Level: 7
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 500
2017 Triton Super High Roller Series Montenegro
HK $1,000,000 Main Event
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2017 Triton Super High Roller Series Montenegro
Buy-in
1,000,000 HKD
Entries
52
Level
24
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
25,000
Juanda Busts Gipson, Loeser Busts O’Dwyer, Holz Wins from Badziakouski
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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618,000
103,000
|
103,000 |
|
||
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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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Paschalidis Doubles Through Juanda
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
|
628,500 |
|
|
218,000
-400,000
|
-400,000 |
|
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Break started
Break: 10 min.
Level: 8
Blinds: 2,500/5,000
Ante: 500
Post-Break Chip Counts
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 |
|---|---|---|
|
|
885,000
55,000
|
55,000 |
|
820,000
500,000
|
500,000 |
|
|
770,000
40,000
|
40,000 |
|
|
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|
727,500
185,500
|
185,500 |
|
715,000
215,000
|
215,000 |
|
600,000
-90,000
|
-90,000 |
|
487,000
137,000
|
137,000 |
|
418,000
38,000
|
38,000 |
|
355,000
355,000
|
355,000 |
|
345,000
80,000
|
80,000 |
|
||
|
|
345,000
15,000
|
15,000 |
|
|
||
|
333,000
-82,000
|
-82,000 |
|
332,000
-98,000
|
-98,000 |
|
320,000
115,000
|
115,000 |
|
285,500
191,500
|
191,500 |
|
280,000
75,000
|
75,000 |
|
|
275,000
275,000
|
275,000 |
|
|
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|
270,000
175,000
|
175,000 |
|
233,000
93,000
|
93,000 |
|
230,000
15,000
|
15,000 |
|
|
223,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
|
|
||
|
195,000
120,000
|
120,000 |
|
|
||
|
186,500
-28,500
|
-28,500 |
|
||
|
172,000
82,000
|
82,000 |
|
|
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|
165,000
-3,000
|
-3,000 |
Hao Folds Out Yong, Badziakouski Takes From Holz
Level 8
: 2,500/5,000, 500 ante
We were lurking by current frontrunner Tony Cheng’s table hoping to get the Hong Kong player in action and were rewarded with a small hand, but it ended almost as soon as it started. Action folded around to Cheng on the button and he made it 14,000 to go before a short-stacked Lucas Greenwood moved all-in from the big blind for close to 90,000. Cheng folded instantly and Greenwood stacked up to 110,000.
Former Triton SHR Champion Wai Kin Yong opened the next hand with a raise to 12,000 from the hi-jack with neighbor and 6-Max runner up Su Hao then re-raising to 27,000 from the cutoff.
Action folded back around to Yong who looked over at Hao for a while before tossing out the call and it was heads-up to a monochrome flop of 
.
Yong checked, Hao slid out a single turquoise 25k chip and Yong folded immediately, dropping down to 257,000 while Hao climbed up to 315,000.
We were rewarded with a slightly more exciting hand over on Fedor Holz table and caught the German player involved in a hand against the big-stacked Mikita Badziakouski.
Holz, sitting in the cutoff, was the player in position and there was close to 25,000 in the pot with the flop spread 
. Badziakouski had just checked the action over to Holz, who bet 8,000, which the Belarusian called after a few seconds thinking things over.
The 
turn saw Badziakouski check for a second time and Holz fired again, this time for a slightly larger 27,000. Badziakouski thought things over for a little longer but eventually slid in the call and it was off to the 
river.
That was it for the betting and, first to act, Badziaksouki turned over 
for two pair – tens and fives – and Holz threw his hand away to drop down to 133,000 while Badziakouski climbed to 715,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
806,000
-14,000
|
-14,000 |
|
|
715,000
-55,000
|
-55,000 |
|
|
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|
|
315,000
35,000
|
35,000 |
|
|
257,000
-28,500
|
-28,500 |
|
|
133,000
-17,000
|
-17,000 |
|
|
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|
110,000
27,000
|
27,000 |
|
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Peters Picks Off Chan Before Break
Level 8
: 2,500/5,000, 500 ante
David Peters has been having a torrid time of it so far today though the US player’s stack is finally moving in the right direction and he is now over the 250,000 starting stack for the first time since level one.
We caught Peters in action against Peter Chan with the pair battling it out in a hand on the river with roughly 140,000 in blinds and antes in the pot with the board reading 
just as Chan (button) fired for 70,000.
Peters thought it over for quite some time before throwing out a single turquoise 25k chip to represent the call.
“Good call,” said Chan, mucking his hand when Peter’s turned over 
to climb to 275,000 while Chan dropped to 440,000.
Player’s are now on a short 10-minute break while the black 100-chips are raced off and there is just one level left before play concludes for the day.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
440,000
-47,000
|
-47,000 |
|
|
275,000
80,000
|
80,000 |
|
|
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Break started
Break: 10 min.
Level: 9
Blinds: 3,000/6,000
Ante: 1,000