HK $1,000,000 Main Event Jour 1 | 2017 Triton Super High Roller Series Montenegro

2017-07-18 18:20 UTC+2

Badziakouski Back in Front, Wang, Romain, Trickett and Paschalidis Enter

Niveau 5 : 1,200/2,400, 400 ante

A chunky pot has recently played out between Mikita Badziakouski and Chan Wai Leong that saw the chip lead change hands.

We picked up the action on the turn with over 100,000 in blinds and antes already in the pot with the board reading just as Leong (big blind] led out for a 60,000 bet.

Sitting under-the-gun-plus-one Badziakouski, wearing his trademark sunglasses, turned to face Leong and while we couldn’t see exactly what he was looking at we are guessing that it was his Malaysian opponent.

Eventually Badziakouski made the call to swell the pot to over 200,000 and the dealer peeled off the to complete the hand, but not the betting.

After thinking things over Leong now chose to check and Badziakouski mulled over his options before reaching for the turquoise 25k chips and sliding out a hefty 140,000 bet, leaving himself around 307,000 behind.

This sent Leong deep into the tank, where he remained for a good five minutes. With 615,000 in chips behind the Malaysian player could afford the call, but it would be for a significant portion of his chips. Eventually Leong decided to give it up and the monster pot was shipped Badziakouski’s way with the Belarusian climbing to 768,000 after the hand.

The recent arrival of the UK’s Sam Trickett, Greece’s Antonios Paschalidis, China's Zuo Wang and France's Arnaud Romain has see the field increase once more and we are now up to 35 entries, 33 of whom are still in the running.

Joueur	Jetons	Progression
Mikita Badziakouski	768,000 256,000	256,000

Chan Wai Leong	630,000 -125,200	-125,200
Antonios Paschalidis	250,000 250,000	250,000
Sam Trickett	250,000 250,000	250,000
Arnaud Romain	250,000
Zuo Wang	250,000

Tags: Antonios Paschalidis Chan Wai Leong Mikita Badziakouski Sam Trickett

2017-07-18 17:56 UTC+2

Post-break Chip Counts

Niveau 5 : 1,200/2,400, 400 ante

There have been some more late comers with Dominik Bosnjak and Timofey ‘Trueteller’ Kuznetsov buying in and Liang Yu buying in for the second time with the rest of the field stacking up as follows:

Joueur	Jetons	Progression
Chan Wai Leong	755,200 -71,800	-71,800
Steffen Sontheimer	447,000 84,800	84,800
Rui Cao	365,000 52,000	52,000
Dominik Nitsche	310,000 3,000	3,000

Richard Yong	300,000 50,000	50,000
Su Hao	296,000 41,000	41,000
Andrew Robl	290,000 40,000	40,000
Paul Phua	276,000 8,000	8,000

Predrag Lekovic	275,000 51,000	51,000
Koray Aldemir	265,000 15,000	15,000

Lucas Greenwood	260,000 -3,000	-3,000
John Juanda	256,000 6,000	6,000

Dominik Bosnjak	250,000
Liang Yu	250,000 250,000	250,000
Timofey Kuznetsov	250,000
Manig Loeser	247,000 11,000	11,000

Wai Kin Yong	245,000 -5,000	-5,000
Steve O'Dwyer	244,000 11,000	11,000

Lauren Roberts	215,000 -35,000	-35,000
Tony Cheng	206,000 -28,000	-28,000
Alexandros Kolonias	192,000 43,000	43,000

Daniel Cates	191,000 -59,000	-59,000
Keith Gipson	180,000 -101,300	-101,300
Marius Torbergsen	165,000 -85,000	-85,000
David Peters	134,500 11,400	11,400

Lire Plus

Niveau: 5

Blinds: 1,200/2,400

Ante: 400

2017-07-18 17:31 UTC+2

Paul Phua Gives Welcome Speech

Niveau 4

Paul Phua - Fedor Holz - Richard Yong - Christos Tsemperas

The break has been extended slightly as Triton founder Paul Phua gave all the Main Event entrants a rousing welcome speech, which earned a loud round of applause from the watching players before the Triton Super High Roller Montenegro 2017 6-Max Champion Fedor Holz was officially awarded his latest piece of silverware.

2017-07-18 17:17 UTC+2

La Pause a débuté

Pause : 10 min.

2017-07-18 17:16 UTC+2

Leong Takes From Holz, More New Arrivals

Niveau 4 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

We were going to write a post about how Fedor Holz was running away with the chip lead, but that is no longer true and while we missed all of the action we passed by Holz table in time to see the German player reordering his much-reduced stack as a monster pot is shipped Chan Wai Leong’s way.

