Monday, July 9, 2018 1:13 AM Local Time
Hutter and Altman Bag Big in the Main Event; 310 Remain After Day 4
Less than five percent of the field remains in the 2018 World Series of Poker Main Event at the close of Day 4, with 310 players of the 7,784 runners remaining in contention at Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino.
Two notable American pros finished in the top three at the close of a long day that saw the players grind through five-and-a-half levels of play and walk out the doors more than 13 hours after they showed up. Barry Hutter has the lead with 5,597,000, with Brian Altman sitting third with 4,861,000. Alexander Haro sits between them with 5,031,000.
Hutter was the first to surpass four million and then went on a rush during the last hour of the night to finish ahead of Haro and Altman, who said he "caught some heat" toward the end of the night as well.
Altman scored the most notable elimination of the day when he sent superstar Phil Ivey packing from the feature table about midway through the day. Ivey opened for 22,000 at 5,000/10,000/1,000 from middle position and Altman three-bet to 75,000 in the hijack. Ivey continued and check-called a bet on the queen-jack-high flop that featured two spades. Both players checked the eight of spades on the turn and Ivey check-jammed for 629,000 over 195,000 on the three of diamonds river.
Altman found the call button with queen-jack for top two and Ivey's bluff was revealed as he held pocket nines with the nine of spades.
"Given the spot, I took a relatively short amount of time for the river call, probably 90 to 120 seconds," Altman said when asked about the hand. "My hand was just too strong to fold. I thought he was very capable of turning hands like and black tens and black nines into bluffs as well as something with the ace of spades in it. So, I just went with my gut."
Altman eliminated Phil Ivey en route to bagging big to end Day 4.
Altman had a big stack in last year's Main Event but let it slip away as he didn't even manage to make the money. He said he's focusing one hand at a time and just trying to make as many correct decisions as he can. He came into the Main Event ice cold but finds himself in a spot where he can make it all up with a big result.
"I was actually 0 for 35 in tournaments," he said of his recent skid. "So, it's kind of nice to have a glimmer of hope in this one, the most meaningful tournament of the year. I'm very happy to be in this spot."
Others bagging big included Kelly Minkin (3,459,000), Brian Yoon (3,228,000), Benjamin Pollak (2,765,000) and James Obst (2,560,000).
Minkin made a huge calldown for stacks with second pair of kings during the penultimate level of the night, being shown bottom pair on the flop by her daring but caught opponent.
"I was prepared to make that call when I called the turn bet," she told PokerNews on break. "I'm like, 'All right, I'm gonna call, I think he's bluffing.' He had jack-eight for fourth pair so that was nice to win that pot."
With the tournament being in the money after a long bubble the previous night, the pace of bustouts was furious early on and didn't slow down much as over 800 were eliminated and paid. Some notables hitting the rail were David Yan, Scott Clements, Jamie Kerstetter, Barry Greenstein, Patrik Antonius, Johnny Chan, Kristen Bicknell, Tom McEvoy and Jonathan Duhamel.
The elimination of Duhamel leaves 2009 winner Joe Cada as the last former champ remaining.
Players return for another grueling day on Monday, July 9, at 11am with blinds and antes still at 10,000/20,000/3,000 for another hour. Come right back to PokerNews then for more coverage of the Main Event.
Monday, July 9, 2018 12:53 AM Local Time
End-of-Day Chip Counts
Barry Hutter spent a good portion of the day as chip leader and while he hovered in the low 4 million range for a while during the final stages of the night, a late rush saw Hutter increase his stack to more than 5.5 million to seize the chip lead to close Day 4.
