We caught the action on the flop in a hand between Dan Smith, who is dressed a little more smartly today than yesterday, and Dejan Boskovik Sr with the board reading .
With 2,000 already in the pot Boskovik Sr checked it over to Smith, who reached for chips and bet 800. Boskovik Sr made the call to bring in the turn before checking once more.
Smith tossed out three 1k blue chips for a 3,000 bet and Boskovik Sr again called to bring the action to the river. This brought a third and final check from Boskovik Sr and another 3,000 bet from Smith.
Boskovik Sr thought it over but eventually folded, flashing Smith a card as he did so, but we could not see what this was from where we were standing.
All players can re-enter once until the start of Day 2 and Nan Hong has just done that while the other players below are new entries to the tournament, boosting the field up to 71 entries in total.
Joining the action on the flop, Dianlei Zhang checked in the cutoff and Timothy Adams bet 1,400 on the button. Zhang check-raised to 2,800 and Adams called.
On the turn, Zhang checked again and Adams bet 5,200. Now Zhang check-raised to 10,700 and Adams eventually folded, dropping to around half the starting stack.
Harpreet Gill kick started the action with a raise to 700 from under-the-gun and was shown no respect for his early raise with Timothy Adams making the call from middle position and blinds Sergey Sergeev and Kazuhiko Yotsushika coming along for the ride.
After Sergeev checked the small blind Yotsushika elected to bet into the table, leading for 700 and while this was enough to get Gill to get out of the way Adams and Sergeev were not deterred and made the call. Interestingly Sergeev called before Adams, so eager was he to continue in the hand but the dealer made him pull his bet back.
Sergeev asked if he could raise at this point, but being as he had acted out of turn the answer was no.
The turn brought a second check from Sergeev and a bet of 1,000 from Yotsushika. Adams took the hint and folded but Sergeev tossed in a single 1k blue chip to take the action heads-up to the river.
First to act, Sergeev now decided to lead, betting out 3,300 to send Yotsushika into the tank, where he remained for the full 30-seconds. The Japanese player folded but his slow action cost him a time bank chip.
How does it feel? To be on your own? Seven deuce in the hole? Like a High Rollin' stone?
We're back at the City of Dreams and Hard Rock Hotel poker room (hence the Bob Dylan, y'see) in Macau, and today kicks off the $100K HK Single Re-Entry Shot Clock High Roller. Rock and roll merchandise surrounds the players, but there's only one artifact in the room these players want to take home: the winner's trophy.
Among the next additions to the field were Ali Reza Fatehi, Nick Petrangelo, Stevan Chew, Kazuhiko Yotsushika, Nick Wong, Daniel Lee, Dan Smith, Georgios Zisimopoulos and Ioannis Angelou Konstas. The latter finished runner-up to Xixiang Luo in the Hyper Turbo last night and is looking for another score here in Macau.
After losing another big pot to Daniel Dvoress early on, Nan Hong was back in action and clashed in a pot with Nariman Yaghmai. Until the turn, there were some 12,000 in the middle and Hong shoved, Yaghmai snap-called for a reason.
Nan Hong:
Nariman Yaghmai:
Hong was already drawing dead, and that made the river a formality. Dvoress and Yaghmai are among the early chip leaders and the former joked to the latter "sometimes it is really easy, eh?" Yaghmai just smiled back and enjoyed the decent started.
We caught the action on the flop as Daniel Dvoress and Nan Hong tangled once again, with Hong choosing to defend from the blinds for the second time.
With the board reading and nearly 8,000 already in the pot, Hong had checked the action over to Dvoress, who fired for 4,700. Hong tanked until there were 3-seconds on the shot clock before throwing out the call and the hit the river.
Now Hong tried to seize the initiative and led for a pot-sized bet of 16,500 prompting Dvoress to stare him down calculatingly. The Canadian burned through the allotted 30-seconds of time and the first of his time bank chips and there was just 1-second remaining on the clock before Dvoress threw in the call.
Hong turned over for a pair of eights but Dvoress rolled over the rockets, to pad out his stack and take a chunk of Hong’s chips.
Xixiang Luo won a Side Event here at the PokerStars Live Macau poker room during the festival and then added another trophy to his poker resume after emerging in last night's Hyper Turbo tournament. A big role on his way to victory was a four-way all in with pocket queens versus kings and aces, and Luo rivered a straight to claim a massive lead.
Luo entered today's High Roller and already scooped a big pot again, boosting his stacking. The tail end of a hand against Wenwu Xue saw Luo bet the river for 8,300 and Xue called, then mucked when Luo flipped over for a set of deuces as winning hand.
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turn before checking once more.
river. This brought a third and final check from Boskovik Sr and another 3,000 bet from Smith. 
flop, Dianlei Zhang checked in the cutoff and Timothy Adams bet 1,400 on the button. Zhang check-raised to 2,800 and Adams called.
turn, Zhang checked again and Adams bet 5,200. Now Zhang check-raised to 10,700 and Adams eventually folded, dropping to around half the starting stack.
turn brought a second check from Sergeev and a bet of 1,000 from Yotsushika. Adams took the hint and folded but Sergeev tossed in a single 1k blue chip to take the action heads-up to the 
river a formality. Dvoress and Yaghmai are among the early chip leaders and the former joked to the latter "sometimes it is really easy, eh?" Yaghmai just smiled back and enjoyed the decent started.
and nearly 8,000 already in the pot, Hong had checked the action over to Dvoress, who fired for 4,700. Hong tanked until there were 3-seconds on the shot clock before throwing out the call and the 
hit the river.
for a pair of eights but Dvoress rolled over the rockets, 
river for 8,300 and Xue called, then mucked when Luo flipped over 
for a set of deuces as winning hand.
