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2018 Triton Super High Roller Series Montenegro

HKD $1,000,000 Main Event
Dias: 1
Event Info

2018 Triton Super High Roller Series Montenegro

Resultados Finais
Campeão
Mão Vencedora
a2
Premiação
19,618,400 HKD
Event Info
Buy-in
1,000,000 HKD
Premiação
59,270,400 HKD
Entries
63
Informações do Nível
Nível
23
Blinds
75,000 / 150,000
Ante
25,000

Chan Bags the Lead After Day 1 of the Main Event in Montenegro

Nível 7 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante
Wai Leong Chan tops Day 1 in Montenegro
Wai Leong Chan tops Day 1 in Montenegro

After a delayed start to Day 1 of the 2018 Triton Super High Roller Series Montenegro HKD1,000,000 (~$127,390) Main Event, the tables started to fill slowly but surely and a field of 39 entries emerged after seven full levels of one hour each in the flagship event of the festival at the Maestral Resort & Casino in Budva, Montenegro.

The 39 entries include seven re-entries and Koray Aldemir was the only player to enter three times after busting two times with ace-king against the pocket queens and pocket jacks of Wai Leong Chan. As a result, the Malaysian claimed the top spot with a stack of 778,500 ahead of Stefan Schillhabel (668,500) and Marius Torbergsen (611,500).

Only 27 players advanced and the list of survivors reads like the who's who of the international High Roller poker scene. Other big stacks and notables in the overnight top 10 include Patrik Antonius (576,000), Mikita Badziakouski (569,000), Stephen Chidwick ( 526,500), Julian Thomas (505,000), Dietrich Fast (451,500), Rui Cao (420,000) and Steffen Sontheimer (387,000).

Defending champion Manig Loeser busted in his first attempt and subsequently re-entered to advance with a stack of 264,000. Bryn Kenney arrived straight from the airport and jumped right into the action to bag up 247,000, while Phil Ivey made it through to Day 2 with 186,500. Among those to bust and not re-enter just yet were 6-Max champion Richard Yong, Romain Arnaud, Gabe Patgorski, Mikhail Smirnov and Dan "Jungleman" Cates.

Richard Yong
Richard Yong

Yong (pictured above) went from hero to zero in the span of half an hour over on the feature table when he first called a jam by Christian Christner with a double gutshot and failed to crack the trips fours of the German. The Triton founder then called off the shove by Julian Thomas with king-jack for top pair only to see Thomas turn over queen-ten for two pair. Cates' move with an open-ended straight draw came at the worst possible timing, as Orpen Kisacikoglu had turned the nut straight.

Both Yong and Cates are expected to re-enter the competition on Day 2. Since Day 1 was shortened by two levels, the registration period upon restart at 1 p.m. local time remains open for the first four levels and break. The penultimate tournament day is scheduled to play down to the final table and the action recommences in level eight with blinds of 2,500/5,000 and a running ante of 500, giving all new additions to the field 50 big blinds when the cards get back in the air.

Make sure to tune back in, as the PokerNews live reporting team will be on the floor to provide all the action of the high stakes festival until the very end!

Main Event Day 2 Seat Draw

TableSeatPlayerCountryChip CountBig Blinds
11Patrik AntoniusFinland576,000115
12Rui CaoFrance420,00084
13Isaac HaxtonUnited States263,00053
14Steve O'DwyerIreland315,50063
15Stephen ChidwickUnited Kingdom526,500105
16Julian ThomasGermany505,000101
17Wai Leong ChanMalaysia778,500156
      
21Orpen KisacikogluTurkey302,00060
22Paul PhuaMalaysia153,00031
23Dietrich FastGermany451,50090
24Koray AldemirGermany336,00067
26Mikita BadziakouskiBelarus569,000114
27Christian ChristnerGermany377,00075
28Steffen SontheimerGermany387,00077
      