| Barry Hutter | 5,597,000 | 747,000  |
| Alexander Haro | 5,031,000 | 951,000 |
| Brian Altman | 4,861,000 | 111,000 |
| Andres Jeckeln | 4,506,000 | 6,000 |
| Hari Bercovici | 3,510,000 | 760,000 |
| Kelly Minkin | 3,459,000 | 99,000 |
| Franklin Azevedo | 3,410,000 | 2,818,000 |
| Ubaid Habib | 3,300,000 | 200,000 |
| Nick Newport | 3,269,000 | 2,019,000 |
| Krasimir Yankov | 3,264,000 | 2,125,000 |
| Shannon Shorr | 3,243,000 | 1,293,000 |
| Brian Yoon | 3,228,000 | 628,000 |
| Shaun O'Donnell | 3,145,000 | 495,000 |
| Stanley Lee | 3,134,000 | 284,000 |
| Alexander Ziskin | 3,090,000 | 990,000 |
| Nirath Rean | 2,981,000 | 1,781,000 |
| Michael Feil | 2,965,000 | 2,242,000 |
| Mark Zullo | 2,944,000 | 1,024,000 |
| Daniel Tang | 2,901,000 | 1,901,000 |
| Benjamin Pollak | 2,765,000 | 985,000 |
| Peter Campo | 2,692,000 | -408,000  |
| Frederik Salari | 2,664,000 | 2,464,000 |
| Ryan Rivers | 2,652,000 | 902,000 |
| Dan Wilson | 2,599,000 | 1,929,000 |
| James Obst | 2,560,000 | 585,000 |
| Nils Tolpingrud | 2,472,000 | 472,000 |
| Aram Zobian | 2,464,000 | 394,000 |
| Andrew Ostapchenko | 2,394,000 | 1,511,000 |
| Tony Miles | 2,358,000 | 398,000 |
| Roger Lussier | 2,315,000 | 1,733,000 |
| Jonathan Hilton | 2,300,000 | 225,000 |
| Fredrik Kaarem | 2,282,000 | 1,974,000 |
| Brian Borne | 2,275,014 | 745,014 |
| Martijn Gerrits | 2,259,000 | 159,000 |
| Chanracy Khun | 2,253,000 | 653,000 |
| Clayton Fletcher | 2,245,000 | 0 |
| Mantas Bagocius | 2,204,000 | 1,144,000 |
| John Anderson | 2,193,000 | 1,494,000 |
| James Akenhead | 2,187,000 | -213,000 |
| Nikolaos Platis | 2,177,000 | 177,000 |
| Shaun Deeb | 2,175,000 | 645,000 |
| Martin Sejer | 2,167,000 | 567,000 |
| Konstantin Beylin | 2,151,000 | -649,000 |
| Shankar Pillai | 2,141,000 | -459,000 |
| Alexandre Reard | 2,121,000 | 301,000 |
| Daniel Merrilees | 2,120,000 | -470,000 |
| Roman Lanzerstorfer | 2,102,000 | 1,402,000 |
| Jonathon Prested | 2,100,000 | 2,041,000 |
| Daniel Wolf | 2,100,000 | 1,512,000 |
| Scott Einiger | 2,083,000 | 1,781,000 |
| Eric Wasylenko | 2,064,000 | 454,000 |
| Cliff Josephy | 1,985,000 | -140,000 |
| Takashi Ogura | 1,975,000 | 1,669,000 |
| Alexander Gross | 1,961,000 | -639,000 |
| Jaime Kaplan | 1,954,000 | 4,000 |
| Alex Livingston | 1,941,000 | -409,000 |
| Ming Xi | 1,933,000 | 1,083,000 |
| John Cynn | 1,931,000 | 1,222,000 |
| Chris Da-Silva | 1,930,000 | -1,175,000 |
| Phillip Mighall | 1,918,000 | 1,538,000 |
| Alexander Wong | 1,916,000 | 76,000 |
| Ricardo Souza | 1,908,000 | 808,000 |
| Kerry Bell | 1,900,043 | 1,544,043 |
| Chino Rheem | 1,900,000 | 225,000 |
| Sean Marshall | 1,873,000 | 1,447,000 |
| Bas De Laat | 1,866,000 | 386,000 |
