Matthias Eibinger raised to 135,000 in the hijack and Sam Trickett three-bet the button to 400,000. Eibinger moved all in and Trickett called for exactly 2,200,000.
Sam Trickett:
Matthias Eibinger:
The gave Eibinger top set while Trickett needed a king or eight to improve to a straight. It was all over for the Brit on the turn and the river became a mere formality.
Koray Aldemir was down to just 625,000 chips and he ripped all in from the cutoff. Richard Yong called from the big blind after looking at just one card.
Richard Yong:
Koray Aldemir:
Aldemir showed a strong hand but Yong had him kicked by one. The flop of actually gave Aldemir one more out than he previously had. However, the and runout bricked off and Aldemir was sent to the rail.
Timothy Adams raised it up to 135,000 in the hijack and Alex Foxen re-raised to 415,000 in the cutoff. The action folded back to Adams who made the call. The flop came and Adams check-called a bet of 315,000 from Foxen.
The turn brought the and both players checked to the on the river. Adams led out for a huge over-bet of 2,200,000 and Foxen burned through his last four time extensions before making the call. Adams showed for just ace-high while Foxen had for top pair.
Dominik Nitsche raised it up to 200,000 in the hijack and was called by Richard Yong on the button and Christoph Vogelsang in the small blind. The flop fell and the action checked to Yong who bet 300,000. Vogelsang called and Nitsche jammed all in for 1,450,000. Yong called and Vogelsang got out of the way.
Richard Yong:
Dominik Nitsche:
Nitsche was currently out front with his pair of kings but the on the turn quickly spelled disaster. Nitsche was drawing dead to the on the river and Yong collected his chips.
Over on the outer tables, two of the shorter stacks clashed and it was Cary Katz that ended up all-in and at risk for 1,610,000 against Rainer Kempe.
Cary Katz:
Rainer Kempe:
Kempe jumped into the lead with the flop and added a flushdraw with the turn. For good measure, he even improved to a flush with the river to send Katz to the rail on his first bullet.
James Chen opened from under the gun and Adrian Mateos three-bet from one seat over. Chen announced a four-bet to 1.9 million and called the shove of Mateos for around 4.0 million.
Adrian Mateos:
James Chen:
The flop improved Chen to trips aces and he locked up the elimination of Mateos with the turn, the river was a mere formality. For Mateos, it was already the second bullet of the day and he can re-enter until the start of level 11.
Kahle Burns made it 225,000 to go and Timothy Adams three-bet the button. James Chen four-bet to 2,000,000 and Burns moved all in for 4,950,000. Adams let go and Chen called.
Kahle Burns:
James Chen:
The third flip in the final level of the night went in favor of Chen as the board came to send Burns out for the second time.
The most expensive tournament of the 2019 World Series of Poker Europe has kicked off at the King's Casino and Resort in Rozvadov and Event #4: €250,000 Super High Roller No-Limit Hold'em drew a total of 24 entries thus far. The late registration remains open until the end of level 10 as Day 1 was shortened by one level.
Leading the field of 16 survivors after Day 1 is Taiwan's James Chen, who already came close to winning a coveted gold bracelet earlier this year in Las Vegas. Chen finished second to Stephen Chidwick in Event #45 $25,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller for a payday of $1,000,253 and he is on track to score an even bigger payday in Europe's biggest poker arena.
"I fought hard when it was deep-stacked and at the end, you just gotta win flips," Chen said after bagging and tagging.
Indeed, he scored three crucial flips in the final level of the night to become the chip leader with 16,405,000 as he first doubled through Alex Foxen with ace-king versus tens, then busted Adrian Mateos with ace-king versus tens before holding with queens against the ace-king of Kahle Burns.
For Burns and Mateos it was a bad day at the office as both fired two bullets without success. Cary Katz, Koray Aldemir and Sam Trickett were also among those to enter and leave empty-handed for now. However, with the late registration open for another level on Day 2, they might be back for more Super High Roller action.
Behind Chen, Malaysian High Roller Chin Wei "Webster" Lim follows in second place with 12,265,000 and Mikita Badziakouski is close behind with a stack of 11,935,000. The only other player to more than double his stack in the nine hour-levels was Orpen Kisacikoglu, who claimed 11,155,000 to his name.
The German-speaking High Roller experts are also in the running for the title in Rozvadov as Matthias Eibinger (8,635,000), Christoph Vogelsang (7,680,000), Rainer Kempe (6,350,000) and Dominik Nitsche (4,020,000) all advanced. Nitsche had to fire a second bullet in the event after losing with kings against the ace-seven suited of Richard Yong.
Triton Poker founders Paul Phua (7,130,000) and Richard Yong (5,540,000) made it through Day 1, as did Anatoly Filatov (6,850,000), Ryan Riess (6,150,000), Danny Tang (5,200,000), Alex Foxen (5,165,000), Timothy Adams (4,170,000) and Tony G (1,815,000).
Tang was the early frontrunner and quickly more than doubled his stack after scooping several big pots. Adrian Mateos became the first casualty of the day when his queens lost a race against the ace-king of Paul Phua and Sam Trickett ran with tens into the queens of Matthias Eibinger.
Cary Katz then hit the rail when his kings ended up second-best against the ace-king suited of Rainer Kempe and the very same hand was also responsible for the elimination of Kahle Burns, as his aces were rivered by an ace-high straight of Tony G. In the final levels of the night, the double-ups kept coming frequently and that turned the leaderboard upside down.
All new entries for Day 2 will receive 5,000,000 in chips and the blinds recommence at 60,000-120,000 with a big blind ante of 120,000. The six time-bank extensions will be replenished for all participants and the PokerGo live stream will start after the first break of Day 2. You can follow all the action right here on PokerNews from start-to-finish.