HK $1,000,000 Main Event Day 1 | 2017 Triton Super High Roller Series Montenegro

07-18-2017 21:18 UTC+2

Post-Break Chip Counts

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Level 8 : 2,500/5,000, 500 ante

Steve O’Dwyer has re-entered and China’s Wang Qiang has joined the action to bring the total number of entrants up to 43 with 32 players still in the running and here’s how the field is stacking up:

Player	Chips	Progress
Antonios Paschalidis	885,000	55,000
Tony Cheng	820,000	500,000
Mikita Badziakouski	770,000	40,000
Chan Wai Leong	727,500	185,500
Sam Trickett	715,000	215,000
Steffen Sontheimer	600,000	-90,000
Peter Chan	487,000	137,000
Dominik Bosnjak	418,000	38,000
Wang Qiang	355,000	355,000
Koray Aldemir	345,000	80,000
Manig Loeser	345,000	15,000
Rui Cao	333,000	-82,000
Salman Behbehani	332,000	-98,000
Predrag Lekovic	320,000	115,000
Wai Kin Yong	285,500	191,500
Su Hao	280,000	75,000
Steve O'Dwyer	275,000	275,000
Richard Yong	270,000	175,000
Lauren Roberts	233,000	93,000
Timofey Kuznetsov	230,000	15,000
John Juanda	223,000	5,000
David Peters	195,000	120,000
Dominik Nitsche	186,500	-28,500
Paul Phua	172,000	82,000
Liang Yu	165,000	-3,000

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Level: 8

Blinds: 2,500/5,000

Ante: 500

07-18-2017 20:54 UTC+2

Break started

Break: 10 min.

07-18-2017 20:53 UTC+2

Paschalidis Doubles Through Juanda

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Level 7 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante

A massive pot recently played out between John Juanda and Antonios Paschalidis that saw the latter double up at the former’s expense.

Pre-flop it was Juanda who was the initial raiser, making it 9,500 to go from the cutoff, with Liang Yu making the call on the button before Paschalidis, sitting in the big blind, squeezed to 40,000 in total.

Juanda thought it over before choosing to three-bet to 125,000 and while that was enough to get Yu to bow out Paschalidis threw in the extras to take play heads-up to a flop of .

The Greek player checked the flop over to Juanda, who elected to bet 116,000 and the action was back on Paschalidis, who looked to the heavens like this was the worst thing in the world, ever, before quickly moving all-in for 290,000.

Juanda made the call and discovered the bad news – his was trailing to Paschalidis’ with the Greek player having the same suits covered as well.

The gave both players a flush draw, though this was no good for Juanda, and the hit the river to give Paschalidis the double and he climbed to 830,000 while Juanda dropped to 218,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Antonios Paschalidis	830,000	628,500
John Juanda	218,000	-400,000

Tags: Antonios Paschalidis John Juanda

07-18-2017 20:17 UTC+2

Juanda Busts Gipson, Loeser Busts O’Dwyer, Holz Wins from Badziakouski

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Level 7 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante

The action is coming to the boil now in the Triton Super High Roller Montenegro Main Event and there have been two bust outs already in the first 15-minutes of level 7 with Keith Gipson and Steve O’Dwyer heading for the rail.

Gipson’s bust out came right at the start of the level and while we missed the majority of the action we do know that Juanda, holding put Gipson all in on the river on a board reading [x][x].

Gipson was down to his last 100,000 chips before the hand began and called all-in for his tournament life but did not show down when Juanda flipped over the turned straight.

We saw Steve O’Dwyer heading for the rail with a cigarette in his mouth and called by his former table to find out the story of his demise. Germany’s Manig Loeser was the man to send O’Dwyer out and was kind enough to give us all the gory details.

“It was a pretty standard hand,” said Loeser, “I opened, Steve moved all-in for a little over 20 big blinds with ace-jack and I made the call with pocket tens, which held.”

Loeser climbed to 330,000 after the hand and O’Dwyer will be re-buying just as soon as he finishes smoking that cigarette.

Another man who will be sticking around a little longer is Fedor Holz, who has just won a hand from Mikita Badziakouski. We arrived at Holz’ table in time to see the German move all-in on the river for roughly 85,000 with around 70,000 already in the pot with the community cards reading .

