Sunday, September 13, 2020 4:57 PM Local Time
Ramos Doubles Through Negreanu
Blinds: 1,400/2,800/280
After Daniel "DNegs" Negreanu raised to 5,600 from the button, Jose "Aiden13" Ramos three-bet shoved from his big blind and was called by Negreanu.
Daniel "DNegs" Negreanu:
Jose "Aiden13" Ramos:
Ramos was well ahead preflop, and the flop of only improved his hand to a near virtual lock. The turn and runout secured the double up for Ramos and he took a good chunk out of "Kid Poker."
Daniel "DNegs" Negreanu | 230,470 | -38,900 |
Jose "Aiden13" Ramos | 101,884 | -13,807 |
Sunday, September 13, 2020 4:54 PM Local Time
Level 14 Big Stacks
Matt "RubberFist" Stout | 300,853 | 235,483 |
Charlie "Badrabbit" Dawson | 282,846 | 222,846 |
Daniel "DNegs" Negreanu | 269,370 | 104,957 |
Josh "GN_150" Reichard | 248,059 | 198,961 |
Shankar "burgersssss" Pillai | 223,198 | 46,466 |
James "Meatsweats" Carroll | 217,737 | 167,887 |
Zachary "Ivanapouponu" Mullennix | 217,649 | 120,695 |
Richard "unclebets" Bai | 205,987 | 55,764 |
Brad "bd3303" Albrinck | 198,021 | 81,660 |
Sam "Bickdutt69" Cosby | 194,520 | 134,520 |
Sunday, September 13, 2020 4:49 PM Local Time
Andrew "Amoney1313" Lauer Says Goodbye
Andrew "Amoney1313" Lauer | 0 | 0 |
Sunday, September 13, 2020 4:45 PM Local Time
Pupillo, Hawkins, & Varnell Among Recent Slew of Eliminations
Marshall "MustFoist" White | 0 | -60,000 |
Aaron "UMakeMeLimp" Gamino | 0 | -60,000 |
Shane "HitMachine" Thorne | 0 | -60,000 |
John "JohnnyChi" Nowak | 0 | -60,000 |
Hamid "Hizadi1967" Izadi | 0 | -48,029 |
Andrew "Amoney1313" Lauer | 0 | -60,000 |
Rodney "Rodneys" Spriggs | 0 | -60,000 |
Bryant "bmill44" Miller | 0 | -60,000 |
Erik "IamAwful" Gorman | 0 | -60,000 |
Philip "tsziz" Shing | 0 | -60,000 |
Todd "BadCallBro" Mercer | 0 | -92,822 |
Justin "toaaster" Carey | 0 | -60,000 |
Matias "mondango" Scaffo | 0 | -60,000 |
Stephen "SteveSpuell" Buell | 0 | -54,153 |
Richard "raiserrick1" Troendly | 0 | -79,982 |
Bradley "Fishinson" Hinson | 0 | -65,055 |
Maurice "BUPPIE" Hawkins | 0 | -60,000 |
Alexander "Shadowfiend1" Condon | 0 | -60,000 |
David "TKMiles" Tuthill | 0 | -60,000 |
Nathanael "Proofs" Kogel | 0 | -43,595 |
Craig "Imgrinding" Varnell | 0 | -50,189 |
Steven "kingsteve15" Sanzaro | 0 | -60,000 |
Steven "Blackcat555" McCartney | 0 | -60,000 |
Nick "DuckFlush" Pupillo | 0 | -60,000 |
Ronnie "TseSays1" Tate | 0 | -60,000 |
Sunday, September 13, 2020 4:31 PM Local Time
Right Call, Wrong Flop
Blinds: 1,000/2,000/200
After preflop action folded to Nick "Nickvee07" Verderamo, who had both blinds easily covered, he shoved from the button. Dustin "TexasOil777" Schoonover called off from the small blind and the big blind folded.
Nick "Nickvee07" Verderamo:
Dustin "TexasOil777" Schoonover:
After the cards were revealed it looked like a sure double up for Schoonover until flop. The turn and river were no help and Schoonover was eliminated.
