Wednesday, October 27, 2021 3:23 AM Local Time
Jun Obara Bags Top Stack After Day 1 of Event #51: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed
Day 1 of Event #51: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed is in the books after 21 levels of play. The event attracted a massive field of 997 poker enthusiasts but only 41 of them were able to find a bag for Day 2.
The Amazon room was packed with many notables and at the end of the day, it was Jun Obara who bagged the chip lead with an impressive stack of 3,010,000, the only stack above the 3 million mark.
Following behind Obara was Rostyslav Sabishchenko (2,020,000), Tuan Phan (2,000,000), John Gallaher (1,700,000), and Brian Rast (1,665,000).
Event #51: $3,000 6-Handed NLHE Day 1 Top 10 Chip Counts
RANK | PLAYER | Country | CHIP COUNT | Big Blinds |
1 | Jun Obara | Japan | 3,010,000 | 100 |
2 | Rostyslav Sabishchenko | Ukraine | 2,020,000 | 67 |
3 | Tuan Phan | United States | 2,000,000 | 67 |
4 | John Gallaher | United States | 1,700,000 | 57 |
5 | Brian Rast | United States | 1,665,000 | 56 |
6 | Uri Reichenstein | Israel | 1,660,000 | 55 |
7 | Jon Vallinas | Spain | 1,655,000 | 55 |
8 | Matthew Schwagler | United States | 1,475,000 | 49 |
9 | Lachezar Petkov | Bulgaria | 1,415,000 | 47 |
10 | Manig Loeser | Germany | 1,375,000 | 46 |
Other notables who made a Day 2 birth include Chad Norton (1,090,000). Norton, who just won his first WSOP bracelet in Event #46: $800 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack, will look to go for gold in back-to-back events in his first two WSOP live events, Alex Kulev (1,055,000), as well WSOP bracelet winners Manig Loeser (1,375,000), Sejin Park (920,000), and Alan Sternberg (505,000).
The remaining 42 players have all locked up at least $10,803, but everyone will have their eyes on the top prize of $474,102 and the prestigious WSOP gold bracelet.
Event #51: $3,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold'em Remaining Payouts
Position | Prize |
1 | $474,102 |
2 | $293,102 |
3 | $201,913 |
4 | $141,478 |
5 | $100,827 |
6 | $73,107 |
7 | $53,946 |
8-9 | $40,525 |
10-12 | $31,002 |
13-18 | $24,160 |
19-24 | $19,187 |
25-30 | $15,534 |
31-36 | $12,826 |
37-42 | $10,803 |
The remaining players will return to the Amazon Room on Wednesday, October 27th at 2 p.m. local time to continue to battle it out. Action resumes at Level 22, which features blinds of 15,000/30,000/30,000 and play will conclude when a champion is crowned.
Wednesday, October 27, 2021 3:23 AM Local Time
Day 2 Seat Draw
ROOM | TABLE | SEAT | Player | Country | Chips | Big Blinds |
Amazon | 402 | 1 | Lachezar Petkov | Bulgaria | 1,415,000 | 47 |
Amazon | 402 | 2 | Matthew Schwagler | United States | 1,475,000 | 49 |
Amazon | 402 | 4 | Fred Lopez | United States | 205,000 | 7 |
Amazon | 402 | 5 | Nino Ullman | Germany | 255,000 | 9 |
Amazon | 402 | 6 | Steve Rosen | United States | 600,000 | 20 |
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Amazon | 403 | 1 | Brian Rast | United States | 1,665,000 | 56 |
Amazon | 403 | 2 | Tuan Phan | United States | 2,000,000 | 67 |
Amazon | 403 | 3 | Avraham Azulay | United States | 800,000 | 27 |
Amazon | 403 | 4 | Rostyslav Sabishchenko | Ukraine | 2,020,000 | 67 |
Amazon | 403 | 5 | Chad Norton | United States | 1,090,000 | 36 |
Amazon | 403 | 6 | Manig Loeser | Germany | 1,375,000 | 46 |
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Amazon | 404 | 1 | Christopher Andler | Sweden | 1,020,000 | 34 |
Amazon | 404 | 2 | Uri Reichenstein | Israel | 1,660,000 | 55 |
Amazon | 404 | 3 | Mark Soik | United States | 235,000 | 8 |
Amazon | 404 | 4 | Matas Cimbolas | Lithuania | 320,000 | 11 |
