Last Gasp Burst of Action to Close out Triton SHR Day 1

Day 1 of the Triton Super High Roller 2017 Montenegro Main Event is now done and dusted with China’s Wang Qiang snatching the chip lead away from Belarus’ Mikita Badziakouski midway through the last level of the day.

While the official chip counts have still to come in it appears that Qiang bagged up an impressive 1,040,000 with Badziakouski coming in as the next largest stack, finishing play with a stack of 843,000, closely followed by Greece’s Antonios Paschalidis who bagged up 830,000.

As is usually the case there was a last gasp burst of action with Paul Phua busting his second buy-in at the hands of Sam Trickett with all the chips finding their way into the middle pre-flop.

It was a fair fight with Phua’s pocket tens racing against Trickett’s ace-queen and the British pro spiked a queen on the turn to send Phua out of his own event for a second time while Trickett stacked up to over 700,000.

Timofey ‘Trueteller’ Kuznetsov was another late casualty, moving all-in for his last 100,000 from the big blind over the top of a Predrag Lekovic 15,000 under-the-gun open. The Montenegrin player made a speedy call and the cards were turned over.

Timofey Kuznetsov:
Predrag Lekovic:

The flop brought something for everyone and Kuznetsov picked up some additional outs when the hit the turn. However, the river was not one of them and the Russian busted on the very last hand of the day while Lekovic stacked up to 357,000.