Big Stax 500
Day 2 Started
Big Stax 500
Day 2 Started
Table | Seat | Player | Count |
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1 | 1 | Empty | |
1 | 2 | Sungwook Hong | 204,000 |
1 | 3 | Nicholas Bilotti | 410,500 |
1 | 4 | Patrick Ibrahim | 488,500 |
1 | 5 | Kevin Johnson | 388,500 |
1 | 6 | Shaotong Chang | 74,500 |
1 | 7 | Daniel Sewnig | 300,000 |
1 | 8 | Michael Kemeter | 402,000 |
1 | 9 | Empty | |
2 | 1 | Empty | |
2 | 2 | Steven Ortiz | 428,500 |
2 | 3 | John Morales | 250,000 |
2 | 4 | Chris Cho | 283,000 |
2 | 5 | Lance Funston | 488,500 |
2 | 6 | Richard Auteri | 128,500 |
2 | 7 | Metin Adam | 260,500 |
2 | 8 | Jeffrey Gross | 140,500 |
2 | 9 | Empty | |
3 | 1 | Empty | |
3 | 2 | Robert Bolte | 129,000 |
3 | 3 | Vineet Pahuja | 357,000 |
3 | 4 | John Scrimenti | 305,000 |
3 | 5 | Stephen Rozanski | 174,500 |
3 | 6 | Eugene Lafollette | 79,000 |
3 | 7 | Shankar Pillai | 347,000 |
3 | 8 | Nathaniel Lindquist | 272,000 |
3 | 9 | Empty | |
4 | 1 | Empty | |
4 | 2 | David Koshar | 268,000 |
4 | 3 | Wenhao Ying | 114,000 |
4 | 4 | Timothy Pipe | 107,500 |
4 | 5 | Victor Ramdin | 206,000 |
4 | 6 | Michael Bonita | 136,500 |
4 | 7 | Edan Sucov | 174,000 |
4 | 8 | Tony Najjar | 291,000 |
4 | 9 | Empty | |
5 | 1 | Empty | |
5 | 2 | Srikar Chadhivae | 39,500 |
5 | 3 | Michael Goldberg | 252,500 |
5 | 4 | Robert Sichelstiel | 117,500 |
5 | 5 | Kenneth Keppol | 235,000 |
5 | 6 | John Mcguinness | 398,000 |
5 | 7 | Naveen Chettipally | 249,000 |
5 | 8 | Gregory Nerenberg | 189,500 |
5 | 9 | Empty | |
7 | 1 | Empty | |
7 | 2 | Jamie Giunta | 212,000 |
7 | 3 | David Poe | 188,000 |
7 | 4 | Matthew Cerbone | 93,000 |
7 | 5 | Yijun Lin | 63,500 |
7 | 6 | Matthew Walko | 210,000 |
7 | 7 | Jack Martin | 160,000 |
7 | 8 | Nir Naim | 121,500 |
7 | 9 | Empty | |
8 | 1 | Empty | |
8 | 2 | Sandeep Mathai | 120,500 |
8 | 3 | Ryan Eriquezzo | 342,000 |
8 | 4 | Matthew Kurtz | 220,500 |
8 | 5 | Shane Little | 44,000 |
8 | 6 | Richard Kerman | 113,500 |
8 | 7 | Timothy Flank | 211,500 |
8 | 8 | Patrick Tynion Jr | 179,500 |
8 | 9 | Empty | |
9 | 1 | Empty | |
9 | 2 | Phillip Phan | 43,000 |
9 | 3 | Harish Gadre | 319,000 |
9 | 4 | Jack Lee | 102,500 |
9 | 5 | Samuel Biery | 289,000 |
9 | 6 | Michael Lagnese | 48,000 |
9 | 7 | Nathan Cheadle | 59,500 |
9 | 8 | Marc Lesitsky | 151,000 |
9 | 9 | Empty | |
10 | 1 | Empty | |
10 | 2 | Louis Giampa | 79,000 |
10 | 3 | Marc Rago | 143,000 |
10 | 4 | John Forsyth | 392,000 |
10 | 5 | David Uvaydov | 108,000 |
10 | 6 | Ci Zhou | 166,000 |
10 | 7 | Akash Patel | 63,500 |
10 | 8 | Anthony Anastasi | 168,500 |
10 | 9 | Empty | |
11 | 1 | Empty | |
