Five players have been eliminated since the 16 player re-draw in the partypoker LIVE $10,000 + $300 High Roller. Sinan Tawfik was the first to go, and he was followed shortly by Sam Trickett, Francois Safieddine, Mark Radoja and Alexander Turyansky.

Sinan was short stacked when he shoved with , and he failed to improve over the of Jason Koon, who collected the rest of his chips.

Sam opened to 13K from early position and went heads-up to the flop versus Mike McDonald in the big blind.
Both players checked the flop, and when the came on the turn, Mike check-called a bet of 10K. On a river, Mike checked for a third time in a row and Sam fired a bet of 19K, leaving 76.5K behind. Mike slid forward a stack of orange 25K chips, enough to put his opponent all-in, and Sam quickly committed the rest of his chips.
Mike tabled for the flopped flush, while Sam tabled a second-best top set with , spelling his elimination.

In Francois’ elimination hand, he opened to 14K from early position, and called the 43K 3-bet of Roberto Romanello in the blinds. Roberto checked-called a bet on the flop, and then check-called Francois’ all-in on a turn. Roberto tabled and had Francois and his drawing dead. The river was dealt as a formality as Francois was saying his goodbyes.

We missed Mark’s elimination hand, however when we arrived at the table we saw that Jason was stacking the rest of Mark’s chips. Alexander was later eliminated by Caitlin Hall on the other table.

Here are a few photos of the High Roller early in Day 2. Registration is now closed with 53 total entries, and we’ll be able to publish a prize pool before too long.