| Nicholas Cushman | 1,857,000 | 974,000 |
| Laurynas Levinskas | 1,855,000 | 1,293,000 |
| Vi Do | 1,842,000 | 322,000 |
| Adam Rude | 1,836,000 | 176,000 |
| Sylvain Loosli | 1,803,000 | 743,000 |
| Nghia Le (FL) | 1,800,870 | 1,800,870 |
| David Miscikowski | 1,780,000 | 214,000 |
| Michael Dyer | 1,767,000 | 1,074,000 |
| Jeff Trudeau | 1,745,000 | -1,575,000 |
| William Kopp | 1,735,000 | 720,000 |
| Mark Stockton | 1,723,000 | 1,264,000 |
| Matthew Stein | 1,713,000 | 1,138,000 |
| Brandon Abbaspour | 1,703,000 | 1,378,000 |
| Tristan Bain | 1,697,000 | 0 |
| James Romano | 1,683,000 | -117,000 |
| Aleksandr Shevelev | 1,664,000 | 1,115,000 |
| Tobias Ziegler | 1,654,000 | 104,000 |
| Richard Robinson | 1,639,000 | 1,123,000 |
| Gregory Defeo | 1,635,000 | -805,000 |
| Alexander Lynskey | 1,635,000 | -105,000 |
| Santiago Soriano | 1,634,000 | 424,000 |
| Victor Pedote Dos Santos | 1,626,000 | 1,416,000 |
| Steven Adams | 1,620,000 | 917,000 |
| Hyon Kim | 1,610,000 | 1,484,000 |
| Jason Maeroff | 1,600,000 | -560,000 |
| Xi Yang | 1,595,000 | 345,000 |
| Thomas Lutz | 1,581,000 | 866,000 |
| Jorden Fox | 1,569,000 | 0 |
| Randall Lack | 1,563,000 | 1,113,000 |
| Tyler Witteman | 1,548,000 | 1,232,000 |
| Jake Toole | 1,544,000 | 416,000 |
| Timothee Scotti | 1,537,000 | 704,000 |
| Ben Jackson | 1,536,000 | 1,474,000 |
| Artem Metalidi | 1,518,000 | 1,452,000 |
| Martial Blangenwitsch | 1,513,000 | -37,000 |
| Peter Nguyen | 1,505,500 | 610,500 |
| Jack Duong | 1,502,000 | 152,000 |
| Eric Sfez | 1,438,000 | 738,000 |
| John Botticello | 1,437,000 | 1,328,000 |
| Samuel Bernabeu | 1,415,000 | 320,000 |
| Jared Palmer | 1,400,000 | 590,000 |
| Kwong Ip [Jared Kwong] | 1,380,000 | 1,380,000 |
| Brian Green | 1,375,000 | 240,000 |
| Henrik Hecklen | 1,370,000 | -472,000 |
| Tobias Peters | 1,369,000 | -27,000 |
| Chou Chou | 1,368,000 | 538,000 |
| Antoine Labat | 1,359,000 | 1,174,000 |
| Ben Yu | 1,350,000 | 370,000 |
| Eric Froehlich | 1,344,000 | 44,000 |
| Samuel Touil | 1,318,000 | -736,000 |
| Robert Goldbaum | 1,313,000 | 1,011,000 |
| Ricky Pyne (FL) | 1,300,000 | 0 |
| Ivan Demidov | 1,290,000 | 829,000 |
| Timothy McDermott | 1,285,000 | -15,000 |
| Barry Faecher | 1,280,000 | 945,000 |
| Stefan Huber | 1,269,000 | 509,000 |
| Antonio Esfandiari | 1,260,000 | -390,000 |
| Bradley Rhodes | 1,254,000 | 4,000 |
| Thomas Macdonald | 1,251,000 | -239,000 |
| Hector Dominguez-Depaz | 1,233,000 | 1,233,000 |
| Danny Qutami [Ayman Qutami] | 1,229,000 | 1,229,000 |
| Paulo Goncalves | 1,209,000 | 655,000 |
| Daniel Engels | 1,198,000 | -962,000 |
| Shigeho Yoshioka | 1,192,000 | 72,000 |
| Artur Koren | 1,182,000 | 383,000 |
