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* Starting stack: 100,000; 30-minute levels

1.35pm: Mini super high rollers
Level 1, Blinds: 500/1,000 (100 ante)

The $100K Super High Roller was surely a bargain for players in the $50K High Roller.

Players were given the chance of up to three days of poker in that event while this one will crown a champion --hopefully-- before the sun rises on Paradise Island again.

But days-per-buy-in isn't how players measure poker value.

There's a small contingent of people in this world willing to shell out $50K for a single-day poker tournament but can't bring themselves to play a $100K one. Players in the $50K field who didn't play the Super High Roller include: Adrian Mateos, Ivan Luca, Liv Boeree, Dario Sammaritano, Jeff Gross, Kenny Smaron, Jeff Rossiter, Mohsin Charania, Scott Margereson, Dan Coleman, David Yan and Olivier Busquet.

The rest of the field consists of the same players who played the $100K Super High Roller, including its newly-minted champion, Bryn Kenney, who just took a seat. --AV

1.20pm: Perkins keeps pots big
Level 1, Blinds: 500/1,000 (100 ante)
Bill Perkins is hardly concerned with playing big pots, even at these early stage. In fact, that's the way he likes it. He opened to 2,500 from the hijack in a recent pot and Timothy Adams raised to 8,000 from the button.

It folded back to Perkins and he pretty much immediately four bet to 17,500. Adams thought a little longer before calling.

The flop came [9s][th][td] and Perkins immediately gunned 21,000 into the middle. Adams wasn't interested in this one anymore. -- HS

1.15pm: And another handful
Level 1, Blinds: 500/1,000 (100 ante)
The feeling of Groundhog Day pervades in the far corner of the tournament room as more high rollers arrive to the precise field on which they did battle three days ago.

Olivier Busquet, Ivan Luca, Daniel Colman, Ankush Mandavia, Fedor Holz, Dan Shak and Jeff Gross are now here too.

1.05pm: Newey rubs salt into McKeehen's wounds
Level 1, Blinds: 500/1,000 (100 ante)
Joe McKeehen was playing later than most last night as he stayed all the way to the end of the $100K Super High Roller. He didn't win it; he lost the final hand of the night to Bryn Kenney. But he's back in action again already today.

McKeehen played an early pot against Paul Newey, but it didn't go well. McKeenen opened to 2,500 from the hijack and Newey called from the cut off, persuading Scott Margereson to defend his big blind. Three went to a flop of [9s][5d][5h] and Margereson checked.

McKeehen bet 4,000 and only Newey called, trimming the field to two on the [th] turn. McKeehen checked, prompting a bet of 9,000 from Newey. McKeehen stayed to the river.

It fell [4c] and after they both checked, McKeehen showed his [ah][qs], which had missed the board. Newey's [9c][7c] connected slightly and that was enough.

1pm: More suspects
Level 1, Blinds: 500/1,000 (100 ante)
They're still flooding into this event, and the numbers seem likely to be very healthy indeed. Latest registrants include Thomas Mueloecker, Ole Schemion, Timothy Adams, Daniel Dvoress, Joe McKeehen, Justin Bonomo, Paul Newey, Dani Stern, Ike Haxton, Christoph Vogelsang and Bill Perkins.

They are allowed only one re-entry in this one, so maximum exposure is at $100,000.

12.30pm: Getting started
Level 1, Blinds: 500/1,000 (100 ante)
Play is just getting started in this $50K event and the line-up of players could not be more appropriately described as "the usual suspects" if Verbal Kint was among them. The first 14 people I saw in the High Roller enclosure were: Nick Petrangelo, Erik Seidel, Cary Katz, Stephen Chidwick, Sam Greenwood, Jeff Rossiter, Scott Seiver, Talal Shakerchi, Kathy Lehne, David Yan, Adrian Mateos, Vladimir Troyanovskiy, Steve O'Dwyer and Mike McDonald.

Boats deliver High Rollers to the Bahamas

11.45am: Another day, another high roller
It's Saturday, so that must mean another High Roller tournament, right? Of course it does. It's time for the $50K High Roller, whose quirk is that it gets done in a single day.

That said, it'll be a miracle if it's finished before about 3am tomorrow morning, but in poker terms that's a single day. And there will likely be a pretty tasty hourly rate for the players still hanging around as today turns into tomorrow.

As ever, we'll only know their identities as and when they begin to stroll in, and with registration open for the first eight levels, it's likely to start slowly and grow bigger. Stacks begin at 100,000. Levels last 30 minutes. There's a single re-entry permitted.

Stick with us to see how it plays out.

Take a look at the official website of the PCA, with tournament schedule, videos, news, blogs and accommodation details for the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas.

Also all the schedule information is on the EPT App, which is available on both Android or IOS.

Follow the Main Event on the Main Event page. Follow the LAPT Bahamas event on the LAPT page.

PokerStars Blog reporting team on the $50K Single-Day High Roller: It's just me, would you believe. Actually, Alex Villegas is now on this beat too, for all the use that is. At least Nick Wright is coming in later. Photography by Joe Giron and Neil Stoddart. For more photos from this event by Joe Giron visit Poker Photo Archive.

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