Event #46: No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack

Action was on the turn with the board reading     . Hlib Kovtunov bet 240,000 before Scott Fitzhugh moved all in, Kovtunov made the call.

Fitzhugh was at risk holding    for pair and nut flush draw vs the flopped top set of Kovtunov who had   .

Fitzhugh was looking for a club which would come in the form of the  , however this gave Kovtunov a full house and Fitzhugh was eliminated.

Hlib Kovtunov	1,300,000	440,000
Scott Fitzhugh	0	-405,000

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Action was on the flop that read    . Wadih Kaawar was facing a big shove from Gregory Giannokostas and was deep into the tank. The players had similar stacks and Kaawartook his time to think it out.

Eventually he called and tabled the    while Giannokostas had   .

The turn was the   and the river came the   to give Kaawar the big time pot.

Wadih Kaawar	2,430,000	1,170,000
Gregory Giannokostas	0	0

Kaylan Chivukula opened the betting when he moved all-in from early position. He was called by Brian Taylor from the small blind. The cards were turned face-up and Taylor was all-in and at risk and held    versus the    of Chivukula's.

The dealer flopped the     and that all but sealed the deal for Taylor with his flopped set of aces.

The turn   and river   changed nothing, and Taylor secured a full double up and then some.

Brian Taylor	580,000	280,000
Kalyan Chivukula	130,000	-255,000

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Day 2 of Event #46: $800 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack (8-Handed) at the Rio All-Suite Hotel gets underway today at 12 p.m. local time with 120 players left remaining out of an initial field of 2,053. The remaining players will all be aiming for the WSOP Bracelet and the grand prize of $214,830.

Of those remaining players, Alejandro Andión of Argentina is the one on top with a massive stack of 2,400,000 which is almost 700,000 more than any other player.

Event #46 Day 1 Top Ten Chip Counts

Joel Orum brings the second-most chips to the tables today with 1,705,000 and Tommaso Briotti is right on his heels in third with 1,675,000. Jonas Wexler with 1,630,000 and William Blais with 1,630,000 round out the top five stacks as the only five players who will begin the day with more than 50 big blinds.

Some notable players who are still alive on Day 2 include, Koray Aldemir (1,380,000) with over $12 million in live tournament cashes and many more online, two-time WSOP bracelet winners James More, and Eric Baldwin (720,000), all-time WSOPC ring leader Maurice Hawkins (375,000) as well as Christian Harder (635,000) and 2019 millionaire maker champion John Gorsuch (240,000).

Day 2 is scheduled to play down to a winner, with 30-minute levels. The action restarts with the blinds at 15,000/30,000/30,000. With many stacks already on the very short end and even the big stacks not having a ton of wiggle room, play should come fast and furious all day as players will be hitting the rail at breakneck speed.

Stacks will shrink and grow as PokerNews will shepherd you through it all with timely updates of chip counts and big hands throughout the day.

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