Holz had close to 500,000 not so long ago but that is not the case now and he looked to have around 90,000 while Leong has a massive 827,000 stack.

There have been some more new arrivals with defending champion Koray Aldemir entering the fray in addition to Lauren Roberts and Marius Torbergen to bring the total number of entries up to 28, with 25 of those still in the running.

Joueur	Jetons	Progression
Chan Wai Leong	827,000 357,000	357,000
Koray Aldemir	250,000 250,000	250,000

Lauren Roberts	250,000 250,000	250,000
Marius Torbergsen	250,000 250,000	250,000
Fedor Holz	90,000 -305,000	-305,000

Tags: Chan Wai Leong Fedor Holz Koray Aldemir Lauren Roberts Marius Torbergsen

2017-07-18 16:58 UTC+2

Phua Tests Peters, More New Entries

Niveau 4 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

We caught Paul Phua and David Peters embroiled in a hand on the river with a mound of chips in the center of the table and the community cards spread .

Phua, sitting in the big blind, had just led out for a rather hefty 180,000 bet to put the US pro to the test as, with 123,100 behind, this has Peters’ covered so if he made the call it would be for his tournament life.

“Re-buy, re-buy,” joked Phua light-heartedly. Peters flashed Phua a grin and threw his hand away leaving the Malaysian to rake in a decent sized pot and climb to 268,000.

The field has now grown to 25 entries, 23 of whom are still in the running with 2016 Triton Super High Roller Philippines champion Wai Kin Yong, Richard Yong, John Juanda, Daniel ‘Jungleman’ Cates and Andrew Robl joining the action.

Joueur	Jetons	Progression
Paul Phua	268,000 58,000	58,000

Andrew Robl	250,000
Daniel Cates	250,000
John Juanda	250,000

Richard Yong	250,000
Wai Kin Yong	250,000
David Peters	123,100 -89,100	-89,100

Tags: Andrew Robl Dan Cates David Peters John Juanda Paul Phua Richard Yong Wai Kin Yong

2017-07-18 16:36 UTC+2

Leong Sets Up Tan

Niveau 4 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

Xuan Tan is now in the red for his Montenegrin trip as, despite cashing the Triton SHR 6-Max on Monday 17 July for HK$386,000, the Chinese player has become the second official casualty of the Main Event.

While we missed the hand in question we found out the details from the man who sent Tan to the rail, Malaysia’s Chan Wai Leong.

According to Leong, it was a blind versus blind battle that went poorly for Tan (big blind) who called Leong’s small blind 3,500 pre-flop raise.

Unfortunately for the Chinese player, he flopped two pair holding , and while this is usually a good thing, it is less good when your opponent is holding for a set.

All the chips went in on the flop and a dejected Tan headed for the rail while Leong stacked up to 470,000.

Joueur	Jetons	Progression
Chan Wai Leong	470,000 174,500	174,500
Xuan Tan	Eliminé

Tags: Chan Wai Leong Xuan Tan

2017-07-18 16:20 UTC+2

Stack Check

Niveau 4 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

Current chip leader is Mikita Badziakouski following his elimination of Liang Yu, with Fedor Holz the next largest stack and being as the two are seated at the same table and are both pretty active there may well be fireworks at some point.Here's how the field is stacking up so far:

Joueur	Jetons	Progression
Mikita Badziakouski	512,000 34,000	34,000

Fedor Holz	395,000 59,000	59,000

Steffen Sontheimer	362,200 25,200	25,200
Rui Cao	313,000 63,000	63,000
Dominik Nitsche	307,000 47,000	47,000

Chan Wai Leong	295,500 45,500	45,500
Keith Gipson	281,300 31,300	31,300
Lucas Greenwood	263,000 57,000	57,000
Su Hao	255,000 5,000	5,000
Manig Loeser	236,000 8,000	8,000

Tony Cheng	234,000 -16,000	-16,000
Steve O'Dwyer	233,000 7,000	7,000

Devan Tang	224,000 -26,000	-26,000
Predrag Lekovic	224,000 -64,000	-64,000
David Peters	212,200 12,200	12,200

Paul Phua	210,000 -5,500	-5,500

Peter Chan	209,000 -12,500	-12,500
Xuan Tan	174,000 -76,000	-76,000
Alexandros Kolonias	149,000 -17,500	-17,500

Niveau: 4

Blinds: 1,000/2,000

Ante: 300