TLPT MAIN EVENT 15K (SHR) - 8 HANDED ($15,000)

The Lord Poker Tournament SHR Main Event with a prize pool of a whopping $3,000,000 has attracted a total of 191 players that all ponied up the $15,000 buy-in and now has 15 hopefuls left standing that will compete for the $750,000 top prize, the trophy and bragging rights for making history as the inaugural champion.

All of the remaining players had to go through a star studded field with bracelet winners Daniel "Jungleman" Cates, Dominik Nitsche, Yinan Zhou, Mao Renji, Lei Yu, Calvin Lee, Ami Barer, Dong Chen and a flurry of high stakes players from all around the globe.

Topping the leaderboard with a huge gap to the rest of the field is German Marius Gierse who is famous for his online accomplishments, but racked up several million dollars in live earnings over the past decade as well. He was one of the people that took a starting stack from Ivan Zhang when he tried to spin up a stack during the closing levels of late registration that got him to a 62BB stack at the end of level 14. From then on he consistently chipped up, becoming chip leader of his table and then took the overall lead during level 20 and never looked back. Busting Raffaele Sorrentino in 17th on the buzzer to put a 20BB cherry on top of his 7,545,000 (94BB) stack.

Second in chips is Martin Sedlak - another German who has several final tables to his name in 2025 already - who came back from the brink in level 20 and finished the day with the elimination of Calvin Lee for 20BB and shortly after Yunkyu Song in 16th for another 7BB that concluded Day 2. He will unbag 4,755,000 (59BB) tomorrow.

AAPoker Ambassadors Ivan Zhang - 3,550,000 (44BB) and Quan Zhou - 2,140,000 (27BB) are also still in the stacked Top 15.

Day 3 will start at 13:00 local on Sunday the 18th with 16 minutes left in level 22 and finish when a champion is determined.

The SMP Live Updates will cover the action from start to finish.

With 26 players left and everyone a min cash of $28,000 secured already we have German Marius Gierse in a commanding lead.

Day 2 will conclude when we reach the last two tables with 16 players bagging their chips for tomorrow.

The dealer flips over Q♠ 3♥ 5♥ 8♣ before giving the short stack a miracle T♠ on the river to crack aces and kings for a triple up.

Patrik Demus min-raises from +1, hijack Gary Thompson three-bets to 150,000 and Demus considers his options. After handing a time bank to the dealer he opts to make it 350,000 and Thompson fills up, using a time bank of his own.

The flop 4♦ A♠ A♦ has Demus fire a 175,000 c-bet and Thompson lets it go.

Martin Nielsen wants 50,000 from +2 and big blind Gary Thompson defends to see the flop J♠ A♣ J♦ where he calls a 25,000 c-bet. The turn 3♠ gets checked to the river K♥ with Nielsen forking out another 115,000 holding A♥ K♣ and Thompson snaps before throwing it in the muck.

With 49 out of 191 total entries remaining that all want to get to the 29 money places we see Gary Thompson closing in on chip leader Bin Leng in the hunt for the top prize of $750,000.

A blind battle with 222,000 in the pot and the flop already showing K♦ 8♦ K♠ continues with big blind Bin Leng firing 77,000, small blind Gary Thompson fills up and does so again on the turn J♣ for 175,000. The river 5♣ gets checked down with Leng flipping over the winner 6♦ 6♣ against Thompsons's A♦ T♦ missed draw.

After the late registration was pushed to the end of level 14, the blinds have been adjusted as well. We now have level 13 and 14 being at 6K/12K/12K and continue with regular blind increases from level 15 (10K/15K/15K) onwards.

The $10,000 Super Star that was scheduled for 15:00 will now begin after the end of the SHR Main Event late reg at 17:00.

Gary Thompson opens 20,000 from the cutoff and small blind Weijue Cai defends to see the flop 2♥ J♦ 6♣ where Cai check-calls a 25,000 c-bet before switching to a 50,000 lead on the turn 3♦ . Cai jams the river 9♠ with A♥ 7♦ and Thompson snaps for his last 179,000 with Q♥ J♣ top pair.