$1,700 Main Event
Day 2 Started
2020 World Series of Poker Circuit Thunder Valley
$1,700 Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 2
2020 World Series of Poker Circuit Thunder Valley
Buy-in
$1,700
Prize Pool
$737,805
Entries
487
Level
29
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
80,000
Entries
100
Players Left
9
Day 2 Seat Draw and Chip Counts
| *Table | Seat | First Name | Last Name | Count* | ||||||
| 1 | 1 | Ted | Bui | 131,500 | ||||||
| 1 | 2 | Ahmed | A. Z. | 138,000 | ||||||
| 1 | 3 | Cari | Zieske | 77,000 | ||||||
| 1 | 4 | Bin | Duan | 325,000 | ||||||
| 1 | 5 | Ryan | Szalanktewicz | 222,000 | ||||||
| 1 | 6 | Ken | Huynh | 81,000 | ||||||
| 1 | 7 | OPEN | ||||||||
| 1 | 8 | Andrew | Ostapchenko | 78,000 | ||||||
| 1 | 9 | Justin | White | 60,000 | ||||||
| 2 | 1 | Tyler | Martin | 188,000 | ||||||
| 2 | 2 | Phuoc | Nguyen | 89,000 | ||||||
| 2 | 3 | Mark | Bansemer | 57,500 | ||||||
| 2 | 4 | Alex | Greenblatt | 69,500 | ||||||
| 2 | 5 | Larry | Serebryany | 70,000 | ||||||
| 2 | 6 | Ms | Luu | 102,000 | ||||||
| 2 | 7 | Krish | Vitaldevara | 83,500 | ||||||
| 2 | 8 | Travis | Fujisaka | 160,500 | ||||||
| 2 | 9 | Mario | Quijano | 35,000 | ||||||
| 3 | 1 | Lester | Lenart | 200,000 | ||||||
| 3 | 2 | Rafael | Gonzalez | 103,000 | ||||||
| 3 | 3 | Kao | Saechao | 180,500 | ||||||
| 3 | 4 | Rian | Mullins | 227,500 | ||||||
| 3 | 5 | Dean | Freedlander | 80,500 | ||||||
| 3 | 6 | Amador | Igarta | 291,000 | ||||||
| 3 | 7 | Steven | Michaelis | 113,500 | ||||||
| 3 | 8 | Rajesh | Meleth | 214,500 | ||||||
| 3 | 9 | Richard | Siprra | 102,500 | ||||||
| 4 | 1 | Justo | Avalos | 220,000 | ||||||
| 4 | 2 | Chai | Chang | 91,000 | ||||||
| 4 | 3 | Peter | Pap | 383,000 | ||||||
| 4 | 4 | Jarod | Minghini | 130,000 | ||||||
| 4 | 5 | Ben | Underwood | 246,500 | ||||||
| 4 | 6 | Hieu | Le | 145,000 | ||||||
| 4 | 7 | Jacque | Lavadour | 64,000 | ||||||
| 4 | 8 | Steve | Tada | 54,500 | ||||||
| 4 | 9 | OPEN | ||||||||
| 5 | 1 | Wood | Bailey | 63,500 | ||||||
| 5 | 2 | Richard | Palmer | 100,500 | ||||||
| 5 | 3 | Thu | Tran | 196,500 | ||||||
| 5 | 4 | Jasthi | Kumar | 107,500 | ||||||
| 5 | 5 | Nick | Scriabine | 159,000 | ||||||
| 5 | 6 | Mo | Faithipour | 64,500 | ||||||
| 5 | 7 | Ubaid | Habib | 116,000 | ||||||
| 5 | 8 | Mario | Lopez | 297,500 | ||||||
| 5 | 9 | Marko | Pantelic | 475,000 | ||||||
| 6 | 1 | Jesse | Lonis | 174,000 | ||||||
| 6 | 2 | Darren | Rabinowitz | 188,000 | ||||||
| 6 | 3 | Rambo | Halpern | 78,000 | ||||||
| 6 | 4 | Jagdeep | Bal | 211,500 | ||||||
| 6 | 5 | Dan | Harmetz | 145,000 | ||||||
| 6 | 6 | Jaime | Haletky | 268,500 | ||||||
| 6 | 7 | Doug | Engkirk | 150,500 | ||||||
| 6 | 8 | John | Chase | 92,500 | ||||||
| 6 | 9 | Robert | Brugliera | 78,000 | ||||||
| 7 | 1 | Karan | Chadha | 64,500 | ||||||
| 7 | 2 | Brett | Murray | 101,500 | ||||||
| 7 | 3 | OPEN | ||||||||
| 7 | 4 | Lexy | Gavin | 190,000 | ||||||
| 7 | 5 | Michael | Needle | 37,500 | ||||||
| 7 | 6 | Michael | Nelson | 44,000 | ||||||
| 7 | 7 | Jared | Pasquarello | 140,000 | ||||||
| 7 | 8 | Yanki | Koppel | 73,000 | ||||||
| 7 | 9 | Phaly | Nou | 85,000 | ||||||
| 8 | 1 | Rayo | Kniep | 176,000 | ||||||
| 8 | 2 | OPEN | ||||||||
| 8 | 3 | Matt | Gish | 96,000 | ||||||
| 8 | 4 | Ryan | Awwad | 99,000 | ||||||
| 8 | 5 | Brian | Piccioli | 249,500 | ||||||
| 8 | 6 | Don | Landwirth | 221,000 | ||||||
| 8 | 7 | Ed | Lewis | 81,500 | ||||||
| 8 | 8 | David | Vu | 149,000 | ||||||
| 8 | 9 | Matt | Livingston | 137,500 | ||||||
| 9 | 1 | Jonathan | Ingalls | 201,000 | ||||||
| 9 | 2 | Marcus | Laffen | 249,000 | ||||||
| 9 | 3 | Bobby | Mather | 182,000 | ||||||
| 9 | 4 | Walter | Robertson | 115,000 | ||||||
| 9 | 5 | Ryan | Andrada | 97,000 | ||||||
| 9 | 6 | OPEN | ||||||||
| 9 | 7 | Eli | Ross | 33,000 | ||||||
| 9 | 8 | Ian | Steinman | 211,000 | ||||||
| 9 | 9 | Scott | Bohlman | 249,000 | ||||||
| 10 | 1 | Clint | Ronsse | 188,000 | ||||||
| 10 | 2 | OPEN | ||||||||
| 10 | 3 | Jeff | Griffiths | 175,000 | ||||||
| 10 | 4 | William | Chao | 103,000 | ||||||
| 10 | 5 | Zephyr | Peling | 265,000 | ||||||
| 10 | 6 | Andres | Tamberg | 118,000 | ||||||
| 10 | 7 | Dann | Turner | 454,500 | ||||||
| 10 | 8 | Hemanth | Kumar | 122,000 | ||||||
| 10 | 9 | Joe | Nguyen | 67,500 | ||||||
| 11 | 1 | Mike | Zimmer | 52,000 | ||||||
| 11 | 2 | Kevin | Sears | 188,000 | ||||||
| 11 | 3 | Toko | Luu | 118,000 | ||||||
| 11 | 4 | Garrett | Gruener | 295,000 | ||||||
| 11 | 5 | OPEN | ||||||||
| 11 | 6 | David | Olson | 180,500 | ||||||
| 11 | 7 | Paul | Richardson | 171,000 | ||||||
| 11 | 8 | Bruce | Kramer | 113,500 | ||||||
| 11 | 9 | Jimmy | Zeledon | 43,000 | ||||||
| 12 | 1 | Josh | Morrow | 113,500 | ||||||
| 12 | 2 | OPEN | ||||||||
| 12 | 3 | Paul | Whitner | 160,000 | ||||||
| 12 | 4 | Scott | Stewart | 330,500 | ||||||
| 12 | 5 | Mike | Harvey | 233,000 | ||||||
| 12 | 6 | Hank | Lin | 43,500 | ||||||
| 12 | 7 | Ken | Jorgensen | 17,500 | ||||||
