Of those 49, 14 were eliminated, with Antonio Esfandiari falling first.īrian Rast, the defending champion of this event, was the man who made "The Magician's" chips disappear when his topped Esfandiari's pocket queens thanks to a king on the river after the money went in preflop. Sunday's Day 1 saw the 49 players in the field plop down in the plush ARIA Resort & Casino seats to do battle with their $300,000 buy-in on the line. Needless to say, he does pretty well at this venue. And then just a few days ago on Friday, he won the $50,000 Super High Roller that ARIA held for $748,446. Last year, Kuznetsov took fourth in this event for $2.15 million. Kuznetsov was the only player to bag up a seven-figure stack, with his next closest competitor being the man he doubled through, Berkey, with 745,500. From there, Kuznetsov climbed and climbed, tormenting Phil Hellmuth with three-bets and winning small pot after small pot along the way to a finishing stack over 1.1 million. His run to the top started early, when in Level 2 he doubled through Matt Berkey with a straight versus two pair. The man of the day was Timofey Kuznetsov, otherwise known as "Trueteller" in the high-stakes online poker world. Welcome back to PokerNews' continued coverage of the 2016 Super High Roller Bowl. 05-30-2016 08:48 UTC-8 Timofey "Trueteller" Kuznetsov Leads the Pack Into Day 2
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