Pratyush Buddiga opened to 1,300 in middle position. Steve O' Dwyer three-bet to 3,800 from the cutoff. On the button, Max Silver put in a four-bet to 8,400. Buddiga folded, but O'Dwyer moved all in, risking his stack of around 27,000. Silver gave it a quick glance, then folded.
It was folded around to [Removed:17] on the button. He made it 1,600 to go and Ole Schemion defended his big blind.
Schemion checked on the flop and Yan continued for 1,400. Schemion quickly called and the two saw the land on the turn.
Schemion checked again and Yan fired another barrel, this time for 7,000 chips. The German called and the completed the board. Schemion checked a third time and now Yan charged him for 14,000. Schemion wasn't interested and quickly folded.
Yan is the biggest stack in the room with 139,000 in chips.
Right after getting it in against Martin Finger and chopping (ace-king versus ace-king), Nial Farrel again got his stack in the middle before the flop.
This time it was after opening the cutoff for 1,400. His neighbor Mateos three-bet to 4,000 from the button and Farrel four-bet to 10,200. Mateos shoved for 45,725 total and Farrell called.
Niall Farrell:
Adrian Mateos:
The board ran out and Farrell doubled his neighbor.
Ben Heath (button) and Patrick Leonard (small blind) played a three-bet pot together, where the latter three-bet to 5,300. After Heath called preflop, Leonard wasted no time in betting the flop, opting for 8,000. Heath made the call in position.
On the turn, Leonard quickly bet 18,000, and once again Heath came along with a call. On the river, Leonard counted out his stack, checked Heath's remaining chips, then moved all in. It was effectively 35,000 to the British pro, who spent minutes in the tank deliberating whether to call it off.
Eventually, after nearly five minutes of thinking and staring Leonard down, Heath elected to let it go, sending the massive pot to Leonard.
The first six levels scheduled for Day 1 of the €25,750 Super High Roller at the Portomaso Casino are done and dusted. So far there have been 43 unique players and seven of them took advantage of the single re-entry option to create a field of 50 entries. Among those on their second bullet were Andras Nemeth, 2016 WSOP bracelet winner Martin Kozlov, Juha Helppi, Scott Seiver, Ali Reza Fatehi, Dan Shak and [Removed:17], yet Shak (92,000) and Yan (132,000) are now among the biggest stacks.
Yan lost most of his stack in a four-bet pot with against the kings of Shak, after the latter got his stack in on a queen-high flop. Yan bought back in, forced a fold from Jean-Noel Thorel to boost his stack and then even knocked out the Frenchman to take over the lead. The online whizard from New Zealand has 134,000 thus far and only trails Patrick Leonard with 148,000.
Charlie Carrel (131,000) dominated his table to build a decent stack thus far, while Scott Seiver (118,000) and Adrian Mateos (98,800) are also among the big stacks. Nick Petrangelo's flip with against the pocket tens of Pratyush Buddiga was among the biggest pots played and the EPT13 Barcelona Single-Day High Roller champion was left short, Petrangelo accumulated 81,000 thus far.
Once the players return from dinner at approximately 8.45 p.m., they will play another four levels of 60 minutes each to wrap up around 1 a.m. local time and registration remains open until 15 minutes prior to the start of Day 2 tomorrow.
Soon after coming back from dinner, Orpen Kisacikoglu three-bet shoved his small stack of around 16,000 out of the small blind and initial raiser [Removed:17] called on the button with the . Kisacikoglu had a flip with , but the board of failed to improve him.
Paul Newey was among the shorter stacks and defended his big blind against the raise of Martin Finger, who had opened the action to 1,800 from the hijack. On the flop of , both players checked. Newey bet the turn for 3,500 and picked up a call before the river went check, check again. Newey flashed for a pair of tens and that was good enough to claim the pot.