There are a total of 19 entries and no player has been eliminated thus far. Right when everyone was sent into the first 10-minute break of the day, Jason Koon showed up with a ticket in the hand and received the chips before heading out of the tournament area again.
Over on the feature table, the turn showed and Orpen Kisacikoglu bet 15,000 with the , Dietrich Fast called with . The appeared on the river and Kisacikoglu fired 50,000 for half the pot.
Fast called and saw the bad news to drop a decent portion of his stack.
The next big pot on the outer table was once again shipped over to the player that has dominated the action there thus far in Isaac Haxton. On the three-way turn of , Haxton bet 9,500 in the cutoff and was called by Steffen Sontheimer on the button and Wai Kin Yong in the hijack. The river completed the board and Yong checked, Haxton made it 48,000 to go.
Sontheimer quickly folded, while Yong studied the board for some time and tossed in calling chips. Haxton rolled over the for a full house and cemented his top spot.
Manig Loeser raised to 3,500 and Stefan Schillhabel in the cutoff three-bet to 13,500. Paul Phua in the big blind simply four-bet all in and Loeser quickly folded. "How much is it?" Schillhabel asked and Phua replied "I think I just cover you." The jam was deemed to be for 241,800 and Schillhabel folded.
One table over, Christian Christner raised to 3,500 on the button and Wai Kin Yong called from the small blind. On a flop of , Yong checked and called a bet of 6,100. Both players checked through the turn, while Yong's bet of 11,500 on the river won the pot uncontested.
Right after the hand was finished, Marius Torbergsen sat down to make it 18 entries in total.
Isaac Haxton raised to 2,900 and Christian Christner called out of the big blind. On the flop, both players checked. Christner bet the turn for 11,100 and Haxton called, the on the river brought no further action.
Christner briefly showed his cards but mucked when Haxton flashed as winning hand.
Over on the other outer table, Stephen Chidwick claimed two pots in a row. First he raised to 3,000 and was called by Julian Thomas on the button and defending champion Manig Loeser in the big blind. Loeser bet the flop for 7,500 and Chidwick's raise to 22,500 won the pot.
Then, Chidwick opened to 3,000 and Loeser came along out of the small blind. The flop brought a check by Loeser, a bet of 8,000 by Chidwick and a call. On the turn, Loeser checked and folded to a second barrel worth 25,000.
The field has grown to 17 entries with the addition of two-time Triton Super High Roller Series champion Wai Kin Yong and a third table opened to balance with Koray Aldemir and Steffen Sontheimer leaving the feature table.
Over on the outer table, Julian Thomas defended his big blind against a raise to 3,100 by Isaac Haxton just as the blinds had gone up and the flop fell . Both players checked before Thomas bet the turn for 15,000, Haxton called. On the river, Thomas bet 38,000 and Haxton used one of his time bank extensions.
With two seconds to spare, Haxton announced the call and Thomas asked "is that enough?" while rolling over the only. Haxton shook his hand and exposed the while Paul Phua insisted to also reveal the second card of Thomas, which was the . Thomas was somewhat confused but said "okay, whatever."
At the end of the first level, Stephen Chidwick raised and called the three-bet to 7,500 by Richard Yong out of the blinds. Yong then bet the flop for 4,000 and Chidwick called before a bet of 10,000 on the turn won the pot for Yong without further resistance.
Richard Yong, who finidhed second in the Main Event at the Maestral Resort & Casino, won a big pot off defending champion Manig Loeser, who happens to sit right next to him early on Day 1.
The same table also features Stefan Schillhabel and Stephen Chidwick, who just clashed in a medium-sized pot. Schillhabel had raised in the cutoff and Chidwick called. On the flop, Schillhabel continued for 5,000 and was called before the German fired a second barrel for 12,000 on the turn, Chidwick called.
After the river, Schillhabel made it three barrels by betting 31,000 and that forced a fold from Chidwick.