Event #73: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em MAIN EVENT - World Championship

Timothy Adams went all in with about 8,000 and Naoya Kihara was last to act and called. Kihara had    and Adams had   .

Kihara flopped an ace, but Adams would double up when the board ran out       giving Adams a flush.

Naoya Kihara	198,000	-22,700
Timothy Adams	18,000	8,200

Alex Conklin hopped in the Main Event on Day 1B on Sunday, which was also his 21st birthday. He bagged a healthy 83,500 chips and is seated in Amazon Tan for a shot at being the youngest player in the field, and in history, to win the Main Event!

In 2008, Peter Eastgate was the youngest champion to ever win the Main Event, but Joe Cada took over that title after he won the very next year in 2009. Eastgate was 22 years, 10 months, and 28 days old, and Cada was 21 years, 11 months, and 22 days old.

Should Conklin win the Main Event this year, he will take over that record and it will likely be very hard to beat.

On the heads-up turn of     , Michal Danka checked out of the small blind and Frank Stepuchin in the cutoff bet 3,000. Danka check-raised to 9,500 and was called before immediately announcing all in as soon as the   fell on the river. Stepuchin gave it some thought and folded.

Michal Danka	88,000	17,000
Frank Stepuchin	15,000	-17,900

Hand 1

On a five-way flop of    , Jesper Hougaard bet 2,400 and George Mattia was the only caller. Both players checked the   turn and Hougaard also checked the   river. Mattia bet 7,000 and Hougaard called, then mucked when he was shown    for the nut straight.

Hand 2

Down to 17,500, Hougaard raised from the button the next hand and Mats Karlsson three-bet to 5,100 from one seat over. Hougaard moved all in and Karlsson quickly called.

Jesper Hougaard:   
Mats Karlsson:   

The board ran out       and the kicker played to eliminate Hougaard.

George Mattia	110,000	10,600
Mats Karlsson	83,000	6,400
Jesper Hougaard	0	-32,700

John Armbrust raised to 1,600 and Christopher Leong three-bet to 4,000 from the cutoff. The button and blinds folded and Armbrust called. The flop came     and Armbrust checked. Leong bet 3,500 and Armbrust called.

Both players checked the   turn and the river was the  . Armbrust led out for 6,000 and Leong quickly called.

Armbrust flashed    for a missed straight draw, and Leong tabled   , good for the pot.

John Armbrust	148,000	-24,600
Christopher Leong	55,600	14,200

Connor Drinan raised to 1,500 from under the gun and received two callers.

The flop came down     and action checked to a player in middle position who bet 2,400. Only Drinan called to see the   turn, which both players checked. The   river completed the board and Drinan bet 2,000. His opponent folded, giving Drinan the pot.

Connor Drinan

105,000

105,000

Matthew Schreiber, who won his first WSOP gold bracelet this year in the $1,500 HORSE event, was heads up with Grayson Ramage.

The board read       and Ramage bet 16,000 into a pot of 22,000. Schreiber called and Ramage showed two nines,   , for a set to win the pot.

Grayson Ramage	186,000	50,000
Matthew Schreiber	64,000	-30,000

Paolo Cusinato kicked things off with an open to 1,500. Boo Jonsson called in the hijack, as did Steven van Zadelhoff in the cutoff, while Richard Seymour came along from the big blind.

The dealer spread a     flop and it would be Jonsson taking a stab with a bet of 4,000. Van Zadelhoff was the only caller as the   rolled off on the turn.

Jonsson bet 7,000, and van Zadelhoff flicked his cards to the muck and dropped to 118,500 as Jonsson moved to 35,500.

Steven van Zadelhoff	118,500	-1,500
Boo Jonsson	35,500	9,600

After three World Series of Poker Main Event starting flights and thousands of players filing into the Rio, Day 2 action get underway today with those who advanced from Day 1A and 1B returning for five more levels of play.

The first flight brought in 795 players with 576 surviving, making it the biggest Day 1a since 2013. That was followed up by an overflow crowd of 2,164 on Day 1b, with 1,643 players bagging at night's end. That made for a total field of 2,959 in the first two flights of play. 2,219 of them return to the Rio for Day 2ab at 11 a.m.

The 90-minute dinner break should be around 8 p.m. local time. Play should be done for the day around 11:30 p.m. The money will not be reached today; that happens towards the end of Day 3 usually.

The numbers for the first two flights have been up compared to recent years, as was Monday's flight 1c. Day 1c brought a massive 4,262 players to the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino, 3,300 of them advanced to Day 2c on Wednesday at noon. That makes for a grand total of 7,221 players, 5,519 who survived Day 1.

All in all, this year's Main Event is the third-largest in history (only topped in 2006 and 2010) and the prize pool sits at almost $68 million. First place is guaranteed $8,150,000, and the total places paid is 1,084 with a min-cash of $15,000.

Morten Mortensen was the chip leader in the 1a field with 279,000 chips. Mortensen has almost $1.2 million in lifetime tournament winnings including four cashes at the WSOP for $297,481. Others with big stacks include Sam Grafton (231,600), Griffin Abel (226,000), Jonathan Little (210,300), and David Eldridge (207,000).

Defending champ Qui Nguyen advanced with 96,700 chips and 2014 champ Martin Jacobson bagged up 36,800. Other notables still remaining include Barny Boatman (150,000), Alex Foxen (140,000), Faraz Jaka (119,800), Donnacha O'Dea (111,000), Barry Shulman (106,700), Richard Seymour (105,000), Jon Turner (103,900), Mike Matusow (99,000), Matthew Ashton (93,500), and Hoyt Corkins (84,300).

Taking command in the 1b field was Argentina's Richard Dubini (254,500), who has a bit over $1 million in lifetime tournament winnings including a win in 2014 in the Brazilian Series Of Poker for $126,397. Other big stacks continuing to a second day of action were Alan Schein (229,800), Brandon Meyers (215,700), Tobias Ziegler (215,300), Brandon Adams (205,000), and 2005 WSOP Main Event third-place finisher Tex Barch (200,000).

Other notables remaining from 2b include: Kenny Hallaert (168,700), Jordan Morgan (166,300), Fabrice Soulier (160,300), Hasan Habib (154,100), Barry Greenstein (146,800), Nick Schulman (131,200), Adrian Mateos (129,000), Scott Seiver (123,900), Andy Frankenberger (116,400), Jeff Shulman (112,600), Patrick Mahoney (109,200), Layne Flack (107,000), and Terrence Chan (101,800).

Play is scheduled to reach the final table on Day 7 (Monday, July 17). Days 8-10 will then resume and be played on July 20-22 to reach a winner – all played out live in front of ESPN's cameras. Tuesday's action will be on PokerGO from 11:30 through 4:30. The show switches to ESPN from 4:30-8 p.m. and again on PokerGO for the last half hour (8:00-8:30 p/m.). Here is a look at the payouts for the final table:

Here's the complete Day 2ab seat draw: