Event #39: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout Day 1 | 2018 World Series of Poker

06-19-2018 17:58 UTC-7

Rampone Busts O'Brien to Go Through

LisaY

Level 9 : 300/600, 100 ante

Nick Rampone has just won a flip against Dan O'Brien to win a seat in Day 2 tomorrow.

Daniel O'Brien was short, sitting on around 4,500, and moved all in with Rampone calling.

Nick Rampone
Daniel O'Brien

The dealer laid out and Rampone will take 65,600 chips through to play with tomorrow.

Player	Chips	Progress
Nick Rampone	65,600 65,600	65,600
Dan O'Brien	Busted

Tags: Dan O'Brien Nick Rampone

06-19-2018 17:44 UTC-7

Kessler Knocks One Out to Go Heads Up

LisaY

Level 9 : 300/600, 100 ante

Allen Kessler has just taken out an opponent in third place to get to heads up on his table.

After the other player moved all in, he insta-called. His opponent turned over and found himself up against Kessler's .

The board ran out and Kessler's pocket pair improved to a set. Will this be his 59th WSOP cash?

Player	Chips	Progress
Allen Kessler	27,000 21,200	21,200

Tags: Allen Kessler

06-19-2018 17:41 UTC-7

Player	Chips	Progress
Richard Alati	72,100 72,100	72,100
Martin Jacobson	66,600 66,600	66,600

Kiryl Radzivonau	66,300 66,300	66,300
Michael Horchoff	66,300 66,300	66,300
Royce Matheson	66,000 20,000	20,000
Dave Banerjee	65,900 65,900	65,900
Daniel Santoro	65,900 65,900	65,900
Young Phan	65,900 65,900	65,900
Arkadiy Tsinis	65,900 65,900	65,900

Curtis Rystadt	65,700 65,700	65,700
Jack Shea	65,600 65,600	65,600
Aaron Henderson	65,500 65,500	65,500
Arthur Morris	65,200 65,200	65,200
Martin Stoyanov	65,100 65,100	65,100
Shannon Shorr	64,100 64,100	64,100

Runner-up finisher in 2017, Thomas Boivin has secured his place in the next round. He got it all in with a straight against his opponent and bagged 64,400 to take with him. We will have to wait and see whether the Belgian can go one better than last year and win a coveted WSOP bracelet.

Player	Chips	Progress
Thomas Boivin	64,400 60,300	60,300

Tags: Thomas Boivin

06-19-2018 17:28 UTC-7

Burch-Castro and Nikolai Sears Make it Through

LisaY

Level 9 : 300/600, 100 ante

Just before the last break, Anthony Burch-Castro and Nikolai Sears both won their heads-up battles.

Player	Chips	Progress
Anthony Burch-Castro	65,700
Nikolai Sears	65,500 65,500	65,500

Tags: Anthony Borch-Castro Nikolai Sears

Level: 9

Blinds: 300/600

Ante: 100

06-19-2018 17:06 UTC-7

Break

Shirley Ang

Level 8 : 250/500, 75 ante

The remaining players have been sent for their third 15-minute break while the tournament staff do a chip race and remove the T$25 chips from play.

06-19-2018 17:00 UTC-7

Table #83 Update

Shirley Ang

Level 8 : 250/500, 75 ante

Taylor Paur and Dylan Linde's table was playing four-handed when Daniel Sprung raised to 1,200 from the button. Paur, sitting in the small blind, three-bet by putting a stack of yellow T$1,000 chips in, which covered both James McKay in the big blind and Sprung. McKay looked at his cards and laughed. He called for the 2,825 he had in front of him. Sprung took a bit longer but then folded.

James McKay:
Taylor Paur:

The flop came to give Paur two pair. The turn brought them the so McKay suddenly had another lease on life, but the on the turn was a brick and McKay was out of the shootout.

Player	Chips	Progress
Taylor Paur	36,000 28,600	28,600

Dylan Linde	25,000 17,500	17,500

Mikhail Semin	Busted
James McKay	Busted

Tags: Daniel Sprung James McKay Taylor Paur

06-19-2018 17:00 UTC-7

Red Section Update

Shirley Ang

Level 8 : 250/500, 75 ante

Table #74: Joao Vieira is still in on a four-handed table.

Table #77: Sylvain Loosli is heads up but behind with about 15,000 in chips.

Table #78: JJ Liu is still battling it out against three others.

Table #79: Jeff Madsen is heads up against Andrew Thompson with pretty even stacks.

Table #87: Aliaksei Boika, Mike Watson, and Georgios Sotiropoulos are three-handed.

Table #89: Luigi Knoppers is still in but short with around 6,000 with three opponents.

Table #90: Vladimir Burstein just started his heads-up battle against Thomas Dean. Dean has a 2:1 lead.

Player	Chips	Progress
Thomas Dean	50,000 50,000	50,000
Georgios Sotiropoulos	41,000 41,000	41,000

Thomas Lutz	35,000 27,600	27,600
Jeff Madsen	35,000 27,400	27,400

Joe Cada	31,000 23,400	23,400

Alexandre Reard	31,000 31,000	31,000

Andrew Thompson	31,000 31,000	31,000
Mike Watson	17,000 17,000	17,000
JJ Liu	16,000 6,800	6,800
Sylvain Loosli	15,000 7,500	7,500
Vladimir Burstein	15,000 8,400	8,400
Joao Vieira	10,000 7,300	7,300

Aliaksei Boika	7,000 -400	-400
Ilkin Amirov	6,400 -12,100	-12,100
Luigi Knoppers	6,100 -16,900	-16,900

Tags: Aliaksei Boika Andrew Thompson Georgios Sotiropoulos Jeff Madsen JJ Liu Joao Vieira Luigi Knoppers Mike Watson Sylvain Loosli Thomas Dean Vladimir Burstein

06-19-2018 16:47 UTC-7

Harmon Beats Liu Heads Up

LisaY

Level 8 : 250/500, 75 ante

Wayne Harmon is the victor, following a heads-up battle with Jasper Liu.

The final hand saw a very short-stacked Liu get the last of his chips in versus Harmon and though he was live, he was the slight underdog and looking to hit.

Wayne Harmon:
Jasper Liu: