$25,750 High Roller Jour 1 | 2017 PokerStars Championship Bahamas

2017-01-13 00:31 UTC-4

Bernard Lee Tries to Drown Mike Watson on the River

Chad_Holloway

Niveau 10 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

With a board reading , 2016 PCA champ Mike Watson got his last 14,800 all in and was at risk against Bernard Lee.

Watson:
Lee:

Watson was ahead with a pair of kings, but Lee was drawing to both an ace and hearts. The dealer burned one last time and put out the . Lee missed and Watson doubled through.

Joueur	Jetons	Progression
Mike Watson	44,000 23,000	23,000

Bernard Lee	40,000 -35,300	-35,300

Tags: Mike Watson Bernard Lee

2017-01-13 00:57 UTC-4

Kurganov and Kanit - The Best of Frenemies

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Niveau 10 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

Mustapha Kanit and Igor Kurganov pictured earlier on this trip to the PokerStars Championship Bahamas. Both of the High Rollers made Day 2 of the $25,000 buy-in event.

Igor Kurganov had been eliminated, that was the headline. All-in with against Tim Adams' and no luck on the board. Goodnight, Igor. Except for Kurganov, whose girlfriend Liv Boeree claimed "hasn't stopped talking for six days!", a few more words were called for. Words such as 'Where can I buy back in?'.

Kurganov's second entry came with the clock paused just seconds later, and six more hands announced. On the fourth of those hands, poker pandemonium broke out.

Kurganov was sat to the direct right of good friend Mustapha Kanit, who had plenty of chips, around 70,000 and easily enough to bust his pal. When Kurganov moved all-in with and Kanit called with , the pair of them were up and down like a pair of puppets. They were racing not just for a 97,000 pot, but bragging rights too.

The flop of saw Kurganov on his feet, with an 'Eh!' to his friend Kanit. However, the on the turn sent Kanit into raptures.

"Eh!" he cried jubilantly. Kurganov covered his friends eyes from the river card.....of the !

"Ehhhh!" yelled Kurganov, as his hand improved to a full house. He flipped Kanit's cap from his friends head and wore it triumphantly like a crown.

"I deserve to wear this now. You are a loser. Mathematically, you've only had one buy-in yes? - OK - Mathematically, you should shove any two next hand."

As it happened, Kanit did so, piling his remaining 17,500 into the middle and being snap-called by Anthony Zinno. Zinno had , but Kanit was racing again, holding the almost-identical-to-his-last-hand .

The flop of offered little hope. The turn of didn't improve the actual odds dramatically. But the on the river gave Kanit a runner-runner straight and he jumped back up, took back his hat and cried 'Who's the boss? Who's the boss?!"

To be fair to Kurganov and Kanit, and with deference to the everlasting good humour of Zinno, all of it happened with riotous sense of good humour and the trio were all happy to progress to the next day. Kurganov, Kanit, Zinno and of course Boeree and other friends by now on the rail who were watching the drama unfold all burst into peals of laughter at the conclusion the two hilarious hands of poker.

Joueur	Jetons	Progression
Igor Kurganov	97,000 47,000	47,000

Mustapha Kanit	40,000 -40,000	-40,000

Anthony Zinno	33,800 -26,200	-26,200

Tags: Igor Kurganov Mustapha Kanit

2017-01-13 00:58 UTC-4

End-of-Day 1 Chip Counts (complet)

Chad_Holloway

Niveau 10 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

Joueur	Jetons	Progression
Nick Petrangelo	290,600 180,600	180,600

Sam Greenwood	276,800 36,800	36,800

Byron Kaverman	272,800 177,800	177,800

Rocco Palumbo	267,700 124,700	124,700

Oleksii Khoroshenin	265,000 5,000	5,000

Sergio Aido	250,700 35,700	35,700

Davidi Kitai	189,000 -21,000	-21,000

Fabrizio Gonzalez	170,200 98,700	98,700
Iago Leonelli	168,100 168,100	168,100
Richard Seymour	165,000 -4,000	-4,000
Sergi Reixach	159,200 59,200	59,200
Mark Radoja	151,700 1,700	1,700

Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier	140,300 140,300	140,300

Lucas Greenwood	140,300 140,300	140,300

Justin Bonomo	139,700 -300	-300

Vojtech Ruzicka	137,200 47,200	47,200
Salman Behbehani	135,900 -4,100	-4,100
Timothy Adams	134,000 -41,000	-41,000

Andjelko Andrejevic	127,500 12,500	12,500

Jonathan Jaffe	125,400 8,400	8,400

Jason Koon	115,200 -49,800	-49,800

Michael Rocco	113,100 113,100	113,100
Daniel Negreanu	104,600 -25,400	-25,400

Kenneth Smaron	103,700 103,700	103,700
Andrew Chen	102,000 70,000	70,000

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2017-01-13 01:16 UTC-4

Nick Petrangelo patron d'un Jour 1 très fréquenté

Chad_Holloway

Niveau 10 : 800/1,600, 200 ante

Le High Roller PokerStars Championship Bahamas à 25 750$ a débuté dans la nuit de jeudi à vendredi à l'Atlantis Resort. Le tournoi a commencé avec deux tables mais avec l'option re-entry et des inscriptions ouvertes toute la journée, le field est monté à 115 joueurs à l'issue des 10 niveaux d'une heure. Avec 36 re-entries, le compteur des inscriptions indique 151 entrants alors qu'il est possible de s'enregistrer jusqu'à l'entame du Jour 2.

Sixième de ce tournoi à 25 750$ l'entrée lors du PCA 2015, Nick Petrangelo a terminé la journée en tête et emballé 290 600 jetons. Sur ses talons, on retrouve Sam Greenwood (276,800), Byron Kaverman (272,000), Oleksii Khoroshenin (264,000) ou encore l'Espagnol Sergio Aido (250,700).

Davidi Kitai (189,000), le triple champion NFL Richard Seymour (165,000), Jason Koon (165,000), Mark Radoja (150,000) et Stephen Chidwick (145,000) complètent le Top 10 provisoire.

Du haut de ses 6 millions de dollars de gains, Petrangelo est donc loin d'avoir gagné... d'autant plus que les Daniel Colman (100,400), Bryn Kenney (66,8000), Phil Laak (54,900), Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier (140,300), Daniel Negreanu (104,600), Liv Boeree (43,000), Andre Akkari (40,600) ou encore Jake Cody (32,800) sont toujours là.

Ca s'est moins bien déroulé pour le finaliste WSOP Main Event, Sylvain Loosli qui n'a pas emballé de jetons après avoir été éliminé deux fois. Joe McKeehen, Charlie Carrel, Chance Kornuth et Sean Winter ont aussi utulisé leur re-entry et ne pourront donc pas revenir pour le Jour 2.

Un Jour 2 qui débute à 18 heures sur les blindes 1000-2000 (300) et sera à suivre en direct sur PokerNews.

Tags: Nick Petrangelo

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