11 | 2 | Ryan Forbeck | 159,000 |
11 | 3 | Diane Lepera | 227,000 |
11 | 4 | Peter Mendelsohn | 111,500 |
11 | 5 | Robert Link | 191,500 |
11 | 6 | Friman Villalona | 275,500 |
11 | 7 | Tenzin Chakdor | 107,000 |
11 | 8 | Ryan Mcknight | 131,500 |
11 | 9 | Empty | |
12 | 1 | Empty | |
12 | 2 | Peter Zarriello | 54,500 |
12 | 3 | Vincent Oliver | 334,000 |
12 | 4 | Alexander Bernard | 372,500 |
12 | 5 | John Alesi | 188,000 |
12 | 6 | Guoliang Chen | 267,000 |
12 | 7 | Michael Linster | 255,000 |
12 | 8 | Mark Amabile | 312,000 |
12 | 9 | Empty | |
13 | 1 | Empty | |
13 | 2 | Jonas Wexler | 208,500 |
13 | 3 | Michael Dalessandro | 43,500 |
13 | 4 | Alex Jim | 58,000 |
13 | 5 | Michael Marder | 121,500 |
13 | 6 | Purvesh Kale | 117,500 |
13 | 7 | Dominick Sannino | 180,000 |
13 | 8 | Justin Mills | 194,000 |
13 | 9 | Dennis Zollo | 357,500 |
14 | 1 | Empty | |
14 | 2 | Sameer Batra | 502,500 |
14 | 3 | Thomas Holowchuk | 474,500 |
14 | 4 | John Malczan | 107,000 |
14 | 5 | Steven Mccullough | 85,000 |
14 | 6 | Aaron Galavotti | 40,000 |
14 | 7 | Shuntak Yeung | 175,500 |
14 | 8 | Joseph Agron Jr | 348,500 |
14 | 9 | Marilyn Matthews | 223,000 |
15 | 1 | Empty | |
15 | 2 | Joseph Palma | 350,500 |
15 | 3 | Wen Zhang | 644,500 |
15 | 4 | Robert Trojan | 203,000 |
15 | 5 | Michael Latour | 298,500 |
15 | 6 | Ethan Dolan | 214,500 |
15 | 7 | Yingxin Chen | 159,000 |
15 | 8 | Charles Kassin | 141,000 |
15 | 9 | Lina Donskaya | 218,000 |
16 | 1 | Empty | |
16 | 2 | Chad Rosow | 102,500 |
16 | 3 | Kenny Huynh | 136,000 |
16 | 4 | James Lillis | 246,000 |
16 | 5 | James Sharpe | 199,000 |
16 | 6 | David Lin | 392,500 |
16 | 7 | Jonathan Diolosa | 854,500 |
16 | 8 | Matthew Refice | 189,000 |
16 | 9 | Marvin Siegel | 134,500 |
17 | 1 | Empty | |
17 | 2 | Moshe Zarum | 388,500 |
17 | 3 | Samuel Taylor | 405,000 |
17 | 4 | Anatoly Zharnitsky | 165,000 |
17 | 5 | Kevin Lutz | 188,000 |
17 | 6 | Kory Shope | 86,500 |
17 | 7 | Anthony Chin | 168,000 |
17 | 8 | Igor Skochilo | 111,000 |
17 | 9 | Robert Wood | 142,000 |
18 | 1 | Empty | |
18 | 2 | Travis Decker | 246,000 |
18 | 3 | Paul Lambrakis | 177,500 |
18 | 4 | Michael Mcnicholas | 129,500 |
18 | 5 | Sridhar Natarajan | 575,500 |
18 | 6 | Michael Dichiaro | 447,500 |
18 | 7 | Robert Brobyn | 197,000 |
18 | 8 | Jonathan Fader | 265,000 |
18 | 9 | Jie Fu | 60,000 |
19 | 1 | Empty | |
19 | 2 | Louis Menges | 208,000 |
19 | 3 | Rafal Kordys | 208,000 |
19 | 4 | Daniel Pabon | 414,500 |
19 | 5 | Matthew Logos | 242,000 |
19 | 6 | Sean Kurland | 203,000 |
19 | 7 | Josias Dossantos | 135,000 |
19 | 8 | Andriy Yaremiy | 290,000 |
19 | 9 | Carlo Guervil Jr | 136,500 |
