Thursday, July 6, 2017 2:28 AM Local Time
Iraj Parvizi Leads $25,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller Field After Day 1
The third largest buy-in of the 2017 World Series of Poker kicked off Wednesday afternoon with twice the cards dealt to each player than the first two prestigious large buy-in events offered. Day 1 of Event #67: $25,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed High Roller got underway at 3 p.m. and drew a field of 187.
Only 103 players remain after ten hour-long levels of battle on the felt. Leading the charge heading into Day 2 is Iraj Parvizi.
During the last few hands of the night, Parvizi was the beneficiary of a dream river card to make a straight to crack Sean Winters' flopped set after the two got their stacks in the middle on the turn. Parvizi bagged a healthy stack of 850,000 soon after.
The defending champion of this event, Finland's Jens Kyllönen, was a no-show, but the inaugural champ back in 2015 Anthony Zinno made an appearance and will continue on to Day 2 after bagging 172,000. 2016 runner-up Tommy Le also jumped into the mix, just days after claiming his first bracelet in Event #54: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed Championship. Le will carry a stack of 126,500 into Day 2.
Joining Parvizi at the top of the counts are Michael Kamran (550,000), Artem Babakhanyan (524,500), Gjergj Sinishtaj (508,500), Joshua Beckley (471,000) and James Calderaro (466,500).
A great story from the early stages came not long after the day kicked off. Leon Tsoukernik scooped a monster pot by eliminating Nadar Kakhmazov, moments after Kakhmazov took his seat. Tsoukernik almost tripled his starting stack to take a huge lead, but less than an hour later he was standing on the other side of the rail. His chips were distributed to Max Silver and Babakhanyan.
Several notables are also headed to play on Day 2, including Silver (402,500), JC Tran (388,000), David Williams (365,500), Roberto Romanello (284,000), Brain Rast (259,000), Sylvain Loosli (240,000), and Eric Wasserson (215,000).
With 187 entries through Day 1, this marks a record attendance for this prestigious event. That number could easily grow even more as late-registration remains open until the start of Day 2. In 2106 a total of 184 players entered, beating 2015's mark of 175.
Notables failing to progress include Brandon Shack-Harris, Talal Shakerchi, Davidi Kitai, Robert Mizrachi, Cliff Josephy, Mohsin Charania, Connor Drinan, Shaun Deeb and David Benyamine.
Day 2 will resume at 2 p.m. on Thursday inside the Amazon Room with another ten hour-long levels on the schedule.
The PokerNews live reporting team will be on the floor to provide all the action until a winner is crowned on Saturday, July 8.
Day 2 Seat Draw
Room | Table | Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
Amazon | 17 | 1 | Jason Gray | Australia | 111,000 | 37 |
Amazon | 17 | 2 | Brant Hale | United States | 166,000 | 55 |
Amazon | 17 | 3 | Christopher Santora | United States | 56,500 | 19 |
Amazon | 17 | 4 | Konstantin Bucherl | Germany | 82,000 | 27 |
Amazon | 17 | 5 | Roberto Romanello | United Kingdom | 284,000 | 95 |
Amazon | 17 | 6 | Brian Rast | United States | 259,000 | 86 |
