€10k €1m GTD Invitational Kicks Off Tonight

Kayhan Mokri

Mokri banked €113,200 for his efforts in the Main Event of this installment of High Stakes Week, and it would be no surprise to see the Norweigan high-stakes regular return to the felt tonight in the Invitational.

Mokri has accumulated almost €7,000,000 in tournament earnings throughout his live tournament career, with his biggest single score of €1,372,420 coming in the €100,000 Super High Roller at EPT Barcelona in August last year.

Additionally, Mokri secured the title in the biggest buy-in event of the High Stakes Week, winning the €50,000 Bombay Big 50, for a score of €220,700, besting Chess Grandmaster and home team representative, Ottomar Ladva. Will Mokri continue his hot streak and take down the biggest prize pool event of the week as well?

Phil Ivey

A man who needs no introduction, but will get one anyway,  Phil Ivey is widely regarded as one of the best players of any generation to ever sit down at the poker table. A Hall of Famer and eleven-time WSOP Bracelet winner and often considered to be on poker’s Mount Rushmore, Ivey entered the Main Event on Day 1, firing 1 bullet, but couldn’t progress to Day 2.

Despite this, he will still receive priority entrance into the Invitational, and it seems like this would be an opportunity that “No Home Jerome” would pass up on.

Ivey has racked up over €45,000,000 in career tournament earnings, and he currently sits in 10th place on poker’s all-time money list. Ivey is and always will be a force to be reckoned with in any variant of poker. Ivey’s biggest score of his glittering career came back in the 2014 Aussie Millions, where he won €3,105,709 in the $250,000 No Limit Hold’em. His second biggest score came in the same event two years prior.

Teun Mulder

Fresh off breaking his “bubble curse” in last night’s €10,000 Fast Bounty, Mulder will be looking to add a second cash and a first title in Tallinn in the Invitational.

The Dutchman fired two bullets on Day 1, before falling victim to a brutal bubble on Day 2, missing out on the min cash of €68,500 and a shot at becoming Main Event Champion for this installment of Bombay High Stakes Week.

Mulder finished second last night for a total score of €47,500, inclusive of bounties.

So far in his career, Mulder has accumulated over €6,500,000 in tournament earnings, with his biggest score of €1,681,689 coming in the $100,000 Triton Event in Cyprus back in 2022. Can he keep the bubble curse at bay and go on to bink the Invitational?

Aleksejs Ponakovs

Latvian supercrusher and WSOP Bracelet winner Aleksejs Ponakovs will also have priority if he so chooses to play the Invitational tonight.

Ponakovs finished one pip below Mokri, taking home €88,500 for his efforts. He fired four bullets, meaning despite the score, he was down in the tournament overall. Nevertheless, Ponakovs will be undeterred, and it would be a surprise if he were not a part of the lineup this evening.

Ponakovs has earned around €23,000,000 from tournaments so far in his career, with his biggest single score coming this year in the Triton $150,000 8-Handed No Limit Hold’em tournament in Jeju, South Korea, where he earned $3,139,000 for his second-place finish. Joao “Naza114” Viera came out on top in that particular tournament.

Ponakovs will be looking to add to his sole cash this trip if he takes to the felt tonight, in what is sure to be a star-studded lineup with a tonne of action on display.

The Structure

Players will receive 30,000 chips for their €10,000 buy-in, and will be allowed unlimited re-entries for the first 10 levels.

Blinds will commence at 100/200 with a 200 big blind ante, and it has been scheduled that play will cease for the day after Level 10 when registration closes.

That’s all for now, folks. Stay tuned to pokerlistings.com for more high-stakes action from the Bombay Club in Tallinn.