20 | 1 | Empty | |
20 | 2 | William Miller | 206,500 |
20 | 3 | Travis Hartshorn | 178,000 |
20 | 4 | Abraham Gordon | 168,000 |
20 | 5 | John Tavss | 156,000 |
20 | 6 | Frank Funaro Jr | 210,500 |
20 | 7 | Joseph Rieg | 53,000 |
20 | 8 | Mitchell Brown | 205,000 |
20 | 9 | Anna Antimony | 86,000 |
21 | 1 | Empty | |
21 | 2 | Scott Fitz-Gerald | 209,500 |
21 | 3 | Yinglun Xu | 267,500 |
21 | 4 | Rahul Bhave | 361,500 |
21 | 5 | Aubrey Williams | 506,500 |
21 | 6 | David Mcconachie | 279,000 |
21 | 7 | Michael Kuczewski | 225,500 |
21 | 8 | Francis Petrillo | 62,500 |
21 | 9 | Andrey Malinin | 258,500 |
22 | 1 | Empty | |
22 | 2 | Liang Liu | 317,500 |
22 | 3 | Lloyd Breuer | 63,500 |
22 | 4 | Anthony Garofalo | 144,500 |
22 | 5 | Wenhao Huang | 236,500 |
22 | 6 | Ronan Teixeira | 334,500 |
22 | 7 | Vincent Teutonico | 271,500 |
22 | 8 | Warren Chin | 159,500 |
22 | 9 | Sean Byars | 104,000 |
23 | 1 | Empty | |
23 | 2 | Richard Ogitis | 123,000 |
23 | 3 | James Mcgovern | 212,500 |
23 | 4 | Tam Nguyen | 221,000 |
23 | 5 | Besnik Dudi | 265,000 |
23 | 6 | Russell Rothstein | 172,500 |
23 | 7 | Douglas Mackinnon | 223,000 |
23 | 8 | Vyacheslav Molokovich | 309,000 |
23 | 9 | Michael C Assante | 192,000 |
Day 2 of the Big Stax XXXI 500 is set to kick-off at 11 a.m. local time today here at the Parx Casino in Bensalem, Pennsylvania.
Yesterday's final starting flight attracted 426 total entries which, combined with the other three starting flights, combined for a total of 907 entries coming from 558 unique players.
Today will see 165 from that total return but that number will still grow as registration is still open for the first hour of play or in other words, at the end of level 16.
Position | Player | Country | Chip Count |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Jonathan Diolosa | United States | 854,500 |
2 | Wen Zhang | United States | 664,500 |
3 | Sridhar Natarajan | United States | 575,000 |
4 | Aubrey Williams | United States | 506,500 |
5 | Sameer Batra | United States | 502,500 |
6 | Patrick Ibrahim/Lance Funston | United States | 488,500 |
7 | Thomas Holowchuk | United States | 474,500 |
8 | Michael Dichiaro | United States | 447,500 |
9 | Steven Ortiz | United States | 428,500 |
10 | Danny Pabon | United States | 414,500 |
With 165 players finding a bag for Day 2, there are is still a lot of poker to be played with plenty of other players outside the top ten. Other players that that found a bag and advanced to Day 2 include John Forsyth (392,000), Joe Palma (350,500), Ryan Eriquezzo (342,000), James Lillis (246,000) and Victor Ramdin (206,000).
