Level: 7
Blinds: 0/0
Ante: 5,000
2018 Triton Super High Roller Series Montenegro
HKD $1,000,000 Short Deck Ante-Only
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2018 Triton Super High Roller Series Montenegro
Buy-in
1,000,000 HKD
Prize Pool
96,902,400 HKD
Entries
103
Level
20
Blinds
0 / 0
Ante
100,000
Breaktime
Level 6
: 0/0, 4,000 ante
It is the last 10-minute break of the day with the carnage concluding at the end of the next level, at least until tomorrow.
Cao Busts; Torbergsen Rising
Level 6
: 0/0, 4,000 ante
Marius Torbergsen was all in with the 
and Wai Kin Yong looked him up with the 
. The board came 
and Torbergsen rivered a straight to double.
Then, Rui Cao doubled for 92,000 with 
against the 
of Phil Ivey on a board of 
only to send his stack over to Torbergsen right after. Romain Arnaud also departed from the very same table as Xuan Tan claimed his stack.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,085,000 | -35,000 |
|
510,000 | 60,000 |
|
500,000 | 400,000 |
|
70,000 | -65,000 |
|
Busted | |
|
|
Busted |
Yu Enters, Robl Wins From Kaplan, Leow Gets One Through
Level 6
: 0/0, 4,000 ante
Winfred Yu was regaling us with Short Deck Poker takes of sickness but not five minutes later had taken his seat over on Elton Tsang and Andrew Robl's table.
"I just can't help myself," Yu told us, just before shipping his chips in.
"Anytime I see Andrew Robl in a Short Deck game I have to join," bantered Yu good-naturedly. Robl took the jibe in the spirit it was intended and after Yu limped from the small blind, Robl called from one seat over, Elton Tsang come along for the ride, Wai Leong Chan completed the cutoff and Jaime Kaplan checked the button for a muti-way family pot.
The flop came down 
and Yu stuck the rest of his chips in (around 80,000) bringing folds from the rest of the table to climb to 140,000.
Andrew Robl and Jaime Kaplan played a decent pot the next hand, with Kaplan the man driving the action with a mid-position raise to 35,000 with Robl the only caller in position. The 
flop saw checks from both players and the 
hit the turn. This brought a bet of 45,000 from Kaplan and a call from Robl. Kaplan took another stab on the 
river, this time for 90,000 with Robl calling once again.
Kaplan turned over 
but this was not enough to beat Robl's straight and he scooped the pot to climb to 520,000 while Kaplan dropped some to 620,000.
Over on the next table, the recently entered Ivan Leow managed something similar one table over, making it 20,000 from under-the-gun with Paul Phua the only caller two seats over.
The 
flop saw Leow bet 25,000, which was enough to take it down and the Malaysian climbed to 140,000 or so.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
620,000 | 40,000 |
|
520,000 | 70,000 |
|
150,000 | 150,000 |
|
140,000 | 140,000 |
The Madness Continues
Level 6
: 0/0, 4,000 ante
Wai Kin Yong was all in and at risk preflop with the 
for 43,000 and behind him, Wang Qiang called before then also calling the shove of Marius Torbergsen for another 180,000 on top.
Qiang tabled 
and Torbergsen had the 
. The board came 
and Yong tripled up, while Torbergsen busted on his final bullet of the third entry. Torbergsen re-entered soon after and got the same table.
Turning around to the next table there was an all in by Rui Cao with the and Paul Phua looked him up with the . The board came 
and Phua took the stack of Cao on the final bullet, who then also re-entered.
Last but not least, Furat Rakhimov doubled through Peter Jetten with a full house holding 
on a board of 
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
900,000 | 230,000 |
|
900,000 | -100,000 |
|
500,000 | 225,000 |
|
275,000 | 175,000 |
|
|
135,000 | -465,000 |
|
|
100,000 | -200,000 |
|
|
100,000 | -40,000 |
Yong Busts Once; More Than Doubles Sfter
Level 6
: 0/0, 4,000 ante
Richard Yong was all in for 55,000 with the and Devan Tang called with the 
, as did Gabe Patgorski with . The remaining two active players hecked the flop and the turn. On the river, Patgorski bet 60,000 and Tang called to get shown a boat.
