POKERSTARS.COM £1 MILLION SHOWDOWN
The PokerStars.com £1 million showdown - the first High Roller event ever held at an EPT - is taking place October 5-6, 2008 at the Grosvenor Victoria Casino in London. A total of 86 players are taking part in the star-studded £20,000 buy-in event including Team PokerStars Pros Andre Akkari, Victoria Coren, Barry Greenstein, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, Joe Hachem, Isabelle Mercier, Dario Minieri, Chris Moneymaker, Daniel Negreanu, Luca Pagano, Greg Raymer and William Thorson.
Some of the world's top pros have also turned out for the event including Gus Hansen, Chris Ferguson, David Benyamine, Patrik Antonius, Phil Ivey, WSOP-E winner John Juanda. Five players won their seats online with PokerStars including Johan van Til, Soren Kongsgaard and Sorel Mizzi.
See also images | Results | finalists | all players | payout
DAY 2 PLAYERS
| Name | PokerStars status | Country | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|
| David Benyamine | France | 295,900 | |
| Alexander Roumeliotis | Sweden | 229,400 | |
| Jason Mercier | USA | 161,200 | |
| Scotty Nguyen | USA | 159,100 | |
| Masaaki Kagawa | Japan | 159,000 | |
| Johnson Juanda | USA | 138,900 | |
| Michael Watson | PokerStars player | Canada | 118,500 |
| Christopher Jetten | Canada | 105,100 | |
| Isabelle Mercier | Team PokerStars Pro | Canada | 99,200 |
| Isaac Haxton | PokerStars player | USA | 83,200 |
| Dennis Phillips | Million Dollar Man | USA | 73,200 |
| Ghassan Bitar | Ghana | 58,700 | |
| Andrew Feldman | UK | 33,000 | |
| Jani Sointula | Finland | 6,500 |
ALL PLAYERS
| Name | PokerStars status | Country | Table | Seat |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| George Adams | USA | 5 | 7 | |
| Andre Akkari | Team PokerStars Pro | Brazil | 1 | 3 |
| Stanislav Alekhin | Russia | 7 | 3 | |
| Patrik Antonius | Finland | 1 | 2 | |
| Pramesh Bansi | UK | 5 | 3 | |
| David Benyamine | France | 5 | 9 | |
| Ghassan Bitar | Ghana | 4 | 2 | |
| Neil Channing | UK | 8 | 3 | |
| Victoria Coren | Team PokerStars Pro | UK | 6 | 1 |
| Jonas Danielsson | Sweden | 9 | 1 | |
| Ivan Demidov | Russia | 8 | 8 | |
| Sandor Demjan | Hungary | 6 | 9 | |
| Thomas Dwan | USA | 2 | 7 | |
| Aliaksandr Dzianisau | Belarus | 5 | 4 | |
| Peter Eastgate | Million Dollar Man | Denmark | 3 | 8 |
| Sherkhan Farnood | Afghanistan | 8 | 7 | |
| Andrew Feldman | UK | |||
| Chris Ferguson | USA | 9 | 9 | |
| Scott Fischman | USA | 6 | 2 | |
| Rosario Galtieri | Italy | 3 | 9 | |
| Samer George | Iraq | 4 | 1 | |
| Liya Gerasimova | Russia | 1 | 1 | |
| Barry Greenstein | Team PokerStars Pro | USA | 1 | 5 |
| Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier | Team PokerStars Pro | France | 6 | 8 |
| Joe Hachem | Team PokerStars Pro | Australia | 4 | 8 |
| Georges Hanna | Lebanon | 2 | 8 | |
| Gus Hansen | Denmark | 6 | 4 | |
| Isaac Haxton | PokerStars player | USA | 8 | 9 |
| Daniel Heimiller | USA | 4 | 7 | |
| Juha Helppi | Finland | 3 | 4 | |
| Phil Ivey | USA | 5 | 6 | |
| Christopher Jetten | Canada | 2 | 3 | |
| John Juanda | USA | 3 | 7 | |
| Masaaki Kagawa | Japan | 3 | 1 | |
| Sami Kelopuro | Finland | 1 | 4 | |
| Soren Kongsgaard | PS qualifier | Denmark | 2 | 6 |
