Event #47: $111,111 One Drop High Rollers No-Limit Hold'em Day 1 | 2013 World Series of Poker

06-26-2013 22:41 UTC-7

Steven Binks a Two-Outer to Bust Dwan

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Level 8 : 1,500/3,000, 500 ante

Tom Dwan raised to 7,800 from under the gun, Roger Sippl called in the hijack seat, and Brandon Steven three-bet to 32,000 on the button. Dwan called, and Sippl folded.

"How much you got there?" Steven asked Dwan. "Like One-Sixty?"

"No," Dwan responded. "It's like three-hundred."

Steven was surprised by this.

The flop fell . Dwan checked, Steven fired out 37,000, Dwan check-raised to what looked like 94,000, Steven put in a re-raised, and Dwan moved all in. Steven called.

"You have a set of jacks?" Steven asked.

Dwan shook his head, revealing for a pair of aces.

"Damn," Steven sighed, showing . "But I got a backdoor flush draw."

Steven's hopes of a flush were dashed when the turned, but the spiked on the river to give him a set of queens and eliminate Dwan from the tournament.

"Wow," Steven said, sincerely. "I'm sorry, man."

"It's OK," Dwan shrugged, getting up to leave. "Put those to good use."

After the hand, Steven explained that Dwan's chip count threw him off.

"I thought he had a lot less," Steven admitted. "I would've played the hand completely different."

Over at the feature table, Freddy Deeb was eliminated with unknown action.

Player	Chips	Progress
Brandon Steven	1,100,000
Freddy Deeb	Busted

Tom Dwan	Busted

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06-26-2013 23:32 UTC-7

Online Legends do Battle and One Will Fall

Chad Holloway

Level 9 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante

You're more likely to find Gus Hansen and Ben "bttech86" Tollerene playing at the same table on the virtual felt, but today's tournament was special as the two online legends squared off in the live realm right here at the World Series of Poker.

According to Jason Koon, the dynamic duo recently went up against one another that saw one of them hit the rail. It began when Tollerene opened for 7,500 under the gun and two players flatted. Hansen then three-bet to 34,500 from the small blind, Tollerene four-bet to 90,000, the two limpers folded and the "Great Dane" made the call.

After the flop fell , Hansen checked and Tollerene bet 80,000. Hansen tanked for five minutes before calling and saying, "I'm sorry."

Hansen then checked the turn and snap-called when Tollerene moved all in. Hansen tabled the for a flopped set, and Tollerene was drawing dead with the . The meaningless river was run out and Tollerene was bounced from the tournament.

Player	Chips	Progress
Gus Hansen	520,000 120,000	120,000

Ben Tollerene	Busted

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06-27-2013 01:30 UTC-7

Brandon Steven Leads as 108 Advance to Day 2

Chad Holloway

Level 10 : 2,500/5,000, 500 ante

The 2013 World Series of Poker continued today with the biggest buy-in event of the summer—Event #47: $111,111 One Drop High Rollers No-Limit Hold'em. Last year, the $1,000,000 Big One for One Drop became the largest buy-in tournament ever held, and this year’s became the largest field ever to play a six-figure buy-in event as 166 players created a prize pool of $17,891,148. After ten one-hour levels of play, the man best positioned to make a run at the $4,830,619 first-place prize is Brandon Steven, who bagged up 1.398 million to lead the 108 advancing players.

Steven got some of his chips when he eliminated LAPC champ Paul Klann and then acquired even more in Level 8 (1,500/3,000/500) when he spiked a two-outer on the river to crack Tom "durrrr" Dwan's aces and send the online legend to the rail. In the last level of the night, he was on the good end of a set-over-set flop against Roger Sippl, which helped him solidify his chip lead.

Prior to today, the largest field size and prize pool in a six-figure buy-in event was the 2013 GuangDong Ltd. Asia Millions HK$1,000,000 (approx. $130,000) Main Event which had 125 entries (71 unique and 54 re-entries). Obviously that number was blown out of the water here in Las Vegas.

Many players took advantage of playing in the record-setting tournament and managed to punch their ticket to Day 2 including Tobias Reinkemeier (1.225 million), Dan Shak (999,000), Jason Mo (975,000), Ben Lamb (855,000), Matt Glantz (854,000), Bobby Baldwin (839,000), Daniel Negreanu (785,000), John Juanda (720,000), Jean-Robert Bellande (719,000), Vivek Rajkumar (674,000), Johnny Chan (655,000) and Jason Koon (644,000), just to name a few.

Unfortunately not everyone was so lucky. Among those to hit the rail on Day 1 were Alexey Rybin (the first to go), Sam Trickett, Isaac Haxton, Philipp Gruissem, Dan Smith, Michael Mizrachi, Bryn Kenney, Erick Lindgren, Ben "bttech86" Tollerene, Phil Ivey, Faraz Jaka and Scott Seiver.

Seiver’s demise came in Level 9 (2,000/4,000/500) when he was flipping for his tournament life holding the against the of Amit Makhija. According to the PokerNews Odds Calculator, Seiver had a 56.65% chance of surviving the hand and Makhija would win 42.95% of the time. The flop kept Seiver firmly in the lead and increased his chances of winning to 75.25%, while the turn pushed it up to 86.36%. All Seiver needed to do was dodge a king and ace on the river to double, but he couldn't do it as the spiked.

Day 2 will kick off at 13:00 PST, and as always, the PokerNews Live Reporting Team will be on hand to bring you all the action and eliminations from the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino.

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