At 4 p.m. EEST, Event #2: $100,000 NLH 8-Handed is scheduled to kick off here at the beautiful Merit Crystal Cove Resort & Casino in sunny North Cyprus. Many notable names have been spotted roaming the tournament floor and are expected to join the field at some point.
While Event #1: $50,000 NLH 6-Handed plays down to a winner today on the Triton Pokerlive stream, Day 1 in this event will get started to crown an eventual winner on Day 2, Monday, April 4.
Remaining Triton Poker Cyprus Special Edition Schedule
Date
Local Time (GMT+2)
Event
Buy-in
Starting Stack
April 3
1 p.m.
Event #1: NLH 6-Handed Day 2
April 3
4 p.m.
Event #2: NLH 8-Handed Day 1
$100,000
200,000
April 4
1 p.m.
Event #2: NLH 8-Handed Day 2
April 5
1 p.m.
Event #3: Short Deck Day 1
$75,000
100,000 (3x Bullets)
April 6
1 p.m.
Event #3: Short Deck Day 2
April 6
4 p.m.
Event #5: Short Deck Day 1
$125,000
100,000 (3x Bullets)
April 7
1 p.m.
Event #5: Short Deck Day 2
Players will get 200,000 in chips when they start with the level duration set at 45 minutes each.A 15-minute break is scheduled after Level 3 and 8 while a 30-minute dinner break is slated to take place after Level 6. Ten levels of play are planned for today with unlimited reentries possible until the start of Day 2 on Monday, April 4 at 1 p.m. local time.
The shot clock will be in play as usual at the Triton event and players are allowed 20 seconds to consider their options before using one of their 12 time banks. Once the flop has been dealt, players will get 25 seconds but that increases to 30 seconds on the turn and river.
Make sure to follow along with all the exciting High Roller action right here on PokerNews as the team will bring you all the live updates.
The board read with a big pot of around 207,000 in the middle already.
Viacheslav Buldygin was in the tank from under the gun and opted to check after using a time bank. Artur Martirosian took his time too from the middle position and decided to check in the end too.
Buldygin said that Martirosian had won but the latter waited for the former to reveal his cards. Buldygin tabled the for the missed flush draw to play the pair of kings on the board. Martirosian showed the for trip kings and the pot.
Timothy Adams raised to 2,500 from the cutoff and Daniel Dvoress three-bet to 8,500 on the button. The blinds folded but Adams four-bet to 37,000 which Dvoress called.
The flop came , Adams bet 22,000 and Dvoress came along.
The turn was the and Adams fired a bet of 35,000 out. Dvoress had to use a time bank before opting to make the call.
The river completed the board with the and Adams used two time banks before he decided to check. Dvoress put in a bet of 137,500, keeping 500 behind but that was enough to put Adams all-in as he had 95,500 behind. Adams used another time bank before he pushed his cards towards the muck.
Daniel Dvoress raised to 3,000 from the button and Artur Martirosian three-bet to 15,000 from the small blind. Seth Davies was sitting in the big blind and four-bet to 37,000 after using a time bank. Dvoress contemplated his options and then decided to five-bet to 70,000. Martirosian got out of their way and Davies six-bet shoved for around 160,000. Dvoress snap-called.
Seth Davies:
Daniel Dvoress:
The flop came for Dvoress to hit a set of kings.
The turn was the which didn't change anything and neither did the on the river for Davies to be sent away from the tables for now.
Artur Martirosian checked in the big blind and Viacheslav Buldygin bet 7,000 which Martirosian called.
The turn was the and Martirosian checked again, Buldygin fired a bet of 30,000 out for Martirosian to call again.
The completed the board on the river and they both checked. Martirosian showed the for the pair of sevens and for Buldygin to snort and chuckle at the same time from disbelief.
