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

06-16-2018 19:35 UTC-8

Liebert and Kassouf Build a Stack

Level 8 : 250/500, 75 ante

Kathy Liebert is storming along with 52,500. The former bracelet winner has upped her stack to five times what she began the day with.

William Kassouf is also chipping up nicely, upping his chips to 42,800.

Player	Chips	Progress
Kathy Liebert	52,500 37,500	37,500

William Kassouf	42,800 38,300	38,300
Niall Farrell	22,000 14,300	14,300

Maria Lampropulos	15,000 3,000	3,000
Kyle Hartree	14,000 3,600	3,600

Tags: Kathy Liebert William Kassouf

06-16-2018 19:45 UTC-8

Player	Chips	Progress
Heidi May	34,500 2,200	2,200

Mikhail Semin	31,000 14,500	14,500
Alexander Lakhov	30,000
Gina Bacon	29,000 6,200	6,200
Pierre Neuville	23,400 6,600	6,600
Ryan Laplante	21,500 500	500

Blake Bohn	20,000 17,300	17,300
Andre Akkari	15,000

Ryan Olisar	14,400
Sylvain Naets	13,000
Tim West	12,000 6,500	6,500
David Pham	11,000 11,000	11,000

Sam Phillips	10,000 2,500	2,500
Adrian Moreno	Busted

Loeser Out

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Level 8 : 250/500, 75 ante

Manig Loeser will have to reenter if he is to stay in the competition. He just got it all in three-handed with .

It was looking very good when one player turned over , but the other turned over , which changed everything.

The flop did nothing to help the German. The turn and river didn't change anything either and Loeser has around 20 minutes to reenter this flight, otherwise there is always Day 1b, which starts tomorrow.

Player	Chips	Progress
Manig Loeser	Busted

Tags: Manig Loeser

06-16-2018 19:55 UTC-8

Updated Chip Counts

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Level 8 : 250/500, 75 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Jon Kyte	33,100 4,100	4,100
Arnold Spee	30,000 21,400	21,400
Asi Moshe	21,500 6,500	6,500

Kelly Minkin	21,050 18,050	18,050
Joe Elpayaa	16,150 5,850	5,850
Maria Konnikova	11,075 4,425	4,425

06-16-2018 20:02 UTC-8

Break

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Shirley Ang

Level 8 : 250/500, 75 ante

The players have just gone for their last 20-minute break of the day. At the end of this break, the late registration and reentry period will be closed and the final numbers for Day 1a will be confirmed.

Level: 9

Blinds: 300/600

Ante: 100

06-16-2018 20:24 UTC-8

Recent Chip Counts

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Shirley Ang

Level 9 : 300/600, 100 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Terry Schumacher	93,000 43,000	43,000
Calvin Anderson	56,000

Aylar Lie	24,000 9,000	9,000
Bas de Laat	16,000
Michael Gathy	14,000 3,000	3,000

Michael Lech	10,000 1,500	1,500

Erik Cajelais	8,300 17,700	17,700

Ryan Riess	7,000

06-16-2018 20:32 UTC-8

Loeser Back In

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Level 9 : 300/600, 100 ante

Manig Loeser has reentered the tournament just before registration closed. He has less than 20 big blinds to play with from his 10,000 starting stack.

Player	Chips	Progress
Fahredin Mustafov	80,000 31,000	31,000
Kenny Hallaert	44,000 13,000	13,000
Heidi May	39,000 4,500	4,500

Manig Loeser	10,000 10,000	10,000

Tags: Manig Loeser

06-16-2018 20:43 UTC-8

Yoon at the Top

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Shirley Ang

Level 9 : 300/600, 100 ante

Brian Yoon is seated at the same table as Steven van Zadelhoff and Michael Gathy who just got moved there. Yoon has heaps in front of him which he collected throughout the day.

Player	Chips	Progress
Brian Yoon	175,000

Mathijs Storms	66,200
Thomas Boivin	66,000
Boris Kolev	60,000

Sebastian Pauli	55,000
Richard Dubini	32,000
Georgios Vrakas	31,000
Michael Gagliano	28,000

Stoyan Obreshkov	27,000
Bruno Politano	26,000
Vojtech Ruzicka	21,400
Steven van Zadelhoff	21,000
David Urban	19,500
Marc Macdonnell	17,000
Bart Lybaert	15,000
Maria Lampropulos	14,600
Bryan Piccioli	12,000

Michael Gathy	11,200

Ognyan Dimov	9,300

06-16-2018 20:50 UTC-8

Burstein's Ace-King No Good

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Shirley Ang

Level 9 : 300/600, 100 ante

The player in mid-position raised and action folded to Vladimir Burstein in the small blind who shoved. The player in the big blind also shoved with the shorter stack. The initial raiser snap-called.

Big blind:
Mid-position:
Vladimir Burstein:

The board ran out for the queens to hold and triple up. After losing this hand, Burstein was left with about 2,900, which he doubled up a few hands later.