Phil Ivey leads $200,000 Triton Super High Roller after Day 1

The biggest tournament in the history of the World Poker Tour, the $200,000 buy-in Triton Super High Roller kicked off with a massive field, creating a prize pool of more than $10 million. After Day 1 the chipleader is Phil Ivey, but Mike ''Timex'' McDonald, Brian Rast, Steve O'Dwyer, Fedor Holz and Dan Colman will also return to big stacks.

The $200k Super High Roller kicked off in Manila on January 3 as part of the WPT National Philippines tournament series. The field was mostly made up of Asian businessmen and the biggest names in poker. There were a total of 40 entries and 9 re-entries (registration is open until the start of Day 2), creating a prize pool of more than $10 million.

Day 1 ended after nine blind levels and with Phil Ivey in the chiplead. He gathered 923,000 chips (117 big blinds), but Paul Phua (854,000), Mike ''Timex'' McDonald (576,000), Brian Rast (541,000), Steve O'Dwyer (534,000), Fedor ''CrownUpGuy'' Holz (521,000) and Dan Colman (454,000)  have also advanced.

Ivey shot up the leaderboard with a big pot during Level 7 (2,000/4,000 - 500 ante). Qin ''The Chairman'' Sin Xin raised from UTG, Ivey called on the button and Aaron Zhang shoved for a little more than 40,000.

Xin and Ivey both called, then Xin check/called a 60,000 bet from Ivey on the Q-9-5 (flushdraw) flop. Xin checked once again when a 2 hit the turn, but folded after Ivey bet 275,000.

Ivey showed K-Q for top pair and Zhang's J-J couldn't improve on the river.

30 players advanced to Day 2, check out some chipcounts and the payouts below

Top 10

1. Phil Ivey – 932.000 (117 bb)
2. Paul Phua – 854.000 (107 bb)
3. Mike McDonald – 576.000 (72 bb)
4. Brian Rast – 541.000 (68 bb)
5. Steve O’Dwyer – 534.000 (67 bb)
6. Fedor Holz – 521.000 (65 bb)
7. Dan Colman – 454.000 (57 bb)
8. Qin “The Chairman” Si Xin – 367.000 (46 bb)
9. Dominik Nitsche – 348.000 (44 bb)
10. John Juanda – 342.000 (43 bb)

Other noteable chipcounts

Tom Dwan - 335.000
David Peters - 304.000 
Stephen Chidwick - 263.000
Philipp Gruissem - 235.000
Isaac Haxton - 226.000 
Vivek Rajkumar - 197.000

Payouts 

1. $3.463.500
2. $2.309.000
3. $1.405.500
4. $953.700
5. $656.500
6. $502.000
7. $401.600
8. $351,320