2014 World Series of Poker

Event #32: $10,000 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold'em Championship
Day: 1
Event Info

2014 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
qq
Prize
$670,041
Event Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$2,481,600
Entries
264
Level Info
Level
28
Blinds
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
10,000

Williams Pushes Out Spinella with a Gutsy Bluff

Level 10 : 500/1,000, 100 ante
David Williams in a previous event
David Williams in a previous event

From the cutoff seat, Anthony Spinella raised to 2,400. Brock Parker called from the small blind, and David Williams reraised to 10,000 from the big blind. Spinella called, and Parker called.

The flop came down {A-Hearts}{K-Diamonds}{Q-Diamonds}, and all three players checked rather quickly before the dealer placed the {K-Clubs} out on the turn to pair the board. Parker and Williams checked, which prompted a bet of 8,500 from Spinella. After Parker folded, Williams check-raised enough to put Spinella all in.

"Oh my f***ing god!" blurted out Spinella as soon as Williams stuck out the stack of pink T5,000 chips to set him all in. "This is just the worst."

After a minute or so of tanking, Spinella began talking out loud to himself. "You have to have it," he said.

Another minute passed as Spinella was tossing around his chips in front of him in a frustrated fashion before he added, "You're really telling me not to call right now?"

Williams didn't flinch during Spinella's tanking episode, and eventually Spinella gave it up. As soon as he did, Williams turned up the {2-Diamonds} from his hand and passed his cards to the dealer.

"F***!" yelled out Spinella, slamming a couple chips on the felt in front of him and causing players at the adjacent tables to snap their head over and look at what was going on. One chip even bounced off the table and rolled about 12 feet away to where the security guard in the area had to point out where the chip went.

Left with a little under 30,000 in chips, Spinella wasn't too happy with it. Williams, on the other hand, moved up to 130,000 with smile on his face.

Player Chips Progress
David Williams us
David Williams
130,000
6,000
6,000
$25K Fantasy
WSOP 1X Winner
Brock Parker us
Brock Parker
33,000
-7,000
-7,000
Anthony Spinella us
Anthony Spinella
29,500
-25,500
-25,500
WSOP 1X Winner

Tags: Brock ParkerDavid WilliamsAnthony Spinella

Markin on Top After Day 1; Gonsalves, Griffin, and Gruissem Among Leaders

Level 10 : 500/1,000, 100 ante
Markus Gonsalves
Markus Gonsalves

Day 1 of Event #32: $10,000 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold’em is in the books, and leading the 97 survivors is Leonid Markin. Markin bagged 206,800 chips, most of which came in a failed bluff from Jonathan Jaffe. The two were heads up in a pot where Markin fired out a pot-sized bet on the flop, and Jaffe moved all in for roughly 90 big blinds holding queen-high and no draw. Markin called with pocket aces and held, dragging the 183,000-chip pot.

Joining Markin atop the counts are Ashton Griffin (162,300), Markus Gonsalves (145,900), Wai Kin Yong (141,100), and Philipp Gruissem (130,900). Griffin won a 100,000-chip race against Martin Finger in Level 9.

Also surviving the day are PokerNews Podcast cohost Jason Somerville, 2014 WSOP bracelet winners Doug Polk, George Danzer, and Brock Parker, and two players who ran very big bluffs and showed only the {2-Diamonds}; Nick Schulman and David Williams.

Schulman bluffed Jaffe in Level 8, moving all in for less than a full raise on the river of a {7-Spades}{7-Diamonds}{5-Diamonds}{6-Clubs}{j-Hearts} board. After committing roughly 100 big blinds, Jaffe folded, and Schulman showed him the {2-Diamonds}. Williams ran his bluff on Anthony Spinella during the final level of the night, check-raising all in on an {a-Hearts}{k-Diamonds}{q-Diamonds}{k-Clubs} board. Spinella folded, claiming to have a full house, and Williams also showed the {2-Diamonds}.

Spinella and Jaffe were both eliminated in later hands. Jaffe ran the aforementioned failed bluff against Markin, while Spinella had his aces cracked then lost a race to Parker.

Also exiting on Day 1 were Daniel Negreanu, Jason Mercier, Stephen Chidwick, Scott Seiver, Ryan Riess, Justin Bonomo, Davidi Kitai, Michael Mizrachi, and Joseph Cheong.

Cheong was the victim of a bad beat from Greg Merson. The 2012 WSOP Main Event champion cracked Cheong’s queens in a four-bet all-in pot with ace-jack, and Cheong exited empty-handed.

Event #32 attracted a total of 264 players – only 89 players more than the $25,000 variant held in 2013 - generating a total prize pool of $2,481,600. The top 30 finishers are all guaranteed a minimum of $17,793, each member of the six-handed official final table will pocket at least $91,670, and the winner will bank $670,041 along with the coveted gold bracelet.

Day 2 begins on Sunday at 2 p.m. PT in the Amazon Room, and PokerNews will be on hand to bring you live updates straight from the tournament floor. Until then, good night from Las Vegas!