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The Bahamas is going to get a tad busy in November.
Tiger Woods, the Phil Ivey of golf, is in town, leading 16 of the world’s best 23 players in The Hero World Challenge, and partypoker LIVE has set up camp in the Baha Mar Resort, Nassau, for their annual Caribbean Poker Party (CPP).
The first two flights of the $25,500 MILLIONS World are in the books. The event created as a direct response by PokerStars to build a $25,000 buy-in, PokerStars Player’s No-Limit Hold’em Championship, pulled in 77-entrants on Day 1A, and 205-entrants on Day 1B, for a combined 282-runners. Late registration is open for the first four levels of Day 2, and as they are more than 100-players shy of the $10m Guarantee, one suspects the CPP begins with a healthy dose of free money.
Here are the top five chip stacks going into Day 2.
1. Geraldo Cesar – 4,315,000
2. Chance Kornuth – 3,840,000
3. Calvin Anderson – 3,700,000
4. Isaac Haxton – 3,660,000
5. Andreas Eiler – 3,645,000
Also on the CPP roster is a $50,000 Super High Roller and a $250,000 Super-Duper High Roller.
Two players who made it through to Day 2 of the $25,500 MILLIONS World are Sam Soverel (1,200,000) and David Peters (900,000), and if you have a few bucks to spare, it may be worth a punt if you can find a book on the event.

David Peters

Soverel and Peters were the stars of the ARIA Poker Room’s recent Fall Madness. The series consisted of seven events, three of which had buy-ins of $25k+
Event #1: $10,500 Pot-Limit Omaha (Anthony Alberto – $128,800)
Event #2: $10,500 No-Limit Hold’em (Jared Jaffee – $132,000)
Event #3: $10,500 No-Limit Hold’em Short-Deck (Sam Soverel – $81,000)
Event #4: $26,000 No-Limit Hold’em (Stephen Chidwick – $283,500)
Event #5: $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em Short-Deck (Sam Soverel – $102,600)
Event #6: $52,000 No-Limit Hold’em (Matthias Eibinger – $575,000)
Event #7: $103,000 No-Limit Hold’em (David Peters – $1,104,000)
Here are the updated High Roller of the Year Top 5 Spots.
1. Sam Soverel – 1,560
2. David Peters – 1,325
3. Cary Katz – 1,255
4. Justin Bonomo – 1,025
5. Dan Smith – 1,025
Remember, the HR Series only includes tournaments held at ARIA or ARIA’s partner casinos, and the top five will avoid the Super High Roller Bowl (SHRB) lottery should they choose to pay the $300,000 buy-in, which I am sure they all will.
Finally, the World Poker Tour (WPT) and partypoker LIVE completed the first joint event of their new four-year deal. WPT Montreal took place at the Playground Poker Club, and despite not having a High Roller in the schedule, several of the mob put up a decent showing – Sorel Mizzi finished third, Mike Leah finished 18th, and that man David Peters was at it again finishing 83rd.

The Best of the Rest
Moving from the live arena to the digital one, and Fedor Holz will stream his involvement in the $5,300 partypoker MILLIONS Online Main Event on Twitch. The $20m GTD event promises to be the most significant ever held online and runs 25 Nov through 5 Dec. Holz is a member of the No-Limit Gaming stream team, a poker/esports streaming team created by the former Triton Poker Series Macau Six-Handed Champion, Stefan Schillhabel.
PokerStars has extended their online High Roller schedule. While the buy-ins might not feature in the $25k+ realm you are used to reading about here; they are the highest buy-ins that you will find week-in-week-out in any online poker room.
Here are the events for Mon, Wed & Sat.
$530, $150k GTD Bounty Builder High Roller
$530, $50k GTD Daily 500
$530, $50k GTD Daily Supersonic
$1,050, $100k GTD Daily Warm Up
$1,050, $100k – $225k Daily Themed $1k
$1,050, $100k Daily Cooldown
On Tue, Thu & Sun there is also a $530 Omania High Roller.
Each Sunday, the Daily Themed $1k turns into a $2,100 Sunday High Roller, the buy-in for the Sunday Cooldown inches north to $2,100, and the Supersonic moves up to $1,050.
In other news, Philipp Gruissem appeared on The Chip Race podcast this week. The two-time WPTAlpha8 winner talked about the effect that ego played during his meteoric rise to fame, drugs, and effective altruism.
Check it out here.

Dan Smith is donating 5% of anything that he makes in the $25,000 MILLION World and $250,000 Super-Duper High Roller at the partypoker CPP. The recent WPT DeepStacks Joberg winner Maria Ho immediately declared she would join him.
One area Smith might want to take a look at is smoking. There are 9 million deaths directly contributed to smoking, and Smith recently asked on Twitter if there were any two packs a day poker players? It turns out that Doyle Brunson used to eat two packs a day for breakfast.


