$10,300 High Roller Day 1 | 2017 PokerStars Championship Panama

03-18-2017 14:52 UTC-5

Player	Chips	Progress
Aleks Dimitrov	50,000 50,000	50,000

Andres Jeckeln	50,000 50,000	50,000
Daniel Dvoress	50,000 50,000	50,000

David Lopez Llacer	50,000 50,000	50,000
Davidi Kitai	50,000 50,000	50,000

Felix Bleiker	50,000 50,000	50,000
Francois Billard	50,000 50,000	50,000
Christian Christner	50,000 50,000	50,000
Jean Ferreira	50,000 50,000	50,000
Jonathan Concepcion Tacoronte	50,000 50,000	50,000
Koray Aldemir	50,000 50,000	50,000

Leo Fernandez	50,000 50,000	50,000

Marcelo Filartiga Villalba	50,000 50,000	50,000
Mike Watson	50,000 50,000	50,000

Pablo Fernandez	50,000 50,000	50,000
Pedro Idrovo	50,000 50,000	50,000
Roman Korenev	50,000 50,000	50,000

Ryan Riess	50,000 50,000	50,000

Sergi Reixach	50,000 50,000	50,000
Sergio Aido	50,000 50,000	50,000

Sergio Di Pego	50,000 50,000	50,000
Seth Davies	50,000 50,000	50,000

Stefan Schillhabel	50,000 50,000	50,000

Player	Chips	Progress
Jiachen Gong	51,000
Damian Salas	32,000 18,000	18,000

Ten Levels of Play

Frank Op de Woerd

Level 3 : 150/300, 50 ante

The tournament organization just announced that there will be 10 levels of play today. The last level today will be 800/1,600 with a 200-ante, the first level on Day 2 will be 1,000/2,000 with a 300-ante. An 80-minute dinner break is scheduled after Level 6, around 6:50 PM.

Level: 3

Blinds: 150/300

Ante: 50

03-18-2017 14:10 UTC-5

Break

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Frank Op de Woerd

Level 2 : 100/200, 25 ante

The first break of the tournament has just commenced. The tournament is up to 54 entries right now, 53 players remain as just Justin Bonomo busted and reentered. Action resumes in 20 minutes.

03-18-2017 14:07 UTC-5

Mateos Wins Some From Newey

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Frank Op de Woerd

Level 2 : 100/200, 25 ante

Paul Newey opened the pot with a raise to 500 from the hijack. Adrian Mateos called from the cutoff, the big blind came along as well. Both the big blind and Newey checked on and Mateos bet 800. The big blind folded, Newey called.

The two of them checked the on the turn and the on the river completed the board. Newey checked and called Mateos' 2,000 bet. Mateos showed and Newey mucked.

Player	Chips	Progress
Adrian Mateos	47,000 2,000	2,000

Paul Newey	42,050 3,050	3,050

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03-18-2017 14:07 UTC-5

Kisacikoglu Won't Be Bluffed

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Level 2 : 100/200, 25 ante

On a board reading , with about 5,000 in the pot, Felipe Ramos checked from the big blind.

Orpen Kisacikoglu was under the gun and bet 2,900. Dan Colman thought about it and folded.

Ramos was left to act and decided to check-raise to 11,000.

Kisacikoglu went into the tank and eventually called.

Ramos unhappily tabled with the dry ace of diamonds for ace-high and Kisacikoglu tabled for a straight, sending the pot his way.

Player	Chips	Progress
Orpen Kisacikoglu	67,000 17,000	17,000

Felipe Ramos	58,000 24,000	24,000

Tags: Felipe Ramos Orpen Kisacikoglu

03-18-2017 14:05 UTC-5

Seidel Jams the River

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Level 2 : 100/200, 25 ante

With about 10,000 in the pot, on a board reading , Erik Seidel led out for 17,000 from the small blind.

Richard Dubini was in the big blind and thought for about two minutes before deciding to call.

The river was the . Seidel wasted no time and jammed his remaining 30,000 chips in the middle. Dubini thought about it for about three minutes before open-folding . Seidel quietly stacked his chips.

Player	Chips	Progress
Erik Seidel	70,000 70,000	70,000

Richard Dubini	23,500 23,500	23,500

Tags: Erik Seidel Richard Dubini

03-18-2017 13:44 UTC-5

Justin Bonomo is the First Casualty

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Level 2 : 100/200, 25 ante

Action folded to Justin Bonomo in the cutoff and he raised to 450. Isaac Haxton was on the button and three-bet to 1,150. Bonomo called.

The flop came and Bonomo checked. Haxton bet 700, and after thinking for a moment check-raised to 2,700. Haxton took a look at Bonomo's stack and opted to call.

The turn was the . Bonomo thought for about a minute and eventually moved all in for his remaining 7,000 chips. Haxton took a quick look back at his cards and called.

Haxton:
Bonomo:

Haxton flopped trip eights, but Bonomo had some outs after flopping a flush draw.

The river was the and Haxton's trip eights held, sending Bonomo to the cage to re-enter.

Player	Chips	Progress
Isaac Haxton	53,000 18,000	18,000

Justin Bonomo	Busted

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03-18-2017 13:37 UTC-5

Haxton Gives Some to Bonomo

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Frank Op de Woerd

Level 2 : 100/200, 25 ante

Justin Bonomo opened his button with a raise to 500 and both small blind Isaac Haxton and big blind Ryan Riess called.

Haxton bet out 700 on and Riess was quick to fold. Bonomo called in position and called Haxton's 2,000 bet on the turn as well.

The river saw Haxton check. Bonomo bet what appeared to be 4,200, leaving himself just 50 behind. Haxton tossed his cards into the muck before Bonomo had even released his chips.