Event #34: $1,000 DOUBLE STACK No-Limit Hold'em Day 1a | 2018 World Series of Poker

06-16-2018 22:04 UTC-8

Player	Chips	Progress
Brian Yoon	235,000 60,000	60,000

Sergio Castelluccio	140,000 97,000	97,000
Martin Finger	81,000 57,000	57,000

Mohsin Charania	45,000

Ryan Riess	19,000 2,000	2,000

Heidi May	Busted

Six More Hands

Shirley Ang

Level 10 : 400/800, 100 ante

The tournament clock has been stopped and the players need to play six more hands before they can bag and tag for Day 2 on Monday, June 18, which starts at noon local time.

06-16-2018 22:20 UTC-8

Kassouf Wins Small Pot

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Level 10 : 400/800, 100 ante

Play will end shortly today but there's still room to play a few hands. Just now William Kassouf took a small pot after defending from the big blind.

The flop was . The draw-heavy board was checked back by the initial raiser and the dealer put a out on the turn. Kassouf took the opportunity to bet 3,500 and got a snap-fold.

Player	Chips	Progress
Martin Finger	71,200 9,800	9,800

William Kassouf	51,000 13,300	13,300
Fahredin Mustafov	44,000 24,000	24,000
Ryan Riess	14,600 4,400	4,400

Jonathan Abdellatif	10,600 13,400	13,400

Tags: William Kassouf

06-16-2018 22:35 UTC-8

Play Ended

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Shirley Ang

Level 10 : 400/800, 100 ante

Play has ended for today. A full chip count and recap of today's action is to follow.

06-16-2018 22:43 UTC-8

Player	Chips	Progress
Brian Yoon	233,600 1,400	1,400

Phuoc Nguyen	165,000 165,000	165,000
Mike Del Vecchio	161,700 161,700	161,700
Darrin Oremba	159,000 159,000	159,000
Thomas Zanot	158,200 158,200	158,200
Anthony Spinella	145,000 122,000	122,000

Jerry Dababneh	142,300 142,300	142,300
Stan Jablonski	140,300 140,300	140,300
Charles Alex Barton	139,100 139,100	139,100
Kathy Liebert	135,000 67,500	67,500

Julien Martini	133,800 133,800	133,800

Marshall White	131,400 131,400	131,400
Tomas Teran Paredes	129,700 129,700	129,700
Gregory Fishberg	128,800 128,800	128,800
Terry Schumacher	125,300 32,300	32,300
Brett Shaffer	119,900 119,900	119,900

Karel Kratochvil	118,900 118,900	118,900
Nicholas Immekus	110,200 110,200	110,200
Sergio Castelluccio	106,100 33,900	33,900
Wenhao Ying	105,900 105,900	105,900
Robert Salaburu	103,500 103,500	103,500
Will Givens	103,000 103,000	103,000

Wilson Lopes	102,000 102,000	102,000
Pavlo Veksler	102,000 102,000	102,000
Adam Swan	101,700 101,700	101,700

Day 1a of the $1,000 Double Stack Concludes with Brian Yoon Taking the Chip Lead

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Level 10 : 400/800, 100 ante

It has been an exciting day here the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino where the inaugural Event #34: $1,000 Double Stack No-Limit Hold'em took place. A total of 2,387 players entered Day 1a and 537 bagged up chips to take through to Day 2. The heaviest of those bags belonged to Brian Yoon, who picked off his opponents throughout the day, accumulating an enormous chip lead with 233,600.

Other notable players with big stacks include Anthony Spinella (145,000) Kathy Liebert (135,000), Terry Schumacher (125,300), and Sergio Castelluccio (106,100). Meanwhile, former Main Event Champion Ryan Riess and bracelet winners Andrey Zaichenko, Calvin Anderson, Asi Moshe, and Michael Gagliano have all made it through.

Unfortunately, not everyone was lucky enough to find a bag tonight. Players like 2015 Main Event Champion Joe McKeehen, 888poker ambassador Natalie Hof, Bill Klein, the 2018 Little One for One Drop champion Adrian Moreno, 2018 Ladies Event champion Heidi May, Joseph Cheong, Maria Konnikova, Sorel Mizzi, Dan O'Brien, Bart Lybaert, Maria Lampropulos, Jamie Kerstetter, Nacho Barbero, Valentin Vornicu, Jackie Glazier, Matt Affleck, Georgios Sotiropoulos, and Maurice Hawkins are some that failed win their final all-ins today.

But they have another shot at making Day 2 as the second and final flight for the tournament, Day 1b, begins tomorrow at 11am local time. It will have exactly the same structure as today: ten 60-minute levels, with late registration and the unlimited reentry period lasting until the end of the break after Level 8 (9:15pm). Once Day 1b has concluded, the remaining players will merge with the Day 1a survivors for Day 2, which takes place at noon local time on Monday, June 18.

The PokerNews live reporting team will be bringing full coverage of this and every other WSOP event this summer.

Tags: Andrey Zaichenko Anthony Spinella Asi Moshe Brian Yoon Calvin Anderson Kathy Liebert Michael Gagliano Sergio Castelluccio Terry Schumacher

Event #34: $1,000 DOUBLE STACK No-Limit Hold'em

Day 1a Completed