The Day Has Come to an End
The Day 1 of the tournament has now completed the ten levels of play and 130 remaining players have bagged their chips. A full recap is going to follow.
The Day 1 of the tournament has now completed the ten levels of play and 130 remaining players have bagged their chips. A full recap is going to follow.
Room | Table | Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
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Amazon | 400 | 1 | Chris Back | Canada | 11,000 | 9 |
Amazon | 400 | 2 | James Gilbert | United States | 107,900 | 90 |
Amazon | 400 | 3 | Stephen Ladowsky | Canada | 21,400 | 18 |
Amazon | 400 | 4 | Majid Yahyaei | United States | 97,800 | 82 |
Amazon | 400 | 5 | James Edminister | United States | 13,600 | 11 |
Amazon | 400 | 6 | Ioannis Angelou Konstas | Greece | 44,400 | 37 |
Amazon | 400 | 7 | Vladimir Perovic | United States | 1 | 0 |
Amazon | 400 | 8 | Joao Vieira | Portugal | 10,400 | 9 |
Amazon | 400 | 9 | Jeffrey Palarino | United States | 86,000 | 72 |
Amazon | 401 | 1 | Colin York | United States | 107,000 | 89 |
Amazon | 401 | 2 | Benny Chen | Canada | 27,300 | 23 |
Amazon | 401 | 3 | Sonny Franco | United States | 18,500 | 15 |
Amazon | 401 | 4 | Jody Fayant | Canada | 91,900 | 77 |
Amazon | 401 | 5 | Anton Wigg | Sweden | 65,400 | 55 |
Amazon | 401 | 6 | Thomas Taylor | Canada | 44,600 | 37 |
Amazon | 401 | 7 | Jonathan Zarin | United States | 20,400 | 17 |
Amazon | 401 | 8 | Farid Jattin | United States | 111,300 | 93 |
Amazon | 401 | 9 | Darryll Fish | United States | 18,300 | 15 |
Amazon | 402 | 1 | Martijn Gerrits | Netherlands | 19,900 | 17 |
Amazon | 402 | 2 | Michael Bartov | Sweden | 26,500 | 22 |
Amazon | 402 | 3 | Rick Alvarado | United States | 14,800 | 12 |
Amazon | 402 | 4 | Dan Santoro | United States | 91,300 | 76 |
Amazon | 402 | 5 | Jeffrey Tomlinson | United States | 48,200 | 40 |
Amazon | 402 | 6 | Samuel Renshaw | United States | 5,000 | 4 |
Amazon | 402 | 7 | Andrew Klivan | United States | 7,700 | 6 |
Amazon | 402 | 8 | Jared Ingles | United States | 49,600 | 41 |
Amazon | 402 | 9 | Steven Enstine | United States | 21,200 | 18 |
Amazon | 403 | 1 | Timothy McDermott | United States | 42,700 | 36 |
Amazon | 403 | 2 | Clive Wilson | United Kingdom | 50,700 | 42 |
Amazon | 403 | 3 | Jake Schindler | United States | 28,500 | 24 |
Amazon | 403 | 4 | Tomas Soderstrom | Sweden | 4,000 | 3 |
Amazon | 403 | 5 | Matthew Sanner | France | 21,000 | 18 |
Amazon | 403 | 6 | Chad Hahn | United States | 34,200 | 29 |
Amazon | 403 | 7 | Aineias Protopapas | Greece | 55,700 | 46 |
Amazon | 403 | 8 | Alexander Basista | United States | 86,800 | 72 |
Amazon | 403 | 9 | Jon Kyte | Germany | 15,500 | 13 |
Amazon | 404 | 1 | Jussi Nevanlinna | Finland | 30,000 | 25 |
Amazon | 404 | 2 | Scott Clements | United States | 97,800 | 82 |
Amazon | 404 | 3 | Peter Linton | United Kingdom | 42,500 | 35 |
Amazon | 404 | 4 | Pim van Holsteyn | Netherlands | 118,800 | 99 |
Amazon | 404 | 5 | Wayde Parker | Canada | 57,500 | 48 |
Amazon | 404 | 6 | Karen Sarkisyan | Russia | 46,500 | 39 |
Amazon | 404 | 7 | Victor Ramdin | United States | 73,500 | 61 |
Amazon | 404 | 8 | Brian Brubaker | United States | 56,800 | 47 |
Amazon | 404 | 9 | John Beauprez | United States | 52,300 | 44 |
Amazon | 408 | 1 | Rodrigo Garrido Portaleoni | Brazil | 31,600 | 26 |
Amazon | 408 | 2 | Michael Shackelford | United States | 9,200 | 8 |
Amazon | 408 | 3 | Mark Scacewater | United States | 19,300 | 16 |
