HKD $1,000,000 Short Deck Ante-Only | 2018 Triton Super High Roller Series Montenegro

05-18-2018 14:57 UTC

A few More Three-Way All Ins

Christian Zetzsche

Level 9 : 0/0, 8,000 ante

Winfred Yu almost tripled up with his held up against the Marius Torbergsen with and Thomas Goldstein's on a board of .

Just prior to that, Torbergsen had scored a double knockout with versus and , the board came , so he could afford the little dent into his stack.

Player	Chips	Progress
Marius Torbergsen	2,750,000 -250,000	-250,000
Winfred Yu	800,000 500,000	500,000
Wang Qiang	600,000 200,000	200,000
Thomas Goldstein	Busted

Tags: Marius Torbergsen Thomas Goldstein Winfred Yu

05-18-2018 14:54 UTC

Torbergsen Up to Three Million

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 9 : 0/0, 8,000 ante

Marius Torbergsen called the shove of Thomas Goldstein with the and faced pocket aces. The board came and Goldstein had to redeem his final bullet.

Right after, Torbergsen hit a flush with on the board of to get the big stack of Hui Ping Wan, while Patrik Antonius busted the third bullet a mere two minutes later in yet another three-way all in.

Player	Chips	Progress
Marius Torbergsen	3,000,000 2,375,000	2,375,000
Thomas Goldstein	100,000 -400,000	-400,000
Hui Ping Wan	100,000 -750,000	-750,000
Patrik Antonius	Busted

Tags: Hui Ping Wan Marius Torbergsen Patrik Antonius Thomas Goldstein

05-18-2018 14:48 UTC

Dwan With Massive Knockout

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 9 : 0/0, 8,000 ante

Tom Dwan doubled three times early on and just knocked out Yong Ge Dai in a big pot. They got it in with the versus , and Dwan flopped middle set on . Dai had some 750,000 and busted on the last bullet.

Wang Qiang jumped back in, it remains a mystery for how many times, as did Wai Kin Yong.

Player	Chips	Progress
Tom Dwan	2,000,000 900,000	900,000

Jason Koon	1,700,000 50,000	50,000

Phil Ivey	1,400,000 100,000	100,000

Romain Arnaud	700,000 600,000	600,000
Wang Qiang	400,000 400,000	400,000
Wai Kin Yong	100,000 100,000	100,000
Yong Ge Dai	Busted

Tags: Tom Dwan Wai Kin Yong Wang Qiang Yong Ge Dai

05-18-2018 14:40 UTC

Wan Rising

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 9 : 0/0, 8,000 ante

Hui Ping Wan got there with against the of Wai Kin Yong and the of Andrew Robl as the board ran out to give him a straight. Robl was ousted on the final bullet but may still re-enter.

Not long after, Yong had departed by now, Winfred Yu was in a three-way all in and tripled up with against Wan's and the of Patrik Antonius. The board came and Antonius had to redeem another bullet.

Thomas Goldstein also chipped up and has now around half a million on the same table.

Player	Chips	Progress
Hui Ping Wan	850,000 850,000	850,000
Thomas Goldstein	500,000 100,000	100,000
Winfred Yu	300,000 -100,000	-100,000
Patrik Antonius	100,000

Tags: Hui Ping Wan Patrik Antonius Thomas Goldstein Winfred Yu

05-18-2018 14:30 UTC

More Madness Ensues

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 9 : 0/0, 8,000 ante

Sean Demsey, Patrik Antonius and Romain Arnaud jumped in while Wai Kin Yong was ousted. Ivan Leow sent his chips over to Rui Cao when his could not get there versus , the board came .

Winfred Yu doubled through Yong, then doubled through Torbergsen and was suddenly up to around half a million in chips. "This is a gambling game," he grinned.