| Martin Zamani | 1,182,000 | 76,000 |
| Eric Liebeler | 1,178,000 | 401,000 |
| Nishant Sharma | 1,172,000 | 488,000 |
| Andreas Kniep | 1,171,000 | 271,000 |
| Michael Lavenburg | 1,158,000 | -142,000 |
| Karen Sarkisyan | 1,157,000 | -493,000 |
| Umang Dattani | 1,148,000 | -202,000 |
| Noe Cantu | 1,130,000 | -400,000 |
| Brent Ballentine | 1,120,000 | 992,000 |
| Yueqi Zhu | 1,117,000 | -43,000 |
| Evan Sandberg | 1,106,000 | 132,000 |
| Andrew Hinrichsen | 1,100,000 | 709,000 |
| Kartik Ved | 1,096,000 | 951,100 |
| Alexandro Tricarico | 1,077,000 | -123,000 |
| Jan Mach | 1,076,000 | -24,000 |
| Vivek Rughani | 1,076,000 | 979,000 |
| Jeff Hobrecker | 1,075,000 | 1,075,000 |
| Paul Volpe | 1,070,000 | -330,000 |
| Justin Harvell | 1,066,000 | -314,000 |
| Peter Cross | 1,053,000 | 691,000 |
| Nicolas Manion | 1,051,000 | 1,051,000 |
| David Chen | 1,049,000 | 729,000 |
| Bruno Politano | 1,048,000 | 348,000 |
| Chad Ryan | 1,039,000 | 963,000 |
| Sharukh Shaw | 1,024,000 | 841,000 |
| William Simpson | 1,021,000 | 545,000 |
| Volodymyr Drokin | 1,016,000 | 531,000 |
| Michael Reardon | 1,014,000 | 952,000 |
| Daniel Ospina | 1,000,000 | -140,000 |
| Mason Barrell | 999,000 | 284,000 |
| Paulino Uemura | 997,000 | 242,000 |
| Jake Schwartz | 987,000 | -198,000 |
| Ludovic Geilich | 985,000 | -385,000 |
| Jurgen Wenigwieser | 984,000 | 100,000 |
| Jonathan Greenbaum | 982,000 | -158,000 |
| Ralph Massey | 976,000 | -4,000 |
| Rifat Palevic | 975,000 | 597,000 |
| Loc Nguyen (TX) | 974,000 | 274,000 |
| Cory Williams | 974,000 | 0 |
| Nick DiVella | 972,000 | -253,000 |
| Jeremy Ansher | 965,000 | 616,000 |
| Taha Maruf | 939,000 | 832,000 |
| Bart Lybaert | 935,000 | 210,000 |
| Tomas Novotny | 934,000 | -86,000 |
| Farukh Tach | 929,000 | 129,000 |
| Jonathan Plens | 923,000 | 273,000 |
| Daniel Alaei | 916,000 | -19,000 |
| Brendon O'Neal | 914,000 | 519,000 |
| Chris Moorman | 907,000 | -41,000 |
| Jacob Kipfer | 905,000 | 905,000 |
| Pablo Fernandez Campo | 905,000 | 155,000 |
| Carter Swidler | 902,000 | -79,000 |
| Rocco Palumbo | 889,000 | 339,000 |
| Rodeen Talebi | 878,000 | 475,000 |
| Jamie Flynn | 865,000 | -85,000 |
| Mario Mosbock | 861,000 | 1,000 |
| Randy Lowery | 861,000 | 698,000 |
| Anthony Marsico | 857,000 | 0 |
| Ema Zajmovic | 851,000 | -69,000 |
| Ryan Phan | 850,000 | 395,000 |
| Philip Chun | 845,000 | 335,000 |
| Matthew Klapstein | 839,000 | 189,000 |
| Axel Hallay | 832,000 | -36,000 |
| Christopher Fitzgerald | 823,000 | 522,000 |
| Andrea Buonocore | 816,000 | 649,000 |
| Mike Cordell | 812,000 | 812,000 |
| Bryce McVay | 803,000 | 343,000 |
| Scott Wilson | 803,000 | 675,000 |
