2017 Poker Masters

Event #1 $50,000 No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 1
Event Info

2017 Poker Masters

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
ak
Prize
$918,000
Event Info
Buy-in
$50,000
Prize Pool
$2,550,000
Entries
51
Level Info
Level
28
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
120,000

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: {a-Diamonds}{k-Spades}
Winter: {a-Clubs}{a-Spades}

Winter held the granddaddy of all hands and shipped the big double after the board ran out a clean {q-Clubs}{q-Spades}{6-Hearts}{9-Diamonds}{7-Clubs}.

Player Chips Progress
Sean Winter us
Sean Winter
950,000 685,000
Dan Smith us
Dan Smith
WSOP 1X Winner
WPT 1X Winner
125,000 -675,000

Tags: Sean WinterDan Smith

Level: 17

Blinds: 8,000/16,000

Ante: 16,000

Phil Hellmuth Falls to Ben Lamb

Level 16 : 7,000/14,000, 14,000 ante
Phil Hellmuth
Phil Hellmuth

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: {a-Diamonds}{q-Clubs}
Lamb: {k-Spades}{k-Clubs}

Hellmuth's best chance of surviving was to catch an ace, but that didn't happen as the board ran out an ace-less {2-Clubs}{7-Clubs}{9-Clubs}{j-Hearts}{3-Clubs}.

Player Chips Progress
Phil Hellmuth us
Phil Hellmuth
WSOP Main Event Champion
WSOP 17X Winner
Poker Hall of Famer
Busted

Tags: Ben LambPhil Hellmuth

Ben Tollerene Follows David Peters Out the Door

Level 16 : 7,000/14,000, 14,000 ante
Ben Tollerene in the 2017 SHRB
Ben Tollerene in the 2017 SHRB

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: {q-Clubs}{10-Diamonds}
Tollerene: {k-Hearts}{4-Diamonds}

The board ran out {6-Clubs}{a-Diamonds}{k-Diamonds}{8-Spades}{j-Spades} and Sontheimer rivered a straight to score back-to-back knockouts.

Player Chips Progress
Steffen Sontheimer de
Steffen Sontheimer
1,450,000 50,000
Ben Tollerene us
Ben Tollerene
Busted

Tags: Ben TollereneSteffen Sontheimer

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 {8-Diamonds}{10-Clubs}{q-Hearts}, 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: {a-Spades}{q-Clubs}
Sontheimer: {j-Clubs}{9-Clubs}

Peters had flopped top pair, but Sontheimer had flopped the nuts. The {4-Spades} turn left Peters drawing dead, and he headed for the exit after the {4-Clubs} was put out on the river.

Player Chips Progress
Steffen Sontheimer de
Steffen Sontheimer
1,400,000 700,000
David Peters us
David Peters
WSOP 2X Winner
Busted

Tags: Steffen SontheimerDavid Peters

Level: 16

Blinds: 7,000/14,000

Ante: 14,000

Daniel Cates Eliminated

Level 15 : 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante
Daniel Cates
Daniel Cates

In a hand from the PokerGO live stream, Ben Lamb raised the button to 27,000 holding the {a-Diamonds}{k-Clubs} and Daniel Cates defended his big blind with the {8-Spades}{9-Diamonds}.

When the flop fell {a-Clubs}{5-Hearts}{6-Hearts}, Cates check-called a bet of 19,000 and the {8-Diamonds} appeared on the turn.

Cates checked his pair and gutshot, and Lamb bet 100,000. Cates had that exact amount in his stack and opted to call off.

Cates had some outs headed to the river, but the {10-Spades} was not one of them. With that, Cates fell in 15th place to bring the field down to the final two tables.

Player Chips Progress
Daniel Cates us
Daniel Cates
Busted

Tags: Daniel CatesBen Lamb

Time for Another Break

Level 15 : 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante

The final 14 players have been sent on a 10-minute break as the tournament staff gets ready for the final two tables. The plan for the night is still to play down to the final table of seven, meaning half the field needs to fall before that happens.

"That's How Dominik Does It"

Level 15 : 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante

Those were the words Sean Winter uttered after Dominik Nitsche eliminated Justin Bonomo.

It happened when Bonomo got his stack of approximately 195,000 all in preflop holding the {a-Diamonds}{k-Clubs} against the {a-Hearts}{q-Hearts} of Nitsche. Nitsche was way behind, but he wound up making a flush after the board ran out {10-Hearts}{7-Hearts}{4-Diamonds}{5-Hearts}{6-Spades}.

Player Chips Progress
Dominik Nitsche de
Dominik Nitsche
WSOP 4X Winner
WPT 1X Winner
560,000 185,000
Justin Bonomo us
Justin Bonomo
WSOP 3X Winner
Busted

Tags: Justin BonomoDominik Nitsche

Daniel Negreanu Kicks Brandon Adams to the Curb

Level 15 : 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante
Daniel Negreanu vs. Brandon Adams
Daniel Negreanu vs. Brandon Adams

On another hand from Level 14, which just aired on PokerGO, Brandon Adams got his stack of 99,000 all in preflop and was primed to double through Daniel Negreanu.

Negreanu: {a-Diamonds}{6-Spades}
Adams: {a-Clubs}{9-Clubs}

Both players paired their ace on the {a-Hearts}{4-Clubs}{10-Diamonds} flop, but of course Adams' kicker had him out in front. That all changed when the dealer burned and turned the {6-Hearts} to give Negreanu two pair. The {k-Clubs} river failed to help Adams and he was eliminated from the tournament.

Player Chips Progress
Daniel Negreanu ca
Daniel Negreanu
1,000,000 100,000
Brandon Adams us
Brandon Adams
Busted

Tags: Brandon AdamsDaniel Negreanu