Today is day 2 of Event #3, the $25,000 + $300 Super High Roller. The players start with 1,000,000 chips, blind levels are 45 minutes in length until the tournament goes heads-up, at which point they change to 30 minutes, and play continues until a champion is crowned.

There were only a total of six entries today in Day 1, including one re-entry (Andrew Pantling). After losing Marc Macdonnell early on in the evening, and then Niall Farrell later on, all three remaining players bagged for Day 2. Andrew Pantling re-entered early in the evening and it proved to be a good investment, at least so far, as he bagged the largest stack of the three players.

As many of the pros who play high rollers and super high rollers have only arrived in Montreal late yesterday afternoon or evening, we expect to see another 20-30 entries (and some re-entries) take place today in Day 2.

Here are the chip counts of the three players bagging in Day 1:

• Andrew Pantling 3,690,000
• Philipp Gruissem 1,495,000
• Manig Loeser 815,000

 

 

These are the profiles on The Hendon Mob of the three players currently fighting it out:

Andrew Pantling:

• From Ontario, Canada (lives in Malta)
• Total live earnings: $3,948,436 USD
• Best live cash: $1,653,603 USD (6th place 2016 1M euro Big One For One Drop, Monte Carlo)
• All time money list: 321st

 

Philipp Gruissem:

• Born in Germany and currently living in Brighton, UK
• Total live earnings: $11,292,346
• Best live cash: $1,379,840 (1st place 2013 £100,000 NL WPT Alpha8, London,UK)
• Many other $1,000,000+ cashes
• All time money list: 65th
• German money list: 8th

 

Manig Loeser:

• Total live cashes: $10,215,932 USD
• Best live cash: $2,162,644 USD (2017 Triton Poker Super High Roller Series HK$960,000+40,000 NL Main Event)
• All time money list: 80th