Nick "Nickvee07" Verderamo | 156,793 | 96,793 |
Dustin "TexasOil777" Schoonover | 0 | -60,000 |
Sunday, September 13, 2020 4:27 PM Local Time
2019/20 WSOP Circuit Leaderboard Top 50 Points Final Standings
Place | Name | Points | Rings | Cashes | Earnings |
1 | Brett Apter | 357.5 pts | 1 | 27 | $198,220 |
2 | Maurice Hawkins | 345 pts | 1 | 24 | $179,618 |
3 | John Gallaher | 340 pts | 2 | 17 | $212,935 |
4 | Andrew Kelsall | 332.5 pts | 2 | 30 | $214,326 |
5 | Hamid Izadi | 285 pts | 1 | 25 | $106,348 |
6 | Rodney Spriggs | 272.5 pts | 1 | 27 | $72,677 |
7 | Eric Salazar | 262.5 pts | 2 | 16 | $159,294 |
8 | Steve Foutty | 262.5 pts | 3 | 14 | $49,217 |
9 | Cory Bogert | 260 pts | 4 | 13 | $110,187 |
10 | Jasthi Kumar | 260 pts | 2 | 13 | $80,849 |
11 | Blake Whittington | 257.5 pts | 1 | 21 | $89,244 |
12 | Nicholas Pupillo | 245 pts | 1 | 11 | $157,032 |
13 | Michael Lech | 245 pts | 1 | 19 | $108,548 |
14 | David Prociak | 235 pts | 1 | 16 | $113,393 |
15 | Vincent Moscati | 232.5 pts | 0 | 16 | $198,835 |
16 | Brian Altman | 230 pts | 1 | 19 | $135,415 |
17 | Jorden Helstern | 230 pts | 1 | 13 | $116,266 |
18 | Robert Keeling | 230 pts | 2 | 15 | $73,861 |
19 | Quinterol Mallette | 225 pts | 0 | 23 | $70,156 |
20 | Melisa Singh | 225 pts | 2 | 15 | $64,849 |
21 | Jason Tang | 225 pts | 1 | 18 | $33,932 |
22 | Brett Reichard | 222.5 pts | 2 | 7 | $69,242 |
23 | Tyler Phillips | 220 pts | 1 | 17 | $210,709 |
24 | Benjamin Thomas | 220 pts | 0 | 14 | $105,855 |
25 | Sam Cosby | 217.5 pts | 2 | 13 | $114,145 |
26 | Christopher Underwood | 217.5 pts | 0 | 22 | $44,803 |
27 | Nicholas Verderamo | 215 pts | 3 | 7 | $91,151 |
28 | Carlos Loving | 210 pts | 1 | 21 | $133,579 |
29 | Arkadiy Tsinis | 207.5 pts | 1 | 27 | $86,674 |
30 | Steven Sanzaro | 207.5 pts | 0 | 22 | $28,974 |
31 | Michael Moncek | 205 pts | 2 | 12 | $67,904 |
32 | Marshall White | 202.5 pts | 0 | 16 | $123,402 |
33 | Anthony Bogard | 200 pts | 0 | 23 | $43,003 |
34 | Brad Albrinck | 197.5 pts | 0 | 12 | $132,447 |
35 | Eric Ethans | 197.5 pts | 1 | 14 | $52,689 |
36 | Alan Percal | 195 pts | 1 | 16 | $69,351 |
37 | Mack Ham | 195 pts | 0 | 15 | $54,773 |
38 | Mike Shin | 192.5 pts | 0 | 15 | $51,593 |
39 | Jed Hoffman | 190 pts | 1 | 19 | $47,630 |
40 | Stephen Buell | 187.5 pts | 1 | 14 | $62,705 |
41 | John Nowak | 187.5 pts | 0 | 31 | $52,375 |
42 | James Pupillo | 185 pts | 0 | 13 | $123,609 |
43 | Patrick Lacey | 185 pts | 1 | 8 | $72,426 |
44 | Roland Israelashvili | 185 pts | 0 | 33 | $39,232 |
45 | Michael Rossitto | 182.5 pts | 0 | 15 | $122,258 |
46 | Daniel Lowery | 182.5 pts | 0 | 17 | $46,935 |
47 | Matthew Koch | 182.5 pts | 2 | 10 | $41,098 |
48 | Bryan Piccioli | 180 pts | 1 | 9 | $132,303 |
49 | Scott Stewart | 180 pts | 0 | 10 | $103,854 |
50 | Carlos Guerrero | 180 pts | 0 | 20 | $55,900 |
Sunday, September 13, 2020 4:14 PM Local Time
McDaniel Down, Varnell Up
Blinds: 1,000/2,000/200
First to act, Brian "HOOKERSnPLO" McDaniel moved all in. Craig "Imgrinding" Varnell then moved all in behind and the remaining players folded.
Craig "imgrinding" Varnell:
Brian 'HOOKERSnPLO" McDaniel:
Unfortunately, McDaniel got it in trailing Varnell and the runout didn't improve his hand,
Craig "Imgrinding" Varnell | 50,189 | -9,811 |
Brian "HOOKERSnPLO" McDaniel | 0 | -60,000 |
Sunday, September 13, 2020 4:03 PM Local Time
Say Goodbye to...
