$50,000 Super High Roller (Re-Entry)
Level 15: 5,000/10,000 with a 1,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 5 of 28
With no delay, the five remaining Super High Rollers kicked things off and David Peters is active in the early going, trying to run up his shorter stack into contention.
$50,000 Super High Roller (Re-Entry)
Level 15: 5,000/10,000 with a 1,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 5 of 28
It’s not often that a 28-entry field can create a prize pool over $1.4 million, but the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Super High Roller pulled it off. The tournament drew some of the best players in the game to compete against each other for big money.
Erik Seidel, Jason Mercier, Byron Kaverman, Scott Seiver, Tom Marchese, Steven Chidwick, Dan Colman, and Bryn Kenney were a handful of the players to show up but fall short of the money. Five players were set to get paid and we have five players returning today.
EPT Champion Adrian Mateos leads the way with Dietrich Fast not far behind and not far removed from a $25K High Roller Turbo victory at LAPC. Fast’s fellow German Rainer Kempe won a $25K Aria High Roller earlier this month and returns with the “shortest” stack along with WSOP bracelet winner David Peters. Right in the middle of the pack, we have 2016 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Champion, Jason Koon.
These five players have combined for more than $41.7 million in career earnings along with their bracelets, trophies, and accolades.
With 90-minute levels and deep stacks, this will be a long, tough game for the eventual Super High Roller winner.
Cards go back in the air at noon and we’ll have all the action.
Seat 1: Jason Koon – 640,000 (64 bb)
Seat 2: Rainer Kempe – 354,000 (35 bb)
Seat 3: Dietrich Fast – 984,000 (98 bb)
Seat 4: David Peters – 364,000 (36 bb)
Seat 5: Adrian Mateos – 1,158,000 (116 bb)
1st: $552,160
2nd: $345,100
3rd: $220,864
4th: $151,844
5th: $110,432
Main Event Schedule
12PM: Event 15 Day 2 – $50,000 Super High Roller (Re-Entry)
12PM: Event 18 – $2,200 Eight-Handed NLH (Freeze-Out)
Secondary and Satellite Schedule
9AM: Event 76 – $130 WPT Finale Turbo Step Satellite (1-in-10)
11AM: Event 77 – $390 Showdown Championship Satellite (1-in-10)
3PM: Event 78 – $200 Championship Turbo Satellite (1-in-20)
5PM: Event 79 – $390 Showdown Championship Satellite (1-in-10)
8PM: Event 80 – $390 Championship Turbo Satellite (1-in-10)
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$50,000 Super High Roller (Re-Entry)
Level 15: 5,000/10,000 with a 1,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 5 of 28
A familiar cast of characters turned up at Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood for the series’ most expensive event, the $50,000 Super High Roller.
There were a total of 28 entries, creating a prizepool close to $1.4 million. The final five players share that money, and that’s where they ended for the night after play was suspended at the end of Level 14.
Here’s who’s left:
Seat 1: Jason Koon – 640,000 (64 bb)
Seat 2: Rainer Kempe – 354,000 (35 bb)
Seat 3: Dietrich Fast – 984,000 (98 bb)
Seat 4: David Peters – 364,000 (36 bb)
Seat 5: Adrian Mateos – 1,158,000 (116 bb)
South Florida hero Jason Mercier is foremost among those who are not still left; he came and went before the dinner break, opting to enter just once.
Stephen Chidwick and Justin Bonomo both battled with short stacks for a long while before succumbing shortly after dinner, and they were soon followed out by Scott Seiver, Stefan Schillhabel, Tom Marchese, and Jake Schindler. Schindler twice, in fact, but he wasn’t alone in that category, by any means. David Cohen, Kathy Lehne, and Erik Seidel also tried more than once, unsuccessfully.
The day was particularly unkind to Byron Kaverman, though.
Kaverman ran premium hands into opponents’ pocket kings twice within the span of 90 minutes or so — once with ace-king and once with pocket queens. Jason Koon eliminated him the first time, Bryn Kenney the second, and Kaverman fired one more bullet before deciding to take the rest of the night off. Kenny was eliminated in eighth place later in the day, incidentally.
Adrian Mateos, on the other hand, won two of the largest pots of the day, and he more or less rode those two hands to his end-of-day chip lead.
It was a set-flopping sort of day for the Spaniard. Mateos flopped a set of queens against Sean Winter’s ace-eight, and Winter ended up trapped in a big pot with a two-pair hand that he couldn’t get away from. Then in the last level of the night, Mateos flopped a set of nines to crack Kathy Lehne’s pocket aces, eliminating her in seventh place and giving him the tournament’s first seven-figure stack.
That elimination also put the field on the money bubble, and Erik Seidel was bleeding chips. Down to just a few big blinds, Seidel actually had a chance to sneak into the money as he sat on the sidelines of an enormous pot that was brewing between Jason Koon and Dietrich Fast.
Fast had four-bet shoved for something like 85 big blinds effective against Koon, who squirmed in his seat for several minutes before surrendering with ace-king. The pot fizzled out preflop much to Seidel’s chagrin, and he was eliminated a few hands later.
The final five players finished out the level and called it a night. All’s well that ends well for Koon and Fast, who both have playable stacks heading into tomorrow’s action.
Fast and his fellow German superstar Rainer Kempe were two of the very last entries into the field, joining during the dinner break in the minutes prior to the close of registration. Kempe also advanced to Day 2, virtually tied in chips with the fifth member of the table, David Peters.
It’s a deep battle right now, with an average stack of 70 big blinds and 90-minute levels that should allow for plenty of play at the start of Day 2. Cards go in the air at 12 p.m.
