2014 World Series of Poker

Event #26: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 1
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Event Info

2014 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
6♥6♣
Prize
$408,953
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Entries
1,594
Level Info
Level
30
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
10,000
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Silver Shoves on his Fellow Brit

Matthew Pitt
Matthew Pitt
Level 5 : 100/200, 0 ante

Max Silver checked to his fellow British-pro Tom Hall on a {7-Hearts}{10-Clubs}{2-Hearts}{5-Diamonds} board and Hall bet 1,525. Silver weighed up his options before settling on an all-in bet. Silver covered Hall by a lot of chips and Hall wasn't prepared to play for stacks and folded.

Silver is now up to 13,500 and will be hoping for a similar result that he achieved in Event #19, where he finished 13th for $23,486.

Player Chips Progress
Max Silver gb
Max Silver
WSOP 1X Winner
13,500 3,600
Tom Hall gb
Tom Hall 		3,350 -1,150

Tags: Max SilverTom Hall

Barer Building Towers

Matthew Pitt
Matthew Pitt
Level 5 : 100/200, 0 ante

Ami Barer is one of the best tournament poker players in the world, one who has $2 million in live tournament winnings and a staggering $6.2 million from his online exploits.

At the start of the year Barer won the Aussie Millions Main Event and has started Event #26 at the 2014 World Series of Poker in great form. He currently has 29,000 chips at his disposal.

Player Chips Progress
Ami Barer ca
Ami Barer
WSOP 1X Winner
29,000 29,000
Barry Greenstein us
Barry Greenstein
WSOP 3X Winner
Poker Hall of Famer
19,500 15,025
Carter Gill
Carter Gill 		9,000 9,000
Barny Boatman gb
Barny Boatman
WSOP 2X Winner
7,200 2,700
Jonathan Little us
Jonathan Little 		5,150 5,150
Nick Abou Risk
Nick Abou Risk 		5,000 5,000
Mclean Karr us
Mclean Karr 		4,150 4,150
Brandon Cantu us
Brandon Cantu
WSOP 2X Winner
4,100 4,100
Sebastian Saffari
Sebastian Saffari 		4,000 4,000
Jamie Kerstetter us
Jamie Kerstetter 		3,900 -4,600
Tony Dunst us
Tony Dunst
WSOP 2X Winner
3,800 -200
Zachary Korik us
Zachary Korik 		3,600 3,600
Mohsin Charania us
Mohsin Charania
WSOP 1X Winner
2,400 -7,600
Taylor Paur us
Taylor Paur
WSOP 2X Winner
1,100 1,100

Tags: Ami Barer

Hawkins Picks One Off

[user269680]
[user269680]
Level 5 : 100/200, 0 ante

After seven limpers, a player from the big blind shoved all in for 3,400 and action folded to Maurice Hawkins, who isolated with an all in shove of his own and they were heads up.

Hawkins: {a-Diamonds}{8-Diamonds}
Opponent: {8-Spades}{8-Hearts}

The board ran out {j-Diamonds}{10-Clubs}{a-Clubs}{6-Clubs}{9-Clubs} and Hawkins eliminates an opponent while moving his stack above average.

Player Chips Progress
Maurice Hawkins us
Maurice Hawkins 		11,000 4,900

Tags: Maurice Hawkins

Latecomers

[user252447]
[user252447]
Level 5 : 100/200, 0 ante

Registration is still open for a few more levels and players are still trickling in.

Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree is having a relaxing massage as the impassive face of Stephen Chidwick at the other end of her table looks on.

Sam Trickett recently sat down and looks in the mood to play.

Ryan Riess has just been moved and brought what remains of his stack to sit to the right of Ivan "vandir4rek" Soshnikov, who won $1,048,000 back in May in a SCOOP high roller.

Player Chips Progress
Liv Boeree gb
Liv Boeree
WSOP 1X Winner
4,500 4,500
Sam Trickett gb
Sam Trickett 		4,500 4,500
Ivan Soshnikov ru
Ivan Soshnikov 		4,500 4,500
Stephen Chidwick gb
Stephen Chidwick
WSOP 1X Winner
4,500 4,500

Bolotin is Bursting with Pride

Matthew Pitt
Matthew Pitt
Level 5 : 100/200, 0 ante

Alex Bolotin won Event #6: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout a week ago, taking home almost $260,000 and his first gold bracelet. We spotted Bolotin grinding here in Event #26 and can tell you that it looks like he's a very happy man, sporting his coveted bracelet.

Bolotin currently has 8,500 chips.

Player Chips Progress
Alex Bolotin us
Alex Bolotin
WSOP 1X Winner
8,500 8,500

Tags: Alex Bolotin

Ebanks Busts

Matthew Pitt
Matthew Pitt
Level 5 : 100/200, 0 ante

We caught Joe Ebanks as he headed for the exits and asked him what caused his elimination from Event #26.

The World Series of Poker bracelet winner got his money in with {A-}{Q-} and ran into {A-}{A-}, which rarely ends well for the weaker hand, especially when another player claimed to have also folded {A-}{Q-}.

Ebanks is now heading to play some pot limit Omaha cash games.

Player Chips Progress
Joe Ebanks us
Joe Ebanks
WSOP 1X Winner
Busted

Tags: Joe Ebanks

Garrity Doubles

[user269680]
[user269680]
Level 5 : 100/200, 0 ante
Brandon Garrity
Brandon Garrity

WSOP.com qualifier, Brandon Garrity, got all of his chips in from the big blind against an opponent's {q-}{q-}. Garrity tabled {a-}{k-} and would need to win the race to stay alive.

Help came for Garrity on the {j-}{2-}{a-} flop and the board completed {10-}{7-}. Garrity doubled up.

Player Chips Progress
Brandon Garrity us
Brandon Garrity 		7,100 7,100

Tags: Brandon Garrity

Collins Killed Off by a Cowboy

Matthew Pitt
Matthew Pitt
Level 5 : 100/200, 0 ante

Phil Collins open-shoved for 1,350 from under the gun and Jonathan Poche looked him up from the big blind to put the former November Niner at risk of elimination.

Collins flipped over {A-Spades}{8-Diamonds} and needed to avoid a king or a queen as his opponent held the {K-Clubs}{Q-Diamonds}. The dealer got to work spreading the {7-Diamonds}{6-Spades}{8-Hearts}{7-Spades}{K-Spades} board, the king on the river sending Collins to the rail.

Player Chips Progress
Jonathan Poche us
Jonathan Poche 		16,500
Phil Collins us
Phil Collins 		Busted

Tags: Jonathan PochePhil Collins

Suited Citrone

[user252447]
[user252447]
Level 5 : 100/200, 0 ante

The dapper Carlo “Diamond” Citrone is sitting on Barry Shulman’s table and is more than holding his own, having just busted out a player.

Citrone bet 1,300 on a flop of {3-Hearts}{k-Spades}{10-Clubs} and it took a while for his opponent to flick in the call. On the turn card {8-Hearts} his opponent put the rest in and Cirtone made the call with the apt {a-Diamonds}{k-Diamonds}, which was in pole position against the other player’s {k-Hearts}{q-Hearts}. The river {2-Spades} saw a pile of chips slide over his way.

Player Chips Progress
Carlo Citrone gb
Carlo Citrone 		14,000 14,000
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