Manig Loeser raised to 45,000 with the first to act and Dietrich Fast in the cutoff called with the . Abraham Passet three-bet to 160,000 with in the small blind and Loeser called, Fast called too to make it three ways to the flop.
Passet bet 160,000 and Loeser called, Fast folded. The appeared on the turn and Passet picked up a gutshot on top to move all in right away. Loeser used two time bank cards and called for 427,000.
The on the river was a blank and Loeser doubled into the chip lead.
A raise to 45,000 by Niall Farrell in the cutoff resulted in the shove of Chin Wei Lim on the button for 246,000, Farrell called and had Lim at risk of elimination.
Chin Wei Lim:
Niall Farrell:
The board provided no help for Lim and that reduced the field to the last ten hopefuls, who continue on two five-handed tables.
Ivan Leow shoved out of the small blind and Wai Kin Yong called it off from the big blind for 173,000.
Wai Kin Yong:
Ivan Leow:
Paul Phua called for a queen, and it arrived on the flop. However, the followed on the turn and to give Leow the lead. However, he called for a queen or nine for his fellow countryman. The request was denied with the river and Yong was eliminated.
Manig Loeser raised to 50,000 with and Paul Phua called with the in the small blind, Wai Leong Chan completed with the in the big blind. Action checked to Loeser on and he bet 65,000.
Phua check-raised all in for 542,000 and Chan folded, Loeser called after brief consider
The on the turn instantly left Phua drawing dead, and that made the river a formality. Loeser took revenge for the previous hand and soared back towards the top of the leaderboard.
Abraham Passet moved all in for 579,000 and Niall Farrell in the big blind snap-called with the slightly superior stack.
Abraham Passet:
Niall Farrell:
Farrell was in prime shape to make a massive step towards a seven or eight-figure score, but the board of gave Passet a set of nines to leave Farrell on fumes.
Wai Leong Chan raised to 55,000 with the on the button and Farrell then jammed in the small blind for 64,000 with after some consideration, as he would have been in the button ante the next hand.
Manig Loeser called in the big blind with and Chan filled up. On the flop, both remaining active players checked and the appeared on the turn. Loeser checked and Chan bet to isolate.
"Oh, I have loads of outs," Farrell said. However, none of them showed up with the blank river and that was it for the Scotsman.
Dietrich Fast raised to 65,000 in the cutoff and Ivan Leow called in the small blind. The flop was checked by Leow and Fast continued for 125,000, Leow called.
After the turn, Leow now made it 275,000 to go and Fast only had 657,000 behind, which he double-checked by counting out his stack carefully. Fast moved all in and Leow snap-called.
Dietrich Fast:
Ivan Leow:
Fast was in bad shape with just two outs, and the on the river let the bubble burst at the end of level 17.
Ivan Leow opened to 90,000 with first to act and picked up no fewer than three callers, as Wai Leong Chan with on the button, Manig Loeser with in the small blind and Abraham Passet in the big blind with all called.
The family pot brought a flop of and Loeser, as well as Passet, both checked. Leow bet 125,000 and Chan called.
Loeser used a time bank and check-raised to 400,000 and Passet folded, while Leow snap-called and Chan folded. On the turn, Loeser checked his cards again and moved all in for 1,000,000, Leow snap-called with top pair and the nut flush draw.
The on the river was a blank and Loeser was eliminated in 4th place for RUB8,000,000.
Ivan Leow raised to 90,000 on the button and Wai Leong Chan called in the small blind. On the flop, Chan checked and Leow continued for 125,000, Chan check-raised to 350,000 and Leow called.
The turn gave Leow top pair and Chan snap-called for 605,000, Leow almost beat him into the pot to create the following showdown.
Wai Leong Chan:
Ivan Leow:
Instead of the straight draw, Leow made the better two pair with the river and that sent Chan to the rail in 3rd place. After finishing runner-up to Mikita Badziakouski in the Triton High Roller Series Main Event in Jeju just a few days ago, Chan collected another six-figure payday in Sochi and takes home RUB30,000,000 (approximately $472,500).
There will be a short break to set up the duel for the Super High Roller title between Abraham Passet and Leow.
In a limped pot to the flop, Abraham Passet checked and Ivan Leow bet 150,000. Passet check-shoved for 1,395,000 and Leow called. Both players turned over their cards and stood up from their seats while a rail gathered.
Abraham Passet:
Ivan Leow:
Passet picked up some more outs with the , but the on the river was a blank. Passet was eliminated in 2nd place and takes home RUB47,040,000 for his efforts, while Leow scooped his second title in a Triton Poker sponsored event within two weeks.
The second Triton Poker High Roller as part of the 2018 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Russia festival at the Sochi Casino and Resort has crowned a champion. After 14 entries on Day 1, that number was more than doubled in the first three levels of Day 2 as a field of 29 entries emerged in the RUB6,000,000 Triton Poker Super High Roller. The field consisted of 20 unique players and nine re-entries, and the top four spots were guaranteed a portion of the prize pool of more than $2.6 million.
