$1,700 Main Event
Day 1b Completed
2019 World Series of Poker Circuit Planet Hollywood
$1,700 Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 1b
2019 World Series of Poker Circuit Planet Hollywood
Buy-in
$1,700
Prize Pool
$1,178,670
Entries
778
Level
34
Blinds
100,000 / 250,000
Ante
200,000
Entries
440
Players Left
90
Ruben Chappell Bags the Day 1b Chip Lead at the WSOPC Planet Hollywood $1,700 Main Event
Level 15
: 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
The opening day flights of the World Series of Poker Circuit Planet Hollywood $1,700 Main Event are complete. Day 1b wrapped up Sunday night, with 440 total entries coming through Planet Hollywood Las Vegas for the second of the two Day 1 flights.
Those 442 entries were trimmed down to 90 by the end of the night, and some of the players bagging big included Ruben Chappell (330,000) who ended the night as the Day 1b chip leader.
Other big Day 1b finishers included Boshuang Gao (310,000), Jerry Payne (295,500) and Casey Stewart (278,500).
The 91 survivors of Day 1b will join the 65 players that made it through Day 1a, and the combined field of 154 will come back Monday at noon for Day 2.
With 778 total entries, the Main Event well surpassed the $1,000,000 guarantee, as the remaining players are now competing for a share of the $1,181,700 total prize pool.
Other contenders bagging chips at the end of Day 1b included Giuseppe Pantaleo (292,000), Sulabh Choudhury (279,500) and Chris Ocksrider (254,000).
Some notable names that played on Day 1b, but didn’t make it through the end of the flight, included Aram Zobian, Matt Berkey, David "Bakes" Baker and Arkadiy Tsinis.
The 154 remaining players return for Day 2 at noon Monday, and play will resume at Level 16, with the blinds at 2000/4000/4000.
Play is scheduled for 10 levels of 60 minutes each, and those that survive Day 2 will come back for Day 3 Tuesday and play down to a champion.
Follow along with the PokerNews live blog as the Main Event continues!
Day 2 Seat Draw and Chip Counts
Level 15
: 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
| Table | Seat | Name | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | James Hoeppner | 107,000 |
| 1 | 2 | Andy Robbins | 110,500 |
| 1 | 3 | Jeff Nowling | 150,000 |
| 1 | 4 | Antonio Bernaud | 76,500 |
| 1 | 5 | Jordan Reid | 83,000 |
| 1 | 6 | Kristen Deardoff | 92,500 |
| 1 | 7 | Robert Lee | 250,500 |
| 1 | 8 | Mark Merritt | 94,500 |
| 1 | 9 | Andrew Kelsall | 148,000 |
| 2 | 1 | Charles Teller | 206,000 |
| 2 | 2 | Jeffrey Ansaki | 34,500 |
| 2 | 3 | Joe Reddick | 137,500 |
| 2 | 4 | Casey Stewart | 278,500 |
| 2 | 5 | Malki Yaron Zeev | 86,500 |
| 2 | 6 | Jae Cha | 129,500 |
| 2 | 7 | Dustin Lee | 37,500 |
| 2 | 8 | Jeremy Menard | 194,000 |
| 2 | 9 | Daniel Santoro | 129,500 |
| 3 | 1 | Payem Saleh | 44,500 |
| 3 | 2 | Ben Farreh | 243,500 |
| 3 | 3 | Bastian Fischer | 122.500 |
| 3 | 4 | ValentinShabelnyk | 194,500 |
| 3 | 5 | Grax Sebastien | 190,000 |
| 3 | 6 | Greg Kukowski | 92,000 |
| 3 | 7 | Jody Fayant | 52,000 |
| 3 | 8 | Andrew Campbell | 167,000 |
| 3 | 9 | Sohale Kahlili | 382,000 |
| 4 | 1 | Leonidas Gicain | 81,000 |
| 4 | 2 | Sang Bo Sim | 42,500 |
| 4 | 3 | Dan O’Brien | 45,500 |
| 4 | 4 | Michael Melone | 338,000 |
| 4 | 5 | Eric Baldwin | 65,500 |
| 4 | 6 | James Rice | 24,200 |
| 4 | 7 | William Romaine | 279,500 |
| 4 | 8 | Michael Trivett | 134,000 |
| 4 | 9 | DNR | DNR |
| 5 | 1 | Timothy Chung | 128,000 |
| 5 | 2 | Oing Lu | 42,500 |
| 5 | 3 | Adrian Thomas | 76,500 |