Amazon | 17 | 7 | Tom Hu | United States | 241,000 | 80 |
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Amazon | 18 | 1 | Chris Lee | United States | 67,000 | 22 |
Amazon | 18 | 2 | Millard Hale | United States | 161,500 | 54 |
Amazon | 18 | 4 | Dominique Mosley | United States | 151,000 | 50 |
Amazon | 18 | 5 | Ognjen Sekularac | Serbia | 216,500 | 72 |
Amazon | 18 | 6 | Eric Wasserson | United States | 215,000 | 72 |
Amazon | 18 | 7 | Ville Mattila | Finland | 162,500 | 54 |
Amazon | 18 | 8 | Artem Babakhanyan | Russia | 524,500 | 175 |
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Amazon | 19 | 2 | Gjergj Sinishtaj | United States | 508,500 | 170 |
Amazon | 19 | 3 | David Williams | United States | 365,500 | 122 |
Amazon | 19 | 5 | Jan Collado | Germany | 261,500 | 87 |
Amazon | 19 | 6 | Harry Jr. Thomas | United States | 274,500 | 92 |
Amazon | 19 | 7 | Di Dang | United States | 227,500 | 76 |
Amazon | 19 | 8 | Ryan Goindoo | Trinidad & Tobago | 195,000 | 65 |
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Amazon | 20 | 1 | Sylvain Loosli | France | 240,000 | 80 |
Amazon | 20 | 2 | Andreas Freund | Austria | 157,500 | 53 |
Amazon | 20 | 3 | Ashton Griffin | United States | 208,500 | 70 |
Amazon | 20 | 4 | Sam Stein | United States | 181,000 | 60 |
Amazon | 20 | 5 | Paul Lackey | United States | 83,000 | 28 |
Amazon | 20 | 7 | Max Silver | United Kingdom | 402,500 | 134 |
Amazon | 20 | 8 | James Park | United Kingdom | 267,500 | 89 |
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Amazon | 21 | 2 | Tom Cannuli | United States | 115,000 | 38 |
Amazon | 21 | 3 | Anthony Zinno | United States | 172,000 | 57 |
Amazon | 21 | 4 | Dimitar Popov | United States | 266,000 | 89 |
Amazon | 21 | 5 | Brandon Adams | United States | 118,500 | 40 |
Amazon | 21 | 6 | Norbert Szecsi | Hungary | 149,000 | 50 |
Amazon | 21 | 7 | Christopher Meyers | United States | 147,500 | 49 |
Amazon | 21 | 8 | Eddie Ochana | United States | 354,000 | 118 |
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Amazon | 22 | 1 | Bryce Yockey | United States | 133,000 | 44 |
Amazon | 22 | 2 | Ismael Bojang | Austria | 222,500 | 74 |
Amazon | 22 | 3 | Justin Gardenhire | United States | 120,000 | 40 |
Amazon | 22 | 4 | Konstantin Beylin | United States | 253,000 | 84 |
Amazon | 22 | 5 | Allan Le | United States | 89,000 | 30 |
Amazon | 22 | 6 | Sam Trickett | United Kingdom | 203,000 | 68 |
Amazon | 22 | 7 | Anton Morgenstern | Germany | 161,500 | 54 |
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Amazon | 23 | 1 | Veselin Karakitukov | Bulgaria | 387,000 | 129 |
Amazon | 23 | 2 | Martin Kozlov | Australia | 294,500 | 98 |
Amazon | 23 | 3 | Dan Fleyshman | United States | 153,000 | 51 |
Amazon | 23 | 4 | Majid Yahyaei | United States | 140,500 | 47 |
Amazon | 23 | 5 | Brad Ruben | United States | 278,000 | 93 |
Amazon | 23 | 6 | Daniel Reijmer | Netherlands | 316,500 | 106 |
Amazon | 23 | 8 | Michael Kamran | United States | 550,000 | 183 |
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Amazon | 24 | 1 | Dermot Blain | Ireland | 90,000 | 30 |
Amazon | 24 | 2 | Alex Foxen | United States | 251,000 | 84 |
Amazon | 24 | 3 | Richard Tuhrim | United States | 71,000 | 24 |