Melisa "MellieScoops" Singh | 0 | -60,000 |
Mark "Nostradonkus" Liedtke | 0 | -49,166 |
Anthony "TeXaSRoKsTaR" Bogard | 0 | -60,000 |
Ian "Apokerjoker2" Steinman | 0 | -26,493 |
Ravi "sharkdue" Raghavan | 0 | -60,000 |
Patrick "Deezer" Lacey | 0 | -60,000 |
James "ReadyMadeMan" Duke | 0 | -60,000 |
Quinterol "MightyQuin" Mallette | 0 | -60,000 |
Christopher "Crushnu" Underwood | 0 | -60,000 |
Matthew "MattKoch1000" Koch | 0 | -60,000 |
Jed "jchak" Hoffman | 0 | -60,000 |
James "PRPirate420" Vales | 0 | -60,000 |
Kyle "Iwant2win" Marlborough | 0 | -75,701 |
Alan "MossadShark" Sternberg | 0 | -110,878 |
Jasthi "vkjasthi" Kumar | 0 | -74,775 |
Michael "BeeseChurger" Pearson | 0 | -77,997 |
Sunday, September 13, 2020 4:00 PM Local Time
Aces Anyone?
Blinds: 800/1600/160
After an initial early position raise from Richard "unclebets" Bai, and then a three-bet from Brad "bd3303" Albrink, a preflop raising war resulted in both players being all in with Albrinck at risk.
It was a pretty low risk once the cards were revealed and the board ran out .
Richard "unclebets" Bai:
Brad "bd3303" Albrinck:
Chop it up!
Richard "unclebets" Bai | 150,223 | -9,965 |
Brad "bd3303" Albrinck | 116,361 | 56,361 |
Sunday, September 13, 2020 3:54 PM Local Time
Player Profile: Bryan "PellePelle" Piccioli
Bryan Piccioli
Method of Qualification: At-Large Points (48th)
Piccioli barely squeaked into the top 50 points earners this season, and given a record that includes $4.5 million in tournament cashes and former world No. 1 status online, that won't be welcome news to the other qualifiers.
"Pellepelle" has done most of his damage in the higher buy-in events on the Circuit this year, cashing in five Main Events from November through February. Two were final-table finishes, with ninth place in Thunder Valley followed by a runner-up finish in Horseshoe Tunica a week later, worth $89K.
When it was time to put away the live reads and dust off the mouse for online play, Piccioli pocketed his first Circuit ring in Event #1: $200 No-Limit Hold'em Knockout during the February festival.
Piccioli also has a bracelet from a large-field event at WSOP Asia-Pacific back in 2013.
However, when it comes to WSOP success, he's undoubtedly best known for two Main Event runs. In 2017, Piccioli made the final table of the WSOP Main Event. There, he had a tough go of it on Day 9 and wound up with a sixth-place finish worth $1,675,000.
More recently, under the moniker "smbdySUCKme," he took a chip lead into the final day of the record-breaking GGPoker Main Event. With just 37 opponents left out of a field of 5,802, Piccioli had to stomach a 23rd-place finish as his solid stack melted away in rough back-to-back hands — first losing top two pair to a runner flush then having a standard button shove run into a bigger hand.
Jaunt to Mexico over, it's time for Piccioli to get back to work stateside, and his penchant for getting his best results in the biggest events seems tailor-made for the GCC.
Sunday, September 13, 2020 3:42 PM Local Time
Reichard Takes Out Moncek
Blinds: 600/1200/100
After action folded to Michael "Hookem87" Moncek on the button and he shoved his last 15,896, which was called by Josh "GN_150" Reichard in the big blind.
Michael "Hookem87" Moncek:
Josh "GN_150" Reichard:
The board ran out , which ended Moncek's tournament and gave Reichard, who had recently doubled up, even more chips.
Josh "GN_150" Reichard | 49,098 | 27,702 |
Michael "Hookem87" Moncek | 0 | -60,000 |
Sunday, September 13, 2020 3:32 PM Local Time
Level 10 Big Stacks
Brett "Metanemesis" Apter | 185,641 | 13,045 |
Shankar "burgersssss" Pillai | 176,732 | 8,263 |
Daniel "DNegs" Negreanu | 164,413 | 42,775 |
Richard "unclebets" Bai | 160,188 | -7,150 |
Brian "JackBogle" Altman | 149,454 | 71,415 |
Isaac "venom22" Kempton | 144,560 | 84,560 |
Shawn "Saygoodnight" Daniels | 144,369 | 32,120 |
Kenneth "kdonarski" Donarski | 143,565 | 98,305 |
Brett "Riverpig" Reichard | 143,512 | 100,521 |
David "TheClubber" Larson | 141,785 | -19,285 |
Sunday, September 13, 2020 3:30 PM Local Time
Two All-ins, One Double-up
Blinds: 500/100/100
This level saw the following two hands where short-stacked players survived to play another hand.
