$300,000 Super High Roller Bowl
Day 1 Completed
2017 Super High Roller Bowl
$300,000 Super High Roller Bowl
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2017 Super High Roller Bowl
Buy-in
$300,000
Prize Pool
$16,800,000
Entries
56
Level
27
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
100,000
Level 7
: 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
One of the most prestigious tournaments in the poker world got underway with seven levels of Day 1 action at ARIA, and when the $300,000 Super High Roller Bowl finished up play, Byron Kaverman bagged the chip lead.
He turned his 300,000 starting stack into 1,247,000, giving him a sizable lead over King's Casino owner and EPT Prague $50K Super High Roller champ Leon Tsoukernik (912,000). High roller crushed Fedor Holz, who finished second in this event last year for $3.5 million, sits in third with 803,000.
The SHRB got going in the early afternoon with the majority of players taking seats right at tip-off, while a few, like Phil Hellmuth, arrived only a bit late. It featured a bit of an unusual betting structure that called for the normal small and big blinds but also a large ante from the big blind that served to keep things moving and keep the chips more consolidated into bigger denominations.
Kaverman won a couple of huge hands that enabled him to bag his lead. He got sneaky with aces after opening for a raise, just calling a reraise from Cary Katz and then flopping a full house. Katz flopped trip kings with king-five of hearts and made a full house of his own on the turn. He ended up calling a large check-raise on the river.
Later, Kaverman made a straight with jack-nine of clubs against Igor Kurganov, who hit top two pair with ace-queen. He couldn't get away on the river when Kaverman put him all in.
Holz got lucky to eliminated John Juanda in a three-bet pot that saw Juanda get it in with top pair on the turn but Holz get there with a gutshot and flush draw.
Holz's well-known penchant for running through high roller events has enabled him to rack up over $22 million in tournament cashes. Poker fans around the world will be following closely to see if he can keep up his amazing run with another final table finish here at ARIA.
Another player who will have plenty of eyeballs following his coverage is actor and comedian Kevin Hart. Hart made it through Day 1 with just a hair below the starting stack, but he memorably eliminated Hellmuth. The two got it in on a queen-high board with Hart holding top set of queens and Hellmuth a smaller set of threes. When he couldn't spike his one-outer, Hellmuth was done.
In all, 12 players saw their tournaments come to an end in the slow-paced, deep-stacked Day 1. In addition to the "Poker Brat," Erik Seidel, Ben Sulsky, Ben Tollerene, Ankush Mandavia and Haralabos Voulgaris hit the rail.
The remaining 44 return on Monday for Day 2, scheduled to start once again at 1 p.m. Come back to PokerNews for more updates then.
Level 7
: 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,247,000
215,000
|
215,000 |
|
||
|
912,000
62,000
|
62,000 |
|
803,000
108,000
|
108,000 |
|
||
|
677,000
22,000
|
22,000 |
|
||
|
648,500
-11,500
|
-11,500 |
|
|
||
|
620,500
9,500
|
9,500 |
|
||
|
605,000
195,000
|
195,000 |
|
||
|
592,500
182,500
|
182,500 |
|
|
||
|
585,000
270,000
|
270,000 |
|
|
||
|
517,000
103,000
|
103,000 |
|
513,000
183,000
|
183,000 |
|
||
|
499,500
129,500
|
129,500 |
|
491,000
-49,000
|
-49,000 |
|
483,500
53,500
|
53,500 |
|
406,000
-9,000
|
-9,000 |
|
405,500
80,500
|
80,500 |
|
403,000
36,000
|
36,000 |
|
387,500
32,500
|
32,500 |
|
375,500
-19,500
|
-19,500 |
|
||
|
372,500
35,500
|
35,500 |
|
360,000
185,000
|
185,000 |
|
|
||
|
354,000
-76,000
|
-76,000 |
|
|
||
|
351,000
-14,000
|
-14,000 |
|
|
||
|
342,000
92,000
|
92,000 |
|
|
||
|
334,500
29,500
|
29,500 |
|
||
Level 7
: 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
On one of the last hands of the night, Ben Sulsky was eliminated from the tournament by David Einhorn.
Sulsky held 
against Einhorn's 
with the money going all in on the river with the final board running out 
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted | |
|
|
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Level 7
: 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
Koray Aldemir bet 48,500 on a completed board of 
out of the big blind. Isaac Haxton called without much thought from the button, and Aldemir flipped over 
. Haxton said he was glad he didn't raise, but he has under 70,000 remaining now.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
305,000
95,000
|
95,000 |
|
|
||
|
69,000
-116,000
|
-116,000 |
|
|
||
Level 7
: 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
The clock has been paused with 10 minutes remaining and the Tournament Director has announced that there will be four more hands for the evening.
Level 7
: 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
From the cutoff, Erik Seidel opened to 8,000 only to have Cary Katz three-bet the button to 20,000.
The action folded back to Seidel and he moved all in for 106,000 with Katz instantly calling.
Katz: 
Seidel: 
The 
flop would render Seidel drawing extremely thin needing running cards to a straight or to a chopped flush.
The 
on the turn would end things as the meaningless 
completed the board on the river and Seidel was eliminated.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
655,000
78,000
|
78,000 |
|
|
||
|
Busted | |
|
||
Level 7
: 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
Scott Seiver has dropped considerably from his peak and just shoved all in for his last 67,500 on a board of 
. Former Super High Roller Bowl champ Brian Rast thought a bit before folding, and Seiver stayed alive without a sweat.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
395,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
|
|
||
|
185,000
-162,000
|
-162,000 |
|
||
Level 7
: 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
On a board reading 
with roughly 60,000 in the pot already, Andrew Robl bet out 48,000 from the small blind and Matt Berkey called from under the gun.
The river landed the 
and following a check from Robl, Berkey bet out 70,000.
Robl went deep into the tank; eventually having to automatically use his final time extension button.
Robl had the necessary calling chips in his hand, then re-checked his cards before tossing them to the muck with just seconds to spare.
"I was calling an all in" announced Robl as he looked up Berkey.
"Really? On the turn or the river?" asked Berkey as he raked in the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
415,000
-35,000
|
-35,000 |
|
345,000
41,500
|
41,500 |
Level 7
: 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
Fedor Holz opened to 7,000 only to have Isaac Haxton three-bet next to act to 23,000. The action folded back to Holz and he called as the flop fell .
Holz checked and Haxton continued for 27,000 only to have Holz check-raise to 67,000. Haxton folded, and Holz was pushed the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
695,000
110,000
|
110,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
185,000
-120,000
|
-120,000 |
|
|
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