Epic Poker League Event #1

Main Event
Day: 2
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Event Info
Epic Poker League Event #1
Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
ak
Prize
$1,000,000
Event Info
Buy-in
$20,000
Prize Pool
$3,085,200
Entries
137
Level Info
Level
23
Blinds
25,000 / 50,000
Ante
5,000
Players Left 1 / 137
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Seed Gets There in a Big Way

"All in and call," shouted one of the dealers. We went over and found Ben Lamb with his hand face up. He held the {k-Spades}{k-Hearts}. However, it took us a minute to figure out where the call had come from. Huck Seed, was on the other side of the room, apparently not happy upon having seen Lamb's hand. After about a minute, he walked over and tabled his hand, {a-}{k-}.

The flop hit Seed strong though when it rolled out {a-Diamonds}{10-Hearts}{a-Spades}. In fact, it hit him so hard that it left Lamb drawing to just running cards to split with a straight. The {3-Diamonds} officially ended things and the {2-Clubs} river was meaningless. Seed won the pot and is now a top 5 stack with 265,000. Lamb is still healthy though with 140,000.

Tags: Ben LambHuck Seed

O'Brien Makes the Right Call

With a little over 19,000 chips in the middle on the {J-Diamonds}{8-Diamonds}{4-Clubs}{Q-Clubs} board, Dan O'Brien checked and Justin Bonomo checked behind. The river completed the board with the {10-Diamonds} and O'Brien bet 13,600. Bonomo raised to 34,000 and O'Brien went into the tank. After several long minutes of tanking, O'Brien made the call. Bonomo tabled the {7-Spades}{4-Diamonds} for a pair of fours and O'Brien showed the {A-Hearts}{J-Spades} for a pair of jacks.

Player Chips Progress
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Justin Bonomo
213,000
2,000
2,000
WSOP 3X Winner
Run It Once
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Dan O'Brien
210,000
43,000
43,000

Tags: Dan O'BrienJustin Bonomo

West Eliminated

Tim West got his remaining 45,000 all in preflop holding {a-Hearts}{q-Hearts}. Unfortunately for West, Brian Rast held {k-Clubs}{k-Diamonds} and thus had a firm lead in the hand.

The board ran out {3-Spades}{5-Spades}{10-Hearts}{5-Clubs}{6-Clubs} which did not improve West's hand and he hit the rail. Rast is now up to 310,000.

Tags: Brian RastTim West

Brady Eliminated

After JJ Liu raised to 3,700 from the cutoff seat, Matt Brady moved the last of his chips into the middle from the button for an all-in bet of 39,100. Action got back to Liu, she confirmed the amount and then made the call.

Liu: {A-Clubs}{K-Spades}
Brady: {K-Diamonds}{Q-Clubs}

The flop, turn and river provided no help for Brady as the {7-Hearts}{6-Spades}{5-Clubs}{3-Diamonds}{6-Hearts} fell and he was eliminated.

Player Chips Progress
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JJ Liu
170,000
45,000
45,000
WPT 1X Winner
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Matt Brady
Busted

Tags: Matt BradyJJ Liu

Chip Counts

Player Chips Progress
Profile photo of Ben Lamb us
Ben Lamb
250,000
2,000
2,000
WSOP 2X Winner
Profile photo of Antonio Esfandiari us
Antonio Esfandiari
250,000
5,000
5,000
WSOP 3X Winner
WPT 2X Winner
StakeKings
Profile photo of Brian Rast us
Brian Rast
245,000
15,500
15,500
WSOP 7X Winner
Poker Hall of Famer
Profile photo of Jason Mercier us
Jason Mercier
242,000
28,000
28,000
WSOP 6X Winner
EPT 1X Winner
Profile photo of Matt Graham
Matt Graham
220,000
109,900
109,900
Profile photo of Hoyt Corkins us
Hoyt Corkins
215,000
47,000
47,000
WSOP 2X Winner
WPT 2X Winner
Profile photo of James Mackey us
James Mackey
213,000
113,900
113,900
WSOP 1X Winner
WPT 2X Winner
Profile photo of Chino Rheem us
Chino Rheem
200,000
127,000
127,000
WPT 3X Winner
Profile photo of Sam Stein us
Sam Stein
172,000
64,900
64,900
Profile photo of Erik Seidel us
Erik Seidel
150,000
29,000
29,000
WSOP 10X Winner
Poker Hall of Famer
WPT 1X Winner
Profile photo of Isaac Baron us
Isaac Baron
132,000
35,700
35,700
WSOP 1X Winner
Profile photo of Shannon Shorr us
Shannon Shorr
115,000
28,000
28,000
WSOP 2X Winner
Profile photo of Huck Seed us
Huck Seed
111,000
14,700
14,700
WSOP Main Event Champion
WSOP 4X Winner
Poker Hall of Famer
Profile photo of Matt Glantz us
Matt Glantz
106,000
26,000
26,000
Team Lucky
Profile photo of Jason Lester us
Jason Lester
85,000
22,200
22,200
WSOP 1X Winner
Profile photo of Mike Sexton us
Mike Sexton
78,800
29,900
29,900
WSOP 1X Winner
Poker Hall of Famer
WPT 1X Winner
Profile photo of Sean Getzwiller us
Sean Getzwiller
72,200
22,800
22,800
WSOP 1X Winner
Profile photo of Gavin Griffin us
Gavin Griffin
65,300
23,900
23,900
WSOP 1X Winner
WPT 1X Winner
EPT 1X Winner
Profile photo of Amit Makhija us
Amit Makhija
64,000
36,100
36,100
Profile photo of Brandon Cantu us
Brandon Cantu
55,000
10,000
10,000
WSOP 2X Winner
WPT 1X Winner
Profile photo of Tim West us
Tim West
49,000
24,000
24,000
Profile photo of Matt Hawrilenko us
Matt Hawrilenko
49,000
5,200
5,200
Profile photo of Nam Le us
Nam Le
33,600
18,400
18,400
WPT 1X Winner

