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

07-18-2017 14:47 UTC+2

Stack Check

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Level 2 : 600/1,200, 200 ante

There have been a few new arrivals and the field has grown to 15 with the USA’s Keith Gipson and Malaysia’s Chan Wai Leong two of the new faces. Here’s how the field is stacking up so far:

Player	Chips	Progress
Steve O'Dwyer	296,000 26,000	26,000

Steffen Sontheimer	278,000 28,000	28,000
Mikita Badziakouski	275,000 2,000	2,000

Predrag Lekovic	265,000 21,000	21,000
Alexandros Kolonias	263,200 13,200	13,200

Dominik Nitsche	260,000 10,000	10,000

Fedor Holz	255,000 5,000	5,000

Keith Gipson	250,000
Chan Wai Leong	250,000
Manig Loeser	228,000 -22,000	-22,000

Paul Phua	215,500 -34,500	-34,500

Lucas Greenwood	206,000 29,400	29,400

David Peters	200,000 -77,000	-77,000

Peter Chan	190,000 -60,000	-60,000
Liang Yu	170,000 -38,000	-38,000

Tags: David Peters Dominik Nitsche Fedor Holz Liang Yu Manig Loeser Mikita Badziakouski Paul Phua Predrag Lekovic Steve O'Dwyer

07-18-2017 15:05 UTC+2

Cheng Enters, Yu Departs, Badziakouski Takes Early Lead

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Level 2 : 600/1,200, 200 ante

The field briefly grew to 16 with the arrival of Hong Kong’s Tony Cheng, but we have also had the Main Event’s first official casualty with Liang Yu hitting the rail.

The man to show Yu the door, at least for his first bullet, was Mikita Badziakouski with the two playing quite a few pots together every time we walked past their table.

It all came to a head on a flop where we picked up the action with over 17,000 in blinds and antes already in the pot. We are not sure what the pre-flop betting was but Yu had just checked the action over to Badziakouski, who led out for 7,000.

Yu check-raised to 17,000, leaving himself 51,600 behind, and Badziakouski thought things over before casually tossing in the call and the dealer peeled off the turn.

Yu quickly moved all-in and Badziakouski called instantly, tabling . Yu shook his head, laughed and folded immediately, and got up and walked away from the table before the hand was finished.

That shot Badziakouski into an early lead and brought the field back down to 15.

Player	Chips	Progress
Mikita Badziakouski	478,000 203,000	203,000

Tony Cheng	250,000 250,000	250,000
Liang Yu	Busted

Tags: Liang Yu Mikita Badziakouski

07-18-2017 15:07 UTC+2

Break started

Break: 10 min.

Level: 3

Blinds: 800/1,600

Ante: 200

07-18-2017 15:25 UTC+2

Sontheimer Wins From O’Dwyer, Field Grows

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Level 3 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

We caught a sizable hand on the river between Steve O’Dwyer and Steffen Sontheimer with roughly 50,000 already in the pot and the community cards spread .

We missed all the pre and post flop betting aside from the final street unfortunately, arriving just as O’Dwyer had checked the action over to Sonheimer, who fired for close to a pot sized 45,000.

O’Dwyer did not look too happy about it but eventually threw in the call, but could only muck his hand when Sontheimer turned over for the turned nut flush. O’Dwyer took a hit and dropped to 226,000 while Sontheimer climbed to 337,000.

The field has increased some more with Hong Kong’s Devan Tang and Triton SHR 6-Max Montenegro final tablist Xuan Tan joining the fray. Tom Dwan has just walked into the poker room with Gabe Patgorski and the two perused the room briefly before walking back out. Whether that means the pair will be signing up later we do not know, but it will be fun finding out…

Player	Chips	Progress
Steffen Sontheimer	337,000 59,000	59,000
Devan Tang	250,000 250,000	250,000
Xuan Tan	250,000 250,000	250,000
Steve O'Dwyer	226,000 -70,000	-70,000

Tags: Devon Tang Xuan Tan Steve O'Dwyer Steffen Sontheimer

07-18-2017 15:45 UTC+2

Chan Backdoors Kolonias, Holz Folds Out Lekovic, Two New Faces

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Level 3 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

We caught the tail end of a decent sized pot that played out between Alexandros Kolonias and Peter Chan. With the board reading Kolonias (cutoff) had checked the action over to Chan (button), who fired out a hefty pot-sized bet of 55,000, leaving himself roughly 85,000 behind.

Kolonias tanked long and hard over the decision, but as the astute amongst you must have guessed from the post title, the Greek player made the call only to see Chan triumphantly table for the rivered nut flush and the Hong Kong player climbed to 221,500 after that timely catch while Kolonias dropped to 166,500.

It has not taken Fedor Holz long to get things going and we caught the German player embroiled in a hand against Predrag Lekovic in a scene that felt strangely reminiscent of yesterday’s 6-Max final table – a fact Holz also noted.

