Event #62: $888 Crazy Eights No-Limit Hold'em 8-Handed - $888,888 Guaranteed 1st Place Day 2 | 2018 World Series of Poker

07-02-2018 17:47 UTC-7

Eliminated From 249-304th Place ($3,908)

[user270022]

Level 22 : 6,000/12,000, 2,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Pho Tran	Busted
Gianluca Speranza	Busted
Sean Rice	Busted
Kyle Jensen	Busted
Harrison Genson	Busted
Ramy Boctor	Busted
Conor Beresford	Busted
Jamison Desantis	Busted
David Levine	Busted
Justin Liberto	Busted
Hugo Nazar	Busted
Al Homsi	Busted
Brian Hessler	Busted
Yiwei Wang	Busted
Rocco Valdes	Busted
Roongsak Griffeth	Busted
Tuan Nguyen	Busted
Farhad Sinaei	Busted
Binh Nguyen	Busted
Martin Finger	Busted
Kammar Andries	Busted
Jose Melo	Busted
Danny Illingworth	Busted
Angel Navarro	Busted
Andy Spears	Busted

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07-02-2018 17:55 UTC-7

Eliminated From 193-248th Place ($4,492)

AaronMcBride

Level 22 : 6,000/12,000, 2,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Andrew Kloc	Busted
Martin Sejer	Busted
Danny Le	Busted
Nir Levy	Busted
Alexander Farahi	Busted
Martin Zamani	Busted
Igor Yaroshevskyy	Busted
Jonas Hagstrom	Busted
Fernando Vianna Da Costa	Busted
Mark McGovern	Busted
Stefan Huber	Busted
Manuk Ayazian	Busted
David Jackson	Busted
Jacky Wong	Busted
Ty Reiman	Busted
Xuming Qi	Busted
Longsheng Tan	Busted
Jesus Martinez	Busted
Tony Ruberto	Busted
Madhusudhan Munagala	Busted
Andrew Ostapchenko	Busted
Andrew Wilson	Busted
Bryan Thornton	Busted
Jorge Aristizabal	Busted
Josef Snejberg	Busted

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07-02-2018 18:05 UTC-7

Nines Hold for Ngo

[user270022]

Level 22 : 6,000/12,000, 2,000 ante

Au Ngo limped in from middle position and James Alexander did the same form late position. The player in the cutoff three-bet jammed for 222,000. Ngo made the call and Alexander folded.

Au Ngo:
Opponent:

The board ran out and Ngo won the race to eliminate his opponent.

Player	Chips	Progress
Au Ngo	670,000	520,000

Tags: James Alexander Au Ngo

07-02-2018 18:16 UTC-7

Break

AaronMcBride

Level 22 : 6,000/12,000, 2,000 ante

The players have gone on their second 15-minute break.

Level: 23

Blinds: 8,000/16,000

Ante: 2,000

07-02-2018 18:42 UTC-7

Eliminated From 137-192nd Place ($5,203)

[user270022]

Level 23 : 8,000/16,000, 2,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Ray Henson	Busted
Bruno Politano	Busted
Vincent Masino	Busted
Matthew Lapossie	Busted
Giuseppe Pantaleo	Busted
Anders Sterneborg	Busted
Duke Vu	Busted
Paul Lieu	Busted
Robert Engel	Busted
John Yiovanakos	Busted
Ap Garza	Busted
Mathijs Storms	Busted
Huihan Wu	Busted
Katie Swift	Busted
Peter Nigh	Busted
Angel Ruiz	Busted
Linyang Song	Busted
Eric Baldwin	Busted
Hanwool Jang	Busted
Emil Ekvardt	Busted
Richard Bose	Busted
Fahredin Mustafov	Busted
Tomer Wolf	Busted
Grant Lasseter	Busted
Yevgeniy Timoshenko	Busted

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07-02-2018 19:00 UTC-7

Trip Eights Secure Moorman a Double

AaronMcBride

Level 23 : 8,000/16,000, 2,000 ante

The action folded around to 888poker ambassador Chris Moorman in the hijack, and he raised to 34,000. Men Nguyen was in the big blind and three-bet to 81,000. Moorman made the call, and the flop came down . Nguyen continued with a 66,000 bet and Moorman called.

The turn brought the , and Nguyen decided to check. Moorman bet 140,000 and the former called.

Nguyen checked on the river, and Moorman moved all in for 344,000. Nguyen thought for a minute before he counted the call from his stack. Once he had, he made the call.

Chris Moorman:
Men Nguyen:

Moorman's trip eights were good against Nguyen's two pair, and he secured a full double-up to move above the one million mark.

Player	Chips	Progress
Men Nguyen	1,300,000	1,044,000
Chris Moorman	1,125,000	315,000

Tags: Chris Moorman Men Nguyen

07-02-2018 19:01 UTC-7

Schwartz Mucks to Ace High

[user270022]

Level 23 : 8,000/16,000, 2,000 ante

With about 80,000 piled up in the middle of a board, Jake Schwartz bet 30,000 out of the big blind and his heads-up opponent check-called from the small blind.

The hit the turn and both players checked to see the fall on the river.

The player in the small blind bet 45,000 and Schwartz made the call only to muck when his opponent tabled the for just ace high.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jake Schwartz	278,000	-342,000

Tags: Jake Schwartz

07-02-2018 19:06 UTC-7

Zaichenko Wins on the River

AaronMcBride

Level 23 : 8,000/16,000, 2,000 ante

One player was all in on Andrey Zaichenko's table, and he made the call to put his opponent's tournament life at risk.

Andrey Zaichenko:
Opponent:

Board:

Zaichenko was in bad shape preflop, but he picked up additional outs on the flop. The turn didn't help him, but the river was the ten of diamonds to complete his straight and send his opponent to the payout desk, as Zaichenko moved up to 1.5 million.

Player	Chips	Progress
Andrey Zaichenko	1,500,000	1,320,000

Tags: Andrey Zaichenko

07-02-2018 19:25 UTC-7

Ninkovich's Eights Hold

AaronMcBride

Level 23 : 8,000/16,000, 2,000 ante

Kevin Ninkovich was in the big blind and up against the player in the small blind who he just had covered. The two players got all their chips into the middle preflop and went to the races.

Kevin Ninkovich:
Opponent:

Board:

The flop was safe for Ninkovich, but it did give his opponent the nut flush draw. However, the turn and river bricked to secure Ninkovich the pot as another player was sent to the payout desk.

Player	Chips	Progress
Kevin Ninkovich	550,000	306,000

Tags: Kevin Ninkovich