Amazon | 24 | 4 | Vitaly Lunkin | Russia | 95,500 | 32 |
Amazon | 24 | 6 | Dario Sammartino | Italy | 230,500 | 77 |
Amazon | 24 | 7 | Joshua Beckley | United States | 471,000 | 157 |
Amazon | 24 | 8 | Jeff Littlefield | United States | 148,000 | 49 |
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Amazon | 25 | 1 | Michael Huntress | United States | 145,000 | 48 |
Amazon | 25 | 2 | Lee Hon Cheong | Hong Kong | 272,000 | 91 |
Amazon | 25 | 3 | Chase Steely | United States | 110,500 | 37 |
Amazon | 25 | 4 | Maxx Coleman | United States | 223,000 | 74 |
Amazon | 25 | 5 | Konstantinos Bouloutsos | Greece | 156,500 | 52 |
Amazon | 25 | 6 | Anson Tsang | Hong Kong | 221,500 | 74 |
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Amazon | 26 | 1 | Aaron Katz | United States | 398,000 | 133 |
Amazon | 26 | 2 | Mack Lee | United States | 195,000 | 65 |
Amazon | 26 | 3 | Andrew Watson | United States | 271,000 | 90 |
Amazon | 26 | 4 | Noah Schwartz | United States | 298,000 | 99 |
Amazon | 26 | 5 | Christopher Frank | Germany | 263,500 | 88 |
Amazon | 26 | 6 | Jason Mercier | United States | 173,000 | 58 |
Amazon | 26 | 8 | Alexey Rybin | Russia | 212,000 | 71 |
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Amazon | 27 | 1 | David Belhumeur | United States | 142,500 | 48 |
Amazon | 27 | 3 | Joseph Dipascale | United States | 127,000 | 42 |
Amazon | 27 | 4 | Jyri Merivirta | Finland | 312,000 | 104 |
Amazon | 27 | 5 | Chance Kornuth | United States | 321,500 | 107 |
Amazon | 27 | 6 | Juha Helppi | Finland | 93,500 | 31 |
Amazon | 27 | 7 | James Calderaro | United States | 466,500 | 156 |
Amazon | 27 | 8 | Xinyan Zhou | United States | 270,500 | 90 |
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Amazon | 28 | 2 | James Obst | Australia | 349,500 | 117 |
Amazon | 28 | 3 | Richard Gryko | United Kingdom | 110,000 | 37 |
Amazon | 28 | 4 | Michael Krasienko | United States | 362,000 | 121 |
Amazon | 28 | 5 | Ka Kwan Lau | Spain | 364,500 | 122 |
Amazon | 28 | 6 | Adam Hourani | United States | 137,500 | 46 |
Amazon | 28 | 7 | Phil Galfond | United States | 112,000 | 37 |
Amazon | 28 | 8 | Joseph Di Rosa Rojas | Velezuela | 223,000 | 74 |
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Amazon | 29 | 1 | Ajay Chabra | United States | 230,000 | 77 |
Amazon | 29 | 2 | John O'Shea | Ireland | 194,000 | 65 |
Amazon | 29 | 3 | Felipe Ramos | Brazil | 135,000 | 45 |
Amazon | 29 | 4 | Zorlu Er | Turkey | 176,500 | 59 |
Amazon | 29 | 5 | Rifat Palevic | Sweden | 1 | - |
Amazon | 29 | 6 | Micah Smith | United States | 340,000 | 113 |
Amazon | 29 | 7 | David Callaghan | Ireland | 70,000 | 23 |
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Amazon | 30 | 1 | Michael Song | United States | 165,000 | 55 |
Amazon | 30 | 2 | William Kakon | United States | 168,500 | 56 |
Amazon | 30 | 4 | Frank Parisi | United States | 202,500 | 68 |
Amazon | 30 | 5 | JC Tran | United States | 388,000 | 129 |
Amazon | 30 | 6 | Tommy Le | United States | 126,800 | 42 |
Amazon | 30 | 7 | David Wang | Australia | 222,000 | 74 |
Amazon | 30 | 8 | Jan-Peter Jachtmann | Germany | 233,000 | 78 |
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Amazon | 31 | 2 | Iraj Parvizi | United Kingdom | 850,000 | 283 |