| Ilkka Koskinen | Finland | 8 | 4 | |
| Alexander Kostritsyn | Russia | 5 | 2 | |
| Nathan Lee | UK | 4 | 3 | |
| Andrew Lichtenberger | USA | 3 | 5 | |
| Maurice Lousky | UK | 5 | 5 | |
| Ayaz Manji | Portugal | 1 | 10 | |
| Marcello Marigliano | Italy | 7 | 8 | |
| Lev Marymsky | Ukraine | 4 | 5 | |
| Nenad Medic | Canada | 7 | 7 | |
| Isabelle Mercier | Team PokerStars Pro | Canada | 7 | 4 |
| Jason Mercier | USA | 5 | 1 | |
| Dario Minieri | Team PokerStars Pro | Italy | 9 | 7 |
| Sorel Mizzi | PokerStars qualifier | Canada | 6 | 3 |
| Chris Moneymaker | Team PokerStars Pro | USA | 7 | 5 |
| Peter Neff | USA | 9 | 5 | |
| Daniel Negreanu | Team PokerStars Pro | Canada | 6 | 6 |
| Thuan Nguyen | USA | 3 | 6 | |
| Joel Nordkvist | Sweden | |||
| James Obst | PS qualifier | Australia | 8 | 6 |
| Luca Pagano | Team PokerStars Pro | Italy | 8 | 2 |
| Max Pescatori | Italy | 1 | 7 | |
| Dennis Phillips | Million Dollar Man | USA | 7 | 1 |
| Zan Pusic | PS qualifier | 4 | 9 | |
| Vivek Rajkumar | Unknown | 1 | 8 | |
| Greg Raymer | Team PokerStars Pro | USA | 9 | 3 |
| Shane Reihill | UK | 7 | 9 | |
| David Rheem | Million Dollar Man | USA | 7 | 2 |
| Philippe Rouas | France | 9 | 2 | |
| Alexander Roumeliotis | Sweden | |||
| Pier Ruscalla | Italy | 3 | 3 | |
| Sebastian Ruthenberg | Million Dollar Man | Germany | 2 | 2 |
| Ayaz Sadrudinmanji | UK | 3 | 2 | |
| Ilari Sahamies | Finland | 2 | 9 | |
| Giovanni Salvatore | Italy | |||
| Anooj Sareen | 2 | 5 | ||
| Ylon Schwartz | Million Dollar Man | USA | 4 | 6 |
| Erik Seidel | USA | 7 | 6 | |
| Talal Shakerchi | UK | |||
| Steven Silverman | USA | 2 | 1 | |
| Daniel Smith | UK | 8 | 1 | |
| Jani Sointula | Finland | 9 | 8 | |
| Darus Suharto | Million Dollar Man | Canada | 4 | 4 |
| William Thorson | Team PokerStars Pro | Sweden | 6 | 7 |
| Yevgeniy Timoshenko | USA | 9 | 4 | |
| David Ulliott | UK | |||
| Per Ummer | Finland | 9 | 6 | |
| Adolfo Vaeza | Uruguay | 5 | 8 | |
| Johan Van Til | PS qualifier | Holland | 6 | 5 |
| Michael Watson | Canada | 1 | 6 | |
| David Williams | USA | 2 | 4 | |
| Stephen Zolotow | USA | 1 | 9 |
| Position | Prize (£) |
|---|---|
| 1 | 516,000 |
| 2 | 327,000 |
| 3 | 241,000 |
| 4 | 189,000 |
| 5 | 137,500 |
| 6 | 103,000 |
| 7 | 86,000 |
| 8 | 69,000 |
| 9 | 51,500 |
| Venue | Victoria Casino |
| Location | London, England |
| Dates | October 1-5, 2008 |
| Buy-In | £5,200 + 200 |
| Cap. | 500 |
| Top 10 TLB | Rank | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier | 2935 |
| 2. | Sebastian Ruthenberg | 2438 |
| 3. | Luca Pagano | 2413 |
| 4. | Jason Mercier | 2310 |
| 5. | Antony Lellouche | 2236 |
| 6. | Julian Thew | 2190 |
| 7. | Ram Vaswani | 2151 |
| 8. | Dario Minieri | 2069 |
| 9. | Johnny Lodden | 2034 |
| 10. | Glen Chorny | 1976 |
| Top 10 winners | Amount | |
| 1. | Glen Chorny | €2,077,143 |
| 2. | Gavin Griffin | €1,825,010 |
| 3. | Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier | €1,757,347 |
| 4. | Jason Mercier | €1,757,280 |
| 5. | Michael Martin | €1,701,000 |
| 6. | Sebastian Ruthenberg | €1,641,974 |
| 7. | Denes Kalo | €1,554,000 |
| 8. | Marc Karam | €1,269,470 |
| 9. | Sander Lylloff | €1,170,700 |
| 10. | Mark Teltscher | €1,087,988 |
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