H-58: $10,300 Thursday Thriller [Bounty]
Day 1 Started
H-58: $10,300 Thursday Thriller [Bounty]
Day 1 Started
Action is set to get underway with players looking for big bounties. H-58: $10,300 Thursday Thriller [Bounty] gets going at 2 p.m. eastern time and they'll play till a winner is decided today. There's $1.25 million guaranteed, which means they need 125 entries before the prize pool starts growing.
The progressive bounty format puts $5,000 of the entry price into the prize pool and $5,000 onto the player's head. When a player is eliminated, 50% of their bounty is handed out in cash to the winning player, while the other 50% is added to their bounty value. That 50% starts at $2,500, but by the end of the tournament can be massive.
Action proceeds today with 20 minute blind levels starting at 400/800 with an ante of 120. That means players start with 125 big blinds to work with, but with $5,000 on everyone's head (at least!) expect the chips to be flying around freely in early action.
Registration is open for more than four hours today, and players can rebuy as many times as they like during that period. When the gates come down on registration at 6:45 p.m. eastern in Level 13, the final field will be set.
PokerNews will be on the virtual floor all day following the action, bringing you big hands and chip counts through the day. Stay tuned to find out who takes down the big bounties and the win in H-58: $10,300 Thursday Thriller [Bounty].
Level: 1
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 120
There are bounties on the line starting now in H-58: $10,300 Thursday Thriller [Bounty] as cards are now in the air for Level 1.
There are 51 total entries so far early in Level 1.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Niklas Astedt | 175,696 | 175,696 |
Christian Rudolph | 129,494 | 129,494 |
Rui Ferreira
|
126,772 | 126,772 |
Maksim "MAMOHT_T" Mamonov
|
113,024 | 113,024 |
Ottomar Ladva | 112,920 | 112,920 |
Nick Petrangelo
|
108,120 | 108,120 |
Tamas "szagos" Adamszki | 106,520 | 106,520 |
Patrick Leonard
|
106,200 | 106,200 |
Rainer Kempe | 103,840 | 103,840 |
Patrick Leonard raised the middle to 2K and Pascal Hartmann called from the big blind. Hartmann check-raised from 2,680 to 10,240 on the flop. Leonard called to the turn, and Hartmann check-folded to a bet of 14,250.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Patrick Leonard
|
119,680 | 13,480 |
Pascal Hartmann | 84,680 |
Marius Gierse opened the middle to 1,839 before Maksim "MAMOHT_T" Viktorovich reraised the button to 6,150. Gierse called to the flop, then check-called for 5,848. The turn brought checks from both players, but Gierse check-folded to a bet of 20,850 on the river.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Maksim "MAMOHT_T" Mamonov
|
124,102 | 11,078 |
Marius Gierse | 87,642 |
Level: 2
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 150
Rainer Kempe raised to 2.1K from the middle and Jans Arends called the cutoff. Kempe check-called the flop for 2,139, and they both checked the turn. Kempe check-called again on the river for 7,937.
Rainer Kempe:
Jans Arends:
Board:
Arends flopped a nine, enough to pull ahead of Kempe's pocket eights.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Jans Arends
|
116,811 | |
Rainer Kempe | 98,129 | -5,711 |
Artur Martirosian opened to 2.5K from the middle and Marius Gierse called the button before Rainer Kempe three-bet the small blind to 14.05K. Only Gierse called to see a flop of , but he folded when Kempe fired 10,775.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Rainer Kempe | 114,979 | 16,850 |
Artur Martirosian
|
82,730 | |
Marius Gierse | 67,822 | -19,820 |