Andreas Eiler raised under the gun to 65,000 and Timothy Adams three-bet to 200,000 from the next seat. Jean-Noel Thorel called the three-bet from the cutoff and when it folded back to Eiler he made the call as well.
The flop was dealt and Eiler and Adams checked to Thorel who bet 500,000. Eiler shook his head and threw his cards in the muck, but Adams called the bet.
The turn was the and Adams checked to Thorel again. This time Thorel put in 1,000,000 and the action was on Adams again. Adams thought about it before moving all in for effectively 2,600,000. Thorel snap-called and when Adams opened up it was Thorel who showed .
Thorel had plenty of outs but the was not one of them. Adams scooped the big pot and Thorel was eliminated for the third time.
Winfred Yu raised it up from early position and Steve O'Dwyer three-bet to 380,000 on the button. Fedor Holz flat-called from the big blind but Yu stuck in a four-bet to 1,230,000. O'Dwyer five-bet jammed all in for nearly 4,000,000 which got Holz to fold and Yu called it off.
Steve O'Dwyer:
Winfred Yu:
The flop came and Yu took the lead in what was a massive flip. However, the on the turn gave O'Dwyer a set of jacks and Yu was left drawing dead to the on the river. The stacks were counted and Yu started with 3,785,000 while O'Dwyer barely had him covered with 3,845,000.
Dominik Nitsche just eliminated Fedor Holz and Wai Kin Yong in two separate hands.
First, Nitsche managed to get rid of Holz when he had king-queen suited in a three-bet pot. Holz was playing pocket jacks and most of the money got in when the board was reading . Nitsche turned a full house and Holz ended up rivering a worse full house. Nitsche improved his stack by about two million in that hand.
A couple hands later it was Wai Kin Yong who moved all in from the cutoff for about ten big blinds with . Nitsche called from the big blind with .
The board ran out and Nitsche rivered the better hand after Yong out flopped him.
After ten levels of play in Event #9: €100,000 Super High Roller a total of 76 players have entered and that number is set to increase with late registration and unlimited re-entry open for two levels tomorrow.
Leading the final 33 players through to Day 2 is Timothy Adams who lead throughout most of the day. After busting Andrej Desset at the feature table, he added Jean-Noel Thorel to his list of victims - twice! And despite a late spurt by Dominik Nitsche, the German doubled Steve O'Dwyer on the final hand of the night to fall back in the standings.
"I ran really good," said Adams. "I busted a few short stacks; woke up with aces and kings when people shoved ten big blinds so that was always nice and easy. For the most part, it was a smooth sailing day; just made hands and won pots without showdown.
"I thought it was going to be one of the better 100ks of the year. I played this last year and it was a really good field. This is the reason why I came here, to play this 100k because it's one of the best ones of the year. I'm happy with the quality of the field if you want to call it that."
Adams will be taking forward 12,960,000 in chips as chip leader in this event, one place higher than in the €25,000 High Roller earlier in the festival, where he advanced from Day 1 second in chips.
"To be honest tomorrow's a new day at work," said Adams reflecting on having been in the situation before. "Sometimes maybe you're going to get ahead of yourselves, but that's just your mind playing tricks. You just turn up tomorrow and it's just another day of poker. some days are more important than others. IIf you've been doing it long enough, it's all the same. "
Other big stacks include Dominik Nitsche (9,515,000), Adrian Mateos (8,365,000), Tobias Ziegler (8,230,000), Steve O'Dwyer (7,390,000) and Stefan Schillhabel (7,275,000) on a day where five of the top eight have won WSOP bracelets before, three of which on more than one occasion.
Among the other players to play and bust today were bracelet winners Bertrand Grospellier, Niall Farrell and Fedor Holz. Jack Salter, Dietrich Fast and Anatoly Filatov, along with High Roller regulars Richard Yong, Andreas Eiler, Renato Nowak and Winfred Yu were also eliminated. Both the aforementioned Thorel and Christoph Vogelsang fired four bullets in the Super High Roller, with Vogelsang surviving with 3,590,000 in chips.
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Unusually for a Super High Roller of this magnitude, the tournament kicked off on time with triple bracelet-winner Adrian Mateos and recent €25,000 Short Deck champion Mikita Badziakouski in the field.
However, it didn't take for long for players to get the message and the numbers swelled, with tournament officials coping admirably to manage the balancing of tables at all stages of the tournament.
Shortly after Thorel became the first casualty of the day, eliminated by Badziakouski, Fedor Holz joined the field and he was followed by €25,000 High Roller championMichael Addamo.
There were some stand-out hands on the feature table, with David Petersflopping quads against Steffen Sontheimer's pocket aces.
But there seemed to be no stopping Adams as he climbed steadily through the counts; from tripling up with pocket jacks after both he and Renato Nowak flopped sets, to the multiple eliminations of the unfortunate Jean-Noel Thorel.
The eliminations kept on coming, with Manig Loeser, Wai Leong Chan, Markus Durnegger and, yes, you guessed it Jean-Noel Thorel all heading for the exit.
There were no late dramas, meaning Adams comfortably leads over second-place Dominik Nitsche, who was helped by eliminating Fedor Holz and Wai Kin Yong inside the final level.
The blinds resume tomorrow at 40,000/80,000 with an 80,000 big blind ante, meaning anyone choosing to register at the start of Day 2 will sit with 25 big blinds. Follow all the live updates on PokerNews.com as we finalise the prizepool on Day 2 and get closer to crowning the winner of the biggest buy-in event at the 2018 World Series of Poker Europe.
and Eiler and Adams checked to Thorel who bet 500,000. Eiler shook his head and threw his cards in the muck, but Adams called the bet. 
and Adams checked to Thorel again. This time Thorel put in 1,000,000 and the action was on Adams again. Adams thought about it before moving all in for effectively 2,600,000. Thorel snap-called and when Adams opened up 
it was Thorel who showed 
. 
was not one of them. Adams scooped the big pot and Thorel was eliminated for the third time.
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and Yu took the lead in what was a massive flip. However, the 
on the turn gave O'Dwyer a set of jacks and Yu was left drawing dead to the 
on the river. The stacks were counted and Yu started with 3,785,000 while O'Dwyer barely had him covered with 3,845,000.
. Nitsche turned a full house and Holz ended up rivering a worse full house. Nitsche improved his stack by about two million in that hand. 
. Nitsche called from the big blind with 
