Event #2: $100,000 High Roller Bounty No-Limit Hold’em

Day 2 of Event #2: $100,000 High Roller Bounty at the 2022 WSOP at Bally's and Paris Las Vegas saw fast-paced action that narrowed down a field of 16 to 5.

Play lasted just five levels with a flurry of eliminations within the first few minutes of action, including Laszlo Bujtas, Frank Crivello and Bill Klein.

Chance Kornuth began what turned out to be a day-long heater with a huge double through day 1 chipleader Justin Young, courtesy of a rivered straight. From that point on, he seemed unstoppable, eliminating the likes of Daniel Negreanu and Matthew Steinberg, ultimately bagging a stack of 14,265,000 good for 143 big blinds. Other players returning for Day 3 include David Peters (8,920,000), Ali Imsirovic (1,815,000), Dario Sammartino (1,740,000) and Koray Aldemir (860,000).

Event #2: $100,000 High Roller Bounty Chip Counts

Day 2 Recap

Of the initial 46 runners only seven were paid and it was Nick Petrangelo who was the unfortunate bubble boy with his pocket kings being cracked in brutal fashion by the pocket eights of Phil Ivey. It was Ivey who was the first finisher to get paid, his seventh place finish good for $133,127.

The relatively unknown Matthew Steinberg was next out, scoring a $180,872 payday, blowing his previous best cash of $2,125 out of the water.

That saw the table reach the final five players who will return Thursday, June 2nd at 1pm PDT for Day 3. The final day will be livestreamed on PokerGO on a 1-hour delay. Pokernews will also be providing updates on the same delay as the tournament plays down to a winner, who will receive a WSOP Gold Bracelet and $1,166,810 for their efforts.

Matthew Steinberg moved all in for 660,000 from under the gun. He was called in two spots by David Peters in the cutoff and Chance Kornuth out of the small blind.

The flop     was checked by both players. The turn was the  . Kornuth bet 1,400,000 and Peters called.

The river was the   and Kornuth bet 2,450,000. Peters called.

"Set," said Kornuth, tabling   

"I had outs," said Steinberg with    and he was eliminated. Peters'    for a rivered two pair was also tabled.

"It's my biggest cash ever," Steinberg said to his tablemates. "My biggest cash before this was like $5,000." He also told them he planned on playing the $25,000 heads-up on June 2.

With that hand Kornuth took over the chip lead as the final five players bagged up for the day.

Chance Kornuth	14,265,000	4,965,000
David Peters	8,920,000	-4,380,000
Matthew Steinberg	0	-1,800,000

Nick Petrangelo from under the gun shoved his remaining 535,000 into the middle and was looked up by Phil Ivey one seat over. The rest of the table folded.

Nick Petrangelo:   
Phil Ivey:   

Petrangelo was at risk but way ahead. The     provided little help for Ivey but the   did give him an open ended straight draw. The   completed Ivey's straight and Petrangelo was ousted on the tournament bubble in gut wrenching fashion.

Phil Ivey	2,700,000	150,000
Nick Petrangelo	0	-1,250,000

Chance Kornuth raised from early position to 200,000. Action folded to Koray Aldemir in the cutoff who shoved his remaining 305,000 into the middle. The other players got out of the way to send the action back to Kornuth who called to put Aldemir at risk.

Koray Aldemir:   
Chance Kornuth:   

Aldemir was in a good position to double up and avoid bursting the bubble. He did just that, fading Kornuth's outs on the       runout to get back to just above starting stack.

Chance Kornuth	9,300,000	-300,000
Koray Aldemir	860,000	260,000

After Phil Ivey opened in early position and Chance Kornuth called in middle position, Daniel Negreanu moved all in on the button for almost 1,100,000.

David Peters took some time in the big blind before folding, then Ivey folded to Kornuth who made the call, putting Negreanu at risk.

Daniel Negreanu:   
Chance Kornuth:   

"Kid Poker" had Kornuth dominated, and remained ahead on the     flop.

Kornuth picked up a flush draw on the turn with the  , and on the river, the dealer dropped the  , prompting Negreanu to drop his vlogging phone, as the card ended the Poker Hall of Famer's day just two places short of the money.

Chance Kornuth	8,385,000	2,435,000
David Peters	5,185,000	-65,000
Phil Ivey	1,445,000	-255,000
Daniel Negreanu	0	-1,150,000

Koray Aldemir opened to 135,000 from the button and Cary Katz three-bet to 370,000. The big blind folded to send the action back to Aldemir who decided to move all in. Katz had less than half his original stack behind and made the call to put himself at risk.

Cary Katz:   
Koray Aldemir:   

Katz was behind but had live cards. The       did improve him to two pair but Aldemir held the better two pair to send Katz packing. The remaining nine players have now been consolidated to one table.

Koray Aldemir	3,800,000	-300,000
Cary Katz	0	-760,000