Martin Kabrhel raised it up from the cutoff and Chance Kornuth jammed all in for around 500,000 in the big blind. Kabrhel called to put Kornuth at risk and the cards were face up.
Chance Kornuth:
Martin Kabrhel:
The flop came to give Kabrhel a pair of tens and the lead. Kornuth still had outs but the and runout was not favorable as he wish most of the table good luck on his way out.
Phil Ivey opened to 65,000 from under the gun and Jason Koon defended from the big blind. The flop came and Koon checked to Ivey who continued for 45,000. Koon check-raised to 130,000 and Ivey called.
The turn was the and Koon checked again. Ivey tossed in a bet of 150,000 and Koon called to see the on the river. Koon checked for the third time and Ivey shipped all in, prompting a quick fold from Koon.
On the next hand, David Peters raised it up on the button and Koon moved all in for around 450,000. Peters snap-called and tabled but was in tough against the of Koon. The board ran out clean for Koon who managed to stay alive late in the day.
Koray Aldemir raised to 65,000 from under the gun and picked up calls from Steven Veneziano, Andrew Robl, and Kathy Lehne. The flop fell and the blinds checked to Aldemir who continued with a bet of 180,000. Robl was the only player to call from the small blind.
The turn was the and Robl checked again. Aldemir sized up with a bet of 625,000 which forced Robl to use two time banks before calling.
The completed the board and Robl checked once more. Aldemir also used a time bank this time and then announced all in. Robl gave it a brief thought but decided to send his cards to the muck.
Day 1 of Event #50: $250,000 Super High Roller No-Limit Hold’em has come to an end at the 2022 World Series of Poker and four-time WSOP champion Adrian Mateos is the chip leader after ten levels of play.
The first day of the highest buy-in of the Summer drew 52 entrants and more are expected to join the 30 surviving players from Day 1 before the end of registration at the beginning of Day 2.
Event #50: $250,000 Super High Roller Top Ten Chip Counts
Rank
Name
Country
Chip Count
Day 2 Big Blinds
1
Adrian Mateos
Spain
9,745,000
325
2
Phil Ivey
United States
6,830,000
228
3
Dario Sammartino
Italy
4,835,000
161
4
Nick Petrangelo
United States
4,500,000
150
5
Dan Zack
United States
4,445,000
148
6
Alex Foxen
United States
4,250,000
142
7
Martin Kabrhel
Czech Republic
3,935,000
131
8
Koray Aldemir
Germany
3,805,000
127
9
Chris Hunichen
United States
3,750,000
125
10
Aleksejs Ponakovs
Latvia
3,370,000
112
Mateos jumped to the top of the leaderboard in the middle of the evening after he picked up a pair of kings to win a cooler against Ali Imsirovic with a better full house. He trailed Phil Ivey in the closing minutes of the final level, but a big pot from the elimination of Dan Smith put him over the top at the end of the night. Mateos is the defending champion in this event after he outlasted 33 runners to defeat Ben Heath heads up in 2021, and he will come back with a dominant stack of 9,745,000 for Day 2 in search of his fifth WSOP bracelet.
The chip leader is followed near the top of the leaderboard by Ivey, Dario Sammartino, and Nick Petrangelo. Ivey joined the tournament at the beginning of the day and he consistently chipped up throughout the afternoon, including a pot with a set of deuces against Henrik Hecklen and a pair of pocket kings that sent Andrew Lichtenberger to the window to fire a second entry. But it was Ivey’s late-night run that put him near the top after he ran his stack up to 6,830,000 in the closing level.
Dan Zack and Alex Foxen rounded out the list of players that bagged over 4 million in chips.
Other returning players include Kathy Lehne, Justin Bonomo, and Seth Davies. Lehne mixed it up with some of the game’s most aggressive players and came out on top. First, it was Ivey, who lost an early pot to Lehne’s ace-king, and then it was Michael Addamo who folded to Lehne’s river bet a short time later to preserve what was left of his stack. She returns with 1,965,000 in search of her first WSOP bracelet.
Runners that used their second entry include Christoph Vogelsang, Alfred Decarolis, Chris Brewer, David Einhorn, Daniel Negreanu, Andrew Robl, Hecklen, Smith, Addamo and Lichtenberger. Decarolis, Addamo, and Smith were eliminated a second time and they will not return on Day 2.
Players will return at 2 p.m. on June 24 in Paris Purple to play down to five players on Day 2. Blinds will pick up at 15,000/30,000/30,000 in Level 11, and registration will remain open until the beginning of the tournament’s second day. The surviving players on Day 2 will return for a Day 3 finale that will be streamed by PokerGO.
Be sure to keep it with the PokerNews team all weekend long for updates from the $250,000 Super High Roller and other events at the 2022 World Series of Poker in its new home at Bally’s and Paris Las Vegas.