USPO #06 – $25,000 No Limit Hold'em
Day 1 Started
USPO #06 – $25,000 No Limit Hold'em
Day 1 Started
The 2018 US Poker Open continues today at the Aria Resort & Casino with the sixth event of the series featuring a $25,000 No-Limit Hold'em bout kicking off at 2 PM local time.
Stephen Chidwick has been dominating the USPO action so far throughout series making three of six final tables and claiming victories in two of them including the first $25,000 NLHE event and just last night Chidwick prevailed in the $25,000 Mixed-Game Championship.
Chidwick currently holds a monster lead in the USPO money race with almost as much in earnings as the other players in the top five combined.
Position | Player | Country | Total earnings |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Stephen Chidwick | United Kingdom | $810,900 |
2 | Chris Vitch | United States | $247,500 |
3 | Keith Tilston | United States | $242,000 |
4 | Daniel Negreanu | Canada | $221,250 |
5 | Justin Bonomo | United States | $190,400 |
Today's event is set to get underway at 2 PM in the Aria poker room and will play down to an official final table of six. The likes of Daniel Negreanu, Benjamin Pollak, and Bryn Kenney will surely be in the field as the three of them are involved in a prop bet where if one of them is able to be crowned champion of the US Poker Open a significant amount of money will be exchanged.
Players kick things off with 125,000 in tournament chips and blind levels will be 30-minutes in length. Up to two re-entries are permitted during the first nine levels of play with registration closing at the start of Level 10.
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Level: 1
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 1,000
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Benjamin Pollak | 125,000 | |
Justin Bonomo
|
125,000 | |
Elijah Berg | 125,000 | |
Keith Tilston
|
125,000 | |
Brandon Adams | 125,000 | |
Bryn Kenney
|
125,000 | |
Antonio Esfandiari
|
125,000 | |
David Peters
|
125,000 | |
Stephen Chidwick
|
125,000 | |
Dan Smith
|
125,000 | |
Seth Davies
|
125,000 | |
Andrew Leathem | 125,000 | |
Adrian Mateos
|
125,000 | |
Andy Park | 125,000 | |
George Adams | 125,000 | |
Barry Woods | 125,000 | |
Daniel Negreanu | 125,000 | |
Erik Seidel
|
125,000 | |
Larry Greenberg | 125,000 | |
Isaac Haxton
|
125,000 | |
Rainer Kempe | 125,000 | |
Almedin Imsirovic | 125,000 | |
Brian Green
|
125,000 |
Benjamin Pollak opened from under the gun and called a three-bet to 38,000 from Isaac Haxton just one seat over. The flop fanned out and Pollak checked. Haxton fired a bet of 11,000 and Pollak came over the top with a raise to 38,000. Haxton needed a timebank chip and ended up making the call.
The hit the turn and Pollak moved all-in getting a quick fold from Haxton.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Benjamin Pollak | 175,000 | 50,000 |
Isaac Haxton
|
75,000 | -50,000 |
There looked to be about 16,000 in the pot on the river of a board. Brian Green checked the action over to Dan Smith who tossed a big bet of 25,000 out in front of him. Green took his time and made the call just before his clock ran out.
Smith turned over the , flopping a set of aces, and running out a boat and Green tossed his cards in the muck.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Dan Smith
|
135,000 | 10,000 |
Brian Green
|
110,000 | -15,000 |
Level: 2
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 1,500
A sizeable pot was brewing on the turn of a board between Rainer Kempe and David Peters. There looked to be about 80,000 piled up and action was on Kempe.
The first 30 seconds went by before Kempe made his move. He slid a timebank chip to the dealer and moments later slid the rest of his stack forward. Peters quickly released and Kempe dragged in the pot.
As that hand was going down, Dan Shak entered the room and has taken his seat in the event.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Rainer Kempe | 155,000 | 30,000 |
Dan Shak | 125,000 | |
David Peters
|
94,000 | -31,000 |
From the small blind, justin Bonomo led a flop with a bet of 9,500 into a pot of about 25,000. His heads-up opponent, Almedin Imsirovic, raised it up to 22,000 before folding when Bonomo three-bet jammed all in.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Justin Bonomo
|
170,000 | 45,000 |
Almedin Imsirovic | 105,000 | -20,000 |
A 40,000 pot sat in the middle between Adrian Mateos and Almedin Imsirovic with a completed board reading . Imsirovic had bet 30,000, enough to cover Mateos' remaining stack and Mateos looked like he was in agony.
Two timebank chips were needed before Mateos eventually found a fold.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Almedin Imsirovic | 140,000 | 35,000 |
Adrian Mateos
|
22,000 | -103,000 |