Rick Salomon was the only player out of 36 who instantly took advantage of the new double add-on structure on Day One at the Super High Roller Bowl, and it paid off nicely as the high-stakes socialite left the PokerGo Studio in Las Vegas with the chip lead in the $300k event.
Players were given the option of adding two 100,000-chip bullets to their 100,000-chip starting stack at any time during the first nine levels. Most saved the extra chips in case of a bustout emergency, but Salomon employed a different strategy, opting to start with a full compliment of chips (300,000).
Rough Day for Deutschland
Nine players were eliminated on Day One, four of whom are German. That includes 2017 champion Christoph Vogelsang, who apparently looked like an “un-circumsized penis” with his hoodie covering most of his face, according to PokerGo announcer Ali Nejad.
Monday was a rough day for the Germans in Las Vegas. Not only did four of their heroes get eliminated early from a $300,000 buy-in tournament, one of whom allegedly resembles male genitalia. But the two remaining pros from Deutschland — Fedor Holz and Koray Aldemir — bagged below average chip stacks.
Play resumes at 2 pm PT on Tuesday starting at level nine (2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 big blind-only ante). The action will certainly be intense as only seven of the 27 remaining players get paid. And they’re playing for a chance to win $3.67 million. Only seven players get paid. The tournament is expected to play down to the money tonight.
You can catch the action live on the PokerGo app (subscription required). Nejad and Nick Schulman will be back in the booth, perhaps again discussing anatomy and maybe even a little poker.
Rick Salomon Wire-to-Wire?
Rick Salomon certainly isn’t a newbie when it comes to high-stakes poker. But he doesn’t have the tournament experience of most of the players in this field.
What he does have, however, is more chips than those more experienced pros. And that could give him an edge on Day Two.
Salomon ran his 300,000-chip starting stack up to over 500,000 by the first break on Monday. Consequently, he was the only player who began with a full stack. That worked out well for him but most remaining players will have one or two additional 100,000-chip stacks to add-on before the end of Tuesday’s first level, which means his chip lead probably won’t last.
Chip Leaders After Day One at Super High Roller Bowl V
- Rick Salomon (USA) 806,000
- Ali Imsirovic (Bosnia) 661,000
- Daniel Negreanu (Canada) 623,000
- Stephen Chidwick (United Kingdom) 553,000
- Nick Petrangelo (USA) 460,000
Salomon, who became famous for twice marrying actress Pamela Anderson and filming a sex tape with hotel heiress Paris Hilton, has over $9 million in lifetime live tournament earnings. But that’s a bit misleading considering he’s competed in three of the four $1 million buy-in events ever hosted. So, that means a large chunk of those earnings isn’t actually profit.
Still, he held his own at a difficult table that included poker’s top two all-time winningest players — Daniel Negreanu and Justin Bonomo.
And speaking of Kid Poker, he wins the Play of the Day award for making a sick, next-level fold:
Does it get any better than this?@RealKidPoker with the PERFECT read at the #SHRBV feature table!
▶️ https://t.co/5rUlItuiNK pic.twitter.com/wQJdnSm5Ae— PokerGO (@PokerGO) December 18, 2018
