Event #65: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em MAIN EVENT - World Championship Day 7 | 2018 World Series of Poker

07-11-2018 14:42 UTC-7

Feature Table Hands #43-47: Manion Takes the Table Lead

MrCleverFox

Level 33 : 150,000/300,000, 50,000 ante

Hand #43: Frederik Brink opened to 675,000 on the button and Aram Zobian calls in the big blind.

The flop is and both players check to see the on the turn. There, Zobian checked again. Brink put out a bet of 700,000 and Zobian folded.

Hand #44: Action folded around and Joe Cada took a walk in the big blind.

Hand #45: Action folded to Aram Zobian on the button and he raised to 675,000 and Nicolas Manion three-bet to 2,000,000 from the big blind. Zobian folded and Manion scooped the pot.

Hand #46: Nicholas Manion was in the small blind and he raised to 700,000. Sylvain Loosli called from the big blind.

The flop was and Manion put out a bet of 425,000. Loosli folded allowing Manion to take down the pot.

Hand #47: Artem Metalidi opened to 650,000 from early position and everyone folded allowing Metalidi to take down the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Nicolas Manion	34,400,000	1,950,000
Aram Zobian	33,400,000	-1,700,000
Artem Metalidi	32,000,000	425,000
Ryan Phan	11,000,000	-500,000
Joe Cada	10,200,000	125,000
Frederik Brink	9,800,000	925,000
Sylvain Loosli	4,600,000	-1,125,000

Tags: Aram Zobian Artem Metalidi Frederik Brink Joe Cada Nicolas Nicolas Manion Sylvain Loosli

07-11-2018 14:40 UTC-7

Nicolas Manion Freerolling Through His First-Ever Main Event

Valerie.Cross

Level 33 : 150,000/300,000, 50,000 ante

While he may be missing his three dogs back home in Michigan, Nicolas Manion is sure to be bringing home the puppy chow from his Vegas trip and unbelievable Main Event run that started out as a freeroll.

Friends with the SolveForWhy guys, especially Jordan Young who also hails from Michigan, there was an offer a few months back to freeroll Manion in a couple $2,175 Main Event satellites and give him 50 percent of the action in Main if he were to qualify. Manion snap-called, and was content to just hang out in Vegas and play some cash if it didn’t work out.

That wouldn’t be necessary though, as Manion got through in both satellites to even pocket a little extra cash, for the Main Event freeroll of his life.

Manion may be a small-stakes grinder per usual, but hey — so was Ryan Riess. Manion has mostly built up his tournament chops playing smaller online events, but has very little live tournament experience and only a few small results on Hendon Mob. He talked to PokerNews after bagging the ninth biggest stack of the remaining 26 players on Day 6.

“Recently I’ve just been doing really well, playing well, and running even better. And that’s what’s been going on in the Main Event. So it’s been great.”

Main Event Journey

Though it’s a very big spot for the small-stakes grinder, Manion hasn’t really felt the full effects of the pressure grinding a short stack for much of the tournament.

“The craziest thing about this tournament is I really haven’t had many chips to have to have big decisions. So it’s either, I’m going with my hand or I’m not. And now that I’ve got chips, I’m a little bit more nervous, but I think I’m playing well so it kind of cancels that out.”

Manion started Day 6 as one of the shorter stacks of the final 109 players with 23 big blinds and was just bleeding off, getting no hands to work with, but that all changed in the second level of the day. Down to eight big blinds in the big blind, Manion got pocket sevens in against ace-king and hit a seven on the river to stay alive.

Manion proceeded to chip up from there for the remaining few levels of the day, and made a huge laydown with pocket kings preflop at the very end of the night to preserve his stack and finish the day ninth in chips. Oh, and the fold was correct. He filled us in on his thought process after the hand.

“I’ve shown nothing but nut hands today, and he shoved all in for 16 million. To me, that’s just one hand and one hand only, so I’m not going to put my tournament life on kings when I’m 99 percent sure he has aces.”

Now it’s Day 7, the day the elite and elusive final table will be determined. Manion started with a respectable 17.63 million chips and through the first level of the day, has nearly doubled that to jockey into a top-five stack. The big hand that got him there? Pocket kings.

Manion is on top of the world, and his SolveForWhy buddies are understandably also elated for his deep Main Event run.

“They can’t believe it either.”

While his good buddy and top poker pro Jordan Young only found his first cash in the Main Event this year after nine years of playing the event, the fact that Manion will be cashing it in a big way on his first shot at it is cause for some friendly needles.

“He’s just like, ‘I play for nine years before getting a cash; You come out here and play your first time and you’re possibly going to make the final table,’” Manion laughed, enjoying his amazing ride on the biggest poker tournament stage in the world.