In the first, Ian "APokerJoker2" Steinman raised to 6,250, Shankar "burgersssss" Pillai shoved all in, and Steinman called off. After both hands were revealed it was obvious a chopped pot was coming unless one of the players made a flush, which didn't happen on the runout.
Ian "APokerJoke2" Steinman:
Shankar "burgersssss" Pillai:
In the second hand, Josh "GN_150" Reichard shoved his last 10,598 from under the gun, and when action folded around to fellow Wisconsinite Richard "unclebets" Bai in the big blind, he made the call.
Josh "GN_150" Reichard:
Richard "unclebets" Bai:
Reichard would need a favorable runout to stay alive, which he got after it came down .
Shankar "burgersssss" Pillai | 168,469 | 60,059 |
Richard "unclebets" Bai | 167,338 | 61,984 |
Ian "Apokerjoker2" Steinman | 26,493 | -33,507 |
Josh "GN_150" Reichard | 21,396 | -38,604 |
Sunday, September 13, 2020 3:20 PM Local Time
Recent Eliminations
Billy "EastSideBull" Cashwell | 0 | -60,000 |
Scott "Scottytempe" Cunningham | 0 | -60,000 |
Carlos "chriloboys" Guerrero | 0 | -60,000 |
Jaime "uosdwiSj3woH" Haletky | 0 | -60,000 |
Daniel "PeterPender1" Lowery | 0 | -60,000 |
BJ "MookieBetts" McBrayer | 0 | -60,000 |
Benjamin "Caniacs" Thomas | 0 | -60,000 |
Jeff "EL_JEFFE" Trudeau Jr. | 0 | -60,000 |
Arian "4632647" Stolt | 0 | -60,000 |
Robert "robbybobby" Keeling | 0 | -53,950 |
Cory "Xazel303" Bogert | 0 | -60,000 |
Sunday, September 13, 2020 3:18 PM Local Time
A Round of Level 9 Chip Counts
Daniel "DNegs" Negreanu | 121,638 | 24,920 |
Shawn "Saygoodnight" Daniels | 112,249 | 52,249 |
Alan "MossadShark" Sternberg | 110,878 | 50,878 |
Adam "nonce" Owen | 105,995 | 45,995 |
Zachary "Ivanapouponu" Mullennix | 96,954 | 36,954 |
Anthony "Heheh" Zinno | 91,824 | 18,816 |
Mike "mouth123" Matusow | 89,632 | 29,632 |
Michael "annie_r_u_ok" Trivett | 86,293 | 26,293 |
Jason "VooDooDuDu" Tang | 85,879 | 25,879 |
Andrew "RandyLerch" Kelsall | 82,825 | 22,825 |
Darren "AvocadoToast" Rabinowitz | 82,217 | 22,217 |
Kyle "Iwant2win" Marlborough | 75,701 | -49,922 |
Hollis "OSTATEDCHI" Holcomb | 75,596 | 15,596 |
Mike "mkspresident" Shin | 74,621 | 14,621 |
Matt "RubberFist" Stout | 65,370 | -3,330 |
Jerod "Whiskeydeck" Smith | 60,032 | 32 |
James "Meatsweats" Carroll | 49,850 | -10,150 |
Hamid "Hizadi1967" Izadi | 48,029 | -11,971 |
Bryan "PellePelle" Piccioli | 37,294 | -33,995 |
Sunday, September 13, 2020 3:08 PM Local Time
National/Global Casino Championship History: Battle on the Boardwalk
In 2014, the National Championship moved once again to Bally's Casino Atlantic City and the final table was held outdoors on the famed Boardwalk.
For the first time ever, a player who paid $10,000 to enter the tournament came out on top as German pro Dominik Nitsche beat a 126-player field to win a $352,800 first-place prize and what was his second gold bracelet.
Place | Player | Country | Prize |
1 | Dominik Nitsche | Germany | $352,800 |
2 | Athanasios Polychronopoulos | USA | $218,056 |
3 | Matthew Ashton | UK | $157,399 |
4 | Christopher Bibb | USA | $115,655 |
5 | Tracy Doss | USA | $86,461 |
6 | Andrew Robinson | USA | $65,734 |
7 | Ylon Schwartz | USA | $50,816 |
8 | Jeffrey Gunnip | USA | $39,917 |
9 | Sean Lippel | USA | $31,865 |
Sunday, September 13, 2020 2:53 PM Local Time
Robinson Bets It All
Blinds: 800/400/80
After an early-position limp, Matt "RubberFist" Stout raised to 1,800 from the cutoff, only to be three-bet to 6,400 from Andrew "Watsonburger" Robinson on the button.