| Julius Colman | 802,000 | 2,000 |
| Vicent Bosca Ramon | 800,000 | 105,000 |
| Cole Miller | 795,000 | -127,000 |
| Richard Gryko | 793,000 | -257,000 |
| Crystal Utley | 789,000 | 6,000 |
| Steven Federspiel | 786,000 | 645,000 |
| Jordan Cristos | 782,000 | 82,000 |
| Kyle Julius | 775,000 | 85,000 |
| Ivan Luca | 774,000 | -76,000 |
| Carlos Gonzalez | 774,000 | 365,000 |
| Jimmy Fedorkevich | 765,100 | 182,100 |
| Joey Fabre [Robert Fabre] | 762,000 | 762,000 |
| Stephan Sieber | 753,000 | 619,000 |
| Cory Albertson | 748,000 | -502,000 |
| Kilian Loeffler | 745,000 | 683,000 |
| Richard Lee | 744,000 | 238,000 |
| Matas Cikinas | 731,000 | 92,000 |
| Michael Schneider | 731,000 | 109,000 |
| Aymon Hata | 723,000 | 533,000 |
| Seth Foster | 712,000 | 166,000 |
| Ofir Mor | 711,000 | -589,000 |
| Ted Lawson | 710,000 | -60,000 |
| Erwin Fonacier | 704,000 | -296,000 |
| Eric Kepper | 698,000 | 625,000 |
| Robert Gussoni | 693,000 | -107,000 |
| Brett Silverman | 687,000 | 502,000 |
| Mike Brady | 686,000 | -54,000 |
| Joseph Melancon | 683,000 | 203,000 |
| Joep Raemaekers | 678,000 | 152,000 |
| Kao Saechao | 672,000 | 217,000 |
| Mohamed Mokrani | 662,000 | 602,000 |
| Scott Franklin | 662,000 | 501,000 |
| Takashi Matsushita | 642,000 | 350,000 |
| Andrew Rose | 627,000 | 232,000 |
| Pierre Gentil | 623,000 | 278,000 |
| Jason Gooch | 620,000 | -80,000 |
| Robert Brown | 618,000 | 559,000 |
| Rhys Jones | 616,000 | 236,000 |
| Paul Balzano | 602,000 | 372,000 |
| Yang Zhang | 601,000 | 121,000 |
| Sunil Verma | 600,200 | -49,800 |
| Dustin Nelson | 592,000 | -48,000 |
| Jans Arends | 589,000 | -291,000 |
| Bradley Myers | 588,000 | 44,000 |
| Federico Quevedo | 580,000 | 326,000 |
| Ahmed Amin | 572,000 | 62,000 |
| Joshua Jackson | 570,000 | -302,000 |
| Arsenii Karmatckii | 566,000 | 226,000 |
| Gregory Perry | 562,000 | 60,000 |
| Joe Cada | 559,000 | 314,000 |
| Oliver Weis | 556,000 | 36,000 |
| Anthony Desai | 554,000 | 228,000 |
| Matthew Reimers | 553,000 | -29,000 |
| Gavin Cochrane | 550,000 | -280,000 |
| Christopher Ahrens | 547,000 | 330,000 |
| Drazen Ilich | 543,000 | -189,000 |
| Brad Albrinck | 542,000 | -508,000 |
| Brayden Gazlay | 541,000 | 185,000 |
| Adam Geyer | 538,000 | 58,000 |
| Howard Mash | 529,000 | 54,000 |
| Matt Sabia | 524,000 | 184,000 |
| Kenneth Watson | 523,000 | 200,000 |
| Erwin Dewald | 501,000 | 330,000 |
| Juan Pardo | 500,000 | 500,000 |
| Anatoly Filatov | 500,000 | -130,000 |
| Natalie Teh | 481,000 | -424,000 |
| Adam Levy | 479,000 | -141,000 |
| Richard Ali | 478,000 | 219,000 |
| Jake Schindler | 476,000 | 24,000 |
| Roland Israelashvili | 475,000 | 115,000 |