Amazon | 404 | 5 | Klemens Roiter | Austria | 400,000 | 13 |
Amazon | 404 | 6 | Jon Vallinas | Spain | 1,655,000 | 55 |
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Amazon | 409 | 1 | Simon Mattsson | Sweden | 545,000 | 18 |
Amazon | 409 | 2 | Alex Kulev | Ireland | 1,055,000 | 35 |
Amazon | 409 | 3 | John Racener | United States | 635,000 | 21 |
Amazon | 409 | 4 | Sejin Park | South Korea | 920,000 | 31 |
Amazon | 409 | 5 | Troy Donaldson | United States | 1,035,000 | 35 |
Amazon | 409 | 6 | Sebastien Grax | France | 755,000 | 25 |
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Amazon | 410 | 1 | Shai Zurr | Israel | 300,000 | 10 |
Amazon | 410 | 2 | Christian Harder | United States | 1,020,000 | 34 |
Amazon | 410 | 3 | Johnathan Holsonback | United States | 590,000 | 20 |
Amazon | 410 | 4 | Georgios Sotiropoulos | Greece | 770,000 | 26 |
Amazon | 410 | 5 | Yueqi Zhu | United States | 175,000 | 6 |
Amazon | 410 | 6 | Nick Yunis | United States | 790,000 | 26 |
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Amazon | 411 | 1 | Jonas Mackoff | Canada | 595,000 | 20 |
Amazon | 411 | 2 | Sylvain Loosli | France | 1,090,000 | 36 |
Amazon | 411 | 3 | Alan Sternberg | United States | 505,000 | 17 |
Amazon | 411 | 4 | Krishna Vitaldevara | United States | 950,000 | 32 |
Amazon | 411 | 5 | Dashiell Shapiro | United States | 850,000 | 28 |
Amazon | 411 | 6 | John Gallaher | United States | 1,700,000 | 57 |
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Amazon | 412 | 1 | Faizal Khoja | United States | 205,000 | 7 |
Amazon | 412 | 2 | Jun Obara | Japan | 3,010,000 | 100 |
Amazon | 412 | 3 | Romain Lewis | France | 1,335,000 | 45 |
Amazon | 412 | 4 | Francisco Benitez | Uruguay | 320,000 | 11 |
Amazon | 412 | 5 | Radoslav Stoyanov | Bulgaria | 680,000 | 23 |
Amazon | 412 | 6 | Corey Wade | United States | 820,000 | 27 |
Wednesday, October 27, 2021 3:10 AM Local Time
End of Day 1 Chip Counts
Jun Obara | 3,010,000 | 0 |
Rostyslav Sabishchenko | 2,020,000 | 0 |
Tuan Phan | 2,000,000 | 0 |
John Gallaher | 1,700,000 | 600,000 |
Brian Rast | 1,665,000 | 1,155,000 |
Uri Reichenstein | 1,660,000 | 460,000 |
Jon Vallinas | 1,655,000 | 1,655,000 |
Matthew Schwagler | 1,475,000 | 275,000 |
Lachezar Petkov | 1,415,000 | 0 |
Manig Loeser | 1,375,000 | 275,000 |
Romain Lewis | 1,335,000 | 435,000 |
Sylvain Loosli | 1,090,000 | 1,090,000 |
Chad Norton | 1,090,000 | 0 |
Alex Kulev | 1,055,000 | 0 |
Troy Donaldson | 1,035,000 | 1,035,000 |
Christian Harder | 1,020,000 | 1,020,000 |
Christopher Andler | 1,020,000 | 1,020,000 |
Krishna Vitaldevara | 950,000 | 950,000 |
Sejin Park | 920,000 | 0 |
Dashiell Shapiro | 850,000 | 850,000 |
Corey Wade | 820,000 | 40,000 |
Avraham Azulay | 800,000 | 405,000 |
Nick Yunis | 790,000 | 790,000 |
Georgios Sotiropoulos | 770,000 | 770,000 |
Sebastien Grax | 755,000 | 755,000 |
Radoslav Stoyanov | 680,000 | 0 |
John Racener | 635,000 | 20,000 |
Steve Rosen | 600,000 | -5,000 |
Jonas Mackoff | 595,000 | 595,000 |
Johnathan Holsonback | 590,000 | 590,000 |
Simon Mattsson | 545,000 | 545,000 |
Alan Sternberg | 505,000 | 0 |
Klemens Roiter | 400,000 | -400,000 |
Matas Cimbolas | 320,000 | 0 |
Francisco Benitez | 320,000 | 320,000 |
Shai Zurr | 300,000 | 300,000 |
Nino Ullman | 255,000 | 255,000 |
Mark Soik | 235,000 | 235,000 |
Faizal Khoja | 205,000 | 205,000 |
Fred Lopez | 205,000 | 205,000 |
Yueqi Zhu | 175,000 | -110,000 |
Wednesday, October 27, 2021 2:59 AM Local Time
Ilani Set Up by Schwagler for KO
Matthew Schwagler raised from the cutoff and then four-bet jammed for 745,000 after Ran Ilani three-bet to 95,000 from the small blind.