Dietrich Fast is one of the players who recently took advantage of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) by removing his content from Hendon Mob. Poker stat fanatics were undoubtedly angry about the WPT Champions’ decision, including an old guy from Scotland.


Had that old man ran over Daniel Negreanu then we are pretty confident he would have blocked him on Twitter.


And we end with a song.
Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday Erik Seidel. Happy birthday to you.
And that’s this week’s Pinnacle.

If we could all come from a place of gratitude, the world would be a better place. I struggle. Ego, pessimism and cynicism drilled into my cerebellum by parents who knew no better.
A recent trip to Asia reminded me of the power of gratitude. Killer mosquitoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, typhoons – I couldn’t wait to get the hell out of Dodge and dive into the cold wet and windy arms of Good Ole Blighty.
Rain.
Wind.
Stung by a wasp.
Hardly, catastrophic incidents.
The Balinese earthquakes shook me up in more ways than one. As the key rattled around in the hole, I felt a sudden sense of lilliputian like stature in the world.
But life goes on.
It always does.
Take Typhoon Mangkhut; the Category 5 Super Typhoon that ripped through Macau like a Marlin breaking the waves hooked on certain death.
Casinos shut down for 33-hours.
When they opened, people were waiting outside like Sunday morning pubgoers in the South Wales valleys; twitching fingers, tapping feet, lips smacking Pavlov style.
Amongst them were the poker-loving folk of the Venetian Macau Resort Hotel, who turned up to compete in a ten-day festival operated by the Poker King Club.
Three events stood out like a chicken’s eggs amongst quails.
One of which interests us here at Paul Phua Poker, The Home of High Stakes Poker.
The HKD 200,000 (USD 25,500) buy-in Poker King Cup Super High Roller attracted 21-entrants, pulling in an HKD 3,910,000 (USD 500,659) prize pool, and Kui Song Wu banked the HKD 1,720,000 (USD 220,239) first prize after beating the immensely talented James Chen, heads-up.
Kui Song Wu
The victory was Wu’s first of his career, and the buy-in of USD 25,500, was more than his combined total live earnings before he entered the event. In contrast, Chen had earned close to $2.8m in live tournaments including a victory in the $12,775 buy-in High Roller at the Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) in the City of Dreams, Macau for $512,411 earlier this year.
The final table bubbled with brilliance. Earlier in the year, Michael Addamo beat 1,637 entrants to win his first World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet and $653,581 first prize, besting a final table that included Bart Lybaert, Taylor Paur, Martin Jacobson, Anton Morgenstern, Cate Hall and Ihar Soika. Addamo finished fourth in this one.
And only Justin Bonomo has won more live tournament rubles than Mikita Badziakouski this term. The back-to-back Triton Poker Series winner finished just outside of the money in sixth.
Only four got paid.
Here they are:
ITM Finishes
1. Kui Song Wu – $220,124
2. James Chen – $130,155
3. Ye Wang – $90,097
4. Michael Addamo – $60,022
The other big winners in the Poker King Cup included Tokuho Yoshinaga, who defeated a field of 69 entrants to take the HKD 1,410,169 (USD 179,794) first prize in the HKD 80,000 (USD 10,200) High Roller. And Weiran Pu conquered a field of 518 entrants to take down the HKD 1,464,000 (USD 187,363) first prize in the HKD 16,500 (USD 2,100) buy-in Main Event.
Not the typical typhoons we report on here at PPP, but it makes for a nice bookend.
Dietrich Fast wins XL Eclipse High Roller
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From a relatively unknown poker player winning a high roller to an extremely well-known high roller, that doesn’t want to be well-known, winning a tournament in the online realm.
Last week, 888Poker’s online poker series, XLEclipse, ended, and while the $2,600 buy-in High Roller wouldn’t normally interest us, the name of the winner does.
The World Poker Tour (WPT) Champions Club member, Dietrich “2pacnrw16” Fast, took down the $2,600 buy-in, $200,000 GTD High Roller, beating 83-entrants to capture the $72,635 first prize, beating competitors of the ilk of Chris Moorman and Martin Jacobson on his way to ascendency.
Fast is one of the few people who recently took advantage of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) laws that are sweeping Europe by removing his name from The Hendon Mob.
From now on, Fast takes on the moniker of ‘Unknown Player’.
Let’s hope the interesting young man doesn’t move out of the media limelight entirely, as I love a good chow down with the Russian-born high roller carrying the typhoon tongue.