| Nicholas Treppiedi | 474,000 | 31,000 |
| Michael Bailey | 469,000 | 130,000 |
| Billy Pilossoph | 468,000 | -22,000 |
| Simon Thwaites | 452,000 | 123,000 |
| Tommy Townsend | 444,000 | -386,000 |
| Victor Chu | 444,000 | -146,000 |
| Craig Trost | 436,000 | -334,000 |
| Michael Haddad | 421,000 | -529,000 |
| Beau Wilshire | 419,000 | 41,000 |
| William Hickey | 419,000 | -721,000 |
| John Bolton | 392,000 | 210,000 |
| Ashley Locker | 389,000 | 109,000 |
| Eric Coffman | 389,000 | 218,000 |
| Robert Welch | 387,000 | 334,000 |
| Ognjen Sekularac | 362,000 | -328,000 |
| Tom Cannuli | 356,000 | -40,000 |
| Matt Mercurio | 350,000 | 10,000 |
| Scott Davies | 347,000 | 97,000 |
| Justin Nguyen | 345,000 | 234,000 |
| Chris Bjorin | 344,000 | -216,000 |
| Kunal Patel | 342,000 | 112,000 |
| Chi Chan | 340,000 | -266,000 |
| Yashuo Chin | 339,000 | 59,000 |
| Zakarya Wolgamott | 334,000 | -106,000 |
| Jeffrey Benhart | 331,000 | 0 |
| Jack Kashishian | 325,000 | 250,000 |
| Frederik Jensen | 324,000 | -156,000 |
| Dong Kim | 315,000 | -95,000 |
| Johan De Graaff | 313,000 | 32,000 |
| Chris Brand | 307,000 | -136,000 |
| Joe Kuether | 297,000 | -53,000 |
| Govert Metaal | 287,000 | -353,000 |
| Mina Greco | 282,000 | -278,000 |
| Barbara Enright | 275,000 | 5,000 |
| Mike Jukich | 272,000 | -478,000 |
| Brian Saltus | 247,000 | -293,000 |
| Sparrow Cheung | 222,000 | -132,000 |
| Sung Yi | 221,000 | -85,000 |
| Ignacio Lopez De Maturana | 185,000 | -100,000 |
| Nicholas Petitti | 47,300 | -156,700 |
| Loc Nguyen (AL) | 1 | -1,129,999 |
Monday, July 9, 2018 12:49 AM Local Time
Lee Doubles Through Tach
After a series of raises, Stanley Lee was all in from the button for about 1,400,000 with against Farukh Tach in middle position with .
The board came down , safe for Lee to double up.
| Stanley Lee | 2,850,000 | 1,475,000 |
| Farukh Tach | 800,000 | -900,000 |
Monday, July 9, 2018 12:33 AM Local Time
Four More Hands
Four more hands will be dealt at each table before the players bag and tag for the night.
Monday, July 9, 2018 12:32 AM Local Time
Hutter Takes From Perry
Following the river of a board with about 215,000 in the middle, Barry Hutter checked from the small blind. Ralph Perry bet 200,000 from the hijack and Hutter mulled it over for a bit before he called.
Perry mucked and Hutter collected the pot without showing.
| Barry Hutter | 4,850,000 | 670,000 |
| Ralph Perry | 770,000 | -700,000 |
Monday, July 9, 2018 12:29 AM Local Time
Zobian Swears He Had Nines
A player raised under the gun to 55,000 before Aram Zobian three-bet to 160,000 on the button. The player dropped into the tank as the bet was for a large portion of his remaining stack.
