Welcome to Day 1 of the 2017 Triton Super High Roller Series Montenegro 6-Max Event
Welcome poker fans, to the second stop in this year’s Triton Super High Roller Series, taking place at the idyllic Montenegrin-based Maestral Resort & Casino, located by the azure waters of the Adriatic Sea.
With previous Triton Series events attracting some of the biggest names on the international poker circuit and past winners including the likes of Fedor Holz, Daniel Cates, Daniel Colman, Wai Kin Yong and Koray Aldemir the stage looks to be set for a thrilling five days of high-octane big buy-in poker action.
It was Daniel Colman who emerged victorious in this same event in Manila back in February, winning a cool HK$3,641,600 (~US$473,408) in the process after defeating tournament stalwart Erik Seidel heads-up to take down the trophy and the title.
While it remains uncertain at present on whether Colman will be returning to defend his title several big names have already been spotted prowling the poker room.
These include high stakes specialist Steve O’Dwyer, SunCity Cup champion Daniel Cates and most interestingly of all, the infamous Tom ‘Durrrr’ Dwan looks to be making an Ali-like return to the ring and is also in attendance.
The subject of much conjecture and speculation, especially regarding the “Durrrr Challenge” against the aforementioned Cates and the loss of a US$20 million pot in a super high stakes Macau cash game (a fact Cates confirmed in an ‘Ask Me Anything’ thread), Dwan had been absent from the live tournament circuit until the recent Macau Billionaire’s Poker 2017 Spring Challenge at the Babylon Casino back in March.
Dwan announced his return with a bang, or rather a bink, when he finished runner-up to Belarusian Mikita Badziakouski for an HK$1.95 million (~US$252,153) payday – his first live tournament cash in over three years.
Whether Dwan will repeat or better that feat here in Montenegro remains to be seen, but with the HK$250,000 (~US$32,000) 6-Max No Limit Hold’em Event running on 16 July and the HK$1 million (~US$128,140) Main Event set to start on 18 July there is certainly going to be some great high stakes poker tournament action on display over the next few days.
The two-day HK$250,000 6-Max will be starting at 1pm CET and boasts multiple re-entry until the end of level 9, which will be the last level played on Day 1.
Players start with 50,000 in chips and will have 40-minute levels in which to use them and as previously mentioned play will conclude for the day at the end of level 9 with Day 2 resuming at 1pm CET on Monday 17 July. Of course the PokerNews live reporting team will be on hand to bring you all the tournament thrills and spills so watch this space.