The final day of the $2500 High Roller event gets underway today with 45 players returning from Day 1, which had 122 entries. More are expected to join the field taking advantage of late registration being open until the end of the first blind level today. Blinds restart at level 7 on 2,000/4,000/4,000 and are 40 minutes in duration.
Anish Kumar (903,500) is our chip leader and everyone will be chasing him down trying to get the largest piece of a prize pool that is closing in on a massive $300,000, far exceeding the estimated $150,000. Included in those will be [Removed:268] (602,000) and Morten Mortensen from Denmark (514,500) who came 2nd and 7th respectively in the corresponding event during the Marconi Christmas Cup Series last December.
Play begins at 4.00 p.m local time and will play down until a winner is crowned. Stay tuned to the updates here on PokerNews to find out who the winner will be.
The bubble has been burst, with Rehman Kassam moving all-in from the button with . Vincent Huang, the table chip leader, woke up with and called to put Kassam at risk.
The board provided no help to Kassam and he went out in 15th place. All remaining players are guaranteed at least A$4,000 for their efforts.
On a board of , Honglin Jiang tried to bluff the river with [ÄhTs] but Dejan Boscovic had for the straight flush and raked in the chips.
Shortly afterwards, Jiang put the rest of his remaining chips at risk with against Jarrod Thatcher's . The board ran out and the Kiwi was sent to the rail in eighth place for $8,500.
Robert Damelian shoved all in with versus Hass Onay's . The board did not help Damelian and he went off to collect A$14,500 for his sixth-place finish.
Congratulations to Dejan "Junior" Boskovic for topping a field of 135 players to win the $2,500 High Roller at the Poker Palace Summer Championships. Boskovic took the win after a cordial heads-up ICM deal with Jarrod Thatcher which gave Boskovic a cool A$80,500 and the trophy, while Thatcher took home A$72,500.
After finding himself caught in a long and drawn-out struggle during hand-for-hand on the money bubble with not even seven big blinds, Boskovic turned it around to win it all. A couple of hands against one of the chip leaders at the time, eventual eighth place getter Honglin Jiang, were particularly important in propelling Boskovic to victory.
The first saw Boskovic double up through Jiang when his pocket queens held up against Jiang's big slick. The second was not long after when Jiang tried to bluff him off the pot on the river with ace-high, when Boskovic held a straight flush. He couldn't get the chips in fast enough.
His friendly dual with eventual fourth-place finishing Vincent Huang was also a feature of the final table and became a friendly joke between the two, with Boskovic eventually winning out, knocking the dual Aussie Millions ring winner out of the tournament.
Boskovic also knocked out third-place finisher Hass Onay after winning a big pot from Onay, then finishing the job, spiking a jack on the flop to come from behind after being dominated preflop. After the friendly chop, the tournament was over. All eyes arnow firmly set on the $1,150 Main Event that saw its first of four starting flights kick off today.