All the usual faces are in attendance here in the HK$103,000 Single Re-Entry Shot Clock and both Isaac Haxton and Nick Petrangelo are chugging along.
Haxton took down a small pot against Ali Reza Fatehi and Petrangelo took down another with a double barrel but one of the bigger hands we have seen so far happened between Mikita Badziakouski and Canada’s Sam Greenwood in a multi-way pot.
Pre-flop it was Greenwood who was the initial aggressor, raising to 725 from under-the-gun. Early positional bets are getting no respect at the moment and Greenwood found multiple callers with Japan’s Shinobu Tanaka, Belarus’ Mikita Badziakouski, and Anthony Diotte all making the call to take the action four-way to a flop of .
Diotte checked from the big blind, as did Greenwood and Tanaka and action came to Badziakouski in late position and the Belarusian announced a bet of 1,400.
While Diotte folded both Greenwood and Tanaka made the call taking the action three-way to the turn. Both players checked to Badziakouski once again and he loaded up the second barrel, firing for 5,300.
Greenwood called and Tanaka took the hint and folded bringing play heads-up to the river. The Canadian took 25-seconds but decided to check it over to Badziakouski for the third time and he announced a bet of 15,000.
Greenwood ran the shot clock down to 3-seconds before throwing in the call, but could only muck when Badziakouski rolled over for a flopped set.
We caught the action on the flop in a hand between Dan Smith, who is dressed a little more smartly today than yesterday, and Dejan Boskovik Sr with the board reading .
With 2,000 already in the pot Boskovik Sr checked it over to Smith, who reached for chips and bet 800. Boskovik Sr made the call to bring in the turn before checking once more.
Smith tossed out three 1k blue chips for a 3,000 bet and Boskovik Sr again called to bring the action to the river. This brought a third and final check from Boskovik Sr and another 3,000 bet from Smith.
Boskovik Sr thought it over but eventually folded, flashing Smith a card as he did so, but we could not see what this was from where we were standing.
How does it feel? To be on your own? Seven deuce in the hole? Like a High Rollin' stone?
We're back at the City of Dreams and Hard Rock Hotel poker room (hence the Bob Dylan, y'see) in Macau, and today kicks off the $100K HK Single Re-Entry Shot Clock High Roller. Rock and roll merchandise surrounds the players, but there's only one artifact in the room these players want to take home: the winner's trophy.
After losing another big pot to Daniel Dvoress early on, Nan Hong was back in action and clashed in a pot with Nariman Yaghmai. Until the turn, there were some 12,000 in the middle and Hong shoved, Yaghmai snap-called for a reason.
Nan Hong:
Nariman Yaghmai:
Hong was already drawing dead, and that made the river a formality. Dvoress and Yaghmai are among the early chip leaders and the former joked to the latter "sometimes it is really easy, eh?" Yaghmai just smiled back and enjoyed the decent started.
Welcome back to the PokerStars Championship Macau at the City Of Dreams resort for the fifth and final installment of high octane, big buy-in tournament action. The HK$103,000 High Roller Single Re-Entry Shot Clock event will be starting shortly at 12pm local time (GMT+7).
This marks the last of the official High Roller events on the PSC calendar for this particular tournament series. Although there is another HK$103,000 Single Re-Entry beginning tomorrow at 8pm local time, neither PokerNews or the PokerStars blog team will be covering it so this is your last chance to satisfy those cravings for High Roller action, at least until the PokerStars Championship Monte-Carlo rolls around on 3 May.
So far our High Rolling competitors have generated an eye-popping HK$59,959,580 (~US$7,716,616) in prize money with today’s High Roller only guaranteed to add to this already impressive figure.
Once again the shot clock rules will be in effect with levels of 60 minutes each and a starting stack of 50,000, there will also be a 30-second shot clock which activates 5-seconds into every hand. Once this runs down players have three (30-second) time extension chips that come into play automatically once the initial 30-second clock has expired.
If a player has no more time bank chips and is first to act in the hand and there has been no action then they are counted as checking automatically. If there has been action and the player has no more time bank chips once the 30-seconds Shot Clock has counted down then their hand is declared dead – unless of course, they have already acted.
Thursday 6 April saw Germany’s Oliver Weisemerge victorious over the 47-strong (including re-entries) field to earn his largest ever career tournament score of HK$3,130,000 (~US$402,840) after taking down his first major title.
Cards will be in the air shortly so stay with us as the PokerNews live reporting team will be on hand to see who has got what it takes to be the latest PokerStars High Roller Champion.
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turn. Both players checked to Badziakouski once again and he loaded up the second barrel, firing for 5,300.
river. The Canadian took 25-seconds but decided to check it over to Badziakouski for the third time and he announced a bet of 15,000.
for a flopped set.
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river. This brought a third and final check from Boskovik Sr and another 3,000 bet from Smith. 
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river a formality. Dvoress and Yaghmai are among the early chip leaders and the former joked to the latter "sometimes it is really easy, eh?" Yaghmai just smiled back and enjoyed the decent started.
