We're up to nine entrants in the Super High Roller, as three more recognisable faces join the action: King's Casino owner Leon Tsoukernik, Dusk Till Dawn Casino owner Rob Yong, and Lithuanian professional poker player and politician Antanas Guoga.
Better known to the poker-playing public as "Tony G," Guoga is looking for back-to-back high roller success, after winning the $25,000 Aria High Roller in Las Vegas at the end of May.
We joined the action on an flop in a hand between Fedor Holz and Tony G, where Holz's flop bet of 700 had just been check-raised to 2,500. Holz thought for a second and made the call as they went to the turn.
Tony G casually flicked in an orange 5,000-value chip, with Holz quickly calling again. The landed on the river, with Tony G all but giving up, very quickly check-folding to Holz's river bet of 4,000.
The partypoker team is currently crunching the numbers while the registration has officially closed. Among the last players to re-enter was Jack Sinclair. Once all numbers and payouts are confirmed, they will be published right here on PokerNews.
Jan-Peter Jachtmann raised to 125,000 from the button and Vojtěch Kratochvíl moved all in for exactly 1.2 million. Jachtmann said in table chat "I don't think you have a good hand" and eventually called after some more consideration.
Vojtěch Kratochvíl:
Jan-Peter Jachtmann:
The flop gave Jachtmann extra outs with the better flush draw, but he failed to get there on the turn and river.
Within a matter of minutes, pocket deuces have become the nemesis of partypoker sponsored pro Jan-Peter Jachtmann.
Marek Blasko raised and called the three-bet by Jachtmann to see a flop of . Blasko check-called a continuation bet and did so again for hefty 1.6 million on the turn. After the river, Blasko moved all in and Jachtmann called, having had invested the majority of his stack already.
Blasko turned over and Jachtmann's ace-king was no good.
The board on the turn was and partypoker sponsored pro Natalia Breviglieri led out from the small blind and her opponent Michael Koran made a fairly confident looking call leaving not much behind.
The river card was the and it was Breviglieri’s turn to look confident as she bet all her large denomination chips. It was Koran’s tournament life on the line and he suddenly looked in two minds over what to do. In the end he decided to reluctantly fold and survive to find a better spot.
That spot appeared on the very next hand as it folded to Koran in late position and he moved all in. Breviglieri, who had just taken most of his stack, moved all in too and the blinds left them to it.
It was a flip as Breviglieri had and Koran .
The board ran out .
Breviglieri hit to take the last of Korans chips and grow her stack a little bit more.
Friedrich Raz was the chip leader after Day 1a and hasn't done much today just yet. That was until now, though. Until the three-way turn of a board . Raz moved all in for 1.77 million and Levent Efe shoved over the top to force out the third player.
Friedrich Raz:
Levent Efe:
The on the river brought a straight on the board, however Raz had the higher straight himself and doubled up.