$1,700 Main Event
Day 1a Completed
$1,700 Main Event
Day 1a Completed
The day is over and 35 players have booked their ticket to Day 2 of the WSOP Thunder Valley Circuit main event. Marko Pantelic bagged the chip lead with 475,000 after a late surge where he overtook Dan Turner to bag the top stack. Turner, who has previously finished second in this event, was the big stack for much of the evening — peaking around 530,000.
He knocked out the High Roller winner JC Tran shortly after registration closed and between him and Pantelic they are bagging almost 1-million chips. The next closest players are Marcus Laffen and WSOP bracelet winner Scott Bohlman. They both bagged 249,000.
Meanwhile, Sam Cosby, Chad Holloway, Lexy Gavin, Tyler Patterson, and WSOP main event final tablist from 2017 Bryan Piccioli all fired and failed to bag. It is expected they will return tomorrow to take another shot in a field that will likely top 300 players.
The second of two starting flights will start tomorrow at noon and all players who make Day 2 will return Sunday at noon. The entire event will be updated right here on PokerNews.com.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Marko Pantelic | 475,000 | -5,000 |
Dan Turner | 454,500 | -70,500 |
Marcus Laffen | 249,000 | 249,000 |
Scott Bohlman
|
249,000 | -1,000 |
Mike Harvey | 233,000 | 233,000 |
Ian Steinman
|
217,000 | -8,000 |
Rajesh Meleth
|
214,500 | 39,500 |
Dapo Ajayi | 212,500 | 27,500 |
Jagdeep Bal | 211,500 | 211,500 |
Jonathan Ingalls | 201,000 | 66,000 |
Tyler Martin | 188,000 | 158,500 |
Darren Rabinowitz | 188,000 | -2,000 |
Bob Mather | 182,000 | 17,000 |
Paul Richardson | 171,000 | 33,000 |
Travis Fujisaka | 160,500 | 160,500 |
Matt Livingston | 137,500 | 137,500 |
Jarod Minghini | 130,000 | 130,000 |
Hemanth Kumar | 122,000 | 122,000 |
Walter Robertson
|
115,000 | 115,000 |
Brett Murray | 101,500 | 39,500 |
Richard Palmer | 100,500 | 100,500 |
Ryan Andrada | 97,000 | 97,000 |
Matt Gish
|
96,000 | 96,000 |
John Chase | 92,500 | 39,500 |
Chai Chang | 91,000 | 91,000 |
The players have five more hands to play before bagging for Day 2.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Marko Pantelic | 480,000 | 375,000 |
Scott Bohlman
|
250,000 | 203,000 |
Ian Steinman
|
225,000 | -50,000 |
Darren Rabinowitz | 190,000 | |
Rambo Halpern
|
83,000 | 5,000 |
Jasthi Kumar | 60,000 | -57,000 |
John Chase | 53,000 | -500 |
Level: 15
Blinds: 1,500/3,000
Ante: 3,000
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Dan Turner | 525,000 | 153,000 |
Ian Steinman
|
275,000 | 155,000 |
Alex Greenblatt | 250,000 | 204,000 |
Dapo Ajayi | 185,000 | 85,000 |
Rajesh Meleth
|
175,000 | 104,000 |
Bob Mather | 165,000 | 64,000 |
Paul Richardson | 138,000 | 110,000 |
Jonathan Ingalls | 135,000 | 15,000 |
Joel Michaels
|
135,000 | -35,000 |
Brett Murray | 62,000 | 44,900 |
John Chase | 53,500 | 29,500 |
Ray Villaman | 45,000 | -39,000 |
Erick Lindgren
|
25,000 | 7,300 |
Bryan Piccioli
|
Busted |
Jared Minghini got all in on the turn with with the board reading .
He says he got it all in on the turn against and would have been eliminated had the river not been the .
He doubled up and won a big pot with a little more than one level left in play in Day 1a.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Jared Minghini
|
160,000 |
Level: 14
Blinds: 1,000/2,500
Ante: 2,500