Fabrizio "DrMiKee" Gonzalez have been the leader of the pack since the very beginning of the tournament, and the Uruguayan shows no signs of slowing down.
Gonzalez just won a sizeable pot with against the of Canada's "ilovemckeown" on a queen high flop, and minutes later DrMiKee took out Germany's "KellerA" in an even bigger one. The players got it in on a flop, Gonzalez with and KellerA with . The board ran out , and Gonzalez is not up to 136,863 - more than four times the average stack.
Another poker professional has just found his way into the top 10 of this $2,100 Super XL Series High Roller. Frederik 'Poelsetyv' Jensen is one of Denmark's most successful tournament players, having live earnings for almost $4 million and both European Poker Tour and Unibet Open titles to his name.
The Dane is hoping to have another good showing tonight in this Event #28, and he is off to a great start. Right now Jensen has more than doubled his starting stack and is sitting at number eight.
Preflop Nicolas "PKaiser" Fierro got it all in preflop holding against the of "fakelover" from the United Kingdom. The board ran out without any surprises - [9s2sJhQh6] - and the pot was chopped down the middle.
Fierro will need to find a double within the foreseeable future. When blinds go up in a few minutes, the Chilean poker pro will be left with less than 15 big blinds.
With $350,000 guaranteed by 888poker in this Super XL High Roller, 175 entries were required to reach that amount. With more than two hours of late registration still left that magical number was broken, and so far 186 players have registered for this $2,100 event.
The prize pool is at this point in time at $372,000, and the 1st place payout is so far close to $80,000.
Canada's "marioallin" raised to 912 from middle position, just to find Artem "veeea" Vezhenkov reraise to 2,545 from the cutoff. The Canadian thought for a few seconds before committing his entire stack of 15,850 chips, and Vezhenkov called it off quickly.
"marioallin":
Vezhenkov:
Already on the flop disaster struck for "marioallin", as it came down . The turn and the river brought no treys whatsoever, and Ukranian could rake in the massive pot.
German player "b.szaszko" opened up the action preflop for 900 from the cutoff, before Fabrizio "DrMiKee" Gonzalez made it 2,114 to go out of the small blind. "b.szaszko" quickly called, and the players checked through a flop of .
The turn came and prompted a bet of 2,000 chips from Gonzalez, which was yet again called by the German.
The river caused two checks, and Gonzalez' was good enough to rake in the pot, which further solidified his chiplead.