12 joueurs ont chuté lors du Jour 1 du Super High Roller Bowl à 300.000$ l'entrée qui se déroule jusqu'au 1er juin au ARIA Resort & Casino de Las Vegas. Ils ne sont plus que 44 en lice pour le premier prix de 6 millions de dollars et c'est Byron Kaverman qui domine les débats en étant le seul joueur au dessus du million de jetons.
L'ancien n°1 du classement GPI a multiplié son tapis de départ par 4 (1,2 million de jetons) et devance Leon Tsoukernik (912 000) et Fedor Holz (803 000), runner-up l'an passé pour plus de 3 millions de dollars. Tenant du titre, Rainer Kempe est bien placé tout comme Jake Schindler, Cary Katz, Justin Bonomo et Andrew Lichtenberger.
C'est en revanche terminé pour John Juanda, Ben Tollerene, Phil Hellmuth (éliminé par Kevin Hart), Igor Kurganov, Erik Seidel, Ben Sulsky, Ankush Mandavia, Bill Perkins, Haralabos Voulgaris, un businessman anonyme au pseudo de G.I et Christian Christner.
Day 2 seat assignments and chip counts (unofficial)
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Bill Perkins was able to survive a couple of all ins, but he got in one flip too many when he stuck his 44,500 in on the button with and Rainer Kempe woke up with . The board ran out , and Perkins headed for the exits.
Pratyush Buddiga opened to 6,000 from under the gun only to have Daniel Negreanu three-bet next to act to 16,000. Tom Marchese cold-called in the cutoff as the blinds and Buddiga folded.
The flop of saw Negreanu continue for 12,000 with Marchese making the call as the on the turn saw both players check.
The river landed the and Negreanu dropped in a bet of 28,000.
Marchese reached fora stack of chips and announced he was all in. Negreanu quickly called for his last 116,000 and tabled his for top set while Marchese showed his and dropped to 175,000 in chips.
Christian Christner made his short stack last quite a few hours but finally fell when he got in preflop against the of fellow German Christoph Vogelsang. The board ran out , and Christner hit the rail when Vogelsang paired.
A table will now break for the first time in this event.
Phil Hellmuth limped in from the hi-jack and Kevin Hart raised to 7,000 from the button. Byron Kaverman called in the big blind, as did Hellmuth.
The flop fell and the action was checked through as the landed on the turn.
Kaverman checked again before Hellmuth bet out 10,000 and Hart called. With the action on Kaverman, he check-raised to 32,000 and Hellmuth re-organized his chips before moving all in for 70,000. Hart quickly iso-shoved over the top for roughly 259,000 and Kaverman folded.
Hellmuth:
Hart:
With Hellmuth at risk and needing to spike the last three in the deck, the river landed the to send him packing.
"Good hand Phil. Take it easy man!" stated Hart following the hand.
As Hellmuth made his way to the outer tables, Hart came over to the edge of the stage and announced loudly, "I bust Phil! Everybody I bust Phil out!"
Cheers followed from players and on-lookers before Hart added, "It was me. I did the damage!"
The businessman known only as G.I. was all in for 41,000 when we got to his table, and Bill Perkins was all in also for 47,000. Dan Smith put them both at risk.
G.I.:
Perkins:
Smith:
Perkins called for a ten but didn't even need the one he got as the board ran out .
"All right," he said. "Got some bluffin' chips now."
against Einhorn's 
with the money going all in on the river with the final board running out 
.
on the turn would end things as the meaningless 
completed the board on the river and Seidel was eliminated.
, Byron Kaverman bet out 40,000 from the small blind.
for a rivered straight as Kurganov tabled his 
.
and Negreanu dropped in a bet of 28,000.
on the river would end his tournament.
in preflop against the 
of fellow German Christoph Vogelsang. The board ran out 
landed on the turn.
