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Level 12
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
Players are on break for 15 minutes.
2017 WinStar River Poker Series
Main Event
Day: 1c
Event Info
2017 WinStar River Poker Series
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$2,500
Total Entries
926
Level
32
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
30,000
Players Left 1 / 926
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Level 12
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
Level 12
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
A handful of players who have put in multiple bullets are moving up the leaderboard.
WinStar Ambassador Maria Ho continues to climb her way up from a ten big blind dinner break stack and is approaching 100,000 for the first time in the tournament.
She bet 13,000 into a 17,000 side pot and her opponent folded. Ho turned over a set of sevens and had the all in player drawing dead.
Sam Phillips continues to climb as well, approaching 300,000. Aaron Mermelstein has put in multiple bullets today, but is over 100,000 and seems to be getting quite comfortable.
Finally, Marvin Rettenmaier, who max late regged last night and failed to bag is sitting just under 200,000.
Level 12
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
Henry Tran made a modest bet of 12,000 into a sizable with 
on the felt. He was in middle position, and his lone opponent on the button thought things over before splashing in a call.
"You got it," Tran said without showing.
Upon seeing 
, he sent his cards to the dealer face down.
Level 12
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
Chris Staats opened for a raise to 4,000 in middle position and got action in two spots. He bet 6,500 on the 
flop, with Chris Moneymaker calling on the button and a third player mucking. Both players checked the 
and 
and Staats turned over 
. Moneymaker had him beat with 
.
Level: 12
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 300
Level 11
: 800/1,600, 200 ante
Level 11
: 800/1,600, 200 ante
Maria Ho was looking at a ten-high flop with one diamond and facing an all in bet from the first player to act. She reshoved all in and the third player folded, leaving Ho heads up with the at risk player.
He turned over 
and Ho showed 
. The turn brought another diamond and the river was the 
so Ho earned the elimination for not quite a double up, but good enough.
Shortly after the river hit the board, the lights went out for about two seconds in the WinStar Convention center. They came back on and the WinStar Ambassador collected the pot.
Level 11
: 800/1,600, 200 ante
Now that the rebuy period is over and players have either bagged Day 2 or can no longer buy in, a few of them have been strolling through the tournament floor.
Most notably, Mike Dentale who bagged 252,000 last night came by to check on Chris Staats. Last night, Dentale made a last longer bet and has an interest in whether or not Staats bags tonight.
Dentale bet he would last longer than Staats, but he made the bet with one of Staats' friends and not Staats himself. Dentale came by to check on Staats shortly after Staats lost two all ins. Staats called an all in with pocket kings and Michael Perrone flopped a straight to beat him. Then Staats got in a three-way all in with 
against pocket eights and an unknown hand. The eights won the hand and Staats was left with about 30,000. He has since worked it back up to 51,000.
Clint Tolbert, who recently busted is also hanging around the tournament floor checking on the status of Maria Ho.
"Can you guys hurry up and bust her?" Tolbert asked the table, "you guys can have the chips and I can have the girl."
Ho doubled shortly after dinner break and hasn't gotten much going since then. She still has around 15 big blinds and it could go either way pretty quickly from here.
Level 11
: 800/1,600, 200 ante
A player in early position raised to 4,200 and got three-bet by someone in middle position, who put in 14,000. Charlie Claffey made it 28,000 to go, and the opener tanked awhile and checked everyone's stack before calling. The three-bettor pushed in his chips in a string fashion, thinking he had less, but he actually had about 5,500 more, so those came back.
The three saw a 
flop and the player with 5,500 put the rest in. Claffey shoved his remaining 46,100 in, and the opener snap-called with 
. However, Claffey had 
for top set. The third player was all but dead with . The turn cinched it for Claffey, rendering the 
river meaningless.