Yong had to reload for the final bullet over on the feature table and got those in a mere five minutes later in a three-way all in for 84,000.
Richard Yong:
Ivan Leow:
Alan Sass:
The board came and Leow busted his second bullet, Yong nearly tripled up.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,900,000 | -50,000 |
|
700,000 | 290,000 |
|
347,000 | 37,000 |
|
236,000 | 236,000 |
The Chips Are Flying Left and Right
Level 6
: 0/0, 4,000 ante
Peter Jetten has not long sent Hau Lim Chan to the rail and we arrived just as all the chips went in on a flop of 
.
Jetten had for a set and had Chan covered, with Chan holding for a pair and a straight draw.
The turn changed nothing and Jetten improved to a full house on the river to bust Chan and climb to 1-million in chips.
On the table directly behind that one there was another all-in, this one three-way between Phil Ivey, holding , Furkat Rakhimov, holding and Marius Torbergsen, holding on a board reading .
Rakhimov busted a bullet but still had one more left and was immediately moved to balance tables, Torbergsen tripled to 300,000 and Ivey dropped some, but still has loads with a stack of 1.12 million.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
1,120,000 | |
|
|
1,000,000 | |
|
|
300,000 | |
|
|
100,000 | |
|
Busted |
Torbergsen Back for More
Level 6
: 0/0, 4,000 ante
It is already the third entry for Marius Torbergsen and the first bullet got in for around 140,000 with the on a flop of . Wai Kin Yong looked him up with the for bottom two pair. The turn left Torbergsen drawing dead, making the reload after the meaningless river a formality.
Just prior to that, Phil Ivey had doubled through Romain Arnaud and moved up to two times the full starting stack.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
670,000 | 385,000 |
|
|
600,000 | 50,000 |
|
|
600,000 | 260,000 |
|
|
580,000 | -20,000 |
|
|
450,000 | 175,000 |
|
|
140,000 | -110,000 |
|
|
100,000 | 100,000 |
|
|
80,000 | -320,000 |
Level: 6
Blinds: 0/0
Ante: 4,000
Doubles For Robl and Cao
Level 5
: 0/0, 3,000 ante
There have been no new entries or bust-outs for a while, but chips are still changing hands quite frequently. One beneficiary of all the chip movements has been Andrew Robl, who earned a double at the expenses of Elton Tsang. The pair were in the process of discussing Tsang's monster pot against Jason Koon in the Million Euro Cash Game the previous evening as Tsang casually flicked off a 28,000 early position raise off the top of his stack.
Robl was the only caller on the button and it was heads-up to a flop of , which Tsang checked. Robl moved all-in for 108,000 and while Tsang did not look as though he liked it he grudgingly made the call.
"You have nine-ten?" Tsang asked Robl.
"I have a ten," the US pro replied, turning over , which was trailing to Tsang's , until the turn saw Robl make the straight. The river completed the hand and Robl stacked up to 275,000 while Tsang dropped to 450,000.
Rui Cao earned a double at the expense of Hau Lim Chan the next table over immediately afterward. It was Paul Phua who opened the action with an under-the-gun limp before Chan raised to 56,000 from middle position. Rui Cao casually threw out the call and Phua folded to take the action heads-up to the flop.
Chan open-shoved and Cao called immediately. Chan had while Cao had . The turn changed nothing, but the river gave Cao the straight and he climbed to 250,000 while Chan dropped to 350,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
450,000 | -50,000 |
|
|
350,000 | -330,000 |
|
|
275,000 | 115,000 |
|
|
250,000 | 80,000 |