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

07-06-2018 16:37 UTC-8

Player	Chips	Progress
Ludovic Geilich	314,000 162,000	162,000
Mihai Niste	155,000 5,000	5,000
Phachara Wongwichit	125,000 22,000	22,000
Linglin Zeng	59,000 73,000	73,000
Todd Brunson	51,000 11,000	11,000

Muhamet Perati	41,000
Vivian Saliba	Busted

Hakim Tank-Folds

Jan Kores

Level 8 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

With the action on the river and around 22,500 in the pot, Jeff Hakim checked in the big blind and his opponent fired 20,600 from the cutoff. Hakim spent several minutes thinking and some of the other players used that break to stand up and stretch their legs. Then, Hakim finally waived the white flag, signalling a fold by slightly moving his cards towards the muck.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jeff Hakim	45,000 35,000	35,000

Tags: Jeff Hakim

07-06-2018 16:33 UTC-8

Abernathy Builds Stack

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 8 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

Several players in the Amazon Orange section have been able to build their stack and among them was Samantha Abernathy.

Scott Matte raised to 2,200 from early position and Abernathy three-bet to 6,000 from one seat over. Matte called and checked the flop. A continuation bet worth 7,000 did the trick for Abernathy to claim the pot uncontested right there.

Player	Chips	Progress
Vasili Firsau	255,000 80,000	80,000

Andrea Benelli	250,000 80,000	80,000
Eric Wasylenko	225,000 115,000	115,000
Jon Gottlieb	220,000 70,000	70,000
Ryan Laplante	220,000 5,000	5,000

Jean Gaspard	210,000 130,000	130,000

Samantha Abernathy	204,000 2,000	2,000
Tobias Ziegler	200,000 110,000	110,000
Alexandre Reard	190,000 113,000	113,000

Dan Wilson	160,000 60,500	60,500
Matthew Wakeman	120,000 25,000	25,000
Goran Mandic	115,000 18,000	18,000
Jason Gray	80,000 15,000	15,000
Asi Moshe	75,000 30,000	30,000

Benjamin Pollak	70,000 20,000	20,000
David Laka	55,000 5,000	5,000
Hon Cheong Lee	28,000 32,000	32,000

Tags: Samantha Abernathy Scott Matte

07-06-2018 16:31 UTC-8

Updated Chip Counts

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Jan Kores

Level 8 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Kiryl Radzivonau	275,000 146,000	146,000
Robert Varkonyi	206,500 60,300	60,300

Jennifer Shahade	195,000 105,000	105,000
Salvatore Bonavena	100,000 21,100	21,100
Ana Marquez	84,000 6,300	6,300

Nikolay Fal	81,000 42,000	42,000

Michael Ruane	80,000 6,000	6,000
Ladislav Cerveny	76,500 15,500	15,500
Jonathan Duhamel	65,000 16,700	16,700

Stefan Schillhabel	58,000 15,900	15,900
Jiri Horak	55,000 25,000	25,000
Russell Thomas	55,000 9,000	9,000
Juan Pardo	33,500 19,500	19,500
Byron Kaverman	27,000 1,000	1,000

07-06-2018 16:31 UTC-8

Liptak Eliminates Barer

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Mohammed Nuwwarah

Level 8 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

Neal Liptak opened early to 2,500 and Ami Barer shoved for 8,800 in the cutoff. The big blind cold-called and Liptak raised 23,000 more. That induced a frustrated fold from the big blind and Liptak showed down his . Barer was flipping with a nice price holding but the board brought him no help.

Player	Chips	Progress
Neal Liptak	123,000 60,000	60,000
Ami Barer	Busted

Tags: Ami Barer Neal Liptak

07-06-2018 16:31 UTC-8

Killeen Doubles Through Ludlow

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Milko van Winden

Level 8 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

The board already read and a player checked to Benjamin Ludlow. He put out a bet of 8,000 and next to him sat Kevin Killeen who called. The third player in the hand folded.

The river was the and Ludlow checked to Killeen. Killeen announced "all in" and Ludlow wanted a count. The all-in was for 15,400 and Ludlow started to think about. Ludlow called eventually, but when Killeen opened up he knew that he couldn't win against the nuts.

Player	Chips	Progress
Kevin Killeen	55,000 33,100	33,100
Benjamin Ludlow	20,400 23,600	23,600

Tags: Benjamin Ludlow Kevin Killeen

07-06-2018 16:28 UTC-8

Assorted Counts From Brasilia Room

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Sam Cosby

Level 8 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Andrew Kelsall	184,700 101,600	101,600

Leif Force	161,100 88,100	88,100

Peter Eichhardt	157,000 78,600	78,600

Paul Volpe	137,000 57,000	57,000

Jonathan Hilton	135,000 70,000	70,000
Fatima Moreira de Melo	133,600 26,400	26,400
Loni Harwood	133,500 24,100	24,100

Jake Cody	98,500 56,000	56,000

Chris Moorman	82,000 1,500	1,500

Heinz Schluter	71,000 13,600	13,600
James Obst	63,200 9,100	9,100

Ravi Raghavan	48,700 11,300	11,300
Brett Richey	39,200 10,600	10,600
Jonathan Dwek	Busted
Yanki Koppel	Busted

07-06-2018 16:28 UTC-8

Action on the ESPN TV Set

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Joe Giron

All three tables are in play for television coverage tonight on ESPN. Highlighting the main feature table is 14-time bracelet winner, Phil Hellmuth.

07-06-2018 16:26 UTC-8

Chip Counts Amazon Purple

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Milko van Winden

Level 8 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Jan Eric Schwippert	244,900 14,900	14,900
Steffen Sontheimer	225,000 42,000	42,000
Patrik Antonius	140,000 10,000	10,000

Jessica Dawley	137,200 1,200	1,200

Thomas Ward	74,100 17,100	17,100
Daria Feshchenko	65,000 5,000	5,000
Marc Evanier	55,000 30,000	30,000
JP Kelly	Busted

Paul Vas Nunes	Busted
Lars Kamphues	Busted

07-06-2018 16:21 UTC-8

Garbi Leads Main Feature Table

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 8 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

Phil Hellmuth returned with some delay from the dinner break and was just involved in a small pot over on the main feature table. Hellmuth's raise was called by Ravid Garbi and James Campbell and the trio headed to a flop of . Action checked to Hellmuth and his bet of 2,000 was called by Garbi only. On the turn, Hellmuth checked and folded to a bet of 3,000 by Garbi.