Event 14: $15,400 $5 Million Guaranteed WPT World Championship
Day 2 Started
Event 14: $15,400 $5 Million Guaranteed WPT World Championship
Day 2 Started
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Jason Koon | 252,800 | |
Athanasios Polychronopoulos
|
223,100 | |
Keith Lehr
|
220,900 | 200 |
Lee Markholt
|
217,700 | |
Paul Volpe
|
215,300 | |
Jerry Wong
|
198,000 | |
Brandon Steven | 195,500 | |
Tony Gregg | 190,600 | |
Kevin Rabichow | 189,700 | |
Bart Dowling
|
186,200 | -5,800 |
Scott Seiver
|
182,500 | -10,000 |
She Lok Wong | 176,200 | -1,000 |
Abraham Korotki | 172,300 | |
Justin Young
|
166,600 | 600 |
Jordan Siegel | 163,500 | |
Michael Lavoie | 162,700 | |
David Grandieri | 158,100 | 158,100 |
Hans Winzeler | 157,900 | 107,900 |
Russell Thomas | 154,000 | 99,000 |
Mike Dentale | 152,000 | 67,000 |
Shannon Shorr
|
151,600 | |
Ryan D'Angelo
|
149,300 | 69,300 |
Jeff Papola | 149,200 | 92,200 |
Jonathan Tamayo | 148,700 | 71,700 |
Kawal Jit Singh
|
147,600 | 147,600 |
Table | Seat | Player | Chips |
---|---|---|---|
1 | 1 | Lee Markholt | 217,700 |
1 | 2 | Tony Dunst | 92,200 |
1 | 3 | Eli Berg | 123,300 |
1 | 4 | Joe Serock | 48,600 |
1 | 5 | Curt Kohlberg | 96,300 |
1 | 6 | Jason Koon | 252,800 |
1 | 7 | Tony Cousineau | 88,000 |
1 | 8 | Jordan Siegel | 163,500 |
1 | 9 | Brock Parker | 40,000 |
2 | 1 | Kristina Holst | 95,100 |
2 | 2 | Dani Stern | 38,900 |
2 | 3 | Orson Young | 130,000 |
2 | 4 | Noah Bronstein | 47,800 |
2 | 5 | David Paredes | 129,200 |
2 | 6 | Joshua Lawson | 52,400 |
2 | 7 | Ty Reiman | 34,100 |
2 | 8 | Tony Gregg | 190,600 |
2 | 9 | Tom Marchese | 33,500 |
3 | 1 | Larry Wright | 10,900 |
3 | 2 | Nicholas Gerrity | 96,000 |
3 | 3 | Malkiel Berlianshik | 53,500 |
3 | 4 | David Tuthill | 96,600 |
3 | 5 | Harrison Gimbel | 134,800 |
3 | 6 | Jared Bleznick | 82,400 |
3 | 7 | Greg Merson | 51,900 |
3 | 8 | Faraz Jaka | 14,000 |
3 | 9 | --empty-- | -- |
4 | 1 | Brian Lemke | 91,300 |
4 | 2 | Allen Kessler | 145,300 |
4 | 3 | Joseph Mckeehen | 114,000 |
4 | 4 | Nick Schulman | 47,900 |
4 | 5 | Ravi Raghavan | 114,900 |
4 | 6 | Allard Broedelet | 28,200 |
4 | 7 | Hans Winzeler | 157,900 |
4 | 8 | Brian Yoon | 85,600 |
4 | 9 | --empty-- | -- |
5 | 1 | Sean Jazayeri | 90,100 |
5 | 2 | Vimy Ha | 57,100 |
5 | 3 | Bartley Dowling | 186,200 |
5 | 4 | Abraham Korotki | 172,300 |
5 | 5 | Simon Lam | 20,800 |
5 | 6 | Amir Babakhani | 92,100 |
5 | 7 | Alexander Queen | 96,300 |
5 | 8 | Kevin Rabichow | 189,700 |
5 | 9 | Jeff Papola | 149,200 |
6 | 1 | Taylor Paur | 77,200 |
6 | 2 | Daniel Buzgon | 78,900 |
6 | 3 | Michael Sukonik | 76,000 |
6 | 4 | Dan Kelly | 58,500 |
6 | 5 | Maruti Yarlapati | 29,100 |
6 | 6 | Brandon Steven | 195,500 |
6 | 7 | Scott Baumstein | 88,400 |
6 | 8 | Mark Herm | 79,400 |
6 | 9 | Gregory Marcus | 24,100 |
