Recent Eliminations
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Xuan Liu | Busted | |
Jonathan Duhamel | Busted | |
Jordan Morgan | Busted | |
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Player | Chips | Progress |
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Xuan Liu | Busted | |
Jonathan Duhamel | Busted | |
Jordan Morgan | Busted | |
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The tournament was just interrupted --- or actually not really interrupted at all -- by a fire alarm. It's flashing strobes and sounding the klaxon, and there's a pleasant lady's voice telling everyone something garbled. A member of staff said, "Someone pulled the alarm," as he scurried past.
The clock's runnin'.
The Team PokerStars Pros are filling in (and breaking from the Amazon Room). We've spotted a few more:
Andre Akkari, Alexandre Gomes, and Maria Mayrinck (Brazil)
David Williams (USA)
Matthias de Meulder (Belgium)
Maxim Lykov (Russia)
Unfortunately, we've also lost one of the Team Pro; Germany's Jan Heitmann has been sent off.
It's really hard to find notable action with so many familiar faces, but we see a lot of people walk past us to the exit door. The latest? PCA Champion and poker multi-millionaire Galen Hall.
Level: 4
Blinds: 75/150
Ante: 0
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Rob Hollink |
7,000
4,000
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4,000 |
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Lauren Kling |
6,900
3,900
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3,900 |
Praz Bansi |
6,700
3,700
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3,700 |
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Greg Raymer |
6,300
3,300
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3,300 |
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Dwyte Pilgrim |
6,100
3,100
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3,100 |
James Mackey |
5,600
2,600
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2,600 |
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Vitaly Lunkin | 4,700 | |
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Nick Binger |
3,900
900
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900 |
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Maxim Lykov
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3,200
200
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200 |
Vanessa Peng
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3,000 | |
Shane Schleger |
2,800
-200
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-200 |
David Williams |
1,825
-1,175
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-1,175 |
Ylon Schwartz | Busted | |
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Player | Chips | Progress |
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Erica Schoenberg |
8,000
5,000
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5,000 |
Lars Bonding | 7,500 | |
Jonathan Aguiar |
6,200
3,200
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3,200 |
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Maria Mayrinck | 3,000 | |
Kevin MacPhee |
2,200
-5,800
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-5,800 |
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Jimmy Fricke |
900
-2,100
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-2,100 |
We didn't see how it went down, only walking up in time to see Andre Akkari receiving a double-up. The board showed , and Akkari was all in for 4,675. His opponent's cards were mucked, because Akkari's was the winner. Just like that, he's close to 10,000 with about 9,800 or so.
Registration is still open for almost another hour, and the field is getting thick. We've ticked up to 2,644 entrants today, bringing the total combined field to an eye-catching 4,576 and counting. If that doesn't impress you, take a look at the history of the $1,000 events since 2009. There were also $1,000 events in 2006 and prior, but none of them generated comparable fields to these:
Year | Event | Winner | Entrants | Prize |
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2009 | Event #4 | Steve Sung | 6,012 | $771,106 |
2010 | Event #3 | Aadam Daya | 4,345 | $625,872 |
2010 | Event #13 | Steven Gee | 3,024 | $472,479 |
2010 | Event #24 | Jeffrey Tebben | 3,289 | $503,389 |
2010 | Event #36 | Scott Montgomery | 3,102 | $481,760 |
2010 | Event #47 | Shawn Busse | 3,128 | $485,791 |
2010 | Event #54 | Marcel Vonk | 3,844 | $570,960 |
2011 | Event #8 | Sean Getzwiller | 4,178 | $611,185 |
2011 | Event #20 | Jason Somerville | 3,175 | $493,091 |
2011 | Event #34 | Mark Schmid | 3,144 | $488,283 |
2011 | Event #45 | Kenneth Griffin | 2,890 | $455,356 |
This is the second-largest $1,000 event ever (next to 2009's notable "Stimulus Special"), and -- we think -- the second-largest non-Main-Event field in WSOP history. We'll check a little more thoroughly before we print that, though. Er... wait.
One of the many late registrations is Jonathan Spinks in an event he pretty much has stated as a lottery.
"If you can make it past the first five levels or so then you actually have a chance do go deep in this event..."
At that point he then pushed his last 1,500 all in and got a call from the cutoff's . Spinks turned over and doubled up after a board of to remain in the hunt.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Jonathan Spinks | 3,000 |