten lost to the ace-deuce of “luelue339”.
Andrey “drupa-lucker” Chernokoz fell in third for $41,329. He too reached another EPT Online final table; he’s seventh in chips in the Arena Championship!
Heads-up pitted “luelue399” against Smiljkovic with the latter trailing by two-to-one in chips. He managed to turn things around after becoming an overwhelming underdog and eventually scooped the title when his pocket fours held against ace-ten with the chips going in preflop.
EPT Online 07: $2,100 NLHE [8-Max, PKO], $500K GTD Final Table Chip Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize | Bounties | Total Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Daniel “SmilleThHero” Smiljkovic | Austria | $54,451 | $59,039 | $113,490 |
| 2 | luelue399 | Canada | $36,914 | $36,914 | $91,364 |
| 3 | Andrey “drupa-lucker” Chernokoz | Russia | $35,329 | $6,000 | $41,329 |
| 4 | Aleksejs “APonakov” Ponakovs | Estonia | $26,653 | $26,047 | $52,700 |
| 5 | lesha-balbo | Belarus | $20,108 | $3,844 | $23,952 |
| 6 | S.N.I.N.1 | Moldova | $15,170 | $2,250 | $17,420 |
| 7 | Joni “bustoville” Jouhkimainen | Finland | $11,445 | $6,000 | $17,445 |
| 8 | Thomas “MarToMchat” Boivin | Belgium | $8,634 | $7,500 | $16,134 |
| 9 | mmetsla | Estonia | $6,867 | $5,250 | $12,117 |
Events Scheduled on November 11
High Heels Poker Tournaments
There are also plenty of satellites running for EPT Online events, so head to the PokerStars client to find out more.
| Date | Time (GMT) | Event |
|---|---|---|
| Wed 11 Nov | 18:05 | EPT Online 08: $2,100 NLHE [8-Max], $500K GTD |
| 18:05 | Mini EPT Online 06: $109 NLHE [8-Max, High Roller], $500K GTD | |
| 19:05 | EPT Online 09: $5,200 8-Game [High Roller], $250K GTD | |
| 19:05 | Mini EPT Online 07: $22 NLHE [8-Max, Turbo, PKO], $150K GTD |
EPT Online Winners
| Date | Event | Entries | Prize Pool | Winner | First Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 9th | EPT Online 02: $10,300 PLO High Roller | 70 | $700,000 | Ka Kwan 'kaju5' Lau | $188,937 |
| November 8th | EPT Online 03: $5,200 High Roller | 131 | $655,000 | David 'MonkeyBausss' Laka | $143,567 |
| November 9th | EPT Online 04: $530 NLHE | 1,139 | $569,500 | Tatiana 'Mysters_Y' Barausova | $74,951 |
| November 9th | EPT Online 05: $1,050 Win the Button | 238 | $200,000 | Claas 'SsicK_OnE' Segebrecht | $45,765 |
| November 10 | EPT Online 07: $2,100 NLHE PKO | 334 | $668,000 | Daniel “SmilleThHero” Smiljkovic | $113,490 |
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With Women’s Poker growing at an exponential rate and Lauren Failla is offering women a chance to play in there very own Poker Tour aptly named the High Heels Poker Tour. This has been grown out of the emergence of many women entering tournaments all over the world along with many women playing more and more cash games at local casinos. The High Heels Poker Tour launched in Florida in 2007, the whole though process behind the tour was to give women not only a chance to play against women only but more so to give them the tools they need to be successful in both tournament play and cash play against all comers. The Mission Statement is as follows: “The mission of the tour is to empower women to become champion poker players…”
The High Heels Poker Tour has had a big impact on the poker world and was seen at this past WSOP where 50 – 60% of all Female competitors were from the tour, and they combined for more then $200,000 in prize money with two of the final nine in the ladies events being from the tour. High Heels Poker Tour is an official sponsor of WSOP Circuit Ladies Only Events. Buy-ins for High Heels Poker Tour Events range from $60 – $250 for Main Events, the tour is not with out its problems as is any tour. In a recent stop some men wanted to play so instead of causing a potential scene Lauren placed a bounty on the heads of the males and made the event that much more fun.
The next stop on the High Heels calendar is at The Isle Racing and Casino at Pompano Park on September 6, 2008 at 1pm with a $250 buy-in, and there are going to be satellites offered for the event on Saturdays leading up to the event.
Upcoming events for the High Heels Tour are:
Mid South Poker Open
Grand Casino Tunica
Tunica, MS
622-363-2788
Sun, Sep 7 at 4:00 PM Event #8 – Ladies – No Limit Hold’em $300+$40
Borgata Poker Open WPT Season 7
Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa
Atlantic City, NJ
609-317-1000 Toll-Free: 1-866-MY BORGATA
Sun, Sep 7 at 11:00 AM Event #5 – Ladies – No Limit Hold’em $300+$50
Californian Ladies State Championship
Ocean’s Eleven Casino
Oceanside, CA
760-439-6988
Thu, Sep 18 at 09:00 AM Super Satellite – No Limit Hold’em
Fri, Sep 19 at 10:00 AM Ladies – No Limit Hold’em L.I.P.S $175
Sat, Sep 20 at 10:00 AM Ladies – No Limit Hold’em Cal State Championship $250
Sun, Sep 21 at 12:00 PM Ladies Omaha Hi/Lo & Hold’em $200
United States Poker Championship
Trump Taj Mahal
Atlantic City, NJ
609-449-1000 Toll-Free: (1) 800-72-POKER
Sun, Sep 28 at 1:15 PM Ladies – No Limit Hold’em $300+$40