Main Event
Day 1b Started
2017 WinStar River Poker Series
Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2017 WinStar River Poker Series
Buy-in
$2,500
Entries
926
Level
32
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
30,000
Run It Again: Day 1b of the WinStar River Poker Series Main Event Starts at Noon
Last night, Maxx Coleman bagged over 800,000 to lead the way for the first 27 players to make Day 2 of the $2 million guarantee WinStar River Poker Series Main Event. Today several more players will queue up to try and join him. Some have already tried and will try again, like Maria Ho and Chris Moneymaker. It is likely that Matthew Lapossie will also fire again after building a big stack in Day 1a only to bubble Day 2 late last night.
Coleman is not the former WinStar Main Event Champion to bag already. Aaron Massey, the 2012 winner for $651,559 also bagged 78,500. Jim Carroll who won this tournament in 2008 fired a couple times yesterday and will likely be in the field again attempting to join the other former champs.
The players will start with 25,000 chips and play until only 12 percent of the field remains. Yesterday's field drew 219 players and today and tomorrow will likely see many more than that with some players arriving yesterday for the long weekend. DJ Alexander, who just final tabled the WPT Legends of Poker at the Bicycle Casino arrived yesterday and is expected to join the field today or tomorrow — or both.
This is a multiple reentry tournament with registration open until the start of Level 10 each day.
You can follow all the action right here on PokerNews as the Day 1b field attempts to bag anything close to the 835,500 that Coleman bagged last night.
Level: 1
Blinds: 50/100
Ante: 0
Cards in the Air
Level 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
Play is underway for Day 1b of the WinStar River Poker Series $2 million Main Event.
Early Runners, Poker Hall of Famer TJ Cloutier Joins the Field
Level 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
A few more familiar faces have shown up today for Day 1b. WSOP Poker Hall of Famer TJ Cloutier has joined the field along with Mike Dentale.
Barry Barron and Rania Nasreddine join a few of the players returning for their second attempt at Day 2. Nasreddine finished around 40th place last night.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
25,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
|
25,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
|
25,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
|
25,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
|
||
|
25,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
Nipun Java Joins the Field
Level 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
It has been a pretty good year for Nipun Java. He won not one but two WSOP gold bracelets this summer. He and countrymen Aditya Sushant became the first two players from India to win WSOP bracelets in the $1,500 Tag Team Event and then Java went on to win the $1,000 Online Event, becoming India's only two-time bracelet winner.
He also won two other tournaments so far in 2017. A $570 Deepstack tournament for $230,848 in August and a smaller $360 tournament for $17,949 just before the WSOP in April.
He now sits with just under $2.3 million dollars in live tournament winnings and is making his first appearance in this year's WinStar River Poker Series Main Event here on Day 1b.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
25,000 | |
|
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A Dead Straddle
Level 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
Brandon Steven is back in the field today after failing to bag Day 1a. He attempted to create some action with a straddle, tossing in 200 under the gun.
Karen Norman was next to act and raised to 900. The action came back to Steven.
"The first one is not good," he said as he looked at the second of his hole cards, "Oooo."
He called the raise and the flop came 
. He checked and Norman bet 1,600. Steven called. The turn was the 
and both players checked. They both checked again on the river when the 
hit and Norman won the hand with 
for a flush.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
28,000
28,000
|
28,000 |
|
22,000
22,000
|
22,000 |
Level: 2
Blinds: 75/150
Ante: 0
Jose Montes Doubles Early
Level 2
: 75/150, 0 ante
Jose Montes was in the small blind facing a raise to 300 and a call. Montes reraised from the small blind, making it 1,400 to go. The original raiser folded and the caller four-bet to 5,500. Montes went all in for about 17,000 and his opponent quickly called.
Montes had the best of it with 
against the 
of his opponent. The board ran out 
and Montes won the hand to double up.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
36,000 |
Rania Nasreddine Moving Up
Level 2
: 75/150, 0 ante
Rania Nasreddine bet the 
flop and got one caller. The turn was the 
and both her and her opponent checked. They both checked the river when the hit the board as well.
Nasreddine showed 
for a flopped set of kings and took down the pot. She is now just over double starting stack. She made a deep run last night, but fell just short of bagging for Day 2 last night and is hoping for a better result today. So far so good.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
52,000
27,000
|
27,000 |