2016 WinStar River Poker Series

Main Event
Day: 1c
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Event Info

2016 WinStar River Poker Series

Final Results
Winner
Prize
$587,120
Event Info
Buy-in
$2,400
Prize Pool
$2,500,000
Entries
1,054
Level Info
Level
31
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
20,000
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End of Day 1c Counts (full)

mnuwwarah
mnuwwarah
Level 19 : 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante
Player Chips Progress
Maxx Coleman us
Maxx Coleman 		547,000
-53,000
 -53,000
$25K Fantasy
WSOP 1X Winner
Gordon Vayo us
Gordon Vayo 		513,000
-32,000
 -32,000
Long Duc Nguyen
Long Duc Nguyen 		508,000
-168,000
 -168,000
Judd Morris
Judd Morris 		447,000
-253,000
 -253,000
Layne Flack us
Layne Flack 		433,000
218,000
 218,000
WSOP 6X Winner
Poker Hall of Famer
Jim Carroll us
Jim Carroll 		427,000
77,000
 77,000
Vlad Mezheritsky us
Vlad Mezheritsky 		405,000
Ben Ector us
Ben Ector 		379,000
79,000
 79,000
David Hudson gb
David Hudson 		360,000
Clint Baker
Clint Baker 		357,000
77,000
 77,000
Ben Perez us
Ben Perez 		348,000
113,000
 113,000
Cary Jones
Cary Jones 		335,000
Tzu Yen us
Tzu Yen 		330,000
30,000
 30,000
David Lopez us
David Lopez 		325,000
25,000
 25,000
Chino Rheem us
Chino Rheem 		312,000
142,000
 142,000
$25K Fantasy
WPT 3X Winner
Paul Tapaszi
Paul Tapaszi 		307,000
Ray Qartomy us
Ray Qartomy 		298,000
183,000
 183,000
Viet Vo us
Viet Vo 		279,000
79,000
 79,000
Justin Kruger us
Justin Kruger 		270,000
Anthony Minniti
Anthony Minniti 		246,000
Frank Kirkpatrick us
Frank Kirkpatrick 		240,000
-60,000
 -60,000
James Shaw
James Shaw 		224,000
Asif Idrees
Asif Idrees 		218,000
Rex Clinkscales us
Rex Clinkscales 		204,000
-71,000
 -71,000
Rob Salaburu us
Rob Salaburu 		202,000
17,000
 17,000

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Coleman Seeking a Repeat After Bagging Day 1c Lead

mnuwwarah
mnuwwarah
Level 19 : 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante
Maxx Coleman
Maxx Coleman

Last year at WinStar River Poker Series Main Event, Maxx Coleman topped a field of 1,164 players to take the whole thing down after a three-way chop sent him $750,000, the biggest chunk of the prize pool. It looked like a new champ was imminent after Coleman failed to make it through the first two starting days, but Coleman rebounded on Day 1c to bag the lead out of 44 players who advanced.

Coleman finished with 547,000, just ahead of 2016 November Niner Gordon Vayo (513,000). Layne Flack (433,000), Chino Rheem (312,000), Ray Qartomy (298,000), Rob Salaburu (202,000), and Kevin Eyster (165,000) also advanced.

Coleman got the better of Eyster in a pair of pots to surge up late in the night. First, he shoved in about 15 big blinds with {a-Clubs}{k-Hearts} against an early-position raise from Eyster, who called with {8-Diamonds}{8-Hearts}. Coleman was two cards from elimination after a brick flop, but an {a-Spades} on the turn gave him new life.

Then, with blinds at 4,000/8,000/1,000, Coleman opened for a min-raise and saw a player on the button three-bet to 36,000. Eyster was in the small blind and woke up with a cold four-bet to 84,000, and Coleman shoved all in for 277,000.

"How does this keep happening?" Eyster said with a sigh.

He called and saw his kings were trailing Coleman's aces, which he said was the fourth time he had run into the spot this tournament. The board ran out dead for both players and Coleman doubled through.

Eyster was at least able to recover and bag some chips. Some players who were not so fortunate included Scotty Nguyen, Allen Kessler, Calvin Anderson, David Paredes, Aaron Massey, David "ODB" Baker, Aaron Mermelstein, and WinStar ambassador Maria Ho.

Alas, those players are fresh out of chances as the conclusion of Day 1c means the Day 2 field is now set. The 434 who turned out for Day 1c make it 1,054 players total, and 10 percent of them will return Monday at 1 p.m. local time with blinds rolling back to Level 18 (4,000/8,000/1,000), where Day 1b left off. Coverage will be back here on PokerNews once again.

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Day 1c Completed

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