We picked up the action pre-flop where Lekovic (under-the-gun) had a raise of 4,500 out on the felt in front of him and was contemplating a Holz UTG+1 re-raise of 15,000.

Lekovic mulled it over and eventually counted out the call, bringing a chuckle from Holz.

“We’ve been here before,” quipped the German as the dealer spread the flop, which brought a check from Lekovic and a bet of 21,500 from Holz.

The Montenegrin player thought it over but did not take too long to make the call and the dealer burned and turned the bringing another check from Lekovic and a hefty 66,500-second barrel from Holz.

Lekovic shot Holz a wry grin before sliding his cards into the muck, dropping to 288,000 while Holz climbed to 336,000.

There have been two more new arrivals to grow the field to 20 entrants, 19 of whom still remain in contention with the new faces being China’s Rui Cao and 6-Max runner up Su Hao.

Player	Chips	Progress
Fedor Holz	336,000 81,000	81,000

Predrag Lekovic	288,000 23,000	23,000
Rui Cao	250,000 250,000	250,000
Su Hao	250,000 250,000	250,000
Peter Chan	221,500 31,500	31,500
Alexandros Kolonias	166,500 -96,700	-96,700

Tags: Fedor Holz Pretrag Fekovic Rui Cao Su Hao

Level: 4

Blinds: 1,000/2,000

Ante: 300

07-18-2017 16:20 UTC+2

Stack Check

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Level 4 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

Current chip leader is Mikita Badziakouski following his elimination of Liang Yu, with Fedor Holz the next largest stack and being as the two are seated at the same table and are both pretty active there may well be fireworks at some point.Here's how the field is stacking up so far:

Player	Chips	Progress
Mikita Badziakouski	512,000 34,000	34,000

Fedor Holz	395,000 59,000	59,000

Steffen Sontheimer	362,200 25,200	25,200
Rui Cao	313,000 63,000	63,000
Dominik Nitsche	307,000 47,000	47,000

Chan Wai Leong	295,500 45,500	45,500
Keith Gipson	281,300 31,300	31,300
Lucas Greenwood	263,000 57,000	57,000

Su Hao	255,000 5,000	5,000
Manig Loeser	236,000 8,000	8,000

Tony Cheng	234,000 -16,000	-16,000
Steve O'Dwyer	233,000 7,000	7,000

Devan Tang	224,000 -26,000	-26,000
Predrag Lekovic	224,000 -64,000	-64,000
David Peters	212,200 12,200	12,200

Paul Phua	210,000 -5,500	-5,500

Peter Chan	209,000 -12,500	-12,500
Xuan Tan	174,000 -76,000	-76,000
Alexandros Kolonias	149,000 -17,500	-17,500

07-18-2017 16:36 UTC+2

Leong Sets Up Tan

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Level 4 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

Xuan Tan is now in the red for his Montenegrin trip as, despite cashing the Triton SHR 6-Max on Monday 17 July for HK$386,000, the Chinese player has become the second official casualty of the Main Event.

While we missed the hand in question we found out the details from the man who sent Tan to the rail, Malaysia’s Chan Wai Leong.

According to Leong, it was a blind versus blind battle that went poorly for Tan (big blind) who called Leong’s small blind 3,500 pre-flop raise.

Unfortunately for the Chinese player, he flopped two pair holding , and while this is usually a good thing, it is less good when your opponent is holding for a set.

All the chips went in on the flop and a dejected Tan headed for the rail while Leong stacked up to 470,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Chan Wai Leong	470,000 174,500	174,500
Xuan Tan	Busted

Tags: Chan Wai Leong Xuan Tan

07-18-2017 16:58 UTC+2

Phua Tests Peters, More New Entries

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Level 4 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

We caught Paul Phua and David Peters embroiled in a hand on the river with a mound of chips in the center of the table and the community cards spread .

Phua, sitting in the big blind, had just led out for a rather hefty 180,000 bet to put the US pro to the test as, with 123,100 behind, this has Peters’ covered so if he made the call it would be for his tournament life.

“Re-buy, re-buy,” joked Phua light-heartedly. Peters flashed Phua a grin and threw his hand away leaving the Malaysian to rake in a decent sized pot and climb to 268,000.

The field has now grown to 25 entries, 23 of whom are still in the running with 2016 Triton Super High Roller Philippines champion Wai Kin Yong, Richard Yong, John Juanda, Daniel ‘Jungleman’ Cates and Andrew Robl joining the action.

Player	Chips	Progress
Paul Phua	268,000 58,000	58,000

Andrew Robl	250,000
Daniel Cates	250,000
John Juanda	250,000

Richard Yong	250,000
Wai Kin Yong	250,000
David Peters	123,100 -89,100	-89,100

Tags: Andrew Robl Dan Cates David Peters John Juanda Paul Phua Richard Yong Wai Kin Yong