Oleksii Khoroshenin Leads Final 23 in €10K EPT Prague High Roller

EPT Vienna champion Oleksii Khoroshenin from the Ukraine is chip leader going in to the final day of the €10k EPT Prague High Roller with 2,015,000. EPT Player of the year Ole Schemion is next with 1,752,000.

There are 23 players left out of a starting field of 233 players and 141 who started Day 2. In all, there were 309 entries (including 76 re-entries) creating a €3,028,200 prize pool. All remaining players are gunning for a €606,440 first prize (plus trophy and SLYDE watch) and include Dan Shak, runner-up in the EPT Prague (€50k Super High Roller runner-up at the start of the EPT Prague Poker Festival), EPT Prague champion Martin Finger and Joao Vieira, who is currently leading the race for EPT Player of the Year.

Sixteen players have already been paid including EPT Grand Final champion Nicolas Chouity, WSOP finalist Sylvain Loosli and Czech hero Vojtech Ruzicka. There were 309 entries in all, creating a €3,028,200 prize pool with 233 unique players - a record for Prague – and 76 re-entries. 141 players started today, now whittled down to just 23.

EPT11 Prague €10k High Roller top five chip counts: 
1st - Oleksii Khoroshenin, 2,015,000, Ukraine 
2nd - Ole Schemion, 1,752,000, Germany 
3rd - Alexander Ivarsson, 1,699,000, Sweden 
4th - Andrey Zaichenko, 1,115,000, Russia 
5th - Anton Astapau, 1,089,000, Belarus