Monday, October 21, 2013 12:47 AM Local Time
The second starting flight of the 2013 WSOPE Main Event came and went over six 90-minute levels today. The WSOP and Barriere Poker are still confirming final entrants for the day but it looks as if 205 players entered.
The end-of-day chip leader ended up being none other than Ludovic Lacay. The runner up from Event 6 yesterday brushed off all that disappointment to rise to the summit.
He forced Mikolaj Zawadzk off a better hand with less than an hour to go and went on a tear, adding another 100,000 before he bagged up.
Here’s how the unofficial top-five look:
Ludovic Lacay - 163,075
Ravi Raghavan - 155,225
Igor Kurganov - 136,475
Jordan Cristos - 116,250
Sam Greenwood - 113,250
Day 2 starts a 12pm CET where the whole field will combine in the same room. By then, we’ll hopefully have all the official number of entrants; chip counts and seat draw information from those in charge. The prize pool information will come after registration closes at the start of Day 2. Until then, it’s goodnight from Paris.
Monday, October 21, 2013 12:25 AM Local Time
Salman Behbehani has gotten himself the reputation as a slow-roller, but a funny one at that. It’s almost become necessary to slow roll him back if the opportunity arises. It just arose for Dave Shallow and he took full advantage.
There was a raise to 1,200 that Shallow three-bet up to 2,650. Behbehani had been shoving a lot on Shallow’s opens but this time he four-bet to 9,600, leaving himself just 475 behind.
The original raiser folded and Shallow only called.
The flop came and both players checked which caused an outbreak of laughter. The same happened on the turn and river to ever increasing laughter all around them.
Shallow held his cards up and said to Behbehani, “You win!”
Behbehani looked at him and said, “Oh my god, you’re slow rolling me!”
He was right as Shallow opened to beat Behbehani’s
Comedy gold to end the night’s play.
Monday, October 21, 2013 12:14 AM Local Time
Jason Duval, who was a short stack earlier, is making quite the comeback.
He's up to 90,000 after dispatching a short stack with against on an board.
This puts Duval near to the chip leaders.
Monday, October 21, 2013 12:11 AM Local Time
Remi Castaignon opened from the small blind with a raise to 1,500. It was dangerous territory because Phil Hellmuth was in the big blind, which meant he was either going to get action or a verbal spray as these two continued to battle. As it turned out, he got both.
Hellmuth called and the flop landed Castaignon led out for 1,800 and Hellmuth insta-raised to 4,000. Castaignon came back with a re-raise to 9,000 to rattle the 13-time WSOP champ.
Hellmuth let rip in his usual way with phrases such as “I let you bluff me” and “You just don’t know how to fold” among the verbal barrage as Hellmuth showed and folded. Castaignon flashed the
“I’m sorry, I don’t speak English,” said Castaignon as he raked in the pot.
“Oh, you understand,” replied Hellmuth.
At the moment it’s Castaignon who is on top as he has 90,000 with Hellmuth back to 40,000.
Monday, October 21, 2013 12:03 AM Local Time
Noah Schwartz is not a happy bunny. Nothing seems to have gone right since he doubled up Jonathan Duhamel a short while ago.
He was heads up with Christophe Blanchard and raised; bet the flop and bet 4,100 on the turn. The board read and Blanchard shoved for14,900.
Schwartz folded to leave himself with 12,450 and looked to the sky with a look of despair.
Sunday, October 20, 2013 11:58 PM Local Time
Remi Castaignon raised to 1,000 preflop and Phil Hellmuth made it 2,500 in the seat next to him.
Castaignon called and the pair saw a flop of where both players checked.
The turn was the Castaignon checked again and Hellmuth bet 3,000.
The Frenchman made the call, “Put the out there!” requested Hellmuth.
The river was the and Castaignon checked once more.
Hellmuth bet 6,800 and Castaignon thought for several minutes before making the call.
“Three jacks,” said Hellmuth, turning over to scoop up another pot. He's up to about 47,000
Sunday, October 20, 2013 11:54 PM Local Time
David Baker is out of the main event.
After a raise to 1,000, a short-stacked Baker moved all-in for 13,300 from the small blind.
Mark Oliver Teltscher thought for some time and then re-shoved from the big blind.
The initial raiser quickly folded and Baker turned over Teltscher tabled kings and then Baker’s tournament came to an end when the board came
David Baker
Sunday, October 20, 2013 11:50 PM Local Time
Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier opened to 1,025 before Jason Duval three-bet to 2,600 on the button. Grospellier made the call and they were greeted by a flop of
Grospellier checked and Duval continued with a bet of 2,400. Grospellier made the call before tapping the table once again on the turn. Duval released a second barrel worth 5,150 and that was enough to force a fold from his opponent.
Grospellier hasn’t been able to get much going today as he sits just above starting stack while Duval has powered his way to 80,000 in chips.
Sunday, October 20, 2013 11:44 PM Local Time
Ludovic Lacay has put yesterday’s heads up defeat to Noah Schwartz behind him and is playing with a smile across his face.
He just forced Mikolaj Zawadzki off a hand to see his stack rise to 63,000.
There was a limp, a raise to 1,000 and a flat call before Lacay squeezed to 3,500 from the small blind. Zawadzki was in the big blind and four-bet up to 7,600. That was enough to force everyone out but Lacay.
The board ran out and only on the river did more chips go in. Lacay bet 22,000 and Zawadzki thought for an age before folding.
“Were you bluffing?” asked Zawadzki.
“I’m not sure,” replied Lacay and he opened
Zawadzki indicated that it was a bluff.
Sunday, October 20, 2013 11:36 PM Local Time
Will Failla's tournament life has come to an abrupt end.
