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3.45pm: Yan yoinks Mercier
Level 6, Blinds: 1,500/3,000 (400 ante)
It's still early, but David Yan's second bullet is going better than his first.
Yan is now up to about 250,000 after eliminating Team PokerStars Pro Jason Mercier.
In that hand, Yan raised to 6,000 from the button and Mercier re-raised to 18,300 from the small blind.
Yan moved all-in and Mercier quickly called. Mercier tabled [js][jc] but Yan had the higher pocket pair with [ks][kc].
The [as][2d][4c][6h][7h] board brought no help for the Team Pro and he was eliminated from the tournament while Yan chipped up to about 260,000.
3.33pm: Level 6
Level 6, Blinds: 1,500/3,000 (400 ante)
Another 30 minutes, another level. Blinds are up to 1,500/3,000 with a 400 ante and the number of entries is up to 67.
3.10pm: Quick eliminations
Level 5, Blinds: 1,200/2,400 (300 ante)
We lost a few players in just a few minutes.
Erik Seidel raised to 5,500 from under-the-gun and Dario Sammaritano moved all-in for a whopping 8,900 from the button. Christoph Vogeslang four-bet to 12,100 and Seidel re-raised to 30,000.
Vogeslang folded and we had a showdown.
Seidel tabled [kh][ks] while Sammaritano showed [ad][9s]. The board ran [6c][2h][5s][Ts][8d] and Sammaritano hit the rail.
One table over Dani Stern moved all-in with [5s][5c] and Piotr Fanczak called with [ad][Th]. Fanczak hit a ten on the flop and Stern hit the rail.
Fanczak chipped up to 170,000 while the tournament kept shrinking. --AV
3.05pm: Level 5
Level 5, Blinds: 1,200/2,400 (300 ante)
Play has resumed and blinds are up to 1,200-2,400 with a 300 ante. They'll go up again in 30 minutes as players struggle to stay afloat.
2.50pm: Break
Level 4, Blinds: 1,000/2,000 (300 ante)
Players are now on their first 15-minute break of the day.
2.45pm: This is so weird
Level 4, Blinds: 1,000/2,000 (300 ante)
There have been a few whispers around the playground recently that Liv Boeree and Igor Kurganov might be dating. I don't want to spread unfounded gossip, but I can read body language like the best of them, and I think Liv fancies Igor.
You should have seen the sparks flying in a recent pot in the $50k High Roller. Kurganov and Boeree have found themselves on the same table for what I think is the first time in a major event. At least since those rumours started flying around.
Anyway, here's how the pot came about. Kurganov was on the button and opened to 4,000. Boeree was in the big blind and she queried Kurganov about his button raise before electing to call.
The flop came [qh][jd][5s] and Boeree checked. Kurganov bet 4,900 and said, "This is so weird" as he peered around Bryn "The Gooseberry" Kenney, who is separating the pair. Boeree called.
The [8h] came on the run and Boeree checked again. Kurganov bet 14,000 and Boeree called. Then the [kd] came on the river and Boeree checked again. Kurganov now fired 20,000 and Boeree called again.
She flipped over [kc][qc] and rubbed her hands in exaggerated delight at having taken this one from their joint account. Kurganov flashed what looked like [ks][ts] as he folded. -- HS
2.40 pm: Doubles for Perkins
Level 4, Blinds: 1,000/2,000 (300 ante)
"I'm not going anywhere," Bill Perkins said.
He'd just doubled up to about 50,000 after getting it all-in preflop against Talal Shakerchi. Shakerchi called with [kc][2c] to Perkins's [8d][8s]. The board ran [7c][4h][5c][3c][9c] and Perkins doubled up and sat back down in his chair.
Perkins had doubled up to about that same amount a few minutes earlier but his stack tends to go through more ups and downs than the Chinese stock market. --AV
2.30 pm: Petrangelo sends Mateos Packing
Level 4, Blinds: 1,000/2,000 (300 ante)
Another player fell before the break.
Nick Petrangelo raised to 5,000 from the button and Adrian Mateos re-raised to 16,000 from the small blind. Petrangelo called and the flop came [qs][Tc][8c].
Players went wild.
Mateos checked, Petrangelo bet 18,000 and Mateos re-raised to 50,000. Petrangelo four-bet all-in and Mateos called.
Mateos showed two pair with [td][8d] while Petrangelo had a flush draw with [kc][jc].
The draw turned into a full-fledged flush when the [3c] came on the turn. The river didn't fill Mateos up and he hit the rail while Petrangelo rose to 350,000. --AV
2.20 pm: Stacked
Level 4, Blinds: 1,000/2,000 (300 ante)
With the guns of Jason Koon and Olivier Busquet in this event, "stacked" has a number of meanings. But in the poker sense, the relatively weedy arms of Erik Seidel and Thomas Muehloecker are shepherding the biggest stacks. They each have more than 250,000.