Here’s what they’re playing for:
1st: $552,160
2nd: $345,100
3rd: $220,864
4th: $151,844
5th: $110,432
$50,000 Super High Roller (Re-Entry)
End of Level 14: 4,000/8,000 with a 1,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 5 of 28
Level 14 concluded, and play was suspended for the night with five players remaining. Here’s the Day 2 lineup:
Seat 1: Jason Koon – 640,000 (64 bb)
Seat 2: Rainer Kempe – 354,000 (35 bb)
Seat 3: Dietrich Fast – 984,000 (98 bb)
Seat 4: David Peters – 364,000 (36 bb)
Seat 5: Adrian Mateos – 1,158,000 (116 bb)
And here’s what they’re playing for:
1st: $552,160
2nd: $345,100
3rd: $220,864
4th: $151,844
5th: $110,432
Blinds will be 5,000/10,000 with a 1,000 ante when play resumes, putting the average stack at 70 big blinds. Levels will be 90 minutes apiece on Day 2, so it figures to be a relatively long day.
Cards go in the air at 12 p.m.
$50,000 Super High Roller (Re-Entry)
Level 14: 4,000/8,000 with a 1,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 6 of 28
Two hands after the Jason Koon ace-king fold, the short-stacked Erik Seidel was in the big blind, facing a button-raise from Dietrich Fast. Seidel gave it a bit of a look but eventually surrendered his cards into the muck, leaving himself with around 20,000 chips.
“Good fold, Erik,” Koon said with a laugh. “One of us is going to punt.”
A couple hands thereafter, Seidel put his last 12,000 into the middle preflop from early position, Koon called on the button, and Fast called the remainder from the big blind.
The board ran out 
, with the two live players checking through the turn. Fast bet 20,000 on the river, Koon quickly folded, and Fast showed 
for top pair.
“I only looked at the Queen of Spades,” Seidel said. “So I have a sweat.” He flipped over the 
while he squeezed the other card. It was the useless 
, though, not enough to keep Seidel in the game. He was eliminated on the bubble in sixth place, leaving the other five in the money.
Dietrich Fast – 1,065,000 (133 bb)
Erik Seidel – Eliminated
$50,000 Super High Roller (Re-Entry)
Level 14: 4,000/8,000 with a 1,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 6 of 28
Adrian Mateos opened the cutoff to 18,000, and Jason Koon three-bet to 56,000 on the button. From the big blind, Dietrich Fast four-bet shoved for around 900,000 or so, and Mateos quickly folded out of the middle. Koon did not fold quickly, though. He had 655,000 chips left in front of him and a huge decision.
“Wow. This is sick, Erik,” he said. Across the table, Erik Seidel let a little smirk cross his face as he glanced down at his desperately short stack of just 30,000 chips. “You might make the money,” Koon added.
The decision took several minutes for Koon, during which he glanced at the chip average and the total chips in play, along with the payouts scrolling on the clock. “Two buy-in bubble,” he said. “Forty percent of the chips in play…,” he trailed off.
After a couple more minutes, he flashed his 
so the rest of the table could agonize along with his decision. “F***ing s*** this is sick,” Koon said again. He eventually mustered a fold, and Fast quietly stacked the pot.
Dietrich Fast – 1,000,000 (125 bb)
Jason Koon – 655,000 (82 bb)
$50,000 Super High Roller (Re-Entry)
Level 14: 4,000/8,000 with a 1,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 7 of 28
Adrian Mateos opened to 18,000 in middle position, and Rainer Kempe called on the button. From the big blind, Kathy Lehne three-bet to 75,000, Mateos called, and Kempe folded out of the way.
Heads-up, the flop came 
. Lehne continued for 100,000, and Mateos moved all in for 445,000 effective, having Lehne slightly covered. She called all in for that amount, putting herself at risk.
Lenhe: 
(pair of aces)
Mateos: 
(set of nines)
The 
turn and 
river completed the board safely for Mateos, and he scored the knockout with nines full. Lehne was eliminated in seventh place, giving Mateos’ stack a big boost and bringing the field onto the direct money bubble.
“Unlucky, Kathy,” Jason Koon said as she left the table.
Adrian Mateos – 1,105,000 (138 bb)
Kathy Lehne – Eliminated
$50,000 Super High Roller (Re-Entry)
Level 14: 4,000/8,000 with a 1,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 8 of 28
Action folded around to the blinds where Jason Koon completed from the small. Bryn Kenney raised to 26,000 from the big, and Koon re-raised to 85,000. Kenny moved all in for 385,000 total, and Koon instantly called with a very similar stack.
Koon:
Kenney: 
The board ran out 
, and Koon’s queens held to earn him the pot. “Unlucky,” he said.
When the stacks were counted down, Koon had Kenney covered by just 2,000 chips, so Kenney was eliminated in eighth place.
Jason Koon – 780,000 (98 bb)
Bryn Kenney – Eliminated
$50,000 Super High Roller (Re-Entry)
Level 13: 3,000/6,000 with a 1,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 8 of 28
After that recent flurry of eliminations, the field has been reduced to eight players, and they’ve just redrawn for new seats around the final table.
Here’s the remaining lineup:
Seat 1: Jason Koon – 449,000 (75 bb)
Seat 2: Bryn Kenney – 278,000 (46 bb)
Seat 3: Rainer Kempe – 377,000 (63 bb)
Seat 4: Kathy Lehne – 558,000 (93 bb)
Seat 5: Dietrich Fast – 841,000 (140 bb)
Seat 6: David Peters – 327,000 (55 bb)
Seat 7: Erik Seidel – 53,000 (9 bb)
Seat 8: Adrian Mateos – 641,000 (107 bb)
Only five of the eight finalists will finish in the money, so the bubble is suddenly approaching in a hurry.