He was all in for just under 8,000 holding against Jean-Noel Thorel's but the board came out
“Well, at least I had a good sweat,” said Failla as he headed to the rail.
Sunday, October 20, 2013 11:35 PM Local Time
Jonathan Duhamel’s been to a place JC Tran is hoping to get to soon.
Back in 2010, Duhamel made the November Nine as the chip leader and went on to win the WSOP Main Event and become the world champion.
Three years later, Tran has the chip lead and is a few weeks away from playing WSOP Main Event final table.
For now though, Tran is seated to Duhamel’s left and took a few chips off the former world champ.
Duhamel raised to 1,100 from under-the-gun and Tran called. The rest of the table folded and the flop came Both players checked and a came on the turn. Duhamel bet 1,500 and Tran called, bringing a on the river.
Duhamel checked and Tran bet 3,100. Duhamel thought for some time and then called.
Tran turned over and Duhamel mucked.
Jonathan Duhamel and JC Tran
Sunday, October 20, 2013 11:32 PM Local Time
Marc Ladouceur and Igor Kurganov have played out an interesting hand with Ladouceur getting the upper hand. We arrived on a flop of to see Kurganov bet 3,700 before Ladouceur check-raised to 9,200. Kurganov made the call and the fell on the turn.
Ladouceur bet out for 11,400 and again Kurganov called. There was a massive pot in the middle as the completed the board. Ladouceur declared himself all in for a total of 23,975 and Kurganov was pained by the decision.
“Ah, that river card!” exclaimed a frustrated Kurganov. The German threw some inaudible verbal warfare at his opponent, that produced a chuckle, but Kurganov couldn’t find a call. Ladouceur took it down to move to 80,000 with Kurganov slipping to the same amount.
Sunday, October 20, 2013 11:20 PM Local Time
Jeremy Ausmus fired a 3,000 bet on a board and Vasili Firsau made the call to see the on the turn.
Ausmus now bet 5,700 this time and Firsau gave it about a 6/10 on the Dwellathon scale before making the call.
The came on the river and Ausmus moved all in. Firsau made the call and the bracelet winner of the €1,650 PLO event showed for an ace-high straight. Firsau turned over having been outdrawn on the turn.
There was a countdown in chip stacks and Ausmus had his opponent just covered by a thousand or so chips. Ausmus is up to roughly 50,000.
Sunday, October 20, 2013 11:19 PM Local Time
Benny Spindler is a terror at the table. He likes four-betting for fun and picking up a lot of chips easily, mostly because of a good sense of timing.
He won a pot with a four-bet after Guispesspe Sammartino opened and Raphael Ayache three-bet. The power of the German’s four-bet got them both to fold.
The next time Spindler four-bet, it wasn’t so easy.
Jake Schwartz opened to 1,025 before Sammartino three-bet to 3,200. Spindler put in a four-bet to 10,000 and Schwartz called all in for a little less.
The action was back on Sammartino and he jammed for around 80,000, having Spindler covered by around 10,000. That move sent Spindler into a Davidi Kitai style tank. Kitai was still at the table and told PokerListings, “At least you'll see a showdown this time!”
He wasn’t wrong but it happened without Spindler, who folded and let out a bug sigh of relief when he saw Sammartino’s hand.
Schwartz:
Sammartino:
The board ran to send Schwartz packing.
Sunday, October 20, 2013 11:14 PM Local Time
Jonathan Duhamel has doubled up through Noah Schwartz.
Schwartz had check-raised JC Tran's 2,300 bet to 7,300 on a K-8-3 rainbow board only for Duhamel to reraise all in behind him for roughly 23,000.
Tran quickly got out of the way and Schwartz tank-called after about five minutes with K-T only to find Duhamel with 3-3 for a flopped set.
The board bricked out and Duhamel is up to about 52,000. Schwartz has about 30,000 remaining.
Sunday, October 20, 2013 11:09 PM Local Time
Angel Guillen opened to 1,025 preflop and was called by Erik Seidel, Daniel Steinberg and Liv Boeree in the big blind. The flop was Boeree checked and Guillen bet 1,600, Seidel and Steinberg both folded but Boeree made the call.
The turn was the and Boeree checked a second time, Guillen bet 4,200 this time.
“How much do you have left?” asked Boeree.
Guillen showed his remaining stack, it was around 15,000.
The Englishwoman gave it about a minute of thought and then mucked.
Sunday, October 20, 2013 11:03 PM Local Time
John Juanda’s WSOPE Main Event is now over. We picked up his demise on the turn with the board reading Juanda’s bet of 3,250 was called before the player moved all in on the river. Juanda rolled his eyes, looked down at his last 10,200 in chips and plonked them into the middle.
Juanda’s opponent opened for the nut flush, as Juanda’s set of tens were unfortunately rivered.
Sunday, October 20, 2013 10:55 PM Local Time
Players are back from their final 20-minute break of the day.
We have one more level of play before we bag and tag for the night.
Currently leading the field is Sam Greenwood with about 110,000, but several players are in hot pursuit and there are still 90 minutes left in the day.
Cards are in the air.
Sunday, October 20, 2013 10:47 PM Local Time
Daniel Negreanu is doing his thing at the 2013 World Series of Poker Europe, offering opinions and racking up chips. In our latest video interview from the WSOPE Main Event Kid Poker defends Scotty Nguyen's induction into the Poker Hall of Fame, tells us where he thinks the WSOPE should go next year and explains the truth behind the Choice Center Leadership program many people have been labeling a cult.
Sunday, October 20, 2013 10:32 PM Local Time
The players are now on their last break of the day.