Event #1 $50,000 No-Limit Hold'em
Day 2 Completed
2017 Poker Masters
Event #1 $50,000 No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2017 Poker Masters
Buy-in
$50,000
Prize Pool
$2,550,000
Entries
51
Level
28
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
120,000
Level 28
: 60,000/120,000, 120,000 ante
The first event of the inaugural Poker Masters is in the books, and Nick Schulman finished as the first winner in this five-event series.
By claiming a $918,000 prize, Schulman takes the early lead in the Poker Masters competition, which will see the player with the best results (highest total earnings) throughout all five tournaments (four $50,000 buy-in tournaments capped by a $100,000 freeze out finale) – win The Poker Masters Purple Jacket™.
Schulman, who has been lauded for prior commentary on PokerGO, has been on a heater this year. Back in August, he won the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open $50,000 Super High Roller for $440,000, meaning he’s now won two $50K events in five weeks.
With the second-largest score of his career, Schulman, a World Poker Tour champ and two-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, vaulted to over $10 million in lifetime earnings,
Event #1: $50,000 NLHE Final Results
| Place | Winner | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Nick Schulman | USA | $918,000 |
| 2nd | Matt Hyman | USA | $561,000 |
| 3rd | Stefan Schillhabel | Germany | $306,000 |
| 4th | Steffen Sontheimer | Germany | $204,000 |
| 5th | Dominik Nitsche | Germany | $178,500 |
| 6th | Koray Aldemir | Germany | $153,000 |
| 7th | Adrian Mateos | Spain | $127,500 |
| 8th | Daniel Negreanu | Canada | $102,000 |
Event #1: $50,000 NLHE began with 51 entries, but after Day 1 the field was whittled down to the final table of seven. They returned on Thursday to play down to a winner, and it didn’t take long for things to heat up.
Early on Spain’s Adrian Mateos fell to the short stack and jammed from the hijack holding queen-jack. Dominik Nitsche called from the small blind with pocket sixes, and while Mateos paired his jack on the flop, a six on the turn put the final nail in his coffin.
In the very next hand, Koray Aldemir tried to squeeze with a three-bet shove holding nine-eight of spades in the big blind, but Steffen Sontheimer sniffed it out and called with the queen-ten of spades out of the small blind. Aldemir flopped a pair, but Sontheimer had an open-ended straight draw, which he hit with an ace on the river.
It took a while for the next elimination to occur, but it happened when a short-stacked Nitsche moved all in holding five-six suited and failed to get there against the ace-three suited of Sontheimer. Not long after that, Schulman and Sontheimer played a big pot where the latter bluffed the river on a four-diamond board but Schulman sniffed it out and called off with the 
, a call that vaulted him into the chip lead.
Not long after, Schulman finished off Sontheimer, and in the very next hand dispatched the last German in the field, Stefan Schillhabel. It happened in a cooler hand when Schillhabel picked up pocket queens only to run them smack dab into the kings of Schulman.
That allowed Schulman to take 4.2 million chips into heads-up play against Matt Hyman, who had a stack of 2.295 million. The match proved to be a back-and-forth affair with both players swapping the chip lead on multiple occasions.
Eventually, the blinds and antes put pressure on both players, and with Schulman in the lead he got it in with ace-king against Hyman’s ace-eight suited. Hyman flopped a flush draw, but he missed it to give Schulman the win.
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Level 28
: 60,000/120,000, 120,000 ante
Heads-up play proved to be a back-and-forth affair, and it was only fitting that the last hand was a big sweat.
It happened when Matt Hyman raised to 310,000 with the 
only to have Nick Schulman three-bet all in with what would turn out to be the 
. Hyman called off for 2.27 million and once again he was way behind.
However, he's bounced back time and again from similar spots, and it looked like he might do it again when the 
flop gave him a flush draw.
Fortunately for Schulman, this time his opponent didn't get off the hook as the 
blanked on the turn followed by the 
on the river.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
6,375,000
3,075,000
|
3,075,000 |
|
||
|
Busted | |
Level 28
: 60,000/120,000, 120,000 ante
Nick Schulman simply moved all in and Matt Hyman called off for 1.62 million.
Hyman: 
Schulman: 
Once again Schulman got it in good only to fall behind on the flop, this time when it came down 
.
"This just might not be mine to win," a frustrated Schulman said. The 
turn left him drawing dead and he sent over some chips after the 
was run out on the river.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
3,300,000
-1,395,000
|
-1,395,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
3,120,000
1,440,000
|
1,440,000 |
Level 28
: 60,000/120,000, 120,000 ante
Nick Schulman just limped holding the 
and then snap-called when Matt Hyman shoved his last 900,000 with the 
.
The title looked to be Schulman's, but alas it slipped his grip once again after the board ran out 
to give Hyman a straight and the double.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
4,695,000
-420,000
|
-420,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
1,680,000
420,000
|
420,000 |
Level 28
: 60,000/120,000, 120,000 ante
With 620,000 in the pot and a flop of 
, both players checked and the 
was put out on the turn. Matt Hyman, who held the 
, bet 500,000 and Schulman just called with the 
.
Hyman then bet 1.4 million on the 
river and Schulman called to win the pot and retake the lead.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
5,115,000
2,270,000
|
2,270,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
1,260,000
-2,270,000
|
-2,270,000 |
Level 28
: 60,000/120,000, 120,000 ante
Matt Hyman limped with the 
and Nick Schulman checked his option holding the . Schulman then checked the 
flop and Hyman bet 300,000. Schulman check-raised to 850,000 but folded when Hyman three-bet jammed.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
3,530,000
1,580,000
|
1,580,000 |
|
|
2,845,000
-1,555,000
|
-1,555,000 |
|
|
||
Level: 28
Blinds: 60,000/120,000
Ante: 120,000
Level 27
: 50,000/100,000, 100,000 ante
Nick Schulman moved all in from the button and put the pressure on Matt Hyman, who called off for a little over 900K.
Hyman:
Schulman:
Hyman needed help and he got it on the 
flop. Neither the turn nor 
river helped Schulman and he sent over some chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
4,400,000
-950,000
|
-950,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
1,950,000
950,000
|
950,000 |
Level 27
: 50,000/100,000, 100,000 ante
Matt Hyman raised to 300,000 only to have Nick Schulman move all in for 2.63 million. Hyman asked for a count and then opted to call.
Hyman:
Schulman:
Hyman needed to catch, but that didn't happen as the board ran out 
to give Schulman the double. With that, we now have the biggest gap in the chip counts since heads-up play began.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
5,350,000
2,950,000
|
2,950,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
1,000,000
-3,000,000
|
-3,000,000 |