Break
It's the second break of the day for the $10K Main Event players and 128 out of 166 are still in contention after 11 levels of play.
It's the second break of the day for the $10K Main Event players and 128 out of 166 are still in contention after 11 levels of play.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Peter Turmezey |
408,872
256,192
|
256,192 |
Diego "TheProjector" Ventura |
378,994
12,301
|
12,301 |
|
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Daniel Smiljkovic |
359,584
359,584
|
359,584 |
|
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Thiago "Bada Bing!" Crema | 290,973 | |
Shankar Pillai |
278,629
-30,304
|
-30,304 |
|
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Pablo Navarro |
272,374
272,374
|
272,374 |
Francisco "VaPaCooler" Benitez |
270,214
170,214
|
170,214 |
Eder "BlueMoon" Campana | 261,821 | |
Farid Jattin |
259,020
-24,586
|
-24,586 |
Ramiro Petrone |
244,246
244,246
|
244,246 |
Dmitry "Altbbb" Yurasov
|
233,892
233,892
|
233,892 |
The first of two $10,000,000 events during the GG Spring Festival has broken the eight-figure mark to surpass it's lofty guarantee. Late registration will be open until level 17, after which the payouts will be finalized.
Level 12: 1,800/3,600/450
Thiago "Bada Bing!" Crema made it 7,200 in middle position and Mikhail "Freez112" Kovalyuk peeled from the small blind. The flop was and Kovalyuk check-called 7,128 from Crema.
The turn brought another ace, the , and Crema upped the ante to 28,800. Kovalyuk check-raised to 61,200 and Crema called.
On the river, Kovalyuk went all in for 68,642 and Crema snapped him off. Kovalyuk shoved but was second best to Crema's to end his run.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Thiago "Bada Bing!" Crema |
422,433
131,460
|
131,460 |
Mikhail "Freez112" Kovalyuk | Busted |
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Diego "TheProjector" Ventura |
516,351
137,357
|
137,357 |
|
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Thiago "Bada Bing!" Crema |
479,929
57,496
|
57,496 |
Daniel Smiljkovic |
406,660
47,076
|
47,076 |
|
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Daniel Dvoress |
399,138
399,138
|
399,138 |
|
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Francisco "VaPaCooler" Benitez |
386,617
116,403
|
116,403 |
Dario Sammartino |
366,014
186,278
|
186,278 |
Chih Wei "FanChihWei" Fan
|
354,684
240,330
|
240,330 |
Dmitry "Altbbb" Yurasov
|
336,711
102,819
|
102,819 |
Stoyan Madanzhiev |
317,477
317,477
|
317,477 |
|
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Mirza Muhovic |
311,839
107,937
|
107,937 |
Level 14: 2,250/4,500/550
A few hands ago, Wiktor Malinowski picked up a pair of aces to send "sibel chan" to the rail who held sixes. Now, the Polish cash gamer got it in again, this time holding against the of "ULMFKR".
The board ran out for Malinowski to river the nut flush and crest half a mill in the process.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Wiktor Malinowski |
515,644
415,644
|
415,644 |
With level 15 now underway, players have two more levels to jump in this event. Currently, 217 have registered for the final day with 124 still trying to make it to Day 2.
Note that Day 2 will begin shortly after this event, starting at 8:05p GMT.
The current chip leader in the tournament is Taiwan's Chin Wei "FanChihWei" Fan, who's the only player sitting over 800k in stack on 2/3rds of the day. One of Fan's key hand to climb the leaderboard was with , when he sneakily hit the river on Georgios Sotiropoulos on a seemingly safe looking board.
Sotiropoulos, holding , bet 43,024 on the river and called off about 75k or so more when Fan check-raised the river all in. The Greek subsequently rebought himself back into the event.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Chih Wei "FanChihWei" Fan
|
805,931
451,247
|
451,247 |
Georgios Sotiropoulos | Busted | |
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The field is on their third break of the day. Play will continue until 22 levels have been played and all survivors will directly continue on to play Day 2.
Lev "LevMeAlone" Gottlieb has fired 6 shells in the event thus far, but is finally finding some traction as he sits third in chips.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Chih Wei "FanChihWei" Fan
|
814,181
8,250
|
8,250 |
Thomas Muehloecker |
679,939
679,939
|
679,939 |
Lev "LevMeAlone" Gottlieb
|
586,560
586,560
|
586,560 |
Thiago "Bada Bing!" Crema |
554,640
74,711
|
74,711 |
Diego "TheProjector" Ventura |
514,501
-1,850
|
-1,850 |
|
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YuZhang | 503,369 | |
Wiktor Malinowski |
498,985
-16,659
|
-16,659 |
Paulius Plausinaitis | 482,400 | |
Daniel Dvoress |
465,060
65,922
|
65,922 |
|
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wolongxiansheng | 447,065 | |
Leonis Aiolia
|
444,039 |