Hand #17: Adam Laskey raised to 70,000. Stephen Bierman three-bet to 200,000 from the small blind and Laskey folded.
Hand #18: Longsheng Tan opened the hijack and Laskey called behind on the cutoff and the flop came out . Tan bet and Laskey folded.
Hand #19: Laskey opened the hijack and everyone folded.
Hand #20: Jayaram Kovoorchathoth raised the button and Lanny Levine came along from the big blind. It was a flop and both players checked. The turn brought a and Levine check-called Kovoorchathoth's 50,000 bet. On the river, Levine checked and Laskey bet 135,000 and collected the pot.
Hand #21: Laskey opened under the gun and got three callers: John Pannucci behind and Levine and Tan in the blinds. It fell on the flop and it was checked all round. The turn saw two checks from the blinds and Laskey bet 155,000, which Pannucci called and Levine and Tan got out the way. The river saw another bet, but this time Laskey set Pannucci all in and it was enough to win the pot.
Hand #22: With around 15 big blinds left, John Pannucci shipped all in from middle position and it was folded around until it came to Adam Laskey in the big blind. He made a quick call and they tabled their cards.
John Pannucci:
Adam Laskey:
It was off to the races and the flop was good for Pannucci, but the turn brought a pair for Laskey and the flush draw, meaning there was only one out in the deck for Pannucci and the on the river wasn't it. The Day 1 chipleader headed toward the payouts desk and Laskey scooped up around 1 million in chips.
It took almost exactly six levels for Event #66: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em to get down to a final six from the 26 that started the day. In that time, the chip lead ebbed and flowed, but at the end of it all, start-of-day chipleader Longsheng Tan went back-to-back to be end-of-day chipleader as well.
He was responsible for the elimination of one player at the official final table, with second-in-chips Adam Laskey responsible for the other three — not bad going considering Laskey was the shortest stack at the unofficial final table. However, the eliminations weren't enough for Laskey to topple Tan, who sits atop the chip counts for the second consecutive day.
Here's how the final six players stack up:
Seat
Name
Country
Chip Count
Big Blinds
1
Longsheng Tan
United States
3,260,000
82
2
Adam Laskey
United States
2,345,000
59
3
Stephen Bierman
United States
1,035,000
26
4
Jayaram Kovoorchathoth
United States
1,660,000
42
5
Trey Brabham
United States
590,000
15
6
Lanny Levine
United States
1,175,000
29
And here are the final six payouts:
Position
Payout (USD)
1
$323,472
2
$199,862
3
$142,785
4
$103,212
5
$75,497
6
$55,892
Day Recap
In the first two levels, a total of 10 players headed out the doors. Daniel Weinman and Rex Clinkscales headed out the door, and just after the two-table redraw, it was the turn of 2018 bracelet winner Timur Margolin to exit the tournament. Earlier this summer, Margolin took down Event #43: $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em for $507,274, but he wouldn't be adding another bracelet after losing a flip with jacks against the ace-king of Lanny Levine.
Jayaram Kovoorchathoth was one of the players moving into the chip lead for a time, holding more than two million in chips at one stage. Stephen Bierman and Longsheng Tan would tangle on multiple occasions throughout the day, including one where Bierman won back-to-back hands against his opponent.
However, sparks flew between Bierman and another opponent, Trey Brabham, with both players receiving a one-orbit penalty after some verbal sparring midway through the day.
While they were away, Tan would reassert himself at the top of the chip counts with the elimination of Justin Zaki shoving into Tan's aces with ace-jack, and soon the players were at an unofficial final table of 10.
With the announcement that play would halt at six-handed to enable the final day's play to be streamed on Twitch, there was a lull in proceedings. The ten remaining players adjusted to their new surroundings on the Brasilia feature stage, with Tan falling back through the counts to a pack of five between a million and one and a half million.
Shyam Srinivasan finished 10th.
Shyam Srinivasan has already made one deep run so far this WSOP, finishing seventh in the Monster Stack for $154,463, and he fell in 10th place here, losing a flip against Tan.
Five hands later, it was a cooler rather than a flip sending Jason Paradis to the rail. Paradis got it in with a flush draw against the top pair of Adam Laskey. Paradis made his flush on the turn, but another diamond on the river gave Laskey a bigger flush, sending Paradis to the rail in ninth.
Georgios Tavoularis came into the unofficial final table as the second-shortest stack, and he did well to ladder three spots to eighth, eventually losing a flip to Laskey to bust. And with just seconds remaining in the level before a scheduled dinner break, Day 1 chipleader John Pannucci fell at the hands of Laskey, with fours failing to hold against ace-king as Laskey sent him on his way.
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. Tan bet and Laskey folded.
flop and both players checked. The turn brought a 
and Levine check-called Kovoorchathoth's 50,000 bet. On the 
on the flop and it was checked all round. The 
turn saw two checks from the blinds and Laskey bet 155,000, which Pannucci called and Levine and Tan got out the way. The 
flop was good for Pannucci, but the 
on the river wasn't it. The Day 1 chipleader headed toward the payouts desk and Laskey scooped up around 1 million in chips.
