€50,000 Majestic High Roller
Day 1 Completed
2012 World Series of Poker Europe
€50,000 Majestic High Roller
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2012 World Series of Poker Europe
Buy-in
€50,000
Prize Pool
€2,880,000
Entries
60
Level
24
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
15,000
Day 1 of Majestic High Roller Concludes with Juanda Leading
Level 8
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
Day 1 of the €50,000 Majestic High Roller at the 2012 World Series of Poker Europe has come and gone. With 43 entries throughout the day and just a few eliminations, tomorrow will be the real test of everyone's poker skill. At the end of the night, John Juanda led the way with 538,500 in chips.
Juanda is no stranger to big buy-in events, and he's come out in a fury here in this one, but things didn't start off well for him. Juanda was eliminated not once, but twice and is working with his third bullet in the event. Thanks to a huge clash with Marvin Rettenmaier, though, two rockets catapulted Juanda into the lead during the last level of the night.
Along with Juanda — who is one of the most household names in poker — plenty of notable players were in action and have advanced to Day 2. Daniel Negreanu, Sam Trickett, Tom Dwan, Tony G and Erik Seidel will all be back tomorrow.
On the other side of the coin, Eugene Katchalov and current Octo-Niner Gregory Merson were two players who were eliminated on the day. Both opted not to rebuy. Wang Qiang was also eliminated and opted not to fire off another €50,000.
After a late start for Day 1, tomorrow will be much of the same as play begins at 4:00 PM local time. Registration will remain open through the first level of tomorrow, and that's also how long the rebuy period will remain open. Be sure to return right back here to these pages for all the PokerNews coverage. We'll see you then.
Official End-of-Day Chip Counts (full)
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
538,000 | -40,000 |
|
408,200 | 16,200 |
|
375,100 | 95,100 |
|
370,900 | 30,900 |
|
355,000 | 95,000 |
|
350,000 | 215,000 |
|
348,800 | 36,800 |
|
320,200 | 5,200 |
|
293,800 | 53,800 |
|
291,500 | 61,500 |
|
269,900 | 39,900 |
|
239,900 | -20,100 |
|
238,600 | 92,600 |
|
235,400 | 50,400 |
|
232,400 | 108,400 |
|
224,200 | 146,200 |
|
218,600 | 66,600 |
|
204,700 | -25,300 |
|
196,200 | 200 |
|
170,800 | -24,200 |
|
169,200 | 6,200 |
|
168,400 | 6,400 |
|
166,600 | 10,600 |
|
150,000 | 20,000 |
|
143,300 | 1,300 |
Ballers
Three More Hands
Level 8
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
Just three more hands at each table before the night is over.
Juanda Smashes Rettenmaier with Aces
From middle position, John Juanda opened the pot with a raise to 4,800. Marvin Rettenmaier put in a reraise to 13,600 from the cutoff seat, then Igor Kurganov reraised to 30,100 from the button. Action folded through the blinds and back to Juanda. He didn;t take long before putting in a five-bet to 60,200. This sent Rettenmaier into the tank.
Rettenmaier was tanking while Kurganov was waiting for him to act. When this happened, Philipp Gruissem walked over to talk to Kurganov, but saw he was in a hand... again.
"F***, you're always in a f***ing hand!" said Gruissem before walking back over to his table. Kurganov cracked a smile while Rettenmaier kept tanking.
Eventually, Rettenmaier reraised all in for approximately 160,000. Kurganov folded, and Juanda simply turned over the 
to signify his call. Rettenmaier didn't like what he saw and disgustedly turned up the 
, knowing he made a stumble.
The flop, turn and river ran out 
, and Juanda's aces were the winning hand. He had Rettenmaier covered, which eliminated Rettenmaier. Rettenmaier was a bit upset that he had to make a decision to rebuy righ then and there. He wanted to wait until tomorrow, but couldn't. Therefore, he said he would rebuy and went to get the finances sorted. Meanwhile, Juanda climbed to nearly 600,000 in chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
578,000 | 433,000 |
|
|
163,000 | -77,000 |
|
Busted |
Yong Gets Lucky And Busts Sun
Y Chang raised under the gun to 5,000 after which Richard Yong, who was directly to his left, three-bet to 12,000. Sheng Sun decided to four-bet to 37,000 and the action was quickly folded back around to Yong.
Yong went into the tank for a while, played with his chips, and eventually put his opponent all in. Sun called off his remaining 120,000 chips creating a very big pot.
Showdown:
Richard Yong: 
Sheng Sun: 
The board ran out 
, and Yong high-fived Chang while Sun left the tournament. He chose not to re-buy, and with that we lost a player.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
392,000 | 122,000 |
|
Busted |
One More Level
Level 8
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
The players are now in the last level of the night. Another 60 minutes of play before bagging up until tomorrow.
Level: 8
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 300
Gruissem with Delayed C-Bet
Level 7
: 800/1,600, 200 ante
Philipp Gruissem raised to 5,000 from middle position, and Tony Gregg called from the hijack seat. Zheng Tang called on the button, and the flop came down 
. Everyone checked, and the turn was the . Gruissem bet 12,500, and both his opponents folded.