Cards will be in the air at 11 a.m. with play starting at level 16 where blinds will be 2,500/5,000/5,000. Day 2 levels will increase to 60-mins with breaks occurring after every two levels with a 75- minute dinner break coming at the end of level 21. Registration and re-entry will be open until the beginning level 17. Redraws will occur when 27, 18 and 10 players remain, with Day 2 ending when either level 25 is completed or the final table is reached.
Level | Length | Small Blind | Big Blind | BB Ante |
---|---|---|---|---|
16 | 60 minutes | 2,500 | 5,000 | 5,000 |
17 | 60 minutes | 3,000 | 6,000 | 6,000 |
18 | 60 minutes | 4,000 | 8,000 | 8,000 |
19 | 60 minutes | 5,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 |
20 | 60 minutes | 6,000 | 12,000 | 12,000 |
21 | 60 minutes | 8,000 | 16,000 | 16,000 |
22 | 60 minutes | 10,000 | 20,000 | 20,000 |
23 | 60 minutes | 15,000 | 25,000 | 25,000 |
24 | 60 minutes | 15,000 | 30,000 | 30,000 |
25 | 60 minutes | 20,000 | 40,000 | 40,000 |
Day 2 kicks off today at 11 a.m. local time in the main casino poker room. Keep it here as PokerNews will be on the tournament floor bringing you all of the live-action from Day 2 of the Big Stax XXXI 500.
Level: 16
Blinds: 2,500/5,000
Ante: 5,000
Cards are in the air for Day 2 of the Big Stax XXXI 500.
Kyle Brock open-jammed for 40,000 on the button and Sandeep Mathai came over the top getting isolation.
Kyle Brock:
Sandeep Mathai:
Brock was ahead and nothing changed after the flop.
The turn came the pairing Brock, but it also gave Mathai he broadway draw.
The river fell paint but it was the and Bock took a seigh of relief while grabbing the early double.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Sandeep Mathai | 80,500 | -40,000 |
Kyle Brock | 80,000 |
There was all in action preflop between Thomas Holowchuk from the small blind and John Malczan from the big blind.
John Malczan:
Thomas Holowchuk:
Malczan woke up with a big blind special and capitalized it into a double after the board ran out .
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Thomas Holowchuk | 373,000 | 73,000 |
John Malczan | 214,000 | 107,000 |
Jamie Giunta opened for 12,000 from late position and was called by Yijun Lin on the button, along with Jack Martin from the big blind to see a flop.
Action was checked to Giunta who continued for 20,000 and Yijun Lin jammed for 46,500.
Martin folded and Giunta asked for a count. After getting a confirmed amount, Giunta mucked her hand and Lin tabled letting her know she made the right decision.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Jamie Giunta | 180,000 | -32,000 |
Jack Martin
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148,000 | -12,000 |
Yijun Lin | 92,500 | 29,000 |
Catherine Dever open-jammed for 16,500 on the button and Srikar Chadhivae came over the top for 27,500 from the small blind. Action was on Michael Goldberg who called from the big blind.
Catherine Dever:
Srikar Chadhivae:
Michael Goldberg:
Chadhivae was ahead with his made hand of eights but Dever had two overcards and got a very nice flop [kdkjjh].
The turn secured the triple up for Dever and the river completed the board giving Chadhivae the side pot.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Michael Goldberg | 240,000 | -12,500 |
Catherine Dever | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Srikar Chadhivae | 17,000 | -22,500 |
There was three-way action after a flop. Chad Rosow lead out with an all in bet from early position and James Sharpe came over the top getting a fold from Jonathan Diolosa.
Chad Rosow:
James Sharpe:
Rosow was behind and didn't receive any help from the turn nor the river ending his tournament run.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Jonathan Diolosa | 800,000 | -54,500 |
James Sharpe | 325,000 | 126,000 |
Chad Rosow | Busted |