7 | 1 | Donald Dorey | 19,000 |
7 | 2 | Thomas Winters | 72,300 |
7 | 3 | Layne Flack | 19,300 |
7 | 4 | Matt Stout | 117,300 |
7 | 5 | Jeremy Ausmus | 32,500 |
7 | 6 | Ardavan Yazdi | 35,600 |
7 | 7 | Ariel Albilia | 80,500 |
7 | 8 | Ying Wong | 131,800 |
7 | 9 | Eric Baldwin | 127,300 |
8 | 1 | Josh Brikis | 29,700 |
8 | 2 | Narendra Banwari | 28,600 |
8 | 3 | Gerard Kane | 81,900 |
8 | 4 | Scott Eskenazi | 41,900 |
8 | 5 | Eric Buchman | 107,800 |
8 | 6 | Daniel Sparacino | 42,000 |
8 | 7 | Scott Blackman | 45,000 |
8 | 8 | Michael Lavoie | 162,700 |
8 | 9 | --empty-- | -- |
9 | 1 | Matt Glantz | 110,300 |
9 | 2 | Athanasios Polychronopoulos | 223,100 |
9 | 3 | Miles Austin | 81,300 |
9 | 4 | Andy Philachack | 35,000 |
9 | 5 | Chris Klodnicki | 57,300 |
9 | 6 | Thomas Sheets | 56,200 |
9 | 7 | Matt Waxman | 47,800 |
9 | 8 | Robert Suer | 34,300 |
9 | 9 | Jesse Sylvia | 137,500 |
10 | 1 | Jeff Gross | 62,000 |
10 | 2 | David Inselberg | 73,300 |
10 | 3 | Corrie Wunstel | 77,500 |
10 | 4 | Alex Rocha | 18,600 |
10 | 5 | Christian Harder | 97,300 |
10 | 6 | Chris Moorman | 71,900 |
10 | 7 | Chris Tryba | 117,700 |
10 | 8 | Loni Harwood | 116,000 |
10 | 9 | --empty-- | -- |
11 | 1 | Justin Young | 166,600 |
11 | 2 | Thuan Nguyen | 67,000 |
11 | 3 | Christina Linderman | 127,600 |
11 | 4 | Elia Ahmadian | 53,800 |
11 | 5 | Joseph Cheong | 49,800 |
11 | 6 | Robert Panitch | 75,800 |
11 | 7 | Alexey Rybin | 80,800 |
11 | 8 | Joe Kuether | 38,400 |
11 | 9 | Shaun Suller | 54,300 |
12 | 1 | James St Hilaire | 31,700 |
12 | 2 | Jonathan Little | 28,000 |
12 | 3 | Scott Seiver | 182,500 |
12 | 4 | Michael Zduniak | 66,300 |
12 | 5 | Matt Giannetti | 69,100 |
12 | 6 | Paul Volpe | 215,300 |
12 | 7 | Melissa Burr | 58,900 |
12 | 8 | Justin Zaki | 96,400 |
12 | 9 | Michael Stonehill | 120,800 |
13 | 1 | Anthony Zinno | 31,600 |
13 | 2 | Carlos Chadha | 77,300 |
13 | 3 | Maurice Hawkins | 130,200 |
13 | 4 | Eugene Todd | 90,500 |
13 | 5 | John Hennigan | 58,600 |
13 | 6 | Chris Orourke | 108,400 |
13 | 7 | Phil Hellmuth | 82,900 |
13 | 8 | Ronald Lee | 73,200 |
13 | 9 | Nicholas Manfredo | 65,900 |
14 | 1 | Men Nguyen | 28,300 |
14 | 2 | Leonardo Palermo | 37,700 |
14 | 3 | Russell Thomas | 154,000 |
14 | 4 | Daniel Howe | 75,200 |
14 | 5 | Glenn Lafaye | 105,000 |
14 | 6 | Jacob Millstein | 106,800 |
14 | 7 | Garrett Greer | 83,400 |
14 | 8 | Kevin Eyster | 81,200 |
14 | 9 | --empty-- | -- |
15 | 1 | Catherine Dever | 76,500 |
15 | 2 | Roland Israelashvili | 93,400 |
15 | 3 | David Randall | 98,900 |
15 | 4 | Lawrence Sharp | 97,000 |
15 | 5 | Eric Afriat | 33,000 |
15 | 6 | Tim West | 36,000 |
15 | 7 | Matt Salsberg | 15,700 |
15 | 8 | Dmitrii Prusov | 28,800 |
15 | 9 | --empty-- | -- |
16 | 1 | John Andress | 54,200 |
16 | 2 | Ryan D'Angelo | 149,300 |