31Manig LoeserGermany264,00053
32Bryn KenneyUnited States247,00049
33Jason KoonUnited States341,00068
35Jamie KaplanUnited States146,50029
36Wai Kin YongMalaysia319,50064
37Dominik NitscheGermany234,00047
38Phil IveyUnited States186,50037
      
41Stefan SchillhabelGermany668,500134
43Devan TangHong Kong94,50019
45Peter JettenCanada227,00045
46Marius TorbergsenNorway611,500122
47Alan SassUnited States129,00026
48Xuan TanChina335,00067

Tags: Wai Chan LeongDan CatesKoray AldemirManig LoeserMarius TorbergsenOrpen KisacikogluRichard YongStefan Schillhabel

In The Commentary Booth With Randy ‘nanonoko’ Lew and Kane Kalas

Nível 7 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante
The Triton Super High Roller Montenegro casting team: Randy 'nanonoko' Lew and Kane Kalas
The Triton Super High Roller Montenegro casting team: Randy 'nanonoko' Lew and Kane Kalas

Watching televised or live streamed poker tournaments would not be anywhere near as exciting if there were not some entertaining and insightful commentary to accompany all the action.

Fortunately, the Triton Poker team have the skills of online poker professional Randy ‘nanonoko’ Lew and semi-professional player and professional poker commentator Kane Kalas to call upon to cast their highly entertaining live stream.

Streaming live poker is not your standard job, but then neither is playing professionally, but Lew and Kalas have some experience at doing both, and do a pretty good job of it too.

The 32-year-old Lew streams regularly on twitch when he is grinding tournaments for a living, and is not too bad at that either, with over $1.42-million in live tournament winnings and over $1-million in online tournament winnings.

Kalas is also no slouch. The 28-year-old former professional, now semi-professional poker player boasts over $1.25 million in live tournament winnings. Kalas also has broadcasting and commentating in the blood; the son of legendary Philadelphia Phillies Major League Baseball commentator Harry Kalas, Kane’s brother Todd also sportscasts professionally for the Houston Astros.

PokerNews presenter Laura Cornelius interviews Kane Kalas

PokerNews caught up with the pair on a break and grilled them about what it’s like behind the casting desk and on the end of a microphone.

Is it more fun playing or commentating?

Kane Kalas: “I enjoy both. I think it really depends on my mood. When I’ve been playing a whole lot then I really want to commentate, and when I’ve been commentating a whole lot without playing then I’m ready to get back to the tables and play.”

Randy Lew: “I enjoy playing more, just like because you can win chips and lose chips [chuckles]. But the good thing about commentary is that it’s relaxed so you’re still involved with poker but you don’t have the stress of putting up the buy-in and you can actually learn a lot during commentary. You’re not really learning while you’re playing, usually, you’re just trying to apply the things that you do and the learning is after you finish playing.”

How did the two of you get into the live commentary game?

Kane Kalas: “The first time I ever did a broadcast was part of a iPoker iPops event, where it was an online tournament, but then the final 12, or final 16 players came together and played live for the final two tables.”

“I busted before making the final table. But they were doing a live stream at the final table and I said ‘Hey! I’ll help out and do some color commentary for the broadcaster.’ Jesse May was broadcasting the tournament and so that was my first time doing it, I must have been 20-years-old, it was a lot of fun.”

Randy Lew: “So I’ve done some guest commentary for the EPT’s and things like that, but the time when I started to do a lot more commentary was during the Aussie Millions with Jason Somerville. He hosted that first one and I did a bunch of guest commentary for him. I was only planning on doing it the once, but he was like ‘Hey! Come back, everyone loved you,’ so I went back and we did the PCA commentary as well and then he invited me in to do Aussie Millions again, this previous one that just passed, so it just kinda fell into my hands I guess."

Which is the bigger challenge, remaining creative when commentating, or playing your best poker during long tournament days?