Updated Chip Counts

Player Chips Progress
Profile photo of Eugene Katchalov ua
Eugene Katchalov
395,000
38,700
38,700
WSOP 1X Winner
WPT 1X Winner
Profile photo of Gavin Smith ca
Gavin Smith
255,000
94,000
94,000
Profile photo of Noah Schwartz us
Noah Schwartz
250,000
10,000
10,000
WSOP 1X Winner
WPT 1X Winner
Profile photo of Dan Fleyshman us
Dan Fleyshman
245,000
92,800
92,800
Profile photo of McLean Karr us
McLean Karr
220,000
5,000
5,000
WPT 1X Winner
Profile photo of Justin Bonomo us
Justin Bonomo
215,000
25,000
25,000
WSOP 3X Winner
Run It Once
Profile photo of Tom Marchese us
Tom Marchese
205,000
32,000
32,000
WSOP 1X Winner
Profile photo of Dan O'Brien us
Dan O'Brien
176,000
6,000
6,000
Profile photo of Frank Kassela us
Frank Kassela
170,000
112,100
112,100
WSOP 3X Winner
Profile photo of John Racener us
John Racener
154,000
400
400
WSOP 3X Winner
Profile photo of Vitaly Lunkin ru
Vitaly Lunkin
144,000
6,000
6,000
WSOP 2X Winner
Profile photo of JJ Liu tw
JJ Liu
125,000
5,000
5,000
WPT 1X Winner
Profile photo of Ted Lawson us
Ted Lawson
122,000
39,000
39,000
WSOP 1X Winner
Profile photo of Alec Torelli us
Alec Torelli
96,000
26,600
26,600
Conscious Poker
Profile photo of Justin Young us
Justin Young
89,000
65,200
65,200
WPT 1X Winner
Profile photo of Sam Trickett gb
Sam Trickett
83,000
32,300
32,300
Profile photo of Hasan Habib us
Hasan Habib
83,000
67,000
67,000
WSOP 1X Winner
Profile photo of Michael Martin us
Michael Martin
80,000
40,100
40,100
Profile photo of Adam Levy us
Adam Levy
80,000
46,000
46,000
StakeKings
Profile photo of Lee Markholt us
Lee Markholt
70,000
100
100
WPT 1X Winner
Profile photo of Brandon Meyers us
Brandon Meyers
67,000
82,500
82,500
Profile photo of Nenad Medic us
Nenad Medic
52,000
6,000
6,000
WSOP 1X Winner
WPT 1X Winner
Profile photo of Steve Brecher us
Steve Brecher
51,000
1,000
1,000
WPT 1X Winner
Profile photo of David Bach us
David Bach
48,000
5,000
5,000
WSOP 3X Winner
Profile photo of Hafiz Khan us
Hafiz Khan
44,000
9,000
9,000

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Bonomo Sends Brown Out the Door

On the {5-Diamonds}{2-Diamonds}{2-Clubs} flop, Justin Bonomo and Chad Brown found all of the money in the middle. Brown was the shorter-stacked player and decided to go with his flush draw and two overcards to the board holding the {8-Diamonds}{7-Diamonds}. His flush draw was good, but the two overs weren't looking too good against Bonomo's {Q-Diamonds}{Q-Hearts}. Bonomo also held a diamond and with the paired board, could fill up before Brown could even hit his flush.

The turn brought the {8-Clubs} and helped Brown a tiny bit, giving him additional outs to another eight on the river. The river completed the board with the {6-Hearts} and Brown whiffed.

Bonomo won the pot and is now up to 240,000 in chips.

Player Chips Progress
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Justin Bonomo
240,000
35,000
35,000
WSOP 3X Winner
Run It Once
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Chad Brown
Busted

Tags: Justin BonomoChad Brown

Level: 8

Blinds: 800/1,600

Ante: 200