2018 Triton Super High Roller Series Montenegro

HKD $1,000,000 Short Deck Ante-Only
Day: 1
Event Info

2018 Triton Super High Roller Series Montenegro

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
kq
Prize
28,102,000 HKD
Event Info
Buy-in
1,000,000 HKD
Prize Pool
96,902,400 HKD
Entries
103
Level Info
Level
20
Blinds
0 / 0
Ante
100,000

Arnaud Enters, Smirnov Re-enters, Patgorski and Wang Chop

Level 2 : 0/0, 1,000 ante
Romain Arnaud
Romain Arnaud

There are now 18 entries in the Short Deck Ante Only with France's Arnaud Romain entering the fray, though only 17 of these remain in action with Mikhail Smirnov busting and re-entering and chips are changing hands with a very high frequency.

Following a limp from Yueqine Zhou in middle position, we caught Arnaud in action and all-in for the first 100,000 of his initial first bullet from the button, with the newly re-entered Smirnov also coming along from the small blind and Zhou also making the call.

Romain Arnaud: {q-Hearts}{q-Spades}
Mikhail Smirnov: {j-Spades}{10-Diamonds}
Yueqine Zhou: {10-Spades}{10-Hearts}

The board ran out {8-Hearts}{6-Spades}{6-Diamonds}{9-Spades}{a-Hearts} to see Arnaud win the main pot, Zhou win the side pot and Smirnov lose the first bullet of his second buy-in.

A big pot played out shortly after this on table one, but it resulted in an anti-climatic chop, though this was a good thing for Gabe Patgorski, who found himself trailing in a hand to Zuo Wang.

It was Yong Gang Guo opening the action for 7,000 from mid-position with Wang re-popping to 40,000 from the button.

"Let's go!" said Patgorski, chucking in the call from the big blind and Guo called as well to take the action three-way to a flop of {k-Hearts}{9-Hearts}{8-Clubs}.

"Boom!" said a gleeful Patgorski, moving all-in immediately for close to 475,000 and while Guo bowed out Wang was going nowhere and made a speedy call.

Zuo Wang: {j-Hearts}{10-Hearts}
Gabe Patgorski: {9-Spades}{10-Clubs}

"Can I even win?" asked Patgorski.

"I don't think so," said tablemate Jaime Kaplin. Patgorski could still chop though, and that's exactly what happened when the {q-Spades} turn and {j-Spades} river completed the hand and saw the pair chop the pot.

Player Chips Progress
Gabe Patgorski us
Gabe Patgorski
475,000
175,000
175,000
Yaqi Sun
Yaqi Sun
350,000
175,000
175,000
Yueqine Zhou cn
Yueqine Zhou
330,000
230,000
230,000
Devan Tang hk
Devan Tang
320,000
230,000
230,000
Day 1 Chip Leader
Jaime Kaplan us
Jaime Kaplan
270,000
170,000
170,000
Yan Pan Chan hk
Yan Pan Chan
265,000
65,000
65,000
Paul Phua my
Paul Phua
255,000
45,000
45,000
WSOP 1X Winner
Romain Arnaud fr
Romain Arnaud
250,000
250,000
250,000
Xuan Tan cn
Xuan Tan
250,000
30,000
30,000
Zuo Wang cn
Zuo Wang
165,000
110,000
110,000
Alan Sass me
Alan Sass
145,000
45,000
45,000
Furkat Rakhimov ru
Furkat Rakhimov
120,000
20,000
20,000
Marius Torbergsen no
Marius Torbergsen
110,000
10,000
10,000
Mikhail Smirnov ru
Mikhail Smirnov
100,000
Yong Gang Guo
Yong Gang Guo
70,000
-30,000
-30,000

Tags: Mikhail SmirnovRomain ArnaudYueqine Zhou