Foxen Leads The Charge in the partypoker High Roller Club
partypoker created the High Roller Club on June 6, a series of high buy-in tournaments running every Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday until July 16. These events have attracted some of the world��s elite player to the partypoker-branded virtual felt during the first three weeks.
Not only does each tournament feature a sizeable guaranteed prize pool, there��s the not-so-small matter of the $100,000 High Roller Club leaderboard. This leaderboard pays out the top 20 points earners during the High Roller Club series, awarding the eventual winner a cool $30,000 on top of whatever they��ve won already.
Alex Foxen was the man at the top of the leaderboards before Sunday��s High Roller Club events. He��s the only player to break through the 1,000 point barrier although Foxen is being hunted down by a stellar chasing pack.
Rok Gostisa is Foxen��s nearest rival. He��s on 940 points, 72 behind the leader. Others in the top 10 places include the United Kingdom��s Luke Reeves, Netherlands�� Teun Mulder, Thomas Muehloecker, and high roller specialist Timothy Adams.
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High Roller Club Leaderboard Top 20 (as of June 26)
| Place | Player | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alex Foxen | 1,012 |
| 2 | Rok Gostisa | 940 |
| 3 | Luke Reeves | 899 |
| 4 | Teun Mulder | 794 |
| 5 | Thomas Muehloecker | 725 |
| 6 | Timothy Adams | 715 |
| 7 | Wiktor Malinowski | 714 |
| 8 | Preben Stokkan | 677 |
| 9 | Matthias Eibinger | 660 |
| 10 | Juan Pardo | 655 |
| 11 | Pascal Lefrancois | 617 |
| 12 | Artur Martirosian | 613 |
| 13 | Michael Addamo | 549 |
| 14 | Sergi Reixach | 516 |
| 15 | Jans Arends | 505 |
| 16 | Giuseppe Iadisernia | 494 |
| 17 | Daniel Dvoress | 494 |
| 18 | Kristen Bicknell | 492 |
| 19 | Mark Davis | 477 |
| 20 | George Wolff | 473 |
The leaderboard could be in for something of a shake-up when the partypoker LIVE team upload the latest results. This is because some of the current top 20 performed exceptionally well on June 28.
Rok Gostisa finished third in a $1,050 Knockout tournament and walked away with $9,749, including bounties. Only Georgios Zisimpopoulos and champion Joel Nystedt went further than Gostosa, the latter padding his bankroll with a combined prize worth $30,872.
Thomas Muehloecker finished fourth in the same tournament and could leapfrog Teun Mulder into fourth spot.
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In the $5,200 buy-in Big Game, a brace of players currently chasing down that $30,000 top leaderboard prize reached the final table. Pascal Lefrancois busted in sixth-place for $36,877 while Daniel Dvoress fell at the final hurdle and got his hands on the $130,302 runner-up prize. Dvoress was defeated by Simon Pedersen, the Dane seeing his $5,200 investment swell to a cool $181,357.
Timothy Adams and Juan Pardo both cashed in the $10,300 Mix-Max 2nd Chance. Adams was the first of this pair to fall, doing so in fourth-place for a $41,400 score. Pardo lasted one place more and netted $59,800.
Team partypoker��s Isaac Haxton took down the tournament for $184,000 after busting Swedish legend Niklas Astedt in second-place. Astedt collected $117,734.
One result that��s sure to shuffle things up is the $25,500 Main Event. Only 31 players bought in, but this ensured the $750,000 gurantee was surpassed by one buy-in. Nick Petrangelo won the Main Event and he banked $356,500 for his efforts. Petrangelo defeated Michael Addamo heads-up for the title, Addamo scooping $217,000. The points he should pick up for this result will likely see Addamo enter the leaderboard top 10.
The next High Roller Club events take place on June 30 from 7:00 p.m. CET. No doubt the players mentioned above will be doing everything they can to hunt down Foxen and put themselves in a position to secure a free $30,000.
This Week��s High Roller Club Events
| Date | Time (CET) | Tournament | Buy-in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tue 30 Jun | 7:00 p.m. | Mix-Max Warm Up: $50K Gtd | $1,050 |
| 7:00 p.m. | Main Event $200K Gtd | $5,200 | |
| 8:00 p.m. | 6-Max Knockout: $50K Gtd | $1,050 | |
| 9:00 p.m. | Mix-Max 2nd Chance: $75K Gtd | $2,650 | |
| 10:00 p.m. | 6-Max Turbo Knockout: $25K Gtd | $530 | |
| Thu 2 Jul | 7:00 p.m. | 6-Max Warm Up: $50K Gtd | $1,050 |
| 7:00 p.m. | Main Event $400K Gtd | $10,300 | |
| 8:00 p.m. | Mix-Max Knockout: $50K Gtd | $1,050 | |
| 9:00 p.m. | 6-Max 2nd Chance: $150K Gtd | $5,200 | |
| 10:00 p.m. | Mix-Max Turbo Knockout: $25K Gtd | $530 | |
| Sun 5 Jul | 6:00 p.m. | The Big Game: $750K Gtd | $5,200 |
| 6:00 p.m. | The Mini Big Game $200K Gtd | $530 | |
| 7:00 p.m. | Main Event $750K Gtd | $25,500 | |
| 8:00 p.m. | Knockout: $100K Gtd | $1,050 | |
| 9:00 p.m. | Mix-Max 2nd Chance: $300K Gtd | $10,300 | |
| 11:00 p.m. | 6-Max Turbo Knockout: $25K Gtd | $530 |
