May 25 2012, Donnie Peters

Day 2 of the $100,000 Super High Roller at the 2012 World Poker Tour World Championship was completed on Thursday and the televised final table has been set. Finishing on top of the final six players was Daniel Perper with 3.415 million in chips.

When the day began, two more players jumped into the mix thanks to this event having a re-entry format. Sorel Mizzi was a brand new player to buy-in while Clemenceau Calixto re-entered after having busted on Day 1. That brought the total field size to 34 entries and the top five spots were set to be paid from the $3.315 million prize pool. Fifth place was set at $263,160 and the winner will receive just over $1.3 million plus a seat into the 2013 WPT World Championship worth $25,500.

As the day wore on, big names were hitting the rail left and right. Some of those eliminated early were the aforementioned Mizzi, Jason Mercier, Dan Shak and Isaac Haxton. Mercier was one of three players to fire in a second bullet and busted during Level 12 with the blinds at 6,000/12,000/2,000.

According to the WPT Live Updates Team, it was Brian Hastings who delivered the final blow to Mercier. Mercier had opened to 24,000 from the cutoff seat and Hastings re-popped it to 55,000 on the button. Action moved back to Mercier and he reraised all in for approximately 340,000. Hastings called with the . Mercier was dominated with the . The flop, turn and river ran out and Mercier was out the door for a second time.

The big story on the day proved to be Justin Bonomo. He constantly was at the top of the counts and surely the player everyone was keeping their eyes on. It wasn’t too long ago that Bonomo won The PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final “100,000 Super High Roller to the tune of “1.64 million. That same week at the EPT Grand Final he also took 28th in the Main Event and fourth in the “25,000 High Roller. Needless to say, he’s having quite the year.

Bonomo did the deed of busting the final player of the day to officially set the televised final table. He busted Aussie Millions $100,000 Challenge winner Dan Smith in seventh place during Level 17 with the blinds up to 20,000/40,000/4,000.

It was reported that Smith moved all in from middle position for his last 400,000 or so and Bonomo made the call from the button. Everyone else folded and Smith’s was up against Bonomo’s . The board came to have Smith drawing dead on fourth street. He finished in seventh place for no money on Day 2 came to a close.

WPT World Championship Super High Roller Final Table

The televised final table will take place starting on Friday at 1600 PDT (0000 BST). The remaining six players are still not in the money and it’s going to be one heck of a bubble with fifth place receiving over a quarter of a million dollars and sixth place getting nothing. Be sure to stay tuned to PokerNews for the daily recap.

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January 15 2012, Mickey Doft

The 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $25,000 High Roller wrapped up Saturday night with Leonid Bilokur topping a field of 148 to capture the title. Bilokur began the final table fourth in chips and stayed out of the way in the early stages while players began to drop.

Team PokerStars Online member Randy “nanonoko” Lew entered the final table on the short stack and despite doubling up twice, he was the first to fall. He picked up in the cutoff and watched as Nicolas Fierro and Jason Koon both re-raised behind him. Unfortunately for Lew, Koon held and quickly called Lew’s five-bet shove. Lew found some help as the flop and turn left him with outs to a flush, but the river ended his tournament.

Michael Telker appeared to be quite card dead during his time at the final table, but found a good spot to shove after the aggressive Fierro opened a pot. Telker, with , shoved from the small blind. Fierro called with and eliminated Telker when the board ran out . Govert Metaal, last year’s fifth-place finisher in this very tournament, busted in sixth place this time around. His ran into Fierro’s and did not improve.

Going into the dinner break, Bilokur commanded a sizable chip lead after winning a big coin flip against Koon. They were the two biggest stacks at the time and tangled in a huge pot. Bilokur four-bet jammed his 53-big-blind stack with into Koon’s . A call from Koon delivered a board to give Bilokur the chip lead.

When the players returned from dinner break, Fierro busted in fifth place when his pocket deuces failed to improve against Isaac Haxton’s pocket tens. Koon followed him out the door shortly thereafter, five-bet shoving into Team PokerStars Pro Jonathan Duhamel’s . No help arrived for Koon, and he was eliminated in fourth place.

Haxton fell short of heads-up play, getting his stack into the middle with after four-bet shoving against Duhamel. With , Duhamel called and held through the board.

Heads-up play began with Duhamel holding 5,430,000 in chips to Bilokur’s 1,960,000, but the duel was pretty one sided as Bilokur battled back to take the lead and eventually go on to win the tournament. The final hand saw Duhamel three-bet shove with against Bilokur who called with .

An flop all but ended Duhamel’s chances to catch up in the hand, with the turn officially leaving Duhamel drawing dead. For good measure, Bilokur improved to a full house as the landed on the river, and he earned $1,134,930 for his victory.

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