Kane Kalas: “Probably remaining creative while commentating I guess. Depending on the situation and depending on the tournaments I might not know the players that well so I’m always able to kinda commentate with a good fundamental game theory background. I’m always able to make good points about the hands, but I don’t necessarily always know inside stories and things that might be interesting to the audience. You have to do a little more field research there, and oftentimes you can’t really do that because the players are playing and they’re not going to be giving you that information all the time. “

Randy Lew: “Usually when I’m playing I like to think that I’m playing my best, but when you’re getting far in a tournament I don’t look at my phone anymore so I’m really tuned into all the bet sizes and maybe some live tells, or anything like that. Whereas commentary, it’s hard to really think of new things to say. But I know a lot of things to say so…[chuckles]. Once I get through all of that, maybe when I do this over and over again maybe I might run out of material, but, yeah, I think that it [commentary] is harder.”

What is the most hilarious chat box comment you have seen posted in the chat box when commentating?

Randy Lew: “That’s kinda hard actually, nothing that stands out… I mean I know there is some stupid stuff, maybe I get back to you on that one.”

Kane Kalas: “Something I like to always ask the chat is ‘what do you think these players would be doing if they weren’t professional poker players?’ You know, what you’d expect, just based on their look, what they would be doing for a living. I had one player one time, he was wearing sunglasses and he had his shirt unbuttoned a little bit and he looked like he went to the gym a lot and the whole chat just started calling him Johnny Cage from Mortal Kombat. I was like, oh yeah, that’s perfect, he’s totally Johnny Cage!”

Tags: Kane KalasRandy Lew

Tan Busts Loeser

Nível 7 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante
Manig Loeser
Manig Loeser

Over on table four, Marius Torbergsen shot up the leader board while Bryn Kenney took a hit after coming back from the final break. And then, defending Triton Super High Roller Series Montenegro Main Event champion Manig Loeser opened to 9,000 out of a stack of 70,000 and Dominik Nitsche from one seat over on the button three-bet to 27,000.

Xuan Tan in the big blind simply four-bet all in for 278,000, and Loeser called after using one time bank extension and some confusion as to when his shot clock had been out. Nitsche folded and the cards were turned over.

Manig Loeser: {10-Diamonds}{10-Spades}
Xuan Tan: {A-Hearts}{J-Diamonds}

The board came {A-Spades}{4-Spades}{3-Hearts}{2-Diamonds}{J-Clubs} gave Tan two pair and Loeser left the table with a "nice hand." Tan joked "all in all in" while raking in the pot.

Jogador Fichas Progresso
Wai Leong Chan my
Wai Leong Chan
Day 1 Chip Leader
800,000 25,000
Marius Torbergsen no
Marius Torbergsen
620,000 303,300
Xuan Tan cn
Xuan Tan
380,000 64,000
Bryn Kenney us
Bryn Kenney
WSOP 1X Winner
230,000 -151,000
Dominik Nitsche de
Dominik Nitsche
WSOP 4X Winner
WPT 1X Winner
170,000 -135,000
Manig Loeser de
Manig Loeser
Defending Champion
WSOP 2X Winner
EPT 1X Winner
Eliminado

Tags: Bryn KenneyDominik NitscheManig LoeserMarius TorbergsenXuan Tan

One Hand on Bullet Number Two for Aldemir

Nível 7 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante
Koray Aldemir
Koray Aldemir

Xuan Tan made it 9,000 to go first to act and Koray Aldemir, who had just re-entered, called. Dominik Nitsche came along from the small blind and Chan Wai Leong three-bet to 44,500 in the big blind. Tan called and Aldemir moved all in for the starting stack minus the ante.

That forced out Nitsche, while Leong moved all in over the top, which also got rid of Tan.

Koray Aldemir: {A-Clubs}{K-Spades}
Chan Wai Leong: {J-Hearts}{J-Diamonds}

The same two players had clashed before the break with Aldemir losing a flip with ace-king versus queens, and he would do so again on a blank board of {8-Diamonds}{7-Spades}{4-Diamonds}{4-Clubs}{2-Clubs} to join the rail for a second time.