Seidel actually just won a small pot from Koon after he was on of four players to call Koon's under-the-gun raise of 4,000. The others were Ivan Luca, on the button, and the blind pairing, Dario Sammartino and Christoph Vogelsang.
All five players checked the flop of [td][js][qd] and then after Sammartino and Vogelsang both checked the the [5c] turn, Koon bet 13,500 at it. Seidel was the only caller.
The river was the [7s] and Koon now check-folded to Seidel's 25,000 wager. And as is very common in a hand involving Erik Seidel, he took it before it went to showdown. -- HS
2.20 pm: Bigger and bigger
Level 4, Blinds: 1,000/2,000 (300 ante)
There are now 53 entries into this event, which is growing bigger and bigger as the minutes tick by. In addition to David Yan's elimination discussed below, Dani Stern is also out. Thomas Muehloecker has a stack of more than 250,000 on Stern's former table, so it seems he was the principal beneficiary.
Both Yan and Stern have re-entered, becoming the first two players to make a six-figure investment in this one. Jason Mercier, Piotr Franczak, Keith Lehr, Connor Drinan, Anton Astapau, Isaac Baron and Salman Behebehani are also now involved too. -- HS
2.15pm: Just like us...kind of
Level 3, Blinds: 800/1,600 (200 ante)
The mood in high roller events is always more normal and jovial than people expect.
It's more like your average home game than Casino Royale. There are no steely-eyed mobsters with body guards or assassination attempts.
Instead, we have young players like Jeff Rossiter and Adrian Mateos checking Twitter on Facebook. Joe McKeehen, the reigning WSOP champion and $100K SHR runner-up, is playing OFC on his iPad while Daniel Dvoress is eating an $11 cajun chicken burger from the poker kitchen.
We eat those burgers. We play OFC. We check Facebook and Instagram. They're just like us.
Well, mostly.
Bill Perkins and Dan Coleman have a friendly bet going on. They're asking each other questions at $5,000 a piece. The first was whether Dan Coleman thought the highest-earning cricket player earned less or more than $17 million.
Coleman guessed less. The answer was more.
There was also some wagering going on at their table and David Yan fell to Paul Volpe.
Yan was saying goodbye to his tablemates while the dealer swept up his [ad][Td] on a [2h][js][9c][4d][qh] board. Paul Volpe was raking in his chips and had a set of fours splayed out in front of him.
Yan hit the rail while Volpe chipped up to about 190,000.
1.55pm: Some level 3 action
Level 3, Blinds: 800/1,600 (200 ante)
And just like that, it's level 3.
- David Peters opened to 3,200 from the cutoff and Ivan Luca made it 9,100 from the button. Peters was the only caller. The flop came [3h][as][th], which both players checked, going to a [jd] turn. Check, check. The river was the [8s] and Peters bet 21,500 at it. Luca had seen enough. He folded.
- Ankush Mandavia raised to 3,500 from under the gun and Jason Koon defended his big blind. The flop for these two came [js][qc][4c] and Koon check-called Mandavia's bet of 3,500.
They both checked the [qh] turn. And Koon checked the [ac] river. Mandavia bet 12,000 and Koon called, forcing Mandavia to show his [5c][7c] and a winning flush. -- HS
1:50pm: Some level 2 action
Level 2, Blinds: 600/1,200 (200 ante)
With levels lasting only 30 minutes, whole levels can slip by without anybody really even noticing. (Except the tournament staff. They notice. That's their job.) All of the following happened in Level 2.
- Christoph Vogelsang opened from the button to 5,000 and Jason Koon raised to 10,200 from the small blind. After a customary dwell, Vogelsang folded.
- Liv Boeree opened from the button and Bill Perkins, in the small blind, immediately said, "I'm all in." He shoved about 70,000 forward.
"It's going to be like that?" Boeree said and quickly folded. Perkins flipped over pocket queens to prove the legitimacy of the hand.
- Bryn Kenney came over to the tournament officials' table to collect his chips for this event. The official asked to see his ticket and Kenney reached into his pocket to hoik out the first receipt that came to hand. He handed it over but was quickly told it wasn't valid. Kenney had inadvertently reached for his cash-out ticket for yesterday's $100,000 Super High Roller event. That bit of paper was worth more than $1.6 million. The humblest of humble brags.
- Daniel Colman opened to 3,000 from under the gun and Dani Stern called from the seat to his left. Kathy Lehne came along from the small blind and Bryn Kenney called from the big.
All four players checked the flop of [qs][2d][8c]. All four players also checked the turn of [qh]. The [7d] came on the river and, what do you know, all four players checked that too.
Lehne turned over [ah][3c]. Kenney mucked. Colman showed a hopeful [4h][4d]. Stern had him beat with [6h][6d].
- Joe McKeehen opened to 3,000 and it folded round to Isaac Haxton in the big blind. "How much do you have, Joe?" Haxton asked. "Eighty three," McKeehen said. Haxton raised to 9,400 and McKeehen folded.
