Event #65: $10,000 Main Event Day 1a | 2014 World Series of Poker

07-05-2014 23:13 UTC-7

Tehan Bets Out Phan

[user80015]

Level 5 : 200/400, 50 ante

Joe Tehan opened to 1,000 and both Tim Phan and Nam Le made the call from the cutoff and the big blind.

Tehan continued for 1,500 on the flop only to have Phan raise it up to 4,000 as Le mucked. Tehan made the call before the was checked through on the turn.

The river landed the and Tehan bet out 5,100 with Phan quickly folding.

Player	Chips	Progress
Tim Phan	56,400	-3,100
Joe Tehan	34,125	6,625

Tags: Joe Tehan Nam Le Tim Phan

07-05-2014 23:11 UTC-7

Player	Chips	Progress
Kenny Tran	119,000	50,500
Nick DiVella	94,000	-5,350
Chris Moneymaker	90,000	26,300
Ryan Franklin	65,000	-23,000
Tim Phan	59,500	9,500
David Gorr	58,000	19,100
Garrett Greer	54,500	25,500
Mike Matusow	52,000	1,000
Cathy Dever	51,000	21,100
Laurence Grondin	47,300	-2,700
Abe Mosseri	47,000	12,000
Max Altergott	45,500	-7,500
David Singer	45,000	-13,000
Justin Bonomo	44,000	-8,700
Naoya Kihara	43,000	-3,000
Salman Behbehani	39,000	-9,600
Sam Chartier	37,000	-11,000
David Paredes	35,300	900
Chun Lei Zhou	32,000
Joe Tehan	27,500	100
Nam Le	23,400	-14,600
Manh Nguyen	21,500	10,200
Andy Bloch	15,800	-12,300
Paul Sokoloff	14,800	6,800

Jacks For Dai

Happy_Freaked

Level 5 : 200/400, 50 ante

Shang Dai and Johnny Chan have been clashing all day and just now it was the former who got the best of it.

The actions started with a raise from Matthew Ashton to 800 and Chan called. Both blind, including Dai from the small, made the call. The flop came down and the action was checked to Chan who bet 2,400.

Only Dai called and the turn, the , and the river, the , were checked. Dai showed and he won the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Johnny Chan	82,000	-6,000
Shang Dai	41,000	10,000

Tags: Johnny Chan Shang Dai

07-05-2014 23:06 UTC-7

Chips From the Mothership

[user153906]

Level 5 : 200/400, 50 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Ryan Riess	62,000	2,500
Greg Merson	45,000	3,000
Eric Worre	32,500	-500
Bill Perkins	25,000	11,000
Hac Dang	17,000	-10,000

07-05-2014 23:05 UTC-7

The “Show One” Game

[user252447]

Level 5 : 200/400, 50 ante

The buy-in for the Main Event may be $10,000 but table 391 proved that it is still just a fun game of cards for some players. The player with the most chips at the table got the rest of the players to agree to show one card of their choosing at the end of a non-showdown win.

The instigator was in the big blind the next hand and the player to his right joked that all they would be seeing from him was a succession of aces. Another player opened the action for 1,000 and the big blind called.

The flop of was checked and the turn card was the . The original raiser bet 1,000 with 7,000 behind, and the big blind folded. Time to show one card and he said, “Which ten do you want to see?” and showed the .

07-05-2014 23:00 UTC-7

Another Big Stack Spotted

Happy_Freaked

Level 5 : 200/400, 50 ante

The World Series of Poker Main Event is a constant search for new big stacks. Just now, over on Johnny Chan's table, we spotted Frank Passantino who's sitting on around 105,000 chips.

Player	Chips	Progress
Frank Passantino	105,000

Tags: Frank Passantino

07-05-2014 22:57 UTC-7

Chip Counts from the Purple Section

[user80015]

Level 5 : 200/400, 50 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Aaron Wilt	85,000	19,600
Kevin MacPhee	74,000	7,000
Kevin Iacofano	68,000	-4,500
Chris Moneymaker	63,700	26,500
Andy Hwang	61,000	-15,000
Eric Spencer	60,000	22,950
Andrew Rennhack	50,000	7,000
Antonio Esfandiari	48,000	-4,000
Mike Gorodinsky	42,000	10,500
Annette Obrestad	41,000	4,000
Hoyt Corkins	38,000	-4,000
John Monnette	38,000	-7,000
Raymond Rahme	33,000	-4,200
Adam Friedman	32,000	3,000
Will Jones	31,625	7,625
Christopher George	31,000	-11,000
Jessica Dawley	27,300	-10,700
Layne Flack	21,000	-2,700
Ted Forrest	14,200	-17,100
Josh Arieh	13,650	-25,850
Chamath Palihapitiya	12,950	-9,150
Tony Dunst	12,150	-16,750
Bryce Yockey	11,000	-10,150
Kristen Bicknell	Busted

07-05-2014 22:47 UTC-7

Play Resumes

[user80015]

Level 5 : 200/400, 50 ante

The cards are back in the air for the final level of play.

Level: 5

Blinds: 200/400

Ante: 50

07-05-2014 22:26 UTC-7

Break Time; Jacobson Climbs the Leaderboard, Notables Topple

[user80015]

Level 4 : 150/300, 25 ante

The remaining players are heading on a 20-minute break.

Following the resumption of play after dinner break, the tone of the level would be eliminations with "All American" Dave Swanson being eliminated by Kenny Tran. Swanson called all-in holding on a board and was up against Tran's . The river landed the and Swanson was headed to the rail.

Jean-Robert Bellande entered late and exited early as Mustapha Kanit had his aces cracked before being eliminated shortly after as Trishelle Cannatella, Blake Bohn, Jeff Gross, Phil Laak and David Chiu all found themselves on the rail also.

However level four would really belong to only one player; Martin Jacobson. Jacobson began the day see-sawing up and down, but this level saw him win a pot holding against on a before scooping another pot with a bet on the turn to push his stack upwards of 120,000. At-the-time chip leader Jon Broderick then sat on Jacobson's right, but after he lost a pot to John Monnette, Jacobson took the top spot on the leaderboard and ended the level as chip leader with 122,800. Sitting directly behind the Swede include Ezzie (116,250), Broderick (103,600), DiVella (99,350), and two-time WSOP Main Event Champion Johnny Chan (88,000).

The big news that also got announced in the closing few minutes of the level were that a total of 771 players entered Day 1a to be substantially lower then the 943 that took a seat in last year's Day 1a.

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Today’s Flight A of #MainEvent drew 771 entrants. About 600 remain. Flight B starts @ noon tomorrow (Sunday) & Flight C is Monday @ noon.July 05, 2014

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Tags: Johnny Chan Martin Jacobson Nick DiVella Raymond Ezzie