Event #65: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em MAIN EVENT - World Championship Day 2ab | 2018 World Series of Poker

07-05-2018 18:42 UTC-8

Player	Chips	Progress
Mohammad Arani	360,000 284,500	284,500

Hans Joachim Hein	300,000 300,000	300,000
Ben Yu	210,000 13,000	13,000

Fraser MacIntyre	165,000 55,000	55,000
Anthony Zinno	160,000 112,000	112,000

Chris Ferguson	152,000 13,000	13,000

Dan Ott	142,000 45,900	45,900
Jackie Glazier	100,000 35,000	35,000

Kevin Glenn	40,000 2,100	2,100

Delmas Eliminated by Wei

Will Shillibier

Level 9 : 600/1,200, 200 ante

Guoliang Wei raised from under the gun and got two calls before Adrien Delmas three-bet all in from the big blind. Wei four-bet over the top and the other players both folded.

Guoliang Wei:
Adrien Delmas:

The flop came giving Delmas top pair. However, the turn gave Wei a straight and the river was the .

Player	Chips	Progress
Guoliang Wei	70,000 7,400	7,400
Adrien Delmas	Busted

Tags: Adrien Delmas Guoliang Wei

07-05-2018 18:46 UTC-8

Panagrossi Wins a Big One

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Sandra Barbour

Level 9 : 600/1,200, 200 ante

The player under the gun limped. Kristen Bicknell, in middle position raised to 4,200. Jon Panagrossi, on the cutoff, and the big blind called, along with the original raiser.

The dealer spread a flop of . The big blind and the player under the gun checked. Bicknell bet 7,000. Panagrossi raised to 17,700. The big blind folded. The original raiser three-bet to 29,000. Bicknell folded. The cutoff called.

The turn came the . The player under the gun bet 35,000. Panagrossi took a few seconds of reflection before moving all in for 38,300. His opponent snap-called.

Jon Panagrossi:
Opponent

The river completed the board and Panagrossi took down the pot.

''I had kings!'' commented Bicknell.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jonathan Panagrossi	163,000 98,200	98,200
Kristen Bicknell	72,000 10,000	10,000

Tags: Jon Panagrossi Kristen Bicknell

07-05-2018 18:47 UTC-8

Updated Counts in Pavilion

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Adam Lamers

Level 9 : 600/1,200, 200 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Tom Hall	416,400 36,400	36,400
Garett Dansereau	286,500 152,500	152,500
Alex Foxen	237,900 12,900	12,900

Kelly Minkin	193,300 21,100	21,100
Mustapha Kanit	172,000 27,200	27,200
Jordan Spurlin	164,500 131,300	131,300
Anthony Zinno	157,200 2,800	2,800

Jason Mercier	150,000

Dan Ott	143,200 1,200	1,200
Scott Stewart	37,800 95,600	95,600
Ryan Riess	24,500 37,100	37,100

Joey Ingram	Busted
Danielle Andersen	Busted
Jeremy Ausmus	Busted

07-05-2018 18:50 UTC-8

Lester Eliminates Papazyan

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Milko van Winden

Level 9 : 600/1,200, 200 ante

Art Papazyan was moved from the orange section in the Amazon room to the purple section and found himself all in within a couple of hands.

The board was already and Jason Lester had 37,000 in the middle. Papazyan was all in for 92,000 and it was Lester's turn to act. He went into the tank for a couple of minutes and he looked like he had a tough decision. He ended up calling and the hands went on their backs.

Art Papazyan:
Jason Lester:

The river card was the and with that Papazyan got eliminated from the Main Event.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jason Lester	340,000 200,900	200,900

Art Papazyan	Busted

Tags: Art Papazyan Jason Lester

07-05-2018 18:54 UTC-8

Foxen Blasts the River

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Jan Kores

Level 9 : 600/1,200, 200 ante

We picked up the action on the flop in what was presumably a three-bet pot as small blind Alex Foxen tangled with his opponent in the cutoff.

They looked at the where Foxen fired 6,800 and received a fast call. The then appeared and Foxen checked. The other player took over a minute but then he checked back and the hit the river.

Foxen reached to a stack of every denomination and threw in a bet of 21,800. His rival gave up and Foxen claimed the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Alex Foxen	255,000 17,100	17,100

Tags: Alex Foxen

07-05-2018 18:57 UTC-8

Roselius Cracks Aces to Double

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Level 9 : 600/1,200, 200 ante

Stephen Roselius is really liking his new table.

Roselius had just 35,000 when his previous table broke and has doubled twice in the first orbit at his new table.

Firstly, Roselius got it in with and outdrew .

Soon after, Roselius but his now 83,600 stack in the middle and once again found himself in trouble.

This time though, Roselius ran into . A run out, however, was very much on his side and now sits well above average with about 170,000.

Player	Chips	Progress
Stephen Roselius	170,000 90,700	90,700

Tags: Stephen Roselius

07-05-2018 18:58 UTC-8

Recent Chip Counts Miranda Room

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Shirley Ang

Level 9 : 600/1,200, 200 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Or Arusi	296,000 78,000	78,000
William Reymond	216,700 96,700	96,700
Marvin Rettenmaier	212,000 22,000	22,000
Jasper Wetemans	190,000 4,000	4,000
Roman Valerstein	170,000 15,000	15,000
Dermot Blain	170,000 78,000	78,000
Blake Whittington	170,000 45,000	45,000

Aylar Lie	143,000 7,000	7,000
Scott Sawyer	120,000 97,100	97,100
Richard Otts	65,000 2,900	2,900
Christopher Kusha	60,000 43,500	43,500
James Dempsey	Busted

Michael Ho	Busted

07-05-2018 19:03 UTC-8

Metaal Picks Up a Pot

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Milko van Winden

Level 9 : 600/1,200, 200 ante

The player in the hijack raised to 3,500 and Govert Metaal put in a three-bet to 10,000 from the cutoff. The player on the button and the ones in the blinds folded and they saw a flop.

The flop came down and it checked to Metaal. He threw in 7,000 and after about a minute his opponent folded.

Player	Chips	Progress
Govert Metaal	280,000

Tags: Govert Metaal

07-05-2018 19:07 UTC-8

Frustration Sets in for Galfond

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 9 : 600/1,200, 200 ante

After losing a big pot with aces against pocket fours, Farah Galfond dropped down further in the counts and just called a raise to 3,300 by Daniel Cooke. Brian Altman from one seat over in the hijack made it 12,500 to go and all opponents folded. After the hand was over, Galfond was visibly frustrated on the secondary feature table.

Below are further assorted counts from the feature tables and the Amazon Purple section.

Player	Chips	Progress
Brian Altman	343,000 48,000	48,000
Christopher Kruk	320,000 90,000	90,000
Baoqiang Ho	290,000 8,000	8,000
Timothy Lau	280,000 105,000	105,000
Matt Berkey	270,000 50,000	50,000
Michael Mizrachi	217,000 44,000	44,000

Adrian Naya Lopez	204,000 26,000	26,000
Max Altergott	185,000 54,000	54,000
Daniel Cooke	153,000 50,200	50,200
Aram Zobian	140,000 42,000	42,000

Paul Michaelis	135,000 40,000	40,000
Igor Merda	110,000 5,000	5,000
Jason Koon	60,000 3,000	3,000

Farah Galfond	21,000 38,000	38,000
Justin Bonomo	Busted