Another Shot at High Roller Glory in the Second HK$206,000 Single-Day High Roller
All events of the 2017 PokerStars Championship Macau festival at the PokerStars Live Macau poker room at City of Dreams have shown excellent numbers thus far, and especially the High Roller tournaments convinced with decent fields and plenty of familiar names of the international poker circuit. Many of them will return for more glory in high-stakes tournaments, as a second edition of the HK$206,000 Single-Day High Roller (~$26,513) is scheduled to take place in one hour from now as of 12 p.m. local time.
The first HK$82,400 High Roller tournament ended with a three-way deal including Michael Addamo, Nick Petrangelo and Roman Korenev, while Steve O'Dwyer emerged victorious in the HK$400,000 Super High Roller after defeating German wunderkind Fedor Holz in heads-up. Quan Zhou came out on top of the first HK$206,000 Single-Day High Roller just two days ago, and Petrangelo once again finished second there in a 62-entry strong field that included 50 unique entrants and 12 re-entries.
Zhou is free to defend his title after being eliminated late on Day 1 of the HK$82,400 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller last night, which Sam Greenwood leads with 13 players remaining out of a 36-entry strong field. Only the top six spots will get paid and the winner will take home HK$950,000 for the efforts.
The Single-Day High Roller will feature the same format as the first edition with levels of 30 minutes each and a starting stack of 100,000, there will also be a 30-second shot clock which activates 5-seconds into every hand. Once this runs down players have three (30-second) time extension chips that come into play automatically once the initial 30-second clock has expired.
If a player has no more time bank chips and is first to act in the hand and there has been no action then they are counted as checking automatically. If there has been action and the player has no more time bank chips once the 30-seconds Shot Clock has counted down then their hand is declared dead – unless of course, they have already acted.
A single re-entry is available during the first eight levels, and the registration will then close at the start of level nine. As usual, the PokerNews live reporting team will provide all the action from the tables on the way to crown another High Roller champion here in Macau