Amazon | 31 | 3 | Yaroslav Boiko | Ukraine | 177,000 | 59 |
Amazon | 31 | 4 | Peter Hernandez | United States | 241,000 | 80 |
Amazon | 31 | 5 | John Beauprez | United States | 175,000 | 58 |
Amazon | 31 | 6 | Dan Smith | United States | 261,000 | 87 |
Amazon | 31 | 7 | Ben Tollerene | United States | 207,000 | 69 |
Amazon | 31 | 8 | Mark Demirdjian | Canada | 366,500 | 122 |
Thursday, July 6, 2017 2:12 AM Local Time
End-Of-Day Counts
Iraj Parvizi | 850,000 | 0 |
Michael Kamran | 550,000 | 105,000 |
Artem Babakhanyan | 524,500 | 44,500 |
Gjergj Sinishtaj | 508,500 | 33,500 |
Joshua Beckley | 471,000 | 91,000 |
James Calderaro | 466,500 | 196,500 |
Max Silver | 402,500 | 62,500 |
Aaron Katz | 398,000 | 398,000 |
JC Tran | 388,000 | -2,000 |
Veselin Karakitukov | 387,000 | 387,000 |
Mark Demirdjian | 366,500 | 366,500 |
David Williams | 365,500 | -44,500 |
Ka Kwan Lau | 364,500 | 54,500 |
Mike Krasienko | 362,000 | 0 |
Eddie Ochana | 354,000 | 354,000 |
James Obst | 349,500 | -90,500 |
Micah Smith | 340,000 | 200,000 |
Chance Kornuth | 321,500 | -68,500 |
Daniel Reijmer | 316,500 | 136,500 |
Jyri Merivirta | 312,000 | 190,000 |
Noah Schwartz | 298,000 | -65,000 |
Martin Kozlov | 294,500 | -15,500 |
Roberto Romanello | 284,000 | 109,000 |
Brad Ruben | 278,000 | 278,000 |
Harry Jr. Thomas | 274,500 | 274,500 |
Lee Hon Cheong | 272,000 | 0 |
Andrew Watson | 271,000 | 271,000 |
Xinyan Zhou | 270,500 | -79,500 |
James Park | 267,500 | 267,500 |
Dimitar Popov | 266,000 | 266,000 |
Christopher Frank | 263,500 | 172,500 |
Jan Collado | 261,500 | -38,500 |
Dan Smith | 261,000 | 164,000 |
Brian Rast | 259,000 | 59,000 |
Konstantin Beylin | 253,000 | 253,000 |
Alex Foxen | 251,000 | 251,000 |
Peter Hernandez | 241,000 | 241,000 |
Tom Hu | 241,000 | 241,000 |
Sylvain Loosli | 240,000 | -60,000 |
Jan-Peter Jachtmann | 233,000 | -11,000 |
Dario Sammartino | 230,500 | 75,500 |
Ajay Chabra | 230,000 | 230,000 |
Di Dang | 227,500 | 227,500 |
Maxx Coleman | 223,000 | 223,000 |
Joseph Di Rosa Rojas | 223,000 | 223,000 |
Ismael Bojang | 222,500 | 69,500 |
David Wang | 222,000 | 222,000 |
Anson Tsang | 221,500 | -133,500 |
Ognjen Sekularac | 216,500 | -46,500 |
Eric Wasserson | 215,000 | 55,000 |
Alexey Rybin | 212,000 | 2,000 |
Ashton Griffin | 208,500 | 63,500 |
Ben Tollerene | 207,000 | 22,000 |
Sam Trickett | 203,000 | 121,000 |
Frank Parisi | 202,500 | 202,500 |
Mack Lee | 195,000 | -45,000 |
Ryan Goindoo | 195,000 | 195,000 |
John O'Shea | 194,000 | 71,000 |
Sam Stein | 181,000 | 19,000 |
Yaroslav Boiko | 177,000 | 42,000 |
Zorlu Er | 176,500 | 50,100 |
John Beauprez | 175,000 | 175,000 |
Jason Mercier | 173,000 | 48,000 |
Anthony Zinno | 172,000 | -23,000 |
William Kakon | 168,500 | -21,500 |
Brant Hale | 166,000 | 166,000 |
Michael Song | 165,000 | -15,000 |
Ville Mattila | 162,500 | 162,500 |
Anton Morgenstern | 161,500 | -8,500 |
Millard Hale | 161,500 | -168,500 |
Andreas Freund | 157,500 | 47,500 |
Konstantinos Bouloutsos | 156,500 | -13,500 |
Dan Fleyshman | 153,000 | 7,000 |
Dominique Mosley | 151,000 | 41,000 |
Norbert Szecsi | 149,000 | 71,000 |
Jeff Littlefield | 148,000 | 148,000 |
Christopher Meyers | 147,500 | 147,500 |
Michael Huntress | 145,000 | 35,000 |
David Belhumeur | 142,500 | 142,500 |