"What do you have?" Zobian asked. "Like ace-jack?"
The player said nothing but continued thinking. He did call after some thought.
The flop came down and the player under the gun checked. Zobian moved all in and the player doubled checked his hand and quickly folded.
"Did you have ace-jack?" the player asked.
"I had nines," Zobian said.
"No way," Jak Schwartz said. "Show it."
"I don't want to show it because the blogger is right here, but I swear I had two nines," Zobian said. "Nine of clubs, nine of diamonds."
Regardless, Zobian scooped the pot and moved over two million chips.
| Aram Zobian | 2,070,000 | 220,000 |
Monday, July 9, 2018 12:25 AM Local Time
One for Duong
With roughly 120,000 in the pot, Jack Duong checked on a flop of and his one opponent checked it back.
The turn was the and this time Duong led out with a bet of 50,000. His opponent called.
The river was the and Duong led out again, betting 75,000. His opponent tanked for almost a minute but ultimately decided to fold so Duong scooped the pot.
| Jack Duong | 1,350,000 | -120,000 |
Monday, July 9, 2018 12:23 AM Local Time
Altman Just Keeps Rising
A player in middle position opened for 50,000 and Brian Altman called from the big blind after the player on the button came along. Action checked to the button on the flop and the player there bet 100,000. Altman called. Both checked the and the completed the board. Altman bet 215,000 and won the pot in short order.
| Brian Altman | 4,750,000 | 420,000 |
Monday, July 9, 2018 12:21 AM Local Time
Levy Shoves on Kniep
With on the board, Andreas Kniep checked from under the gun and Adam Levy jammed for 350,000, a little over the size of the pot. Kniep thought a bit and folded, conceding the pot to "Roothlus."
| Andreas Kniep | 900,000 | -30,000 |
| Adam Levy | 620,000 | 90,000 |
Monday, July 9, 2018 12:19 AM Local Time
Rheem Pays Off Hecklen
The TV crews swarmed around the table with a big pot brewing between Chino Rheem and Henrik Hecklen. The board read and Rheem checked to Hecklen who tossed in a bet of 330,000.
Rheem was in the tank but still chatting up a storm. "One more second guys, I promise. I'm just really hoping he shows be ace-ten. That's all I can beat." Hecklen sat silently waiting for Rheem to make a decision.
After a few more seconds, Rheem banged his chips into the pot and Hecklen showed him the bad news. "Flush," he said as he turned over to scoop a healthy pot from Rheem.
| Henrik Hecklen | 1,842,000 | 242,000 |
| Chino Rheem | 1,675,000 | -571,000 |
Monday, July 9, 2018 12:15 AM Local Time
Zajmovic Finds Aces and a Chop
Ema Zajmovic opened to 45,000 from middle position and found a call from the player on the button, along with Kyle Julius in the small blind.
With the action on the big blind, he cut out a three-bet to 205,000, and when it was back on Zajmovic, she moved all in for roughly 850,000. The button, and Julius folded, and the big blind called.
Zajmovic:
Opponent:
The dealer spread a board, and Zajmovic and her opponent chopped it up.
| Ema Zajmovic | 920,000 | -1,000 |
Monday, July 9, 2018 12:13 AM Local Time
Volpe Check-Shoves the River
Paul Volpe and Daniel Alaei were heads up on the river on the board. Volpe checked and Alaei bet 200,000 into a main pot of over 300,000.
Volpe check-raised all in for 934,000 sending Alaei deep into the tank. Alaei stared across the table at Volpe and after nearly two minutes he released his hand and Volpe took the pot.
| Paul Volpe | 1,400,000 | -60,000 |
| Daniel Alaei | 935,000 | -815,000 |
Monday, July 9, 2018 12:13 AM Local Time
Jeckeln's Nine-Four Suited Doesn't Win
Andres Jeckeln raised to 40,000 from middle position, the player in the small blind reraised all in for 153,000 and Jeckeln called with , trailing his opponent's .
