Event #10: $5,000 Main Event Championship Day 1a | 2023 WSOP Paradise

12-10-2023 00:43 UTC-5

Assorted Big Stacks From the Break

Christian Zetzsche

Level 16 : Blinds 4,000/8,000, 8,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Wei-Hsun Lu	888,000 163,000	163,000
Oleksandr Turych	692,000 262,000	262,000
Tengqi Zhan	670,000 670,000	670,000
David Ganim	620,000 80,000	80,000
Daniel Weinman	503,000 103,500	103,500

Joseph Armideo	487,000 377,000	377,000
Marian Farcas	440,000 55,000	55,000

Luis Faria	419,000 419,000	419,000
Marc Inizan	415,000 85,000	85,000
Christopher Puetz	409,000 24,000	24,000
Bryce Yockey	394,000 6,000	6,000

Assad Kamran	390,000 80,000	80,000
Jozsef Liszkovics	388,000 210,000	210,000
Kartik Ved	385,000 175,000	175,000

Eduardo Bernal	366,000 11,000	11,000
Chino Rheem	360,000 30,000	30,000
Bruno Alava	358,000 178,000	178,000
Marc Siebtroth	358,000 358,000	358,000
Felipe Ramos	350,000 190,000	190,000

Pedro Garagnani	346,000 261,000	261,000
Denys Chufarin	345,000 105,000	105,000

Luis Marrero	343,000 143,000	143,000
Tommy Tran	341,000 341,000	341,000
Joseph Lebrun	341,000 246,000	246,000
Daan Mulders	340,000 10,000	10,000

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Level: 16

Blinds: 4,000/8,000

Ante: 8,000

12-10-2023 00:27 UTC-5

Break

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Ryan Lashmar

Level 15 : Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante

Players are on another 15-minute break. There are currently 142 players remaining.

12-10-2023 00:26 UTC-5

Yockey Gets River Value From Zinno

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 15 : Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante

A trio of players checked the 9♦6♦5♣A♥ turn and Bryce Yockey then overbet for 60,000 on the 7♦ river out of the small blind.

Anthony Zinno called in the big blind and Koray Aldemir folded. Yockey tabled the J♦10♦ for a flush and Zinno mucked.

Player	Chips	Progress
Bryce Yockey	400,000 80,000	80,000

Anthony Zinno	182,000 7,000	7,000

Koray Aldemir	75,000 20,000	20,000

Tags: Anthony Zinno Bryce Yockey Koray Aldemir

12-10-2023 00:21 UTC-5

Foxen Keeps on Doubling

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Ryan Lashmar

Level 15 : Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante

Marian Farcas opened to 12,000 from the hijack and received call from Arkadiusz Ignatiuk from the cutoff. Kristen Foxen moved all in for 72,000 from the small blind, forcing a fold from Farcas while Ignatiuk made the call with a covering stack to put Foxen at risk.

Kristen Foxen: A♦K♦
Arkadiusz Ignatiuk: 8♠8♣

It was a classic preflop flip that Ignatiuk got the better of on the J♣7♣5♦ flop. Foxen was getting out of her seat ready to leave the tournament area by the time the 4♠ turn was dealt but the K♣ river gave Foxen top pair for the winner and she collected a third double up in the last hour.

Player	Chips	Progress
Marian Farcas	385,000 75,000	75,000

Kristen Foxen	168,000 39,000	39,000

Arkadiusz Ignatiuk	162,000

Tags: Arkadiusz Ignatiuk Kristen Foxen Marian Farcas

12-10-2023 00:16 UTC-5

Big Double for Puetz Against Yockey

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 15 : Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante

Christopher Puetz and Bryce Yockey engaged in a preflop raising war and the former happily committed his last 187,000 when Yockey went over the top.

Christopher Puetz: K♥K♣
Bryce Yockey: 9♦9♠

The 6♠6♣3♦Q♦Q♣ board delivered no bad beat and Puetz earned a healthy double.

Player	Chips	Progress
Christopher Puetz	385,000 160,000	160,000
Bryce Yockey	320,000 85,000	85,000

Maria Ho	120,000 3,000	3,000
Koray Aldemir	95,000 45,000	45,000

Tags: Bryce Yockey Christopher Puetz

12-10-2023 00:13 UTC-5

Hutter Eliminated by Kubaliak

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 15 : Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante

Chino Rheem had recovered previous losses when he came up second-best with 10♠10♥ against the A♥K♥ of Kelvin Kerber.

The same table included several other big names and Matas Cimbolas was trying to figure out the name of an opponent in the five seat. "My name is Igor. Igor Igor," the answer came.

Only one of those statements was true, as it happened to be Igor Picone from Belgium.

Picone called the shove of Barry Hutter for 28,000 and then saw Tomas Kubaliak move all-in over the top, forcing out Picone.

Barry Hutter: A♦Q♥
Tomas Kubaliak: K♣K♠

The 9♥7♦3♣7♥8♠ board brought no help to Hutter and ended his run on Day 1a.

Player	Chips	Progress
Chino Rheem	330,000 20,000	20,000
Igor Picone	255,000
Kelvin Kerber	250,000 171,000	171,000

Matas Cimbolas	210,000 60,000	60,000
Tomas Kubaliak	205,000
Barry Hutter	Busted

Tags: Barry Hutter Chino Rheem Igor Picone Kelvin Kerber Matas Cimbolas Tomas Kubaliak

12-10-2023 00:07 UTC-5

Recent Eliminations

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 15 : Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Marco Sousa	Busted
Pete Chen	Busted

Daniel Smiljkovic	Busted

Daniel Rezaei	Busted

Merijn Van Rooij	Busted
Jinho Hong	Busted

Jim Collopy	Busted

Frederic Delval	Busted
Dmitrii Prusov	Busted
Masashi Oya	Busted

Aram Oganyan	Busted

Abdulla Ceesvin	Busted
Manuel Ruivo	Busted
Manuel Pochat	Busted
Chris Moorman	Busted

Hannes Jeschka	Busted
Dana Karlson	Busted
Armando Romero	Busted
Tom Talboom	Busted
Jhon Diaz	Busted

12-10-2023 00:03 UTC-5

Hunichen Takes a Minor Hit

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 15 : Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante

Chris Hunichen asked for a jack after the J♦J♣4♦J♥ turn when he had Barry Hutter all-in and at risk. However, the Q♦Q♣ of Hutter took it down when the 10♣ river completed the board, as Hunichen instantly mucked his cards.

Despite losing this hand, Hunichen has an above-average stack to his name right now.

Player	Chips	Progress
Chris Hunichen	290,000 50,000	50,000

Barry Hutter	55,000 17,500	17,500

Tags: Barry Hutter Chris Hunichen

12-10-2023 00:01 UTC-5

Foxen Doubles Again Through Farcas

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Ryan Lashmar

Level 15 : Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante

Marian Farcas had opened from middle position before Kristen Foxen moved all in for 57,000 from the button. Farcas called with a covering stack to put Foxen at risk.

Kristen Foxen: A♦Q♥
Marian Farcas: K♦Q♠

Foxen was in excellent shape with a bigger queen and remained ahead on the J♥2♦2♥Q♦6♦ runout to score a full double up through Farcas for the second time in the last two orbits.

Player	Chips	Progress
Marian Farcas	460,000 30,000	30,000

Kristen Foxen	129,000 57,000	57,000

Tags: Kristen Foxen Marian Farcas