2017 Super High Roller Bowl

$300,000 Super High Roller Bowl
Day: 1
Event Info

2017 Super High Roller Bowl

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
107
Prize
$6,000,000
Event Info
Buy-in
$300,000
Prize Pool
$16,800,000
Entries
56
Level Info
Level
27
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
100,000

$300,000 Super High Roller Bowl

Day 1 Completed

Kaverman Leads, Holz Looming After Day 1 of SHRB

Level 7 : 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
Byron Kaverman
Byron Kaverman

One of the most prestigious tournaments in the poker world got underway with seven levels of Day 1 action at ARIA, and when the $300,000 Super High Roller Bowl finished up play, Byron Kaverman bagged the chip lead.

He turned his 300,000 starting stack into 1,247,000, giving him a sizable lead over King's Casino owner and EPT Prague $50K Super High Roller champ Leon Tsoukernik (912,000). High roller crushed Fedor Holz, who finished second in this event last year for $3.5 million, sits in third with 803,000.

The SHRB got going in the early afternoon with the majority of players taking seats right at tip-off, while a few, like Phil Hellmuth, arrived only a bit late. It featured a bit of an unusual betting structure that called for the normal small and big blinds but also a large ante from the big blind that served to keep things moving and keep the chips more consolidated into bigger denominations.

Kaverman won a couple of huge hands that enabled him to bag his lead. He got sneaky with aces after opening for a raise, just calling a reraise from Cary Katz and then flopping a full house. Katz flopped trip kings with king-five of hearts and made a full house of his own on the turn. He ended up calling a large check-raise on the river.

Later, Kaverman made a straight with jack-nine of clubs against Igor Kurganov, who hit top two pair with ace-queen. He couldn't get away on the river when Kaverman put him all in.

Holz got lucky to eliminated John Juanda in a three-bet pot that saw Juanda get it in with top pair on the turn but Holz get there with a gutshot and flush draw.

Holz's well-known penchant for running through high roller events has enabled him to rack up over $22 million in tournament cashes. Poker fans around the world will be following closely to see if he can keep up his amazing run with another final table finish here at ARIA.

Another player who will have plenty of eyeballs following his coverage is actor and comedian Kevin Hart. Hart made it through Day 1 with just a hair below the starting stack, but he memorably eliminated Hellmuth. The two got it in on a queen-high board with Hart holding top set of queens and Hellmuth a smaller set of threes. When he couldn't spike his one-outer, Hellmuth was done.

In all, 12 players saw their tournaments come to an end in the slow-paced, deep-stacked Day 1. In addition to the "Poker Brat," Erik Seidel, Ben Sulsky, Ben Tollerene, Ankush Mandavia and Haralabos Voulgaris hit the rail.

The remaining 44 return on Monday for Day 2, scheduled to start once again at 1 p.m. Come back to PokerNews for more updates then.

Tags: Byron KavermanFedor Holz

End of Day 1 Counts (full)

Level 7 : 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
Player Chips Progress
Byron Kaverman us
Byron Kaverman
WSOP 1X Winner
1,247,000 215,000
Leon Tsoukernik cz
Leon Tsoukernik
912,000 62,000
Fedor Holz de
Fedor Holz
803,000 108,000
Cary Katz us
Cary Katz
677,000 22,000
Jake Schindler us
Jake Schindler
WSOP 1X Winner
648,500 -11,500
Justin Bonomo us
Justin Bonomo
WSOP 3X Winner
620,500 9,500
Jason Mercier us
Jason Mercier
WSOP 6X Winner
EPT 1X Winner
605,000 195,000
Nick Petrangelo us
Nick Petrangelo
WSOP 2X Winner
592,500 182,500
Andrew Lichtenberger us
Andrew Lichtenberger
WSOP 1X Winner
585,000 270,000
Rainer Kempe de
Rainer Kempe
517,000 103,000
Dominik Nitsche de
Dominik Nitsche
WSOP 4X Winner
WPT 1X Winner
513,000 183,000
Steffen Sontheimer de
Steffen Sontheimer
499,500 129,500
Christoph Vogelsang de
Christoph Vogelsang
491,000 -49,000
David Einhorn us
David Einhorn
483,500 53,500
Andrew Robl us
Andrew Robl
406,000 -9,000
Dan Shak us
Dan Shak
405,500 80,500
Dan Colman us
Dan Colman
403,000 36,000
Pratyush Buddiga us
Pratyush Buddiga
387,500 32,500
Brian Rast us
Brian Rast
WSOP 6X Winner
Poker Hall of Famer
375,500 -19,500
Tony Guoga lt
Tony Guoga
372,500 35,500
Stefan Schillhabel de
Stefan Schillhabel
WPT 1X Winner
360,000 185,000
Jason Koon us
Jason Koon
354,000 -76,000
Dan Smith us
Dan Smith
WSOP 1X Winner
WPT 1X Winner
351,000 -14,000
David Peters us
David Peters
WSOP 2X Winner
342,000 92,000
Koray Aldemir de
Koray Aldemir
WSOP Main Event Champion
WSOP 1X Winner
334,500 29,500