Tags: Alex Lynskey Barry Hutter Jordan Young Nicolas Manion Ryan Riess

Level: 33

Blinds: 150,000/300,000

Ante: 50,000

07-11-2018 14:28 UTC-7

Feature Table Chip Counts On Break

MrCleverFox

Level 32 : 120,000/240,000, 40,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Aram Zobian	35,100,000	3,600,000
Nicolas Manion	32,450,000	-50,000
Artem Metalidi	31,575,000	-3,525,000
Ryan Phan	11,500,000
Joe Cada	10,075,000	75,000
Frederik Brink	8,875,000	75,000
Sylvain Loosli	5,725,000	25,000

07-11-2018 14:26 UTC-7

Outer Table Chip Counts at Break

mnuwwarah

Level 32 : 120,000/240,000, 40,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Alex Lynskey	40,100,000	-2,750,000
Antoine Labat	32,950,000	1,350,000
Martijn Gerrits	22,725,000	725,000
Yueqi Zhu	20,050,000	650,000
Tony Miles	12,225,000	1,275,000
Alexander Haro	11,300,000	800,000
Ming Xi	9,725,000	-1,175,000

07-11-2018 14:24 UTC-7

Secondary Table Chip Counts at Break

Mickey Doft

Level 32 : 120,000/240,000, 40,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
John Cynn	27,950,000	3,250,000
Michael Dyer	23,550,000	-650,000
Paulo Goncalves	21,075,000	-25,000
Kao Saechao	12,475,000	-525,000
Hari Bercovici	10,725,000	-75,000
Konstantin Beylin	7,650,000	-1,450,000
Ivan Luca	4,550,000	-50,000

07-11-2018 14:22 UTC-7

Break

MrCleverFox

Level 32 : 120,000/240,000, 40,000 ante

The final 21 players are now on a 15-minute break.

07-11-2018 14:18 UTC-7

Feature Table Hands #39-42: Loosli Doubles Through Metalidi Before the Break

MrCleverFox

Level 32 : 120,000/240,000, 40,000 ante

Hand #39: Ryan Phan opened to 525,000 from under the gun and action folded to the big blind where Sylvain Loosli also folded, so Phan took down the pot.

Hand #40: Frederik Brink opened to 550,000 from under the gun and action folded around, allowing Brink to take down the pot.

Hand #41: Artem Metalidi opened to 500,000 from under the gun and Sylvain Loosli jammed all in on the button for 2,910,000. Action was back on Metalidi and he called.

Artem Metalidi:
Sylvain Loosli:

The board ran out and Loosli doubled through with his pocket kings.

Hand #42: Aram Zobian opened to 600,000 from under the gun and Artem Metalidi called in the big blind.

The flop was and Metalidi checked as did Zobian.

The turn was the and Metalidi bet 850,000. Zobian called.

On the river Metalidi bet 1,700,000 and Zobian released his hand, allowing Metalidi to scoop the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Artem Metalidi	35,100,000	-1,200,000
Nicolas Manion	32,500,000	-100,000
Aram Zobian	31,500,000	-1,500,000
Ryan Phan	11,500,000	-500,000
Joe Cada	10,000,000	-100,000
Frederik Brink	8,800,000	200,000
Sylvain Loosli	5,700,000	2,600,000

Tags: Aram Zobian Artem Metalidi Frederik Brink Ryan Phan Sylvain Loosli

07-11-2018 14:15 UTC-7

Secondary Table Hands #39: One For Cynn

Mickey Doft

Level 32 : 120,000/240,000, 40,000 ante

Hand #39: Konstantin Beylin raised to 600,000 from under the gun, John Cynn called from the button and Michael Dyer called form the big blind.

The flop came down and Dyer checked to Beylin who continued for 800,000. Cynn called, Dyer foled and the turn was the . Both checked, the river completed the board and Beylin checked. Cynn checked behind.

Beylin showed , but Cynn took it down with for a flush.

Tags: Konstantin Beylin Michael Dyer John Cynn

07-11-2018 14:12 UTC-7

Outer Table Hands #46-48: Miles Calls Down Lynskey

Adam Lamers

Level 32 : 120,000/240,000, 40,000 ante

Hand #46: Tony Miles raised to 500,000 on the button and the blinds folded.

Hand #47: Antoine Labat opened to 550,000 on the button and Alexander Haro called from the small blind. The flop came and Haro check-folded to a bet of 600,000 from Labat.

Hand #48: Miles made it 575,000 to go from the hijack and Alex Lynskey defended his big blind. The flop came and Lynskey check-called a bet of 450,000 from Miles.

The turn brought the and both players checked to the on the river. Lynskey led out for 650,000 and Miles snap-called. Lynskey tabled but Miles held for the best hand to win the pot.

Tags: Alex Lynskey Alexander Haro Antoine Labat Tony Miles