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

07-06-2014 13:54 UTC-8

Player	Chips	Progress
Joseph Cheong	37,000 1,000	1,000

Galen Hall	35,000 5,600	5,600

Phil Galfond	33,000 3,800	3,800

Yann Dion	29,700
Mike McDonald	29,000 1,000	1,000
Jon Turner	27,000 3,000	3,000

Justin Smith	26,500 2,000	2,000
Jonathan Tamayo	25,300 2,700	2,700

Melissa Burr	21,000 6,950	6,950
Manuel Bevand	18,000 12,000	12,000
Brandon Steven	18,000 12,000	12,000

Chip Counts from the Purple Section

Level 2 : 100/200, 0 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Kevin Song	43,700 13,700	13,700

Sam Greenwood	33,000 3,000	3,000

Angel Guillen	31,300 1,300	1,300

Jared Hamby	30,000

Dale Marsland	29,600 400	400
Daniel Ospina	29,600 400	400

Cy Watson	28,500 1,500	1,500
Brandon Meyers	27,800 2,200	2,200
Scott Seiver	27,500 2,500	2,500

Joseph McKeehen	26,900 3,100	3,100
Ismael Bojang	25,400 4,600	4,600

Nick Binger	25,200 4,800	4,800

Alex Queen	24,800 5,200	5,200
Chris Bell	24,400 5,600	5,600
Max Silver	23,800 6,200	6,200

Andrey Pateychuk	21,700 8,300	8,300

07-06-2014 13:55 UTC-8

Player	Chips	Progress
Joe Kuether	61,000 1,000	1,000
Heinz Kamutzki	46,000 4,400	4,400
Lex Veldhuis	41,000 3,200	3,200

Aaron Jones	36,000 2,500	2,500
Igor Kurganov	29,000 29,000	29,000

Mathew Frankland	25,900 600	600
Jamie Kerstetter	24,000 6,000	6,000

PokerNews Impromptu: Joseph Cheong on First Break of 2014 WSOP Day 1b

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Chad Holloway

Level 2 : 100/200, 0 ante

Former November Niner Joseph Cheong opted to play Day 1b of the 2014 WSOP Main Event. Find out why he chose that day, and why he feels he's due for a deep run, in the latest PokerNews Impromptu.

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07-06-2014 13:57 UTC-8

Chip Counts from the Feature Tables

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Remko Rinkema

Level 2 : 100/200, 0 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Huck Seed	56,000 1,100	1,100

Erik Seidel	45,100 15,100	15,100

Kevin Pollak	42,100 6,100	6,100
Ray Romano	31,000 3,000	3,000
Dan Harrington	30,500 3,500	3,500

David Sklansky	29,500

Frank Kassela	28,700 5,300	5,300

Vanessa Selbst	28,200 1,200	1,200

07-06-2014 13:59 UTC-8

A Little One For Staszko

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Remko Rinkema

Level 2 : 100/200, 0 ante

The 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event runner up Martin Staszko just took down a decent sized pot.

A player raised to 500 and Staszko called from the button. The flop came down and Staszko called another 600. On the turn the hit and both players checked. The river was the and Staszko's opponent check-folded to a 1,050-chip bet.

Player	Chips	Progress
Martin Staszko	31,000 100	100

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07-06-2014 14:02 UTC-8

Purple Parrots

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Player	Chips	Progress
Tuan Le	49,000 19,000	19,000
Sunny Jung	46,000 16,000	16,000
Max Greenwood	42,000 1,400	1,400

Kevin Saul	37,000 7,000	7,000
Arnaud Mattern	37,000 7,000	7,000
Tim Finne	36,000 6,000	6,000
Mark Radoja	34,000 4,000	4,000

Tom Koral	30,300 300	300

Gary Benson	29,000 1,000	1,000

Eric Afriat	28,000
Bryan Huang	28,000 2,000	2,000
Sean Drake	25,700 4,300	4,300

Oleksii Kovalchuk	21,000 9,000	9,000

Ognjen Sekularac	17,000 13,000	13,000
David Sands	6,000 24,000	24,000

07-06-2014 14:06 UTC-8

More Brasilia Chip Counts

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Mickey Doft

Level 2 : 100/200, 0 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Matt Affleck	41,000 11,000	11,000
Russell Thomas	40,000
Timothy Reilly	38,000 7,200	7,200
Ruben Visser	37,000
Jason Mann	37,000 7,000	7,000
Kristy Arnett	37,000
Zachary Gruneberg	35,000 5,000	5,000

Robert Panitch	32,000 2,000	2,000
Dan O'Brien	31,000 1,000	1,000
Erika Sands	29,000 1,000	1,000
Antoine Saout	28,000
Erica Lindgren	28,000
Jonathan Little	27,000 2,000	2,000

Brett Richey	26,000 4,000	4,000
Mimi Luu	24,500
Raymond Davis	24,000 6,000	6,000
David Bach	23,000 7,000	7,000

Chris Brammer	23,000
Tony Gregg	22,000

Chris Lindh	18,000
Dan Kelly	15,000 15,000	15,000

07-06-2014 14:10 UTC-8

Rettenmaier Sits, Brasilia Bronze Updates

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Player	Chips	Progress
Allyn Jaffrey Shulman	37,000 7,000	7,000
Steve Zolotow	36,000 6,000	6,000

Brandon Shack-Harris	31,000 2,150	2,150

Marvin Rettenmaier	30,000

07-06-2014 14:12 UTC-8

Some Counts From Orange Section

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Matthew Pitt

Level 2 : 100/200, 0 ante

Two well-known figures in poker have joined the orange section of the Amazon Room since play resumed after the first break.

French rapper-turned-poker player Bruno "Kool Shen" Lopes is attempting to dance his way to a massive score, while Oliver Busquet is his usual cool, calm and collected self and has already added 7,000 chips to his stack.

Player	Chips	Progress
Tim West	38,000 8,000	8,000
Olivier Busquet	37,000 37,000	37,000
Andy Black	31,500 1,300	1,300
Mike Hill	30,200 200	200
Steve Watts	29,000 500	500
Bruno Lopes	28,800 28,800	28,800

Jay Rosenkrantz	27,300 1,700	1,700
Rupert Elder	22,000 8,000	8,000
Allen Cunningham	21,500 3,500	3,500

Ben Lamb	17,300 1,200	1,200

Michiel Brummelhuis	16,700 1,300	1,300
Guillaume Darcourt	13,800 19,200	19,200
Adrian Apmann	13,800 16,200	16,200