Day 1 of the Triton Poker High Roller Kicks Off at 5pm
The Triton Super High Roller series just finished a very successful festival at the Landing Casino in Jeju, South Korea, and as soon as the final interview was done, the live stream crew assembled the feature table setup and headed over to Sochi. In cooperation with the partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Russia festival, Triton will host two exclusive High Roller events at the Casino Sochi and the first of them is scheduled to kick off at 5 p.m. local time.
The tournament comes with a buy-in of RUB3,000,000 (approximately $50,000) and Day 1 will feature up to eight levels of 45 minutes each with a live stream available as soon as the cards get in the air. All participants will receive 50,000 in chips and the registration for the two-day event remains open for another two hours on Day 2 the next day.
During the registration period, unlimited re-entries are allowed and the event is also played with a 30-second shot clock. All participants receive six time banks at the start, another three when the registration closes and additional three time banks will be awarded at the final table.
Among others, the Triton Poker founders Paul Phua and Richard Yong will be taking part and Phil Ivey is also expected to join the action. On top of that, you can look forward to High Roller regulars such as Mustapha Kanit, Niall Farrell, Manig Loeser, Dietrich Fast, Patrik Antonius, and Johannes Becker.
The PokerNews live reporting team will be on the floor to provide all the high stakes action in the next few days, so make sure to tune back in regularly to find out who has made the trip to beautiful Sochi.
, following an open by Alexey Rybin with the 
, and Paul Phua in the cutoff three-bet to 2,500 with the 
.
and Rybin folded, Fast clicked it up to 16,500. Phua made it 50,000 to go via six-bet, which now also forced out Leow, and Fast moved all in for 53,600 to see Phua call.
confirmed Fast's double up on the turn already.
and Manig Loeser three-bet to 3,600 with the 
. Loeser checked to Rybin, who made it 5,500 to go. Loeser moved all in with his over pair and Rybin called for 36,700 with the pair and straight draw.
turn immediately improved Rybin and the 
river was a blank to let the Russian double.
in the cutoff. Yaroshevskyy clicked it back to 8,000 and Leow called.
and Yaroshevskyy continued for 6,000, Leow tossed in calling chips. After the 
turn, Yaroshevskyy's second barrel was for 15,000 and again Leow called to see the 
as final community card.
and action checked to Chow, who bet 2,400. Gruissem was the only caller and the 
on the turn brought another quick check from Gruissem.
, Becker checked and called a 1,500 bet before checking the 
on the turn. 
in the hijack and two players called including Anatoly Filatov with 
and Manig Loeser in the small blind with 
but eventually folded in the big blind.
turn for 3,300. Antonius raised to 11,000 and Filatov folded, Loeser called to see the 
. Farrell was way ahead with the 
and the board came 
.