Amazon | 408 | 4 | Danny Woolard | United States | 36,400 | 30 |
Amazon | 408 | 5 | Andrew Donabedian | United States | 74,900 | 62 |
Amazon | 408 | 6 | Aaron Henderson | United States | 123,700 | 103 |
Amazon | 408 | 7 | Korey Goulette | United States | 10,900 | 9 |
Amazon | 408 | 8 | Ismael Bojang | Germany | 40,100 | 33 |
Amazon | 408 | 9 | Michael Reed | United States | 98,000 | 82 |
Amazon | 409 | 1 | DID NOT REPORT 1 | United States | 28,000 | 23 |
Amazon | 409 | 2 | Stephanie Chung | United States | 82,400 | 69 |
Amazon | 409 | 3 | Ryan Riess | United States | 57,100 | 48 |
Amazon | 409 | 4 | Keith Morrow | United States | 62,200 | 52 |
Amazon | 409 | 5 | David Greene | United States | 47,400 | 40 |
Amazon | 409 | 6 | Benjamin Earley | United States | 48,700 | 41 |
Amazon | 409 | 7 | Randy White | United States | 27,900 | 23 |
Amazon | 409 | 8 | Justin Gardenhire | United States | 80,000 | 67 |
Amazon | 409 | 9 | Tom West | United States | 31,300 | 26 |
Amazon | 410 | 1 | Jose Obadia | Spain | 21,500 | 18 |
Amazon | 410 | 2 | Pim de Goede | Netherlands | 48,600 | 41 |
Amazon | 410 | 3 | Andrew Teng | United Kingdom | 6,800 | 6 |
Amazon | 410 | 4 | Ngoc Nguyen | United States | 32,500 | 27 |
Amazon | 410 | 5 | Charbel Boustani | Australia | 15,100 | 13 |
Amazon | 410 | 6 | Christopher O'Rourke | United States | 27,400 | 23 |
Amazon | 410 | 7 | Robert Salaburu | United States | 24,500 | 20 |
Amazon | 410 | 8 | Aaron Wallace | United States | 42,500 | 35 |
Amazon | 411 | 1 | Edward Robinson | United States | 25,800 | 22 |
Amazon | 411 | 2 | DJ MacKinnon | United States | 64,300 | 54 |
Amazon | 411 | 3 | Alexis Gavin | United States | 21,000 | 18 |
Amazon | 411 | 4 | David Nixon | United States | 50,000 | 42 |
Amazon | 411 | 5 | Benjamin Eilers | United States | 40,500 | 34 |
Amazon | 411 | 6 | Miro Mitrovic | Australia | 18,200 | 15 |
Amazon | 411 | 7 | Ryan Turner | United States | 73,300 | 61 |
Amazon | 411 | 8 | Lawrence Lazar | United States | 32,000 | 27 |
Amazon | 411 | 9 | Bonggi Song | United States | 3,800 | 3 |
Amazon | 412 | 1 | Jesse Sylvia | United States | 92,800 | 77 |
Amazon | 412 | 2 | Darren Taylor | United Kingdom | 52,800 | 44 |
Amazon | 412 | 3 | Pushpinder Singh | Canada | 52,800 | 44 |
Amazon | 412 | 4 | Sylvain Naets | Belgium | 58,100 | 48 |
Amazon | 412 | 5 | Craig Morande | United States | 16,200 | 14 |
Amazon | 412 | 6 | Jarred Solomon | South Africa | 42,400 | 35 |
Amazon | 412 | 7 | Wei Yeh | United States | 14,900 | 12 |
Amazon | 412 | 8 | Tyler Joyner | United States | 44,500 | 37 |
Amazon | 412 | 9 | Vasil Medarov | Bulgaria | 44,200 | 37 |
Amazon | 416 | 2 | Enrique Melguizo | Mexico | 16,300 | 14 |
Amazon | 416 | 3 | Kyle Fleischmann | United States | 6,300 | 5 |
Amazon | 416 | 4 | Steve Chanthabouasy | United States | 30,300 | 25 |
Amazon | 416 | 5 | Angela Jordison | United States | 38,700 | 32 |
Amazon | 416 | 6 | Eoghan O'Dea | Ireland | 60,300 | 50 |
Amazon | 416 | 7 | Kenneth Hicks | United States | 86,200 | 72 |
Amazon | 416 | 8 | Chris Ferguson | United States | 12,900 | 11 |
Amazon | 416 | 9 | Patrick Mahoney | United States | 28,800 | 24 |
Amazon | 417 | 1 | Scott Davies | Canada | 24,400 | 20 |
Amazon | 417 | 3 | Artem Maksimov | Russia | 37,300 | 31 |
Amazon | 417 | 4 | Phillip Riley | Canada | 100,000 | 83 |
Amazon | 417 | 5 | Trey Brabham | United States | 67,500 | 56 |
Amazon | 417 | 6 | David Barraclough | United Kingdom | 33,100 | 28 |
Amazon | 417 | 7 | John Nguyen | United States | 12,700 | 11 |