16 | 3 | Bobby Oboodi | 79,900 |
16 | 4 | Kevin Song | 59,800 |
16 | 5 | Jordan Cristos | 127,500 |
16 | 6 | Tom McCormick | 101,700 |
16 | 7 | James Carroll | 102,000 |
16 | 8 | David Daggett | 45,500 |
16 | 9 | Harrison Beach | 14,700 |
17 | 1 | Allen Bari | 39,900 |
17 | 2 | Harry Kaczka | 62,700 |
17 | 3 | Jonathan Tamayo | 148,700 |
17 | 4 | Daniel Walsh | 51,000 |
17 | 5 | John Racener | 42,900 |
17 | 6 | Keith Lehr | 220,900 |
17 | 7 | Matthew Alexander | 17,500 |
17 | 8 | Mike Leah | 91,500 |
17 | 9 | Amit Makhija | 55,100 |
18 | 1 | Marvin Rettenmaier | 69,000 |
18 | 2 | Ken Aldridge | 35,200 |
18 | 3 | David Grandieri | 158,100 |
18 | 4 | Kevin Saul | 47,400 |
18 | 5 | Lily Kiletto | 79,700 |
18 | 6 | Alistair Melville | 13,800 |
18 | 7 | Dean Schultz | 87,700 |
18 | 8 | Scott Matte | 57,400 |
18 | 9 | Ray Qartomy | 77,300 |
19 | 1 | Joseph Wertz | 132,600 |
19 | 2 | David Baker | 111,500 |
19 | 3 | Leonardo Deborba | 34,800 |
19 | 4 | Shannon Shorr | 151,600 |
19 | 5 | Byron Kaverman | 75,000 |
19 | 6 | Kevin Choe | 74,100 |
19 | 7 | Will Failla | 119,700 |
19 | 8 | Todd Terry | 71,000 |
19 | 9 | Matt Affleck | 21,900 |
20 | 1 | Mukul Pahuja | 68,600 |
20 | 2 | Corey Hochman | 88,900 |
20 | 3 | Tomislav Dobrilovic | 131,900 |
20 | 4 | Keven Stammen | 66,500 |
20 | 5 | Jonathan Aguiar | 24,200 |
20 | 6 | Jeff Madsen | 59,800 |
20 | 7 | Patrick Eskandar | 56,800 |
20 | 8 | Matt Brady | 62,300 |
20 | 9 | --empty-- | -- |
21 | 1 | Andy Frankenberger | 76,100 |
21 | 2 | Blake Bohn | 109,600 |
21 | 3 | Daniel Brits | 89,900 |
21 | 4 | David Farah | 78,300 |
21 | 5 | Jared Jaffee | 141,300 |
21 | 6 | Michael Dentale | 152,000 |
21 | 7 | Jeremy Kottler | 47,000 |
21 | 8 | Yuval Harosh | 110,300 |
21 | 9 | Cliff Josephy | 47,100 |
22 | 1 | Daniel Wach | 66,200 |
22 | 2 | Bryn Kenney | 28,400 |
22 | 3 | Steven Silverman | 28,000 |
22 | 4 | George Kelly | 30,500 |
22 | 5 | Vanessa Rousso | 29,900 |
22 | 6 | Lawrence Greenberg | 34,800 |
22 | 7 | Kawal Jit Singh | 147,600 |
22 | 8 | Jean Gaspard | 36,100 |
22 | 9 | Alexander Condon | 37,800 |
23 | 1 | David Peters | 37,900 |
23 | 2 | Ronit Chamani | 24,700 |
23 | 3 | Taylor von Kriegenbergh | 85,600 |
23 | 4 | Adam Friedman | 16,900 |
23 | 5 | Laurence Wolf | 35,200 |
23 | 6 | Jerry Wong | 198,000 |
23 | 7 | Ketan Pandya | 28,400 |
23 | 8 | Kyle Frey | 45,800 |
23 | 9 | She Lok Wong | 176,200 |
Day 2 of the Season XII WPT World Championship is set to begin in a few minutes, and the players are starting to file into the Signature Room at Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa. The overall chip leader is Jason Koon, who enters the day with 252,800, and he is closely followed by Athanasios Polychronopoulos (223,100), Keith Lehr (220,900), Lee Markholt (217,700), and Day 1a chip leader Paul Volpe (215,300).
