Super High Roller
Day 2 Started
Super High Roller
Day 2 Started
The 2023 Poker Dream Manila live series at the Newport World Resorts Integrated Resort is gearing up for the business part of the festival. After the conclusion of the Short Deck Ante-Only Super High Roller, the second most-expensive tournament on the schedule also kicked off as the PHP 500,000 ($9,174) Super High Roller gathered 27 entries throughout 11 levels of 40 minutes each.
Only 15 of the contestants survived and Sriharsha Doddapaneni from India emerged as the chip leader with 1,691,000 ahead of Wai Loon Ng (1,470,000) and Fei Chen (1,435,000).
Big stacks also belong to William Teoh (1,316,000) and Lester Edoc (1,300,000), while notable Day 1 survivors include the likes of Gary Thompson, Takashi Ogura, Poker Dream founder Winfred Yu, as well as Wai Kiat Lee.
Place | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Sriharsha Doddapaneni | India | 1,691,000 | 113 |
2 | Wai Loon Ng | Malaysia | 1,470,000 | 98 |
3 | Fei Chen | China | 1,435,000 | 96 |
4 | William Teoh | Philippines | 1,316,000 | 88 |
5 | Lester Edoc | Philippines | 1,300,000 | 87 |
6 | Gary Thompson | Ireland | 955,000 | 64 |
7 | Ajitpal Singh | Singapore | 950,000 | 63 |
8 | Takashi Ogura | Japan | 794,000 | 53 |
9 | Eng Soon Ewe | Malaysia | 743,000 | 50 |
10 | Lun Loon | Malaysia | 664,000 | 44 |
The late registration is open for the first three levels and following break and the action recommences at 1pm local time with blinds of 10,000-15,000 and a big blind ante of 15,000 in level 12. Whether or not the notable casualties Eng Siang Ewe, Florencio Campomanes, Xiaoling Li, Jun Wah Yap, and Wei Hsiang Yeu will take advantage of the re-entry option remains to be seen.
Stay tuned for yet another day of exciting high-stakes action from one of the up and coming live poker series in Asia. As of the first break, the action will also be streamed on the Poker Dream social media channels and the PokerNews live reporting team will pick up the action as of the start and until a winner has been crowned.
Level: 12
Blinds: 10,000/15,000
Ante: 15,000
William Teoh raised to 30,000 and Sriharsha Doddapaneni called out of the small blind. Wai Loon Ng then three-bet to 150,000 in the big blind only for Teoh to announce a reraise to 600,000. That forced out Doddapaneni while Ng went into the tank. He used two time bank extensions and folded.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Sriharsha Doddapaneni |
1,650,000
-41,000
|
-41,000 |
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William Teoh |
1,500,000
184,000
|
184,000 |
|
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Wai Loon Ng |
1,350,000
-120,000
|
-120,000 |
With the chips going into the middle before the flop, Wai Kiat Lee was the player at risk against Fei Chen but had the best of it in the following showdown.
Wai Kiat Lee: 10♠10♥
Fei Chen: A♦8♠
The 8♥5♠2♥ flop and 4♠ turn gave Chen more outs but he missed them all on the J♥ river.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Fei Chen |
1,000,000
-435,000
|
-435,000 |
Wai Kiat Lee |
950,000
491,000
|
491,000 |
With 85,000 in the middle in a battle of the blinds, the flop showed Q♦6♠3♦. Winfred Yu bet 20,000 and then faced the shove by Paul Fontan Castrillon for 200,000 total. Yu mulled it over for a short time and folded.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Winfred Yu |
400,000
-138,000
|
-138,000 |
Paul Fontan Castrillon |
305,000
43,000
|
43,000 |
On a completed board of A♦7♦4♠8♠8♦, William Jia made it 30,000 to go out of the big blind. Lester Edoc on the button raised it up to 140,000 only for Jia to then move all-in. The shove was for 295,000 and Edoc was visibly pained by the decision to then lay it down.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Lester Edoc |
1,050,000
-250,000
|
-250,000 |
William Jia |
625,000
231,000
|
231,000 |
The first half of level 12 concluded without any elimination or late entry, only Eng Soon Ewe finally appeared to take his seat.
One table in particular has plenty of big stacks involved and Sriharsha Doddapaneni no longed sits atop the leaderboard. That role has been taken over by Wai Loon Ng, while William Teoh still sits on a very comfortable stack, too. Lun Loon can also be found there alongside Gary Thompson, who both sit just above the starting stack.
Loon claimed the last pot with a bet of 90,000 on the K♣9♠3♦3♣ as Doddapaneni opted to fold.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Wai Loon Ng |
1,650,000
300,000
|
300,000 |
Sriharsha Doddapaneni |
1,450,000
-200,000
|
-200,000 |
|
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William Teoh |
1,425,000
-75,000
|
-75,000 |
|
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Lun Loon |
630,000
-34,000
|
-34,000 |
Gary Thompson |
600,000
-355,000
|
-355,000 |
On a heads-up turn of A♠Q♥8♣10♥, Fei Chen checked out of the small blind and then called a bet worth 85,000 by Takashi Ogura in the big blind. The 10♠ on the river paired the board and killed any further action as both checked. Chen tabled the A♦6♦ and Ogura chopped with his A♥3♠.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Wai Kiat Lee |
1,050,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
Fei Chen |
875,000
-125,000
|
-125,000 |
Takashi Ogura |
825,000
31,000
|
31,000 |
Winfred Yu |
530,000
130,000
|
130,000 |
Paul Fontan Castrillon |
245,000
-60,000
|
-60,000 |
Paul Fontan Castrillon was the player at risk for a mere 205,000 and flipped for his tournament life, as he tabled the A♦K♣. Fei Chen had the underpair in 10♣10♥ and couldn't hold on the Q♣8♦2♣K♦J♠ runout, as the Spaniard scored a double.,
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
William Jia |
950,000
325,000
|
325,000 |
Fei Chen |
750,000
-125,000
|
-125,000 |
Paul Fontan Castrillon |
450,000
205,000
|
205,000 |
Eng Soon Ewe |
300,000
-443,000
|
-443,000 |