Day 2 of Event #10: $5,000 NLH High Roller came to its conclusion after almost 17 hours of play that saw a day start with 30 and end with a champion at 7:37.

This high roller champion was Michael Perron of Chicago who conquered the field and won the $120,704 great price as well as the brilliant Lodge Championship Series trophy.

According to Hendon Mob, Perrone had nearly $750,000 in career tournament earnings before that victory, including a WSOP bracelet he won in October. He noted after his win that it was his first “high roller” event. He said he’s played the WSOP Main Event and a few 10k, but usually sticks to buy-ins of 3k or less, so for him winning his first 5k event was quite an achievement. .

Event #10: $5,000 NLH High Roller Final Table Results

Perrone also made sure to give credit to his poker mentor/coach Phillip Shing, who finished in ninth place earlier in the day. Perrone said that coaching Shing means a lot to him and appreciates what he has done for his game.

When asked when he felt he had a real chance of winning the tournament, Perrone said it was when he took the chip lead with three hands after collecting a big pot with a set of of them. Previously, he had focused on moving up the range as he had never really been a big stack, but more of a freewheeling medium stack for most of the day. But he would take the reins once he got the chip lead and wouldn’t let go as he impressively finished his last two opponents to win the title.

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Act of the day

The game started off hot and heavy from the start as players busted out pretty quickly despite the deep stacks as the first level was full of big action and chip jumping. This pace continued at a steady pace as half the pitch was gone after the first three levels and the game was down to eleven before the dinner break.

After dinner things would get much slower as the ten player bubble took three hours and 60 hands of hand to play the hand before. Noel Rodriguez finally bowed out as a bubble boy.

Shortly after, Phillip Shing busted out after grabbing the chip lead halfway through the day thanks to a very fortuitous river card that gave him a full house to break a Broadway straight, but he couldn’t spin that chip lead anymore and he broke in ninth when the final table began.

There was another long interval between eliminations and it took over an hour to lose the next player when Jeremy Lyons fell victim to jacks against kings preflop. Ryan Riske then headed for the door as his short stack finally shrunk after getting a payday win.

The big chipleader at the start of the day Ben Weng was next to go sixth after having a regular day before losing momentum at the final table.

Brandon Lulov was eliminated in fifth place after a dramatic day that saw him go from a few blinds on the bubble to a rotation at the final table to an explosive final hand where his straight was stung by the riparian flush which he called off .

With four players, the game slowed down again, as it took another two hours before Badr Imejjanewho had a day where he found an outer to stay alive before the bubble and went runner-runner straight to stay alive at the start of the final table, was eliminated in fourth place.

The three-way game then lasted about an hour and a half without any discussion of chops, and ended when Alain Bauer finally hit the rail in third place after holding a chip lead going into the final table. His fortunes changed when he threw himself into a set only to lose a large chunk of his stack and he was knocked out soon after.

One-on-one play wouldn’t last as long as Farid Jattin, who started the day second in chips, had a big chip disadvantage and was trailed by Perrone in several hands. Jattin couldn’t gain any upward momentum and was finally finished off after about 20 minutes.

Congratulations to Michael Perrone for winning the $5,000 High Roller at the Lodge Championship Series!

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