There are obviously several huge names still vying for a place on the WPT Champions Cup, including Tony Gregg, Scott Seiver, Shannon Shorr, Phil Hellmuth, and Greg Merson. Season XII WPT Player of the Year Leader Mukul Pahuja is still alive and well as is Shaun Suller, who can capture that title if he wins this event and Pahuja fails to cash.
The prize pool information will be released at some point during Day 2, and we will bring that to you as quick as possible.
The cards are about to be in the air, so be sure to stay tuned for all of your live updates straight from the tournament floor here on PokerNews!
Level: 9
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 200
Back in the poker boom of the mid 2000's, it wasn't surprising to see a poker player look across the table or room, see a poker superstar and run over and ask for a picture with that player... even if it was in the middle of a hand. That doesn't happen as much any longer but the other day, while bagging up one of the biggest stacks of the night, that's precisely what She Lok Wong did.
Wong was looking at Phil Hellmuth, looking much like a kid who just walked into a candy store. "That's Phil Hellmuth," he said, barely able to spit the words out of his mouth. That's how excited he was. Wong had his phone in hand. "You think he would let me take a picture with him?"
Of course he would. We got Phil's attention and he obliged and Wong looked at the picture on his phone over and over again while waiting for his chips to get counted down.
The next day, Wong would walk into the room. "What are you doing here," we asked him.
"I'm looking for poker players. Where's Daniel Negreanu. He's my favorite!"
We broke the bad news that Kid Poker would not be playing in this event and a look of disappointment came over Wong's face.
Taking all of this in mind, it would be easy to confuse Wong as a rank amateur at the tables. That would be a mistake for those playing against him. Wong took 2nd place at the 2013 Borgata Fall Poker Open Championship Event for $203,394. He also has three wins in the last year, including one that was good for $95,000.
"I am really nervous," Wong told us at the beginning of Day 1a. He overcame those nerves to bag 176,200. Regardless of how things turn out today for Wong, one thing will be certain. He'll be smiling and having fun. And trying to take everyone's chips.
Harrison Gimbel checked to Jared Bleznick on a completed board of . Bleznick bet 15,000 - roughly a pot-sized bet - and Gimbel tanked for a bit before making the call.
"You're good," Bleznick announced, prompting the 2010 PCA Main Event winner to reveal for a lowly pair of fours.
Bleznick mucked, and Gimbel picked up the pot.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Harrison Gimbel
|
167,000 | 32,200 |
Jared Bleznick | 53,000 | -29,400 |
Mukul Pahuja opened to 2,600 from under the gun and Jeff Madsen made the call from the button and the two seasoned professionals saw a flop of .
Pahuja checked, Madsen bet 3,500 and would win the pot when Pahuja folded.
The two are seated at a very tough table that includes Tom Dobrilovic, Keven Stammen, Jon Aguiar, and Matt Brady.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Mukul Pahuja | 65,000 | -3,600 |
Jeff Madsen
|
65,000 | 5,200 |
Justin Young opened to 2,600 from late position, and next to act Scotty Nguyen three-bet to 6,600. Young flatted the reraise and the two pros went heads up to the flop.
Young check-called a 6,000 bet and both players tapped the table on the turn. When the completed the board on the river Young slowly slid a bet of 8,800 forward. Nguyen reluctantly folded his hand while Young told him "three no good Scotty."
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Justin Young
|
176,000 | 9,400 |
Scotty Nguyen
|
51,000 | -16,000 |
Dani Stern and Tony Gregg both checked on a flop of , and Tom Marchese bet 3,500 into a pot of around 9,000. Stern check-raised to 10,700, Gregg folded, and Marchese moved all in for 28,100. Stern quickly called.
Stern:
Marchese:
Stern was drawing to a runner-runner straight flush, but he would not catch it as the turn produced the . A meaningless completed the board, and Marchese doubled through.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Tom Marchese
|
66,000 | 32,500 |
Dani Stern | 9,400 | -29,500 |