Level: 16
Blinds: 7,000/14,000
Ante: 14,000
2017 Poker Masters
Event #1 $50,000 No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2017 Poker Masters
Buy-in
$50,000
Prize Pool
$2,550,000
Entries
51
Level
28
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
120,000
Steffen Sontheimer vs. David Peters in Monster Pot
Level 16
: 7,000/14,000, 14,000 ante
Steffen Sontheimer and David Peters each put in what appeared to be 125,000 preflop, and when the flop came down 
, the rest of the chips went in. That meant Peters got an additional 450,000 in to create the tournament's first pot over a million in chips.
Peters: 
Sontheimer: 
Peters had flopped top pair, but Sontheimer had flopped the nuts. The 
turn left Peters drawing dead, and he headed for the exit after the 
was put out on the river.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,400,000
700,000
|
700,000 |
|
Busted | |
|
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Ben Tollerene Follows David Peters Out the Door
Level 16
: 7,000/14,000, 14,000 ante
In the very next hand after David Peters hit the rail, Ben Tollerene followed him out the door.
It happened when a short-stacked Tollerene moved all in for 46,000 under the gun and Steffen Sontheimer called from the button.
Sontheimer: 
Tollerene: 
The board ran out 
and Sontheimer rivered a straight to score back-to-back knockouts.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
1,450,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
|
Busted |
Phil Hellmuth Falls to Ben Lamb
Level 16
: 7,000/14,000, 14,000 ante
On the PokerGO live stream, Phil Hellmuth moved all in from the cutoff for his last 115,000. Ben Lamb was in the small blind and called to put his friend at risk.
Hellmuth:
Lamb: 
Hellmuth's best chance of surviving was to catch an ace, but that didn't happen as the board ran out an ace-less 
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted | |
|
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Level: 17
Blinds: 8,000/16,000
Ante: 16,000
Sean Winter Gets Tricky with Pocket Rockets
Level 17
: 8,000/16,000, 16,000 ante
Steffen Sontheimer raised to 35,000 from the hijack and Sean Winter just flatted from the button. Dan Smith then moved all in from the small blind, Sontheimer folded, and Winter snap-called off for 483,000.
Smith:
Winter: 
Winter held the granddaddy of all hands and shipped the big double after the board ran out a clean 
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
950,000
685,000
|
685,000 |
|
|
||
|
125,000
-675,000
|
-675,000 |
|
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Dan Smith Drowned on the River
Level 17
: 8,000/16,000, 16,000 ante
In the next hand after doubling Sean Winter, Dan Smith moved all in from the button for 117,000, which Adrian Mateos called out of the small blind.
Mateos: 
Dan Smith: 
Smith was ahead and held through both the flop and turn. Unfortunately for him, the spiked on the river and Mateos claimed the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
800,000
125,000
|
125,000 |
|
||
|
|
Busted | |
|
|
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Stefan Schillhabel Gets Lucky to Double Through Ben Lamb
Level 17
: 8,000/16,000, 16,000 ante
Stefan Schillhabel raised to 32,000 holding the and Ben Lamb three-bet to 89,000 with the . Action folded back to Schillhabel and he moved all in, which prompted a snap-called from Lamb.
Schillhabel was in trouble, but not after the 
flop gave him two pair. The turn meant a queen on the river would give Lamb a straight, but it wasn't in the cards as the bricked.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
654,000
409,000
|
409,000 |
|
|
||
|
141,000
-248,000
|
-248,000 |
|
|
||
Ben Lamb Eliminated By Daniel Negreanu
Level 17
: 8,000/16,000, 16,000 ante
Ben Lamb moved all in for his last 141,000 from middle position and Daniel Negreanu isolated by three-betting to 300,000 from the button. Both blinds folded and Lamb discovered the bad news.
Lamb: 
Negreanu:
The board ran out 
and that was all she wrote for Lamb, who exited in 10th place. That means the final nine players will combine down to a single table, though the official final table won't be reached until just seven remain.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
958,000
128,000
|
128,000 |
|
||
|
|
Busted | |
|
|
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Feature Table Lineup
Level 17
: 8,000/16,000, 16,000 ante
| Seat | Player |
|---|---|
| 1 | Stefan Schillhabel |
| 2 | Adrian Mateos |
| 3 | Matt Hyman |
| 4 | Nick Schulman |
| 5 | Dominik Nitsche |
| 6 | Daniel Negreanu |
| 7 | Steffen Sontheimer |
| 8 | Sean Winter |
| 9 | Koray Aldemir |