€50,000 Majestic High Roller Day 1 | 2012 World Series of Poker Europe

10-03-2012 01:12 UTC+2

Player	Chips	Progress
Mike Watson	340,000

Daniel Negreanu	315,000 55,000	55,000

Tobias Reinkemeier	312,000 5,000	5,000
David Benefield	280,000 130,000	130,000
Richard Yong	270,000 269,700	269,700
Lifeng Chen	260,000 35,000	35,000
Talal Shakerchi	230,000 112,000	112,000
Paul Newey	230,000 80,000	80,000
Alex Mostafavi	230,000 30,000	30,000
Tom Dwan	178,000 128,000	128,000

Fabian Quoss	166,000 16,000	16,000
Sheng Sun	160,000
Steve O'Dwyer	156,000 18,000	18,000

Roger Hairabedian	152,000 2,000	2,000

Justin Bonomo	146,000 69,000	69,000

Paul Phua	146,000 3,000	3,000

Sam Trickett	142,000 8,000	8,000
Mike McDonald	136,000

Yi Cheng	125,000
JC Alvarado	122,000 28,000	28,000
Thomas Wahlroos	78,000 75,000	75,000
Dan Smith	61,000 50,000	50,000

Three-Bet Then C-Bet for Watson

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Donnie Peters

Level 7 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

From the button, Tom Dwan raised to 4,200. Mike Watson three-bet to 12,800 from the small blind, and Dwan called.

The flop was {K-Diamonds} {10-Clubs} {8-Hearts} , and Watson fired 14,400. Dwan gave it up, and Watson won the pot.

Tags: Mike Watson Tom Dwan

10-03-2012 01:17 UTC+2

One for Cheung

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Donnie Peters

Level 7 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

Andrew Lichtenberger checked the {Q-Hearts} {J-Clubs} {3-Diamonds} flop, and Fung Cheung bet 3,300. Lichtenberger called.

The turn was the {7-Diamonds} , and Lichtenberger checked. Cheung fired 6,000, and Lichtenberger folded.

Tags: Andrew Lichtenberger Fung Cheung

10-03-2012 01:20 UTC+2

Gruissem with Delayed C-Bet

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Donnie Peters

Level 7 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

Philipp Gruissem raised to 5,000 from middle position, and Tony Gregg called from the hijack seat. Zheng Tang called on the button, and the flop came down {J-Clubs} {8-Hearts} {4-Hearts} . Everyone checked, and the turn was the {A-Spades} . Gruissem bet 12,500, and both his opponents folded.

Tags: Philipp Gruissem Tony Gregg Zheng Tang

Level: 8

Blinds: 1,000/2,000

Ante: 300

10-03-2012 01:21 UTC+2

One More Level

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Donnie Peters

Level 8 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

The players are now in the last level of the night. Another 60 minutes of play before bagging up until tomorrow.

10-03-2012 01:45 UTC+2

Yong Gets Lucky And Busts Sun

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Remko Rinkema

Y Chang raised under the gun to 5,000 after which Richard Yong, who was directly to his left, three-bet to 12,000. Sheng Sun decided to four-bet to 37,000 and the action was quickly folded back around to Yong.

Yong went into the tank for a while, played with his chips, and eventually put his opponent all in. Sun called off his remaining 120,000 chips creating a very big pot.

Showdown:
Richard Yong: {A-Clubs} {K-Spades}
Sheng Sun: {K-Diamonds} {K-Hearts}

The board ran out {A-Diamonds} {J-Spades} {10-Diamonds} {5-Spades} {7-Spades} , and Yong high-fived Chang while Sun left the tournament. He chose not to re-buy, and with that we lost a player.

Player	Chips	Progress
Richard Yong	392,000 122,000	122,000
Sheng Sun	Busted

Tags: Richard Yong Sheng Sun

10-03-2012 02:02 UTC+2

Juanda Smashes Rettenmaier with Aces

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Donnie Peters

From middle position, John Juanda opened the pot with a raise to 4,800. Marvin Rettenmaier put in a reraise to 13,600 from the cutoff seat, then Igor Kurganov reraised to 30,100 from the button. Action folded through the blinds and back to Juanda. He didn;t take long before putting in a five-bet to 60,200. This sent Rettenmaier into the tank.

Rettenmaier was tanking while Kurganov was waiting for him to act. When this happened, Philipp Gruissem walked over to talk to Kurganov, but saw he was in a hand... again.

"F***, you're always in a f***ing hand!" said Gruissem before walking back over to his table. Kurganov cracked a smile while Rettenmaier kept tanking.

Eventually, Rettenmaier reraised all in for approximately 160,000. Kurganov folded, and Juanda simply turned over the {A-Diamonds} {A-Hearts} to signify his call. Rettenmaier didn't like what he saw and disgustedly turned up the {A-Spades} {K-Clubs} , knowing he made a stumble.

The flop, turn and river ran out {J-Diamonds} {10-Hearts} {8-Clubs} {2-Diamonds} {8-Hearts} , and Juanda's aces were the winning hand. He had Rettenmaier covered, which eliminated Rettenmaier. Rettenmaier was a bit upset that he had to make a decision to rebuy righ then and there. He wanted to wait until tomorrow, but couldn't. Therefore, he said he would rebuy and went to get the finances sorted. Meanwhile, Juanda climbed to nearly 600,000 in chips.