Majid Yahyaei | 140,500 | 40,500 |
Adam Hourani | 137,500 | 137,500 |
Felipe Ramos | 135,000 | 35,000 |
Bryce Yockey | 133,000 | 133,000 |
Joseph Dipascale | 127,000 | -149,000 |
Tommy Le | 126,800 | -103,200 |
Justin Gardenhire | 120,000 | 120,000 |
Brandon Adams | 118,500 | 118,500 |
Tom Cannuli | 115,000 | 115,000 |
Phil Galfond | 112,000 | -108,000 |
Jason Gray | 111,000 | -79,000 |
Chase Steely | 110,500 | 110,500 |
Richard Gryko | 110,000 | 110,000 |
Vitaly Lunkin | 95,500 | 13,500 |
Juha Helppi | 93,500 | 3,500 |
Dermot Blain | 90,000 | 10,000 |
Allan Le | 89,000 | 4,000 |
Paul Lackey | 83,000 | -20,000 |
Konstantin Bucherl | 82,000 | 39,000 |
Richard Tuhrim | 71,000 | 71,000 |
David Callaghan | 70,000 | 70,000 |
Chris Lee | 67,000 | -53,000 |
Christopher Santora | 56,500 | 56,500 |
Rifat Palevic | 1 | 1 |
Thursday, July 6, 2017 2:03 AM Local Time
Winter Busts to Parvizi In Huge Pot
With around 70,000 in the middle and the turn showing , the two big stacks Iraj Parvizi and Sean Winter clashed in a massive pot that saw both stacks find their way into the middle of the table.
Sean Winter:
Iraj Parvizi:
Parvizi's open-ended straight draw and flush draw had quite some outs to crack the set of Winter, and Parvizi indeed got there thanks to the river. The stacks were counted and Parvizi had 411,900, which covered the 375,000 of Winter by some small margin. It will take some time for Parvizi to stack up all the chips and have an accurate idea just how much he has.
Iraj Parvizi | 850,000 | 420,000 |
Sean Winter | 0 | -340,000 |
Thursday, July 6, 2017 1:54 AM Local Time
Four More Hands
The clock has been paused on Day 1 and each table will play four more hands before players bag for the night.
Thursday, July 6, 2017 1:48 AM Local Time
Lunkin Below Starting Stack
Max Silver defended his big blind against a button raise by Vitaly Lunkin. On the turn, Silver bet 10,500 and Lunkin called before the Brit announced "pot" on the river. The final bet was worth 34,200 and Lunkin elected to fold, dropping below the starting stack as a result.
Max Silver | 340,000 | 5,000 |
Vitaly Lunkin | 82,000 | -53,000 |
Thursday, July 6, 2017 1:39 AM Local Time
Big Stacks in the Last Level
Several players are gunning for the overnight chip lead and David Williams also took the remainder of Brandon Shack-Harris' stack to bump up his stack further.
Artem Babakhanyan | 480,000 | 140,000 |
Gjergj Sinishtaj | 475,000 | 63,000 |
Michael Kamran | 445,000 | 5,000 |
James Obst | 440,000 | 40,800 |
Iraj Parvizi | 430,000 | 10,000 |
David Williams | 410,000 | 65,000 |
JC Tran | 390,000 | 40,000 |
Chance Kornuth | 390,000 | 20,000 |
Joshua Beckley | 380,000 | 68,000 |
Xinyan Zhou | 350,000 | -40,000 |
Sean Winter | 340,000 | -30,000 |
Ka Kwan Lau | 310,000 | 140,000 |
Jan Collado | 300,000 | -10,000 |
Phil Galfond | 220,000 | 75,000 |
Brandon Shack-Harris | 0 | -40,000 |
Thursday, July 6, 2017 1:33 AM Local Time
Kornuth Pots the River, Gets Paid
With a completed board of in front of them, Chance Kornuth bet pot, making it 49,000 to call for his heads-up opponent.
After a moment his opponent made the call and Kornuth said, "I got it," revealing for the nut flush and his opponent could not beat it, mucking his cards.
