Nick Petrangelo Bags Big; Day 1 of 2017 PokerStars Championship Bahamas $25,750 High Roller Draws 151 Entries
The 2017 PokerStars Championship Bahamas $25,750 High Roller started off slow with just two tables, but with a single re-entry options and late registration open all day, that number swelled. After 10 one-hour levels of play, the field had grown to 115 unique entrants who accounted for 36 re-entries to bring the total field up to 151 entries. It could go up even more as registration will remain open up until the start of Day 2.
At the end of the night, Nick Petrangelo bagged the biggest stack among the approximately 75 survivors with 290,600, though several other players were hot on his heels including Sam Greenwood (276,800), Byron Kaverman (272,000), Oleksii Khoroshenin (264,000), and Sergio Aido (250,700).
Petrangelo is a regular on the high roller circuit and has total live earnings of nearly $6 million. That includes $1,015,335 for finishing second in the 2015 WPT Alpha8 Bellagio High Roller, taking third in the EPT12 Barcelona €10,000 High Roller for $669,12, and winning the EPT13 Barcelona €10,000 High Roller for $464,154. Petrangelo also finished sixth in this very event two years ago, good for $301,500.
Others who advanced are former NFL player Richard Seymour (165,000), Daniel Colman (100,400), Bryn Kenney (66,8000), Phil “The Unabomber” Laak (54,900), and Bernard Lee (27,200). They will be joined by Team PokerStars Pros Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier (140,300), Daniel Negreanu (104,600), Liv Boeree (43,000), Andre Akkari (40,600), and Jake Cody (32,800).
On the flip side, not everyone was as fortunate. Among those to fall twice on Day 1, meaning they don’t have a re-entry option to use tomorrow, were 2015 World Series of Poker Main Event champ Joe McKeehen, the UK wunderkind Charlie Carrel, 2016 Aussie Millions champ Chance Kornuth, and last year’s runner-up Sean Winter.
Shortly after re-entering the tournament, Winter found himself on the bad end of a cooler. He had flopped trip queens with a king kicker, but Khoroshenin had flopped threes full of queens. The chips went in, and Winter failed to get there. As for Carrel, he busted after getting his short stack in with ace-four and falling to the pocket eights of Greenwood.
Day 2 will kick off at Noon local time on Friday. Once again PokerNews will bring you updates straight from the tournament floor, so be sure to check back then. While you wait, check out this video of Seymour talking about joining Twitter, making a bet with Negreanu, and more.
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and no luck on the board. Goodnight, Igor. Except for Kurganov, whose girlfriend Liv Boeree claimed "hasn't stopped talking for six days!", a few more words were called for. Words such as 'Where can I buy back in?'. 
and Kanit called with 
, the pair of them were up and down like a pair of puppets. They were racing not just for a 97,000 pot, but bragging rights too. 
saw Kurganov on his feet, with an 'Eh!' to his friend Kanit. However, the 
on the turn sent Kanit into raptures.
! 
, but Kanit was racing again, holding the almost-identical-to-his-last-hand 
offered little hope. The turn of 
didn't improve the actual odds dramatically. But the 
on the river gave Kanit a runner-runner straight and he jumped back up, took back his hat and cried 'Who's the boss? Who's the boss?!" 
, 2016 PCA champ Mike Watson got his last 14,800 all in and was at risk against Bernard Lee.
. Lee missed and Watson doubled through.
to bounce from ten big blinds to just over 20 big blinds. 
saw Boeree continue for 2,200, but she was raised to 7,000 by Bonomo. Boeree called, and both players checked the 
turn. The river of 
appeared on the turn.
river failed to pair the board for Winter, and he was eliminated from the tournament for a second time.
flop gave him a gutshot wheel draw. The 
river.
turn gave him the flush, and the 
turn meant a nine would also win it for him, but it was the 
on display. Heath bet 750, and was raised to 1,500 by the PokerStars Team Pro. Heath re-raised to 4,400, and Negreanu called. 
, which both men checked, but on the river of 
