HKD $1,000,000 Short Deck Ante-Only
Day 1 Started
HKD $1,000,000 Short Deck Ante-Only
Day 1 Started
The big buy-in high stakes tournament action at the 2018 Triton Super High Roller Montenegro is not restricted to the Main Event, with the HKD $1-million Short Deck Ante Only Event set to start at 4pm local time.
Taking places the luxurious Maestral Resort & Casino in Budva, Montenegro, this is only the second ever time the exciting new Short Deck Ante Only format has been run as a tournament, with the HKD $250,000 (~$31,850) opening event, which Phil Ivey took down for USD $604,992, being the first.
Compared to regular No-Limit Hold'em, this format features a 36-card deck with the 2s, 3s, 4s, and 5s removed, with aces doubling as a five instead. With just 36 cards instead of 52, straights become more common, while flushes are a rare sight. In order to adjust for this, the hand ranking chart has been updated and a flush beats a full house.
There's are no blinds; instead, the game is played ante-only, with the button posting a double ante. All players start with 100,000 in chips, plus two extra 100k bullets to be added at any time.
Day 1 of the two-day event will feature seven 60-minute levels with multiple re-entry available during the registration period, which closes at the end of the 15-minute dinner break on level nine, at around 3pm on Friday, 18 May.
With players of the caliber of Phil Ivey, Tom Dwan, Patrik Antonius, Dan “jungleman12” Cates, Mikita Badziakouski and Triton Poker founder Richard Yong just some of the big names expected to attend, the action will be epic, as will the prize pool.
As always, the PokerNews live reporting team will be on hand to bring you all the thrills from the tournament floor so keep your browser locked to this page to follow all the action.
The start time for the HKD $1-million Short Deck Ante Only tournament has been pushed back to 5pm. Stick around and the cards should be in the air shortly.
Level: 1
Blinds: 0/0
Ante: 1,000
Three players have taken their seats with the first 100,000 bullet of their initial HKD $1-million 300,000 starting stack with the USA's Gabe Patgorski, China's Zuo Wang and Malaysia's Wai Kin Yong playing three-handed, though more arrivals are expected as play progresses.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Gabe Patgorski | 100,000 | |
Wai Kin Yong | 100,000 | |
Zuo Wang | 100,000 |
It has not taken long for the action to get going and Gabe Patgorski has binked an early triple on his first bullet with a three-way pre-flop all-in going down between Patgorski, Wai Kin Yong and recent arrival Yong Gang Guo.
We arrived in the aftermath as stacks were being divvied up and extra bullets brought over. Wai Kin Yong was on the button with face up on the felt in front of him, Guo (small blind) had face up on the felt in front of him and Patgorski has .
The community cards were spread with Patgorski catching his two-outer on the river to take an early lead. Alan Sass and Xuan Tan arrived as all this craziness was going on and have also taken their seats to bring the field up to seven.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Gabe Patgorski | 300,000 | 200,000 |
Yong Gang Guo
|
100,000 | 100,000 |
Alan Sass | 100,000 | 100,000 |
Yaqi Sun
|
100,000 | 100,000 |
The field has grown to 13 players with China's Yueqine Zhou, Hong Kong's Yan Pan Chan, Norway's Marius Torbergen, and Russia's Furkat Rakhimov and Mikhail Smirnov all taking their seats and there are now three tables on the go.
Phua scored an early double to 200,000 with ace-queen, though we are not sure who contributed to his stack. The action looks primed to be both fast and furious and it could be a crazy day at the tables.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Paul Phua
|
200,000 | 200,000 |
Yueqine Zhou
|
100,000 | 100,000 |
Yan Pan Chan
|
100,000 | 100,000 |
Mikhail Smirnov | 100,000 | 100,000 |
Marius Torbergsen | 100,000 | 100,000 |
Furkat Rakhimov | 100,000 | 100,000 |
Jaime Kaplan has entered to bring the field up to 15, and there has been a lot of early chip movements and player re-shuffling already. Gabe Patgorski has extended his lead and is now sitting on a stack of 550,000, Zuo Wang has dropped to 55,000 and has no extra bullets remaining of his initial three.
Wai Kin Yong busted his second bullet to Xuan Tan, who had and had spiked top pair, while Yong's hand was already in the muck. That puts Tan up to 250,000.
We caught the tail end of a pot between Mikhail Smirnov and Yaqi Sun, who have been moved over to Paul Phua's table. With the community cards spread and 30,000 already in the pot Smirnov (small blind) had checked the action over to Sun, who checked it back.
The river saw Smirnov check again, and Sun fire for 25,000. Smirnov chuckled and flashed Sun the and Sun returned the favor, flashing Smirnov the as he raked in the pot.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Gabe Patgotski
|
550,000 | |
Xuan Tan | 220,000 | |
Yan Pan Chan
|
200,000 | 100,000 |
Yaqi Sun
|
175,000 | 75,000 |
Wai Kin Yong | 100,000 | |
Jaime Kaplan | 100,000 | |
Mikhail Smirnov | 60,000 | -40,000 |
Zuo Wang | 55,000 | -45,000 |
Following limps from the rest of the table, the newly arrived Devan Tang made it 2,000 to go on the button, and Furkat Rakhimov squeezed to 8,000 from the small blind. Mikhail Smirnov moved all-in from the big blind for 60,000, Yueqine Zhou folded and Phua asked Tang how much he has behind before moving all in for 180,000.Tang folded and Rakhimov got his 110,000 in and the players revealed their hands.
Furkat Rakhimov:
Mikhail Smirnov:
Paul Phua:
The board ran out and Smirnov's chips were chopped up with the Russian calling for his second bullet.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Paul Phua
|
210,000 | 10,000 |
Furkat Rakhamov
|
140,000 | |
Mikhail Smirnov | 100,000 | 40,000 |
Devan Tang
|
90,000 |
Level: 2
Blinds: 0/0
Ante: 1,000