Event #67: MAIN EVENT No-Limit Hold'em World Championship

Robert Bassuk survived leukemia, so navigating his way through the massive Main Event field is proving no problem for him. Bassuk currently sits on a stack of 145,000.

"All my family and friends back home are watching," the El Paso, Texas native said.

Robert Bassuk

145,000

74,200

A player raised in early position and John Dombroski jammed for his entire stack of 15,100 on the button. Alemu Makonen made the call from the big blind and the original raiser folded.

John Dombroski:   
Alemu Makonen:   

It was a race and the flop came    , with no help to Dombroski. The board completed with the   on the turn and the   on the river for Makonen's pair of sevens to hold and Dombroski exited the tournament room.

Alemu Makonen	112,500	3,300
John Dombroski	0	-23,100

Tzu Yen and an opponent in the big blind got all in on a flop of    , Yen having his opponent's remaining 30,000 covered.

All-In Player:   
Tzu Yen:   

The all-in player had a straight draw and pulled ahead with a pair of eights on the   turn, but Yen hit the nut flush on the   river to earn the knock out.

Tzu Yen

170,000

54,700

Daniel Dangoor just made a big fold to stay alive in the tournament and relayed the details.

According to Dangoor, he was facing an all in shove for 130,000 from Anuy Voong and folded    face up. Voong showed    as Dangoor took out his phone and filmed the hand after he avoided running into the massive cooler.

Anuy Voong	150,000	104,600
Daniel Dangoor	130,000	72,200

The board showed       with about 18,000 in the middle. Nick Yunis bet 8,000 and was called.

"King-high," said Yunis.

His opponent turned over    and dragged the pot.

Nick Yunis

142,000

102,300

There was heads-up action between Vegas local David Powers from under the gun and one other from middle position.

With a completed board of       showing and roughly 50,000 already in the middle, Powers led out with an all in 21,400 bet.

His opponent went into the tank recalculating previous action and their final decision was to let go of their hand.

Powers quickly tabled    and collected the pot.

David Powers

80,000

-93,100

At the feature table, which will live stream on PokerGO, 16-time bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth went to put headphones on and a production assistant (PA) waved him down subtly, to tell him he's not allowed to wear headphones. Hellmuth looked annoyed

"Are you sure", he asked.

The PA responded, "I'm positive".

Phil took off the headphones and looked annoyed and displeased.

Minutes later the PA called the tournament manager, who consulted with the higher-ups, over and he went tableside to clarify for Hellmuth that he can wear his headphones at a feature table but not a final table. He also noted that Hellmuth can't have his cell phone at the table and would need to step off the platform/stage to use his phone.

Moments later the tournament manager returned again after consulting with PokerGo production and the WSOP director. He explained to Hellmuth that they were in a tricky position and weren't going to enforce no headphones, but that the issue has to do with camera/production picking up music from headphones, which they aren't licensed to have on the stream.

He left it at that. There was no final or official decision made about the headphones other than explaining to Hellmuth why there was an issue hoping he'd make the right decision or be mindful of audio issues.

Hellmuth was understanding and respectfully said, "You're just doing your job. And you're doing a good job at doing your job."

David Gerassi continues to run up his stack and is now over 500,000.

David Gerassi	510,000	35,000
Jake Daniels	360,000	70,000
Kenn Pluard	270,000	-39,000
Swadeep Mishra	270,000	-60,000
Matt Glantz	265,000	5,000
James Mendoza	235,000	0
JC Tran	140,000	-15,000
Jesse Lonis	120,000	42,600
Lucas Greenwood	86,000	1,000
Kenny Tran	70,000	-42,000