HK$1,000,000 Short Deck Ante-Only
Day 1 Started
HK$1,000,000 Short Deck Ante-Only
Day 1 Started
If the HK$500,000 buy-in Triton Hold'em (Short-Deck) Ante-Only event that Ivan Leow won earlier in the week wasn't enough action for you, you're in luck, because on Saturday, July 28th, the HK$1,000,000 Triton Hold'em (Short Deck) Ante-Only event kicks off. This event is likely to bring out the biggest names and faces as well as the biggest bankrolls as it's the second largest buy-in of this series, which sits at roughly USD $127,000. This is the last chance for any tournament action before the Main Event as well so those looking for a good warm-up will likely join in as well.
The last event of this stature was won by Jason Koon at the Triton Super High Roller Series in Montenegro. That event brought out a stunning field of 103 entries and this event is likely to be the same with a monster turn out and a huge field. The event in Montenegro created a prizepool of HK$96,902,400 (~$12,344,397) and Koon took home HK$28,102,000 ($3,579,914) as his first place prize.
Once again as a refresher for the rules of Triton Hold'em/short deck, all twos, threes, fours, and fives are removed from the deck, and thus, hand rankings are changed to reflect the respective strength of hands. For this events, flushes now play higher than full houses as there is only eight cards to every suit. Other than that, six-plus hold’em is played similarly to regular hold’em with two hole cards, five community cards, and four streets of betting — preflop, flop, turn, and river. Also to note, aces can still play for a low straight, replacing the five, making ace-six-seven-eight-nine a straight as well.
The format will be similar to the other Triton Hold'em/Short Deck events with a starting stack of 100,000 and two reloadable bullets which can be used for an extra 100,000 at any time. Levels for this event will be 60-minutes long and will start with antes at 1,000 with a double ante paid from the button for each hand. Players will have a break after every two levels and a longer break after level 4. The plan is to play 6 levels today and registration will remain open through to Day 2 of the event for one level after that.
PokerNews will be back for all the action and trust us, you won't want to miss this one, so stay tuned for it all.
Level: 1
Blinds: 0/0
Ante: 1,000
Action for this event is now underway, per usual, we will have a thirty-minute delay on our coverage to match with the live stream.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Gabe Patgorski | 100,000 | 100,000 |
Rui Cao | 100,000 | 100,000 |
Kenneth Kee | 100,000 | 100,000 |
Alan Sass | 100,000 | 100,000 |
Marius Torbergesen
|
100,000 | 100,000 |
Wai Kin Yong | 100,000 | 100,000 |
Devan Tang | 100,000 | 100,000 |
Paul Phua
|
100,000 | 100,000 |
Mikita Badziakouski
|
100,000 | |
Chan Wai Leong | 100,000 | 100,000 |
Ivan Leow | 100,000 | 100,000 |
Gabe Patgorski raised to 7,000 in the hijack with and Alan Sass flatted in the cutoff with .
The flop was checked and the turn was checked as well. Patgorski caught trips on the river and he fired 10?000. Sass Paid him off.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Gabe Patgorski | 120,000 | 20,000 |
Alan Sass | 83,000 | -17,000 |
Kenneth Kee fired 3,000 in a three-way pot on the flop and Alan Sass called out of position.
The turn saw Sass check-call another 10,000 and the completed the board.
Sass had turned a straight with while Kee bricked his flush draw with . He fired a third barrel of 18,000 but Sass looked him up.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Alan Sass | 118,000 | 35,000 |
Kenneth Kee | 69,000 | -31,000 |
Gabe Patgorski called under the gun with and Alan Sass called with . Rui Cao raised to 11,000 with and Marius Torbergesen called with pocket sevens. Patgorski then moved all in for 116,000 and Sass called with a covering stack. Everyone else folded and it was on to a showdown
The board ran out and Sass made a full house allowing him to nearly double up while Patgorski was forced to cash in a bullet.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Alan Sass | 245,000 | 127,000 |
Gabe Patgorski | 100,000 | -20,000 |
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Elton Tsang | 100,000 |
Marius Tobergesen limps in from early position and Ivan Leow raised to 6,000 from the cutoff to 6,000 and Kenneth Kee called on the button. Tobergesen then moved all in for 87,000 and Leow and Kee both called.
Marius Torbergesen:
Ivan Leow:
Kenneth Kee:
The board ran out and Torbergesen's jacks held up, allowing him to triple up leaving Kee to use another bullet. Leow was left with just 27,000 after the hand.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Marius Torbergesen
|
270,000 | 170,000 |
Kenneth Kee | 100,000 | |
Ivan Leow | 27,000 |