Stout then responded with a four-bet to 17,400, which was met with a five-bet shove for 85,574 from Robinson. That was enough to get Stout to fold.
Andrew "WatsonBurger" Robinson | 103,814 | 43,814 |
Matt "RubberFist" Stout | 68,700 | 8,700 |
Sunday, September 13, 2020 2:43 PM Local Time
Player Profile: Ian "Apokerjoker2" Steinman
Ian Steinman
Method of Qualification: WSOP.com Circuit Series Finale Casino Champion
If killing it on WSOP.com of late is a predictor for GCC success, there's probably no better player to look out for than Ian "ApokerJoker2" Steinman.
In early June, Steinman topped the WSOP.com Circuit Series Finale points leaderboard to punch his GCC ticket. The four-time ring winner had two final-table finishes and four other cashes for about $18K total to run his Circuit earnings to close to $200,000 lifetime.
He did even better a month later when the bracelet events began. In 31 events, he piled up a marvelous 15 cashes. And they weren't a bunch of min-cashes, either. In addition to two early top-six finishes that earned him $55K, Steinman snagged his first bracelet and $110K in Event #27: $400 No Limit Hold'em Freezeout. That magnificent performance earned him PokerNews' Performance of the Week honors and, more importantly, $18,000 for topping the series leaderboard.
So, he's essentially been the player of the series for back-to-back festivals on WSOP.com, in events that were loaded with regs who had nothing else to play. Safe to say a beastly run like that is far from a joke and marks Steinman as one to watch come Sunday.
Sunday, September 13, 2020 2:35 PM Local Time
WSOP 50th Anniversary Series Results Thus Far...
The WSOP 50th Anniversary Series on WSOP.com started on September 8 and runs through September 27 with over $3 million in guarantees and features a $505,050 guaranteed Main Event.
Check out the full schedule below. Included in this series is a daily $15,000 WSOP 50th Warm-Up Turbo Deepstack at 2 pm.
Click here for more details.
Date | Event | Buy-In | Players | Rebuys | Add-Ons | Prize Pool | Winner | Prize |
9/820 | Event #1: $50,000 Totally Tubular Tuesday NLH [R&A] | $50 | 431 | 808 | 210 | $65,929.50 | Alex "JinYang" Butcher | $16,152.72 |
9/8/20 | Event #2: $125,000 NLH High Roller | $1,000 | 85 | 45 | | $125,000 | "megolaman1ac" | $27,875 |
9/8/20 | Event #3: $15,000 Limit Hold'em | $215 | 61 | 15 | | $15,200 | Chad "clayne" Layne | $3,693.60 |
9/9/20 | Event #4: $30,000 NLH 30 for 30 | $30 | 389 | 660 | 242 | $35,244.30 | Yong Keun "LuckySpeWy1" Kwon | $8,811.07 |
9/9/20 | Event #5: $20,000 NLH Freezeout | $50 | 470 | | | $21,620 | erikbachman | $5,296.90 |
9/10/20 | Event #7: $30,000 NLH Groovy Freezeout | $100 | 380 | | | $34,960 | Tyler "TIPnTimeBOMB" Sumrall | $8,740 |
9/11/20 | Event #8: $20,000 NLH Deepstack [R&A] | $20 | 485 | 688 | 330 | $27,805.50 | jmzit2u | $6,812.34 |
9/11/20 | Event #9: $50,000 NLH Anniversary Special | $250 | 161 | 102 | | $61,279 | Ben "chaipoker" Abrahams | $12,488.66 |
9/12/20 | Event #10: $25,000 NLH Monster Stack | $50 | 347 | 358 | 229 | $42,497 | Ryan "WHOSYOURDODD" Dodd | $7,266.98 |
9/12/20 | Event #11: $50,000 NLH Old School 8-Max | $500 | 114 | | | $53,238 | deposit | $11,526.02 |
9/12/20 | Event #12: $40,000 NLH | $100 | 321 | 210 | | $48,852 | AvidSmores | $8,354 |
Sunday, September 13, 2020 2:19 PM Local Time
A Couple More Bow Out
Kami "Loco4coco" Hudson | 0 | -60,000 |
James "nattychamp23" Pupillo | 0 | -60,000 |