Ilani looked back down at his cards and quickly called off his 500,000 stack.
Ran Ilani:
Matthew Schwagler:
Ilani liked what he saw after the cards were tabled until a nine appeared in the window on the flop.
The paired the board on the turn and Ilani needed a lady on the river to stay alive.
Unfortunately for him, the completed the board and ended his tournament.
Matthew Schwagler | 1,200,000 | 400,000 |
Ran Ilani | 0 | -1,000,000 |
Wednesday, October 27, 2021 2:55 AM Local Time
Final Two Hands
The tournament director has instructed the dealers to deal two more hands before bagging for Day 2.
Wednesday, October 27, 2021 2:46 AM Local Time
Set of Ladies for Gallaher
John Gallaher was in the big blind and flat-called a raise from a player in middle position.
The flop of checked through and Gallaher led out with a bet of 75,000 on the turn. His opponent called.
Gallaher fired out a bet of 155,000 on the river and his opponent called. Gallaher showed for a set and his opponent claimed that he had a good two pair.
"It's a good thing I'm a nit," the opponent said.
John Gallaher | 1,100,000 | 99,975 |
Wednesday, October 27, 2021 2:44 AM Local Time
No Chill for Reichenstein
The action folded around to the small blind who limped in before Uri Reichenstein raised to 80,000 and the small blind came along.
On the flop, the small blind check called a bet of 45,000 from Reichenstein.
The tun was the and after the small blind checked, Reichenstein was in no mood to slow down as he fired out 100,000. The small blind thought it over for a few seconds and let his hand go.
"That wouldn't have ended well for you," Said Reichenstein.
Uri Reichenstein | 1,200,000 | 100,000 |
Wednesday, October 27, 2021 2:34 AM Local Time
No Longer in the Tournament...
Jared Jaffee | 0 | -200,000 |
Matt Waxman | 0 | -400,000 |
Andrew Heckman | 0 | -1,000,000 |
Naor Slobodskoy | 0 | -200,000 |
Alexandre Reard | 0 | -100,000 |
David McGowan | 0 | -300,000 |
Gediminas Uselis | 0 | -450,000 |
Pavlo Veksler | 0 | -440,000 |
Michael Brinkenhoff | 0 | -220,000 |
John Leathart | 0 | -238,000 |
Calvin Park | 0 | -335,000 |
Jonathan Kramer | 0 | -235,000 |
Lewis Murray | 0 | -260,000 |
Wednesday, October 27, 2021 2:34 AM Local Time
Level 21 started
Level: 21
Blinds: 10,000/25,000
Ante: 25,000
Wednesday, October 27, 2021 2:30 AM Local Time
Gallaher's Broadway Gets Paid
John Gallaher raised the small blind to 55,000 and Avraham Azulay defended the big blind.
The dealer fanned a flop of and Gallaher continued for 50,000. Azulay made the call.
On the turn, Gallaher fired again, this time for 55,000 and Azulay didn't take too long before making the call.
The landed on the river and Gallaher jammed for 240,000. Azulay went into the tank for a little over three minutes. After apologizing to the table for taking so long he put in the chips to call.
Gallaher tabled for Broadway on the turn which beat Azulay's .
John Gallaher | 810,000 | 460,000 |
Avraham Azulay | 395,000 | -200,000 |
Wednesday, October 27, 2021 2:22 AM Local Time
Lin Can't Get There
Ren Lin put the rest of his stack in on a flop of and his heads-up opponent snap-called.
Ren Lin:
Opponent:
Lin was behind the top pair of his opponent and got no help from the runout. It's Lin's second cash of the day as he finished third place in Event #47: $5,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em just hours ago.
