Daily Rewind: Lykov Tops High Roller, plus Salsberg's success & Pro's Death
Today we recap the latest tournament happenings from the EPT and WPT and hear about the tragic death of an online pro.
The Daily Rewind is your one-stop-shop for a sharp review of the day in poker. Join us here for a mix of the latest news and a more irreverent insight into the poker world. Today we discovered the following topics for you:
Lykov tops EPT High Roller
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| Lykov leading |
While this year's EPT Berlin Main Event took almost 12 hours to complete - with half that time needed to burst the final table bubble - the €10,000 High Roller was a much quicker affair.
Among the 45 players returning to the tables, yesterday, was a number of familiar faces, including Marvin 'xcrash154' Rettenmaier, Dominik 'ace0ntheriver' Nitsche, Fabian 'fabstinho' Quoss.
As a host of pros, including our three community members, hit the rail short of the €429,000 top prize, it was Chris Brammer who was dealt the cruellest blow.
With the bubble approaching, Chris moved all his chips in with 
against Aaron Lim's 
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As the board rolled out 
it looked as though Brammer was going to get a timely double up. However, as the 
landed on the river it was Lim's unlikely straight that scooped and the pot and sent Brammer home one place short of the money.
With the money bubble burst, it was Maxim Lykov that managed to top the chip counts at the end of the day with 1,683,000 just ahead of Martin Kaberhel (1,643,000).
Salsberg on form in Jacksonville
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| Salsberg through |
Matt Salsberg produced another impressive WPT performance, yesterday, as he made it through the opening session of the bestbet Open in Jacksonville.
Lining up alongside 145 other hopefuls, the American TV producer and poker player managed to rake in 172,700 chips to finish the day as the fourth largest stack.
Also making it through the day as one of the surviving 44 players was Brian Hastings (150,000), David Sands (103,500) and PokerStrategist 
JonathanLittle (27,200).
Leading the way when time was called on proceedings was Raj Vohra. The American scored a double elimination at the end of the day with 
to take his stack up to 224,800.
Day 1B takes place today and will welcome back a number of pros who busted during yesterday's session.
Online pro commits suicide
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| Scene of the incident |
Bill Roth recently described to the Las Vegas Review Journal why he believes Black Friday caused to his son, Matthew, to commit suicide on Tuesday.
After saying good bye to Matthew last Sunday, Bill was informed two days later that his son had shot himself in the head outside the Wild Wild West Gambling Hall in Las Vegas.
Known online as "notnmyhouse" and "mattroth", Matt was a fragile individual and after Black Friday took away his ability to make a living he was left without his "livelihood, self-esteem and drive".
While it's likely Matt was predisposed to depression before Black Friday, Bill feels that Matt was unable to "redirect" his life following the shutdown of online poker in the US.
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High stakes corner
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| More money for Blom |
Yesterday proved to be another successful day at the virtual felt for Viktor "Isildur1" Blom as he stormed to a $425,275 profit.
Playing just 802 hands, Blom was able to top the daily leaderboard ahead of "wilhasha" ($146,282) and take his annual profit back up to $3,319,622.
In contrast to Blom's recent upswing, Ben Tollerene's downswing continued across two sites in the last 24 hours.
After an unsuccessful 1,368 hands as "Ben86", Tollerene tried to reverse his $152,777 deficit as "Bttech86".
However, the change of account did little to alter his fortunes as he lost a further $234,799 to take his overall loss to -$387,576.
Daily Signoff
Clearly stating your intentions is essential at the live poker table, but it seems Bryan Pellegrino didn't learn that lesson before the 2010 WSOP.