Mike Watson raised to 7,000 from the hijack and Ivan Leow called from the cutoff. Michael Addamo three-bet to 42,000 from the big blind when the action was folded to him. Watson four-bet jammed for around 155,000 for Leow to snap-fold while Addamo quickly made the call.
Mike Watson:
Michael Addamo:
The board ran out for Addamo to hold with the king-kicker and top pair to bust Watson who went to the reentry desk immediately to grab a new seat on a new table.
Paul Phua was sitting in the big blind and looked over to Tom Vogelsang's stack on the button. Vogelsang clarified he had almost around 195,000 behind. Phua bet 50,000 and Vogelsang made the call.
The river completed the board with the and Phua shoved with the bigger stack. Vogelsang snap-called for the 144,500 he had behind. Phua tabled the for the flush but Vogelsang held the for the higher flush to double up while the rest of the field had already gone for their dinner break.
After nine levels of 45 minutes each on Day 1 of the Triton Poker Cyprus Special Edition Event #2: $100,000 NLH 8-Handed, it is Australia's Michael Addamo who has gone to bed with the narrow chip lead of 1,058,000 over Tom Vogelsang who bagged 1,019,000.
The $100,000 buy-in tournament attracted 33 unique players to the poker tables here in the amazing Merit Crystal Cove Resort & Casino and with 18 reentries, this tallied up to 51 entries in total. With late registration still open for the first level of Day 2, more players are expected to jump in to join the 27 Day 1 survivors.
Addamo won a big part of his stack when he eliminated Johan Guilbert twice, once with pocket kings and once with pocket tens. Vogelsang earned a lot of his chips when he doubled up through Paul Phua when he had flopped the higher flush than Phua had. Completing the top five are Teun Mulder, Danny Tang, and Chris Brewer to give us a top five of players hailing from four different countries.
Event #2: $100,000 NLH 8-Handed Day 1 Top Ten Chip Counts
Seat
Player
Country
Chip Count
Big Blinds
1
Michael Addamo
Australia
1,058,000
132
2
Tom Vogelsang
Netherlands
1,019,000
127
3
Teun Mulder
Netherlands
826,000
103
4
Danny Tang
Hong Kong
569,000
71
5
Chris Brewer
United States
567,000
71
6
Ali Imsirovic
Bosnia and Herzegovina
562,000
70
7
Stephen Chidwick
United Kingdom
486,000
61
8
Ben Heath
United Kingdom
472,000
59
9
Jake Schindler
United States
461,000
58
10
Mike Watson
United States
424,000
53
Day 1 Action
Action took some time to get started as the proceedings kicked off with a slight delay but there was no shortage of hands going to showdown, It took 90 minutes before Seth Davies was the unlucky player to become the first casualty of the day when he six-bet shoved with pocket aces to see them get cracked by the kings of Daniel Dvoress.
He wasn't the only one to bust throughout the day, most of them came back at some point during the late registration period except for Dan Cates. He busted his first bullet, wandered around the tournament floor for a while, and then disappeared. Davies, Timothy Adams, Nick Petrangelo, and Matthias Eibinger were some of the players who busted in the last level of the night and will probably be back on Day 2 after a good night's sleep.
Plan for Day 2
The players will return at 1 p.m. EEST to continue with Level 10 which features a small blind of 4,000, a big blind of 8,000, and a big blind ante of 8,000. The level duration will remain at 45 minutes throughout the day. Once Level 10 has ended, the late registration period will also close with the prize pool details to be announced after.
No redraw will take place for Day 2 but instead, there will be a redraw for the final three and two tables and the actual final table itself. A 10-minute break will take place after every two levels with a dinner break scheduled after Level 17 or when the final table has been reached.
The Triton Poker live stream will be up and running again on YouTube and Twitch from the start with the hole cards on display on a 30-minute security delay.
Ensure you're back for all the action on Monday, April 4 at 1 p.m. local time as play will continue a new champion can be crowned. The PokerNews live reporting team will be there bring you all the updates from the first shuffle until the final river card has been dealt.