Event #23: $1,000 Turbo No-Limit Hold'em Day 1 | 2014 World Series of Poker

06-09-2014 16:57 UTC-7

Updated Chip Counts

[user270022]

Level 9 : 300/600, 75 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Jonas Mackoff	32,500 29,500	29,500
Alex Livingston	32,000 22,300	22,300

Griffin Benger	22,000 19,000	19,000
Eric Cajelais	18,800 18,800	18,800
Mark Radoja	11,500 -300	-300

Sorel Mizzi	Busted
Ami Alibay	Busted
Russell Carson	Busted
Ryan Hall	Busted
Charles Sylvester	Busted
Jason Duval	Busted

Jonathan Roy	Busted
Xuan Liu	Busted

Level: 10

Blinds: 400/800

Ante: 100

06-09-2014 17:25 UTC-7

Harrington is in the House

Matthew Pitt

Level 10 : 400/800, 100 ante

Dan Harrington is one of poker's legends. Having won the 1995 World Series of Poker Main Event for $1,000,000, Harrington went on to reach back-to-back WSOP Main Event final tables in 2003 and 2004 where he finished third and fourth for scores of $650,000 and $1,500,000.

Harrington is equally as famous for his tournament strategy books that bear his name and will be adopting some of the strategies from those pages here in Event #23.

Harrington currently has 16,000 chips in his stack and is still in the hunt for what would be his third WSOP bracelet.

Player	Chips	Progress
Dan Harrington	16,000 16,000	16,000

Tags: Dan Harrington

06-09-2014 17:36 UTC-7

Sean Prendiville Building a Stack

[user272102]

Level 10 : 400/800, 100 ante

Fresh off a 23rd place finish in the Millionaire Maker - which was good for $50,614 - Sean Prendiville is looking to take it one step further. He is off to a good start today with 65,000 in chips as we near the end of Level 10. That's over 80 big blinds, which in comparison to the majority of the remaining players is a huge stack. He's among the leaders in the tournament at this point.

Player	Chips	Progress
Sean Prendiville	65,000 65,000	65,000

06-09-2014 17:38 UTC-7

Another KO for Gregg

[user270022]

Level 10 : 400/800, 100 ante

We arrived to the table as Tony Gregg made a call against a preflop shove from a player in late position. Gregg had his opponent crushed, covered, and at risk.

Gregg:
Opponent:

The board rolled out and Gregg sent his opponent to the rail.

Player	Chips	Progress
Anthony Gregg	33,000 20,500	20,500

Tags: Tony Gregg

06-09-2014 17:44 UTC-7

Roothlus is Toothless

Matthew Pitt

Level 10 : 400/800, 100 ante

Adam "Roothlus" Levy has been eliminated from the tournament, although he had to wait a little longer for confirmation of his bust out. He had lost an all-in preflop encounter against when the board ran and was ready to leave the tournament area, but was called back by the dealer as Levy had a single T100 chip left — enough to pay the ante on the next hand.

Adam Levy @Roothlus

Down to a literal chip and a chair. #lfgJune 09, 2014

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That 100 went into the middle during the next hand and Levy's lost out to Konstantin Puchkov who hit a pair of fours to bust him.

Player	Chips	Progress
Adam Levy	Busted

Tags: Adam Levy Konstantin Puchkov

Level: 11

Blinds: 500/1,000

Ante: 100

06-09-2014 17:49 UTC-7

Radoja Rolls Out

[user270022]

Level 11 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

Mark Radoja has been eliminated from play when his went up against . His opponent flopped a set of tens and then turned a full house to leave Radoja drawing dead.

Player	Chips	Progress
Mark Radoja	Busted

Tags: Mark Radoja

06-09-2014 17:53 UTC-7

Glantz Wins Huge Flip to Move to Top of Chip Leaders

Matthew Pitt

Level 11 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

Matt Glantz looks to be our new chip leader following a massive coinflip that he says he almost wasn't a part of.

A raise to 1,700 was three-bet to 3,500 by Glantz who was then facing an all-in four-bet of around 32,000. Glantz said he almost folded, but eventually called, showing as he did so. Glantz's "Big Slick" was up against his opponent's .

The flop kept the lowly pocket threes ahead and Glantz faced the prospect of losing the vast majority of his stack. The on the turn gave Glantz more outs because he could now hit an ace, king, nine, six or heart to win the hand. One of those outs, the landed on the river to counterfeit the pocket threes and leave Glantz with a huge stack of 70,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Matt Glantz	70,000 35,000	35,000

Tags: Matt Glantz

06-09-2014 17:59 UTC-7

Some Chip Counts

[user272102]

Level 11 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

We're down to 216 players - 45 away from the money. At this pace we will definitely make the money before the dinner break, which is at the end of Level 13. A few chip counts from around the room:

Player	Chips	Progress
Christina Lindley	41,000 1,000	1,000
Ryan Riess	26,000 1,000	1,000

Scott Montgomery	25,000

Jimmy Fricke	22,000 11,000	11,000
Faraz Jaka	22,000 10,000	10,000

Harrison Gimbel	20,000

Alex Queen	19,000 10,000	10,000
Amanda Baker	18,500 10,500	10,500
Tim West	12,000 4,000	4,000
Athanasios Polychronopoulos	9,000 2,550	2,550

Ronnie Bardah	8,000 -16,000	-16,000

Olivier Busquet	7,000 -1,000	-1,000