Welcome to the 2019 The Star Sydney Champs $20,000 High Roller
The most expensive tournament of the 2019 The Star Sydney Championship awaits with the A$20,000 High Roller and the most well-known regulars of The Star Sydney are expected to join the action to determine the best among their peers.
Some of them have already secured their seat at a bargain through the A$1,100 Live Satellites such as David Wang, Michael O'Grady, Corey Kempson and 2018 A$5k Challenge winner John Thomson.
Defending champion of the event is New Zealand's Sosia Jiang, who emerged on top of a 28-entry strong field after defeating Matthew Wakeman in heads-up for a payday of A$266,000. Michel Bouskila ended up in third and also had a deep run during the 2019 series already when he finished 16th out of 356 entries in the 6-Max Event.
Jiang won't be attempting to defend her title this year, however, as she headed off to London for the Triton Poker festival to compete in the biggest buy-in of live poker history thus far.
All participants will receive 50,000 in chips and the late registration and re-entry period will be open for the first nine 45-minute levels and the following 30-minute break. The tournament features the popular big blind ante and Day 1 is scheduled to play a total of 15 levels of 45 minutes each, as of Day 2 the level duration then increases to 60 minutes.
Day 1 Level Structure
| Level | Duration | Small Blind | Big Blind | Ante |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 45 | 100 | 200 | 200 |
| 2 | 45 | 200 | 300 | 300 |
| 3 | 45 | 200 | 400 | 400 |
| Break | 10 | |||
| 4 | 45 | 300 | 600 | 600 |
| 5 | 45 | 400 | 800 | 800 |
| 6 | 45 | 500 | 1,000 | 1,000 |
| Break | 10 | |||
| 7 | 45 | 600 | 1,200 | 1,200 |
| 8 | 45 | 800 | 1,600 | 1,600 |
| 9 | 45 | 1,000 | 2,000 | 2,000 |
| Break | 30 | |||
| 10 | 45 | 1,200 | 2,400 | 2,400 |
| 11 | 45 | 1,500 | 3,000 | 3,000 |
| 12 | 45 | 2,000 | 4,000 | 4,000 |
| Break | 10 | |||
| 13 | 45 | 2,500 | 5,000 | 5,000 |
| 14 | 45 | 3,000 | 6,000 | 6,000 |
| 15 | 45 | 4,000 | 8,000 | 8,000 |
The PokerNews team will be on the floor to cover all the action from start-to-finish, stay tuned to find out who will be crowned the High Roller Champion in Sydney!
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board, Dejan Boskovic Sr raised to 500 first to act. Vesko Zmukic called from two seats over and Travis Endersby in the big blind squeezed to 2,700 in the big blind. Only Boskovic Sr called and they headed to the 
flop on which Endersby bet 2,100 and Boskovic Sr called.
turn, Endersby made it 4,600 to go and Boskovic Sr raised to 12,000, Endersby called after some consideration.
for a turned full house and Endersby mucked.
flop and indeed hit the miracle 
turn and 
river run out to eliminate Thomson.
for Dhingra to hold the higher flush to eliminate Wang from the High Roller. 
run out safely. Just one minute later, Kashyap re-entered and moved over to the feature table with a fresh stack of 50,000.
flop was checked to Fu and he bet 4,500, which only Egan called. On the 
turn, Egan check-called another bet of 9,500 and checked the 
for a busted flush draw, while Egan won the pot with 
river was a blank and Boskovic Sr said "he saved you, I had a seven."