Jogador Fichas Progresso
Wai Leong Chan my
Wai Leong Chan
Day 1 Chip Leader
775,000 321,300
Koray Aldemir de
Koray Aldemir
WSOP Main Event Champion
WSOP 1X Winner
Eliminado

Tags: Chan Wai LeongDominik NitscheKoray AldemirXuan Tan

Kisacikoglu Sends Cates to the Rail

Nível 6 : 1,500/3,000, 500 ante
Orpen Kisacikoglu
Orpen Kisacikoglu

Dan Cates opened to 7,000 from the cutoff and picked up no fewer than three callers behind in Orpen Kisacikoglu on the button, Alan Sass in the small blind and Stephen Chidwick on the big blind. The flop fell {K-Hearts}{J-Spades}{5-Diamonds} and all four players checked.

After the {10-Clubs} turn, Cates bet 15,500 and Kisacikoglu raised it up to 44,000, which Sass called and Chidwick folded. Cates moved all in for around 220,000 and Kisacikoglu jammed over the top for 234,200 to force a fold from Sass.

Cates flipped over {9-Spades}{8-Spades} and was drawing dead against the {A-Spades}{Q-Spades} of Kisacikoglu. Once the stacks were verified, Paul Phua asked "Finished? Re-entry now or tomorrow? to which Cates replied "now is a bad idea" before leaving the tournament area.

Jogador Fichas Progresso
Orpen Kisacikoglu tr
Orpen Kisacikoglu
WSOP 1X Winner
530,000 370,000
Alan Sass me
Alan Sass
150,000 -100,000
Stephen Chidwick gb
Stephen Chidwick
WSOP 1X Winner
140,000 -90,000
Dan Cates us
Dan Cates
WSOP 2X Winner
Eliminado

Tags: Alan SassDan CatesOrpen KisacikogluStephen Chidwick

Near Triple Up for Cates; Big Double for Schillhabel

Nível 5 : 1,200/2,400, 400 ante
Dan Cates
Dan Cates

On the three-way flop of {9-Spades}{3-Spades}{2-Hearts}, Patrik Antonius bet 25,000 into Dan Cates and Stephen Chidwick and the former moved all in for just 46,100, whilc Chidwick moved all in over the top. Antonius folded and said in table chat he had pocket queens.

Dan Cates: {10-Hearts}{9-Hearts}
Stephen Chidwick: {A-Hearts}{K-Spades}

The {9-Clubs} turn and {10-Clubs} river further improved Cates to a full house and he nearly tripled up. Paul Phua double checked with Antonius whether or not he really folded queens and the Finn replied "I am a tight player."

One table over, a massive double for Stefan Schillhabel took place while Jason Koon's cards were already in the muck. Schillhabel had doubled for massive 269,900 with the {A-Spades}{K-Diamonds} on a board of {A-Hearts}{7-Clubs}{2-Spades}{J-Diamonds}{7-Spades} and it was confirmed by Steffen Sontheimer as to what happened.

According to Sontheimer, Mikhail Smirnov had raised, Schillhabel three-bet and Koon cold four-bet with pocket queens out of the big blind. Smirnov folded and Schillhabel five-bet jammed to win a big flip on his second bullet.

