As we got to the table, Steve O'Dwyer had just check raised from the blinds on ![]()
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. Schemion moved all in and O'Dwyer called it of holding ![]()
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and got lucky right away with the
on the turn. The
on the river made O'Dwyer trips, but it wasn't enough to save him.
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At the same time as Jason Mercier enforced a fold from Christoph Vogelsang, another big pot was played a few meters over on table three. There were 320,000 chips in the middle with the board reading ![]()
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and Ibrahim Raouf had shoved for what looked like 159,000.
Stanley Choi had that beat by just two big blinds and took his time before making the decision to call or fold. He eventually did call and Raouf mucked, claiming he had pocket aces. Choi's ![]()
won the pot and he effectually doubled up his stack. Dan Smith said "I thought you had it there" and Choi added he was afraid of pocket nines, Smith had put Raouf on the very same hand.
The action started with a raise to 13,000 by Salman Behbehani from the button and Christoph Vogelsang then made it 45,000 to go from one seat over. PokerStars Team Pro Jason Mercier four-bet to 92,000 and Behbehani quickly got out of the way while Vogelsang called. On the ![]()
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flop, Vogelsang check-called a bet worth 67,000 and checked again the
turn.
Mercier put his German opponent all in for his remaining 215,000 and Vogelsang gave it some consideration before folding.
In the first hand of the day, action folded to Daniel Negreanu in the cutoff. The PokerStars Team Pro shoved his last 51,000 in and started a monologue about charts and whatnot while awaiting his fate. His neighbor Timothy Adams was interested and called, both blinds folded.
"I just have ace-jack" said Negreanu. "That's good" Adams replied as he showed his ![]()
. "Yeah it is!" Negreanu laughingly said while showing his ![]()
, "I sucked you in!"
The flop came ![]()
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and Negreanu was all smiles. "Yeah baby! I saved a $100k by not shipping it in last night!" The
on the turn and
on the river made things official and Negreanu doubled up.
It's an early shower for high roller/hedge fund manager Dan Shak, who exits the tournament before the NYSE bell has rung.
Shak got his relatively short stack in with the ![]()
versus Sam Greenwood's ![]()
and found no joy on a ![]()
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run out.
From the cutoff, Mustapha Kanit raised to 13,000 and called the three-bet of John Juanda from one seat over for 36,000. On the ![]()
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flop, Kanit checked and Juanda's continuation bet worth 32,000 won the pot.
Shortly after, Thomas Muehloecker open-shoved his below-average stack and found no caller.
Max Altergott was the last player to enter the competition again and purchased his second bullet in order to become the first player to win this very Super High Roller for the second time.
| Table | Seat | Name | Country | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Isaac Haxton | United States | 210,000 |
| 1 | 2 | Dan Shak | United States | 110,000 |
| 1 | 3 | Fabian Quoss | Germany | 194,000 |
| 1 | 4 | Timofey Kuznetsov | Russia | 250,000 |
| 1 | 5 | Sam wood | Canada | 227,000 |
| 1 | 6 | Ivan Luca | Argentina | 660,000 |
| 1 | 7 | Andrew Lichtenberger | United States | 334,000 |
| 1 | 8 | Stephen Chidwick | United Kingdom | 249,000 |
| 2 | 1 | Max Silver | United Kingdom | 785,000 |
| 2 | 2 | Thomas Muehloecker | Austria | 89,000 |
| 2 | 3 | Nick Petrangelo | USA | 250,000 |
| 2 | 4 | Mike McDonald | Canada | 143,000 |
| 2 | 5 | Paul Newey | United Kingdom | 352,000 |
| 2 | 7 | Mustapha Kanit | Italy | 589,000 |
| 2 | 8 | John Juanda | Indonesia | 744,000 |
| 3 | 1 | Dan Smith | United States | 162,000 |
| 3 | 2 | Ali Reza Fatehi | United Arab Emirates | 279,000 |
| 3 | 3 | Raouf Ibrahim | Monaco | 344,000 |
| 3 | 5 | Sergey Lebedev | Russia | 250,000 |
| 3 | 4 | Dominik Nitsche | Germany | 158,000 |
| 3 | 6 | Stanley Choi | China | 355,000 |
| 3 | 7 | David Peters | United States | 295,000 |
| 4 | 1 | Fedor Holz | Germany | 250,000 |
| 4 | 2 | Salman Behbehani | Kuwait | 525,000 |
| 4 | 3 | Christoph Vogelsang | Germany | 369,000 |
| 4 | 4 | Jason Mercier | United States | 629,000 |
| 4 | 5 | Byron Kaverman | United States | 534,000 |
| 4 | 6 | Bryn Kenney | United States | 395,000 |
| 4 | 7 | Daniel Dvoress | Canada | 337,000 |
| 5 | 1 | Dario Sammartino | Italy | 651,000 |
| 5 | 2 | Steve O'Dwyer | Ireland | 228,000 |
| 5 | 3 | Sean Winter | United States | 402,000 |
| 5 | 4 | Erik Seidel | United States | 230,000 |
| 5 | 5 | Ole Schemion | Germany | 488,000 |
| 5 | 7 | Haralabos Voulgaris | Canada | 134,000 |
| 5 | 8 | Mike Watson | Canada | 218,000 |
| 6 | 1 | Charlie Carrel | United Kingdom | 336,000 |
| 6 | 3 | Igor Kurganov | Russia | 755,000 |
| 6 | 4 | Tobias Reinkemeier | Germany | 175,000 |
| 6 | 5 | Daniel Negreanu | Canada | 52,000 |
| 6 | 6 | Timothy Adams | Canada | 342,000 |
| 6 | 8 | Mikita Badziakouski | Belarus | 921,000 |
Nível: 9
Blinds: 3,000/6,000
Ante: 1,000
Timofey Kuznetsov and Nick Petrangelo bought back into the tournament as re-entry while Sergey Lebedev is a new entry.
Lebedev was also on the final table of the €10,000 High Roller last night as well and bought in to make it four new entries for Day 2.