Badziakouski looked sorely tempted and tanked long and hard over the decision but eventually decided to give it up and Holz raked in the pot to climb to 155,000 while Badziakouski dropped to 730,000, which we believe still leaves the Belarusian as the current chip leader.

Player	Chips	Progress
Mikita Badziakouski	730,000	80,000
John Juanda	618,000	103,000
Manig Loeser	330,000	95,000
Fedor Holz	155,000	75,000
Keith Gipson	Busted
Steve O'Dwyer	Busted

Tags: Fedor Holz John Juanda Manig Loeser Mikita Badziakouski Steve O'Dwyer

Level: 7

Blinds: 2,000/4,000

Ante: 500

07-18-2017 19:50 UTC+2

Sontheimer Leads

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Level 6 : 1,500/3,000, 500 ante

It appears as though Steffen Sontheimer has edged into the chip lead, although Mikita Badziakouski and Chan Wai Leong are still up there while the second bullet does not seem to be working out all that well for Paul Phua, who is looking a little short with the rest of the field stacking up as follows:

Player	Chips	Progress
Steffen Sontheimer	690,000	243,000
Mikita Badziakouski	650,000	-118,000
Chan Wai Leong	542,000	-88,000
John Juanda	515,000	259,000
Sam Trickett	500,000	250,000
Salman Behbehani	430,000	180,000
Rui Cao	415,000	5,000
Dominik Bosnjak	380,000	130,000
Peter Chan	350,000	241,000
Tony Cheng	320,000	65,000
Steve O'Dwyer	300,000	-25,000
Koray Aldemir	265,000
Lucas Greenwood	254,000	-6,000
Daniel Cates	235,000	44,000
Manig Loeser	235,000	-12,000
Alexandros Kolonias	230,000	38,000
Timofey Kuznetsov	215,000	-35,000
Dominik Nitsche	215,000	-95,000
Su Hao	205,000	-91,000
Predrag Lekovic	205,000	-70,000
Arnaud Romain	202,500	-47,500
Antonios Paschalidis	201,500	-48,500
Zuo Wang	176,000	-74,000
Liang Yu	168,000	-82,000
Lauren Roberts	140,000	-75,000

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Tags: Steffen Sontheimer Mikita Badziakouski Chan Wai Leong

07-18-2017 19:15 UTC+2

Phua Busts and Loses Bet to Cao Who Doubles, O’Dwyer Wins From Cheng

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Level 6 : 1,500/3,000, 500 ante

With the late arrival of Salman Behbehani, the field increased to 38 entries, though this decreased by a player with the elimination of Paul Phua at the hands of Steffen Sontheimer.

Down to 100,000 before the hand, Phua got the last of his chips in pre-flop from the big blind after a Sontheimer late position raise and the cards were turned over.

Paul Phua:
Steffen Sontheimer:

Unfortunately for Phua, his ducks were gunned down by Sontheimer’s cowboys when the board ran out and Phua headed straight for the cash desk to re-enter while Sontheimer stacked up to 614,000.

Interestingly this hand occurred at the same time Rui Cao and Richard Yong got all the chips in pre-flop as Cao (who was the at risk player) had a last longer bet with Phua. While we do not know how much this was for we do know that Cao, holding the mighty spiked his four on an board to not only out last Phua but double through Yong as well.

We did not catch Yong’s hand but we do know that he was left with 60,000 after the dust settled on the hand while Cao climbed to over 410,000.

Another player whose tournament is going in the right direction is Steve O’Dwyer, who won a decent sized pot from Hong Kong’s Tony Cheng shortly after the Phua versus Sontheimer/Cao versus Yong hand played out.

We caught the action on the flop in a three-way hand involving Peter Chan (small blind), O’Dwyer (big blind) and Cheng, who was sitting in late position.

There was a little over 20,000 in blinds and antes in the pot with the flop reading and we arrived just as O’Dwyer fired out a bet of 8,000. Cheng made the call and Chen folded to take play heads-up to the turn, which saw O’Dwyer fire a second barrel of 19,000.

Although he took slightly longer about it this time around Cheng made the call once more to bring both players to the river. O’Dwyer did not take long to fire once again, this time for 50,000. Cheng hit the think tank for a minute but chose to fold, leaving O’Dwyer to scoop the pot and climb to 325,000 while Cheng dropped 255,000.