HK$2,000,000 Main Event
Day 2 Started
HK$2,000,000 Main Event
Day 2 Started
First eight hours of play are in the books for the HK$2,000,0000 ($255,000) Main Event at Triton Super High Roller Series in Jeju. Dozens of the most renowned poker players cruised through the opening stage and 22 of them bagged their advancing stacks to continue in pursuit of one of the biggest prizes that will be awarded this year. With 42 entries already made, the prize pool is guaranteed to exceed $10 million and the number is likely to be boosted further.
Late registration for late arrivals and re-entries will run for three more levels. Players receive 250,000 in chips in return for the high buy-in and the next round will be played at 3,000/6,000 blinds with a 6,000 ante. So the starting stack still has a value of more than 40 bigs and that's still a solid baseline for those who join before the buzzer.
Those who have already increased their belongings through successful campaigns on Day 1 surely hope to avoid the dilemma of whether to rejoin or not and if there is still enough room to get some wind in their sails when entering with a starting stack with the tournament average already twice as high.
The current top three features players who have already fired two shells. Day 1 chip leader Sam Greenwood (865,000), Chan Wai Leong (790,000) and David Peters (742,000) are all in for just over half a million dollars. They managed to turn their second attempts into a promising field position.
2018 Triton Montenegro Main Event champion Mikita Badziakouski was among those who were able to navigate to the top half of the rankings without stopping at the registration desk more than once. Badziakouski eliminated Steve O'Dwyer at the latter stage of the day, vaulting to the chip lead at the time. He eventually finished with 707,000, the sixth largest stack on the leaderboard.
According to Winfred Yu, it might be a good thing to attract a bigger turnout. Yu was Badziakouski's nearest challenger in the last level. Sitting on a neighboring table, Yu observed that he was tied with Badziakouski for the lead.
"If Mikita is the chip leader, nobody will enter tomorrow. If I'm the chip leader, people will be lining up to register!" Yu laughed. Neither of the two was able to secure the pole position but Yu won the virtual heads-up race, bagging 731,000.
Yu didn't offer an opinion on how would Sam Greenwood's name at the top impact the late registration. But we'll find the answer in the coming hours so tune back to PokerNews for continuous live updates. The action resumes at 2 p.m. local time (11 p.m. ET).
Table | Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | Peter Jetten | Canada | 613,000 |
1 | 4 | Winfred Yu | Hong Kong | 731,000 |
1 | 5 | Stanley Choi | Hong Kong | 128,000 |
1 | 6 | David Peters | United States | 742,000 |
1 | 8 | Stephen Chidwick | United Kingdom | 559,000 |
2 | 2 | Nick Schulman | United States | 407,000 |
2 | 3 | Mikita Badziakouski | Belarus | 707,000 |
2 | 4 | Gabe Patgorski | United States | 435,000 |
2 | 5 | Bryn Kenney | United States | 338,000 |
2 | 6 | Phil Ivey | United States | 330,000 |
3 | 1 | John Juanda | Indonesia | 329,000 |
3 | 2 | Sergio Aido | Spain | 317,000 |
3 | 3 | James Chen | Taiwan | 213,000 |
3 | 4 | Ivan Leow | Malaysia | 327,000 |
3 | 5 | Chan Wai Leong | Malaysia | 790,000 |
3 | 7 | Patrik Antonius | Finland | 577,000 |
4 | 1 | Sam Greenwood | Canada | 865,000 |
4 | 2 | Dominik Nitsche | Germany | 185,000 |
4 | 3 | Cary Katz | United States | 185,000 |
4 | 4 | Jason Koon | United States | 710,000 |
4 | 7 | Xuan Tan | China | 418,000 |
4 | 8 | Luc Greenwood | Canada | 599,000 |
Level: 9
Blinds: 3,000/6,000
Ante: 6,000
JC Alvarado, Steve O'Dwyer, Paul Phua and Richard Yong all returned to the felt, firing a re-entry bullet after busting on Day 1.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
JC Alvarado | 250,000 | 250,000 |
Steve O'Dwyer
|
250,000 | 250,000 |
Richard Yong | 250,000 | |
Paul Phua
|
250,000 | 250,000 |
Xuan Tan opened from the hijack with a raise to 15,000. Sam Greenwood called on the button.
The flop came down and Tan led out with a bet of 20,000. Greenwood called to see the on the turn where both players checked.
On the river, Tan led out putting out a bet of 55,000. Greenwood tanked momentarily then raised, making it 275,000. Tan used his last two time extensions but couldn't talk his way into a call, eventually folding.
Greenwood smirked, then showed the before raking in the pot.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Sam Greenwood
|
955,000 | |
Xuan Tan | 305,000 |
On the flop of , James Chen checked in the big blind and John Juanda fired 16,000 on the button. Chen check-raised to 75,000 and Juanda reraised to put Chen at risk. Chen called for the rest of his chips.
Chen:
Juanda:
Both players caught the top pair but Juanda had his opponent dominated with a better kicker. Chen couldn't improve on the turn and river and left the outer table early on Day 2. He stopped at the registration desk and jumped back in, firing a new bullet.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
John Juanda
|
540,000 | 211,000 |
James Chen
|
250,000 | 37,000 |
Winfred Yu raised to 15,000 on the button with and David Peters called in the big blind with . Peters flopped top two on but Yu was able to check back.
Peters improved to full house on the turn and he led out 33,000, earning a call. The completed the board and Peters fired a big bet of 80,000 into 105,000. Yu was trying to catch Peters bluffing and made the call but he learnt that Peters had it this time.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
David Peters
|
873,000 | 131,000 |
Winfred Yu | 114,000 | -617,000 |
Ivan Leow made it 13,000 under the gun and Sergio Aido responded with a 55,000-reraise out of the big blind. Leow moved all in and Aido instantly called for his 261,000, showing . He was ahead of Leow who turned up and the flop pushed Aido close to the double.
The turn, however, gave Leow four outs to sweat but he failed to hit a straight as the hit the river. Aido improved to 531,000 while Leow dropped to 15 big blinds.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Sergio Aido | 531,000 | 214,000 |
Ivan Leow | 90,000 | -237,000 |
David Peters raised to 15,000 in the cutoff, holding and JC Alvarado peeled on the button. Alvarado three-bet to 45,000 and Peters decided to call.
They went to the flop and Alvarado continued with a small bed of 32,000. Peters asked Alvarado to clear the view of his stack and then floated.
The double paired the board on the turn and both players tapped the felt. Peters spiked some showdown value on the river and reconsidered his plans and skipped the bluff. He checked, Alvarado checked back and took the pot with higher two pair.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
David Peters
|
836,000 | -37,000 |
JC Alvarado | 324,000 | 74,000 |