Ultimately, it was Malaysia's Ivan Leow who lifted the trophy and won his second Triton Poker title in two weeks after defeating Abraham Passet in heads-up. Leow had been on the final table of the RUB3,000,000 High Roller the previous evening and went from chip leader to bubble boy in a matter of an hour and entered Day 2 of the Super High Roller in very similar fashion. His aggressive playing style saw him involved in almost every hand early on and Leow busted, then re-entered and tore up the feature tables at the Sochi Casino and Resort.
The 36-year-old already has five six-figure scores to his name in the current year including a victory in the Triton Poker Super High Roller Series Jeju HKD$500,000 Short Deck Ante-Only event for more than $1 Million and Leow topped that score with his victory here in Russia.
"Who is the best player from Malaysia right now?" Philipp Gruissem asked Triton founder Richard Yong and his son Wai Kin just yesterday and both named Michael Soyza, Wai Leong Chan and Leow almost immediately. Their countryman proved the fact just 24 hours later.
For Passet, it was also the far-biggest score on the live poker circuit. The German, who moved to Cambridge in the United Kingdom three years ago and started playing poker more seriously two and a half years ago, settled for more than $700,000. Aforementioned Wai Leong Chan, who finished runner-up to Mikita Badziakouski in the Triton Poker Main Event in Jeju, ended up in third and Manig Loeser also took home a portion of the prize pool. German High Roller regular Dietrich Fast was eliminated by Leow on the money bubble.
Final Result RUB6,000,000 Triton Poker Super High Roller Sochi
Place
Winner
Country
Prize (in RUB)
Prize (~ in USD)
1
Ivan Leow
Malaysia
72,000,000
$1,134,000
2
Abraham Passet
United Kingdom
47,040,000
$740,880
3
Wai Leong Chan
Malaysia
30,000,000
$472,500
4
Manig Loeser
Germany
8,000,000
$283,500
Action of the Final Day
The registration remained open for another three levels and the number of entries was more than doubled. Among those to buy back in besides eventual-champion Leow were Timofey Kuznetsov, Koray Aldemir, Patrik Antonius, Richard Yong, Wai Kin Yong and Koray Aldemir, to name just a few. Aymon Hata, who won the RUB3,000,000 High Roller the previous night, also entered, but was never able to run up a stack and busted before the two table redraw.
Phil Ivey was among the big stacks heading into the day but Leow and Koray Aldemir doubled through him to send Ivey towards the bottom of the counts. Johannes Becker lost with kings to ace-king and pocket nines to pocket nines, his final attempt was also not crowned by success either. Philipp Gruissem also fell short of another High Roller cash here in Sochi and that set up the last two tables.
Abraham Passet caught some heat with the eliminations of Konstantin Uspenskii and Patrik Antonius in quick succession and became the second big stack besides Dietrich Fast. Uspenskii four-bet shoved with pocket eights into pocket queens and Antonius turned a straight only for Passet to hit a full house with the very same card.
Richard Yong and fellow countryman Chin Wei Lim missed out on the final table and Leow jumped into the lead after sending Phil Ivey and Timothy Adams to the rail in the same hand, reducing the field to the last eight hopefuls. Leow raised on the button with aces, Ivey got his stack in with ace-five in the small blind and Adams rejammed ace-queen from the big blind at the worst possible time.
The all in showdowns kept on coming and Wai Kin Yong became the first casualty on the final table. Paul Phua first doubled against Manig Loeser only to bust moments later when his top pair couldn't hold up against the nut flush draw of Loeser. Soon after, the bubble was reached when Niall Farrell's aces were cracked by the pocket nines of Passet and the Scotsman bowed out one hand later.
While Fast was among the chip leaders until then, this all but changed after several clashes with Leow and both met again to determine the bubble boy. Fast raised with pocket nines and Leow called with king-queen suited. With his flush draw on the flop, Leow just called and then bet the turn when pairing his queen. Fast didn't believe his opponent and jammed to find himself with two outs in the showdown, no miracle happened and the German was crowned the bubble boy.
Manig Loeser also fell victim to Ivan Leow when he check-raised middle pair and a flush draw against the top pair of Leow in a four-way family pot. Loeser moved all in after the turn and Leow called with the additional nut flush draw. to see a blank on the river.
The commanding lead of Leow vanished right after in a full house under full house hand with Passet, however, before Leow sent his countryman Wai Leong Chan to the rail. He flopped top two pair with queen-jack and Leow continued with ace-ten for a straight draw. Leow paired his ace on the turn and the chips went in, a ten on the river gave Leow the better two pair.
Passet gave it a valid effort in heads-up and even claimed the lead for some time, but after more than an hour Leow had established a commanding lead with sheer aggression. Passet put his hopes on a six-high flush draw on a paired flop and Leow called with jacks and fours to celebrate after two blanks on turn and river.
While that marks the end of the high stakes action of the Triton Poker events in Sochi, the partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Russia festival continues right away with Day 2 of the Main Event on Friday, August 10th, 2018. The PokerNews live reporting team will be on the floor to provide all the action until a champion is crowned.