| 5 | 4 | Sang Jun Lee | 212,000 |
| 5 | 5 | Or Zilberman | 63,500 |
| 5 | 6 | Jan Badiola | 132,000 |
| 5 | 7 | Chi Ken Yao | 219,000 |
| 5 | 8 | Chad Delanzo | 170,500 |
| 5 | 9 | David Miscikowski | 248,500 |
| 6 | 1 | Lawrence Ma | 54,000 |
| 6 | 2 | Ronnie Dowdy | 99,000 |
| 6 | 3 | Jeff Madsen | 210,500 |
| 6 | 4 | Wilbern Hoffman | 232,500 |
| 6 | 5 | Jim Carrol | 252,000 |
| 6 | 6 | Nikolai Sears | 152,000 |
| 6 | 7 | Jeff Turton | 166,500 |
| 6 | 8 | Cheang Yoo | 313,500 |
| 6 | 9 | Jorge Arriola | 209,500 |
| 7 | 1 | Viacheslav Fentisov | 169,000 |
| 7 | 2 | Matt Salsberg | 102,000 |
| 7 | 3 | Benjamin Thomas | 137,500 |
| 7 | 4 | Sean Yu | 56,500 |
| 7 | 5 | Peter Hengsakul | 117,500 |
| 7 | 6 | Charles Johnson | 155,000 |
| 7 | 7 | Kevin MacPhee | 53,000 |
| 7 | 8 | Josias Santos | 191,500 |
| 7 | 9 | David Towson | 357,000 |
| 8 | 1 | Ryan Leng | 100,000 |
| 8 | 2 | Gerald Chaplick | 36,000 |
| 8 | 3 | Daniel Pickering | 247,500 |
| 8 | 4 | Ryan Stokee | 79,000 |
| 8 | 5 | Vuong Dowdy | 136,000 |
| 8 | 6 | Andrew Rodgers | 41,000 |
| 8 | 9 | Michael Haag | 102,500 |
| 9 | 1 | Sulabh Choudhury | 279,500 |
| 9 | 3 | Tim McDermott | 392,000 |
| 9 | 4 | Ben Yu | 114,000 |
| 9 | 5 | Jim Willerson | 154,500 |
| 9 | 6 | James Czarnecki | 56,500 |
| 9 | 7 | Yoon Kim | 70,000 |
| 9 | 8 | Hank Mlekoday | 176,500 |
| 9 | 9 | Hao Wang | 129,500 |
| 10 | 1 | Mike Ruter | 15,000 |
| 10 | 2 | Keith Ferrera | 115,500 |
| 10 | 3 | Kitty Kuo | 123,500 |
| 10 | 4 | Dan Sindelar | 110,500 |
| 10 | 5 | Rubin Chappell | 330,000 |
| 10 | 6 | Reagan Rich | 203,500 |
| 10 | 7 | Eric Blair | 116,000 |
| 10 | 8 | Joseph Spanne | 188,500 |
| 11 | 1 | Zachary Donovan | 129,000 |
| 11 | 2 | Alan Cutler | 243,000 |
| 11 | 3 | Dilip Das | 199,500 |
| 11 | 4 | Stephen Joudry | 227,000 |
| 11 | 5 | Jerry Payne | 295,000 |
| 11 | 6 | Paul Lieu | 143,000 |
| 11 | 8 | Chris Murray | 295,000 |
| 11 | 9 | David Levi | 100,000 |
| 12 | 1 | Kevin Song | 310,000 |
| 12 | 2 | Jim Petzing | 90,500 |
| 12 | 3 | Amy Patel | 254,000 |
| 12 | 4 | Scott Bohlman | 55,500 |
| 12 | 5 | Ben Palmer | 196,000 |
| 12 | 6 | John Dibella | 167,000 |
| 12 | 7 | Guillermo Bella | 19,000 |
| 12 | 8 | William Thompson | 94,500 |
| 12 | 9 | Ben Jones | 95,000 |
| 13 | 1 | Ardys Red | 252,500 |
| 13 | 2 | Tzu Huang | 177.500 |
| 13 | 3 | Matthew Kelly | 99,500 |
| 13 | 4 | Justin Hall | 105,500 |
| 13 | 5 | Paul Patouilliart | 136,000 |
| 13 | 6 | Thomas Kornechuk | 158,500 |
| 13 | 7 | Chris Wallace | 113,500 |
| 13 | 8 | Stuart Krasney | 170,000 |
| 13 | 9 | Jonas Lauck | 134,500 |
| 14 | 1 | Junho Song | 78,000 |
| 14 | 2 | Walter Rodriguez | 90,000 |
| 14 | 3 | Joshua Suyat | 196,000 |
| 14 | 4 | Quang Ngo | 143,000 |
| 14 | 5 | Peter Park | 224,500 |
| 14 | 6 | Huy Nguyen | 201,500 |
| 14 | 7 | Bruce Zhen | 39,000 |
| 14 | 8 | Bill Hamilton | 84,500 |
| 14 | 9 | Jeff Goodrich | 119,500 |
| 15 | 1 | Justin Teal | 20,500 |
| 15 | 2 | Thanh Chau | 60,500 |
| 15 | 3 | Kyle Chang | 145,500 |
| 15 | 4 | Jarod Ludemann | 40,000 |
| 15 | 5 | Peter Hong | 162,000 |
| 15 | 6 | Bryan Piccioli | 184,500 |
| 15 | 7 | Hunter Oland | 76,500 |
| 15 | 8 | Emmett Hickey | 226,500 |
| 15 | 9 | Ravi Raghavan | 102,500 |
| 16 | 1 | Josh King | 115,000 |
| 16 | 2 | Ryan LaPlante | 200,000 |
| 16 | 3 | Mike Cribier | 83,500 |
| 16 | 4 | Stan Jablonski | 151,000 |
| 16 | 5 | Lisa Hamilton | 90,000 |
| 16 | 6 | Tamon Nakamura | 246,000 |
| 16 | 7 | Bob Shao | 60,500 |
| 16 | 8 | Chris Ocksrider | 254,000 |
| 16 | 9 | Todd Bareika | 89,500 |
