31 Players Register for $250,000 Buy-In Event, David Peters Leads
After Day 1 of the $250,000 Super High Roller Championships at partypoker 2018 Caribbean Poker Party, one thing can be said for certain: there's an appetite for nosebleed action here.
Thirty-one entries were logged in the eight-level Day 1, which featured open registration throughout. Unlike the $50,000 Super High Roller — won by [Removed:150] in the early hours of Tuesday — which started with one table and slowly built, the $250K began with a healthy count of around 20 players and only grew from there.
That means one of the bigger prize pools on this year's poker calendar will be doled out. The number is already north of $7.5 million with registration remaining open until the start of Day 2, scheduled for 1 p.m. local time on Wednesday.
As for the favorites to get their hands on a cut of that prize pool, nobody was able to separate themselves among the 13 people who bagged to end Day 1.
David Peters finished with the biggest stack, turning a million in chips into 3,890,000, but more than half of the players left would take the lead if they doubled through him. Peters' high roller chops are certainly as sharp as ever right now, as he has finished top three in four events of at least $50,000 in the past couple of months, racking up over $4 million in cashes in that time frame alone.
Ali Imsirovic (3,295,000), Steffen Sontheimer (3,180,000), Stephen Chidwick (2,720,000), and partypoker's own Isaac Haxton (2,580,000) round out the top five.
2018 Caribbean Poker Party $250,000 Super High Roller Championships Day 1 Chip Counts
| Position | Player | Country | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | David Peters | United States | 3,890,000 |
| 2 | Ali Imsirovic | United States | 3,295,000 |
| 3 | Steffen Sontheimer | Germany | 3,180,000 |
| 4 | Stephen Chidwick | United Kingdom | 2,720,000 |
| 5 | Isaac Haxton | United States | 2,580,000 |
| 6 | Adrian Mateos | Spain | 2,435,000 |
| 7 | Sean Winter | United States | 2,410,000 |
| 8 | Talal Shakerchi | United Kingdom | 1,970,000 |
| 9 | Dan Smith | United States | 1,835,000 |
| 10 | Jason Koon | United States | 1,815,000 |
| 11 | Nick Petrangelo | United States | 1,500,000 |
| 12 | Mikita Badziakouski | Belarus | 1,495,000 |
| 13 | Martin Kabrhel | Czech Republic | 1,480,000 |
Sontheimer may have bagged the lead if not for a beat at the hands of Chidwick. The latter four-bet shoved with pocket eights and managed to find a third eight and dodge a turned straight draw against "Goose's" jacks.
Imsirovic busted the ever-dangerous Fedor Holz in the latter stages of the day, three-betting jacks out of the big blind and getting it all when Holz couldn't get away from top pair of tens.
Unfortunately for Holz and the other fallen — which included the likes of Christoph Vogelsang, Justin Bonomo, Sam Greenwood, and Alex Foxen — no more chances remain to get a crack at this prize pool. Unlike many other events on the schedule, the Super High Roller Championships is an old-fashioned freezeout, so only new players may enter on Wednesday.
Come back to PokerNews at 1 p.m. for Day 2 of the $250,000 Super High Roller Championships to see if this already sizable field continues to grow. Either way, there will be a handsome sum for the victor, and Day 2 will reveal who the contenders are over the course of 10 levels of play.