Chance Kornuth | 370,000 | 60,000 |
Thursday, July 6, 2017 1:25 AM Local Time
Song's Unlikely Hold
With around 100,000 in the middle and the four-way flop reading , Michael Song moved all in for his last 39,800 out of the big blind. Alexey Rybin asked for a count and folded, while the player in the cutoff raised the pot to force out the button.
Michael Song:
Cutoff:
The turn and river were both blanks and Mike Krasienko in the eight seat said "sickest hold ever." He then took out his phone to calculate the equity and the cutoff had 72% to win the hand on the flop, including a club back door flush draw.
Michael Song | 180,000 | 50,000 |
Thursday, July 6, 2017 1:24 AM Local Time
Sekularac Secures a Pot
With about 68,000 in the pot of a board, Ognjen Sekularac had the action checked to him from his heads-up opponent.
Sekularac slid out a bet of 40,400 and his opponent went into the tank. A few moments went by before his opponent tossed his cards into the muck, awarding Sekularac the pot.
Ognjen Sekularac | 263,000 | 18,000 |
Thursday, July 6, 2017 1:12 AM Local Time
Updated Counts
Michael Kamran | 440,000 | 140,000 |
Iraj Parvizi | 420,000 | 125,000 |
JC Tran | 350,000 | 220,000 |
Sylvain Loosli | 300,000 | 60,000 |
Ognjen Sekularac | 245,000 | 115,000 |
Alexey Rybin | 210,000 | -50,000 |
William Kakon | 190,000 | 110,000 |
Ben Tollerene | 185,000 | 20,000 |
Daniel Reijmer | 180,000 | -110,000 |
Konstantinos Bouloutsos | 170,000 | 40,000 |
Ismael Bojang | 153,000 | -22,000 |
Ola Amundsgard | 153,000 | 58,000 |
Ashton Griffin | 145,000 | -75,000 |
Yaroslav Boiko | 135,000 | -113,000 |
Jason Mercier | 125,000 | -26,000 |
Allan Le | 85,000 | -55,000 |
Norbert Szecsi | 78,000 | -57,000 |
Kory Kilpatrick | 0 | -130,000 |
Orlando Romero | 0 | -150,000 |
Quan Zhou | 0 | -155,000 |
Thursday, July 6, 2017 1:10 AM Local Time
Shack-Harris Shaken by Williams
The recent rise of Brandon Shack-Harris has just taken a big setback after David Williams scored a big double through the two-time WSOP champion. With 44,000 in the middle on the turn, Williams was the player at risk for 148,000 and Shack-Harris looked him up.
David Williams: for top set
Brandon Shack-Harris: for top two pair
Williams vaulted up from his chair, which fell back right when the appeared on the river to make his double up official. Shack-Harris was left with fewer than 20 big blinds and has plenty of work ahead.
David Williams | 345,000 | 229,000 |
Brandon Shack-Harris | 40,000 | -125,000 |
Thursday, July 6, 2017 1:02 AM Local Time
Level 10 started
Level: 10
Blinds: 1200/2400
Ante: 0
Thursday, July 6, 2017 1:00 AM Local Time
Er Doubles Through Jachtmann
On a four-way limped flop of , the action checked around to Zorlu Er and he bet the pot for 8,000. Jan-Peter Jachtmann from one seat over in the cutoff made it 30,000 to go and Anthony Zinno as well as Michael Huntress both folded. Er moved all in for 59,200 and Jachtmann called.
Zorlu Er:
Jan-Peter Jachtmann:
Jachtmann blocked two spades, but the turn gave Er the nut flush. He was not guaranteed to win just yet, though, but the river made things official.