Amazon | 417 | 8 | Frank Williams | United States | 128,100 | 107 |
Amazon | 417 | 9 | Joon Park | Canada | 33,400 | 28 |
Amazon | 418 | 1 | Michael Wernick | United Kingdom | 35,100 | 29 |
Amazon | 418 | 2 | Sampo Ryynanen | Finland | 32,500 | 27 |
Amazon | 418 | 3 | Sean Shah | United States | 25,600 | 21 |
Amazon | 418 | 4 | Jared Hamby | United States | 34,200 | 29 |
Amazon | 418 | 5 | Thida Lin | United States | 71,800 | 60 |
Amazon | 418 | 6 | Ryan Bambrick | United States | 99,800 | 83 |
Amazon | 418 | 7 | Christopher Meyers | United States | 18,800 | 16 |
Amazon | 418 | 8 | John Boone | United States | 29,000 | 24 |
Amazon | 418 | 9 | Szymon Wysocki | Poland | 84,600 | 71 |
Amazon | 419 | 1 | Alex Bolotin | United States | 2,200 | 2 |
Amazon | 419 | 2 | Andrew Koch | United States | 23,988 | 20 |
Amazon | 419 | 3 | Georgii Chumakov | Russia | 33,900 | 28 |
Amazon | 419 | 4 | Mark Wahba | United States | 48,500 | 40 |
Amazon | 419 | 5 | Scott Eskenazi | United States | 21,100 | 18 |
Amazon | 419 | 6 | Jiaqi Xu | United States | 29,400 | 25 |
Amazon | 419 | 7 | Dennis Benavides | United StatesUnited States | 57,400 | 48 |
Amazon | 419 | 9 | Joseph Floyd | United States | 84,600 | 71 |
Amazon | 420 | 1 | James Burns | United States | 51,700 | 43 |
Amazon | 420 | 2 | Dutch Boyd | United States | 61,700 | 51 |
Amazon | 420 | 3 | Vanja Ovuka | Serbia | 93,800 | 78 |
Amazon | 420 | 4 | Roman Valerstein | United States | 78,800 | 66 |
Amazon | 420 | 5 | Tom McCormick | United States | 18,100 | 15 |
Amazon | 420 | 6 | Mike Shin | United States | 121,600 | 101 |
Amazon | 420 | 8 | Jeanmarc Thomas | France | 37,500 | 31 |
Amazon | 420 | 9 | Michael Heritsch | United States | 141,000 | 118 |
Event #30: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha drew a total of 799 entries creating a prizepool of over $1,000,000 and after 10 levels of Day 1 play it's Michael Heritsch leading the way with 141,000.
Heritsch vaulted to the top of the counts after turning a straight against the pocket aces and pocket kings of two opponents and he never looked back after that.
Jesse Sylvia, the 2012 WSOP Main Event runner-up, started to heat up on the mid stages of Day 1. He raked in pot after pot in the last level of the night and will return to Day 2 near the top of the chip counts with 92,800.
Farid Jattin caught fire late in the night putting one of the biggest stacks in the bag with 111,300. Mike Shin held strong near the top of the chip counts throughout the day and finished strong with 121,600. They're eclipsed by Frank Williams (128,100) and Aaron Anderson (123,700), who sit in second and third after Day 1.
Just 130 players will be moving on to Day 2 and players are ten eliminations away from the money as the final 120 players will be guaranteed at least $2,255 for their efforts.
There was certainly no shortage of action on Day 1, where plenty of big names were among the players that fell by the wayside, including Phil Laak, Jennifer Tilly, Barny Boatman, Alex Foxen, Craig Varnell and Connor Drinan just to name a few.
The players will return on Friday, 15 June at 12 p.m. local time to the Amazon room to resume Day 2 play and the blinds will be 600/1,200. The Day 2 players will play 10 levels with 15-min breaks every two levels and a one-hour dinner break after level 6. PokerNews will be on the floor to cover this event wire to wire so make sure to regularly return as the 2018 World Series of Poker rolls on.
Event #30: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha
Day 1 Completed