Jogador Fichas Progresso
Stefan Schillhabel de
Stefan Schillhabel
WPT 1X Winner
550,000 290,000
Patrik Antonius fi
Patrik Antonius
EPT 1X Winner
295,000 45,000
Stephen Chidwick gb
Stephen Chidwick
WSOP 1X Winner
230,000 -2,000
Dan Cates us
Dan Cates
WSOP 2X Winner
190,000 55,000
Jason Koon us
Jason Koon
50,000 -210,000

Tags: Dan CatesJason KoonMikhail SmirnovPaul PhuaStefan SchillhabelSteffen SontheimerStephen Chidwick

Thomas Sends Yong to the Rail

Nível 4 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
Julian Thomas
Julian Thomas

Richard Yong raised to 5,000 with the {K-Diamonds}{J-Hearts} over on the feature table and Julian Thomas calls on the button with the {Q-Hearts}{10-Hearts}. The flop came {K-Spades}{Q-Clubs}{10-Diamonds} and Yong continued for 5,000. Thomas raised to 15,500 and Yong called.

After the {8-Diamonds} turn, Yong checked and Thomas made it 38,000 to go, Yong called with 86,000 behind. The {7-Hearts} river completed the board and Yong checked once more. Thomas bet 175,000, which covered Yong by far, and the 6-Max champion called it off to go within half an hour from hero to zero.

Jogador Fichas Progresso
Julian Thomas de
Julian Thomas
WPT 1X Winner
570,000 183,000
Richard Yong my
Richard Yong
Eliminado

Tags: Julian ThomasRichard Yong

Big Double for Christner

Nível 4 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
Christian Christner
Christian Christner

Stephen Chidwick raised to 5,000 with the {Q-Spades}{J-Hearts} and Christian Christner called with the {A-Diamonds}{4-Diamonds} on the button, as did Richard Yong with {8-Spades}{7-Clubs} in the big blind. The {6-Diamonds}{4-Hearts}{4-Spades} flop gave Christner trips and both opponents checked to him.

Christner bet 6,000 and Yong called, Chidwick folded. The {10-Hearts} turn saw Yong check once more and Christner now bet 30,000. Yong opted for the check-raise to 130,000 and Christner moved all in for 214,300. Yong called with his double gutshot and the {K-Clubs} river was a blank.

Jogador Fichas Progresso
Christian Christner de
Christian Christner
458,400 248,400
Richard Yong my
Richard Yong
171,000 -268,300
Stephen Chidwick gb
Stephen Chidwick
WSOP 1X Winner
162,000 -68,000

Tags: Christian ChristnerRichard YongStephen Chidwick

Dan Cates on ‘Winning all the Money’ and Plans for the WSOP

Nível 4 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
Dan Cates
Dan Cates

It’s tough to be unhappy when you have just won over $400,000 in a poker tournament, but Dan ‘jungleman12” Cates looked less than thrilled to finish runner-up to poker legend Phil Ivey in the recent Triton Super High Roller Series Montenegro Short Deck Ante Only tournament.

However, once the Florida native had some time to rest and reflect he was more than happy to talk about this exciting new variant of the game that is taking the high stakes poker world by storm and his plans for the World Series of Poker with PokerNews presenter Laura Cornelius.


“It was definitely a good day overall, I think that I’m happy with my performance in the tournament, though I did play a couple of hands badly towards the end,” said Cates as he plugged away on an online game for “reasonably high” stakes on an anonymous Chinese poker App.

“I can’t really complain… if I’m gonna complain about second place then I’m gonna be complaining an awful lot. I don’t understand these people who complain when they get second place. I mean, there were 60 people that busted before me,’ said an upbeat Cates.

While Cates was disappointed with the fact he was unable to convert his chip lead into victory, his opponent is widely regarded as one of the game’s greats, though Cates still believes he is a favorite, at least when it comes to the Short Deck Ante Only version of the game.

“I’d be happy to play him [Ivey] some more, lets put it that way. I mean we can play the same stakes too.”

Dan Cates - Phil Ivey Heads Up
Dan Cates and Phil Ivey battle heads-up in the Triton Super High Roller Short Deck Ante Only Event

While every poker player thinks they are better than the vast majority of their opposition, the truly great ones also acknowledge when they get outplayed, and learn from their mistakes.