Jan-Peter Jachtmann | 244,000 | 24,000 |
Zorlu Er | 126,400 | -33,600 |
Thursday, July 6, 2017 12:54 AM Local Time
Players No Longer in Contention
Dani Stern | 0 | -185,000 |
David Paredes | 0 | -150,000 |
Matt Glantz | 0 | -125,000 |
Benjamin Zamani | 0 | -125,000 |
Bryce Yockey | 0 | -125,000 |
Talal Shakerchi | 0 | -122,000 |
Mike Watson | 0 | -110,000 |
Davidi Kitai | 0 | -104,000 |
Justin Bonomo | 0 | -86,000 |
Chris George | 0 | -70,000 |
Thursday, July 6, 2017 12:50 AM Local Time
A Silver Special with Shak Side Action
On the three-way flop of , the action escalated between Max Silver in the hijack, Dan Shak on the button and Dominique Mosley in the big blind. The stacks went into the middle of the table with Silver as shortest stack, while Mosley had Shak covered by a few big blinds only.
Max Silver:
Dan Shak:
Dominique Mosley:
The turn gave Silver a full house and the river was a blank to ensure his triple up, while Shak's straight draw and inferior pocket pair failed to get there. As a result, Shak was sent to the rail and Mosley was left with just shy of the starting stack.
Max Silver | 335,000 | 210,000 |
Dominique Mosley | 110,000 | 110,000 |
Dan Shak | 0 | -365,000 |
Thursday, July 6, 2017 12:37 AM Local Time
Updated Counts for Level 9
Xinyan Zhou | 390,000 | -28,600 |
Anson Tsang | 355,000 | 115,000 |
Artem Babakhanyan | 340,000 | 70,000 |
Jan Collado | 310,000 | 70,000 |
Martin Kozlov | 310,000 | 115,000 |
Chance Kornuth | 310,000 | 17,000 |
James Calderaro | 270,000 | -40,000 |
Mack Lee | 240,000 | 5,000 |
Tommy Le | 230,000 | -15,000 |
Jan-Peter Jachtmann | 220,000 | -45,000 |
Brian Rast | 200,000 | 75,000 |
Anthony Zinno | 195,000 | 125,000 |
Anton Morgenstern | 170,000 | 95,000 |
Eric Wasserson | 160,000 | -105,000 |
Dario Sammartino | 155,000 | 99,000 |
Vitaly Lunkin | 135,000 | 2,000 |
Max Silver | 125,000 | -41,000 |
Chris Lee | 120,000 | 35,000 |
Ben Lamb | 115,000 | -95,000 |
Felipe Ramos | 100,000 | -50,000 |
Yevgeniy Timoshenko | 0 | -75,000 |
Thursday, July 6, 2017 12:33 AM Local Time
Stein Shoves the River
Sam Stein bet pot on a board and got called by just one of his opponents. After paying the bet of 37,000, the dealer fanned the on the river and Stein moved all-in for about 75,000.
His opponent didn't take long to toss his cards into the muck and Stein was pushed the pot.
Sam Stein | 162,000 | 37,000 |
Thursday, July 6, 2017 12:24 AM Local Time
Cheong Busts Mizrachi
With the flop reading , Juha Helppi in late position checked. Robert Mizrachi checked as well from one seat over in the hijack and Lee Hon Cheong in the cutoff bet the pot for 72,000. Helppi gave it some thought and eventually folded, while Mizrachi reluctantly called all in for his last 52,000.
Robert Mizrachi:
Lee Hon Cheong:
The on the turn changed nothing much, and Cheong even improved to a set of aces thanks to the on the river. Mizrachi quickly grabbed his belongings and headed out of the tournament area.
Lee Hon Cheong | 275,000 | -5,000 |
Juha Helppi | 90,000 | 35,000 |
Robert Mizrachi | 0 | -125,000 |
Thursday, July 6, 2017 12:10 AM Local Time
Romanello Rivers Saliba
In the last hand before the break, a three-way pot to the turn saw Vivian Saliba all in and at risk with a short stack. Both Roberto Romanello and a third player called and checked the river.
Saliba showed for a set of fives while Romanello's for two pair on the turn improved to a straight. The third player briefly showed his cards, but Romanello ended up as the winner. According to the Welshman, he had previously bluffed away a big portion of his stack before he took most of Saliba's stack prior to the all in showdown.
Roberto Romanello | 175,000 | 15,000 |
Vivian Saliba | 0 | -24,400 |
Thursday, July 6, 2017 12:03 AM Local Time
Level 9 started
Level: 9
Blinds: 1000/2000
Ante: 0