Player	Chips	Progress
Rui Cao	800,000 440,000	440,000
Winfred Yu	400,000 300,000	300,000
Romain Arnaud	100,000 100,000	100,000
Patrik Antonius	100,000 100,000	100,000

Richard Yong	100,000 100,000	100,000
Sean Dempsey	100,000 100,000	100,000

Wai Kin Yong	Busted
Ivan Leow	Busted

Tags: Ivan Leow Patrik Antonius Richard Yong Romain Arnaud Rui Cao Sean Dempsey Wai Kin Yong Winfred Yu

05-18-2018 14:20 UTC

Action Resumes

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 9 : 0/0, 8,000 ante

It is somewhat unclear how many players entered and re-entered within just five minutes, because quite honestly the chips are going on at every hand, 100,000 at a time. So far the screens show 84 entries and that number is guaranteed to climb further.

Player	Chips	Progress
Phil Ivey	1,300,000 217,000	217,000

Tom Dwan	1,100,000 680,000	680,000

Alan Sass	500,000 400,000	400,000
Thomas Goldstein	400,000 400,000	400,000
Yueqine Zhou	300,000 300,000	300,000

05-18-2018 14:07 UTC

Clock Stopped

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 9 : 0/0, 8,000 ante

The clocks have been stopped with 55 minutes left in the second level and the registration desk had been busy to get a flurry of entries and re-entries in, while the feature table was set up as well one hour early.

Below are a few assorted stacks, the action should restart soon again.

Just before that happened, Rui Cao sent Yewul Wu and Ivan Leow to the rail. Cao had the , Wu the and Leow was all in with . The board came and Cao turned a ten to take both final bullets.

Player	Chips	Progress
Wai Leong Chan	1,650,000 650,000	650,000
Jason Koon	1,650,000 -160,000	-160,000

Gabe Patgorski	975,000 525,000	525,000
Elton Tsang	900,000 100,000	100,000
Rui Cao	360,000 360,000	360,000
Thomas Goldstien	250,000
Winfred Yu	100,000 100,000	100,000
Andrew Robl	100,000 -530,000	-530,000
Ivan Leow	Busted
Yewul Wu	Busted

Tags: Ivan Leow Rui Cao Yewul Wu

Level: 9

Blinds: 0/0

Ante: 8,000

05-18-2018 13:59 UTC

Triple Knockout Vaults Pang Into Massive Stack

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 8 : 0/0, 6,000 ante

Shouting in Chinese came from table three and what emerged after was a mental four-way all in that involved Yufeng Pang, Wang Qiang and Jamie Staples on the button, Yufeng Pang was also in the hand for some 300,000 with the .

Hau Lim Chan:
Wang Qiang:
Jaime Kaplan:

The board came and Pang scored a full house. He was all in for 1,065,000, which had Qiang covered by a few antes, and Kaplan also had to let go of a decent 900,000 stack, too.

Player	Chips	Progress
Hau Lim Chan	3,200,000 3,200,000	3,200,000
Wang Qiang	Busted
Jaime Kaplan	Busted
Yufeng Pang	Busted

Tags: Hau Lim Chan Jaime Kaplan Wang Qiang Yufeng Pang

05-18-2018 13:48 UTC

Pan and Cao Out; Sass Reloads

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 8 : 0/0, 6,000 ante

Rui Cao busted and may or may not re-enter still while Yan Pan Chan busted the final bullet soon after when getting it in for 290,000 with the . Devan Tang looked him up with the and the board ran out .

Marius Torbergsen had Wai Kin Yong and Alan Sass all in and at risk, both were on their final bullet.

Wai Kin Yong:
Alan Sass:
Marius Torbergsen:

The board came and Yong rivered two pair to triple up, while Sass had to reload once more with a new entry.

Player	Chips	Progress
Devan Tang	3,000,000 400,000	400,000

Marius Torbergsen	625,000 -475,000	-475,000
Wai Kin Yong	320,000 220,000	220,000
Alan Sass	100,000
Rui Cao	Busted
Yan Pan Chan	Busted

Tags: Devan tang Marius Torbergsen Rui Cao Wai Kin Yong Yan Pan Chan