Event #71: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em (30 minute levels)

After twenty levels, play has ended in Event #71: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em (30-minute levels) and only 39 players out of the 452 entries in total have managed to find a bag to tag. All those entries created a total prize pool of $2,101,800 and the winner tomorrow will walk away with $485,082 for first place and the coveted gold WSOP bracelet.

Jonathan Abdellatif takes the overnight chip lead with 754,000 in chips. This is Abdellatif's 4th WSOP cash this summer, of which one was fourth place in Event #54: Big Blind Antes $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em. Trailing in second place is Markus Gonsalves with 722,000, who has also reached his fourth cash for this summer with a final table in Event #61: $1,000 WSOP.com ONLINE No-Limit Hold'em Championship.

Closing the podium for today is Chance Kornuth with 622,000. The two-time bracelet winner has been having a pretty good summer. This is his seventh cash this series, which includes his second bracelet win in Event #63: $3,200 WSOP.com ONLINE No-Limit Hold'em High Roller. Paul Hoefer (579,000), Liv Boeree (534,000), Steven Wolansky (498,000), Matt Glantz (473,000), Phil Hellmuth (468,000), and Antoine Saout (410,000) are just a few of the many super stars in the poker world that have made it through to Day 2.

Some of the players that weren't that lucky but did make the money include Cliff Josephy, Ben Dobson, Aleksandr Gofman, Sergio Aido, Lander Lijo, Greg Merson, Chris Ferguson, Tom Cannuli, Ian Steinman, David Yan, and Pascal Hartmann.

Some of the players that did enter today but weren't allowed to make a trip to the payout desk included defending champion Christopher Brammer, Pierre Neuville, Vojtech Ruzicka, Bryn Kenny, Mike Leah, Vlad Darie, Stefan Schillhabel, Joe McKeehen, Eric Blair, Scotty Nguyen, Frankie Flowers, Fedor Holz, Ben Yu, Ankush Mandavia, Chris Moorman, Maria Konnikova, Sam Cohen, Dan Shak, Damian Salas, Joseph Cheong, Shaun Deeb, Jesse Sylvia, Heidi May, Loni Harwood, Adrian Mateos, Jonathan Duhamel, Alex Foxen, Taylor Black, Scott Margereson, Justin Bonomo, and many many more.

Day 2 will restart at noon local time, Wednesday, July 11. Level 21 will feature a small blind of 6,000, big blind of 12,000 and a running ante of 2,000. The 39 remaining players will all be guaranteed at least $9,747 and the action is expected to be fast and furious again.

The PokerNews live reporting team will be on hand to bring you all the updates from the "Shuffle up and deal" until the final all-in has been won, so make sure to keep coming back!

Markus Gonsalves raised to 25,000 from early position and was only called by the player in the big blind.

The flop came     and Gonsalves called the 50,000 bet of his opponent.

The turn was the  , now Gonsalves called the 100,000 continuation-bet of his opponent.

The   on the river completed the board, Gonsalves' opponent now checked. Gonsalves himself tanked for a bit and then decided to shove. His opponent looked at his cards once more and then folded.

Markus Gonsalves

862,000

475,000

A short-stacked Sergio Aido was all in and at risk against Petar Kalev.

Sergio Aido:   
Petar Kalev:   

The board came down       and Kalev send the Spanish high roller to the rail.

Petar Kalev	240,000	68,000
Sergio Aido	0	-63,000

There was already a pot brewing when the board read     . Chance Kornuth was facing a 100,000 bet from the big blind and called it after some thought.

The river was the   and the big blind checked. Kornuth bet 118,000 and his opponent folded after long thought.

"Show it!" he begged and Kornuth obliged by revealing    for a straight.

Chance Kornuth

480,000

150,000

As expected, with the bubble gone players are busting at a rapid pace with just 30-minute levels. One of those players was David Yan, who got his short stack all in with    against the    of Gary Hasson.

No help for Yan during the       rundown and he finished in 65th place ($7,453)

Gary Hasson	35,000	-45,000
David Yan	0	0

Joseph Teanotoga shoved all in from the under-the-gun position for 19,000 and was called by Cliff Josephy in the cutoff and the player in the small blind. Action was now on Liv Boeree in the big blind who also shoved for around 350,000. Josephy tanked but folded in the end, so did the player in the small blind.

Joseph Teanotoga:   
Liv Boeree:   

The board ran out       to give Boeree the pair of eights on the flop to eliminate Teanotoga as the bubble-boy.

Liv Boeree	417,000	116,000
Joseph Teanotoga	0	0

The player in late position raised to 21,000 and Ralph Wong called in the big blind.

The flop came    , Wong check-called the 21,000 continuation-bet of his opponent.

The turn brought them the  , now Wong, check-called the 35,000 bet of his opponent.

The river completed the board with the  , Wong checked for the last time. His opponent now put him all in and Wong tanked. The rest of the players all came over to check what was happening as they were the last active table. Wong tanked a bit longer, counted out his stack and then called for the 119,000 he still had in front of him.

Ralph Wong:   
Late Position:   

Wong doubled up with the flopped set of queens.

Ralph Wong

404,000

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