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Level: 8
Blinds: 2,500/5,000
Ante: 500
2017 Triton Poker Series Montenegro
HK $1,000,000 Main Event
Day: 1
Event Info
2017 Triton Poker Series Montenegro
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
1,000,000 HKD
Total Entries
52
Level
24
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
25,000
Players Left 1 / 52
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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 |
|---|---|---|
|
830,000
628,500
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628,500 |
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218,000
400,000
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400,000 |
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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 |
|---|---|---|
|
730,000
80,000
|
80,000 |
|
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|
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618,000
103,000
|
103,000 |
|
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||
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330,000
95,000
|
95,000 |
|
||
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155,000
75,000
|
75,000 |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Level: 7
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 500
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 |
|---|---|---|
|
690,000
243,000
|
243,000 |
|
|
650,000
118,000
|
118,000 |
|
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|
542,000
88,000
|
88,000 |
|
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515,000
259,000
|
259,000 |
|
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500,000
250,000
|
250,000 |
|
430,000
180,000
|
180,000 |
|
415,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
|
380,000
130,000
|
130,000 |
|
350,000
241,000
|
241,000 |
|
320,000
65,000
|
65,000 |
|
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300,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
|
|
||
|
265,000 | |
|
|
||
|
254,000
6,000
|
6,000 |
|
||
|
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235,000
44,000
|
44,000 |
|
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235,000
12,000
|
12,000 |
|
|
||
|
230,000
38,000
|
38,000 |
|
|
||
|
215,000
35,000
|
35,000 |
|
215,000
95,000
|
95,000 |
|
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|
205,000
91,000
|
91,000 |
|
205,000
70,000
|
70,000 |
|
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202,500
47,500
|
47,500 |
|
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201,500
48,500
|
48,500 |
|
176,000
74,000
|
74,000 |
|
168,000
82,000
|
82,000 |
|
140,000
75,000
|
75,000 |
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.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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410,000
45,000
|
45,000 |
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325,000
81,000
|
81,000 |
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255,000
49,000
|
49,000 |
|
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250,000
250,000
|
250,000 |
|
60,000
240,000
|
240,000 |
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Busted | |
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Level: 6
Blinds: 1,500/3,000
Ante: 500
Level 5
: 1,200/2,400, 400 ante
A chunky pot has recently played out between Mikita Badziakouski and Chan Wai Leong that saw the chip lead change hands.
We picked up the action on the turn with over 100,000 in blinds and antes already in the pot with the board reading 
just as Leong (big blind] led out for a 60,000 bet.
Sitting under-the-gun-plus-one Badziakouski, wearing his trademark sunglasses, turned to face Leong and while we couldn’t see exactly what he was looking at we are guessing that it was his Malaysian opponent.
Eventually Badziakouski made the call to swell the pot to over 200,000 and the dealer peeled off the 
to complete the hand, but not the betting.
After thinking things over Leong now chose to check and Badziakouski mulled over his options before reaching for the turquoise 25k chips and sliding out a hefty 140,000 bet, leaving himself around 307,000 behind.
This sent Leong deep into the tank, where he remained for a good five minutes. With 615,000 in chips behind the Malaysian player could afford the call, but it would be for a significant portion of his chips. Eventually Leong decided to give it up and the monster pot was shipped Badziakouski’s way with the Belarusian climbing to 768,000 after the hand.
The recent arrival of the UK’s Sam Trickett, Greece’s Antonios Paschalidis, China's Zuo Wang and France's Arnaud Romain has see the field increase once more and we are now up to 35 entries, 33 of whom are still in the running.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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768,000
256,000
|
256,000 |
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630,000
125,200
|
125,200 |
|
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250,000
250,000
|
250,000 |
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250,000
250,000
|
250,000 |
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250,000 | |
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250,000 | |
Level 5
: 1,200/2,400, 400 ante
There have been some more late comers with Dominik Bosnjak and Timofey ‘Trueteller’ Kuznetsov buying in and Liang Yu buying in for the second time with the rest of the field stacking up as follows:
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
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755,200
71,800
|
71,800 |
|
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447,000
84,800
|
84,800 |
|
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365,000
52,000
|
52,000 |
|
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310,000
3,000
|
3,000 |
|
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|
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300,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
|
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296,000
41,000
|
41,000 |
|
290,000
40,000
|
40,000 |
|
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276,000
8,000
|
8,000 |
|
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|
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275,000
51,000
|
51,000 |
|
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265,000
15,000
|
15,000 |
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|
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260,000
3,000
|
3,000 |
|
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|
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256,000
6,000
|
6,000 |
|
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|
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250,000 | |
|
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250,000
250,000
|
250,000 |
|
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250,000 | |
|
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247,000
11,000
|
11,000 |
|
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245,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
|
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244,000
11,000
|
11,000 |
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|
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215,000
35,000
|
35,000 |
|
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206,000
28,000
|
28,000 |
|
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192,000
43,000
|
43,000 |
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191,000
59,000
|
59,000 |
|
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180,000
101,300
|
101,300 |
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165,000
85,000
|
85,000 |
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134,500
11,400
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11,400 |
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Level: 5
Blinds: 1,200/2,400
Ante: 400
