Event #65: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em MAIN EVENT - World Championship Day 1c | 2018 World Series of Poker

07-04-2018 21:30 UTC-7

Updated Chip Counts from Pavilion Green

Jan_Kores

Level 5 : 250/500, 75 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Loni Harwood	200,000	10,000
Eric Sfez	155,000
Michael Noori	100,000	47,000
James Obst	98,000	23,000
Sylvain Loosli	85,000	5,000
Christian Christner	85,000	5,000
Matas Cimbolas	75,000	24,000
Maria Lampropulos	67,000	16,500
Michael Ruane	65,000
Rainer Kempe	57,000	2,000
Benny Glaser	22,500	-20,500
Alexander Lakhov	20,100	-29,900
Christoph Vogelsang	20,000	-10,000

07-04-2018 21:29 UTC-7

Josephy Chipping Up

Milko van Winden

Level 5 : 250/500, 75 ante

The table of Athanasios Polychronopoulos and Joseph Cheong got moved back from the outer featured table, back into the Amazon Orange section. Cliff Josephy won a nice pot right away.

He raised to 1,200 and saw another player at the table three-bet to 3,600. Josephy called and the two saw an flop appear. Both players checked to see the turn card and Josephy took the initiative back by betting 2,500. His opponent folded and Josephy took down the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Cliff Josephy	120,000	21,000

Tags: Athanasios Polychronopoulos Cliff Josephy Joseph Cheong

07-04-2018 21:28 UTC-7

Updated Chip Counts

MartianNews

Level 5 : 250/500, 75 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Ravid Garbi	142,000	142,000
Huong Do	73,500	18,500
Igor Kurganov	48,500	-22,500
Kenneth Aldridge	46,500	16,100
Martin Finger	37,400	17,600

07-04-2018 21:27 UTC-7

Outer Feature Table Updated Chip Counts

AaronMcBride

Level 5 : 250/500, 75 ante

A new outer feature table has been set headlined by 10-time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Ivey.

Player	Chips	Progress
Aliaksei Boika	139,000
David Key	128,000
Phil Ivey	125,000	64,000
Cody Pack	79,000
Kazuhito Oshima	55,000
Christopher Caruso	50,000	-23,500

07-04-2018 21:24 UTC-7

Watson to the Rail

Yori Epskamp

Level 5 : 250/500, 75 ante

A short-stacked Mike Watson had defended his big blind against an early position open from David Kaleel. On the flop, Watson check-called 1,500 and left himself with 1,350 behind. The turn was the and those final chips went in as well.

Mike Watson:
David Kaleel:

The river was the and "SirWatts" went to the rail in the last level of the day.

Player	Chips	Progress
David Kaleel	80,000
Mike Watson	Busted

Tags: Mike Watson David Kaleel

07-04-2018 21:24 UTC-7

Hohner Eliminates Selbst

TKBluffs

Level 5 : 250/500, 75 ante

In the last hand before the break the action folded around to the player in the cutoff who raised to 1,200. Vanessa Selbst re-raised to 3,800 from the small blind and Ryan Hohner made it 8,000 from the big blind. Selbst called and they went heads-up to the flop.

Selbst checked to Hohner who bet 5,000 and Selbst check-raised to 16,700. Hohner called and the dealer burned and turned the . Selbst moved all in for 46,900 and Hohner called.

Selbst turned over for just jack high and was drawing dead against the of Hohner. The meaningless completed the board and Selbst was eliminated.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ryan Hohner	159,000	88,000
Vanessa Selbst	Busted

Tags: Ryan Hohner Vanessa Selbst

07-04-2018 21:21 UTC-7

Some Updated Chipcounts

Gaelle Jaudon

Level 5 : 250/500, 75 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Ankush Mandavia	76,000	3,000
Manuel Bevand	64,000
Quan Tran	49,000	-1,000
Alexandre Reard	48,000	-12,000
Russell Thomas	45,000	16,500
Benjamin Pollak	29,000	-12,000
Vivian Saliba	18,000	8,950
Quentin Roussey	16,000	16,000
Nick Yunis	14,000	-26,000

07-04-2018 21:20 UTC-7

Fast's Overbet Unsuccessful

Jan_Kores

Level 5 : 250/500, 75 ante

Dietrich Fast was in the middle position, firing 8,000 into a pot of around 5,500 with the board reading . His opponent thought for a moment and then threw in calling chips. Fast turned up for a pure bluff and his opponent successfully picked him off with .

Player	Chips	Progress
Dietrich Fast	76,500	-11,200

Tags: Dietrich Fast

07-04-2018 21:10 UTC-7

The Biggest WSOP Starting Day Ever

Webjoker

Level 5 : 250/500, 75 ante

When it was announced earlier this year that Day 1c of the 2018 World Series of Poker Main Event would take place on the fourth of July, which of course is America’s Independence Day, some speculated the turnout might be stunted. As it turns out, nothing could've been further from the truth.

A massive 4,571 players on 1c made it the largest starting flight in WSOP history, surpassing the 4,262 set on 1c in 2017. That number is well ahead of the entire 2004 WSOP field, and five times as big as the 2003 WSOP Main Event when Chris Moneymaker changed the poker world forever.

Along with 1a’s 925 runners and 2,378 from 1b (also the largest 1b flight in history surpassing 2017’s 2,164) the total field climbed to 7,874 players, which generated a $74,015,600 prize pool and made it the second-largest WSOP Main Event behind the 2006 field (8,773 players).

Detailed numbers only go back until 2008, and up until 2011, the WSOP ran four starting flights. The largest flight between then was the 2009 WSOP’s 2,809 players on Day 1d followed by 2,802 on 1d in 2011. In 2009, registration closed with 2,809 players registered, as there was no space for more entrants. Players like Patrik Antonius and TJ Cloutier were famously locked out of playing the event that year.

We’ll have to wait and see who bags up the most chips later this evening, but for those wondering, last year saw Jerome Brion finished with 247,900 to claim the chip lead among the surviving 3,300 players.

Day 1a saw 659 players bag from the 925 that entered. Last night, 1,794 players survived Day 1b from the 2,378 that signed up.

	Day 1a	Day 1b	Day 1c	Day 1d	Total	Prize Pool
2000					512	$5,120,000
2001					613	$5,946,220
2002					631	$5,931,000
2003					839	$7,802,700
2004					2,576	$24,224,400
2005					5,619	$52,818,610
2006					8,773	$82,512,162
2007					6,358	$59,784,954
2008	1,297	1,158	1,928	2,461	6,844	$64,333,600
2009	1,116	873	1,696	2,809	6,494	$61,043,600
2010	1,125	1,489	2,314	2,391	7,319	$68,798,600
2011	897	985	2,181	2,802	6,865	$64,531,000
2012	1,066	2,114	3,418	-	6,598	$62,021,200
2013	943	1,942	3,467	-	6,352	$59,708,800
2014	771	2,144	3,768	-	6,683	$62,820,200
2015	741	1,716	3,963	-	6,420	$60,348,000
2016	764	1,733	4,240	-	6,737	$63,327,800
2017	795	2,164	4,262	-	7,221	$67,877,400
2018	925	2,378	4,571	-	7,874	$74,015,600

Level: 5

Blinds: 250/500

Ante: 75