The $50,000 PCA Single Day High Roller was won by New Zealand's David Yan earlier this week. This 6-Max tournament attracted a star-studded High Roller cast, with Yan agreeing a heads-up deal with Orpen Kisacikoglu.
Yan banked $485,690 for this victory, after 14 hours of play, and told PokerNews that his victory was down to running "insane"
“I’m pretty grateful for the experience" Yan told PokerNews after his victory. "When you play such a little amount, it’s just basically anything can happen. Today I just ran insane, the field was one of the tougher ones we’ve seen".
Anthony Hu, in middle position, and Justin Steinbrenner, on the button, got into a raising war preflop, where the former had his 157,000 stack in the middle and was at risk of stone bubbling the PCA Main Event.
The television crew began to swarm the table as well as the other players. After the hands were completed on the rest of the tables, the tournament director instructed the players to table their cards.
Anthony Hu:
Justin Steinbrenner:
Hu was a huge favorite to get the double up and leave Steinbrenner as a short stack. However, Steinbrenner made a set as the dealer fanned the flop. A collective moan came from the room as Hu was on the verge of a huge beat.
"Not like this!" shouted Xuan Liu, in support of Hu, as she looked on.
The entire room then lost their minds as the came on the turn to give Hu the better set and Steinbrenner looked disgusted.
"A real TV hand," commented Hu, with a wry smile on his face.
The completed the board and Hu somehow survived to get the double up.
Laszlo Bujtas was in middle position against Alexandre Raymond in the cutoff.
There was around 40,000 in the pot and the board read when Bujtas bet 12,000. Raymond raised to 60,000. Bujtas asked for a count before making the call. Raymond turned over for top set to take down the pot as Bujtas mucked.
Action was heads up with on the board when Joseph Drory checked and Christoph Csik bet 62,000 from the next seat over. Drory responded with a shove for just over 350,000 and Csik called.
Drory turned over for the flush draw, while Csik had for a set of sixes. The river was and Drory was out of the tournament.
The tournament is now down to 128 players and one elimination away from the money.
Tinay Aksoy raised to 8,000 from the cutoff before action folded to Pedro Marques who moved all in for 35,000. Aksoy called.
After the hands at other tables concluded, the players turned over their hands.
Pedro Marques:
Tinay Aksoy:
Marques was ahead and at risk as he had the dominant pocket pair. However, there was a ten in the window as the flop came giving Aksoy a full house. Marques was drawing to two outs to survive. They didn't come as the turn came the and the river the to eliminate Marques from the tournament.
On the completed board with 30,000 in the pot, Daniel Custodio jammed as the big stack. His opponent was Paulina Loeliger who was in position and had a stack of 40,000 in front of her.
The hand took place as the break was taking place, and Loeliger had been in the tank for several minutes.
She eventually called off her stack with but was eliminated as Custodio had trips with his .
After the hand, Loeliger tried to muck her hand but was stopped by the dealer. She then moved her attention to the pot before exiting the tournament room.