| 17 | 1 | Steve Firestone | 147,500 |
| 17 | 3 | Dong Jun Ji | 61,500 |
| 17 | 4 | Gino Levrini | 48,500 |
| 17 | 5 | Rudy Sawa | 125,500 |
| 17 | 6 | Matthew Elsarelli | 72,000 |
| 17 | 7 | Giuseppe Pantaleo | 292,000 |
| 17 | 8 | James Duke | 69,500 |
| 17 | 9 | Michael Lydon | 160,000 |
| 18 | 1 | Gary Leibovitz | 264,500 |
| 18 | 2 | John Dunn | 58,000 |
| 18 | 3 | Viny Lima | 78,500 |
| 18 | 4 | Sebastian Pavli | 235,000 |
| 18 | 5 | Nuam Muallem | 80,000 |
| 18 | 6 | Mike Del Vecchio | 170,500 |
| 18 | 7 | Boshuang Gao | 310,000 |
| 18 | 8 | David Powers | 128,500 |
| 18 | 9 | Veseun Dimitrov | 239,000 |
End of Day 1b Chip Counts (full)
Level 15
: 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
330,000 | |
|
310,000 | |
|
295,500 | -19,500 |
|
292,000 | |
|
279,500 | 236,500 |
|
278,500 | |
|
264,500 | |
|
|
254,000 | |
|
|
252,500 | |
|
252,000 | 107,000 |
|
246,000 | |
|
|
243,500 | |
|
243,000 | |
|
|
239,000 | |
|
|
235,000 | |
|
226,500 | 226,500 |
|
224,500 | 29,500 |
|
|
219,000 | |
|
|
212,000 | |
|
209,500 | 65,500 |
|
|
206,000 | |
|
203,500 | |
|
200,000 | 75,000 |
|
199,500 | |
|
196,000 |
End of Day 1b
Level 15
: 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
Day 1b play has wrapped for the night; a recap and end of day chip counts will follow shortly.
Ocksrider Takes From Rice
Level 15
: 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
On a flop reading 
, James Rice bet 10,000 from the small blind and Christopher Ocksrider raised to 30,000 from middle position. The player on the button tank-folded but Rice added the remainder to call.
The turn brought the 
and was checked through to the 
river. Rice fired 25,000 and Ocksrider moved all in for about 160,000. Rice thought for a long while, then let it go. Ocksrider showed 
for quad jacks before raking in the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
270,000 | 140,000 |
|
185,000 | -60,000 |
Five More Hands
Level 15
: 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
Five More hands will be played at each table before the remaining players bag and tag for the night.
Yan Grabs Chips From Carroll
Level 15
: 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
Jim Carroll raised to 6,000 from the cutoff and Ken Yan defended from the big blind.
The flop came 
and Yan check-called a bet of 6,500 from Carroll. The turn brought the 
and Yan check-called another bet of 15,500 from Carroll. The 
filled up the board and both players checked. Yan tabled 
for a pair of sevens and Carroll mucked.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
210,000 | 210,000 |
|
|
145,000 | -30,000 |
Huang Takes Four-Way Pot
Level 15
: 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
Kyle Chang opened to 7,000 from early position, Peter Park called in middle position, the hijack called, and Tzu Huang called in the big blind.
All four players checked the 
flop, as well as the turn.
Huang bet 15,000 on the 
river, and only Parl called. Huang showed down 
, good for two pair and the winning hand.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
163,000 |
Jablonski Doubles Up
Level 15
: 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
Stan Jablonski, in early position, got all of his 72,500 chips in preflop against a button opponent, with Jablonski covered going to the showdown.
Stan Jablonski: 
Button: 
Board: 
The on the flop put Jablonski in the lead, and his pair of queens held up through the rest of the runout.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
153,000 | 115,000 |