Event #1 $25,000 Short Deck

Wai Chan Leads Final Six in Event #1 $25,000 Short Deck at partypoker LIVE MILLIONS SHR Series Sochi

Posted March 7, 2020 at 5:51 am ET by Jen Mason

The $25,000 Short Deck event kicked off this week’s high stakes tournament action in Sochi with a 42-runner field warming up for what is going to be a compelling series featuring the biggest names in the game. Awarding a million dollar prize pool amongst the final six competitors, the final table will be live streamed starting at 7am EST/3pm local time on PokerGO, with major action reported here throughout.

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The final table of six was set last night with Wai Leong Chan comfortably leading the remaining trophy-hunters, one of whom will take home the $378,000 first prize today.  His competition includes British phenom Stephen Chidwick, whose 2020 alone began with four high-roller final tables in January including a victory in the Australian Open’s $25,000 event worth $270,000.  Though bunched in the middle of the chip pack with Xia He Jiang and Aaron Van Blarcum, this action-packed Hold’em variant can see chips change hands rapidly; WSOP 2018 champion John Cynn and Cary Katz (15^th on the all-time tournament money list) round out the tough line-up.

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Wai Chan is no stranger to partypoker MILLIONS high roller events (among many other successes), having won two $25,000 events (one of them in Short Deck format) in the Bahamas last year, rounding out his November’s performance with a runner-up spot in the $250,000 Super High Roller Bowl for $2.6 million.  WPT title-holder Van Blarcum finished 2^nd in the $10,000 MILLIONS Main Event at the same venue.

With 30 minute levels and more experience than you can shake a stick at sitting around this final, we expect action to be plentiful and fascinating when play restarts (the stream includes a cards-up delay).