Level: 8
Blinds: 250/500
Ante: 0
Level: 8
Blinds: 250/500
Ante: 0
With such a massive field and more than 400 players still in the hunt, it's been a bit of a challenge to spot the chipleader, but we may have just found him. Argentina's Ezequiel Waigel is now sitting behind a mountain of over 90,000 and is near the top of the Day 1b chip counts.
Waigel is fresh off a deep WSOP run in Event #7 — the massive 13,070-entry $565 No-Limit Hold'em Colossus. His 39th-place finish earned him more than $14,000 and he looks to follow it up with another deep run here in Event #19: $565 Pot-Limit Omaha.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Ezequiel Waigel |
92,000
92,000
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92,000 |
The Event #19: $565 Pot-Limit Omaha players are now on a 20-minute break and the T$25 chips are being taken out of play. There are currently 1,164 entries this flight, bringing the combined Day 1a/b Event #19 total to over 2,350 entries and counting.
Tournament registration and reentry will be closing when play resumes.
Level: 9
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 0
The Day 1b Event #19: Pot-Limit Omaha players have returned from break and tournament registration is now closed. There were 1,193 entries on Day 1a and 1,226 Day 1B entries.
This brings the combined Event #19 entries to 2,419 creating a prize pool of more than $1,000,000. The final tournament payouts will be posted as soon as they are available.
There was already 2,300 in the main pot and the board read . The small blind led out with a bet of 1,700 and Roland Israelashvili called. Nick Guagenti raised to 9,200 from the button and Israelashvili called.
They went heads up to the river and Israelashvili went deep into the tank for nearly two minutes. He eventually moved all in for his last 9,000 and Guagenti nearly beat him into the pot with the call. Before Israelashvili could show his hand, Guagenti tabled for a full house, nines full of threes.
Israelashvili threw his hand face down into the muck and Guagenti scored the knockout.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Nick Guagenti |
42,000
42,000
|
42,000 |
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Roland Israelashvili | Busted |
Level: 10
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 0
Roman Valerstein got his last 10,800 all in preflop holding . He was called by Michael Mizrachi who held and a short stacked player was all in for 2,000 with .
The dealer fanned the flop and Mizrachi flopped two pair to take the lead. The hit the turn and Valerstein took control of the hand turning top two pair. The river sealed the deal for Valerstein and he more than doubled his stack.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Michael Mizrachi |
72,000
72,000
|
72,000 |
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Roman Valerstein |
24,800
24,800
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24,800 |
Level: 11
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 0
The Day 1b Event #19: $565 Pot-Limit Omaha field is thinning and we are down to 225 players. We are inching closer to the money as the final 184 Day 1b players will all be guaranteed at least $835 for their efforts. We will be taking a look at some of the big stacks and updated chip counts from the field in just a few moments.