The board came down , giving Jeckeln's opponent eights full of jacks to double up.
| Andres Jeckeln | 4,500,000 | -200,000 |
Monday, July 9, 2018 12:13 AM Local Time
Green Picks off Haro's Bluff
Three players were in the hand when the dealer spread the flop of . The action checked to Alexander Haro on the button who bet 75,000. The small blind called and Brian Green called from the big blind.
The turn was the and all three players checked quickly. The river brought the and both of the blinds checked again. Haro took a shot at the pot with a bet of 150,000 and the small blind laid his hand down. Green, however, quickly called and Haro acknowledged a good call. Green tabled and raked in the pot.
| Alexander Haro | 4,080,000 | -370,000 |
| Brian Green | 1,135,000 | 585,000 |
Monday, July 9, 2018 12:07 AM Local Time
More Piles for Altman
Brian Altman looked to have put in a wager of 305,000 on a board from the hijack, only to have his opponent in the cutoff make it 805,000. Altman shoved all in for 1.8 million or so more and the player in the hijack picked up his cards, drew them to his body to give them a last look and then dumped them with a shake of the head.
| Brian Altman | 4,330,000 | 930,000 |
Monday, July 9, 2018 12:06 AM Local Time
Odonnell Takes a Big One and Shows Quads
Picking up the action with a huge pot already in the middle of the table nearing one million chips, Shaun Odonnell was facing off against one other player who was in the small blind. The board showed and the player who was first to act put out a bet of what looked like 345,000.
Odonnell dropped into the tank and thought for a bit, then asked to see the other players stack before moving all in with more chips. The other player promptly folded his hand.
"I mean I have quads and the guy is betting into me," Odonnel said after the hand showing his . He scooped the massive pot and moved over 2.5 million chips.
| Shaun O'Donnell | 2,650,000 | 2,062,000 |
Monday, July 9, 2018 12:01 AM Local Time
Gross Ousts Another
A player in the cutoff was all in for about 200,000 and at risk when we got to Alexander Gross' table, with Gross having called with . The cutoff had for a slight edge but that evaporated on the flop. The turn gave the at-risk player a gutter but the didn't do it.
| Alexander Gross | 2,600,000 | 330,000 |
Sunday, July 8, 2018 11:59 PM Local Time
Big Stacks in Amazon Purple
| Alexander Haro | 4,750,000 | 125,000 |
| Andres Jeckeln | 4,700,000 | -110,000 |
| Barry Hutter | 4,180,000 | 360,000 |
| Kelly Minkin | 3,360,000 | -22,000 |
| Peter Campo | 3,100,000 | 100,000 |
Sunday, July 8, 2018 11:57 PM Local Time
Updated Chip Counts from Amazon Orange
| Jeff Trudeau | 3,320,000 | 470,000 |
| Daniel Engels | 2,160,000 | 285,000 |
| Tony Miles | 1,960,000 | 70,000 |
| Shannon Shorr | 1,950,000 | -450,000 |
| Jack Duong | 1,470,000 | 520,000 |
| Nirath Rean | 1,200,000 | -600,000 |
| Yueqi Zhu | 1,160,000 | 260,000 |
| Ted Lawson | 770,000 | 560,000 |
| Craig Trost | 770,000 | 370,000 |
| Drazen Ilich | 732,000 | -32,000 |
Sunday, July 8, 2018 11:50 PM Local Time
Josephy Takes Another One
We caught up to the three handed action on the river on the board. Ivan Luca led out with a bet of 128,000 into a main pot of close to 300,000. Cliff Josephy called and Daniel Alaei called behind.
Luca instantly threw his hand face down into the muck and Josephy turned over for kings and eights. Alaei double checked his hole cards one last time before he mucked and Josephy took the pot.
| Cliff Josephy | 2,125,000 | 405,000 |
| Daniel Alaei | 1,750,000 | -100,000 |
| Ivan Luca | 850,000 | -290,000 |