| 12 | 8 | Sue | White | 69,000 | ||||||
| 12 | 9 | Dapo | Ajayi | 213,500 | ||||||
Day 2 Chip Counts
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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475,000 | |
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454,500 | |
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383,000 | |
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330,500 | |
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325,000 | |
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297,500 | |
|
295,000 | |
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291,000 | |
|
268,500 | |
|
265,000 | |
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249,500 | |
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249,000 | |
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249,000 | |
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246,500 | |
|
233,000 | |
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227,500 | |
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222,000 | |
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221,000 | |
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220,000 | |
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214,500 | |
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213,500 | |
|
211,500 | |
|
211,000 | |
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201,000 | |
|
200,000 |
Day 2 of the WSOP Circuit Thunder Valley $1,700 Main Event Begins at Noon
The opening day flights of the WSOP Circuit Thunder Valley $1,700 Main Event are complete, and after Day 1a and Day 1b 100 players remain. Those players will come back as a combined field today for Day 2, which begins at noon from the Thunder Valley Resort in Lincoln, California.
The Main Event drew 487 total entries for the event. Of the 100 remaining players, 35 came from Day 1a, and 65 from Day 1b.
Peter Pap ended Day 1b with the biggest stack in the room, putting 383,000 chips in the bag at the completion of play. Others bagging big on Day 1b included Scott Stewart (330,500) and Mario Lopez (297,500)
Those players will come back to Sunday's Day 2 action and join Day 1a chip leaders such as Marko Pantelic (475,000) and Dann Turner (454,500).
Play will resume at Level 16 today, with the blinds and antes at 2000/4000/4000. After playing through 40-minute levels for the Day 1 flights, the tournament structure will switch to 60-minute levels for the duration of the tournament.
Day 2 is scheduled to play down to a nine-handed final table, and those nine players would come back Monday for Day 3 and play down to a winner.
The total prize pool for the Main Event ended up at $737,805, with $147,706 going to the winner.
Follow along with the PokerNews live blog as the Main Event continues.
Level: 16
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 4,000
Ed Lewis Finds an Early Double Up
Level 16
: 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante
Ed Lewis moved all in from middle position for 55,000 and Ryan Awwad called from the big blind. He showed 
and Lewis was racing with 
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The board ran out 
and Lewis doubled up.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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155,000 | 73,500 |
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68,000 | -31,000 |
Short Day for the Early Eliminations
Level 16
: 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Busted |
Mo Fathipour Shoves From the Button
Level 16
: 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante
Richard Palmer opened from middle position to 8,000 and Nick Scriabine called from the cutoff.
Mo Fathipour was on the button and shoved for 72,000. Palmer and Scriabine both folded.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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146,000 | -13,000 |
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121,000 | 20,500 |
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98,000 | -62,000 |
Level: 17
Blinds: 2,500/5,000
Ante: 5,000
Updated Counts and Recent Eliminations
Level 17
: 2,500/5,000, 5,000 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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680,000 | 225,500 |
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420,000 | 171,000 |
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330,000 | 330,000 |
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220,000 | 220,000 |
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205,000 | 4,000 |
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162,000 | -28,000 |
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160,000 | -89,500 |
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149,000 | -62,000 |
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70,000 | -118,000 |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Busted |