"From my experience, I think that I’m better than him at this game [Short Deck Ante Only] but that day he seemed to play pretty well I’d say. That day I think he played maybe a little bit better than me but I think he had more cards than me. Like I had nothing a lot and was just bluffing all these dumb spots. I think that he played better than me that day for sure, at least heads-up,” said Cates.

That runner-up finish brings Cates’ total live tournament winnings up to over $6-million and put him in 85th place on the United States All Time Money List, not bad at all for a player widely considered to be an online professional. But then, the boundaries in the modern game have changed considerably since the 2003 poker boom and the modern day poker professional, at least the most successful ones, are well versed in playing a multitude of games, both on and offline. So what is Cate’s favorite game?

“I still like full deck because it’s the game that I think has the most skill in it. There’s more of this element of, you can bet and you can have nothing and the guy just has to decide if you are bluffing or not. Whereas it’s not even really true in this game [NLHE] necessarily…"

"In almost all the other games there is a lot of situations where you just have to have certain things a lot of the time, but in No Limit, you can sometimes even win and you don’t have to have anything, you can just bluff every hand… There are just more options in No Limit, which I like. It’s more fun,” stated Cates.

Of course, Cates is still killing it online too, and is, at least according to HighstakesDB, the third most successful online player in the history of the game, with a massive $11,166,681 in tracked online winnings, over $10-million of which has come at the cash tables under both his ‘jungleman12’ and his ‘w00ki3z’ pseudonyms.

This brings his total poker winnings to an eye-watering $17,255,715 – and this is probably just the tip of the iceberg, as live cash game winnings are untracked.

Interestingly, Cates sits just above Phil Ivey in online poker winnings, with his most recent tournament opponent sitting on $10,441,962 in online earnings.

Cates continues to prove why he is widely considered one of the best high stakes poker players in the business and, according to fellow pro Jason Koon, is a lot more philosophical about both life and poker at present.

Dan Cates - Jason Koon
Dan Cates (left) and fellow pro Jason Koon (right)

"I guess it’s true I’m probably calmer because firstly I’ve been to the gym and I’m exhausted, so there’s that, secondly I’ve just been winning all the money lately, I’m just running out of this world, like ridiculous."

That sounds like a good combination of run good and confidence - an ideal place to be when you consider the fact Cates will be heading to the upcoming World Series of Poker with a ton of self-belief in his poker abilities.

“Right now I’m traveling a lot, I have an address in Las Vegas, I have a condo in Las Vegas, but I’m rarely there. I’m going to go there at the end of the World Series,” said Cates when asked about his plans.

“I’ll be playing the mixed games, the big bet mix. Probably whatever the biggest games that will be running I’ll be playing pretty much, that’s always been the case.”

High stakes grinders heading to the WSOP beware, the jungle is a dangerous place for the unwary and the arid climate of the Las Vegas desert could well prove to be a more humid and sweaty place than many pros realize, especially if they draw Cates at their table.

Tags: Dan CatesPhil Ivey

Thomas Busts Schillhabel

Nível 4 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
Stefan Schillhabel
Stefan Schillhabel

Over on the feature table Stefan Schillhabel raised to 5,500 on the button woth the {A-Spades}{10-Spades} and Stephen Chidwick folded the {10-Hearts}{7-Hearts} in the small blind. Julian Thomas in the big blind three-bet to 22,000 with the {A-Diamonds}{Q-Diamonds} and Schillhabel called with 100,000 behind.

The flop came {A-Hearts}{6-Diamonds}{5-Hearts} and Thomas continued for 15,000, his fellow countryman called. After the {Q-Clubs} turn, Thomas moved all in and Schillhabel called it off for 85,000 to find himself drawing dead, making the {K-Hearts} on the river a formality.

Jogador Fichas Progresso
Julian Thomas de
Julian Thomas
WPT 1X Winner
387,000 177,000
Stefan Schillhabel de
Stefan Schillhabel
WPT 1X Winner
Eliminado

Tags: Julian ThomasStefan Schillhabel