1.35pm: Mini super high rollers
Level 2, Blinds: 600/1,200 (200 ante)
The $100K Super High Roller was surely a bargain for players in the $50K High Roller.
Players were given the chance of up to three days of poker in that event while this one will crown a champion --hopefully-- before the sun rises on Paradise Island again.
But days-per-buy-in isn't how players measure poker value.
There's a small contingent of people in this world willing to shell out $50K for a single-day poker tournament but can't bring themselves to play a $100K one. Players in the $50K field who didn't play the Super High Roller include: Adrian Mateos, Ivan Luca, Liv Boeree, Dario Sammaritano, Jeff Gross, Kenny Smaron, Jeff Rossiter, Mohsin Charania, Scott Margereson, Dan Coleman, David Yan and Olivier Busquet.
The rest of the field consists of the same players who played the $100K Super High Roller, including its newly-minted champion, Bryn Kenney, who just took a seat. --AV
1.20pm: Perkins keeps pots big
Level 1, Blinds: 500/1,000 (100 ante)
Bill Perkins is hardly concerned with playing big pots, even at these early stage. In fact, that's the way he likes it. He opened to 2,500 from the hijack in a recent pot and Timothy Adams raised to 8,000 from the button.
It folded back to Perkins and he pretty much immediately four bet to 17,500. Adams thought a little longer before calling.
The flop came [9s][th][td] and Perkins immediately gunned 21,000 into the middle. Adams wasn't interested in this one anymore. -- HS
1.15pm: And another handful
Level 1, Blinds: 500/1,000 (100 ante)
The feeling of Groundhog Day pervades in the far corner of the tournament room as more high rollers arrive to the precise field on which they did battle three days ago.
Olivier Busquet, Ivan Luca, Daniel Colman, Ankush Mandavia, Fedor Holz, Dan Shak and Jeff Gross are now here too.
1.05pm: Newey rubs salt into McKeehen's wounds
Level 1, Blinds: 500/1,000 (100 ante)
Joe McKeehen was playing later than most last night as he stayed all the way to the end of the $100K Super High Roller. He didn't win it; he lost the final hand of the night to Bryn Kenney. But he's back in action again already today.
McKeehen played an early pot against Paul Newey, but it didn't go well. McKeenen opened to 2,500 from the hijack and Newey called from the cut off, persuading Scott Margereson to defend his big blind. Three went to a flop of [9s][5d][5h] and Margereson checked.
McKeehen bet 4,000 and only Newey called, trimming the field to two on the [th] turn. McKeehen checked, prompting a bet of 9,000 from Newey. McKeehen stayed to the river.
It fell [4c] and after they both checked, McKeehen showed his [ah][qs], which had missed the board. Newey's [9c][7c] connected slightly and that was enough.
1pm: More suspects
Level 1, Blinds: 500/1,000 (100 ante)
They're still flooding into this event, and the numbers seem likely to be very healthy indeed. Latest registrants include Thomas Mueloecker, Ole Schemion, Timothy Adams, Daniel Dvoress, Joe McKeehen, Justin Bonomo, Paul Newey, Dani Stern, Ike Haxton, Christoph Vogelsang and Bill Perkins.
They are allowed only one re-entry in this one, so maximum exposure is at $100,000.
12.30pm: Getting started
Level 1, Blinds: 500/1,000 (100 ante)
Play is just getting started in this $50K event and the line-up of players could not be more appropriately described as "the usual suspects" if Verbal Kint was among them. The first 14 people I saw in the High Roller enclosure were: Nick Petrangelo, Erik Seidel, Cary Katz, Stephen Chidwick, Sam Greenwood, Jeff Rossiter, Scott Seiver, Talal Shakerchi, Kathy Lehne, David Yan, Adrian Mateos, Vladimir Troyanovskiy, Steve O'Dwyer and Mike McDonald.
11.45am: Another day, another high roller
It's Saturday, so that must mean another High Roller tournament, right? Of course it does. It's time for the $50K High Roller, whose quirk is that it gets done in a single day.
That said, it'll be a miracle if it's finished before about 3am tomorrow morning, but in poker terms that's a single day. And there will likely be a pretty tasty hourly rate for the players still hanging around as today turns into tomorrow.
As ever, we'll only know their identities as and when they begin to stroll in, and with registration open for the first eight levels, it's likely to start slowly and grow bigger. Stacks begin at 100,000. Levels last 30 minutes. There's a single re-entry permitted.
Stick with us to see how it plays out.
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PokerStars Blog reporting team on the $50K Single-Day High Roller: It's just me, would you believe. Actually, Alex Villegas is now on this beat too, for all the use that is. At least Nick Wright is coming in later. Photography by Joe Giron and Neil Stoddart. For more photos from this event by Joe Giron visit Poker Photo Archive.
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