Ren Lin | 0 | -300,000 |
Wednesday, October 27, 2021 2:22 AM Local Time
Chip Counts From After Break
Jun Obara | 1,505,000 | 405,000 |
Alex Kulev | 1,275,000 | 75,000 |
Uri Reichenstein | 1,100,000 | -20,000 |
Manig Loeser | 1,100,000 | 275,000 |
Asi Moshe | 900,000 | -600,000 |
Romain Lewis | 900,000 | -300,000 |
Radoslav Stoyanov | 835,000 | -25,000 |
Matthew Schwagler | 800,000 | 545,000 |
Matas Cimbolas | 720,000 | 485,000 |
Sejin Park | 700,000 | 150,000 |
Lachezar Petkov | 635,000 | -90,000 |
John Racener | 615,000 | 355,000 |
Chad Norton | 605,000 | 5,000 |
Joey Weissman | 600,000 | -80,000 |
Alan Sternberg | 525,000 | 170,000 |
Brian Rast | 510,000 | -690,000 |
Frank Funaro | 500,000 | 140,000 |
Gediminas Uselis | 450,000 | 100,000 |
Joseph Cheong | 400,000 | 185,000 |
Ezequiel Waigel | 400,000 | 275,000 |
John Gallaher | 350,000 | -85,000 |
Yueqi Zhu | 285,000 | -135,000 |
Greg Baird | 280,000 | -55,000 |
Alexandre Reard | 100,000 | -140,000 |
Wednesday, October 27, 2021 2:16 AM Local Time
Straight for Wade
On a flop of , there were already about 120,000 chips in the middle and the action checked to Corey Wade who put in a bet of 70,000 and his opponent made the call.
The landed on the turn and Wade's opponent checked once again and he fired in a bet of 290,000. After only a few seconds the opponent got out of the way. Wade tabled , for a straight on the turn.
Wednesday, October 27, 2021 2:15 AM Local Time
Heckman Gaining Traction
Andrew Heckman raised from the cutoff and then called the 230,000 three-bet jam the button player made.
Opponent:
Andrew Heckman:
Heckman was ahead with his made hand and the flop didn't change a thing.
The turn did give Heckman a sweat as it gave his opponent the nut flush draw, but the completed the board on the river and ended their tournament.
Andrew Heckman | 1,000,000 | 230,000 |
Wednesday, October 27, 2021 2:12 AM Local Time
Gallaher Running It Up
John Gallaher in the big blind was in a heads-up pot against the player in the small blind on a board reading with around 75,000 in the middle.
Gallaher fired out a bet of 40,000 and his opponent folded.
John Gallaher | 400,000 | 75,000 |
Wednesday, October 27, 2021 2:09 AM Local Time
Heckman Takes Half of Funaro's Stack
The action folded around to Andrew Heckman on the button and he jammed for 375,000. Frank Funaro wasted no time putting in the chips to call from the big blind.
Andrew Heckman:
Frank Funaro:
It was a coinflip and the board ran out for Heckman's sixes to hold.
Andrew Heckman | 770,000 | 320,000 |
Frank Funaro | 360,000 | -85,000 |
Wednesday, October 27, 2021 2:04 AM Local Time
Level 20 started
Level: 20
Blinds: 10,000/20,000
Ante: 20,000
Wednesday, October 27, 2021 1:50 AM Local Time
Players on Last Break of the Day
The final 78 players are on their last 15-minute break of the day. When they return, they will play two more 30-minute levels and then will break for the day.
Wednesday, October 27, 2021 1:48 AM Local Time
Lewis Wins Big Race to Double Through Slobodskoy
A series of preflop raises saw Romain Lewis call off his 554,000 stack from the button after Naor Slobodskoy jammed from the big blind.
Romain Lewis:
Naor Slobodskoy:
Lewis was ahead racing for his tournament life and didn't mind the flop that gave him a gutshot straight draw.
The turn was an even prettier sight for Lewis as it completed his straight and the river secured his massive double.
Romain Lewis | 1,200,000 | 750,000 |
Naor Slobodskoy | 200,000 | -600,000 |
Wednesday, October 27, 2021 1:46 AM Local Time
Strelitz Eliminated
Daniel Strelitz was seen all-in for around 125,000 against a single opponent who had him covered.
Daniel Strelitz:
Opponent:
The board ran out to give Strelitz' opponent the best hand with aces and nines and Strelitz hit the rail.
It was another deep run for Strelitz, who took second in Event #47: $5,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em earlier today.
Daniel Strelitz | 0 | -200,000 |