In the dangerous world of Russian Roulette, firing 5 bullets and giving up is usually a good thing – in poker, as Tom Dwan and Timofey Kuznetsov found out yesterday, it’s more like an expensive multi-misclick!
Well there’s someone we know at the table! ? @TomDwan
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— Triton Poker (@tritonpoker) 6 March 2019
The legendary duo of ‘Durrrr’ and ‘Trueteller’ were the biggest spenders in the Triton Jeju High Roller Series Short Deck event number five – 5 bullets each at HK$1million apiece making it an extremely expensive US$637,000 afternoon, with nothing at all to show for the money.
Re-buys and bye-byes
They weren’t the only ones to give the $127,500 buy-in tournament more than one shot, though, as the following graphic shows…the Triton news team describing it as ‘the joys and perils of short-deck hold’em in South Korea’
The multiple attempts (37 unique entries and 44 re-buys!) will ensure a wealthy winner, however, with a total prizepool of HK$76,140,000 (about US$9.7 million) of which the eventual victor is set to walk off with HK$22.4 million (US$2.84 million) and it will be one of these four…
Well we couldn’t get down to the winner, but the action in the HKD 1m Short Deck continues tmrw 12.30AM [EST]!
Here’s a round-up of the day: https://t.co/Vf7FepSOAv pic.twitter.com/FVFzEUdybw— Triton Poker (@tritonpoker) 6 March 2019
Leon’s seventh heaven
Firing multiple bullets isn’t all that unusual, of course, with last year witnessing Kings Casino owner and highstakes ‘amateur’ Leon Tsoukernik shoot seven times at €25k in the VeldenEM high roller – although unlike Dwan and Kuznetsov he at least turned a good profit by eventually taking down the title and the €370,000 ($432,819) payday.
Kid Poker and Hollywood Ike
Back in 2014 at the Aussie Millions, Daniel Negreanu not only bought in 5 times to the $100k Challenge, he also fired 3 bullets in the $250k version, while Isaac Haxton spent $600k and $500k respectively.
They both ended up big winners, but as Lee Davy pointed out for Calvin Ayre at the time: “There is no way that firing $500,000 at a $100,000 event and $750,000 at a $250,000 can be a long-term profitable decision in my uneducated opinion”.
$1million Big One for One Drop
As far as I can work out, nobody has as yet forked out more than once for the biggest buy-in live tournament event in history – the charity-aimed Big One for One Drop where $1million is needed to take your seat.
However, if you ever wondered how you’d pay for it, here’s what 2014 WSOP Main Event champ Greg Merson came up with…
Whose money is it?
Of course, just who is fronting all that money isn’t always clear. Some of these guys can afford to bust and re-buy until someone physically takes their seat away from them. Others are playing perhaps only a small % of their own money.
Daniel Negreanu, again, has gone on record as saying he has most of his own action – but even he would baulk at the $1million coming from his own pocket. He blogged about selling 50% of his One Drop action, saying: “I hate doing this. Hate it. Reeeeally hate it, but a million is too much to put up for one 3 day event.
So, Dwan and Kuznetsov may or may not be fully US$637,000 out of pocket after yesterday’s misadventures in Korea, but with the even bigger HK$2million (US$254,000) event just a day away, who knows what their bankroll will be like by the end of the week!
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