2014 World Series of Poker

Event #29: $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 1
Event Info

2014 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
108
Prize
$536,768
Event Info
Buy-in
$2,500
Prize Pool
$2,650,375
Entries
1,165
Level Info
Level
30
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000

Event #29: $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em

Day 1 Completed

Barry Hutter Leads After Day 1

Level 10 : 400/800, 100 ante
Barry Hutter leads after the first day
Barry Hutter leads after the first day

Once registration was closed at the start of Level 6, Event #29: $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em here at the 2014 World Series of Poker drew a total of 1,165 entries. This is considerably down compared to the 1,736 from last year, however, back then the tournament took place towards the end of the Series just before the Main Event.

At the end of Day 1, 209 players bagged chips and the top 117 spots will get paid at least $5,035. The player best positioned in the quest towards claiming the first-place-prize of $536,768 was Barry Hutter, who has two final tables on the World Poker Tour and a sixth-place in a $1,000 WSOP event in 2013 to his name. Hutter previously cashed in Event #2: $25,000 Mixed-Max No-Limit Hold'em two weeks ago and accumulated 150,500 in chips here on Day 1.

Notable names that made it through with big stacks included Grayson Ramage (138,800), 2013 bracelet winner Justin Oliver (115,100), Rep Porter (107,900), Isaac Baron (103,100), and Ben Warrington (86,700).

Roberto Romanello (73,100) is seeking yet another attempt to join the triple crown club, and other notable names to get through to Day 2 included Ravi Raghavan (54,100), Tristan Wade (52,900), Will "The Thrill" Failla (51,300), Matt Affleck (45,900), former November Niner David Benefield (45,100), Amanda Musumeci (33,000), Sam Cohen (26,300), and Jamie Kerstetter (22,200).

Among those that joined the rail before the end of Level 10 were Phil Hellmuth, Faraz Jaka, Jennifer Tilly, defending Main Event champion Ryan Riess, Joseph Cheong, Ana Marquez, 2014 bracelet winners Vanessa Selbst and Dominik Nitsche, David Williams, and Sean Jazayeri.

Jazayeri jumped into the lead very early on, but eventually lost a big flip against Jorge Walker and could not spin up the remaining stack.

The PokerNews team will be back at 1 p.m. Las Vegas time when the action resumes in Level 11 at blinds 500/1,000 with an ante of 100 and the money will be reached within the first couple hours of the day.

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End-of-Day Chip Counts (full)

Level 10 : 400/800, 100 ante
Player Chips Progress
Barry Hutter us
Barry Hutter
150,500 -4,500
WSOP 1X Winner
Grayson Ramage us
Grayson Ramage
138,600 54,600
Justin Oliver ca
Justin Oliver
115,100 -14,900
WSOP 1X Winner
Richard Kirsch us
Richard Kirsch
110,000
Rep Porter us
Rep Porter
107,900 -2,100
WSOP 3X Winner
Jorge Walker us
Jorge Walker
104,700 32,700
Isaac Baron us
Isaac Baron
103,100 -1,900
WSOP 1X Winner
Gionni Demers us
Gionni Demers
103,000 103,000
Jake Schwartz us
Jake Schwartz
99,800 9,800
Kunal Patel us
Kunal Patel
98,000
Jonathan Taylor us
Jonathan Taylor
94,700 19,700
Jessica Mendoza us
Jessica Mendoza
93,600 93,600
Nick Yunis cl
Nick Yunis
93,500 6,500
Joshua Vanduyn us
Joshua Vanduyn
88,300 88,300
Govert Metaal nl
Govert Metaal
87,900 17,900
Ben Warrington gb
Ben Warrington
86,700 8,700
Pierre Milan fr
Pierre Milan
84,900 -10,100
WSOP 1X Winner
Thad McNulty us
Thad McNulty
80,500 80,500
Daniel Strelitz us
Daniel Strelitz
79,500 79,500
WSOP 2X Winner
Phu Ngo us
Phu Ngo
78,400 -1,600
Oleg Badmayev us
Oleg Badmayev
74,800 74,800
Noah Bronstein us
Noah Bronstein
74,700 -100
John Depersio us
John Depersio
74,400 74,400
Ivan Freitez Rosales ve
Ivan Freitez Rosales
73,500 73,500
Roberto Romanello gb
Roberto Romanello
73,100 2,200
WSOP 1X Winner

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Three More Hands

Level 10 : 400/800, 100 ante

The tournament clock has been paused and the dealers instructed to deal three more hands. Once those three hands are completed, the first of three days play in this event will be over.

Williams Gets Whacked

Level 10 : 400/800, 100 ante

David Williams has crashed out late on here in event #29 after a cruel hand with Nick Yunis.

Yunis opened to 2,000 from under the gun, one player stepped out of the way and David Williams called. The big blind made it a trio of players heading to the {10-Spades}{7-Clubs}{A-Hearts}. The big blind checked, Yunis made a continuation bet of 4,000 and only Williams called. The turn was the {6-Hearts} and Yunis bet 8,200 and Williams called.

The river card was the {8-Diamonds} and Yunis moved all-in. Williams called, but seen wished he hadn't when he saw his {10-}{10-} was crushed by Yunis {9-Hearts}{9-Diamonds} that had backed into a straight.

That hand left Williams with 1,300 chips, which went into the middle on the next hand. Williams' {K-Clubs}{2-Hearts} was no match for the {A-Diamonds}{9-Diamonds} that called him and Williams was out of here.

Player Chips Progress
Nick Yunis cl
Nick Yunis
87,000 39,000
David Williams us
David Williams
Busted
WSOP 1X Winner

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Lindley And Ruzicka Double

Level 10 : 400/800, 100 ante

Christina Lindley was all in for her last 7,600 chips with {Q-Spades}{K-Clubs} and got called by {A-Diamonds}{9-Diamonds}. The board ran out {8-Spades}{8-Diamonds}{X-Spades}{2-Spades}{K-Spades} and Lindley could sit down again.

Until the {10-Clubs}{2-Clubs}{6-Hearts}{J-Hearts} turn, there were about 9,000 chips in the middle of the table and Vojteck Ruzicka got his last 18,100 all in with {9-Hearts}{8-Hearts}. He got called by {6-Clubs}{6-Diamonds} and got there with the {7-Diamonds} river.

Player Chips Progress
Vojtech Ruzicka cz
Vojtech Ruzicka
45,000 35,000
Christina Lindley us
Christina Lindley
17,000 900

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Level 10 : 400/800, 100 ante
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Affleck Wins a Big One

Level 10 : 400/800, 100 ante

Matt Affleck raised to 2,000 from early position and the player to his direct left called. Nobody else wanted to tangle with this pair so it was heads-up to the {A-Hearts}{A-Clubs}{J-Clubs} flop.

Affleck led for 2,800 and was quickly called. The turn was the {5-Clubs} and Affleck sat completely motionless for around a minute before betting 4,800. Again, Affleck's bet was called.

Fifth street was the {A-Diamonds}, putting three aces onto the board. Affleck checked its arrival and his opponent checked behind.

Affleck revealed the {K-Clubs}{J-Diamonds} and won the pot with his full house.

Player Chips Progress
Matt Affleck us
Matt Affleck
43,000 9,000

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