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Sulsky Eliminated

Level 7 : 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
Ben Sulsky
Ben Sulsky

On one of the last hands of the night, Ben Sulsky was eliminated from the tournament by David Einhorn.

Sulsky held {2-Spades}{2-Hearts} against Einhorn's {K-Hearts}{6-Hearts} with the money going all in on the river with the final board running out {J-Hearts}{7-Hearts}{2-Clubs}{8-Hearts}{K-Diamonds}.

Player Chips Progress
Ben Sulsky us
Ben Sulsky
Busted

Tags: Ben SulskyDavid Einhorn

Four More Hands

Level 7 : 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

The clock has been paused with 10 minutes remaining and the Tournament Director has announced that there will be four more hands for the evening.

Seidel Silenced

Level 7 : 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
Erik Seidel
Erik Seidel

From the cutoff, Erik Seidel opened to 8,000 only to have Cary Katz three-bet the button to 20,000.

The action folded back to Seidel and he moved all in for 106,000 with Katz instantly calling.

Katz: {K-Spades}{K-Clubs}
Seidel: {A-Diamonds}{10-Clubs}

The {K-Hearts}{9-Hearts}{2-Hearts} flop would render Seidel drawing extremely thin needing running cards to a straight or to a chopped flush.

The {6-Spades} on the turn would end things as the meaningless {5-Clubs} completed the board on the river and Seidel was eliminated.

Player Chips Progress
Cary Katz us
Cary Katz
655,000 78,000
Erik Seidel us
Erik Seidel
WSOP 10X Winner
Poker Hall of Famer
WPT 1X Winner
Busted

Tags: Cary KatzErik Seidel

Berkey Wins Battle Against Robl

Level 7 : 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

On a board reading {5-Spades}{10-Hearts}{9-Diamonds}{4-Clubs} with roughly 60,000 in the pot already, Andrew Robl bet out 48,000 from the small blind and Matt Berkey called from under the gun.

The river landed the {J-Spades} and following a check from Robl, Berkey bet out 70,000.

Robl went deep into the tank; eventually having to automatically use his final time extension button.

Robl had the necessary calling chips in his hand, then re-checked his cards before tossing them to the muck with just seconds to spare.

"I was calling an all in" announced Robl as he looked up Berkey.

"Really? On the turn or the river?" asked Berkey as he raked in the pot.

Player Chips Progress
Andrew Robl us
Andrew Robl
415,000 -35,000
Matt Berkey us
Matt Berkey
345,000 41,500

Tags: Andrew RoblMatt Berkey

Holz Takes from Haxton

Level 7 : 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

Fedor Holz opened to 7,000 only to have Isaac Haxton three-bet next to act to 23,000. The action folded back to Holz and he called as the flop fell {9-Diamonds}{10-Hearts}{4-Diamonds}.

Holz checked and Haxton continued for 27,000 only to have Holz check-raise to 67,000. Haxton folded, and Holz was pushed the pot.

Player Chips Progress
Fedor Holz de
Fedor Holz
695,000 110,000
Isaac Haxton us
Isaac Haxton
WSOP 1X Winner
185,000 -120,000

Tags: Fedor HolzIsaac Haxton